Sniper has been buffed for almost 3 years now and its disgustingly OP, there is no reason for a spell that does aoe damage & slow, give vision and has 2000 cast range to have 3 charges. He's at almost 60%wr in TI so far. Everybody who said "lol just jump him' was completely wrong, his stats and survivability have been too overtuned. I cant wait for the post-ti patch when he gets nerfed to smithereens and i can go back to playing mid in a skillful manner against other midlaners and not have to sit in lane and stare at shrapnel for 6 out of the first 8min of the game.
Watching this as Matu rekt Secret with his snipey. Totally reflects what BSJ is stating here, building 3 wraith bands to always join fights early on and literally snowball with Tusk and Brood to force a game 3🙏🏼
except you just had a game like mine where you and a zeus where the only heroes capable of doing anything, both far above 20 kills while the other 3 'heroes' barely did anything.... still the 2 of us made it to min 55... tough though
@@mikerochalopez8301 I often go yasha and kaya along with euls. If I'm supporting I tend to go mana boots, that I disassemble and turn into bots. If I'm core I go boots of bearing instead because the build up is really nice and sniper loves it's active. I tend to start with a wind lace and three branches and build into yasha first, from there I might go for brown boots into tranqs and another wind lace or I go into mana boots, to later disassemble and build into bots. It's been a while since I've done support sniper, so I tend to go tranqs these days. after tranqs and my 2nd wind lace, I build my kaya and then I then to go euls next followed by a 3rd windlace, this last one is to finish the boots of bearing later. If I ever feel like I might want more right click damage, I just go Maelstrom, which I later turn into Mjoliner. I tend to play him off-lane and, as crazy as it sounds, my final item is usually AC but the swift blink isn't bad, either. If I'm supporting I often build octarine and/or aghs instead The point is not to be like a drill to just hammer enemies down. The idea is to me more like a sheep dog. You dance around the outside of fights and try to corral the enemy team. With positioning and shrapnel. It's more of a tempo build and the timing of items is important. That's why I use a lot of cheap items, like tranqs, euls, kaya and yasha along with maelstrom. Done right from the offlane and, after a few levels and items, the enemy carry won't be able to walk within a city block of the creep wave.
I have 80% winrate with sniper support at 5k bracket with 20+ games. Usually go tranquil -> aghs, seems to be very strong. Would like to see a player much better than me critique the hero in that role.
Nice video! Can u do complete tutorial on how to play arc warden? I rly want to play that hero so bad but not much tutorial on utube. Will be much appreciated. Thx bsj. Keep up the good work!
rush midas / gleip / overwhelm blink every game, farm entire map for 20 minutes. bind main to 1, clone to 2, main and clone to 3, tick on unified orders with ctrl, ctrl cast ur spells and clone will cast too. Start killing when u pick up normal blink dagger. Cast clone and do "royal keyboard flush" hit r, then hold ctrl+shift QEW + items
*important* get midas before or as u hit 6, so you get a second midas instantly ~4:40-5:30 if they have very fast paced heros and they want to win at 20 min, skip midas rush gleip
As far as hero matchups go sniper is like lina - he doesn't really lose mid (brood and bat excluded, but bat would have to be played correctly, and that probably means divine+ at least). So unless they have insane catch, if you feel you have heroes that can do stuff and you can chill and just use their plays he can be picked.
Glepinir is pretty good item when enemies have lots of blinks/escape like am void puck. You can chase them and also escape if they run at you I like to go headshot max lvl 1 take aim rest in shrapnel till 6 and once I get ulti i just spam it on support and move them out of lane
how du you sustain well without mom? i feel like i always have to buy regen after teamfights when i dont go mom, because usually you take some damage in the fight and then u cant keep going
Unfortunately bruiser melee 5's dont exist in my bracket. Even the rare occasions when those heroes are picked they still just sit in the woods and/or spend the entire lane trying to pull.
I just love BSJ content it's just that even how many times I apply it I still can't rank up hahah but I hope I will have high win rates soon as I practice more
I play sniper a lot in the middle lane, going from leyend III to divine IV in less than 2 weeks. Sniper shard is so underrated, one of the best skills ever.
