Semi-daily hero tips. Day 56: Morphling

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DISCLAIMER

A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Morphling

Notes:

• When a creep camp is almost dead, wave from one camp into the other to both kill the first and damage the second
• Use the long range of replicate to get out of ganks and to gain up on the enemy in a chase.
• When escaping, always have the replicate running the opposite direction of you. That way the enemy has to choose or split up
• In teamfights, always find the hardest hitter or tankiest hero on the map to replicate. No matter if it's an ally or enemy.
• You can morph STR/AGI while disabled (even in chronosphere), you can NOT morph in black hole (because it silences).
• Counters: Nyx, Nyx, Nyx (To avoid blowing yourself up with carapace, waveform across his carapace first), Furion with dagon 5 + sheep, Wisp + Tiny (high magic damage burst), ET (Natural Order), Skywrath, Silencer, Orchid, Drow, Death Prophet, Disruptor, Puck, Night Stalker, Earth Spirit (silences), AA (ult keeps you from gaining HP through morph), Naga, Meepo, Underlord, Rod of Atos (root stops waveform), OD (Pure damage + INT drain), AM (magic resistance + mana burn with high damage mana void) (/u/Nitronn)
• Versus: Be careful about not blowing all your skills and ulti's on a replicate of an enemy
• Good versus: Phoenix (high AS), PA, Sniper, TB (high magic burst), Omni (has trouble stopping both your magic burst and right click), SD, WD, Dazzle (squishy), Alch (high burst, waveform into concoction), Invoker, Clock, Bara (no silence, has lots of cc but nothing to control replicate and waveform)
• Don't be afraid to push the tower if the enemy offlaner left since you are very hard to kill early game unless they have silences. Kill the ranged creep first and turn on your RoB/RoA

Role: Hard carry

Item build: Normal RoB/Wraith band, brown boots, RoA, Wand, Treads, (Dragon Lance,) EBlade <-> Linken's, (Manta, Skadi, BFly, Satanic, Dagon 5)

Skill build: Max Waveform > Morph > Adaptive strike