ring master's abilities seems boring ngl

[Bonita man ֎]

aside from it being confusing af i am guessing hes going to have 1 billion bug with rubick interactions

[safetyF1rst]

Yeah, I played it a couple times and got bored.

[Diavkha]

He was fun to play but really squishy and his abilities are def not that great. The ultimate could use some changes to make it more powerful and interesting.

[safetyF1rst]

Originally posted by Diavkha:

He was fun to play but really squishy and his abilities are def not that great. The ultimate could use some changes to make it more powerful and interesting.

Agree. Let's hope he gets buffed soon.

[Goose]

he's got low health, he's also an intelligence hero who also has issues with having low mana.

He can't farm too well on his free time as support, so you're pretty much left with following your carries the entire time.

[DUGONG]

I would pick lion over ringmaster every day of the week... disruptor ult is just a direct upgrade ...only thing you have to make that barrier to trap them with it

[Spleenball]

I was really hoping for a Puppet Master type hero.

[Bonita man ֎]

is he relegated to support and nothing else?

[safetyF1rst]

Originally posted by riichi mahjong:

is he relegated to support and nothing else?

At this point, he's a support. Don't expect anything to change drastically as this character is stated as a support.

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by riichi mahjong:

is he relegated to support and nothing else?

He can be a decent mid, albeit not amazing. He farms creeps easily by spamming 1 and once he gets his ult he can just go an gank something. You can even make him Witch Blade or something to double down on DPS and ganking, but there's definitely heroes who do it better.

[Goose]

I've been playing RM a bit & he's good at harassing & being a background hero.

[Omniknight Who Says Ni!]

He feels like a mixture of already done ideas, Q is basically Pugnas Q with a smaller aoe until it's upgraded, W is a worse version of Omni's repel, E is like a piss weak venomancer Q and the ult is a piss weak amalgamation of black hole and reverse polarity if it lands.

I don't hate it, but I have no desire to play it and generally sigh when it appears on my team.

[Sherryge]

Originally posted by Omniknight Who Says Ni!:

He feels like a mixture of already done ideas, Q is basically Pugnas Q with a smaller aoe until it's upgraded, W is a worse version of Omni's repel, E is like a piss weak venomancer Q and the ult is a piss weak amalgamation of black hole and reverse polarity if it lands.

I don't hate it, but I have no desire to play it and generally sigh when it appears on my team.

this was EXACTLY what i thought when i tested him out.
in dota heroes are supposed to be unique and different. this ♥♥♥♥ is just the generic league copy pasta method.

have a nuke, have a buff/save, have a debuff, and a nuke+cc ult.
they arent anything new too just a bastard child of dazzle and disruptor if the kid was also born without limbs

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Omniknight Who Says Ni!:

He feels like a mixture of already done ideas, Q is basically Pugnas Q with a smaller aoe until it's upgraded, W is a worse version of Omni's repel, E is like a piss weak venomancer Q and the ult is a piss weak amalgamation of black hole and reverse polarity if it lands.

I don't hate it, but I have no desire to play it and generally sigh when it appears on my team.

I'd say Q is fairly unique. The idea of a nuke that you can control to be tight and powerful, or wide but weak is pretty interesting. Since the fear acts as a disable - you can cancel the thing immediately just to cause that 0.1 second of fear and stop various channeled abilities - like Enigma or Warlock. Also feels good to farm creeps with it - it destroys ranged ones.
I wish it would scale with right click damage though and proc unique modifiers like crit etc, would create some interesting combinations.

W is more like a slightly weaker, but more flexible Shadow Demon's banish. It also ignores any slows, so you can use it to escape from Warlock's field for example. I wonder if it ignores enigma's BH too? Its actually very powerful, if not for limited cast range.
I also think it should be doing something upon box' explosion. Maybe deal just a tiny bit of damage, or - following the fact that its full of RM's daggers - it should apply the 3 to everyone around it? Maybe that could be aghs upgrade, actually?

E is Squirel's ult, just made into a common ability. I actually kinda like it. Its great for harassment and if you are sharing the lane with Phantom Assassin - you are dagger buddies now. The hitbox on it is exceptionally generous - almost to a detriment, as you will often hit creeps instead of your intended target.
The only change i would like to see is to remove the cooldown between throws and allow RM to stack them up - so your throw all 3 daggers at the same target for maximum DoT DPS.

R though... Feels incomplete. Its powerful when it works - its a fairly decent disable with a bit of damage, but there are stronger disables, damage loses its' potency quickly since it doesn't scale and the fact that they have to stare at it for 0.5 seconds to trigger it creates problems as i often threw an ult right in front of the enemies only for them to turn away slightly and then it does nothing. I imagine this ult will be very quickly countered in pro scene once everyone learn to just look away.
The idea, of course, is that RM must FORCE them to look at it - usually by throwing ult behind them and then using 1 to turn them around with fear, but its a hard combo to pull off and the end result is not that great. Either they should be hypnotized for another extra second or the blast damage must be increased by like 30%.
Or the passive slow/damage that the thing actually provides while active should be stronger to make sure that the ult does something even if no one is looking at it.

RM is definitely neat, for what should be a 5/4 he's a fairly mean character with lots of damage in lane and can provide some impact in late game with all the escapes and crowd control.

So far my biggest gripe with him are his random-ass bonus items he gets from dying heroes. Its like a 5th ability that randomly changes all the time and in the middle of the fight i just can't readjust quick enough and come up with "correct" way of using them besides just spamming. WTF am i even supposed to do with the illusion thing?

[Yurnero Elite]

please check my screen shots of ring master - to clear your doubts - its a great hero to play with. check.

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Originally posted by riichi mahjong:

aside from it being confusing af i am guessing hes going to have 1 billion bug with rubick interactions

Its boring because its bugged
The ult is mega bugged its supposed to pull towards the clown but it never works