The Chipper

New patch came, new update comes late! :D

With the patch 0.3.3.2 there came minor balancing to heroes and items selling, as well as some interface updates. (view complete change log) But there also came something we, HoN players had been waiting for ages, A New Hero! :)

The new hero was ranged Intelligence hero for The Legion called "The Chipper". You can view his skills and stuff via the change log link (HoN forums, you need to login), so I can get straight into my point.

I love The Chipper! He's so much fun to play with his rockets, slow, ultimate and amazing ganking ability at the early game. The first time I played him my stats were something like 4-0-2 after 8 minutes or so (and I'm not a particularly great in playing him). It's just so easy to get early kills with your slow + lvl 2 or 3 rockets, specially if you have a decent hero in your lane (I had Polly :P). And you might think he's not as good when it comes to end game, but still his ultimate is very useful, just a cooldown of 30 seconds at level 3, which I think is almost ridiculous, after all it deals a great ammount of damage and is great tool for initiation.

There are also some bad sides in The Chipper, he can easily get initiated, since he doesn't have any stuns, just the ministun from rockets and the slow from tar tar. Also he doesn't have that much life, and he does need alot of mana regen to be able to use his spells. But all in all, he's great ganker, supporter and even a semi-carry (thought not the best one, but you can still do the job of 2nd carry with him, if you just get good roam [=alot of assists/kills] in the start), just as I like it. :)

So there are some thoughts about the new Chipper, my favourite hero at the moment I could say, comment here, what do you think about him, what do you like and what do you dislike?

-``jusatin