I’ve been winning game after game with this underrated build.
Spectre Spammer here. 7.27 just dropped and as people are trying out new builds, I wanted to shed some light on a build I’ve been theory-crafting for a while now. After some test runs, I think this is build is absolutely broken. With some key changes that have been introduced in 7.27, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this take off in pub matches with a little practice.
I will cover why I think the build is strong, as well as some history on Spectre first. If you want to skip straight to the build, scroll down to the builds section.
For reference, I am a Divine 2 (dropped from Immortal playing poorly on a bad couple weeks) player with 550 games on Mercurial. I’ve gotten flamed more than I care to share in the past for trying unusual builds on her, but have enjoyed relative success over my 550 games (~65% winrate, which is nothing crazy for Spectre, who has an inflated winrate in pubs for most players).
Dotabuff: https://www.dotabuff.com/players/86503184/matches?hero=spectre
Ever since Icefrog gave an Aghs to Spectre, I’ve been trying to come up with situations in which the item actually made sense to buy. Let’s look at what it actually does.
