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General DiscussionLifestealer coming back to meta--yes or no?

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amarin1492

    So I haven't played with or against Lifestealer since 6.83, but the changes look pretty significant

    Feast is now considered as normal bonus damage (can Crit and Cleave off it)

    Daedalus Lifestealer? Sounds possible.

    Open Wounds lifesteal increased from 15/20/25/30% to 50%

    Small buff for jungle Lifestealer (essenially allows him to trade mana for health). Also makes Lifestealer stronger in the early game.

    Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade to Lifestealer: Grants a new skill, Assimilate. Assimilate allows Lifestealer to target an allied hero and swallow them, allowing them to hide inside of Lifestealer. Any healing Lifestealer receives is shared with the assimilated hero. The assimilated hero can release itself at any time by clicking on the buff icon to erupt outward and deal 300 damage to enemies in a 700 area of effect. If Lifestealer dies or assimilates another hero, the currently assimilated hero will automatically exit. Issuing any order with your hero, a few seconds after being assimilated, will take you out.

    To be honest, I don't see Agh's becoming a core item for lifestealer. Lifestealer needs damage items. Aghs allows him to save nearby teamates and set up for elaborate initiations, but I feel that initiation will be better performed by other heroes, like centaur, tide, naga, etc. For example, centaur + aghs = allies can run over the wall of the base onto highground.

    mwsqz

      yeah i think this meta is really about the hero pool and possibilities, so this meta is gonna have a large hero pool.

      Metallicize

        why did they have to do retarded nerf to es idk

        Pom Pom 🍕

          What you could do with his aghanim is eating another core, then infesting an initator. Or eat an initator like tide and infest someone like storm/spirit breaker who can jump really far in to a fight without blink.

          Dire Wolf

            idk, very specific aghs abilities are usually hard to make super useful. Like what pomi said, gonna need a third hero to make it work. Although I guess you can save some low hp heroes with assimilate, pop wounds and rage and heal em up a bit, then they pop out. With that much lifesteal off wounds though he might work well as a 3rd slot hero, buffing all the carries as you focus a target down. 50% lifesteal is a ton.

            Totentanz to The King: M ...

              Aghs is useless, only a troll item but the Feast buff is brutally good, wish he also got more range on Open Wounds though.

              TripleSteal-

                No

                mwsqz

                  yeah agha is useless, always was on him, nothing change, good for making videos thats it