Are Techies ready for Captain’s Mode?

Techies is one of those incredibly interesting heroes. Before being released to the Dota2 community, this hero received a lot of interest, but over time that excitement was replaced by other heroes. This is a hero that is extremely annoying to play against and also relies heavily on teammates. Techies make it easy to prolong matches no matter how big the difference in net worth or skill level.

Techies’ brief appearance in the professional scene also caused a lot of controversy. This hero contributed to EG’s victory at The International 2015, but in addition to congratulations, many people also think that it gives EG an advantage. At that point the hero had to be banned so it couldn’t stay in the hands of Aui_2000, which affected the picks during the draft during the draft, and this was easily exploited by the PPD captain.

After TI5 Techies was heavily nerfed and removed from captain in patch 7.00, after receiving a big change. This hero has been slowly disappearing in pro play for almost a year, and with the buffs and hero balancing, we have a question: are Techies ready for Captain’s Mode?

Index in PUB

Techies’ win rate is nothing short of outstanding. This hero has a win rate of nearly 50% in low rank matches, but this win rate gradually becomes lower in high rank matches. Noticing Techies’ booms is extremely easy for focused players, and it’s also easy for them to recognize and read where booms will occur. This is evident when the win rate of this hero at rank 5k and above is only 45%.

One thing that the majority of gamers use Techies successfully is to raise the Blast Off skill! at level 1. This is one of the extremely powerful nuke damage skills at level 1, although it requires careful preparation, if you can succeed you will create a huge advantage in the early game.

Later levels focus mainly on Proximity Mines skill, usually this skill will be maxed when you are level 7. Actually, some gamers focus mainly on max 2 Blast Off skill! and Proximity Mines first, then start using Stasis or Remote Mines.

These are things that most professional Techies players have in common. These players win more than they lose, proving that this hero can survive in pubs. However, there is a difference between them and other hero spammers.

Techies players

It is very normal to play only one hero, it helps you to better understand that hero. For complex heroes if you practice with them you will get yourself a lot of experience – Meepo is one of the very strong heroes when climbing the rank from 4-5k, Broodmother is still one of the choices. the best and Invoker one of the strongest heroes in the hands of professional players.

And when playing Techies, what we wish to draw is quite little. This is shown in a clear disparity when compared to Earth Spirit. Even though the hero also suffered heavy nerfs, Earth Spirit players were able to maintain the hero’s win rate.

The number of players keeping Earth Spirit’s 60%+ win rate doubles Techies. At the same time, the average win rate of the top 100 Earth Spirit players is nearly 62%, while that of Techies is only close to 60%.

This is important because it tells us how strong this hero is in top condition, when used by experienced gamers this hero will be brought to the maximum. It shows us a conclusion that Techies was removed from captain mode not because it is too strong or because it is too weak. Techies doesn’t appear in the pro scene because no one wants to use this hero.

Does anyone want Techies in Captains Mode?

The recent patch updates are mostly focused on getting the game to end sooner. There are more benefits to playing aggressive and often ganking, prolonging the game as well as turning the odds more difficult than before. Over the past few years the average game time has dropped a lot, and instead we have a lot of action.

This is the result of balance changes and leveling up. Professional values ​​and the best teams are now judged against the most valuable resource, time.

It directly improves the viewer experience: Dota followers will now feel the action more, more often. And the game wasn’t changed too much by the meta so they could still come back and prolong the match for over 60 minutes.

But the value of those rare 60-minute matches that people often talk about has become more scarce. The fact that tournaments have 2 to 3 interesting matches will cause many people to argue while they continue to watch from match to game. If the meta is in the direction of prolonging the match, it will make tournaments extremely boring. On top of that, if these protracted matches were to take place outside of the pro environment and appear in pubs, it would become a real nightmare.

Techies can bring this into the professional environment. This will create a headache for tournament organizers and make viewers frustrated. This is a hero that weak teams can pick and play against strong teams with the hope of prolonging the game to gain experience.

So instead of focusing on whether Techies are ready for Captains Mode or not, our community should think carefully about whether we really want Techies to appear in Captain Mode or not. Then it’s understandable why such a balanced hero wouldn’t appear in the pro meta.