Your friend is clearly inexperienced and very ignorant. One of the most important things to learn about Dota is that ITEMS ARE SITUATIONAL.

Skull basher may not be a core on PA, but it sure is necessary when you are against disablers, and especially useful when you are a ganking, snowballing PA.

The way PA works is that she needs to blink to the enemy hero and "go in for the kill". Hence why her ulti is called Coup de grace - i.e. she lands the killing blow with her crits.

The nature of her shaky ult is that it may not proc when you need it to, so increasing her chances of a lockdown on an enemy, especially a disabler or the BKB'd enemy carry, is very, VERY important. She's not the kind of right click hero who hits from the back like viper. Her positioning is very important and a lot of space needs to be created for her to lockdown and kill all enemies.


Why basher over mkb?

- Cheap for a very useful item
- less farm needed
- means can start snowball ganking early
- no stupid "mini stun" nonsense
- decent 1.4s BASH stun that procs 25% of the time

Later on:
- Can be upgraded into abyssal with a PURE UNBLOCKABLE stun for TWO WHOLE SECONDS. That's a shitton of time right there for the rest of your team to spam disable on hardass enemy carry, like medusa or something.
- Summore the bash still goes through 25% of the time, AFTEr the abyssal stun.

Both bash AND stuns go through BKB.

This post has been edited by zyrtec: Mar 29 2016, 10:44 PM

You dont stun before they pop bkb.

Abyssal *goes through* bkb. You let them waste their bkb and when it's finishing, then only you abyssal so your team can go in and spam spells and lockdowns.