He was only really competitively good in combination with Tusk . He saw very , very little competitive play and was almost nowhere to be seen at TI . The techies bans against EG in the finals were something , but they were more out of fear of unknown strategies than anything . In later matches EG ' s techies turned out to be pretty damn lackluster on their own . His land mines getting changed to how they are now would effectively nerf the tusk combo and his laning to not be complete bullshit , but the other changes are completely unwarranted for competitive balance . Not exploding on death AND being killable with quelling blade was total overkill and ruined any place he might have as a counter to punish 5 melee lineups . The nerf ' s only purpose was to cater to pubs and arteezy fanboys .