@@laurnero8399 I go full stats at the start 10 agility 4 strength. 2 Wraith Bands. 3 Bands sometimes. I mainly play 0-4-4-0 that gives me a lot of physical DMG and distance. Dragon lance is a must. Madness is a high risk high reward item because of the silence. Sniper had no mobility I almost always buy shard as 3rd or 2nd item I feel like Shard can be even better than a bkb in some scenarios, it's faster at reposition than hurricane for example when BSJ died vs Luna bkb just do nothing for him. Something that I agree with BSJ is blink dagger, it extends your range from 1200 to 2400, so you can just join the fight at the best moment, for example after void using Chrono or 1st skill. If my HC is someone like Ursa Slark or Void and it's dominating, I buy a scepter to help him, because he will make me win. I hardly believe that better positioning surpasses BKB on range HC, specially on Sniper and I only build BKB on very hard games, but that doesn't mean I go full DMG I often buy shard manta hurricane satanic and dagger. Sniper best friends for me are the strong dispellers like LC Abaddon and Omni. If you have enough DMG and can perpetuate your survivability you will win the game. So this is commonly my way to go, it obviously can change based on the game Dragon Lance Cheap DMG Item (Maelstrom,Madness,Crystalis) Shard Survivability or Stats item (Manta/BKB/Hurricane/Satanic,Skadi) Second Survivability item Full DMG Item (Deadalous, Silver, Butterfly, Moonshard, Mjolnir) Sometimes I just go nuts MoonShard + Deadalous and dagger, that's when they don't have someway to approach me and I go full DMG+ Shard and reposition items
@@octaviovilchez3096 wow, it's an ultra result in less than 2 weeks. Did you like play 10 games in a day)? Have you ever been Divine before? I'm struggling to go higher than Ancient II, because the main problem is I don't really understand how to play lategame. In lower ranks I usually just outmacro opponents + catching on mistakes + overfarming, but there... Do you pick Sniper regardlessly of draft, or are there any other heroes?
@@ДаниилТемный-ю4ь I got those results when I returned to college in April. So I didn't play a lot. I think that's something important. 3-4 Good matches a day is way better than 8-10 a day. I reached Ancient V before in 2018. I came back to dota in December 2021. Yep I insta first pick sniper when mid. That's a fact too, spamming a hero gives you more opportunities to succeed because you become more proficient. In late game it's all about position. You have to check who in the other team can catch you and how easily and also who is looking always for you. For example an Ogre Magi can reach you but it's not easy for him, you can see him coming, you can dodge his stun with manta or shard. He takes a big risk going for you. Spirit breaker is very similar, he has Q but you have shard, you can just shut him down with that. I can guarantee you that with decent reflexes you can outstand almost any non BKB initiation from the enemies if you have shard plus hurricane, even an spectre can't menace you if you make a good use of your survivability items. So in a few words. Shard and hurricane are your best friends you almost never want to use those ítems offensenly, for sniper due to his insane range, reposition surpasses spell inmunity. And also like BSJ says. BKB denieds your DMG. Playing sniper is playing with the constant idea that they would make efforts on catch you. You have to denied those efforts while trying to hit enemies, so you can take advantage of your partners too. And in the middle game you can denied very commonly those efforts with just a shard and great DMG output, at least on divine bracket. Another way to denied those efforts is with blink dagger in late game. You just hidden yourself until the enemies spends the skills and items that can trouble you. For example if I have insane DMG + blink against void. I just wait for him to either his Q or R and the shut him down of force him to retreat. In conclusion. Sniper needs DMG items, but he needs more a good positioning, you main goal is to never lose your position and to denied enemy efforts to catch you. If you need to buy 4 items to do that then do it.
