dota 2 guide

Melee - Initiator - Disabler - Nuker - Carry

STRATEGY
Early Game
On early game, what you need to do is to farm if you are not as a carry protecetor. You also can become a carry. So try to lasthits the creeps and farm some gold. If you succeed at getting lots of gold, you can be a successful carry on mid-late game. Use shockwave once in a while for harassing and farming some creeps.
If you want to try to get kill, you must cooperate with your partner to can doing that. Use your Skewer first, and the use Shockwave to damaging the enemy.
Then if you are the one who are being ganked, turn around and use Skewer to drag you out to safety.

Mid Game
On mid game, you should already have your ultimate: Reverse Polarity. With this skill you are initiating a teamfight. The way is: Use Skewer first to drag your enemy with your body. Then: use Reverse Polarity to suck them and stun them. Your enemy will be damaged and stunned so your team can easily attack them. Also use Shockwave to deal damage more.
If you choose not to be a full-carry, On mid game you should roam around the maps and find opponents to kill. Come spontaneusly from the jungle and use your Skewer-Reverse Polarity to open a teamfight. Also use your right click and Shockwave. Ask your friend to helps in your ganking activities.
Late Game
On late game, maybe you succeeded in farming, or not, the matter is you should be the one who initiating a teamfight. You should use your Skewer and Reverse Polarity to initaite a teamfight.
Before the teamfight start, use your Empower to at least your melee-carry hero, with that you can increase his damage and give him with cleaving attack. It will benefits your team by a lot. Also cast this to yourself and makes you get more powerful right-click ability.
Shockwave is becoming less useful here, but it's ok to cast it in teamfights. If you seucceeded in farming one arly-mid game, you should take the responsibility to carry your team into victory. Be brave and use your initaiting and right click-cleave potential to the max!

ITEMBUILD
A. Carry Build
1.  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? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and damages. Power threads is laso a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
STR for Survivability and damage, AGI for attack speed, and INT for mana.

2. Bracer
Total Cost: 525
Recipe: Circlet + Gauntless of Strength
Bracer is good for survivability in early game. This will adds damage too.

3. Mask of Madness
Total Cost: 1900
Recipe: Morbid Mask/Mask of Death(Dota1) +Recipe
Why Mask of Madness? It will gives you + Attack Speed to destroys enemies quickly. This is what you need as a carry, attack speed. This will also gives you movement speed and lifesteal.

4. 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 teamfight.
7. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
Why Heart of Tarrasque? Makes you tanky. That's you are, a tank. And you are also a DPS-er, this also gives you 40 damage. So good item for Magnus.

8. Satanic
Total Cost: 5850

Why Satanic? It will really helps you to survive in a hard condition in a teamfight. It will gives you lifesteal, Strength, and Armor, thats all what you need to survive in a teamfight. If your HP become low, immediately use unholy rage, and attacks your enemy and your HP will be full again in seconds.

Or you can buy another DPS items like MKB or Basher
9. MKB
Total cost:: 5400
Recipe: Demon Edge + 2x Javelin
Why Monkey King Bar?
Good Damage. It will give you 100% hit rate.

10. For Initiating purpose, you can buy Blink Dagger.
Cost: 2150
Why Blink Dagger?
1. Perfect for initiating a teamfight
2. To kill a player who are alone and stupid.

That's  it. There is nothing to fear as Magnus, just being "Rambo" and you should be OWNING!!.

B. Initiator-Support Magnus

1. Mekansm
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
Why Mekansm? Heal for all allies in AoE, is a must for teamfights.
Why Necronomicon? After initiate a teamfight, you can summon 2 demons with reliable power. This demon is so powerful, and other advantage is that if you die, your demons will not automatically die so you still can play your demons if you die.

BEST PARTNER
1. AoE Damages
Lich: His ChainFrost needs enemy to be near with each other. Your Reverse Polarity provide  a perfect setup for ChainFrost because it will stop enemies and cannot move away from each other. That's why Lich ultimate will bouncing perfectly around the enemies.
Obsidian Destroyer: He have a nice AoE ultimate that need enemy to be near with each other. Reverse Polarity. is a perfect set up for his skill.
QoP: He have Sonic Wave that need enemy to be near with each other. Reverse Polarity is a perfect set up for his skill.
Invoker: Have Meteor that need enemy to be near with each other. Reverse Polarity is a perfect set up for his skill.
Ezalor: Have Illuminate  that need enemy to be near with each other. Reverse Polarity is a perfect set up for his skill.

