I guess I will hop on for the weekend.

Still poison_us, still sucky

HoN Hero: Venomtongue (VT)

Ranged, INT, Support, Ganker
VT is a hero that takes advantage of creep AI, sheer numbers,  and displacement. He fits into more push-oriented lineups and helps to fill in the role of a highly offensive, pushing, ganking support.

Q: Treachery
Type: Physical, Target unit
Cooldown: 15s
State "Traitor" is applied to target enemy unit for 1.25/2.5/3.75/5s.
Whenever a non-neutral creep comes within 300 of a unit with Traitor, state "Deceived" is applied for the remaining duration of Traitor. Units with Traitor lose 5/25/50/80 movement speed.
Units with Deceived are forced to attack the unit affected by Traitor that originally came within range of them. These units attack 15/30/45/60% faster.

W: Martyrdom
Type: Magical
Cooldown: 10s
Target creep explodes, dealing 15/30/45/60% of its max HP as magic damage to enemies in an area of 300. Any units that die from the initial explosion will cause an additional explosion dealing 25/50/50/75 magic damage in an area of 300, up to a max of 1/1/2/2 additional units.

E: Paranoia
Type: Magical
Cooldown: 25s
"Paranoid" is applied to target enemy for 1.5/2/2.5/3s.
Units affected by Paranoid will be afflicted by fear for 0.1s whenever they take damage.

R: Coercion
Type: Magical, Target unit and vector
Cooldown: 30s
"Coerced" is applied to target enemy for 1/2/3s.
Coerced units are stunned. They are pulled with a force of 200 in the target vector.

VT is powerful because of his pushing ability and his presence is heavy in all phases of the game.

Treachery scales with creep strength (esp. super creeps). Early game, even a few seconds worth of creeps wailing on you is a considerable amount of damage.
  The slowing factor is not %-based, as otherwise it would be too powerful. However, its static numbers are augmented by increasing growth. This is to allow creeps the chance to catch up the Heroes by nullifying bonus movement speed provided by boots, but at the same time, keeping its slow from having an impact in early game, where creeps already outrun many Heroes without boots by 20.
  The increase in AS is %-based to provide some form of scaling with creeps.
  An interesting feature to note is that as the number of creeps around an enemy increase, the more micro they will require to avoid being creepblocked. In mid to late game, a Hero without Phase Boots getting ganked by VT is in serious risk of being either heavily creepblocked or forced to take alternative paths to avoid being creepblocked.
  This ability has synergy with Heroes with summoning abilities. Consider this: you are ganked by Balphagore and VT. Balph uses his minions and VT uses Treachery. Unless you have an escape mechanism, there is an incredibly high chance of gettin mauled by the faster-moving minions that hit faster and apply slows more frequently. This is on top of Balph's minions natural strengths, which is already fairly great.

Martyrdom is an obvious pushing ability and also a powerful nuke, synergizing with Treachery. At levels 3 and 4, a single exploded creep around half HP will guarantee a cleared creep wave. This is about as strong as Demented Shaman's creep-clearing abilities.
  It syngerzies with Treachey by first attracting a mob of creeps to an enemy. Afterwards, simply explode a creep around half HP, and if any other weak creeps are nearby (assuming you at least attracted 3 or 4 creeps), watch the damage quickly stack up on your enemy.
  If you want to be really pro, you could use the explosion ability to deny several of your own creeps before the first waves even clash, like Plague Rider's Extinguish or Tempest's Elementals.

Paranoia can perhaps be the most powerful ability in VT's arsenal. It is similar to Empath's ultimate in that it scales with the strength of an allied carry. In this case, the faster your team hits an enemy, the more effective Paranoia is. It is comparable to giving your team a collective version of Flint's ministun. It will stop channeling abilities hard, and if you hae enough units hitting a Hero with a long cast time, they might never get the chance to get their precious spells off.
  This ability synergizes amazingly with Treachery. Not only might you have your allies wailing on the enemy carry, but perhaps also 2-4 creeps with boosted AS. With just 3 creeps, you're assuring at least 0.3s worth of fear time. Meanwhile, the enemy Hero is running around attracting even more creeps.
  This ability also augments certain allies like Blood Hunter. With you and your BH attacking a Paranoid target, if your VH has used his ultimate, your target is forced to move around, taking immense damage.

Coercion is what seals the deal for VT. It is an incredibly potent displacement tool. It's a Tablet of Command except you choose where to displace your target. It is VERY powerful. Its few seconds of stun is only icing on the cake.
  It also syngergizes with Treachery. If you had to solo gank, you could use Coercion to force your opponent into the middle of a creep wave and then use Treachery on them, getting them creep blocked. You could then follow up with Paranoia to take advantage of the creeps and finally use Martyrdom to dish out some heavy DPS.

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In the works.

I'm Cardinal22. Ahaa so that's who Raindrawp was. lols.

I fucking hate the HoN community. Such a bunch of arseholes. Other than that, we should get some games going xD

For future reference, Jeraziah's ultimate is always worth waiting for it to come up when the game is 70min long against Wildsoul and Valkyrie and Panda.

Also: Jeraziah should never be inside a battle first unless the enemy team has no disables and no DPS. In which case, why are you still 70min into a game?

Lastly: I will make sure to point out such things despite said things being glaringly obvious.

I wish devilesk and IP came back once in a while.

Here are some really good, must reads. I honestly learned more from reading them myself.

Strategies and Terms

Lane-ing

Juking

Warding

How to Think (Mindgames)

Now I remember why I quit playing HoN. Even winning, my teammates couldn't stop bashing each other.

yo guise. lern2read tips

yo guise dont forget that you're wasting your high-damage nuke if your team doesn't actually kill the target

i.e.

You're better off using powerful nukes to NEARLY finish off a target who DOES NOT have any clutch spells.

Otherwise you risk losing the kill, letting them regen, and/or return to battle (especially if they're a spellcaster with full mana and long range spells e.g. Thunderbringer, or enough disables to render DPS to 0, e.g. Witch Slayer or Pollywog Priest). Or even Flint, because of his >700 attack range.

Yay for Thunderbringer.

For those of you who keep adding me: I can't accept friend invites because I can't connect to the out of game server. That also happens to mean I can't join the SEN channel. Now, Raccoon, if you'd like to read shit before calling me a "n00b", that would be great. That's why I told Loveless to get on TS, not because I wanted to hear his sexy voice. Even though it is incredibly sexy. I told him to get on because it would be an extreme pain in the ass to try to communicate through a system that I can't send or receive shit on. Not that you'd understand something as simple as port blocking. Let me dumb it down for you: imagine that I can only two-hand touch instead of regular football because an authority figure doesn't want me to get all muddy.

Goddamn, I'm already looking like a pro HoN player.

http://www.facebook.com/heroesofnewerth/posts/165627456825305

[Model] Vindicator as Touhou Patchouli

EDIT:

Actually, the sound pack is fucking horrible. I think I'm going to do something myself to fix that, using that one Touhou anime's lines for Patchouli (even though I don't really like those either). Maybe I should just use that Denpai[...] anime's lines?

EDIT2:


My new Hero.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Apr 6 2011, 3:09 am by Sand Wraith.

Now explain it to me as if I were a 5 year old.

Because I said so.

Oh god these are so funny.

I watched the Andromeda re-enactment like five times just to see the slow mo Witch Slayer, again. And again. And again. ...And again.

What andromeda reenactment?