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[jonjon]

A helicopter can do the same things, but worse. It is slower (by 20) and has worse spells for certain purposes. Helicopter can stun, but it lacks good aoe against troop command and for 3v3 mid play. It also lacks good creeping spells, opposed to the healing drone air ship. Now if you want to use the mobility to the max. you play mid, where you have only disadvantages for helicopter: air ship is faster switching to lane, air ship has better aoe abilities for 2v2/3v3 fights and air ship has better creeping capacities. Heli might still be viable if you lack stuns in your 3 player team, but if you allready have a stun in your team air ship is just better. It's different at the side lane, where the aoe spells normally only hit 1 opponent and the maximum creeping efficiency is achieved easily. Here the stun can be enough advantage to make helicopter and air ship equally good, maybe the helicopter slightly better if no troop command is played or against certain tanks (gobo for example).

btw: playing on bnet in european clangames means ping < 40

Just to remind you, I am only comparing one helicopter + gold hull + one weapon (say Fireball Cannon) to Air Ship + one weapon (Fireball Cannon). Although it is a 500 gold difference, I didn't just suddenly add troop commands to the equation. Put them on a field with no surrounding creeps and Helicopter will win. There's no guarantee that Air Ship can damage with the drones or the plasma rain. If they were both on level 10, the Helicopter is guaranteed to 1180 damage on a tank that has 3960 HP. Air can do a guaranteed 540 on a tank that has 4999 HP. But Helicopter was simply just an example I put forward to enforce my point. In comparison to other tanks within Air Ships price range, it simply sucks.

If I wanted to creep, I'd go thunder. Thunder does twice the better job at it. You can stun an Air Ship within their allied creeps (thinking they're protected) and then ulti to get rid of the creeps while moving in.