Soul Reaper is a terrible solo mid hero. He can't get runes easily because he has no skills for it, and on top of that he's a slow, ranged babysitter with a short range AoE heal and another AoE damage skill who has about zero ganking power and doesn't get significantly better with levels or items. All of that should SCREAM dual lane to you. Chronos is a better choice, but you two should probably have laned together. I'd be willing to bet you were playing AP or EM, though: people rarely understand team/lane composition there and you don't seem to be an exception.
And yeah, PSR works.
Any double stun lane with Pyro works pretty well. Pyro+Hammerstorm (Lina+Sven) is one of the oldest lane combos in DotA. Andromeda is usually played as a roamer, there's a really cool VoD somewhere of her being used that way that was actually one of my favorite games to watch. I wish replays were backwards compatible.
Codex Swiftblade is lol. I haven't seen Swift used since the newest patch, though.
Actually, in the soul reaper game, i was playing SD. I never play EM and rarely play AP because of the attitudes people tend to have in it. People who play sd and rd generally actually try to play as a team.
I would have laned with chronos. We had a bh who cuda soloed, but chronos was a feeder, as i said, and fed the other mid, without dying of course. He just let the other get all of the last hits purposefully. That was the only reason i wanted to take solo over him.
I used swift in a game lately, he's pretty good with his buff.
On the PSR thing, yes i think it works in theory. It should work in that the teams with a higher psr total generally tend to win, based on players skill. When you throw in extra variables such as feeders, team stacking, and team discord into the mix, it winds up not working, which unfortunately is what most AP games are made up of. This is the last line of the post you gave me.
QED: The PSR system will ultimately work as soon as random matchmaking is implemented.
Unfortunately, random matchmaking has not been implemented yet, therefore psr does not work yet.
Thus why i've gone back to only playing sd and rd.
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