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smurfs = no balls

    This was meta long time ago, and i was wondering if it could work again... I looked at dotabuff stats and saw that it actually has higher winrate in the offlane than in the safe lane. If played right (utility build, not dmg) and with right heroes I actually think the hero can offer exactly the initiation and lockdown offlaner needs. Its great teamfighter and as long as you have other high dmg cores that can kill the ppl inside chrono I think this could work. He is decent in lane as well. Still we have not seen him played in the offlane in high mmr pubs. Why is this?

    LucaManny

      "If played right and with RIGHT HEROES"

      Thats exactly the reason why he dont played much in pub. Also people just farming with void offlane in pub

      smurfs = no balls

        so u agree it can be situationally good?

        Metsis

          At the very moment, the offlane can almost be played like safelane v0.9... So you can get away with a lot of safelane heroes on the offlane. And as safelanes usually now are again 2 heroes, they are mostly defensive. And as such, if you do not play aggressive on offlane, the enemy safelaners are usually quite happy just farming up.

          And you probably need to adjust your item build to focus more on early game items than big later game items... You are still in danger on the offlane.

          smurfs = no balls

            @metsis why do u think offlane can be played like safe lane now? I think u are very wrong, actually more traditional offlane heroes are back in the meta instead of dual lane meta that we had earlier this year. Centaur, Axe, Bristle, etc. are back. Void used to be a offlane hero, not carry hero so idk if that would work too but I dont know which heroes are u referring here

            smurfs = no balls

              Actually in previous metas some carry heroes like ck, wk and sven were ok in the offlane but they are all fallen off now

              TheRRogue

                With some ranged core it might work but it will make void lacking a lot of DMG. Without fast mom,pretty hard for him to kill people plus he has to rely for his ult for initiaion. Unless you maxing w first where you instead need to w8 for people to use cd to make the skill do jackshit.

                Malcolm X

                  i always play void offlane , it's fine

                  LucaManny

                    Yeah i think its fine, especially with invoker combo its always fun kill snowballing heroes with only 2 skill (chrono + catalysm)

                    LucaManny

                      "Pretty hard for him to kill people plus he has to rely for his ult for initiation"

                      Thats exactly how u play around void lol. U find a fight if and only if chrono is off cd

                      ShiftingSkys

                        Any hero can be situationally good. If they running a bunch of squishy heroes like Clinkz or weaver Utility void will shit on them with a Strong Bursty mid. Really 80% of heroes work in this patch. Most of them are just situational. Even the 44%ers are still situational.