Meepo is the one unpicked hero in the whole Tour 3 DPC
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Meepo has zero picks within the entirety of Tour 3 DPC – discover out what johnxfire, symetricaL, and Mushi must say about this hero.
The regional leagues of Tour 3 Dota Professional Circuit (DPC) simply concluded. Throughout all areas and divisions, one hero was non-existent. In a complete of 827 matches performed, Meepo wasn’t picked even a single time.
Patch 7.31d went stay on June eighth, sooner or later after the third season kick-started. After greater than a month, the meta advanced and the professional scene steered in the direction of stronger and extra secure heroes. We noticed the rise of Dawnbreaker and Marci, in addition to the highest favorites Puck and Tiny. However on the opposite finish of the meta, is Meepo; who had 0 picks and just one ban all through the entire season. In fact, there have been additionally different heroes that hardly had any picks equivalent to Tinker and Riki. However that is the bottom Meepo has been within the 21/22 DPC. Throughout Tour 1, Meepo had 2 picks and 9 bans, in the meantime, in Tour 2, Meepo had 4 picks and 5 bans. Tour 3 sees Meepo with just one ban by RSG within the SEA DPC.
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Why is Meepo so unpopular?
This agility hero is a crowd favourite, however not many can play it and never many most likely will. Meepo is very advanced and distinctive which additionally signifies that it’s situational. The hero wasn’t even contested at The Worldwide 10, alongside 6 different heroes. With how the meta is evolving, additionally it is onerous to suit Meepo in as a result of it’s such a grasping midlaner. If the hero is current in your workforce, the offlane and carry may need to share or sacrifice a portion of their farm.
We have now dearly missed the presence of the Geomancer in tournaments. Though the hero will seemingly stick true to its advanced and situational nature, there could possibly be ways in which the hero can return from the lifeless. We reached out to a number of professionals and skills to dissect this hero.
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Filipino caster, John “johnxfire” Nathan Fernandez states that Meepo has all the time been situational and ‘within the present state of Dota there aren’t very lots of these conditions left.’
“It additionally looks like everybody else has grown stronger whereas Meepo was left on the wayside – Dragonlance nerfs sooner or later additionally made it tougher to have that hero pop off,” stated johnxfire.
The Talon Esports’ streamer looks like a meta change can increase the hero to face on par with different viable mids. “It looks like Meepo would profit extra from a meta change than anything – that, and possibly some slight buffs to its output and snowball potential. Maybe extra harm on Poof, or having extra viable stat build-up objects for it to hit its midgame spike.”
symmetrical: “You simply want the correct lineup to go with Meepo.”
Former offlaner for Alliance, Moiez “symetricaL” Lin , thinks the hero is viable however provided that the participant is a Meepo spammer and they’re comfy taking part in it in a aggressive match – and that will be uncommon since Meepo is such a distinct segment hero.
“On this present meta, you normally don’t see these sort of grasping mid heroes anymore. The pos 3 and the pos 1 have extra precedence in farm so u have to be a Meepo spammer or one thing to even consider drafting it.”
Regardless of all of the nerfs in previous patches, symmetrical nonetheless believes the hero might be performed when you draft round it. “You simply want the correct lineup to go with Meepo. Give buffs and auras for him since he’s going to be the one farming.”
Mushi: “Not many professionals love Meepo.”
We managed to get the opinion of Dota 2 veteran and presently BOOM Esports’ coach, Chai “Mushi” Yee Fung. In accordance with him, a majority of the professional scene don’t love Meepo as a hero. It’s also simply countered and subsequently, the hero has little or no worth.
“I feel not many professional gamers love this Meepo hero. Moreover, many professional groups sort of know find out how to take care of this hero, so there’s not a lot worth when you decide that hero except the utilization is extraordinarily good,” stated Mushi.
He additional clarified that he has no real interest in the hero and he, the truth is, despises it. “I don’t play that hero and I sort of hate this hero if each my opponent or my teammates decide it in pubs.”
Will Meepo stay within the shadows, or will it get a heavy rework sooner or later? Solely time will inform.
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