dota 2 guide

BIO
Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in another. His penetrating intelligence is such that he can never ignore for a moment the agonizing horror at the heart of all creation. Once a great philosopher who sought the meaning of existence, he plumbed the depths of nature with the haunted Chronoptic Crystals, and was forever altered by the hideous mysteries thereby revealed to him. Now the darkest depths of his enlightenment are illumined only by the fitful glare of his arrogance. Like other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his case it is a nature lurid and vile. He alone sees the evil truth of reality, and has no use for those who believe the cosmos reserves a special reward for those who practice benevolence

INTRODUCTION
Leshrac is a heavy nuker hero which all of his ability is "nuke". He is specialized in the Magical AoE Damage. You need to spam all the magic you have on the teamfight.It will damaging all area around you.
 Be careful to any "magic resistance" because it will makes you difficult to beat your enemy. Leshrac is also a nice ganker with his stunning ability, although it's rather difficult to hit on the right spot. And finally, leshrac is a nice pusher with his Edict.
ROLE
Ranged - Nuker - Pusher - Disabler - Support

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Split Earth
Splits the earth under enemies. Deals damage and stuns for a short duration.
Twisting nature to his vile will, the shifting earth consumes those unlucky enough to cross Leshrac's path.
This is your main ability for ganking. You may need your friend to set up the stun for you. You need your friend to lock down the target so you can land this stun correctly. If not, the enemy may walks out of the radius of this ability.
If the enemy already out of the radius, you should cancel the ability immediately by pressing [S] button on your keyboard. S here stands for Stop).

2. Diabolic Edict
Saturates the area around Leshrac with magical explosions that deal mixed damage to enemy units and structures. The fewer units available to attack, the more damage those units will take. Lasts 8 seconds.
Chronoptic energy bursts from one plane to the other, evaporating anything it touches.
Very useful ability to destroy towers and buildings. It will gives damage to tower and also units around you. If there is just 1 enemy, he will receive all the damage. The damage won't stop even if you die.

3. Lightning Storm
Summons a lightning storm that blasts the target enemy unit, then jumps to nearby enemy units.
The Tormented Soul's mastery of the elements is evident in the massive storms that strike down armies before him.
This skill is a spammable ability that have a decent damage. Very nice ability harass enemies. It will jump from one target to another. The early game damage is considering high.

4. Pulse Nova
Creates waves of damaging energy around Leshrac, one per second, to damage nearby enemy units. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
If necessary, the Tormented Soul can manipulate space time itself, ravaging lesser beings.
Your most high damaged skill. You should use it in every teamfight, it will deal lots of damage per second. Chase your enemy and deal lots of damage. This skill will consumes lots of mana so you need lots of mana regeneration.

SKILLBUILD
There are 2 types of skillbuilds for Leshrac, one is for pushing strategy, and the other one is for ganking strategy.

a. For Pushing Strategy
1. Split Earth
2. Diabolic Edict
3. Diabolic Edict
4. Split Earth
5. Diabolic Edict
6. Pulse Nova
7. Diabolic Edict
8. Split Earth
9. Split Earth
10. Lightning Storm
11. Pulse Nova
12. Lightning Storm
13. Lightning Storm
14. Lightning Storm
15. Stats
16. Pulse Nova
17-25. Stats
This build is focusing on Diabolic Edict on early game for destroying enemy tower as fast as possible. The advantage of destroying the tower on early game :
1. Your team gets more golds.
2. Your team gets the map control, makes your team easier to initiate a gank.


b. For Ganking Strategy
1. Split Earth
2. Lightning Storm
3. Lightning Storm
4. Split Earth
5. Lightning Storm
6. Pulse Nova
7. Lightning Storm
8. Split Earth
9. Split Earth
10. Diabolic Edict
11. Pulse Nova
12. Diabolic Edict
13. Diabolic Edict
14. Diabolic Edict
15. Stats
16. Pulse Nova
17-25. Stats
The advantage of this build is:
1. You get lane control over enemy heroes, you will get more farm than enemy heroes
2. You have the high nuke damages. You will likely to have more chance to get early kills over rhe enemy

You should choose which build that fits into your team strategy. Discuss strategy with your teammates before the game start. Don't debate about skill build after the game reaching mid game.  Every aspect of the game is important to win the game. Good luck!

STRATEGY
Early Game
In choosing the lane , please don't choose lane that will make one of the lane become so weak and the other is too strong. Make your lane is balanced to win the whole map. Be careful to another hero that will make you weak like: Pugna with his Nether Ward that don't allow you to spam all your skill. Or Keeper of the Light that can burn your mana.

If you're chhoosing to solo, try last hitting every creeps and don't forget to deny.
Also harass the enemy whenever possible.

For the one that choose the pushing strategy:
If you're using pushing strat, make your team destroy towers as early as possible with your Edict (Skill 2).

Mid game
Your job here is to gank as much enemy as you can. Coordination is very important here. Stay together with your friend and gank together.
Step by step ganking strategy for Leshrac

1. If your friend have the lockdown ability, let him use it, this will make you can easier to land your stun. Example: Sven's Storm Bolt, vengeful Spirt's Stun, Shadow Demon's Disruption
2. Use your split earth to stun the enemy,
3. And then spam all your abilities to make sure enemies die.

