The Regulus can put alot of pressure on in the beginning, when you get Renewal and Snipe the other lane or mid every 10s. This gets strong at level 4 to 7 when you can afford all the mana helms. However after the enemies start stacking hp its over. This would work fine if there were no priests. Priests are very very inbalanced. They need to get fixed. Either by reducing the effect or by making the healing absolut and not relative. The generals are way better then the Assasins on average. UB is like the exception, because he can deal huge amounts of damage and it scales into late game.

renewal and snipe... a lot of pressure? aha... and where does he get the mana for that? will he stand near the crystal? kk, i give you the hp lane and i hold the other two flags.

oh wait, you buy the cheap helmet + 2 mana pots? still reg cannot do anything but sniping several times. thx for the two other flags.

Celmare, Snipe/Mine with alot of mana and Renewal works for Regulus, that and Mine/Slow are the builds that do work to some extent. I have tested it. The main problem ist health stacking and general/priest heal, which gives them huge staying power. So if you face 2 or more good generals I dont think it can work, but the builds are fine for average play.

You get Scaled and Banded and Staff of Renewal. After that you get Vlemish and Plenor. Basicly this is a mana hog. With this build you constantly snipe and lay mines. You get towers down fast. You snipe to weaken the enemy dgs, that engage your teammates. If you teamgank you will need defensive measures to ensure your savety. Pots/Orb of Defiance.

The problem this doesn't work is because for most demigods damage doesnt scale well item and skill wise. UB is like one of the exceptions. If health stacking was nerfed, this build would be very strong.

where do you get the mana in the early game? from what? you dont have the money. and mines get dangerous with mines 3.

with scaled (the helmet right?) you get two snipes off and you are oom. if oyu have a level up you may get a third one after some regen time. and you will not be able to stand 5 seconds against any other dg to hold your flag.

sure its fun and it often works. i do this myself and it works most of the times. but NOT because this is a good strategie, its because the opponents are most times stupid. it is so easy to counter this. btw. better get wrath than renewal. the 2 extra seconds are nothing compared to the opportunities warath offers. its not only the 250 dmg that are very nice early on but it helps to find a fleeing dg out of sight getting a snipe on him.

anyway, if the opponents are intelligent they dominate 2 of the 3 flags and deny you any snipe kill by being carefull. so no kills to feed you. at the time where you have the equip to be viable your snipe is a mosquito hit, they have more warrank and probably got already some kills.

you tried it, i tried it and as i said it works. but not for the reason that its as good as it seems. it works because people nearly allways dont count the snipe in their tactics!

edit: how many hurt dgs have you seen runing towards the reg when chances are high that he wnats to snipe? sadly currently i am the only one i've seen doing and it saved my butt several times.

edit2: the big mistake you make (in my opinion) is that you think good opponents stick to the common tactics:

they send one dg to the mana lfag where your reg sits and two fight your two dgs at hp flag. thus reg can tip the blance in the 2vs2 fight for you. indeed most people are so stubborn that they keep this strategy. BAD IDEA! in this case your calculation works.

how to conter? just dont fight 2vs2 at hp flag. fight 2vs1 at mana flag and keep 2 of 3 flags. if they port in do the same and make a 3 vs 2. having the reg near the battle its a 3vs 2 1/2. of course early game because mines are bad in the early game. it is just an example. i cannot describe you in detail how to conter because it is a quite dynamic situation. but i hope you get the idea.

This doesn't work if you team is not dynamic. They have to push hard for towers and switch lanes. The snipe should be used to turn the advantage for your side, once your team engages. You won't be able to spam Snipe until you get Vlemish, that's obvious. But you can forc the enemy to come chase you, because you can get the towers down either mid or the side. You can put pressure with this build, but your team has to go along with it. Also it works best if you only face 1 gereral (tb+reg, reg+rook) for obvious reasons.

Edit: I run towards Reg if I'm low and I think, he'll snipe and I can make it. This is common knowledge.

the enemys can mock the towers even easier.

well, we turn in circles. this will not be solved in a forum discussion. i tried to make my idea clear... somehow. and in the end it does not matter. in rpactice it works most of the time and it is fun. that's what is important

and i know you are a good player. fought with and against you several times.

@your edit: nice to know. believe me, there are not many people doing that. even though quite many know about that but they still do the wrong thing in panic

i've seen top players allways doing this mistake over and over again.

i agree with you, i come to the conclusion you are at a disadvantage with regulus in high end play... the stats suggest that too...

in good pre vs pre games what you see mostly is: LE, UB, Oak, Sed (95% they use BotF, the rest is usually Cloak)

You writing this really showed your entire lack of understanding the replies:

My own reply#2:

Therfore I will update my OP with my explanations from the replies.

Regulus Snipes from the place in between the two front towers (max range). A safe place imho.

Of course he can not! But do not forget that the lane on the other side would also would be lost very quickly to Oak+UB.

