And once I chose to do it after another player picked
Crystal Maiden:
I'm hoping at some point to try: (if our supports actually buy wards)
(
Urn of Shadows to follow)So...how did it go? Well, it actually worked out pretty well all 3 times. Sacrifice denies 20-30% of their farm and experience (pretty brutal for a trilane), as well as giving your guaranteed experience and mana, and allowing you to pull the lane back towards your own tower. I played passively unless their supports disappeared and I could go 1v1 with their carry.
1 level in
Frost Blast gives you an easy way of grabbing the occasional last hit (125 damage is pretty hard to argue with at this point) or harass their carry if they're short on consumables. 1 level in Ice Armour gives you some much needed protection, can help you push the lane out if necessary (use it on a melee creep) or even protect your tower after the new patch.One of the best things is you get quicker access
Chain Frost, which can be extremely punishing if they try to dive you, and gives you considerably more potential killing power otherwise.The Downside?
I'm pretty sure this would be a bad idea against a push heavy lineup featuring the likes of
Leshrac, 
Chen, 
Enigma or 
Enchantress. You've not exactly got fantastic health points, and no escape (Ice Armour is about as good as it gets), although your base movement speed is pretty good.Whether you'd be better with a more ganky offlaner is open to debate (
Mirana, 
Clockwerk, 
Timbersaw etc), although some farm on 
Lich can make him pretty effective. I've usually gone with:
You hit pretty damned hard with all this, with a big ulti and an extra disable - would the farm be better used somewhere else..?
Overall, do you think this would be a viable tactic? I'm picturing it especially against hard carries who are really going to suffer from the farm/xp loss?
Games:
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
I'm certainly curious to see whether the changes from 6.80 do start leading to more dual lanes, especially as offlane
You're right Peppo, I'm out of date (but about to be back in fashion :)) with the Aghs, the new
I think because
Tbh I'm more drawn to the strength heavy starting build over boots in the offlane. When you're hardly leaving the tower anyway, speed doesn't seem that important compared to being able to eat a combo and survive. You don't need right click damage with
For example, I was up against a
Overall though, you're probably right that this is a pub solo, and proper games would likely be a dual lane with
So.... what do you think will happen with spring cleaning update? 15 minutes
He's never used as an off-laner as he can't deter incoming pushes by any means, but with the upcoming patch he will be able to do so. I still think it's not worth picking up an
About your item choices,
I like him as a pub off-laner because it's easy to survive dual lanes and an Agh's ulti grants a teamwipe versus common players, most of the time. But I prefer going dual lanes when I use him in captains mode (and I don't like him in the safe lane because the Sacrifice gets wasted that way).
Honestly, I'd say
A Dual Offlane with