Dota 2: Bloodseeker, from Pub superstar to pro arena

Dota works in a weird way. There will be heroes that go unnoticed by professional teams for a year, but then get a talent buff and quickly become a popular choice. Bloodseeker has long been a great pick in low-rank Dota, dominating the 3k pub pub arena. But with the current trend, this hero is gradually appearing in high rank matches.

Buff “shouldn’t exist”

Bloodseeker’s rise starts from the level 10 talent buffed in 7.16 Adding eight armor to the hero whose starting agility is 24 and increasing 3 agility per level makes the hero extremely tanky against hand attacks. Without items, this hero already has 10 base armor and will increase to 18 – a number that seems a bit unfair, especially since the hero has a fairly high starting strength and increases after each level.

Interestingly enough, the stats at China SuperMajor show that the vast majority of Bloodseeker players in the tournament pick up an extra 25 attack speed at level 10. Looks like everyone decided to give this hero a try and see how good the new talent is. stars, and realized this hero is really strong without the aforementioned 10 armor talent.

The success of the current meta is highly dependent on the laning phase. Early lane push and map control not only benefit the gold earned from turrets, adding movement space, but also getting to bounty runes easier.

Bloodseeker is quite strong in lane. This hero benefits a lot from the 2-1-2 setup, as BS often harasses many enemy heroes and can move into the late game well. Not exactly a good hand, but can give 40% buffs on heroes that Bloodseeker feels is necessary in the early and mid game.

Dress up

Bloodseeker’s build is still being debated. Hero can go up in many directions depending on the match. There was a time when the first items to get were Shadow Blades, Sange and Yasha, Blade Mails and Radiance. BS sometimes went up to follow Eul.

That leads to two things: either the hero has a lot of flexibility in his build, or the pros still haven’t figured out the best way to build Bloodseeker.

Bloodseeker really needs health items, otherwise the hero easily dies under the nukers, not to mention the effects of Bloodrage. Obviously Bloodseeker is quite resilient to hand attacks, but at level 10 without items, the hero has only 1100 health: making it a prime target for nukers.

This weakness can be overcome by building health and Strength items or on Blade Mail, making your team nukers not dare to spam attacks on you. Going to BKB early is also an option, but we should only go up when we have one or two DPS items (damage items), otherwise it will be a waste.

Item build depends on whether Bloodseeker is the main carry of the team or plays as a position 2. If you have a late game hard carry other than Bloodseeker, building a game tempo controller is a good idea. You create space for Luna, your team’s Gyrocopter, or someone else, buffing them late in the game and capturing weak targets.

In the case of early game teamfight, Bloodseeker should limit himself: if you don’t build health items, Bloodseeker is unlikely to be 5v5 okay, or you have to play almost perfectly, wait for all the stuns and nukes to roll out and then go in.

Near future

Bloodseeker’s presence in SuperMajor makes the hero worth more research. Bloodseeker is picked in many different lineups and positions.

The only two games that this hero lost was due to the lack of a true late-game core. So, we need to keep in mind: Bloodseeker is probably most effective as a support in the late game.

The only match Bloodseeker won in position 1 was when OpTic Gaming supported the hero with a Venomancer safelane pick, and let the hero get out of control at 15 minutes. Constantly harassing two lanes on the edge ensured CCnC dominated mid mid. , leading to an easy victory for the North American team.

From now on, it is highly likely that teams will mainly use Bloodseeker in position 2, and that is something you should keep in mind in pub games. So far, Bloodseeker at SuperMajor has won four of his four positions in position 2, creating space and keeping the tempo of the game for the first 20 minutes of the game.

As for position 1, Bloodseeker has only won 1 out of 3 games, often being overwhelmed by the opponent in the 30 to 35 minutes – allowing the opponent to flip the bet decisively and more often.