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Leon

    I often find myself playing against people with good stuns and silences as PL, and yes, I know, it's a bad idea to pick PL after the enemies already have lots of silences and stuns.

    For long fights, should I get Skadi for the armor and health, Heart for the health and regen if I can get out of the fight, or should I get Satanic for the sustain health and damage?

    Also, against a Line-up such as Tinker, Lion, Wk, and such, should I really be buying manta for the dispel, or should I be buying Shadow Blade into Silver Edge for escapes and break late game? Not to mention the gank potential!

    Jacked

      heart skadi. long fights u should end up winning them with those items.

      unbreakable spirit

        Manta doesn't really help against lion, but against silences manta is pretty good, manta is core on pl anyway, buying skadi is really optional, buy it if you are dying too fast in fights, with manta skadi and heart you will have around 4.2k hp

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        Toudou Kirin

          maybe just learn some manta dodging (you can play a custom game like polygon) because once you hear the sound of a blink you have 2 escape tools to dodge the abilities or at least confuse the enemy with illusions.
          +late game aghanims is super good, you stay away from fights and just use one lance to get like 4-5 illusions froma creepwave and let that illusions battle for you.
          Sometimes a linkens might help you in case you cannot react fast enough to the blink sound (you will hear/see your linkens popping) you got some extra time to react

          edit: is it really the CC that kills you or is the dmg after the CC? in that case better check who dealt the most dmg to you and itemize to reduce that dmg e.g. you get hit by pa after an abysall -> consider butterfly or ac; you get melted by leshrac after someone lands a stun consider bkb or skadi

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          Celine

            agha is a farming tool that you can get real quick

            Shou

              ^pretty sure that's bf in this patch

              Toudou Kirin

                ^item is super strong, but aghs lets you play from the backrow and still have impact.
                Also battlefury gives nothing to your illusions but some regen :/ i don't like the battlefury trend^^

                fadi

                  nobody likes having to get bkb on pl, but against a tinker and lion i think its pretty important. if not i think manta is needed at the very least to dispel laser and silences, maybe even manta dodge.

                  Leon

                    Recently I've played a few PL matches against heavy nuker teams, and it seems to me it might just be better to tank most of the damage and only dodge the longest/highest damage spells. I built Heart, Skaadi, and Satanic and they gave me great sustain. Late game, it seems like you can sell your BF in order to pretty much finish off Skaadi Heart or Satanic.

                    With the 30% x2 crits at lvl 25, is it really necessary to get Butterfly, Nullifier, or Radiance?

                    PL, IMO, thrives in long fights where he can take down the enemies/distract the enemies while his team nukes them down.

                    chicken spook,,,,

                      Satanic on PL lul

                      Also BF got nerfed for illu heroes so agha seems okay again