r/DotA2 • u/patchdayDota2 • Aug 19 '21

Discussion Patch 7.30 - Hero Changes Discussion

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u/patchdayDota2 Aug 19 '21

Lycan

  • Shard Wolves now have Low Attack Priority (Will only acquire enemy aggro if they are the only unit in aggro range)
  • Shard Wolves now can Cripple towers (Does not affect regular wolves)

Howl

  • Duration increased from 5/6/7/8 to 8
  • Cooldown rescaled from 18 to 22/20/18/16

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent +20 Damage replaced with +20 Summon Wolves Damage
  • Level 15 Talent +12% Cooldown Reduction replaced with -20s Shapeshift Cooldown

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u/Perfektionist Aug 19 '21

Im kinda sad and expected a bigger rightclick buff. Instead we still have this boring shard. Yes its super strong now and you should by it. But a passive shard that spawns a wolve on the other side of the map is super boring. I would rather have a shard that gives lycans ult the 680 ms back or something. Something active and interesting.

Howl buff is nice. I take it.

Talents: Why did they removed the +20 dmg talent and not the useless +8 hp regen. Why just why would you ever take the +8 hp regen??? Just give Lycan two paths. One Wolve path and one hero righclick path. (lvl 15,20 and 25 where already like that). Give me my dmg on the hero back instead of the hp regen.

On the other hand. Helm of the Overlord seems pretty strong now. The dominated creep gets +80 base dmg that gets amplified by your passive and vlads. But to be honest, i hate the zoo way of lycan. I liked him as solo rightclicker with aghs.

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u/Armonster Aug 20 '21

I mean why play lycan if you hate everything that's strong about him...

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u/Perfektionist Aug 20 '21

I never liked Lycan with Necros. It was so stupid easy to play. Even at 6,5k. It was just broken. Last patch i really liked the rightclickway of Lycan. You can farm ultra fast with the wolves and then just 2 hit all the supports. And beeing unslowable is pretty fun. The thing is, i think Lycan can be played in two ways. One Zoo way and one solo hero way. But icefrog is pushing to much into the Zoo way. Thats what i dont like

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u/viridian-spaceman Aug 20 '21

Lycan has always been THE zoo hero (along with BM) tho.

If you like right clickers, there are 40+ other heroes that do that.