Depends on his items. Typical SF I've seen building as hard carries often have shadow blade/silver edge as first items which then build to skadi, butterfly, satanic, cuirass and daedalus. With situational items like MKB or BKB, he's actually stronger than clinkz or sniper as he's more tanky late game with those items.
SF is about synergy w ur teammates in late game. If ur sf could bring ur team ahead, u will prob win ez. Yet he is still a heavy hitter in late, even if things go wrong, because of his farm ability.
But u can fuck up w his item progression a lot. If u buy deso over lifesteal for example, could cost u late.
Tldr, control the tempo and bring ur team ahead within 15-20min and don't feed ur spree.
I'm just noticing in my games a lot of SF comebacks where he'll be behind, disappear for 10 mins come out of jungle with daedulus and then kill our rax in 3 seconds.
Never relax, lay back and farm, because u have "space" vs sf, I guess :)
Wasn't it the first Vega -ehome game, where sf got killed first in every teamfight but his team still raped and won.
Could be an interesting game to watch in order to learn something about sf mb. Cuz its not the perfect game...
He's good as long as he doesnt have to tank DMG for his team. He can dish out sick amount of damage if you let him.
The thing with SF is, he has a bit more than a relic worth of damage which he does not have to build, making non glass canon builds fairly common on him. This means that him buying a skadi instead of another big damage item is not a liability, it actually improves a hero a lot. Lategame (esp with Satanic) he can manfight people and be all scary and tanky as shit. I mean, the lategame items a typical SF will build will make him insanely tanky while he'll still deal tons of damage, so he should not really die easily even if caught a bit out of position, unless you have some retarded combo like Slardar + WR that'll still fuck him up lategame, and on top of being tanky, he'll still deal tons of damage.
So he doesn't really fall off that much in the lategame if you properly build him, but he's still going to be rekt by illusion heroes all night long, since his multi-target capabilities fall off enough lategame, unlike with heroes like Sven and Luna which have a scaling AoE attack. And although he's ranged, he can still be kited to no end lategame once he's got his 5 sec BKB and the other team's got hexes and skadis, the best thing you hope for in lategame is to use your BKB to hit things as much as you can, then tank through disables if they hit you, then use satanic to regain health and continue pushing and killing people when everything's on cooldown.
He's ok. His spells except his ulti falls off. He's outclassed by real carries. Compare SF to Storm lategame, you'd want Storm in 99% cases instead. (Not my storm tho xDXDXDX LOOOOL)
The reason you feel SF comeback from jungle with deadalus and 3hit ur racks is because lowskilled SRKASPODKASPDPAOKDKAS sHIT ur playing with dont know how to lasthit with one of the best and easiest lasthitter hero in dota2, but can farm with razes later. Basically
This is my late game build: Bkb/Satanic/Daedalus/Mkb/Rapier/BoT2
You lack attack speed but you can crit 1.8ks and have like 800 right click damage, you could eat a moon shard though.
Probably go butterfly over rapier in a "real" build, don't like rapier builds on any hero other than like medusa.
DD oh god your retardation just goes through the screen of my monitor blows of through the roof and into the stratosphere
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I always thought of SF as more of an early and mid game dominator. Early a couple razes and you can three shot people. Mid game he flash farms a couple items, razes still powerful plus full necromastery and his ult dmg.
But I've been noticing he doesn't drop off much at all late, he kill towers insanely fast, must just be the necromastery damage? And his -armor aura is worth a lot more than people think imo.
Where do you rank him late game as a hard carry? I think he's up there in terms of dmg with sniper, clinkz, PA, any single target dmg dealer pretty much.