keeper of the light is comically weak

[Oktavien [IDGAF]]

Literally, the only decent ability he has is willo wisp, and even that can be negated by a few attacks from any right clicker.

Illuminate has got to be one of the worst abilities in the game. A full channel isn't even powerful enough to take out a creep wave, lmao.

Blinding light isn't so blinding - and I'm almost convinced there is some kind of bug with this ability where it doesn't actually work at all. I used this ability extensively and never saw a single miss from the opponent.

Chakra magic, meh

Solar blind meh

Spirit Form, how is this even considered an ultimate ability LMAO

recall not very useful at all.

KOTL has got to be one of, if not THE, worst hero in dota and requires immediate changes.

[Will Bang]

Illuminate may not take out a creep wave in one go but it's still so risky in laning phase. I'm relieved to see KotL on enemy teams because they so often push waves inadvertently.

Chen is also stupidly weak (And KotL got HIS Recall). Lot of what Chen can do, every other summon hero can just do better. Early objectives? Lycan/NP. Scouting? Beastmaster/Visage. Healing? Enchantress. Rushdowns? Druid/Meepo. His entire point of possessing creeps just becomes useless once Mid Game is over, by which time it's 4v5.

If you want someone with a similar Will o Wisp ability consider Underlord /w Aghanim Sceptre. The added slow and ability to place one with Gate is incredibly potent on chasing down or disrupting ganks.

[Oktavien [IDGAF]]

Originally posted by Will Bang:

Illuminate may not take out a creep wave in one go but it's still so risky in laning phase. I'm relieved to see KotL on enemy teams because they so often push waves inadvertently.

Chen is also stupidly weak (And KotL got HIS Recall). Lot of what Chen can do, every other summon hero can just do better. Early objectives? Lycan/NP. Scouting? Beastmaster/Visage. Healing? Enchantress. Rushdowns? Druid/Meepo. His entire point of possessing creeps just becomes useless once Mid Game is over, by which time it's 4v5.

If you want someone with a similar Will o Wisp ability consider Underlord /w Aghanim Sceptre. The added slow and ability to place one with Gate is incredibly potent on chasing down or disrupting ganks.

I agree Chen is another weak hero that requires immediate attention. Why did they give KOTL his recall ability?? Seems like a strange choice.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

The hero is a type I like to call an accelerator. They don't win/lose games, but instead enable you to win/lose faster draft depending. He's also good at depushing lanes lanes and can flash farm/multistack fairly easy. He's actually the reason creep camps got moved further away from each other mid map

[Will Bang]

Originally posted by Oktavien IDGAF:

I agree Chen is another weak hero that requires immediate attention. Why did they give KOTL his recall ability?? Seems like a strange choice.

I feel like KotL AND Chen had Recall before? Maybe slightly different in function.

Originally posted by ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ:

The hero is a type I like to call an accelerator. They don't win/lose games, but instead enable you to win/lose faster draft depending. He's also good at depushing lanes lanes and can flash farm/multistack fairly easy. He's actually the reason creep camps got moved further away from each other mid map

Camp stacking isn't that practical because most of the time the jungle camps will go empty and remain empty if team mates need to jungle. The time spent stacking them up massively could of been spent participating in team fights, and is actually one of the reasons I ended up in LP recently.

The other absolute risk with stacking is that heroes love running into the enemy team's jungles to take camps. It's not even strictly to gank because they're alone and underleveled — they simply want to rub their ass all over the enemy jungle.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

I agree it's bad and creates some weird pressures on the map. They would do this into late laning to rush Dagon to one shot people with solar bind Dagon and lvl advantages. It was changed because boosters iirc. Just look up how mid kotl used to be played