@@wilsonsticksIt wasn't always like that. Epicenter would be cancelled and go into cooldown, sandstorm was channeled and stinger had to be timed perfectly. 😢
After the changes I saw all the little details in the spell description and ignored it cuz it was too much LOL. Now I understand this better, thank you!! I would have never taken the time to try and learn it on my own XD
@@arkaua The incremental AOE is news to some of us. I don't think this was the thing back in Frozen Throne. So those who've been playing Frozen Throne for years have assumptions that the heroes stay the same. Or at least I just don't read into the writings that much or I'm mistaken; either way, we're glad to know you're well-versed with how certain abilities work, but some of us don't.
we sometimes just go *pick fave hero - go same build*, the it is what it is mindset. Some, if not most, of us no longer have the luxury of actually being able to review the changes since we have work and things to prioritize outside of our beloved DotA 2. What I'm saying is that, if it's news to someone, don't rhetorically/sarcastically ask them what's news to them since none if it is new to you. Be kind and understand that it's not the same for everyone. Share what you may know about the hero and avoid being the smartass. glhf with your games.
@@akumuuuuuuuuu thanks Renuzo_1999 wish you tons of wins and fun. and not to get alot of feeders or chernobil toxic level players in ya team again kindly thanks
You should have added if the random epicenter from shard interacts with the epicenter pulses during the ultimate. Does it increase the size? Does it get disabled? I also think it would have been cool to show that the channel sound effect can be used to time a blink initiation, but not exactly as the sound completes frames BEFORE the cast does (or seems to, as you hear the "dum" crash sound of a complete cast but it doesn't yet)
Interesting additional facts Please buy not arcane, buy phase boots, it will increase the damage of stinger and aganim. Will make it easier to get enemies with your stun Also if I’m not mistaken, the most damage and less expensive item for aganim ulty is Daedalus. Yes. Critics work with stinger
I’ve been spamming sk for the past few months, and his aghs upgrade is actually crazy, it’s a massive increase to his damage and scales very well into the late game as you upgrade his damage and epicenter. That’s not even considering sandstorm
@@zzadrianzz Absolutely! The tips and comments that could be put in each shop item and heroes abilities, coming from someone as experienced as you, would be really helpful in a guide
Oh thats why, I totally forgot about Epicenter becomes larger for every pulse, that's why when I played Rubick I was bit wondering why mine was way bigger, though I was aware SK having Bloodstone while me Rubick having the Arcane Accumulation Facet,
@@smtnbad its both, if u have the right percentage agi, the cdr applies. thus, low skill cd. But, if u cast it before shifting to agi, ur spells will have normal cd. But, the flow facet on morph still counts the CDR after u casting the spells, so faster ticking
@@BobobDOTA2no its not, CDR works differently. CDR is octarine core/arcane rune and doesn't affect speed of the timer. Morph facet increases the speed of the timer. The result is the same, but because of the difference in mechanics they stack multiplicatively, not additively
hey adrian, i noticed you missed some important stuff about his shard because it will still proc if the enemy is invisible making the shard a somewhat ok detection tool
Please do a video on clockwerk's cogs. Sometimes enemies can just walk out of them with the cogs facet. Sometimes they knockback from huge range, sometimes they ignore enemies that are touching them. Thank you.
Can u make a Video on Nightmare,it is one of the most interesting abilities for interaction,like Spells Wake up the target but thinks like PA Dagger does not,and how it can interrupt channeled abilities when casted on Allies(Like Shackles or Stolen Fiends Grip)or how u can end Nightmares even when they arent casted by u.
Can u explain about attack speed and related topic - BAT - Animation time - projection speed - effect from item - mechanic about falcon rush Thank you in advance
In an hypothetical full build with Daedalus (for example Bloodstone + Aghs + Shard + Shivas + Daedalus) plus a Divine Rapier, is it better to have +350 damage or 25% spell amp + 100 damage?
...And if you really want some fun, put one or two daedalus on top of it all cause the stinger also procs crits, just be careful of blademails, the output is so high that can one shot you.