Late Game
Late game is the time for decisive teamfight. All you need to do is to spam all your abilities on the teamfight. And also don't forget to use all your clickable items during the teamfight.

After your team won the teamfight, you can destroy towers using Edict.

ITEM BUILD
Leshrac is very mana dependant, so buy any item that will make your mana regeneration will be faster

Early
a. You can buy branches, tangoes, clarities, or any cheap item for early game

b. If no one want to buy courier, you should buy it. Maybe you also need wards

1. If you play in mid lane, I recommed you to get a bottle
Cost: 600

2. Boots
I think you should buy Arcane Boots for replenish mana.
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster
Why Arcane Boots? You need this to fulfill mana for your early game to be able to spam all your abilities, like Edict, or Lightning Storm

3. Bloodstone
Total Cost: 5050
Recipe: Preserverance + Soul Booster
Bloodstone is very recommended for you because it can gives unlimited mana regeneration. With seeing enemy is being killed near you. You will get the Bloodstone Charge, and every charge will increase your mana regeneration. If you already reached high charge. It will be no mana problem for you because your regeneration will be as fast as lightning.
Also makes your hp and mana pool higher.

4. Guinsoo Schyte of Vyse
Total cost: 5675
Recipe: Mystic Staff + Ultimate Orb + Void Stone
Why Schyte of Vyse? Very good item to initiate a teamfight. By making your enemy into a chicken, you can easily kill your target.
You can also use this to defend yourself from the enemy.

5. Shiva's Guard
Total cost: 4700
Why Shiva's? This item is very good in teamfights, With the slowing of attack speed and movement speed, the enemy will hardly move and attack on the teamfight. A nice defense mechanism for your team.

And you also need survivability item like
6. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe

Why Black King Bar? It gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during the  teamfight. With magical immunity, you will become immune to some dangerous magic like impale, hex, etc.

and maybe a
7. Ghost Scepter
Cost:1600
Why Ghost Scepter? Ghost Scepter, Will make you immune to physical attacks

ANNOYING ENEMY
1. Pugna
He has nether wards which will deal damage if you cast spells

2. Doom Bringer
Have Doom that will make you cant cast a spell and also can't click any of your items.

3. Keeper of the Light
Have Mana Leak that will drain your mana


GOOD PARTNER
1. Doom Bringer
Have Scorched Earth and usually buy Radiance, that will make a combination of AOE damage between you two become malicious

2. Keeper of the Light
Have Chakra Magic to restore your mana, also can Recall to make you closer to the teamfight if you are far away.

3. Sven
Sven have an AoE stun that helps you land your stun correctly. He also a tanker that will helps you with tanking enemy's damage so you can use spells to the enemies.

BIO
The sibling rivalries between Lina the Slayer, and her younger sister Rylai, the Crystal Maiden, were the stuff of legend in the temperate region where they spent their quarrelsome childhoods together. Lina always had the advantage, however, for while Crystal was guileless and naive, Lina's fiery ardor was tempered by cleverness and conniving. The exasperated parents of these incompatible offspring went through half a dozen homesteads, losing one to fire, the next to ice, before they realized life would be simpler if the children were separated. As the oldest, Lina was sent far south to live with a patient aunt in the blazing Desert of Misrule, a climate that proved more than comfortable for the fiery Slayer. Her arrival made quite an impression on the somnolent locals, and more than one would-be suitor scorched his fingers or went away with singed eyebrows, his advances spurned. Lina is proud and confident, and nothing can dampen her flame.

INTRODUCTION
Lina is a heavy nuker kind of hero because she has high damage - spells. Not just that, she is also able to become a semi-carry because of her 3rd skill Fiery Soul that boost her attack speed. And her ultimate, is an instant single targetted spell with the highest damage in DotA.

She is a powerful ganker because her sets of skills can guarantee a kill for at least 1 hero. And she is  also a decent farmer because she can kills creep waves really easily because she has 2 AoE skills, these skills also useful in teamfights.

ROLE
Ranged - Nuker - Disabler - Support

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Dragon Slave
In the scorched barren of Misrule, Lina learned to manipulate the fiery breath of the Desert Wyrm as a form of entertainment.
One of your nukes. Very nice skill because of its wide AeE. It is also a nice skill to farm creeps and harass the enemy. You can combine this skill and Your 2nd skill Light strike Array to make a high damage Aoe nukes, the damage will enough to destroy a wave of creeps.

2. Light Strike Array

MANA COST: 90 / 100 / 110 / 125	COOLDOWN: 7.0
ABILITY: TARGET POINT	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
DAMAGE: 90 / 150 / 210 / 280	RADIUS: 225
CAST DELAY: 0.5	STUN DURATION: 1.6

Lina's essence allows her to focus the sun's energies, causing air to combust at will.
Your another AoE nuke, the difference with Dragon Slave is that this skill will gives stun to the enemies in the AoE. You can use this skill to stun enemies so that your Dragon Slave will hit the enemies.

