About current meta

Yup. I played Medusa once, got caught in my jungle.

Activate Stone Gaze
Turn around
Split Shot
Mystic Snake
Right-clicks

EZ TRIPLES PEOPLE!

I like OD, but the issue is, he gets silenced, he's kinda screwed. Or if the opponent has a good quick hitter with BKB, it sucks.

a good OD player can work around that.

look at their team.

Lina burst stun and dat ult. plus high intel.

Puck silence burst mobility.

Drow 6 second silence high damage output.

Sand King stun and mobility.

Phantom Assassin is a natural BKB carrier.

When playing OD you need forcestaff or Euls in ALL cases.

a maxed astral can take you out for 4 seconds, a forcestaff can give you 3 to 4 seconds grace.

OD is tougher since he builds a sycthe and Shivas so he has high armour and hp.

i see a lot of OD's fighting when they dont have mobility and they get thy're face REKT.

this game i stayed in lane till level 8.

a BKB can be kited it just requires smarts.

stuns can be kited it just requires quick fingers.

i played an OD game where they had a 5 BKB team. we won with final score or 19-2-10

plus yea he gets silenced he's out but with force staff or euls or even better BKB ... they just wasted a silence.

Hmm, I should get Euls as well. I always build Forcestaff, BKB, and Scyth of Vyse.

Now, do you put in a point into Arcane Orb early, or do you build it late?

i have tried the point early but with the nerf to him in the 6.7 patches he needs higher points in his aura or he just burns through his mana pool so quick.

i dont like fighting him early i have done so in the past and i feel he just doesnt have enough damage or sustain to do so.

my skill build against a painful mid is : w-e-w-e-w-e-q-e-r-w-r-q-q-q-s-r

i try not to leave lane until level 8-9.

my skill build against a easy mid is different : w-e-w-e-q-w-r-e-q-w-r-e-q-q-s-r

one point at lvl 5 is when you should have boots and null talisman and you hurt so your high harass is amazing since one hit should do around 60-100 pure damage.

skill build is

brown boots into null into treads into forcestaff into scythe into bkb into shivas into luxury or situational.

Yeah, he's not an early fighter really. Though I did once, with the point in arcane orb, get a mid sniper first blood. And then it all steamrolled from there. 11/0 Hard Carried as OD. That was a good game.

With the changes to Essence Aura do you think that W-E-W-E-W-R-W-Q instead of W-E-W-E-E-R-E-Q is a legit build? I haven't played much Outweed Dankvourer recently.

i personally like at least three points in astral because it gives more mana and intel steal and your not going to be spamming your orb till later anyway so i would think a w-e maxed first with a point in q&r each by level 10 is a really solid build against most heroes.

but you still need at least 3 points in essence before getting your orb because RNGESUS IS NOT A NICE GOD!!

seriously rnjesus hates me i need at least 3 points in essence or i find myself without mana .... much anger very hate .

with od i play so ******** passive early game i just astral as much as possible and last hit and deny as much as poss then once i have force boots and null plus level 10 (around 10-14 mins)...

its time to bring the pain. this period is when you shine like a star since most heroes wont have bkb and your going to hurt so ******** much.

force staff astral then drop the hammer on two or more and just stukka dive to clean up the leftovers.

gg wp.

you have around a 10 minute window from 14 mins to 24 mins when most wont have bkb or any real right click damage so this area is when you have to bend them over and assert your dominance. if you dont then your going to ****ed ... and not in the good way.

TL:DR

stay safe till 3 core and 10. then MLGNOSCOPEBLAZE420GETREKT for around 10 mins. then if you have done your job just finish them.

gg wp

The change to essence aura doesn't alter OD's build.

Only thing it does is make it less RNG dependent but in average the mana restored is the same.

You need to get to the point to which your max mana is over 1000 and max aura, at which point you can put Arcane Orb on autocast because it will restore more mana than you spend.

So either you have the early DPS build (1/2/4/1) which actually allows you to get kills, or you have the AFK farm harassment build (0/4/4/0) xD

This ^

P.S. updated Essesnce Aura on the Database. 8{3