State of axe agahim 7.20 and suggestions

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Not since the time of ultimate taking only 6 seconds to refresh, then speed pushing all the lanes by slamming creeps with ultimate all the time and a Octarine have i ever felt compelled to pick agahim up again post 7.20 for axe with the range of other objects i can get instead.

I have two different ideas of how to address this, firstly a buff.

16 seconds CD on missing ultimate
8 seconds CD after hitting a creep
Still applies battle-rage to surrounding heroes. 30% damage reduction removed

A big problem with the existing agahim is while it is a useful effect, to REALLY get the best use out of it you need to not hit heroes at all, since the most reliable axe kills will come from singling down units with your team, because heroes usually die to the spins first on a initiation, the group will split and focus down usually a single unit.

Hitting ultimate on a lane creep instead to apply battle fury on everyone around would be a great application if it wasn't punished so severely without doing something drastic like building a refresher especially for this.

And by itself 30% damage reduction can look good, but just deflates blademail and the health
stacking nature of axe entirely to not being very useful. 15% as a skill perk instead of +25 health regen would be more useful.

alternatively

New effect: Until reset at death, every succesful hero kill with culling blade will raise the damage threshold by 150 for the next ultimate.

A controversial rebalance, this would allow axe to blink and instantly kill the weakest heroes after going on a previous culling blade rampage.

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