General DiscussionCheapest way to pop linkens as a Legion Commander?

theres no good way, you need your teams help

Can't count on it. Mostly they just scare somebody I am trying to gank anyway. Also if I need to blink in to initiate, they also have to have blink.. So fuck that, not gonna happen.

Guess I'm off to play alchemist then.

A lot of times if you're going maelstrom with AC or other attack speeds blinking in and attacking under press the attack, it will do it for you.

I have done this loads btw so based of RNG but still a perfectly valid way to rid linkens if your team isn't in it to win it.

How the hell do you do it if they are not retards? I mean, most people are gonna have a stun or a way to escape, at least most heroes who build linkens. Medusa will ult, morphling will waveform/replicate out, weaver will shukuchi out, etc. Also I didn't know maelstorm breaks linkens. Holy shit, I remember seeing that once but I thought I was seeing things.

It kinda makes sense, chain lightning was a target spell in wc3. But yeah, I will try this.

EDIT:

No I won't, because:

6.82
Spellblock
Now blocks Wrath of Nature and Lightning Storm fully when being the first target. No longer interacts with them when being secondary target.
No longer blocks the following abilities: Nether Ward's Mana Flare, Fissure's damage and stun and Maelstrom and Mjollnir Chain Lightnings.

...

Okay, next idea? Team cooperation is more unreliable than sacred arrow, split earth and light strike array combined.

What about HH? Though if you're building it you're likely not going to go with blademail because it's self-defeating somewhat.

diffusal i guess
hey, it's cheaper than linkens
but yea, pretty much when all the linkens/euls come out you can't solo-kill people anymore. so try to capitalize as much as you can on the early/mid game.

Don't bother dueling them then, it's better to delete one hero other than thinking of way to break the linkens. But, I used to get maelstrom to break that pesky item.

^ there's a second LC player who agree's that if you're hitting creeps you can break linkens with a proc and then blink duel immediately after, or just attack them till it breaks with a proc.

just test it in a private lobby.

anyway once someone gets linkens you can't kill them anymore. it's like when you have an orchid against manta style. you don't build items to deal with the manta style you try and kill the person as much as possible before they get it.

same applies here.

"^ there's a second LC player who agree's that if you're hitting creeps you can break linkens with a proc and then blink duel immediately after, or just attack them till it breaks with a proc."

Not since 6.82, apparently.

"anyway once someone gets linkens you can't kill them anymore. it's like when you have an orchid against manta style. you don't build items to deal with the manta style you try and kill the person as much as possible before they get it.
same applies here."

The worst thing is, the fuckers usually rush it. And sometimes you won't have enough control of the game, so they'll get it just as you get your blink+blademail and completed boots, but you still have to interrupt them. I just love when antimage gets a 15 minute battlefury and becomes overly positive about the oucome of the game, but suddenly I get blink blademail and infiltrate his jungle, so he ends the game with battlefury and yasha. But with linkens heroes I can't do that, or would have to start building HH instead of blademail, and get it kinda just as they get linkens, bu then I wouldn't be able to leverage their damage as easily, etc. It's kinda tough.

anyway he said "I used to get maelstrom"

meta my ass

Get a Helm of the Dominator and dominate a creep with a targeted ability. The medium and small satyrs, the harpy leader

Or a Necronomicon, and use the Mana Burn from the ranged soldier.

Dagon is always nice to have on melee hero.

You're better off getting duel damagefrom squishy supports man, it's no brainer if they rush linkens cause they will suck. They already delayed their main core item, unless linkens is their core.

cheapest should be cheapest in terms of opportunity cost and in that scenario halberd

if u cud cast lotus on enemies lotus wud be such a disgusting item on him

Why not make Solar Crest, pop the linkens, then Duel? I dunno, just throwing ideas out there, doesn't sound too bad. But this is coming from a guy on a huge losing streak, soo.... trgjsernbgerkgerbgge, fucking cancer dota. cough* sorry about that.

i think solar doesnt cancel linkens

Oh, okay :L

I think you need your team

Heaven's halberd, decent item on legion, or maybe the dagon.. its 2,7k gold but idk, you can do with diffusal aswell which gives you atk speed and mana burn.

gold on my wrist

phone in my pocket

I haven't actually thought of dominator, I guess that's a very interesting idea! :D Still, I can't blink the creep to initiate and jump in after him. It'd probably be a good idea to get a dagon maybe, then. Or HH.

I pretty much always win offlane vs duals, so winning the lane is not the problem, especially if there's a melee carry that'll have to go to base all the time because of OO spam with soul ring. Anyway, off to watch Universe play lc. Anybody got some good videos?

Yeah, maelstrom is the way to go (was the first thing I thought and would be what I'd do).

Wish it still worked though :( I'd probably get it too, since mjollnir is a good upgrade anyway and not a waste of the slot.

good thing you dont play alone

you guys are insane