BSJ, I know CK isn't a good matchup vs sniper, NS or others are better but I just can't beat snipe, he buys linkens, bkb, then boom I'm useless as an offlaner. What can i do
Played a game as drow Vs sniper yesterday and realised I should have gone an early bkb instead of trying to out dmg him via swift blink and ult crits. It sort of worked because he was bad but if he just forcestaffs into me I'm fucked or obviously force/shard away
Go mid, buy tangos, FF, stats for 3 wraith band. Right click the enemy relentlessly without getting out of position for the first 3 levels. Max headshot and range. Finish 3 wraith bands, treads, maelstrom, shard and hurricane pike. At 25 minutes you will deal ungodly damage.
how do you play him? im 2k so i probably play him wrong but i feel he deals no damage at all, lacks mobility, is squishy, and farms slow. Guide doesnt help much since nobody in my bracket understands team comp.
I made it to minute 16 before giving up. Maybe it's because I am relatively a beginner but this guide is really all over the place. I wish it was more cohesive and less confusing. You kept throwing out all possible scenarios at every point of decision making you were talking about. As a viewer I find this really overwhelming. It would be better if you stick to one idea at a time. For example, a certain build for sniper on a certain lane with a certain teammate against a certain opponent. This will allow the viewer to follow along with this isolated sample scenario and then they would start experimenting with possible situation variations on their own such as what if the opponent was a different hero or had different items, etc.
sniper is a very weak pos1, he won't out scale any other pos1, the only advantage is that he is quick farmer, strong laning and mid game and pre-late game, he does not really tanky, nor damage, nor survivable, more like an easy hero to play, hence cannot be too strong
My way is way simpler. You just throw down shrapnel on neutral creeps and flame your teammates when your towers fall
Im glad to see another man of culture, such as myself
I just started playing and this is what I did in my first 2 new player queue games. Nice to know it works after the first 2 hours of play
He just like me fr no cap
One of my favourite heroes to pick into sniper is venge. She basically ruins any snipers time, every ability makes it easier to kill him
Just here to learn how to ruin a sniper player's day 😬
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"I adore every meta that he is in" 5 years later and I still dread the hoho-haha patch, I never hated a patch that much since
what is hoho haha patch? is that with troll warlord old ulti or smth?
@@reformierende_person 6.83 troll and sniper were the best heroes by some margin
Courier using items is the shittiest patch
Sniper has been buffed for almost 3 years now and its disgustingly OP, there is no reason for a spell that does aoe damage & slow, give vision and has 2000 cast range to have 3 charges. He's at almost 60%wr in TI so far. Everybody who said "lol just jump him' was completely wrong, his stats and survivability have been too overtuned. I cant wait for the post-ti patch when he gets nerfed to smithereens and i can go back to playing mid in a skillful manner against other midlaners and not have to sit in lane and stare at shrapnel for 6 out of the first 8min of the game.
Imagine, this is after he was nerfed the past few patches alr. Hahaha. Back when 15% cd reduction was lvl 10. Whew
@@jcsemaj1those were the days
Remember the headshots used to be ministuns, XD.
I play sniper at low mmr, is one of my favorite heroes. I thought I knew how to play sniper. I don't. Thanks for the guide.
Watching this as Matu rekt Secret with his snipey. Totally reflects what BSJ is stating here, building 3 wraith bands to always join fights early on and literally snowball with Tusk and Brood to force a game 3🙏🏼
But if one of you one last thing
But if u want me
except you just had a game like mine where you and a zeus where the only heroes capable of doing anything, both far above 20 kills while the other 3 'heroes' barely did anything.... still the 2 of us made it to min 55... tough though
My fav snipe build is a movement speed build. You haven't lived unless you've been chased down by sniper. =)
what's some key items for that build?
@@mikerochalopez8301 swift blink rush mostly.
@@mikerochalopez8301 I often go yasha and kaya along with euls. If I'm supporting I tend to go mana boots, that I disassemble and turn into bots. If I'm core I go boots of bearing instead because the build up is really nice and sniper loves it's active.
I tend to start with a wind lace and three branches and build into yasha first, from there I might go for brown boots into tranqs and another wind lace or I go into mana boots, to later disassemble and build into bots. It's been a while since I've done support sniper, so I tend to go tranqs these days.
after tranqs and my 2nd wind lace, I build my kaya and then I then to go euls next followed by a 3rd windlace, this last one is to finish the boots of bearing later.
