Playing aggressive against him with the help of a mate if needed, or just trying to capitalize on sniper having a very, very low base damage, and try to dominate the lane early on, and build some damage to keep the damage advantage over him. Of course you are fucked if he is lucky with headshots, so a bit tough to lane against him, but keep in mind he is one of the most vulnerable heroes until teamfights.
I'm not good myself but...
As a(n ex-) Medusa spammer with 58.25% winrate in my bracket, start with wraith band, ferry consumables like tango, and send your second wraith band + phase asap (even it's component is fine) to keep up with the damage. Don't forget to place high ground obs to check his positioning and maybe throw snakes, at lv 4 snake deals about half of his hp if you managed to land the jump correctly (or sniper plays idiotly)
But the best advice is to not pick medusa against sniper, you depend to your team at all stages of the game to kill him. Medusa have no jump potential, no gap closer, etc. Even if you use pike to close the gap, sniper could pike himself
Heck, i'd rather playing against PL than against sniper as Medusa
medusa herself is kinda hard countered by 'long range rightclickers' ->
Lina > Sniper > Arc come to mind.
In the midlane its pretty much about who gets lvl 3 first, you use your snake for the first 2-3 range creeps and try your best to glyph/deny your own one. I'd usually go double wraith into aquila phase in that lane.
both your heros have abysmal base damage, Shrapnal is good for zoning, but its also super good to get your creeps denied LUL
so you have the edge with your nuke.
Basically, get lvl 3 asap, 3 charges of lvl 2 shrapnal can probably kill you, lvl 2 snake can zone sniper for every range creep
buy extra regen (spam mangos if you have too) and rush towards aquilla if you're ahead, boots if you're scared of getting ganked.
your, powerspikes are 3-5-7 his are the same, first player to get to these moments will have a huge advantage.
Midgame/lategame, goodluck.. his hero is better than yours
Just take her safelane and let someone else mid. Sniper’s auto attack animation is just too good for Medusa to be able to beat and you don’t have anyway to threaten him.
medusa mid is often suboptimal, meybe dont go mid with her unless you really know what u are doing. She is an alright safelaner, keep her that way
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I am a new(ish) Medusa player with 54 games of her under my belt. 54% win rate so far.
As the subject states, I can usually do good/great against a lot of foes, but Sniper's tools seem to shut me right down.
I can spam all the snakes I want, but with the combination of shrapnel and his quick attacks, I just can't get any last hits against him.
I try creep agro tricks and so forth, but he just denies everything cuz my animation is so slow.
Any advice from some seasoned Medusa players? Or even Sniper players willing to help?