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Right as DE gets its nerfs, sword comes in clutch with some tweaks to keep it in the meta and in favor. Still has excellent mobility and the damage is too much. It's a mosquito that you can't get rid of and it actually kills you.
The most broken thief build I've ever played. Even after several nerfs it's going strong, shadow arts makes rifle broken. The damage is way too high for such a defensive build but ironically stealth isn't the real source of its sustain, the mobility is. Stealth is just an enabler which refills initiative so the magic can happen.
It's so slow and clunky, and they have to be asleep for you to be able to burst them. Daredevil with axes is currently doing everything this tries to do but better.
Saw a surge in popularity recently, enough to get it receive nerfs later his month. The initiative increase on Rifle 4 is well deserved, right now it can virtually be spammed for free with the help of SA. High damage, low downtime, very hard to catch when played right.
It’s a good build with good damage/escape/sustain but gets absolutely wrecked by projectile denial, and with tempest being meta support right now with focus 4 and magnetic aura…it isn’t very fun, also an issue when playing against an untamed.
Updating this, my point about it performing only well with a good team still stands mostly, and against pros you'd probably get easily dispatched. However, for gold and lower this build is actually pretty phenomenal if you learn not to spam skirm shot when you shouldn't spam it.
Obviously great single target burst, but in my view the window of opportunity is too narrow and easy to counter, especially where LoS can easily be broken. I find it too inflexible compared to D/P daredevil which provides far more options of play.
Deadeye is definitely a hard carry in ranked but it’s not super fun or effective in tournament/organized play since you have to use all your cds to be effective and are counter able with reveal and projectile block that’s stacked in those premade teams
So while doing damage is great it loses some use without a proper steal. This build adds huge damage at the cost of functionality such as losing mobility with rifle. With the meta as it is- lots of revs and condi thieves this build seems to need new rating since it’s powery burst may stand out. The thing is most thieves can put plus1 but if they are much less experienced they might just be farmed. Hence why it may seem good- for now rating 4 (or maybe 4.5)stars since I don’t think it’s quiet ranked meta yet.
This build is very easy to learn but also very easy to die with if you don't know how to use the mobility and weapon swaps
This build has great Mobility hard to deal with in the right hands has more than one style letting you use s/d d/p if you like and can do everything a theif can and sometimes more
Proper usage of evade from pwhip and daggerstorm on top of good mobility won't let you be farmed. 1500 distance on rifle and in and out on s/p in general will keep opponents moving places in attempts to catch you. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/421283054
Will get farmed if people close the gap but it can be very annoying, critting someone for their full health bar may be a bit busted though.
On the rise since last season, this is something of a solo ranked meta now. Most matches have a deadeye and it's kinda busted. Only way to die is to overextend, if someone's patient enough and gets a feel for the build this is an immortal roamer with crazy spikes from maximum range. Fun to play, nightmare to play against.
Traditionally considered to be a meme build, but in the right hands, this build is stupid OP.
If you know your rotations, time your bursts and couple it with Assassin's Signet, you would be the most annoying piece of work the opponent has to deal with. Knowing the map to kite and deploy your stealth skills (which never runs out tbh) makes you harder to catch and focus target.
Use it wisely.
Kind of a cheese build, but with the damage output it has and lack of focus in soloq, it can be really effective. However, it gets pressured out pretty easily if focused. In more coordinated play it doesn't offer enough outside of it's insane burst damage to really see much use.
4 star soloq
2 star at
Great finishing abilities in teamfights, s/p completely removes any issues it had against melee pressure and the unblockable deaths judgement is godly.
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