dota 2 guide

Ranged - Nuker - Durable - Disabler

STRATEGY
Early Game
Visage is a nuker hero. He has a great nuke that can easily get kills on early game. Soul Assumption should be maxed before realeased, so you can get the maximum damage. Beware of a high damaged enemy, stay careful while farming. There will always be a high-damage enemy around you, so your team will need the vision that means your team will need a pair of  Observer Ward.

Mid Game
On mid game, visage is quite a strong hero. He have a strong nuke, a strong slower, and a pair of familiar to help you stun the enemy. If you want to start ganking, ask your friend to help because you can't solo kill a targe. You need friends to deal more damages. And the most important is: how you should stun your target and make sure he can't escape. To make a group of familiars, press ctrl + 1, and if you want to use that group, you just simply press the 1 button on your keyboard.


Late Game
On the late game your familiars should have it's damage maxed, it will make them more fierceful and help your team a lot. Don't forget to stun your target and use your slower ability, and finish them with the Soul Assumption plus your right click.

ITEMS BUILD
1. You need to buy courier and wards for the team. If someone already done it, you don't need to.
Courier: 150
Wards: 150
You are the kind of hero that doesn't need lots of farm, so you will have golds to buy this kind of items. Your team will rely on courier and wards to become good. Courier will faster item transportation, and wards is needed to avoid enemy's gank.

2. Arcane Boots
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster
Why Arcane Boots? You have spammable skills, so you need more mana, with this item, your mana will be fulfilled. And also to replenish mana of the team.
3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe
Why Drums? It will gives you survivability with + STR and gives your team  +Attack speed and +Movement Speed that will benefit your whole team.

3. 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 using forcestaff.

5.  Schyte of Vyse
Total cost: 5675
Recipe: Mystic Staff + Ultimate Orb + Void Stone
Why Schyte of Vyse? Very good item to initiate a teamfight. You are considered a support, and this item is one of the best supportive items you can get. Or  you can use this to defend against somebody by making him become chicken.

5. Shivs's Guard
Total cost: 4700
Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe
Why Shiva's? Gives you an Arctic Blast (Slowing and a 200 damage) and gives you a slowing aura, and also gives you +15 armor which makes you tanky.

6. Aghanim Scepter,
Why Aghanim's Scepter? Add 1 more familiar to helps you stun and damaging the enemy

ALTERNATIVE ITEMS (FOR A SUPPORT)
1. Mekansm
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
Why Mekansm? Heal for all allies in AoE, is a must for teamfights.

2 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, very useful.

3. Eul's Scepter of Divinity
Total cost: 2800
Recipe: Staff of Wizardy + Sage Mask + Void Stone
Why Eul? Can make you become more agile with Cyclone ability. You cannot be attacked for 2.5 seconds. Or you can cast it to the enemy and make your team can surround the target and harass him after landing on the ground.