3. Fiery Soul
Grants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina casts a spell. Stacks with itself. Lasts 7 seconds.
ts that stray too near.
Dancing flames embody Lina's playful nature, bringing out her true blazing self.
Gives you a booster of movement speed and also an attack speed after you casted a spell. This will makes you become a nice semi-carry because of the attack speed bonu, your attack speed will become so fast just like an Agility hero, you cannot underrestimate this hero's carrying ability.

4. Laguna Blade
Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage. Upgradable with Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 280 / 420 / 680	COOLDOWN: 120.0 / 90.0 / 55.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 450 / 675 / 950
SCEPTER DAMAGE: 600 / 925 / 1250	SCEPTER RANGE: 900 / 900 / 900

The air around Lina becomes so intensely torrid that it scorches a foe that comes too close with white-hot lightning.
This is the highest single targeted spell damage in Dota. This skill will reduce some squishy hero's Hp from half to empty. Very good skill to lasthit one target.



SKILL BUILD
1. Light Strike Array
2. Dragon Slave
3. Dragon Slave
4. Light Strike Array
5. Dragon Slave
6. Laguna Blade
7. Dragon Slave
8. Light Strike Array
9. Light Strike Array
10. Fiery Soul
11. Laguna Blade
12. Fiery Soul
13. Fiery Soul
14. Fiery Soul
15. Stats
16. Laguna Blade
17-25. Stats

Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array is 2 nukes you should Maxed early game. Because on early game your nukes will rech its maximum potential.

STRATEGY
Early Game
You can become either a supportive role or become a solo role. If you are becoming a supportive role you may need to buy wards, and also buy courier.


If  you choose to become a solo role you can take mid place on a game, try hast hitting and denying as much as possible. Because your range is relatively long, you can easily harass opponent, try harass him once in a while.

As a mid laner you may buy the bottle. Check runes every 2 minutes! You can use the rune to helps you gank or to helps you to survive.
If you have your ultimate, you're ready for ganking, choose enemy to gank, and gank together with your friends.

Mid Game
If you meet an enemy, immediately spam all your spells, try to estimate where is your opponent is going to move to place a nice stun.If maybe all your spells is not enough to kill an anemy, try using right click to hits your enemy, because after casting spells, you gets an extra attack speed and also movement speed.
You may consider to increase your initiating power by buying a Blink dagger here.

Late Game
On the late game. Your nuke become less effective because enemy Hp is already tanky. So Relying on nuke damage is not possible here. Your team's needs to depend on your carry's power. And your part here is to helps your carry by initiating a teamfight. You can buy the Schyte of Vyse to initiate the teamfight. With the Schyte of Vyse, one enemy can be hexed, so our team can easily harass him and kill him. Also relying on your stun is a nice idea. You may combo your stun with your friend's disable, like Enigma's Blackhole or Magnus's Reverse Polarity.

Although the nuke damage is becoming less effective, but you still need to use all of your nuke. Especially the Stun (Light Strike Array) and the Ultimate (Laguna Blade).

And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team's main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEMS
For boots you can choose Power Threads or Arcane Boots, and if necessary you can buy TP Boots for late game

1. Boots
a.  Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin
Why Power Threads?
Power threads is also a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
STR for Survivability, AGI for attack speed, and INT for mana.

With the extra attack speed, it will boost your attack speed more beside the fiery Soul.

b. Arcane Boots
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster

c. Boots of Travel
Total cost: 2450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Recipe
You need this for fast teleporting and also fast moving. You may counter a pushing with this boots. Or you may start a gank by teleporting to a creep nearest to the enemy target.

2. As a support/initiator, you can buy : Schyte of Vyse / Sheepstick
Total cost: 5675
Recipe: Mystic Staff + Ultimate Orb + Void Stone
Why Schyte of Vyse? Very good item to initiate a teamfight. A hexed enemy can't do anything.
or to defend against somebody.

Force staff and/or dagger is also useful for: escape or initiate

3. 
a. Blink Dagger
Cost: 2150
b. Force Staff
Total cost: 2350
Recipe: Staff of Wizardy + Ring of Regen + Recipe
Why Force Staff? ForceStaff is useful on many purposes, you can initiate a teamfight with ForceStaff, or you can save somebody, or you can save yourself.

4. Another supportive items:
Medalion, Pipe, Mekansm,

a. Medalion
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
Why Medalion? In a ganking on early game. A minus on enemy's armor will amplify your team's damage by a lot. So buy this.
This item can also helps your team on easier Roshan kill.

b. Mekansm
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
Why Mekansm? Heal for all allies in an AoE, is a must for a team.

c.Pipe of Insight
Total cost: 3628
Recipe: Hood of Defiance + Headress + Recipe
Why Pipe of Insight? Gives barrier for all allies in AoE that Block 400 spell damage,Nice item for support heroes, it will decrease magic damage from enemies during a teamfight.

Good Allies
1. Sven
Sven have an AoE stun that helps you land your stun correctly. He also a tanker that will helps you with tanking enemy's damage so you can harass the enemies.

2. Tiny
He also have an aoe stun that helps you to land your stun correctly.

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