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is it unbalanced or easy to kill? What's your POV?

>>1602
shrapnel has now made him broken

Pretty annoying hero if you don't have anyone to jump in on him.

Otherwise you're fucked.

One of Sniper's weaknesses is that he's the only hero in the game where 25% of his ability pool is spent on attack range. If you can close the distance between him and yourself, you're effectively mitigating 25% of his utility.

He also doesn't have much for survivability, and even fully-farmed, he's made as a glass cannon.

Any ganker can get easy kills on him that will pay off very well. Pudge, Storm Spirit, Spirit Breaker, etc. can all give the fat little shit a hard time. My personal favorite is Nyx, since it's very easy to reflect the damage from Assassinate with Spiked Carapace, and Sniper's relatively high intelligence gain helps Mana Burn scale.

He honestly needs a nerf right now, since he is seriously strong at all stages of the game, with proper support/going against bad lineups, and can win a ton of his mid matchups, even moreso with the Shrapnel buff.

Sniper benefits from a team that has a tanky frontline so he can just sit in the back and attack. Shrapnel just makes him semi useful early on. He's still easily ganked and if you have a hero that can get up in his face (axe, troll…) he's fucked

>>1612
That's how DAC was won. Dusa/sniper 2 stronk

I don't know.

As someone that almost exclusively plays low-health nukers this fuck is the bane of my MOBA existence. He can just sit back & harass me out of lane early game, assassinate my squishy ass every time I show up mid-game, before hiding behind every tank on his team and disappearing late game. If I try and gank him as he pushes he can just shrapnel my ass and shadow blade away.

>>1623
>What is Dust of Appearance

Gank the little fuck early game and he won't be a problem. Ask for help from teammates if you need to.

Keep in mind that Kunkka, Disruptor, and Earthshaker can all keep Sniper from running, not even including the long list of heroes who have stuns or disables.

>>1601
Balanar is why.

>>1601
Spoken like someone who never played allstars.