Just looking at your last game; it is easier to cs in lane, and you don't have to really so much on runes if you start with null+tangoes/null+2 braches+pooled tangoes instead of rushing a bottle.
Ok, I'm 5.6k mmr player and watched ur last game, you've done A LOT wrong, let me try to help you:
1- When u got ur ulti, you tp'ed top to attempt a kill when you had a lot of creeps free of contest on the middle lane. You don't TP like this especially this early, and that's why - You lose 100 gold from the start (TP scroll costs 100), you are not farming free creeps at middle lane, you lose mana and life even if you succeed to kill (and you're getting no tower for it) so you lose farming time (and you have ur tp scroll at cd, so you must return to base, and then walk to lane), the respawn times at this time are low (your opponents will just die and tp to the lane again, while you lose a lot of time walking back to lane.
2- You don't execute your kill attempts well. When you tp'ed mid to kill sniper after ur gank on top, you should have zipped to the place you expect him to run to, not where he is. You must use bottle right after you land your tp when coming from base (charge will restore anyways). You should use your overload charges, just do small zips (you got overload at 4 and vortex at 1, idk why you used vortex at this situation). You need to learn to execute the combos more smoothly.
3- For the item build, I almost always go Null+tango into bottle, then treads, then soul ring, then bloodstone (or orchid, but bloodstone most of the times), then whatever u need (be it bloodstone,orchid,bkb,scythe,linken). Bloodstone allows you to snowball hard if u get enough charges at the start. The charges increase mana regen so u can farm a lot faster. Also, soul ring allows you to farm a lot faster because you can use your remnant at creeps without losing mana whenever the ring is out of cd.
4- You can get a lot stronger in lane, but you can look ChaQ's solo mid guide or something like that.
5- Learn to get gold, learn to farm the jungle - Most of your gold should be coming from creeps and not from kills. You are a core hero, not a support hero, you must have in mind that you must (try to) be on the 4 top networths the whole game. Also, you die too much.
That's some quick analysis because I don't have a lot of time, hope you enjoy.
usually as storm you just need to snowball hard after bloodstone. most of the time u farm alot early game and get pickoffs once ur 6 but usually you want to just stay mid and farm up until your bloodstone. then you can go around killing people
idk bout you but ik most ppl's problem with storm is that they overxtand his mobility, go on kills that empty his mana and then cant back and die - not worth it
i myself do this all the time cuz idc, but if u wanna win you dont do it.
also have tp when u hit 6 and tp on a lane, high kill probability+snowball impact.
Thanks for the tips. Gonna try them out tonight.
Kudos to Shunned! for actually watching my shitty replay :)
Ur build is wrong;
Max overload is correct
Build is bottle>boot>soulring(now this is where u can solo kill people at level 6 use it before ball lightning)>treads>oblivion staff (@10 min)>orchid>bloodstone>bkb/linkens(Depends)>whatever you like
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What the hell am I doing wrong with this hero?
6 losses in a row now.
2 of those I just played awfully so...meh. But most of the others I thought I was doing ok yet we still get trounced.
Should I have picked up BKB instead of hex / linkens?
Farmed more / less and ganked less /more?
Split push more?
Git gud?
Would appreciate any tips or criticism (of my storm play)