If I ever feel like I might want more right click damage, I just go Maelstrom, which I later turn into Mjoliner.
I tend to play him off-lane and, as crazy as it sounds, my final item is usually AC but the swift blink isn't bad, either. If I'm supporting I often build octarine and/or aghs instead
The point is not to be like a drill to just hammer enemies down. The idea is to me more like a sheep dog. You dance around the outside of fights and try to corral the enemy team. With positioning and shrapnel. It's more of a tempo build and the timing of items is important. That's why I use a lot of cheap items, like tranqs, euls, kaya and yasha along with maelstrom. Done right from the offlane and, after a few levels and items, the enemy carry won't be able to walk within a city block of the creep wave.
Pale Horse: *SUPERIOR NIGHT VISION*
I have 80% winrate with sniper support at 5k bracket with 20+ games. Usually go tranquil -> aghs, seems to be very strong. Would like to see a player much better than me critique the hero in that role.
Same
25:07 BSJ roleplays sniper
LOVED THIS VIDEO!
holy shit this is one of the first times i feel a guide is actually helpful, keep the good job man!
Nice video! Can u do complete tutorial on how to play arc warden? I rly want to play that hero so bad but not much tutorial on utube. Will be much appreciated. Thx bsj. Keep up the good work!
rush midas / gleip / overwhelm blink every game, farm entire map for 20 minutes. bind main to 1, clone to 2, main and clone to 3, tick on unified orders with ctrl, ctrl cast ur spells and clone will cast too. Start killing when u pick up normal blink dagger. Cast clone and do "royal keyboard flush" hit r, then hold ctrl+shift QEW + items
*important* get midas before or as u hit 6, so you get a second midas instantly ~4:40-5:30
if they have very fast paced heros and they want to win at 20 min, skip midas rush gleip
Your intro music is so good, I love that song.
Is sniper mid any good and when should you pick it tho?>
Any melee is ok, or some mid hero that doesnt really full damage nuke (storm, lesh, invo, puck. Snip have lots of armor and very fast projectile
As far as hero matchups go sniper is like lina - he doesn't really lose mid (brood and bat excluded, but bat would have to be played correctly, and that probably means divine+ at least). So unless they have insane catch, if you feel you have heroes that can do stuff and you can chill and just use their plays he can be picked.
Glepinir is pretty good item when enemies have lots of blinks/escape like am void puck. You can chase them and also escape if they run at you
I like to go headshot max lvl 1 take aim rest in shrapnel till 6 and once I get ulti i just spam it on support and move them out of lane
i hate sniper just as how slacks hates wr
you are not alone
how du you sustain well without mom? i feel like i always have to buy regen after teamfights when i dont go mom, because usually you take some damage in the fight and then u cant keep going
great video dude.... cant wait to play sniper
23:56 nightmere
Unfortunately bruiser melee 5's dont exist in my bracket. Even the rare occasions when those heroes are picked they still just sit in the woods and/or spend the entire lane trying to pull.
yep, if they try to pull they think they deserve to rank up
I hate passive supports most. Enemy support is faking myass and my support is just hiding in trees....so annoying.
@@capt.sparrow8898 YEP. PUDGE 5S AND THE OGRES OF THE WORLD
BSJ: Notice how i didn't pick Ulty on Lvl 6 and didn't get the Tiny kill ? Yea...My bad :D
I love sniper so much, but It's very rare to see team uses sniper as their carry and win the game 😢
I don't understand sniper vs drow choice in draft, any immortal players? dont list what their abilities do
I just love BSJ content it's just that even how many times I apply it I still can't rank up hahah but I hope I will have high win rates soon as I practice more
hi BSJ, is Dota Plus App considered a 3rd party and can be bannable?
You're a genius!
How to win in any situation : "KuKu."
I hate playing against sniper. Thanks for making him more popular😭 Guess I need to play Hoodwink more.
