You see torch appraching? Plant some mines at your feet, when he comes in close to nova or do something else, they'll hurt him bad.

See him charging? Throw some mines in advance and charge a snipe shot, he will have 30% HP left, then angelic fury and betrayer's mark until he's done.

Technically he cannot escape you even if he frost nova's you and runs, your snipe shit has a sick range.

I forgot beta testers are the elite here, the newcomers don't know anything.

No what I meant was that I had helm/gloves/chest/boots etc for health/mana/regen/damage. Just saying I wasnt gimped by going in naked.

Hmm. It sounds like was fed to 10 then. Sadly, that's the only thing that could of happened. There's no way a TB of all demigods could do so with towers and minions on him and still have the dps to kill you so fast with the gear you're telling us you had. Also, most of TB's damage is through abilities that do static damage, so it's not like he could of boosted his spells up to insane numbers or anything.

Feeding can make a demigod into a god though. I got fed in a 2 vs 2 I didn't want to join (they were newer players, but they insisted it was fine and that they wanted to learn) and I'd not only solo both their oak and TB at the same time, but then I'd pop over and take out a tower or two before I went to a health crystal nearby. (Exile, so we had some health crystal flags on either side.) Nothing to do with UB being OP or leetness. I was just being fed and not only hyper upgraded the citadel, but I was stock full of godly items.

Play better.

Assuming you're actually asking how to fight against, and not just whining that "someone beat me, nerf them!" like it quite seems, what you need to do is use mines.

Snipe is mostly for killing people retreating, and as a support skill to aide allies far away.  Your normal DPS should do more.

If you lay down 6 mines, that's 2700 damage which is little to scoff at.  Angelic fury is going to hit for 500 dmg then your 400 damage or whatever from shooting afterwards.  He shouldn't have much hp left then, so I don't know what your trouble is tbh..

Mines is more important than snipe.  Get mines upped before anything else.  Just 1 point in snipe to start.  Unless it's a 5v5/4v4 you might want more in snipe sooner.

Feeding is raising the enemies cash and xp by giving them easy kills.  You should be doing as much as possible to not die.  Dying is bad.

"Feeding" is a term taken from DoTA. What it refers to is argued over, but everyone understands the basic concept. I like the example of a vampire feeding and becoming stronger best.

Basically, it means giving the opponent "free" xp and gold. Typically, it was when highly skilled players picked out the newer or terrible players in a match and specifically preyed on them. Thus they could "feed" and gain power quickly, as more familar players would carefully watch their health and the location of all heroes so as not to give xp and gold to another demigod without good reason (usually standing their ground to fight and losing rather than being ambushed).

The term grew to basically mean whenever someone gained the most kills in a match, through preying on less skilled players or simply by being good, and quickly jumping up levels and grades of items. After feeding, a character is normally too powerful to stop, resulting in more feeding until the game is basically decided.

Normally someone being fed is much higher than anyone else in the game as feeding can't be split among team mates. If you work together, it's technically not feeding.

In demigod it's not as easy to be fed, but generally when large, easily avoidable mistakes result in you constantly getting kills, you're being fed. I'll give you an example from my UB, the TB I was playing was walking around capping flags with 40~ hp (I know it was below 50 as the initial 50 damage of my spit killed him.) After killing him many times in a similar manner, not because I was good but because he made terrible mistakes such as over chasing or walking around with no hp or mana, I was level 12 while everyone else was 6 or below.

From then on, as you can tell, it was pretty easy to keep feeding. Nothing gives you as much gold or xp as a demigod, so I was also rolling in gold which gave me many great items far earlier than I should of gotten them. At this point it doesn't matter if someone else on their team is an elite player, I > him simply because I was fed and now I'm not only twice his level, I have better gear than he would normally have at this level.

That is feeding.

Getting more gold and more xp is always good, no matter how you do it.

But right now minotaurs and archers are hardly worth any gold, and demigod kills are worth a TON (600-1600 i believe)

Truth. I rip peoples' lungs out 1v1 as Regulus.

Again I dont care that he would have kicked my ass because he manouvered better, took flags better, defended better etc. I couldnt do more than 400 damage to him going full tilt with everything I had. Even if he stumbled upon 6 mines by somehow teleporting himself right ontop of them I doubt I still would have been able to kill him.

He didnt use circle of fire. It was point blank damage of some sort and it was extremely quick. He wasnt that powerful until a certain point in the match so I believe its some item or combination of items that he was using. In either case it made him indestructable even against 2 players at the same time so hence my concern that theres some inbalance going on.

Annekynn, here is an excerpt from a reply I just left on another thread:

I have seen tons of other outrages, just as bad as this one or worse.  I've seen stories like the one you recounted over and over.  Many times I have had my character literally evaporate just by getting within a few tiles of an enemy oak.  My theory for what happened with my rook story above is that some people get to start the game with ridiculously OP artifacts or "favor items" that you yourself can't start with.  It is a built in cheat which in effect is a "press a button and win" button for them.  They don't beat you because they are better.  They don't beat you because they have some "skill" (cough) that you don't have.  They just beat you because they got to equip some OP artifact as soon as the game started, and you didn't get to do the same.

As far as your story goes, the only explanation I can come up with is that the game is riddled with OP tricks, exploits, etc. that some players (especially beta testers) know, but that you don't know.  This kind of thing makes the game unfun.  I highly recommend and encourage you to just quit when you encounter BS like this next time.  Make the guy play bots for the rest of the game, while you start a newer, better game elsewhere.

Oh, I also highly recommend not ever playing these "custom games" or whatever.  Ever.  Only play skirmish or pantheon.  Why?  The simple fact is, I have never seen this sort of BS rear its ugly head on skirmish or pantheon, only custom games.

Im 110% positive we were the same level because it was the first thing I checked to explain why we were getting so ridiculously owned. Lag wasnt an issue was this occured many times in a row each time against the same player. As for favor items, there is no item called "I Win Button".