I think the main trouble with Erebus is that if he watches his mana he can almost always bats out of combat and pop a HoL instantly, and because of his base move speed and the pretty big range on bats 2/3 he can usually stay away long enough for the full effect of the HoL to be felt. But with the supposed HoL nerf coming in 1.1 this probably won't be as much of an issue.

 At least this is from when I play an offensive bite Erebus, to survive most encounters that is all you've got to do to get away and be back at full health/mana ready to bats+bite again, unless you're massively overextended into their towers.

its no victory if he come back at you 5 seconds later with full health and mana while you're still at below half health and mana. he'll just win in round 2. 

no, you really do have to be able to get the kill. or at least interrupt the HoL. not every DG can do this effectievly. you need some kind or ranged poking or harrassing ability.

Regulus, TB, Oak, and to some extend UB can all do this effectively. the other DG's have alot of trouble fending him off.

if you're on Sedna, QoT, or Rook your best bet is to play defensively and just try to hold the flag. you play for a stalemate and make sure you have more flag locks than him. 

NO you guys don't get it.

I was toe to toe with him. He didn't walk away from me with rook. I had my mouse over him while we where fighting and his HP was going up almost faster then i could hurt him with rook.

I disagree, Erebus might be impossible to kill, but I dont have any trouble keeping him away from my flags. Err I dont have any way to back this up other than saying. I'v been playing UB a lot recently because im convinced he's a tiny bit OP, and well if you cant beat them, join them.

hit him a lot, spit on him, move out of the mist and then spit on him again when he returns to corporeal form.

Erebus is a good hit and run hero. He's a nice blend of assassin and general that makes him very sturdy. Not as tank as an Oak or HP sedna, but with more dmg. Still less dmg then a late game reg or UB.

If that ereb is doing as much dmg as your UB then he either got many early kills off you guys, your UB didn't go ooze (which is a great counter to aggresive erebus/reg), or you simply don't have the hp. Something like you picked anklet over blood or something.

Erebus probably has more control over when to engage then any other character, but its not like he is invinvincible. If he has a heart and swarms out to use it...you should have one too. If he swarms in he likely can't swarm out to in time (unless your dmg is low, in which case you wouldn't kill him anyway). If he is saving swarm for his escape you dont have to engage him right away.

My point being erebus is great at not feeding and getting early kills on people that over extend, but in terms of raw offense he's not really better then rook or UB imo. You guys probably sealed your own coffin by letting him gank you and get some early green and levels.

Meh, I don't know...I just never really feel like Erebus is much of a concern when I play against him.  It's not that he's bad, it's just that he don't really seem to have that same sort of impact as the others.  He never seems to be the sort of powerhouse that people are describing here when I fight against him.  He's just kind of another Demigod.

Though it's true that I can do well when I play as him, I think I do just as well with other Demigods.

name 1 class that has a health drain,slow,debuff armor for one skill other then EB

EB has an AoE stun, armor debuff, slow down, health drain,mist, and swarm. this class has 2 oh shit moves in swarm and mist.

there lies the problem with this class he has too many moves. he has the moves of 2 classes.

1.1 will be out any day; HoL will be nerfed with increased cost, double cooldown (and at Artifact Shop), so new tactics for everyone are in store.  Erb sounds a bit like when I play Sedna; People complain sometimes they just can't kill Sedna, and sometimes that's true, but that's if I always retreat, which means I can't hold flags/lanes.

Because every 7 seconds Erebus can heal, and Rook can't?

Maybe he efficiently health stacked and the Rook didn't?

The details you're giving us about the Rook are pretty vague.

You guys still haven't explained to me how at level 1 eb can slaughter rook. And for the most part im talking about toe to toe not running away.

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i think alot of us did offer some explanations, but the sparse details you've provided make it hard to know what was going on. i'm gonna take a guess, here's my shot.

Erebus took Blood of the Fallen as favor item and bought Monk Idol as his starting item. He took Bite 1 as his starting skill. This will give Erebus significant health recovery and a much higher max health than you (unless you also took Blood of the Fallen). 

so tell us, what items did you take and what skill did you pick? 

to me it sounds an awful lot like you ran into a player with more experience than yourself and a better starting gameplan. his picks trumped your picks. nothing irregular about that.

I'd like to point out that, despite this topic being about a level 1 rook failing against a better level 1 erebus (and not some endgame situation), unstoppable and unkillable are not the same thing. A good Erebus is completely unkillable, but no DG is unstopable against equally matched opponents.

If u loose with a rook 1v1 with ANY DG on early game u dont know how to play rook.

May be u are picking lolhammer as first skill and this is the noobest move ever so u can be owned by every single DG not just erebus.

I still have to see the DG that makes me run in lvl 1-2-3 with a tower spec rook.