I play sniper a lot in the middle lane, going from leyend III to divine IV in less than 2 weeks. Sniper shard is so underrated, one of the best skills ever.
I am playing him mid too, currently low archon. Do you have any tips?
@@laurnero8399 I go full stats at the start 10 agility 4 strength. 2 Wraith Bands. 3 Bands sometimes. I mainly play 0-4-4-0 that gives me a lot of physical DMG and distance. Dragon lance is a must. Madness is a high risk high reward item because of the silence. Sniper had no mobility I almost always buy shard as 3rd or 2nd item I feel like Shard can be even better than a bkb in some scenarios, it's faster at reposition than hurricane for example when BSJ died vs Luna bkb just do nothing for him.
Something that I agree with BSJ is blink dagger, it extends your range from 1200 to 2400, so you can just join the fight at the best moment, for example after void using Chrono or 1st skill.
If my HC is someone like Ursa Slark or Void and it's dominating, I buy a scepter to help him, because he will make me win.
I hardly believe that better positioning surpasses BKB on range HC, specially on Sniper and I only build BKB on very hard games, but that doesn't mean I go full DMG I often buy shard manta hurricane satanic and dagger.
Sniper best friends for me are the strong dispellers like LC Abaddon and Omni. If you have enough DMG and can perpetuate your survivability you will win the game.
So this is commonly my way to go, it obviously can change based on the game
Dragon Lance
Cheap DMG Item (Maelstrom,Madness,Crystalis)
Shard
Survivability or Stats item (Manta/BKB/Hurricane/Satanic,Skadi)
Second Survivability item
Full DMG Item (Deadalous, Silver, Butterfly, Moonshard, Mjolnir)
Sometimes I just go nuts MoonShard + Deadalous and dagger, that's when they don't have someway to approach me and I go full DMG+ Shard and reposition items
@@octaviovilchez3096 wow, it's an ultra result in less than 2 weeks. Did you like play 10 games in a day)? Have you ever been Divine before? I'm struggling to go higher than Ancient II, because the main problem is I don't really understand how to play lategame. In lower ranks I usually just outmacro opponents + catching on mistakes + overfarming, but there... Do you pick Sniper regardlessly of draft, or are there any other heroes?
@@ДаниилТемный-ю4ь I got those results when I returned to college in April. So I didn't play a lot. I think that's something important. 3-4 Good matches a day is way better than 8-10 a day.
I reached Ancient V before in 2018. I came back to dota in December 2021.
Yep I insta first pick sniper when mid. That's a fact too, spamming a hero gives you more opportunities to succeed because you become more proficient.
In late game it's all about position.
You have to check who in the other team can catch you and how easily and also who is looking always for you. For example an Ogre Magi can reach you but it's not easy for him, you can see him coming, you can dodge his stun with manta or shard. He takes a big risk going for you. Spirit breaker is very similar, he has Q but you have shard, you can just shut him down with that. I can guarantee you that with decent reflexes you can outstand almost any non BKB initiation from the enemies if you have shard plus hurricane, even an spectre can't menace you if you make a good use of your survivability items.
So in a few words. Shard and hurricane are your best friends you almost never want to use those ítems offensenly, for sniper due to his insane range, reposition surpasses spell inmunity.
And also like BSJ says. BKB denieds your DMG.
Playing sniper is playing with the constant idea that they would make efforts on catch you. You have to denied those efforts while trying to hit enemies, so you can take advantage of your partners too.
And in the middle game you can denied very commonly those efforts with just a shard and great DMG output, at least on divine bracket.
Another way to denied those efforts is with blink dagger in late game. You just hidden yourself until the enemies spends the skills and items that can trouble you. For example if I have insane DMG + blink against void. I just wait for him to either his Q or R and the shut him down of force him to retreat.
In conclusion. Sniper needs DMG items, but he needs more a good positioning, you main goal is to never lose your position and to denied enemy efforts to catch you. If you need to buy 4 items to do that then do it.
