Why do so few people play Lycan?

[Young Nudy]

I feel like Lycan is a very powerful hero...it just seems like no one really plays him. Idk, i may be wrong.

[lulborne]

Because people like having armor.

[Harley]

first they made his wolf squishy and then next him too ......
before he was able to jungle at level 1 thanks to is wolves now its quite hard to do that
also before his ulti will activate instantly allowing him to chase or escape enemy

[Ninjabutter]

He kind of got beaten with the nerf bat. He's still not bad, he just doesn't really fill a role that isn't filled better by another hero with more potential or utility.

[Husshuss]

I do not know, but I can tell you why I dont play him.
I just dont like it when my wolves get ahead of me, and I am too lazy to micro manage the wolves. It may be a stupid reason, but there are many more intersting heroes for me to play.

[Bee]

Wolves Need no Armor

[John Egbert]

people dont play dp that much either

[corbet]

lycan sufffers from the same problems of alchemist, dragon knight, wraith king, life stealer, ect. just not amazing. mean dragon knights ult barely does any thing it silly. i can move lycan's ult speed all times with no boots as brood, or as enchantress with phase boots drums and sange and yasha, or razor with those items. and his ults crit passive is weaker than regular all times crit passives, and he can only have it sometimes.

and lycan is diffecient in some stats, like a bit of the strength carries. alot of the agility carries have high everything of stats in all catagories, and oon top those have better passives and abilities.

[76561198236207136]

hard carry

[Kodaxmax]

Originally posted by the pianist:

lycan sufffers from the same problems of alchemist, dragon knight, wraith king, life stealer, ect. just not amazing. mean dragon knights ult barely does any thing it silly. i can move lycan's ult speed all times with no boots as brood, or as enchantress with phase boots drums and sange and yasha, or razor with those items. and his ults crit passive is weaker than regular all times crit passives, and he can only have it sometimes.

and lycan is diffecient in some stats, like a bit of the strength carries. alot of the agility carries have high everything of stats in all catagories, and oon top those have better passives and abilities.

lycan gets 650 move speed in his ult, maximum movespeed is 525 ...

[Alejandro]

Because Lycan sucks.

[76561198151216999]

Originally posted by the pianist:

lycan sufffers from the same problems of alchemist, dragon knight, wraith king, life stealer, ect. just not amazing. mean dragon knights ult barely does any thing it silly. i can move lycan's ult speed all times with no boots as brood, or as enchantress with phase boots drums and sange and yasha, or razor with those items. and his ults crit passive is weaker than regular all times crit passives, and he can only have it sometimes.

and lycan is diffecient in some stats, like a bit of the strength carries. alot of the agility carries have high everything of stats in all catagories, and oon top those have better passives and abilities.

Dk's Lv3 ult is pretty awesome actually. I mean, a free skadi passive? What more could you want?

[76561198067024248]

bcos they nerf the shift shift of lycan

[Lahel]

Because ti4 is over.

[corbet]

forgot the mention night stalker is liek using lycans ult all night long, and he can turn it into night time. and i dont even consider night stalker to be all that amazing but i'd rather have it than lycan sometimes, especially know the higher stats and better abilities and passives, atleast lycans can encourage him to farm jungle leaving his team 4v5 and expecting them to win lanes out numbered.

it's okay if that solo laner is already expecting to lose lane and knows he can bounce back later like when i am solo 1v2 as meepo or brood. i kind of like lycan on my team then. and with enough experience u know how to adjust to the constant 4v5, and the fact lycan will mostly split push later cause he is so limited. u can already know that , and then adjust and make lycan's job helping you easier. and not burden him too much.

[Narobi]

Originally posted by the pianist:

lycan sufffers from the same problems of alchemist, dragon knight, wraith king, life stealer, ect. just not amazing. mean dragon knights ult barely does any thing it silly. i can move lycan's ult speed all times with no boots as brood, or as enchantress with phase boots drums and sange and yasha, or razor with those items. and his ults crit passive is weaker than regular all times crit passives, and he can only have it sometimes.

and lycan is diffecient in some stats, like a bit of the strength carries. alot of the agility carries have high everything of stats in all catagories, and oon top those have better passives and abilities.

WTF are you talking about? You know how fast you can end a game with a mid lane Dragon Knight just melting towers with his ult? At lvl 1 his ults passive lets towers disapper in like 20 10 secs.