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Diffusal on Riki is pretty much gg if the other team has squishies or are just generally bad at detecting invis heroes. Remember you can purge yourself of dust with the Diffusal blade, which a lot forget :)
 
Honestly, outside of Normal skill (you can look yourself up on recent games and use the filter to work out your bracket) Riki gets a mega pasting and his r-clickness means if you're ever really in trouble as a supp you can just go ghost (or force staff if you're fancy) into mek instead. Never forget ghost, it will allow you to counter all non-orb heroes with ease assuming you don't get smacked by Lina for doing so. Staying at the back, ghosting out their carry jumping you and you're doing your team proud.

My Lich build is pretty different, urn is OK but you don't need the regen (as you have E) so I tend to prefer wand > brown boots > wards every CD while building mek > need cheap boots2? then traq, else no mana boots on team? well it's not helpful to you personally but mana boots else treads on Str. After this, either ghost (if their carries are people like AM/Ursa etc...), euls (we are jumping them and need ranged disable) or force staff (our disable/carry might need a nudge now and then). Lich has a great slow and a high base mov (315) so going longer on him for boots 2 is fairly OK.

if you're forgetting to use W you can r-click it to autocast it but do not rely on this going into fights, it will interupt player invoked spells (R animation is pretty long) and items.
 
The problem with invis heroes on pub games is, most of the time your whole team have chosen carry heroes and don't want to buy dust/sentries/gem.

I usually random but I'll always repick if we have 4 carries and I get a carry.

If i'm honest I prefer playing support, and decent supports are a massive part of the game, especially if you're babysitting a hard carry.

As soon as you know Rikki is level 6 and in your lane, just buy sentries and it's game over for him in. In your lane at least ;)

I think my favouriter hero might be KOTL, he is a mobile fountain once he has mek.

I am down for games if anyone wants them, Mr Pesh is my name on steam and I play under the name "The IPB"

I had pretty much given up gaming until I found this, I am totally addicted to it. I love it and hate it at the same time, having a bad team just means you have to sit and get raped for possibly an hour until the games over. Don't get me started on teams that can clearly finish but keep farming/roshing it's SOOOOOOO annoying.
 
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A decent Riki will have a Diffusal Blade which will removes Ghost form. As said already, he's easily countered but we know how some pub games can turn out :)
 
Dkore-DeX said:
The problem with invis heroes on pub games is, most of the time your whole team have chosen carry heroes and don't want to buy dust/sentries/gem.

I usually random but I'll always repick if we have 4 carries and I get a carry.

If i'm honest I prefer playing support, and decent supports are a massive part of the game, especially if you're babysitting a hard carry.

As soon as you know Rikki is level 6 and in your lane, just buy sentries and it's game over for him in. In your lane at least ;)

I think my favouriter hero might be KOTL, he is a mobile fountain once he has mek.

I am down for games if anyone wants them, Mr Pesh is my name on steam and I play under the name "The IPB"

I had pretty much given up gaming until I found this, I am totally addicted to it. I love it and hate it at the same time, having a bad team just means you have to sit and get raped for possibly an hour until the games over. Don't get me started on teams that can clearly finish but keep farming/roshing it's SOOOOOOO annoying.
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I have such a love hate relationship with Keeper Of the light, playing against a decent one in lane is utterly painful, especially when paired with a high damage spell spammer. Thankfully normally when hes in lane with a hard carry he ends up stealing the last hits so that carry doesn't get powerful early on.

In a way I wish they nerfed illuminate slightly so that the damage gets reduced per unit it passes through or something like that to encourage KoTl not just to spam it at creeps and steal last hits.
 
Illuminate does ridiculous damage, but then there is rather a long charge and accompanying sound so competent players usually move.

If I am laning with someone I usually get chakra and his mana drain/stun spell. I don't know the name, but that's better for carries as it's not stealing last hits.

He is a nightmare to mid against as he can just illuminate continously.
 
I've abandonned 2 games in the past 2 weeks due to having to take an important phonecall and it still says I have 7 hours or so as low priority (no battle points :<)
 
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