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The original was posted on /r/dota2 by /u/SirActionSlacks- on 2025-06-15 20:20:24+00:00.
genuine question here
I've had 5 Phantom Lancer picks in the last 4 days and I want to win the games, but genuinely I have no idea how to make this hero have a winnable game state.
The laning phase is absolute ass, I think specters can do more (they have dagger....that's litterally it) but you can at least heal them with a support and they can be a little tanky-ish. With pl if the enemy has any hero which is able to cast a spell on their keyboard he will lose half hp in 1 hit. I played abba one game and bought 10 clarities and pumped heals on my pl for the lane and he barely made it out alive.
Mid game he is farming non-stop, so you can make space...but this is extreamly hard to do if your laning phase was ass against their pos 3 and 4....how do you stop enemy momentum when u spent all ur money just making them not get crushed?
Late game any items you would normally buy a hard carry greif the pl (lotus, solar, linkens, basic save spells) cause you show the enemy exactly who to target...so how are you meant to help them there? Not to mention PL's counter is just the enemy hero's picks...if they have a good anti pl team i have no clue how to empower my PL to win
So someone, somewhere must have some answer to this. This is a real question and im here to learn, what do you do?