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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Sanvitch » October 3, 2014 2:49am | Report
kkoopman3 wrote:

I don't get it. You don't even have to be standing behind the damn thing anymore to push it. It don't make sense that people can't play him! Io is apparently better than him! What?!


The thing is... Earth Spirit is still extremely complex to play well, and punishes you (And your team) really hard for not playing well.

A Good Earth Spirit is terrifying to behold. But there's very few good Earth Spirits relative to the rest of the them out there, thus the low win-rate.

Win-rates really don't mean a lot about how good a hero is when it comes to solely pubs (That aren't high skill of course), because generally simpler heroes to understand are ones that perform better.

I mean, if you can play a good Earth Spirit that's great for you, because you are in a minority there. But for most people, they simply aren't good at using the hero.

Since you just can't have enough Chaos Breaker.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » October 3, 2014 11:23am | Report
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I don't get it. You don't even have to be standing behind the damn thing anymore to push it. It don't make sense that people can't play him! Io is apparently better than him! What?!


This is the stupid change. In my first Earth Spirit game after the patch, I missed half of my Boulder Smashes just because of that damned change. Plus, if you push it the new way, you won't be able to aim it 100% perfect like you did before.

Trust me, there's a reason I have a 60% winrate with him. Icefraud tried to make it easier to play him, in the end he ended ****ing up one of the easiest mechanics in the game, just because people couldn't turn off autoattack in their options while playing Earth Spirit.

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