Greate video as always ! For the next video on "how does ... Work" can you do a video on KOTL recall ? Whenever i play kotl i seem to not understand how it works. Does it stop if both of you take damage. Does bkb stop it from getting interrupted ?
Deadalus will crit and Satanic is much better lifesteal than Bloodstone you can use an attack modifier like Desolator, Maelstrom, and other Neutral Items that have attack modifier
Sand King is one of the heroes I am really bad at. Similar to Axe - I play a good Tide, Cent, Pitlord but my SK and Axe really suck. Even that they are so similar
They nerfed the following sand storm so much that its practically sht. Now you max stun and e and farm. Get aghs then something like daedalus. basically a mix of offlane and carry.
Back in my days, if you fail to channel epicenter, it goes cooldown without doing anything.
Good ol days of standstorm and epicstand
and sandstorm is a channeling spell 😌 Sand King has buffed so many times throughout the decade
Shift queueing skills were perfected then. 😅
true if u don't know how to shift into hockey you won't maximize the full damage of epi
@@BertieJasokietinker players shift enjoyers
So much nuance behind a spell that is essentially: Press button, big damage all around.
That's why we love this game. Every hero and mechanic has so much depth
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@rept2902 All in due time, my friend :)
@@wilsonsticksIt wasn't always like that. Epicenter would be cancelled and go into cooldown, sandstorm was channeled and stinger had to be timed perfectly. 😢
@@BertieJasokie I remember those days fondly. . . Sand King was the first hero I ever mained back in 2015 when I started playing. What a time. . .
If you buy Deadalus, your epicenter stingers will crit as they are considered physical attacks.
good for ability draft
Daym
had a sk buy 3 daedalus in my turbo he was shredding
Such a fun hero. Thanks for the info. Makes me want to buy 3 rapiers on SK.
Had that kind of offlaner. Aghs into daedelus. Guy got 4 reports for role abuse and 4 for griefing :))
It's fun when you give yourself lvl30 and all items in the demo. In an actual game until you reach that point the hero is extremely boring
Tf😂
After the changes I saw all the little details in the spell description and ignored it cuz it was too much LOL.
Now I understand this better, thank you!! I would have never taken the time to try and learn it on my own XD
I love it
thanks! :D I appreciate it. You have a great weekend as well
I am a LV 30 SK and this is news to me, thank you kindly for sharing such an amazing thing about my favorite hero
What about this was news to you? I don't play SK but nothing in the video was news to me
Good job
@@arkaua The incremental AOE is news to some of us. I don't think this was the thing back in Frozen Throne. So those who've been playing Frozen Throne for years have assumptions that the heroes stay the same. Or at least I just don't read into the writings that much or I'm mistaken; either way, we're glad to know you're well-versed with how certain abilities work, but some of us don't.
we sometimes just go *pick fave hero - go same build*, the it is what it is mindset. Some, if not most, of us no longer have the luxury of actually being able to review the changes since we have work and things to prioritize outside of our beloved DotA 2. What I'm saying is that, if it's news to someone, don't rhetorically/sarcastically ask them what's news to them since none if it is new to you. Be kind and understand that it's not the same for everyone. Share what you may know about the hero and avoid being the smartass. glhf with your games.
@@akumuuuuuuuuu thanks Renuzo_1999 wish you tons of wins and fun. and not to get alot of feeders or chernobil toxic level players in ya team
again kindly thanks
More videos like this! Simple, to the point, with indicators and no BS. Well done.
Didn't know Epicenter is that complex.
Bro your vids help us a lot, even with the minor details thay gets overlooked most of the time. Thanks!
You should have added if the random epicenter from shard interacts with the epicenter pulses during the ultimate. Does it increase the size? Does it get disabled?