This is Theorycraft, not a competition.

Please re-read my OP as you did not understand it.

This is a very nice alternative. We should try if they would be better as first item in a mirror test match between one team with them and one team without them. I've added Oak's priests to the item build as 3rd item. How could I even forget them?

Scope1 actually is enough, yeah. Thanks! Of course you'd chose Mines instead now. Edited OP.

You are right about that, but since you quoted me, you missed later were is said mines and MAB. 

This strat is only good to about lvl 10-12, and then it goes downhill as most DGs scale alot better than reg I think.  But many (most?) games dont hit lvl 15 and beyond. 

The idea with a staff of Renewal Snipe Reg is not to dominate the off side, but to harass it.  Constant pressue.  Yes is it mana intesive, but Reg tend to get kills from thsi strat, or at least many assists.

For me items are not that expensive either so as support, yo ucan buy all the cit upgrades, leaver the two stronger allies to stack themselves. 

Item I llike to get for this build are (ignoring TPs, health pots ect):

Start: Scaled helm, and either banded or scaled armors.  Then either banded or scaled (whatever you didnt get).

Later: Plenor and velmish. Ill actually take plenor first if thats all the gold I have when I am at base. Yes its less regen, but its more to the total pool.  Aftet the helms, trade in scaled for Nimoths chest, and banded for unbreakable boots or harbak.

Thats about it.  Yes squishy, but tons o manna.  Agian this may not work is Super god pro games, but for pug games it can be very effective.  You dont dominate, but you are a constant annoyance, and can help seal kills. Plus you can keep the cit upgrades going, while your allies stack themselves.

As far I I have seen this seems to be one of the best uses of Reg.  But as states earlier he isnt the best DG overall.

i just wanted to make clear that the disadvantage only holds for the suggested strategies, emaning a snipe reg (even snipe/mines). it does not hold for a wings/mines reg. this one gets pretty strong and is totally balanced.

the snipe variation is ony a very fun one and gives you many kills in low up to early mid-game if AND ONLY IF your opponents are not clever enough to take care of that. and if they are clever enough you will face the situation of a weak dg with mosquito snipes later on. this can be only be made up again when he passes level 15, getting wings higher towards level 20. but most games are over before this happens.

Nah, triple stun takes the cake still. nice dps though. but counterable. can't counter triple stun.

LE + Rook + UB

I think it is more Rook + UB + LE, orderwise. Yoink, Grab, Charm.

ok so just to point out that if you use the strat properly u should have 2 flags at all times = wr lead (if they cap xp u push or cap mana depending on who goes for it)

scope means that you can camp behind the tower and hold your lane while still AA the enemy Dg also the point is not that you spam snipe, sure you might drop a snipe or 2 early BUT a smart reg will save mana for at least 1 snipe.

Finally, if you play this strat right mid game you should have a gold advantag going into late game

gold = gear = you should have more health or mana or creeps or xp or mageslayer

I wasn't giving a stun order in my post But I think LE + UB + Rook is better

why?

Because it allows rook to throw a hammer slam without wasting his interupt which is excellent to catch fleeing DGs later because of its insane range.

3 Regs. Continously snipe Citadel ^^

UB ooze, erebus, Oak assasin.

3 debuffs, 2 of em constant, and surge. Really nasty.

Everything about this killer combo is correct except regulus. While snipe is nice and often unexpected, Lord Erebus would be twice as damaging because of penitence + bite.  Also, with bat swarm he can chase down fleeing demigods better than regulus. However, all of this thread is theoretical because almost no good player would walk into a three on one situation.

You know what would make this combo even more awesome? Not using reg.

That's hard to say. Regulus can snipe you with no risk, often twice, before you get to your crystal. He can hit you even if your port away. If he hits you twice he might even do as much damage as erebus as well.

However, in the subtext, I'd be all for a regulus buff.

Reg mines do 1200-1350 damage, often to more than a single DG at once if in a group fight. Using his 1v1 characteristics to infer that that makes him useless in a group is incorrect. Reg has very good AoE damage. Supporting group combat where he shines.

Fortunately, if I am ever actually in danger of dying by a snipe, I click the sigil button and all my problems are solved.

I also guarantee the average players in a 2on2 confrontation using the better DGs can step on land mines and still kill reg before one of them is killed by his team mate.

Also, Reg's "shining" in group combat is just the place where he it not totally pwned by other DGs. You would do better with any other DG except maybe QoT unless you are a master with her.

eg: You are doing well with Reg? You would be pwning the shazbut using Ereb instead in the same situation.

Regulus can use snipe, but like Orion said, with a sigil of vitality, shield, mist, orb of defiance, or the symbol of purity, snipe is stopped dead in its tracks.  Lord Erebus is an incredible chaser with long rage, instant teleports through bat swarm, armor/speed reduction and burst damage and life steal with bite (OMGWTFHAXX).