What's the hard counter to bristle, and don't say Break

[Blind]

'Cuz he's clearly strong enough to just punch you down even without spikes

[Blind]

i thought sunder could uniquely go through linkins - I don't remember off hand

[CHIN-SAN]

its been 2 weeks since i stoped playing dota bcuz of bb. i still got quill stacks on me

-some random reddit dude

[Honorable Pig]

axe and legion commander

[Duchess Minty]

Axe and Legion Commander force him to face them.

[Sixe史吏]

BB has three strengths

1. Chasing down heroes mid-game.

2. Winning lanes.

3. Tanking hits while running away.

BB has three fatal flaws.

1. No innate stun.

2. Dependent on passive for tankiness and damage.

3. Needs to rush your face to kill you.


Let's neutralize his strengths and take away his weaknesses.


1. Bristle spams spells in lane to get LHs + damage to enemy heroes. Stick/Wand is good to limit his damage.

2. If Britsle tries to solo gank, carry TP.

3. Play heroes with high regen, self-sustain, and/or high armor like TB, Timber, DK, Nyx, FV, Lycan, BS, or Doom (after eating a Jungle creep).

4. Play heroes with hasted movespeed like Lycan, Dark Seer, or Weaver.

5. Don't let Bristle rush face. Build force staff to save those affected by Slow and use atos on Bristle. Good heroes are the standard anti-facerush heroes (Disruptor, Naga, BS, CM, ET, Kunkka, Axe) as well as the anti-melee heroes (Underlord, Razor, Viper).

6. Bristle cannot tank vs. frontal hits. Heroes that force him to face front are Axe and LC. Heroes that can easily get in front of him include most invisibility heroes not named Riki, but Weaver and WR do it best.

7. Bristle cannot tank without his passive. Natural Shadowblade users like Arc Warden, Slark, Doom, or LC could consider an early silver edge against him. Natural sources of Break (Doom with Aghs or Silver Edge, Viper, Pango, and SD with Aghs) are also effective.

8. Bristle's quills are physical damage. Heroes that reduce physical damage like Tide, take no physical damage (Necrophos, Pugna) or heroes that normally build crimson guard (Axe, Underlord, Centaur) are effective against him, especialy in lane.

9. Bristle needs to spam his spells to be effective. Heroes that can either instantly silence him or punish him for using low CD spells are strong (Silencer, FV, DP, Sky), especially in lane.

What not to use:

1. Heroes that depend on spell immunity/shield or physical evasion to survive (Jugg, LS, PA, Ember).

2. Mid and safelane cores that are melee (or effectively close to it) that prefer stat, farming, or mobility items over silver edge as their first big core item. (Luna, TA, AM, Gyro, and bad Slark, Morph players)

3. Heroes whose close-range DoT combos or backstab mechanics are punished by Bristle's passive (Riki, Bat, core Veno).

4. Greedy players
a. Only build damage items (see most 2k players on any core, but especially common on PA, Sniper, Morphling, and LC)
b. Try to solo kill BB (mid-game, Bristle has double the health of most PA/Slark/SF/Lina/QoP)
c. use their saving spell/wand too liberally in lane to farm/intiiate/heal (slark pounce, morphling's Q, FV timewalk, AM/PA/QoP leap, MK stun, silencer Q and E and ult) rather than to save self and allies.

[𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘]

Axe, Legion commander.

[Unicorn's Glory]

LOL these comments have had me screaming in laughter!!

Keep it simple, get legion commander and have her scout for him. She'll eaarn easy duels and deal with this bristle. Also, if he decided to get a linkens, then get abyssal blade and pop that silly item.

[Duchess Minty]

Origineel geplaatst door Unicorn's Glory:

Also, if he decided to get a linkens, then get abyssal blade and pop that silly item.

Or you could get Heaven's halberd for a little over half the price and have it available for use almost twice as often.

[76561198824851676]

aws

[Road to Immortal69]

get blood thorn ez

[Blind]

Origineel geplaatst door Goddess of Victory:

get blood thorn ez

Hey... this is a good idea. The damage amp occurs as its own proc after the fact

[𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘]

Silencer is not bad too, his q refreshes everytime spray is used and he also has pure damage, not bad I think.

[Blind]

Origineel geplaatst door ⭐⭐⭐Lenin⭐⭐⭐:

Silencer is not bad too, his q refreshes everytime spray is used and he also has pure damage, not bad I think.

I like this one too