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Backstory; skip if you just want the point.
Ok so tonight I played an RD game that was labeled to have a decent PSR and "pros only" (I was invited there, would never go there otherwise)
Our draft pool comes up and we have first pick,
first pick tempest, alright!
Second pick behemoth! alright, on a roll here
The guy with tempest doesn't know how to jungle that well with him and I can pull a port key in 11 minutes unharassed, prolly close to 14 harassed so I decide I'll trade him, my pick, in the pool are still kraken, pyro, glacius, and a few other good AoE killers. he stalls for 15 seconds, then with 3 seconds left he says "maliken!" of course I'm looking no where near maliken so I get forced randomed into... Wildsoul. Then we procede to get destroyed and the guy who's playing tempest is calling me a scrub because I'm not owning with wildsoul (mind you fifteen minutes into the game he's unharassed and has... 2 fortified bracers and NO port key) My whole team then tells me how AWSOME a hero wildsoul is in the right hands.
Which brings me to my point. Is wildsoul EVER a competitive pick in RD? In my mind he is second to last, last being dark lady (and even then I'd pick her over him in some situations)
I find wildsoul really useful for solo'ing middle. I know the top australian team mcity constantly use him in big international games.
Wildsoul is a bad pick when you already have a Tempest jungling.
Wildsoul now can have Booboo with items from level 1. Thus, you can buy 2 Hatchets on level 1 and rape all the forest without much problem.
Laning is not Wildsoul's specialization these days. Then you rush Mock on the bear if you can, otherwise just get a Brutalizer + Warpcleft on the bear and some survivability on yourself.
dude. use your head. 1 hatchet on wild, another on bear.
as for what makes him a competative pick, he can become one of the best tanks ingame. (+1k health from ulti).
add to this the ability to put a basher on both your char and your bear, along with massive dps on both, and you have yourself a killing machine which comes closest to permabash in HoN. ( Bash on wild, Bash on bear, and root on bear).
wildsoul is a very strong carry if the enemy dont gang him in early game he have won the match esay..15min radi cause of wood farming![]()
so he is atm in Highskilled matchs at dota league (MYM , ks.int , AEON etc..) a ban worth! And i think Wildsoul is in Hon stronger then in Dota cause spells doesnt stun him longer (maiden freze etc..) like in dota.
Are you stupid? why would you buy two hatchet at level one when wildsoul starts off ranged? I simply assumed he meant buying 2x hatchet on booboo on level 1. Hatchet + stout shield and a heal is standard build and you should only get another hatchet for wildsoul once he reaches level 6
So translation, he would be ok if it wasn't for the already jungling tempest?
yeah, 1k hp / 8 armor / 60dmg/6armor roar is so bad for an ult! ROFL!
I'd go one further and say the entire Asian DotA scene would beg to disagree.
Saw someone dominate valk mid with bear, he got the runes with booboo and just raped... Like i was on the valks team and seeing booboo with haste tower dive and kill valk easily was pretty sad.
Just a question, do items on Booboo drop when he dies?
I'd disagree as well...
Just as in DOTA, a well played, well farmed Syllabear (wildsoul) will and can dominate. The combined DPS given by Wildsoul and Booboo (even more buff than syllabear) is easily higher than many initial dps heroes. Also, I find his ms and as get ridiculously high, both his bear and himself. (I think his bear maxes MS @ lvl 16 with only boots)
As has been discussed before in different ways, HoN is not DotA. Heroes that are direct ports of bad heroes are somehow top tier in DotA and contrawise some pro ports are lower tier. Using the logic "because it works in DotA" is not a valid argument so lets stick away from that.
yes a wellfarmed wildsoul is good, but the darklady can also be pretty silly in a pub well farmed, that doesn't make her good on a higher play level.
As for the max aspd, the highest level before concesion on our team was 8 by our jungling tempest (our voodoo jester just got dominated mid)
Having booboo and having a monkey for rune whoring would be almost the same wouldnt they? unless booboo can use the bottle at which point I'd stick the valk where ever the bottle wasn't and harass until they back up.