@@octaviovilchez3096 an insane reply Octavio thx, I will try to incorporate better positioning
Wish my teammates picked sniper when I’m Marci 4/5, every game people want to stack melee even when I first pick a melee and no one shows anything.
His shard is worth more than it should. Im expecting displacement nerf to that skill.
oh shit i was watching the morph guide les gooo
I notice you keep highlighting crystalys but not daedalus. Is this pointedly? Is daed just not good value compared to crys?
great guide bsj! also love sniper, and it gave me some really usefull tips, thanks!
Win in any situation!
...Where your team pushes.
Hey nice Motion Array Liquid Transitions pack bro - didn't even bother to adjust the default color scheme XDXDXD
I've always wondered if Eather Lense is viable item on Sniper
no
no lol why would you even consider that
It’s really a terrible choice for Dota Plus to name its app the same name as the Valve subscription Dota Plus.
Wind ranger…enough said
if you find a sandwich in a crevice, take it to your cone zone, got it?
BSJ, I know CK isn't a good matchup vs sniper, NS or others are better but I just can't beat snipe, he buys linkens, bkb, then boom I'm useless as an offlaner. What can i do
SS go on you with centaur. Levi insta tp and ult. Dude, that won't happen in my game. If im against a SS and I don't see it, im out jungling lol.
Came here to say I will be banning sniper every game now. That is all.
Played a game as drow Vs sniper yesterday and realised I should have gone an early bkb instead of trying to out dmg him via swift blink and ult crits. It sort of worked because he was bad but if he just forcestaffs into me I'm fucked or obviously force/shard away
too many defensive positioning items i would skip shadow blade
Hit like if you hate sniper
SHRAPLNEEEYL
great way to play sniper , at pick mode BAN SNIPER EVERY GAME so no teammate or enemy can get = profit
General zod
rip pubs
"How to win with sniper in ANY situation" : shows 12/8 in last 20 LUL
Jk man, love your content !
12 8 is good above average if you r immortal rank
Can we have a sniper mid guide please
Here’s your guide: Don’t do that. It’s a hard grief
I have almost 900 games as sniper and I 100% will learn something here.
Yet another "pro guide" of "just win" "just dont die" lmao
Go mid, buy tangos, FF, stats for 3 wraith band. Right click the enemy relentlessly without getting out of position for the first 3 levels. Max headshot and range. Finish 3 wraith bands, treads, maelstrom, shard and hurricane pike. At 25 minutes you will deal ungodly damage.
how do you play him? im 2k so i probably play him wrong but i feel he deals no damage at all, lacks mobility, is squishy, and farms slow. Guide doesnt help much since nobody in my bracket understands team comp.
What is the point of censoring the middle of each swear word? S that a UA-cam algorithm thing?
I made it to minute 16 before giving up. Maybe it's because I am relatively a beginner but this guide is really all over the place. I wish it was more cohesive and less confusing. You kept throwing out all possible scenarios at every point of decision making you were talking about. As a viewer I find this really overwhelming. It would be better if you stick to one idea at a time. For example, a certain build for sniper on a certain lane with a certain teammate against a certain opponent. This will allow the viewer to follow along with this isolated sample scenario and then they would start experimenting with possible situation variations on their own such as what if the opponent was a different hero or had different items, etc.
First
ew sniper
Sniper favorite hero? carry sniper? okay unsubscribed.
🎯🦆 quack!
SNIPER is for low skill playerS?
it's for very low skill player and very high skill player. for archon legend ancient mediocore rank he's not good
sniper is a very weak pos1, he won't out scale any other pos1, the only advantage is that he is quick farmer, strong laning and mid game and pre-late game, he does not really tanky, nor damage, nor survivable, more like an easy hero to play, hence cannot be too strong
I'm sorry what? No damage? Not survivable? He's obviously not puck but headshot+shrapnel+grenade makes him harder to kill than sf, for example.
yeah sure pos1 sniper is very weak hence its a contested pick in immortal bracket
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He's so weak pro teams in ti want him... wait...
Sniper is a better support than core. G
HoHo! HaHa! 🪖