Paladin rushes in team games

Dont you think it will fix itself given enough time?

Trollcoms, Krow-, Dante-, Juggernaut-, Nukerushes also worked when they were discovered - and today? none are worth a mention anymore.

Experimenting with Racketers myself. Im optimistic it will be step towards adressing the "none expanded at start" games.

Should it really get unbearable and we get a ulti buff out of it - i would consider it a win.

The pala can only take 1 lane

We almost had it if not for the lobsters throwing north, sucessfully stalled with Racketers.
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1422924

Team with pala lost

https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1423769

Snowlob guy says he's gonna rush paladin, instead he rushes ultimate and lets it sit in base. No paladin was rushed.

Watch the replay.

In an attempt to make a counter-argument that the rushing of any unit would have similar effect, I tried rushing minotaurs without about 4 other lobs. It, uh. It didn't work out too well.

Some idea of how common this is would be good. What is the winrate of the strategy and what kinds of maps does it work on? Typical replays would be useful too. All we've got so far are replays showing it not working as easily as the OP claims.

Googlefrog, the winrate of rushed Paladin feels quite high to me. Paladin is counterable if the team works together but all too often its a rushed Paladin smashing down whatever is in its lane while the rest of the team does whatever in their own individual actions.

In a sense a Paladin represents the metal investment of a team working together against the metal investment of another team not working together.

I remember that a team with 2-3 facs spamming nothing but Dirtbags managed to consistently sandbag a Paladin rush until it was killed. The team must work together.

In that sense a rushed Paladin is a game defining weapon.

I never understood why it got the regen in the first place tbh.