*******it.
Alright, so a few weeks ago there was the whole discussion about a fan-see newfangled meta for good ol'
Anti-Mage, with 
Maelstrom instead of Battlefury. So I decided to start a blog on testing alternative metas for heroes.Well those are the results.
Let me give you a brief play by play.
Me and Dazzle (My friend) go safelane. And for whatever reason, DK went mid and OD and Bounty Hunter went offlane.
Me and Dazzle started out strong, he died once early to Broodmother and Nyx but eh. Once he bought wards it was no longer a problem.
I was doing my job, farming, staying out of fights as Anti-Mage.
I got a 13 minute Maelstrom, and a 16 minute Vlad's. So clearly, the Maelstrom sped the farm up quite a bit. It wasn't the same as a Battlefury, but the effect was much earlier than if I had bought Battlefury, which probably would have ended up a 20 minute buy. Mjolnir with Vlad's felt about the same though.
The real issue was Kunkka, and my team.
OD and Bounty Hunter were trying to be really aggressive. But RNGesus hated us, and I literally only saw a rune spawn besides Haste and Bounty once. So Kunkka basically tower dove at everybody.
Then my team kept getting into stupid teamfights. Oh well.
The Verdict on
Maelstrom+Vladimir's Offering: Viable
I pushed some lanes (we did splitpush). It's just that the moment my teammates got sight of anybody, they'd drop what they were doing to attack.
We honestly could have backdoored, if they weren't doing that.
As I mentioned before, my team ended up feeding quite badly.
I was 3 1 before I started dying, and I wasn't able to do much from that point onwards. We had a really greedy lineup, and I was really confused why pick dragon knight at all.
My GPM was much higher at first, but there was not much I could do. Honestly, I won't take any blame for this game because I was playing it safe when I saw these heroes, once I got a few itmes I popped into a couple of teamfights and got some kills, but my team was not trying to coordinate anything.
My friend kept leaving me to run in, the game was just a disaster. I've been ending up with teammates like this for the last 3 weeks now, and my win/lose ratio is going down from 55% to something like 35%.
Check the date of this game.This was the era of rats man.Dagon NP was very famous then.
BURN THE HERETICS! :http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/870280852
Blink on dusa ok lol.
Also dagon EB furion? No wonder you rekt this game
Brood doesn't care about sentry wards. When you have 30 freaking spiders against a lane with pretty much zero AOE (shadow wave, really) you don't care they they see you you just dive the tower with max MS and get a double kill.
117 last hits as AM in a 42 minute game is really meh.
42 minute no manta report AM xD
Not to mention that it seems like basically the exact opposite of what happened to me happened in that game XP.
The game was sort of lost when OD was 0 6 when I got Maelstrom and Bounty Hunter and DK were also high on deaths.
Kunkka's luck and my team's lack of coordination basically destroyed us.
Honestly, some of the stupid ****...
OD and Bounty Hunter were basically just ****ing flying in without waiting for anybody. Dazzle me and DK would be on our way, but it would be too late. So I'd just turn around and go back to farming, while my friend and DK kept running in and getting their ***es kicked.