How to compete against Ability Based Hunters as an AA Hunter

[Ezhno]

seems that ability based hunters have been dominating the role for carries lately. certain hunters can just stack power and kill you with 2 abilities, not even giving you a chance to counter. Beads and Aegis can help you survive for 1 second longer, until the enemy just waits you out. and if you manage to stun or ult them, they just use beads and dump their kit on you. Sometimes it is virtually impossible to get close to these guys, because AB hunters are able to build CDR, while AA hunters have low CDR, but have a higher attack speed. Which pretty much means that they will always have their abilities up before you will. What am I doing wrong? I'm open to advice/criticism.

[Guillérmidas]

You pray for the best, aka, they having ♥♥♥♥ aim. I can oneshoot any mage/adc or leave tanks half health with a single skill+1 auto attack as Neith, late game, provided I didnt get hit 5 sec earlier. One of the few gods I have no way to deal with *provided he is actually good* is Ullr. Hes so strong

Still, my favorite hunter has become Isthar as AA crit, with ornate arrow. Probably better builds for her, but I like it.

[Smaugi]

In a 1v1 they win , but this isn't a 1v1 game.
It's a team game and in the end a AA based hunter will shred tanks much faster and help their team better than a hunter that will dump their kit to deal some damage to the tank and then have meh damage for like 10 seconds.
Also just engage them after they waste their stuff.

[insane]

Crit builds, for example early-mid to midgame with 3 items you´ll have about 500dps against another glasscannon which in 3sec is about as much as their full burst.

Which means if you can get them to make a mistake (dodge at least 1 ability, stun them, ambush them...) they´ll lose, unless you ♥♥♥♥ up too
and late game you will be hitting them for 1k+dmg /hit at which point you can kill them just as fast as they kill you with the bonus of doing a LOT more dmg in teamfights

[Mason]

Don't play AA Hunters? There really isn't much options in terms of countering ability based Hunters, if you're an AA Hunter, ya just have to build crit and hope you can make an impact in the late game.

And actually AA mages like Freya and Chronos are doing way better than even ability based Hunters in the duo lane. So, you could give them a shot.

[Ezhno]

I appreciate the replies, I'll fix my builds, and try to position better

[poor old man]

Originally posted by Guillérmidas:

You pray for the best, aka, they having ♥♥♥♥ aim. I can oneshoot any mage/adc or leave tanks half health with a single skill+1 auto attack as Neith, late game, provided I didnt get hit 5 sec earlier. One of the few gods I have no way to deal with *provided he is actually good* is Ullr. Hes so strong

Still, my favorite hunter has become Isthar as AA crit, with ornate arrow. Probably better builds for her, but I like it.

no you cant

[Bardero]

i tell u what a friend toldme once that make me feel stupid, i was rama and he was hachiman and i got solod twice, the second time he had died so he could spectate me and saw that i fougth against the hachi with is habilities up and got killed but close 3basics more and i won, so he said "sos pelotudo" transaliton are u stupid?, u have the advantage when he is without is 2 so take that advantage dont fight him when he has it, so basicly every god has a better "moment" to fight the other search that and u will win, also backpedall strafe and all the good stuff. i speak spanish so sorry if my english was dog

[GlompFox]

Most assassins will instantly delete any ADC before they get a chance to retaliate most of the time. Thor is especially good at it with him ulting in, stun, hammer throw, spin to win, combo. Toss the odd auto attack in there somewhere while they're stunned for maximum delete.