Doom

Pick Doom when the enemy team has one hero that is single-handedly carrying their entire game plan on their back—because that is exactly what this hero was designed to do, and right now people are severely underestimating how impactful a well-timed Doom ultimate can be in deciding the outcome of an entire teamfight before it even properly begins.

He is underrated right now, and honestly, it makes no sense to me because in a meta where certain heroes are absolutely broken and carrying games by themselves, having a hero whose entire job is to press R and make that hero completely irrelevant for the next fifteen seconds is invaluable.

Devour alone makes him one of the most versatile offlaners in the game—the ability to eat a neutral creep and gain its ability means Doom can adapt to almost any situation depending on what the jungle offers, and a Doom with the right creep ability in the right matchup is just an entirely different hero from a Doom who grabbed whatever was available without thinking.

He is disgusting in lineups that have strong follow-up damage that can capitalize on a five-second window of the enemy's best hero doing absolutely nothing—Lina, Zeus, Jakiro—heroes that can pour every cooldown they have into a Doomed target and delete them before the debuff even expires.

He thrives against ability-dependent lineups where one hero's spells are the entire reason their team functions—Enigma without Black Hole, Magnus without Reverse Polarity, Earthshaker without Echo Slam—because Doom doesn't just kill that hero; he removes their entire reason for existing in that teamfight completely.

He pairs beautifully with aggressive, fighting lineups that can snowball a five versus four situation into a game-ending rampage—because the moment Doom presses his ultimate on the enemy carry or offlaner, your team is effectively playing with a man advantage, and every good team in the world knows how to exploit that.

Avoid picking him into lineups where no single hero is clearly the win condition—because if the enemy team is balanced and every hero contributes equally, Doom's ultimate loses a significant amount of its value, and he is just a slow offlaner with a farming spell and a mediocre laning phase.

Also feels genuinely terrible for Linken's Sphere users, because one Linken's block on your ultimate means you just wasted the most important cooldown in your entire kit on absolutely nothing—always check what the enemy is building before you commit to your Doom cast. And if the enemy has a lot of burst that can kill Doom before he even reaches his target to cast the ultimate?

Be very careful about your positioning—because a Doom that dies before pressing R has contributed exactly zero to the teamfight regardless of how good his Devour creep ability is.