General Discussionpl users vlads or yasha?

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Yasha lets you farm faster. Vlads can be better if you need to push with your team and stuff. Probably yasha in most cases or just go diffu > skadi.

I like dominator+yasha. Not averse to vlads but I like how dominator can turn into satanic or break apart, plus the creep is useful

This hero doesnt need lifesteal.

Satanic is core on this hero imo, because he is great at resetting fights & satanic helps you with that. Heart is useless on him, because illusions last very short. You want to get Satanic in 70% of games. I like bananaslamjama's build - brown boots-aquilla-midas-diffusal-travels-manta-satanic-butterfly. That's what he mostly gets on PL.

@imprecis do you get the domi early tho? cause i find it hard for this hero to sustain its hp early and even late

I'm pretty sure you farm faster with vlads over yasha Luxon. Increased dmg aswell as not going back to base. But yasha builds into your manta, vlads will slow it down, similar to AM. Situation really. If you want to fight i'd say vlads diffusal since you wont need the movespeed from yasha, if you're balling yasha diffusal manta heart. But heyho i don't play PL.

diffusal diffusal diffusal

perseverance => diffusal => yasha => linken => manta

Yasha into diffusal

"this hero doesn't need lifesteal"

what patch are you on brah

^ this patch bro. Tread>diffu>yasha then i decids if i need manta/s&y/bkb then i go skadi/buter/mkb/daedalus. I would only go lifesteal for the last slots but my pl games ends at 4-5 slots anyways lol.

You could also go bottle instead of vlads for sustain. Vlads is a good team item though, especially against physical heavy enemy teams or just an Axe or death prophet. But normally the position 1 is more greedy I guess, so someone else can get vlads later.

This is how I build him: aquila -> treads -> diffusal -> manta -> heart and/or bfly. If it goes late, both.

http://www.dotabuff.com/players/92945569/matches?date=3month&hero=phantom-lancer&skill_bracket=&lobby_type=&game_mode=&region=&faction=&duration=&enjoyment=any

Vlads is not needed in my opinion (don't look at that last match, it was a troll game, so I tried it. Wasn't worth.)