Clinkz is unbalanced

[Chedo]

I've been playing this game for 4 years now and as far as I remember there has always been that one hero that would be completely overpowered in that particular patch (A.K.A. Void Spirit before he got nerfed). This time it's Clinkz. after 7.07 Clinkz has been as useless as middle chen. He had a relatively small HP and wouldn't do that much damage, even with his ultimate. Anytime someone picked clinkz on my team I would say my prayers to lord gaben. In 7.23 Maybe they wanted to increase Clinkz pick rate and make it somewhat playable again IDK, but I cannot fathom why someone would think that giving Clinkz this much health and armor reduction would be a good idea. In addition to being a pusher and escape, he's now a tank, nuker and carry. A player doesn't even have to have any skill with the hero as long as he gets last hits. All Clinkz has to do now is get a deso and a bkb and that's it, the game is won. Blade mail doesn't work against bkb anymore and god forbid he gets scythe, your supports had better be hiding in the fountain if that happens. Ive had Clinkz mop the floor with 50 min Spectre/AM/Drow, you name it. This hero should be nerfed back to hell. Am I the only one who feels this way?

[majzerofive]

Clinkz may be powerful, but he's not imbalanced. And definitely not the hero with the greatest pickrate. And definitely not the hero with the greaterst winrate. Clinkz is clinkz. You may as well say that ogre magi is imbalanced.

[Purple Sauce]

The ONLY thing making him broken is his split shot. If not for his split shot he'd just be in a good position, he has stupidly high damage potential among other things which is okay for single target damage, splitshot just makes him completely busted.

[Zagryzaec]

The need to return blademail working through bkb for physical and pure damage.

[Chedo]

Originally posted by MAJZEROFIVE:

Clinkz may be powerful, but he's not imbalanced. And definitely not the hero with the greatest pickrate. And definitely not the hero with the greaterst winrate. Clinkz is clinkz. You may as well say that ogre magi is imbalanced.

I mean...

[We are Magonia]

his damage and rate of fire are insane, he is a one hit kill but he is brutal if the other team just ignores him.

[Chedo]

2 months later it seems clinkz has faded back into irrelevance (where he belongs). arigato, aisu frogu sama <3

[76561199095865956]

I played now on Riki against Clinkz. (All pick game). Game was late and Clikz was not problem for me

[General Eclectic]

It was because of Helm of the Dominator. They nerfed it to only give creeps like a max of 1k hp where before it added hp points, now it sets hp to 1k max. Before the nerf, a clinkz would ideally rush HotD and use it on the centaur, then consume the centaur with ult. So yeh, it effectively made him both a tank and a nuker. After Helm got nerfed, less people played Clinkz. So actually, Clinkz was never overpowered, it was the items that worked too well on the hero.

[Kerfunky]

Heaven's Halberd; thanks for joining my tedtalk

[Fistraiser]

Originally posted by Dean Ambrose:

Originally posted by  Simp :

2 months later it seems clinkz has faded back into irrelevance (where he belongs). arigato, aisu frogu sama <3

Wasn't even needed..As long he can be countered like every other hero..

Yep.ientioned this recently to people in game.it wasn't just the need.just the hero's was being spammed so much when he was op more and more players learnt what his counters are.

[Chilli Dog Dave]

Originally posted by  Simp :

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the issue with dealing with heroes like clinkz, NP, tinker, meepo, visage, etc is that they require coordination to destroy, part of why these specific heroes dont see as much pick rates in turnies or higher ranks 5v5's is because those people ARE coordinated.
theres a reason these heroes are very effective at boosting but rubbish in turnies.

[Fistraiser]

Originally posted by Chilli Dog Dave:

Originally posted by  Simp :

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the issue with dealing with heroes like clinkz, NP, tinker, meepo, visage, etc is that they require coordination to destroy, part of why these specific heroes dont see as much pick rates in turnies or higher ranks 5v5's is because those people ARE coordinated.
theres a reason these heroes are very effective at boosting but rubbish in turnies.

Nature's prophet has been used frequently enough in tournaments with quite good success.i wouldn't lump him in with the others.
i know people smurf with him with lame rat strats but in pro games he us actually quite useful due to being able to play multiple roles and having a global positioning tool at level 1.

which makes him a very good team work hero as he can instantly arrive to support ganks or to stop a potential gank compared to in pubs and low MMR where people do the opposite with him and play solo to just rat which either wins the game due to enemies stupidity or causes them to make their team lose by leaving them permanently in a 4vs 5 game.

[stylaholicshop.de]

Clinkz is still strong. Buy dust, gem, wards and clinkz ends up at fountain. If you don´t and you reach lategame and let him farm, its almost gg.