Shadow Brawl! All Mirror modes are my favorite especially brawl + mirror!!

I get to play heroes I never use. Any assassins are a no for me except in brawl (haha)

But dang look at all da Odette Skins, I think we lost that game tho. Odette is so weak against CC.

It has been awhile since I shared any good info, apart from my silly rants.

I am pretty sure I have talked about these items before. But having Shadow Brawl right now I figured this could be a good reminder.

In Brawl it is all about surviving and die with a decent amount of golds so you can at least buy 1 full item before going back to the battle field.

So what keeps you alive the longest? Having Mana and HP. Being a Mage/Support heroes or any Mana consuming heroes at all could potentially start with Elegant Gem first. This is what you call a hack item in brawl.

Elegant Gem recover 20% of your HP and Mana every time you level up until you reach 15. 

Now being a Mage and if you have Clock of Destiny in your build, then Elegant Gem is a must. If you are using Lightning Truncheon in your build, then basically Clock of Destiny is a must. Which mean you better be getting this item first.

They all benefits each other in some way or another. Unless you really don’t want CoD then you can skip and go ahead with Demon Shoes. The very reason why you need  to complete CoD ASAP, is due to the time stack. Its passive only works after 5 minutes stacked. So minus the time you need in order to get it usually takes at least 10 minutes into the game before you can get it fully stacked. And being a brawl game 10 minutes is almost at the end of the match which make it very important to get it quick.

Why is CoD good for Lightning Truncheon? It max dmg output relies on your MAX mana and CoD after fully stacked gives an additional 900 mana. You can label them as a Couple Items such as like Berserk Fury with Scarlet Phantom, getting one then you want the second one too.

After they nerfed LT you can replace CoD with Holy Crystal too. But I personally prefer getting all 3 of them together being a mage player. Any mage actually works with this combo + Demon Shoes and 2 whatever the situation requires. Either Anti-Heal or more Magic Penetration.

Just remember if you ever have Clock of Destiny in your Mage Build, it needs to be the FIRST ITEM. Or it doesn’t work unless you can keep the game going on for at least more than 5 minutes.

It is getting intense with all those Arcade Modes coming. Mayhem, Mayhem Mirror and now Shadow Brawl.

Shadow Brawl is just like Mirror Brawl except it got a special Spell, which will pull you backwards, like a Franco Hook or Harley 2nd Skill, but you get pulled back to wherever you used it.

I guess it is funnier in comparison to the Mayhem Mirror, due to being able to pick a better variety of heroes otherwise it is very frustrating due to players voting on Marksman or Meta Heroes in general not understanding which heroes benefits more in Brawl Mode generally speaking.

There is no guarantee which hero will carry you since it all comes down to each individual player skills. 

First hero to pick will always be a Mage. Then there are the better ones and the less better ones. One of the hardest mage to carry with, in my opinion based on my experience would be Valir, have yet met any sides who picked Valir that have won. Might be me who sucks, but he is just hard unless he is VS a melee hero. 

[One of the biggest reason as to why Valir seems like a bad pick, is due to his skills are not very good for cleaning minions. Same goes for Selena. They can kill but they can’t push turret fast enough until enemy revives again.]

If you get to pick mage go for it, if there are no mage go for Marksman. If there are none you can go for Tank or Assassin. For Fighter you can surely go for Bane, for others you gotta wish enemy didn’t pick a strong mage. If you go for a Support, then you need to end the game quick, because for a prolong match it will ends quite bad due to lack of damage.