He was very strong before the change of ult. Now he is simply OP.
Glad to see my favorite hero becoming OP :)
hey matrice, i saved some of your replay for reviewing lol. i see you're damn good with that hero!
yes he is squishy, and i know that he is very situational. However looks like some pro teams actually can find a good line up combination to cover slark's weaknesses.
@SUPERMAN:
Silence -> good timing on dark pact useless
AOE stun dmg doesnt kill on decent plays aswell
He is op when played correcly. His ult is retarded beyond belief and he is not stunable/silencable when played correcly.
He is unkillable at most cases but that's not the point. The point is that you don't have to kill him. He simply doesn't have any natural damage output, at least not much compared to heroes like Luna or Gyro who also farm way faster than him. For the most part you can just ignore him. He might kill your supports but that's all he can do I guess. He needs to have almost double the farm or a lot of saved AGI in order to have a shot at killing the enemy carry.
But his early game is seriously OP tbh. You simply can't do shit.
I wonder if lina will see play because shes good against him in early to mid. AoE nukes give less fucks about invis heroes.
storm>slark all day. beats him mid, beats him midgame, beats him lategame.
silence to shut him down post 18 minutes and laning wise if he leaps on u u can just remnant+vortex and then drop some of ur overload and he dies. he has paper hp early on and can't do anything in this matchup.
so as sam said he has no dps post 20 minutes in which means yeah if your team is somewhat coordinated and survives the early game then you'll be fine cause he doesnt carry shit. just secure ur carries farm and make sure ur mid isnt feeding.
A Slark that gets silenced is shitty at using Dark Pact. Also, he's picked for mid game aggression, to ensure that your hard carry has free farm while the enemy is being hunted to oblivion.
^ against any semi organized team he will get fucked. hes only picked when he can win his mid and can go from there...for example lanes against melee heroes like DK.
IG banning slark against Tongfu in G-League in the first set of bans. He forces you to pick aoe stuns and that can really screw with your draft. You really can't just wait for slarks ult to end and hope your team is still alive.
He has hard counters at least. silence will work, but you can go for a bristle back or god forbid a bloodseeker.
Bloodseeker ruins him.
@nevermort, oh yeah im a slark fanboy, even my avatar is a fking slarkdog. Some people have their own favorite heroes hence why i made this thread. do you think ill make a thread when broodmama comes into CM? Fk no man..
He got added in CM pool, and as I started this thread, He got picked by alliance, tongfu, etc and the result was good. That's why im asking for your thoughts on his viability on the future. i never think he is OP, lol. even my 2nd post stated that he is squishy and situational.
Poeple not realising how utterly overpowered this hero has become now (he was FINE before his ulti got buffed to the absurdity it is now) are either 1) in the garbage tier aka playing against rambo Slark players going in 1v5 all the time or 2) the Slark players themselves. It's that simple really. It's OBVIOUS for anyone remotely decent at the game that the hero is absolutely ludicrous.
If I had to list EVERY overpowered aspects of Slark :
-the ulti, coupled with a bkb and Dark pact, renders him LITERALLY INVULNERABLE for 4 seconds
-the ulti gives him a ABSURD SCALING hp regen when he isn't seen (aka in ulti but also if he's out of sight for more than ONE second during a fight).
-Dark pact removing STUNS, not only silences but STUNS with a SIX secondes cooldown
-Dark pact costing FOURTY MANA COST while dealing 300 damages, allowing you to farm faster than almost any hero (let's be real, even a battfury Anti-mage will not farm faster)
-Pounce having a SEVEN secondes cooldown, allowing you to initiate, fight a couple secondes, ulti and escape safely
-Essence Shift getting ridiculous in late game when Slark has fucked your supports in the fight
Well, I've probably forgot some aspects of this hero.
People arguing that ghost scepter/eul/force staff counters him are simply clueless :
-regarding the ghowst scepter, a decent Slark will simply buy a diffusale blade and kill you
-regarding the eul, it costs a fucking ARM to farm for a support hero. Any "wardbitch" support (who WILL have to buy TONS of sentries will NEVER have that farm while Slark already has his Shadowblade
-regarding the Force staff, it doesn't work against a "leeched" hero so it's worthless
To be totally honest, Slark was one of my favorite hero ever before, when you actually had to play SMART and carefully because sentries/gem could kill you in a seconde but now this hero is simply disgusting.
I'm done.
Actually Phoenix works quite well against him. Even his ulti can't save him from the monster damage I deal.
-Dark pact costing FOURTY MANA COST while dealing 300 damages, allowing you to farm faster than almost any hero (let's be real, even a battfury Anti-mage will not farm faster)
ummm... no?
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Thoughts? So far when he is picked by a team, he got this high winrate.