Remove Blink dagger

[Fatsack]

Need to completely remove blink dagger from the game. There is no point to have it and it completely destroys any possible balance in maneuverability for multiple heroes. Plus it has NO effective counter.

[Fatsack]

Using it should mute and disarm the user for 5 seconds after use, or some extreme nerf like that is needed. There is zero defense or counter items you can buy to stop a slardar blink slamming and stun locking you to death in zero seconds flat

[I LIVE AGAIN]

Originally posted by AerSilver🗲:

I have been jungling/farming a quick blink for almost 20 years now on axe, suddenly it's OP and needs to be removed?
There's counters for most items in the game,blink initiations included. You just sound like you main glass cannon AGI carries and feed because of bad positioning/map awareness/items build.

500 mmr pepegas will never find out who euled them

[Rubicks Cube]

yeah no lol

[no154370]

might as well asks to remove Nature Prophet's global teleporting ability that is even worse than Blink Dagger

which will never happen at all.

[AerSilver ♞]

You're invited to see the changelog for Blink Dagger for yourself

https://dota2.fandom.com/wiki/Blink_Dagger/Changelogs

It is one of the most consistent items in this game,unlike aether lens,bloodthorn and all this jazz.

Originally posted by I LIVE AGAIN:

Originally posted by AerSilver🗲:

I have been jungling/farming a quick blink for almost 20 years now on axe, suddenly it's OP and needs to be removed?
There's counters for most items in the game,blink initiations included. You just sound like you main glass cannon AGI carries and feed because of bad positioning/map awareness/items build.

500 mmr pepegas will never find out who euled them

Low MMR players will never find what shift-queuing actions is.

[Absche]

As positioning is an important aspect of the game, blink dagger is an essential item. And part of many hero item builds. Removing it is just another attempt to dumb down the game‘s complexity.

[Weird Grim]

Originally posted by Fatsack:

Using it should mute and disarm the user for 5 seconds after use, or some extreme nerf like that is needed. There is zero defense or counter items you can buy to stop a slardar blink slamming and stun locking you to death in zero seconds flat

There are 2 counter items for blink, wards and radiance.

[AerSilver ♞]

There are way more than just 2 items for that

[MovingTargetTez]

Originally posted by Fatsack:

Need to completely remove blink dagger from the game. There is no point to have it and it completely destroys any possible balance in maneuverability for multiple heroes. Plus it has NO effective counter.

I refuse to believe that you have 4k hours in Dota and still cannot figure out a counter to an item...

[Slippy Hoof]

Originally posted by Fatsack:

Need to completely remove blink dagger from the game. There is no point to have it and it completely destroys any possible balance in maneuverability for multiple heroes. Plus it has NO effective counter.

What i read between your lines is: New player is annoyed over an item, thus wants it removed.
Eh no?

[MovingTargetTez]

Originally posted by Slippy Hoof:

What i read between your lines is: New player is annoyed over an item, thus wants it removed.
Eh no?

He isn't a new player, dude has had 4k+ hours in the game...
Then again he is Herald 2 so maybe I gave him too much credit

[Fatsack]

Originally posted by AerSilver ♞:

I have been jungling/farming a quick blink for almost 20 years now on axe, suddenly it's OP and needs to be removed?
There's counters for most items in the game,blink initiations included. You just sound like you main glass cannon AGI carries and feed because of bad positioning/map awareness/items build.

Explain how you counter blink initiations please. There is nothing long range enough except for mayber snipers ult. Especially if they use fog of war well. There should be a 0.5second disarm and mute after blinking, at the LEAST. It is not good gameplay

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Fatsack:

Originally posted by AerSilver ♞:

I have been jungling/farming a quick blink for almost 20 years now on axe, suddenly it's OP and needs to be removed?
There's counters for most items in the game,blink initiations included. You just sound like you main glass cannon AGI carries and feed because of bad positioning/map awareness/items build.

Explain how you counter blink initiations please. There is nothing long range enough except for mayber snipers ult. Especially if they use fog of war well. There should be a 0.5second disarm and mute after blinking, at the LEAST. It is not good gameplay

The counter to blink are wards (or good game sense if there isn't any) and...
Initiating yourself.

While i do find the idea of DOTA with no blinks interesting to see just for science... It would also effectively destroy so many heroes.
Heroes like Axe, Magnus, Enigma are basically built around using blind dagger. They just can't get value out of their skills otherwise. WTF Axe is gonna do? Just walk in and aggro the whole enemy team manually? No he won't. He'd become an F-tier hero real fast.
The amount of work that would have to go into rebalancing and reworking every single hero that relies on blink dagger to get value... Yeah, not happening.

The counter to enemy initiation is to initiate first. Ideally - into their initiator, so that he couldn't uno reverse card you.
If your team lacks such heroes to do it... Too f*cking bad, you lost because you had an inferior pick, simple as.

[redseasplitter]

An increased activation time would be perfect here a random selection from a range of .2 - .8 seconds. On next the next attack used after blink. Or it mutes a random attack for 3 seconds.

[Pyro Penguin]

good positioning, awareness, and vision are the main things you need against heroes with blink, and if you have good reaction time just use an instant cast cc like euls or hex, nothing more satisfying than being called a hacker by some scrub LC because you hexed them before they could get duel off