In most high tier games I have seen, when Valla goes RoV, it is usually easily countered by having a different positional awareness than when Valla goes Strafe. Also, for the past week, even with Anub'arak, most high tier games (and high mmr games), Valla's are going Strafe, simply because the positioning you get from it is much better than RoV. You enable your team to be able to isolate tanks because of the exact reason you stated, which will lessen the effect that the other teams...

In all the high tier (currently playing games with diamond and hero league, and some scrimmages with top teams), RoV seems to highly lack, while it does take work to position it correctly and have your team take advantage of it, Strafe just has a much better output when used correctly, and hence it now has a much higher skill cap after the duration increase. You simply cannot just use it and expected it to burst down a hero if you do not position yourself correctly with it. I agree blood...

I clarified the reasons I take Strafe over Rain of Vengeance. While I agree RoV is better than it used to be now because of some new disables, if you plan it properly Strafe is a much bigger threat than RoV is, because the enemy team has to decide on when they should use interrupts. I agree RoV is better if all you do is use Strafe immediately at the start of teamfights, which you almost should never do. Usually you should use it when you can get one or two enemies to really low health,...