dota 2 guide

BIO
The victim of a longevity spell that backfired, the Skeleton King Ostarion has built an empire from the bones of his enemies. He lives only to extend his reach, for as long as he is perpetually building and adding to his domain he cannot die. The walls of his palace are formed of fired bone; the streets are paved with bones of every sort of creature and every enemy; and even the wood and other natural features of his land have been swept away and replaced with replicas formed of bone. From the Ivory Forest to Ostarion's towering Throne of Bone, nothing happens in the Empire of Bones without the full knowledge of its Skeleton King.

INTRODUCTION
Skeleton King is a hero that have 2 lives. When he die, he have a skill to reincarnate. This sounds unfair for another heroes. But, this is the reality. If you face Skeleton King, you must face his 2 lives. Actually you can kill him once if he has less than 140 mana or if his ultimate is still in cooldown.
This hero also has high physical damage and lifesteal aura.
And he also has a nice single targetted stun to chase enemies.
This hero is also a tanker that tank any damage in a brutal teamfight.

Melee - Durable - Carry - Disabler

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Hellfire Blast
Skeleton King fires a sphere of hellfire at an enemy unit, dealing damage and stunning, then dealing damage over time and slowing the target.
Ostarion calls on his hellish lineage, laying waste to his opponents.
This skill is your main skill to stun the enemies. With this skill, you can gank enemy, you can disable 1 enemy in a teamfight, or you can chase enemy easily and attack him while he is being stunned by this skill.
I believe you should max this skill first because it will be useful to stun a single enemy in ganking.
Or you can defend yourself by using this skill to enemy whose chasing you.

2. Vampiric Aura
Nearby friendly melee units gain hit points based on their damage dealt when attacking enemy units.
Skeleton King's blade drains the marrow of bones into his own kingdom.
Help you and your teammates with a lifesteal ability for melee units. Creeps also get benefits from this skill.
This skill will helps you in jungling on early game. With a lifesteal, and also with your 3rd skill, critical strike you can jungle pleasantly.
Can helps allies in a teamfight for survivability if he keeps attacking.
You don't get benefit from this skill if you are not attacking, so keep attacking and keep alive

3. Mortal Strike
Skeleton King passively gains a chance to deal bonus damage on an attack. When activated, Mortal Strike steals a percentage of the max HP from the target hero, giving it to Skeleton King for the duration, and returning it after. While Mortal Strike is active, the passive component is disabled.
The power to crush a skull.
Will gives you a high chance of doing crtitical attack. This critical attack deal tons of physical damage that helps you in jungling, chasing, and killing enemies in teamfights. You are a true carry with this skill.

When you activate this skill, you temporarily steal some of tnemy's HP. a nice ability to last hit your opponent

4. Reincarnation
Skeleton King's bones reform after death, causing him to resurrect when killed in battle. Upon Reincarnation, enemy units in the area will be slowed by 30%.
Conspirators of the Skeleton King wonder why he never stays dead.
Makes you to have 2 lives. This is a wonderful skill. This is like your team plays with 6 heros because you have 2 lives. You can deal more damage because of this skill, you can tank more damage with this skill.

This skill have a fundamental weakness. If you heve less than 140 mana, you can't reincarnate, so mana burn will makes you can't reincarnate, some heroes like Anti Mage or Ezalor that can burn mana will make you can't reincarnate. Diffusal blade is also harmful for you because diffusal blade will drain your mana and makes you can't reincarnate.

You can also gives your first life to save your friend's lives. Or you can give it to initiate a teamfight.

In situation when you have less than 280 mana, it's recommend for you to better die if Reincarnation is not in cooldown, because if you use the Hellfire blast, you cannot Reincarnate because lack of mana.

SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Hellfire Blast
Level 2: Critical Strike
Level 3: Hellfire Blast
Level 4: Vampiric Aura
Level 5: Hellfire Blast
Level 6: Reincarnation
Level 7: Hellfire Blast
Level 8: Critical Strike
Level 9 : Critical Strike
Level 10: Critical Strike
Level 11: Reincarnation
Level 12: Vampiric Aura
Level 13: Vampiric Aura
Level 14: Vampiric Aura
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Reincarnation
Level 17-25: Stats

Why maxed Hellfire Blast first? Hellfire Blast is your main skill for ganking and for teamfights.

When ganking you should use this to your enemy and makes him get stunned so your friends can
attack him easily.

When in a teamfight, you should use this to disable 1 target and he can't do anything for 2 sedonds.

Why maxed Critical Strike before Vampiric Aura? Critical strike is important skill for last hitting and harassing. Also makes you can knock down enemy easily while he is being stunned by your Hellfire Blast.

You will deal about 2 times of your normal damage and makes your opponent on low HP.

BIO
How had she been reduced to this? She was once the Scourge of the Plains, a merciless leader of men and beasts, and able to sow terror wherever she dared. Now she was far from her homeland, driven half mad from starvation and months of wandering, her army long dead or turned to worse. As she stood at the edge of an ancient forest, a pair of glowing eyes spied on from an elder branch. Something beautiful and deadly sought a meal in the wilting dusk. Without a sound, it turned and left. Fury overtook her. Clutching a rust-eaten dagger, she charged after the beast determined to reclaim even a shred of her past glory, but her quarry would not be caught. Three times she cornered the creature among the rocks and trees, and three times she pounced only to witness its fading shadow darting further into the woods. Yet the full moon shone brightly, and the creature's trail was easy to follow. Arriving in a clearing atop a high hill, the beast's massive feline form sat in the open, attentive and waiting. When the woman brandished her dagger, the creature reared and roared and charged. Death, it seemed, had come for her at long last in this strange place. She stood, calm and ready. A flash of movement, and the beast snatched the dagger from her hand before vanishing into the forest. Stillness. Hooded figures approached. In reverent tones they revealed that Selemene, Goddess of the Moon, had chosen her, had guided her, had tested her. Unwittingly she had endured the sacred rites of the Dark Moon, warriors of the Nightsilver Woods.

She was offered a choice: join the Dark Moon and pledge herself to the service of Selemene, or leave and never return. She did not hesitate. Embracing her absolution, she renounced her bloody past, and took up a new mantle as Luna of the Dark Moon, the dreaded Moon Rider, ruthless and ever-loyal guardian of the Nightsilver Woods.

INTRODUCTION
Luna is considered a decent carry. She deal high phisical bouncing damage and also deal a nice magical damage. You need to farms a lot and in late game you will be a monster that eating all of the enemy players. Unfortunately. you are a very squishy hero on early-mid game, you need a tanker taht will tank the damages for you.
ROLE
Ranged - Carry - Nuker

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Lucent Beam
Luna channels a concentrated beam of lunar energy at an enemy, stunning and dealing damage.
Selemene smites those who encroach upon the Nightsilver Woods.
Deal a decent damage to a single targeted hero. This ability also gives a ministun that will cancel teleportation and also channeling. This is a nice ability to kill an enemy who try to escape. He  then receive a decent amount of damage and cannot escape.

Also good for harassing on early game for controlling the lane.

2. Moon Glaive
Allows Luna's glaive to bounce to enemy units near the attacked unit. Each bounce deals less damage.
Carefully sharpened, Luna's boomerang-like weapon cuts a wide swath through enemy numbers.
Gives you a Bouncing attack so your glaives will keep bouncing and damaging other enemies behind your target. Also bouncing via buildings (this will really helps in destroying enemy's Barracks). On early game it will really helps in jungling and farming on the lane. Your farms should be faster with this skill.

Combined with your 3rd skill (increase your damage), this skill will makes you deal a high damage that bouncing from one enemy to another. With this skill, all of the enemy heroes in teamfight will feel your attack and have their HP reduced quickly.

3. Lunar Blessing
Grants bonus damage to nearby allies, while blessing Luna with extra night vision.
The Goddess of the Moon smiles upon her kin.
Gives bonus damage to you and your nearby allies . This will helps you in dealing more physical damage to creeps and heroes. You also will farms faster and jungling faster. This also helps another heroes in your team with +damage to every teammates.

The ability should really helps in teamfight which physical damage is important to kill all the enemies on late game.

Can be comboed with Drow Ranger & Vengeful Spirit to max its + Damage that will give your team a very high + damage.

4. Eclipse
Calls an eclipse that follows Luna, striking units with her current level of Lucent Beam. A single target can only be hit a maximum times. Unlike individual Lucent Beams, Eclipse does not stun. Eclipse turns day into night for 10 seconds. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
In times of great need, Selemene herself descends into the world, blocking out the light and hope of the opposed.
All enemies around you will receive lots of Lucent beam. Lucent beam will deal damage randomly, so the less the enemy the better. An alone target will receives all the Lucent Damage and die quickly.

SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Lunar Blessing
Level 2: Lucent Beam
Level 3: Lucent Beam
Level 4: Moon Glaive
Level 5: Lucent Beam
Level 6: Eclipse
Level 7: Lucent Beam
Level 8: Moon Glaive
Level 9 : Lunar Blessing
Level 10: Lunar Blessing
Level 11: Eclipse
Level 12: Lunar Blessing
Level 13: Moon Glaive
Level 14: Moon Glaive
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Eclipse
Level 17-25: Stats

Why take Lunar Blessing on Level 1? this will helps you in lasthitting every creeps because of it's additional damage.

Why Lucent Beam maxed first? You should max this immediately. This skill is a high damage nuke that should be maxed on early game. Because in early game, enemy's Hp is still relatively low. enemy harassing will be easy.

BIO
Even the most contented Skywrath is an ill-tempered creature, naturally inclined to seek revenge for the slightest insult. But Vengeful Spirit is the essence of vengeance. Once a proud and savage Skywrath scion, Shendelzare was first in succession for the Ghastly Eyrie until a sister's treachery robbed her of her birthright. Snared in an assassin's net, Shendelzare tore free only at the cost of her wings, limping away in the ultimate humiliation: On foot. With her wings broken, she knew the Skywrath would never accept her as ruler; and in the highest roost of the Eyrie, inaccessible except by winged flight, her sister was untouchable. Unwilling to live as a flightless cripple, and desiring revenge far more than earthly power, the fallen princess drove a bargain with the goddess Scree'auk: She surrendered her broken body for an imperishable form of spirit energy, driven by vengeance, capable of doing great damage in the material plane. She may spend eternity flightless, but she will have her revenge.

INTRODUCTION
Vengeful spirit is a supportive hero. She can helps team with her stun, swap, +damage and -armor. All of her abilities are supportive.

As a utility hero she have the job to buy wards and also courier. As an initiator she has the job to initiate a teamfight. That is to kidnap 1 hero and make that hero die before the teamfight start and make teamfight become a 4 vs 5.

You can be a life saver using your Swap to save all the friends whose in danger.
ROLE
Ranged - Support - Disabler - Lane Support - Initiator

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Magic Missile
Fires a magic missile at an enemy unit, stunning and dealing damage.
A simple Skywrath technique, the magic missile is Shendel's primary tool for vengeance.
Magic missile is your main ability. This ability will stunning a single enemy with a decent damage.
Beware of Linken Sphere or Black King Bar that can block this spell. This spelll is needed for any condition of a game.
1. You need this to initiate a teamfight. You can use nether swap first and then stun the enemy after that.
2. You need this for ganking. You can come from the jungle and then surprise the enemy with your stun and swap him to make your friend easier to attack.

2. Wave of Terror
Vengeful Spirit lets loose a wicked cry, weakening the armor of enemies and giving vision of the path.
Shendel's haunting voice hints at her approaching vindication.
This ability will reduce enemy's armor. You must cast this ability before a teamfight. With the minus armor, enemy becoming vulnerable.

This is also useful to remove fog of war.  You need it to detect where the enemys are.

Or if there are enemy who below 75 HP and tried to run, you can use this skill to last hit him.

3. Vengeance Aura
Vengeful Spirit's presence increases nearby friendly units' physical damage.
Although they may not share her undying passion for revenge, allies do draw on her fanaticism in combat.
An aura that gives damage to all allies in the screen. This will really helps in a teamfight. Your DPS-er will get his damage +36%. It will makes your team's cummulative DPS will be higher thatn the enemy and makes teamfight easier. Also can helps you for faster farming and easier last hitting one arly game.

4. Nether Swap
Instantaneously swaps positions with a target Hero, friend or enemy. Nether Swap interrupts chaneling abilities on the target. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Martyrdom is a small price to pay for vengeance.
Your initiating ability. You need to kidnap 1 of the enemy and beat him before the teamfight start. So the teamfight will be 4 vs 5.
After swapping, you need to stun your target immediately so that your friends can easily knock him down. Higher level of this skill will makes it easier to use because it will  makes you can cast this skill from far away from enemies. And with Aghanim Scepter, this skill will be spammable and makes it more useful when you need it anytime, maybe 2-3 times in a long teamfight.

Nether swap is also can be used to save your friends from death. You need to swap yourself with your friend who is being chased and save him immediately.

SKILLBUILD

STRATEGIES
Early game
As a utility hero, you may need to buy courier and also wards. Don't worry about your gold become less and you won't be able to buy the luxury item because you don't need that much golds to become useful for your team.

Usually, you are become a lane support so you need to protect your partner from any harm that can happen in your lane. If they trying to kill your partner, you should stun the enemy immediately.

Beware of enemy's attempt to gank your team. If someone is missing, you need to be careful by retreat to your tower immediately.
You can also use Wave of terror to reveal the fogged maps and reveal if there is an enemy hiding in the fog.

Mid Game 
You are one of the best ganker in dota. You have the combo Swap + Stun that will restrict the movement of the enemy. Swap + stun makes your team get the posititonal advantage over the enemy. It will be difficult for your opponent.

You need to coordinate a gank with your friends, and gank as much as you can. The more your team get the kills, the more chance your team will win the match.

So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:

1. Talk with your teammates about who is the target. You should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack the A person and your teammates attack the B person, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.

2. Prepare the items needed in the gank:
a. Use Smoke of Deceit to be invisible from the Ward
b. Prepare a Dust, a Sentry Ward, or a Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin

Get ready to gank

3. Use Swap
4, Use Stun
5. Use he Wave of Terror
6. Right click until your target dies


Late Game
In late game, your part is initiating a teamfight. You need to use Nether Swap to 1 of the enemy. And then you must Stun him using Magic Missile. After that all your friends can easily kill that 1 person and dominate the teamfight. It will be a big advantages if you can do this perfectly and make a 5 vs 4 teamfight to happen. 1 person does really matter in a teamfight in the late game. And if you can eliminate 1 person it will increase your team's chance to win the lategame teamfight that leads to winning the game.

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!

ITEM BUILD
1. Know your role as a support
You usually become a support for your team, so you need to buy the Supportive items for your team.


2. 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? You can use Power Threads STR that makes you become more tanky. This boots is also adds some attack speed to boost your right click.
You can change between STR, AGI, or INT for what you need. INT Power Threads will be needed if you have insufficient mana for a skill and you just need about 20-30 more mana.

2. Aghanim Scepter,
Why Aghanim's Scepter? Reduce the cooldown of your ultimate Nether Swap, the cooldown become 10 seconds. Nether Swap become spammable and come in handy in every teamfight.

3. Blade Mail
Total cost: 2200
Recipe: Broadsword + Chainmail + Robe of Magi
Why Blade Mail? After you initiate a teamfight, your opponent is likely to target you because they will hate you. So you can reflect their damege using this item.