Seriously, where do I farm as morphling in a losing game?!!
TLDR: How do I play morphling in a losing game with no split push potential?
Imagine this. Enemy lineup is mid Huskar, an outscaling hard carry (antimage or faceless) and supports joining every skirmish. My mid hero got ganked by enemy support at 6 minutes while my hard support soaked xp and attempted to kill and unkillable enemy offlaner. I get a late manta (say 22 minutes worst case).
At this point I seem to have to push the enemy waves and get the attention of the enemy team so that my team can farm. The probelm is that the illusions can be killed by even a single support and I am then hunted down through my retreating farming pattern. would it not be better to afk farm their safelane jungle and not push waves (save manta for a skirmish if it happens?).
It seems that morphling just cannot team fight when his other cores get burst by non ultimate spells? Need some unique ideas on how to win games like these.
If you're interested: Here are some strats I HAVE tried:
- Buying manta into pike. This allows deep split pushing with good escape (pike->waveform->TP). Problems are damage and lack of lockdown or slow, which I could get from skadi.
- Joining team fights with the sole purpose of being a tank (shifitng to high strength). The reason this is sometimes viable is because the enemy will use their spells on me and my team can then have a chance at an even trade (not sacrificing myself here though.). The danger here is that I have no damage and will be kited for eternity once my team has any kind of advantage in the team fight.
- Buying bkb after manta and going backline to kill supports and tank spells. Problems are vast and varied, from lack of damage to no lockdown to no burst, and then enemy supports having kiting items or invis from glimmer. I can carry dust but it is still unlikely I can kill a support, mostly just tank.
- Skipping vlads for just a morbid mask straight into manta. After recent changes to morphling vlads doesnt benefit him as much since his base stats were heavily nerfed in the first 20 minutes of the game, especially between min 12-20, which is when the enemy snowball really starts going.