First of all: it's quite confusing that you can play the solo map with 2 people - I don't know if it's balanced for 1 or 2 people then. Some of my feedback is irrelevant if you play with two people, because you don't have these problems there. So please if you read this, remember that I only talk about solo.

- level 1: the healers make it extremely hard for many heroes to get past this level. basically you can't play half of the heroes, especially melee without aoe. the following levels are hard too, but they don't heal everything you do so you can kite, use the towers etc. I would suggest to lower the heal by 10hp/s so their heal is not higher than your dps

[two players can focus the healer and kill him]

- level 18: medusa hits like a truck, can tank quite well - fine by me, but the ult cd is too low. she spams it all the time making it impossible to really focus her. sometimes when you blink away she focus the towers and ancient instead of you so it's game over because she two-shots every tower. I would suggest to raise the cd of the ult 5 - 7 seconds or lower the damage by 10-15%
This level is the end for many heroes not perfectly suitable for this mode in solo

[overall dps are higher with two persons so you can kill her before she destroys both of you or one has very good support spells to ignore her ult]

- level 22: you get swarmed by 57895723857 units. the problem is: they do not focus you. even if you stand next to your ancient, let's say north, the units coming from south will kill the ancient. but because you are swarmed, you can't move (unless blink). but even with blinking, the units from north will attack the ancient. I would suggest (if that's possible) to raise their aggro-aoe so they don't lose focus just because you blinked too far (it's your death sentence)

[two players can split so they always have a target instead of your ancient]

- level 25: this level is just brutal. they seem to heal more than even necros aura can damage then (so more than 1,5% hp/s), take almost no damage from physical dmg because of 300 armor and (i don't know exactly what but) they have insane damage. I know it can be done because other have, but it seems to be manageable only by a small selection of heroes with the right skillset. Once BKB is over, you're screwed pretty much.

[with two player you obviously can cover the weakness of the other player, i.e. nukers are pretty strong here, but solo most die at 18]


another thing that bugs me a little is the very short timer until next round. you get the sapphires after lvl20, but have so little time to use them and build all the items from it (dota itself sucks right here). sometimes I have all items, but the item won't build, they lie somewhere on the ground etc. I would suggest to raise the timer from 10->30s after lvl20 to give some time to collect sapphires and build items from them


Thanks for your work on this mod, despite my criticism I really like the challenge. But I would like to be able to use some more heroes in solo, because if you survive lvl1-3, you gonna die at 18 if the hero is not ultra strong for this mode (i.e. Necro, Huskar, Alch). I don't want hard nerfs, it's just seems a little bit unbalanced at some points for solo. Maybe! you should even split the solo and duo map to have a better balancing between those modes, because I can imagine that nerfing for solo will make duo too easy.