Diggie feeding strategy

**Diggie feeding strategy** is a is a popular strategy during MPL Season 6 by exploiting  Diggie's abilitoes and the economy. It was claimed to be originated by the content creator Assassin Dave, but it was popularized by then-Aura PH captain Rafflessia in professional play.

## Description

The reasons of this emergence of strategy are:

1. Diggie can still move and casts spells even after death through his passive ( Young Again). In his egg form, Diggie can also expose enemy units, is untargetable and can also cancel recalls. This can be exploited death-after-death.

1. It lets Diggie persuade the enemies. To make this strategy effective, the performer of the strategy must be vulnerable to the enemies so that enemies will slay Diggie over and over again. Because of this, the killing gold will drop exponentially, slaying fed Diggie undesirable. On the other hand, this will distract the opposing team to the main objectives.

When studying MLBB economics, the first few deaths gives more gold than the others. So if an enemy is first killed, you'll acquire 200 gold and more deaths deducts the gold by 20. So if Diggie has more deaths, the more worthless his life becomes. Coupled with a support emblem that reduces spawn time and battle spell cooldowns by 15%, it’s even faster for feeding Diggie to reach his target number of deaths.

Ideally, Diggie would want to die to towers in the early game so that the early gold would not go over to the enemy. Once he accumulates more deaths, dying to the enemy would not cost his team as much.

It’s not possible for opponents to ignore him on the map, for he does decent early game damage. If they ignore Diggie’s presence to prevent him from reaching ten deaths, he’ll be able to provide continuous information for his team. The Diggie user can also equip Retribution, steal the buff and do his best to disrupt the jungler more.

## Effects

The trade-off for the team running Diggie feeding strategy, besides vision and information, is the shutdown gold that’s on the table. A fed opponent with max gold bounty has the potential to give over 600 gold. Coupled with Assassin Emblem, Bounty Hunter, the kill would grant them an extra 30% gold (up to 15 times).

The team running the strategy would also have to draft a composition that is at their strongest from middle to late game since they are banking on shutdown gold and funneling their carry. To keep up their sustain in the early game as they focus on farming, Lithowanderer too, becomes an important objective for them to secure.

It’s still being debated within the Mobile Legends community on whether this strategy is truly viable. Clearly it comes with high risk and high reward because the team running Feeding Diggie will be giving over early gold.

Not to mention, if opponents run heroes that likewise scale with stacking abilities like Cecilion, and stacking emblems like Festival of Blood where kills grant 1% extra Spell Vamp up to 12%, they to could potentially win team fights later in the game too.

Also, if the Diggie tried to disrupt the core, enemies would be forced to attack him and this would strengthen the core on the early game. However, on late game, the team that executed the strategy would have a huge gold lead over the enemy, since more deaths for Diggie equals to less gold obtained. This was clearly seen from MPL-PH S7's Aura PH vs Onic PH, where Aura acquired a huge gold lead over Onic, since Onic's Hate was forced to kill Diggie multiple times and Aura was given a breathing space which allowed Aura's Hadess to strengthen himself.

## Developer response

Moonton respond to eliminate the tactic. First is they strength and improved reporting system, which allowed them ton to detect feeders and will be penalized if deemed true. This made the strategy obsolete, because players will be penalized and the team wouldn't strengthening the enemy's jungler.

Another is to change the killing gold, to discourage the use of this strategy.

In the latest patch 1.6.58, Moonton revamped Diggie' kit, making the strategy nonviable.

1. ↑ MPL PH AURA "Feed" Diggie Strategy EXPLAINED...MPL Breakdown. Assassin Dave. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2022-02-26 via YouTube.