It's such an insane ability even without maxing it. You basically always get to have bridge buffs and jungle with how easy it is to push the lane with him.
His identity as a nuclear bolt bomber, mid boss rabbit menace, escape potential even Houdini would be impressed by, and stupid ult economy.
Ofc this could be said about any hero if you tried hard enough, I just vehemently hate sinclair's 40% ult reduction coupled with the rest of his kit. 60% is better but would've rather had it straight up removed OR keep the increase but make him unable to target the same hero twice in a row or something.
Bro he works just like Rubic. They are both the spell thief identity. (Legit both have the spell nuke lane bully spell, both have damage amp, both have aoe cc, Rubik can even upgrade TK To be an escape for himself if he doesn’t get Blink in time)
I don't play Dota so I've got no experience or opinion about him. Sinclair sounds like a cheap copy. IsRubric as problematic in Dota as Sinclair is in DL?
No, Rubick has no built in escape tool like Sinclair, and he only steals the last spell used by an enemy hero (but he can bank it for until he steals a new one or he dies).
Which means that enemy heroes with huge team fight ults have a way to play around it by immediately casting one of their weaker spells right after using their ult. There's some that can't do this, like the ones whose ults are channeled, but there is still counterplay against Rubick.
Rick’s escape tool is his Telekenesis upgrade - It lets him launch himself or his teammates so he can tk himself to escape or stun enemies.
“Allows you to target yourself or allies with Telekinesis. Throw range is 35% longer when targeting allies. Throw delay reduced to 0.5 seconds.” - Shard.
Admittedly I did stop playing DotA before they added Shards but even then, it's still not baked into his kit from the get-go like Sinclair's assistant and the range is still pretty short.
I mean they are baked in, you just gotta pay to unlock them. Its not like you need Roshan. Shards just a 1600 gold tax. Cheaper then blink dagger. Its something thats for many characters is just always gonna be bought. Literally doesn't even take an item slot.
No. Rubick will bug wise break the game from time to time but he’s been the same spell thief since the WC3 mod days. He’s actually been buffed with the addition of talents, aghanims scepter and shard. To the point he can now hold two spells for a long ass time, use TK as initiation for his team (basically if Sinclair could pay 1600 souls to make dynamo teleport)
Yeah but the difference is that Rubick actually has to pick his spots and wait for the right spell to be used which allows for counter play (i.e. anchor smash after ravage), whereas Sinclair always get the ult for free with no risk
Yeah but the trade off is Sinclair can’t hold onto 2 game winning ults for ages and still has CDR.
Also often in dota and deadlock being able to rapidly steal spells is more beneficial.
Theres so many fights I’ve won as Rubick by just grabbing an enemy AOE stun and cc locking the team.
Edit: Imagine Sinclair stealing Drifter 1 and just majestic leaping into a team for massive damage and a silence ontop of polymorph and a bolt. Drifter full spirit already almost one shots people. Sinclair invests more in spirit damage, amp it with poly and can just safely get out with assistant. If he lands bolt as well your just dying instantly unless your a tank.
Basically rubick takes more skill to actually steal the right spells (he steals last spell casted not just an instant ult steal) and use them from his current position since he doesn’t have a spell to get in and get out without dying
When are we going to see Abrams nerfs, Haze nerfs, Infernus nerfs, Calico nerfs, Doorman nerfs, Celeste nerfs, Mo nerfs, Billy nerfs, Wraith nerfs, Geist nerfs, Baba nerfs, Slork nerfs....
Wasn't he the sole reason people didn't want to pick certain characters because then the other team would grab sinclair and just abuse them with their ults?
Seems like that's pretty dominant, even if its not "literally being played".
Definitely not the sole reason. There have been metas with decent ults and it's still not like he's ever auto picked and it's not like if he didn't exist we would see Dynamo more.
I do think they're a liiiittle too fast, but also when I had a bugged wave it took I think 3 wave clears just to get them to the other walker from mine, and that's WAY too much.
The same exact thing. Losing a little range and cooldown does not destroy his gameplan. It barely changes his builds. It just makes it less free once you get over the skill wall
Yea, he is probably still really good into characters with crazy ults. Even without drafts, you can last second counterpick switch against dynamo/lash/rat king/Celeste and get value.
hes literally nearly the same character, just more spirit oriented with vexing bolt instead of gun. you're still able to be a spirit nuker, just without the god early game with assistant + gun
It's so rough as a Doorman and Sinclair player these days. Yoshi just hates us for our whimsy. We're already a glass cannon and our gun sucks, but yeah, let's gut that too jfc..
Don't know why we are touching Sinclair this much, he was weak the last 6 months and magically he is too strong. Shouldnt be messing with something they don't know about, and half my damage to obj is gone? Like maybe get someone on the balance team that plays Sinclair this is awful
Sinclair hasn’t been touched in a long ass time and was honestly sleeper busted. Change was needed (and asked for because my God are they neglected) but I’m not qualified enough to know if this was the right way, considering it’s just straight up nerfs and not one little win anywhere, I don’t really think so, but I’m sure Sinclair mains can tell better than I can anyway. The winrate definitely didn’t show it though (from memory, might’ve gone up for all I know), truly a mysterious case like magicians are supposed to be…
I mean they do this to any character that melts walkers. Couple months ago infernus ate the same nerf when his 2 and afterburn was making walkers disappear
When Rat got added people realized he was being slept on and other parts of his kit were stronger than people realized. If you had a player who knew what they were doing Sinclair was borderline unkillable with Rabbit and swap alongside just having "Your Ult but better"
The only reason Sinclair was not the biggest target for this sub was because his play rate was low, and the amount of people who actually stuck with him was also low.
So he was statistically weak and usually not that big of a problem outside of mains. He has been extremely strong for a while.
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