situation meepo items

[Meepometh]

Dispite my name I'm rather new to meepo. challenging at first but I've gotten really good. Could a more experienced meepo player explain some of the item choices. I understand BOTs and Aghs, blink, and dragonlance/skadi. but why ethereal and diffusal. I understand the amazing raw stats and abuse the abilities on it but is there something im missing? thanks

[The_Technomancer]

Ethereal increase poof damage a ton on tanky targets and can save meepos with the ghost form, diffusal's slow helps other meepos land their passive instead of having 2-3 meepos attack a target while the others stumble around each other trying to hit the target. That and diff used to be able to purge meepos.

[Meepometh]

thanks that helps! are heart and asault C pretty much obsulete now?

[76561198355373987]

u should never need blink on meepo period. if you gonna blow 2k on 0 stats, you are 10000000 times better off spending that on a boots of travel early game. why? with boots of travel on meepo it's like cheating, you can go heal 24 7 , or go to any lane with reoughly no cooldown on the boots of travel. with some experience it's extremely powerful. i get boots of travel first item, i never need no consumables or anything i never even need to use my teams courier once in the match. i get 2 meepos send 1 home and poof back to lane repeat until i get boots of travel. if i need to buy i tp home buy and go back out to a lane with no cooldown on tp boots. the combo is tp 1 meepo, poof the rest of the meepos, then use another meepos tp cooldown to go back out and pooff the rest of the meepos to that location. i typically get boots of travel around 7 minute mark as meepo, doesn't matter what lane i am in, side lane or mid. once u get boots of travel you just take off,, farming everything like crazy, free heals 24 7.

as far as not needing blink. there is a number of reason's why. 1. the next range is off the screen, you can net people from a mile away, 2. it's far more beneficial to learn to land nets in the end. saving you 2k, 3. it has a huge hit box where ever it goes, you can miss entirely but yet still net people. 4. with boots of travel you are moving fast enough you can out run many people and walk up to them from behind or many ways, and tp from a spot they woudn't expect ect.

as far as the rest of his items. aghanims is a must. vlads is okay, especially if you wanna solo roshan sooner than later, i get it for incombat vs people poof is less effective against and right clicks are more effective against then vlads is a good choice. for example vs ember spirit he can juke your poof easily, and he has low armor, so it's best most of the times you just right click him and avoid the temptation to poof nuke him.

ethereal is fantastic on meepo for a number of situations. 1. it is one of the most stat efficient agility items for meepo without ever using the active, that alone without the active makes it worth it. 2. it's active can be used just prior to poof nuking the enemy, net ethereal, poof for more nuke. 3. you can hit the enemy to slow them prior to netting them making landing the net easer. 4. it's really good verse picks like ursa who u need to stop them from right clicking.

there is nothing wrong with going boots of travel, vlads, aghs, and then stacking ethereal blades. since ethereal blade is highly stat efficient even if you never use the active. so this means 4 ethereal blades is not a waste of money for meepo. if you really wanna hard carry like hell and destroy enemy towers in literally less than 2 seconds and have more right click dps than the entire enemy team combined? then get aghs and 4 ethereals. stacking ethereals is even more efficient than buy an assault curias for meepo, with assault curias there is a ton more wasted stats for the cost as opposed to getting an ethereal blade instead. let an ally get assault curias.

manta style htough not as efficient as ethereal blade is a fantastic pick up situationally, vs people without much aoe and they focus on killing one meepo fast. you can get 7 meepos with manta, and enemys may try to kill one of hte illusions and waste time doing so, thinking it was a real meepo.

i'd near never get diffusal, unless against sven, to purge his 20 armor buff, but even then late game sven with his ult on, and bkb and he blink stuns meepo, it's a rough thing to play against for meepo, meepo can't right click him win, nor can meepo run, nor can meepo cc him with net. meepo beats every single thing in dota2, that is the only thing that has a even chance vs meepo. earth shaker is no match for meepo esepcially late game, but i'd still say earth shaker is a better support choice over other supports vs meepo, it just wont' hard beat meepo, that'd take your entire team to do so.

[76561198355373987]

Originally posted by Meepometh:

thanks that helps! are heart and asault C pretty much obsulete now?

if u wanna carry more efficiently, meepo benefits alot more from right click of ethereal. than heart. 5 times the dps from right click on meepo is far more effective because all it takes is killing 1 meepo so a heart doesn't do much. what you want is to wreck everything if you are ignored faster. meepo easily most of the match will have more right click dps than all enemy heros combined and is the most OP right clicker in dota2 if you stack ethereals. assault curias for the price point is much more wasted stats for meepo to buy than buying an ethereal in its spots(even if meepo already had ethereal), because the active of ethereal if never used doesn't matter, it's still a more stat efficient item for meepo for the stats vs cost over assault curias. assualt curias is better bought by an ally of hte meepo. but even, there is better things you allies could by instead, such as blood thorn or active ability items. it's good though that your team overall has the aura's of shiva's assault curias, and radiance, but meepo shouldn't be the one who gets them assumign the meepo player wants to be efficient for playing meepo.

[Meepometh]

I really apreciate the time you took into this. lots was explained. against a sven or pa etc. that i can't close the game out early enough is it decent to pick up sythe of V? thanks

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