I'm not a new player in any way, I have around 12k hours and 6.9k mmr, and I tried learning invoker many times, but every time I tried he felt very underwhelming. I'm rocking a 30 something % wr on him and yes, obviously I'm bad at him, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw any invoker in my games solo carrying the game. 

For example I can compare him to my favorite blue gnome who's hated by everyone: tinker gets aghs pretty quickly and with his default midgame inventory of kaya blink aghs lens shard he can dish out 300 + 13% of enemy's max hp in pure damage every 2 seconds and bomb him with turrets which deal around 240 dps, double that if you drop two of them and all that while keeping enemy in place with shard and all that while having pretty much infinite map mobility, which lets him (and me as a player) carry a large amount of games.

But invoker's main sources of damage are his meteor which sure deals a lot of damage but it's incredibly easy to avoid with any save item and it has a cd of 50?? And sunstrike which also incredibly inconsistent compared to something like laser and deals 575 dmg at max exort level every 23 seconds and only if you land it?? The only positives that I can think of if comparing him to someone like tinker is better teamfight capabilities due to exort aghs and more utility, but that's it, he farms less, his damage is inconsistent, his earlygame (IMO) is abysmal due to how slow he is and how big the cd on ult is. 

Can you even solo carry games on him? How do people do that? How to even play the game on him if you lost mid or if your teammates lost your lanes?

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Can someone explain to me how invoker isn't weak?