I also think it would have been cool to show that the channel sound effect can be used to time a blink initiation, but not exactly as the sound completes frames BEFORE the cast does (or seems to, as you hear the "dum" crash sound of a complete cast but it doesn't yet)
Interesting additional facts
Please buy not arcane, buy phase boots, it will increase the damage of stinger and aganim. Will make it easier to get enemies with your stun
Also if I’m not mistaken, the most damage and less expensive item for aganim ulty is Daedalus. Yes. Critics work with stinger
who tf even buys arcane
@@Rafikisedthere was a time
Wtf bye! Lmao!
Items like revenant brooch works wonder with the stinger against high armor hero like TB or morph
@@Rafikised I was blamed recently because I didn’t buy them)
I’ve been spamming sk for the past few months, and his aghs upgrade is actually crazy, it’s a massive increase to his damage and scales very well into the late game as you upgrade his damage and epicenter. That’s not even considering sandstorm
This guy always shows up on my youtube homepage with these cool educative videos. Does he have in-game guides for heroes?
I do not, I feel like there are good up-to-date guides already. Is that something you'd be interested in? 👀
@@zzadrianzz Absolutely! The tips and comments that could be put in each shop item and heroes abilities, coming from someone as experienced as you, would be really helpful in a guide
I'd love to see a video about how Stone Gaze works, Adrian 🙏
Oh thats why, I totally forgot about Epicenter becomes larger for every pulse, that's why when I played Rubick I was bit wondering why mine was way bigger, though I was aware SK having Bloodstone while me Rubick having the Arcane Accumulation Facet,
It could also be from his passive, I'm not very sure
@bryanhowell1550 Yes, Rubick's Arcane Accumulation increases AoE, but base Passive only increase cast range, does not increase AoE
@@6Unknown_Source9 ohh ok
You can also pop epi, refresh, and epi again because they are independent of each other, so you can have 2 going at once.
With void time zone you can cast 2 of those instant..
Very informative, thank you
i see adrian upload, i like
I've never actually *wanted* to play SK until now 😵
Good content as always
tyty :)
2:38 i only noticed just now, his tail is flopping onto the ground while epi is ongoing
Please show how morphling cooldown reduction works. I just cannot understand it
Its so simple actually, ur agi percentage just have to be higher than ur str
Morphling doesn't reduce cooldown timer, he speeds up the timer. You can see that seconds go faster
@@smtnbad its both, if u have the right percentage agi, the cdr applies. thus, low skill cd. But, if u cast it before shifting to agi, ur spells will have normal cd. But, the flow facet on morph still counts the CDR after u casting the spells, so faster ticking
@@BobobDOTA2no its not, CDR works differently. CDR is octarine core/arcane rune and doesn't affect speed of the timer.
Morph facet increases the speed of the timer. The result is the same, but because of the difference in mechanics they stack multiplicatively, not additively
if you use the new skill in the epicenter scepter upgrade it adds more damage to the stinger when it pops
Does the shard proc when invisible enemies are near you?
So good video!
hey adrian, i noticed you missed some important stuff about his shard because it will still proc if the enemy is invisible making the shard a somewhat ok detection tool
Means when SK goes Aghs, his ultimate becomes both magical and physical and not couneracted by pipe of insight alone.
Devs made sure Gaben will continue to keep SK as his favorite Hero
Would be nice to mention stinger procs hit on effects, so it's good idea to make Daedalus on sk at some point.
Please do a video on clockwerk's cogs. Sometimes enemies can just walk out of them with the cogs facet. Sometimes they knockback from huge range, sometimes they ignore enemies that are touching them. Thank you.
U deserve more views mr io player
About "stinger's attack": does it trigger "orbs" such as Mage Slayer?
Can u make a Video on Nightmare,it is one of the most interesting abilities for interaction,like Spells Wake up the target but thinks like PA Dagger does not,and how it can interrupt channeled abilities when casted on Allies(Like Shackles or Stolen Fiends Grip)or how u can end Nightmares even when they arent casted by u.
Great Vids !
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Epi-Center after ags and shard is Epic-Enter POOOOGGG😋
Can u explain about attack speed and related topic
- BAT
- Animation time
- projection speed
- effect from item
- mechanic about falcon rush
Thank you in advance
In an hypothetical full build with Daedalus (for example Bloodstone + Aghs + Shard + Shivas + Daedalus) plus a Divine Rapier, is it better to have +350 damage or 25% spell amp + 100 damage?
