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121- Meepo (melee Agility)
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Base abilities: Earthbind, Poof, Ransack, Divided We Stand
Shard ability: Upgraded Divided we Stand casting ult with a clone nearby can point-target an enemy to throw the selected Meepo at the target, slowing and damaging in the area when they arrive.
Scepter ability: New ability Dig the targeted Meepo channels for a moment then becomes invulnerable for four seconds, healing 40% of its health.

I am convinced this hero exists for two reasons: one, to more easily detect scripters, and two, to have that one character that everyone loves to hate.

Meepo is certainly unique amongst Moba characters - while several other heroes in Dota and those from other games like Shaco in League or the Lost Vikings in Heroes of the Storm have a "control multiple heroes" choice. Meepo, on the other hand, feels like micromanaging an RTS game, since he expires if any of his bodies do. Splitting up is the core of his design, and comes with an advantage - each one can gain experience, so he can be in multiple places on the map at once, and each clone can cast their spells individually from one another. What's more, Poof can be used either in place or at any of Meepo's bodies - but the clones are fragile and initially weak by design, only gaining a portion of stats from Meepo's items, and they can't use any items other than boots. Also, to compensate for being able to cast a theoretical 15 offensive spells (Poof, Earthbind, and Divided We Stand with Shard) with only your own manual dexterity and the channel time on Poof/travel time on upgraded Divided We Stand, his spells are quite weak on their own, his magic resistance is similarly poor to Visage, and his stat gain as he levels is poor, so he's locked into less-than-ideal item choices unless he wants to beef up the primary Meepo and use the others to Poof and run, since his clones won't benefit from passive effects from on-hit items or most jungle neutral items. But hey, at least he runs fast!

Heading back to the first design point mentioned: scripters. See that 15 offensive spells above - Meepo takes some time to get *that* strong. However, a few years ago (with a stronger Poof,) during The International 8 qualifiers, a professional player got their team removed because of an inquiry on some suspect Meepo play. A Peruvian professional, AtuuN, had a macro for Meepo that boiled down to simultaneously casting Poof on the very same frame at a cross-screen primary Meepo that had just Blink Daggered and hexed a victim. Where a normal person would need to select each clone/group of clones and tab-target their way through, press W, and target the Meepo to teleport to for each clone, AtuuN just had all of them teleport and start wailing on the guy with four shovels. A quick-witted victim can usually react to the sudden appearance of Meepo by going invulnerable in some way, or strategically deleting the Primary Meepo from the fight some how (through knockback, using Force Staff on it before the clones appear to knock him out of position, for instance) but doing that in the time frame he did was humanly impossible. AtuuN's team did not make it as a result of this, and he later admitted to using the macro.

Second design point mentioned: Meepo's design is hideous and his voice annoying by default, so kudos to Nolan North for that. There is nothing more tilting in Dota than to actually lose to this screechy gremlin.

Showing a Meepo early in picks is suicidal overconfidence, since there's a bunch of heroes that counteract him, and even then, he's way too micromanagement-reliant to get anything done that you can't similarly accomplish with an easier pick. There's better flash-farmers than him, as he's in risk of death if you try to take advantage of his exp split in the jungle with a lack of attention, but you can't adapt his item build easily - games tend to end very quickly and decisively in one way or another when Meepo's in it, and it's usually not in his favor.