2. Have Skills that Suck Enemies
(Example: Axe, Dark Seer, Enigma)
Axe: He have berserkers call to make opponents attack him, that's your chance to use your ultimate and right click all enemies. You stuns the enemy  right click, with your Cleave i'm sure your damage is very high.
DarkSeer: Have Vacuum that makes all ememy to stick in 1 point, this works the same as Axe's skill. His skill is also a perfect setup for you.
Enigma: Have Blackhole that sucks all nearby opponent into 1 point, that's your chance to use Ultimate and attack with the Cleave.

Melee - Durable - Carry - Disabler

STATS

ABILITIES
Sprays high-pressure acid across a target area. Enemy units who step across the contaminated terrain take mixed damage per second and have their armor reduced.
Using traditional Alchemy from the Darkbrew family, Razzil concocts an acid that dissolves even the toughest metals.
Acid Spray is considered one of your farming abilities. You can last hits some creeps altogether with this skill. Sure this skill will makes your gold run faster like a usain bolt.

Acid Spray is also very useful in teamfights. This skill will reduce enemies armor and makes your team comfortable in damaging the enemies. Not just that, this skill will deal some decent damage per second to the enemies in teamfights.

The radius of this skill is relatively high, and can occupy almost full screen. So you can damaging conveniently to some creeps and heroes.

2. Unstable Concoction
Alchemist brews up an unstable concoction that he can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage in an area around the explosion. The longer the concoction brews, the more damage it deals and the longer the stun. After 5 seconds, the brew reaches its maximum damage and stun time. However, after 7 seconds, the concoction will explode on Alchemist himself if not thrown.
A silver lining to the failure of turning a mountain into gold, this volatile solution has destructive potential.

Your skill to help you ganks.

You need to cast the skill and wait the timer until the concoction is ready.  Then throw the concoction, or it will explode in your head and stun yourself.

The stun have a decent duration if somehow you cam channel it long enough. So be careful and time your ganks by thinking calmly before casting this skill.

Unstable Concoction Throw
Throw it before it blows up!
Throw your Concoction into a target. If too slow, it will stun yourself.

3. Greevil's Greed
Alchemist gets bonus gold for killing creeps; the bonus stacks if the creeps are killed within a period of time, after which the count is reset. The bonus gold is capped at 30 gold.
While it is not a mountain, Razzil has mastered the conversion of smaller compounds to line his pockets.
This is what makes you difference from another heroes in terms of gold . This skill will boost your gold like no one ever was. You will be the millionaire in DotA.

This skill will add several amount of gold for every creeps you kill. And the amount of additional gold will increase the more the creeps you kill in the duration. So be prepared to be the richest in the map.

You can easily win in terms of items compared to your opponents. Better in items means you are the stronger. So you can manfight every one of enemy hero. This is an automatic victory for the one whose richest in dota.

4. Chemical Rage
Alchemist causes his Ogre to enter a chemically induced rage, reducing base attack cooldown and increasing movement speed, hitpoints and regeneration.
The brew Razzil gave to the Ogre during their prison bust has become a useful potion in the midst of combat.
Transform you into a more powerful human being. You will gain attack speed, move speed, hp regen, and mana regen in this form.

In early game, you can use this skill to restore your health and mana.
In mid game, this skill can helps you survive in a teamfight. And in late game this skill will make you become a true monster that attacks so fast and can tank lots of damages.

SKILLBUILD

Early Game
You should focus on last hitting since the earliest stage of the game. Creeps killing  is your focus. If your enemy in lane are ranged heroes, you should be more careful. Try to maintain some range and just come near creeps if there is a low HP creep. Be sure to lasthit every creep. You need to farm fast and earn gold quickly to get your items in time.
Usually, a full farming Alchemist are chasing Radiance in 15 mins or less because Radiance is a very powerful item for farming. You need this to double your gold quickly.
Radiance is also does decent damage in teamfights and gives some miss chance to ehe enemy

The other farming option as Alchemist is a Battlefury or Maelstorm. Both can ckear waves of creeps quite easily. Always buy Battlefury against illusion heavy heroes like Phantom Lancer.