I like getting skadi and basher after aghs.
I feel like the stun is valuable and the skadi's slow and healing reduction effective.
Really? Basher procs on stinger? Does that mean maelstrom and enchanted quiver does too?
@baconian_road_construction yup.
As long as aghs is there ofc
...And if you really want some fun, put one or two daedalus on top of it all cause the stinger also procs crits, just be careful of blademails, the output is so high that can one shot you.
Effective against heroes with multiplying ability (PL, Meepo, CK, Naga, etc)
Has anyone tried if euls increase the range or is that something visual
Eul changes ur height, so the visual increase is due to the shifting perspective, not actual increase in aoe
Greate video as always !
For the next video on "how does ... Work" can you do a video on KOTL recall ?
Whenever i play kotl i seem to not understand how it works.
Does it stop if both of you take damage. Does bkb stop it from getting interrupted ?
It stops if the teleporting hero takes damage,if u choose yourself to tp in then it doesnt matter if the other guy receives damage and Vice Versa
Does it go through invisibility on the shard with/without vision? I suggest deep dive on Sandking pls.
10/10 video
Good job very nice video
Can shard also detects if enemy is on shadow blade?
get yasha and kaya, get arcane blink, get refresher and bkb. Cause chaos every clash it's hilarious
God, this hero is still so busted even after all the nerfs
and you can use refresher to have 2 epicenters 2 seconds after each other (unlike snapfire)
Make one more on how Zeus ultimate works
Mb I meant to say IO
Yasha & Kaya reduces the Epicenter cast point
it lets me skip dagger because it's fast enough to just burrow and ult during fights
What happend to that spell when he could stun from invis? Did they removed it? I loved that a lot
you mean his old aghs? yeah they removed it cause it was way too broken
Does refresher affect in any way?
Can you please make "how timbersaw aghanim doing damage"?
Looking how Crystal Maiden FROZEN EXPANSE Actually Works
Deadalus will crit and Satanic is much better lifesteal than Bloodstone
you can use an attack modifier like Desolator, Maelstrom,
and other Neutral Items that have attack modifier
sk's aghanim upgrade can pair with IO talent 25 , not really effective as Wr yet look cool
-Sand- AOE King
truly my 1st hero since dota 1 days (cooler design). Peak definition of giga teamfighter
fun fact: it applies attack modifiers too like skadi basher stanic etc xd. made a troll build and somehow i discovered it
damn 11hundred radius
does this can be countered by boot of bearing or no ?
Every slow in the game is countered by boots of bearing, at least for the first second of slow immunity
every slow in the game is countered by slow resistance and haste, so yes.
in dota 1 you have to be creative landing the epicenter like euls + epicenter
what is the counter
The only dota 2 channel I subscribed ❤
Sand King is one of the heroes I am really bad at. Similar to Axe - I play a good Tide, Cent, Pitlord but my SK and Axe really suck. Even that they are so similar
I kinda prefer the DotA 1 Epicenter visuals as it was more apparent and easily seen
Ok Grandpa
thanks ~
LoL even if he dies , he still moving his tail to keep channeling epicenter.
Yasha and kaya can make ulti cast faster.
you shud try using crystalins or daedalus
They nerfed the following sand storm so much that its practically sht. Now you max stun and e and farm. Get aghs then something like daedalus. basically a mix of offlane and carry.
Thanks sir
Sk went from being the worst hero in the game. To being the best
epic enter
dagger combo mechanics
my first combo hero in dota 1 days. Back when everyone got a potato pc, this spell alway make they fps worse :))
le epic enter
Flying units should not be affected
how requiem actually works. let's find out
pls make How Sand King Players works?
like who the fuck are they.
if you're a sand king player, I hope you have a good christmas.
Good video you nerd
chaos that it brings? more like the fps drops it brings LULW
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