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Radiance as a damage item

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Hamstertamer » March 26, 2015 3:11pm | Report
Radiance tree is outdated. It used to be semi-legit when he had 1.7 base attack time and before he had an aghs upgrade.
Now I see absolutely no reason why you would go radiance on tree over rushing Aghs/refresher.

Radiance centaur is...a bit awkward. You still need to go blink as a first item on the hero, so sure you can go radiance after blink but you need to be balling HARD to get your radiance at a decent timing.
If you manage to get 22 minute blink + radiance on an offlane centaur...you probably have won the game no matter what items you buy anyways. You can screw around with that if you play centaur mid though ;)
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by SatomiCappucino » March 26, 2015 6:11pm | Report
I have seen lots of Bloodseekers build Radiance. Well they do build due to the fact, that 1v1(or in teamfights) near creeps he can be incredibly hard to kill, because he heals like a boss and can amplify the damage(50*140%=70 magic dmg per second). The amplify is not that big, but as you can't kill BS as easily with them heals, he can deal a considerable amount of DPS in a teamfight.
As other people said it can be built on ultra tanky heroes like Centaur Warrunner , because you simply "can't" kill them. Also, I don't know if someone mentioned it before, but it can be good on Omni too as he is INCREDIBLY hard to pin down and kill.
I saw somewhere Radiance on Enigma and I don't know why it is built ._.
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I have seen lots of Bloodseekers build Radiance. Well they do build due to the fact, that 1v1(or in teamfights) near creeps he can be incredibly hard to kill, because he heals like a boss and can amplify the damage(50*140%=70 magic dmg per second).


It's terrible because Radiance is only viable as a first item. But BS can't go radiance as a first item because he needs something to stop Town Portal Scrolls. So he needs a fast Skull Basher otherwise he just can't gank anything since people can just TP out.
So if you go radiance on BS you get it around 30 minutes and it does nothing. Just don't.



it can be good on Omni too as he is INCREDIBLY hard to pin down and kill.


Obviously it only works if you play Omni as a safe lane carry. Or as...a solo mid?
In that case a hybrid right-click/tank build with a refresher can be great.
Radiance -> Eye of Skadi -> Refresher Orb sounds like a nice build.
If you play Omni as a carry you can skip Aghanim's Scepter because you're a front-line tank so you don't need the increased cast range. However Refresher Orb is still a core item.


I saw somewhere Radiance on Enigma and I don't know why it is built ._.


Radiance Enigma is complete pub scrub nonsense. If you ever buy radiance on Enigma I'm ****ing reporting you.
Enigma needs a Blink Dagger, a Black King Bar and a Refresher Orb as core items. And he needs that stuff ASAP. He has no time to waste on rushing a radiance.
Besides, if you just want Black Hole to deal more damage, Aghanim's Scepter is what you're looking for. Aghs deals 21% of heroes's maximum HP as BKB piercing pure damage, Radiance deals only 200 magic damage. One is better than the other.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by SatomiCappucino » March 26, 2015 6:40pm | Report
Yup. As I thought Radiance on Enigma is a total waste.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » March 26, 2015 6:57pm | Report
Hamstertamer wrote:

Enigma needs a Blink Dagger, a Black King Bar and a Refresher Orb as core items.

Puppey says Mek >> BKB >> BoT's >> Bloodstone

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Timminatorr » March 26, 2015 9:38pm | Report
TheSofa wrote:


Puppey says Mek >> BKB >> BoT's >> Bloodstone

the bloodstone pickups were mostly in games where they were already ahead though. most of the time he gets mek treads or sometimes arcanes and then BKB, followed by blink. but he switches those 2 around depending on the situation ofcourse.

IMO enigma should almost always get mek though, i see far too many pub enigmas rushing blink and not doing much with it. its not like he will have trouble farming the blink after mek anyway, he farms just as fast as an AGI carry.

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