Mid Game
In mid game, you should continue your farm. No matter how hard the conditions are, gold is your true target. I believe Greevil’s Greed can provide some decent gold for you. You should get your core items here. If you can succeed here in mid game and already get all your core items, it will be easier in late game.
You should be owning in late game, You have the DPS and the attack speed.
Late Game
Late game is the time to shine. As a carry hero, you should be owning in  this stage of the game. Believe in yourself, believe in your DPS, and kill all enemies that blocking your way.

Alchemist is one of the best carry, he can farms gold faster than other carries. Alchemist should outfarm another heroes, he should be the richest in the map. Dota records has already proves that, Alchemist is almost always the number one in ranking of the most gold per miute from week to week. He has beat Furion that also has the pride of one of the best farmer in Dota. Though.

Alchemist can earn gold more than 1000 golds per minute that is far beyond impossibe for other heroes.

So the conclusion is: Farms faster, earn items faster, Owning with better items in mid game. Outfarm enemies in late game with greevil's greed. Quick finish the game as you get your cores before the enemy catch up.

1  Power Thread
Total cost: 1900
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin
Why Power Threads? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, You need attack speed and damages.
Power threads is also a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
Usually you will need STR thread for survivability. It will also gives you damage because you are a strength type.


Why Armlet of Mordiggian  It will gives you damage,  attack speed, and HP instantly. A very good skill for a carry-tank like you. Deactivate Armlet if not in a teamfight.
Can Save your live if you are below 500 HP and enemy want to nuke-kill you. Use this to instantly adds 475 HP.

5. Assault Cuirass
Total cost:: 5300
Recipe: Platemail, Hyperstone, Chainmail, Recipe
Why Assault Cuirass?
Helps the bear to tank more damages in teamfights. And also helps bear gets some attack speed for destroying towers and carrying the team in teamfights.
+Armor aura and -Armor for enemies  are very important for late game, so good for increasing team's defense and increasing team's attack.

6. MKB
Total cost:: 5400
Recipe: Demon Edge + 2x Javelin
Why Monkey King Bar?
Good Damage. It will give you 100% hit rate.

7. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
Why Heart of Tarrasque? Makes you tanky. That's you are, a tank. And you are also a DPS-er, this also gives you 40 damage. So good item for Alchemist.
Early Game
On early game, you may buy wards and courier because you are the support. That's your job to provide the team with wards and courier.

As the game start, go to the same lane with the carry of your team. Then pull the creeps and farm there. Don't ever farm in the carry lane as it may cause your carry to lack of farm.

Mid Game

Ganking time!

Tell your mid lane friend that you will gank on his lane and together will chainstun the enemy. Buy smoke and use it on your jungle, and then move towards mid and stun your target. That time your mid friend will come and kill the target.

Late Game
After mid game ends, there goes late game. You may be transition into a carry if you have enough gold.

Your part is to stun 1 target and also use AcidSpray on a teamfight area. After that you can attack the enemy using your ChemicalRage.

As a support. You usually buy Hallberd, just remember to use it on enemy's carry to make him unable attack.

1. Starting Item

Branches: You need the branches to be build into Magic Wand later. Tangoes: for recovering health, Clarities: for mana, and don't forget to buy the Wards: for scouting.

2. Core Items:

Dagger: to initiate a teamfight Wand: to save yourself from death in some situation Urn: to heal allies or to damage the enemy Brown boots: is enough because you need the save for for another items.

3. Also don't forget to buy these items:

Wards: to scout some important areas Smoke of Deceit: to start a gank and become invisible from enemy's ward Flying Courier: For faster item delivery Sentry: to deward

4. Next Core Items:

Force: to save your allies form being targetted in a teamfight Hallberd: To disable enemy's ability to attack

GOOD ALLIES
1. Disables
(Example: Shadow Shaman, Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit)