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STATS

ABILITIES
1. Boulder Smash
Earth Spirit smashes the target enemy, ally, or Stone Remnant, knocking it back in the direction he is facing. The knocked back target deals damage to all units it hits. If the target was a Stone Remnant, damaged targets are also stunned, and the travel distance is improved.
It is with the power of a mountain that Earth Spirit strikes his enemies.
Skill is a bit difficult for those who are still unfamiliar with this hero.
With this skill you can kick:
-stone
-hero / creep
Enemies whose hit by the stone will be exposed to stun and damage.
The direction of the kick is straight, then make sure your position and the position of the target is a straight line and then you can launch a kick. With the number of times you use this hero you will surely understand by yourself. So keep practicing and become better.

2. Rolling Boulder
After a 0.6s delay, Earth Spirit becomes a boulder, rolling in the direction he is facing and damaging enemy units, stopping if he collides with an enemy hero or is stunned. If the boulder rolls over a Stone Remnant, the Stone Remnant is consumed and travel distance and speed are improved, and impacted enemies have their movement and attack speed slowed.
Calling upon his connection to the land, the Earth Spirit draws loose stone to him, which forms a protective ball that he can use to roll short distances.
You will roll and will stop when there is an enemy getting hit by you, then the enemy will be slowed.
Make sure you roll on the rock so that you will roll on a maximum distance, because if there is no stone, it will be a short distance. This skill is quite good for initiating, then you will be rolling into the middle area of ​​the opponent, and then start the teamfight.

3. Geomagnetic Grip
Earth Spirit pulls the target allied unit or Stone Remnant to his location. Enemies struck by the flying target will be stunned, and take damage if the flying target is a Stone Remnant.
Like calls to like. Even the minerals found in the blood and bones of living beings are not immune to the call of the Earth Spirit.
You can pull the rock / friendly hero  at you and the enemy crushed will be silenced. Skills are good enough to start a gank or a teamfight.
When the enemy is silenced, your team can easily beat him. Also useful when your friend is in trouble and you can pull him to the farthest from the enemy who pursued him.

Stone Remnant
Call a Stone Remnant at the target location. Stones Remnants have no vision and are invulnerable, and can be used with Earth Spirit's abilities. Calling a Stone Remnant consumes a charge, which recharge over time.
Put the stone. Stone is an element of every skill you have. All of them need stone.

4. Magnetize
Magnetizes units in a small nearby area, causing them to take damage over time for a short duration. Any magnetized heroes cause nearby Stone Remnants to become energized and explode, applying/refreshing the magnetize debuff on all units near the Stone Remnant. This process can repeat multiple times. Stone Remnants are destroyed in this process. If an enemy hero is affected by silence or slows as a result of Rolling Boulder or Boulder Smash, all magnetized heroes share the effects.
Deal damage to enemies around you. With the stone, dps will increase.
If multiple enemies at the same time exposed by the Magnetize, it is enough to silence one person and the friends will also be affected by the silence. Similarly as the Rolling Boulder slow, then all enemies will be exposed to slows as well.
This principle does not apply to stun.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Boulder Smash
Level 2: Rolling Boulder
Level 3: Boulder Smash
Level 4: Geomagnetic Grip
Level 5: Boulder Smash
Level 6: Magnetize
Level 7: Boulder Smash
Level 8: Geomagnetic Grip
Level 9 : Geomagnetic Grip
Level 10: Geomagnetic Grip
Level 11: Magnetize
Level 12: Rolling Boulder
Level 13: Rolling Boulder
Level 14: Rolling Boulder
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Magnetize
Level 17-25: Stats
2. As a solo offlane.
As a solo offlaner, then all it takes is patience because it is very difficult for solo offlaner to  get gold and exp.Because the enemy will do to pull his creep wave and making us not get anything. It takes patience. Do not be too far away from your tower. If there is a chance and 100% safe from a gank then you can try to last-hits.
Keep playing safe until someone is coming into your lane and gank the enemy! Or maybe you can leave your lane and gank the enemy on the other lane.

3. As a solo mid.
As a solo mid, the skills for last hitting and denying will be more needed than the other roles. Keep calm! and occasionally harass the enemy. Also, on the mid lane you will need a bottle. Bottle is needed to get runes for ganking other lanes.
Once you're level 6 or above, start to move to another lane to gank the enemy. Look for the kill as much.

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Echo Stomp
Elder Titan and his Astral Spirit both stomp the ground, damaging and knocking nearby enemy units unconscious around their locations. The Elder Titan stomp deals physical damage, while the Spirit stomp deals magical damage. Unconscious enemies will wake if they take damage.
The force of creation still echoes in the stomp of the Titan.
This skill is considered an initiating skill. With this skill you can makes enmiy sleep your team can surround the enemy and then harass him. This skill also gives small damage.

Your Astral Spirit also performing this skill together with your real self. So you may use your 2nd first and send your Spirit on the enemy crowds, and then you can use Echo Stomp skill to make enemy becomesleep.

2. Astral Spirit
Elder Titan sends forth his Astral Spirit, damaging any units it passes through. When the spirit rejoins the Titan, it grants bonus damage and movement speed for each unit it damaged. The Astral Spirit possesses the Echo Stomp, Return Spirit, and Natural Order abilities.
Like the four fundamentals, Elder Titan exists across all planes at once and can draw other aspects of himself to assist in times of need.
This ability is considering a nuke. It gives nice damage in the early game. So cast this to damaging enemy on the early-mid game. You can also use this to farm some creeps.
If the Spirit touches the creeps and also the enemy heroes, it will gives you more movement speed and more damage after the Spirit come back to your real self. This can makes you become a decent right clicker and a decent chaser in the teamfight.
This skill can be combined with your 1st skill to perform a Stomp. So the Spirit and the real self will be performing Echo Stomp together.

2b .Return Astral Spirit
Returns the Astral Spirit to Elder Titan.

3. Natural Order
Reduces all elements to their basic levels, removing base armor and magic resistance from nearby enemy units.
As it was at the beginning, Elder Titan makes it so again.
Reduce enemy's armor and magic resistance. A very good skill that makes your whole team will produce more damage to every enemy hero in the teamfight.

4. Earth Splitter

Sends forth a jagged crack in front of Elder Titan. After 3 seconds, the crack implodes, slowing them while dealing damage based on the maximum life of units caught in the area.
That which he created, the titan tears asunder.
A skill that will crack the land in front of you in a very long range . So good initiating skill to make enemy become slowed and also damaged.

SKILLBUILD


Level 1: Astral Spirit
Level 2: Echo Stomp
Level 3: Astral Spirit
Level 4: Natural Order
Level 5: Astral Spirit
Level 6: Earth Splitter
Level 7: Astral Spirit
Level 8: Echo Stomp
Level 9 : Echo Stomp
Level 10: Echo Stomp
Level 11: Earth Splitter
Level 12: Natural Order
Level 13: Natural Order
Level 14: Natural Order
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Earth Splitter
Level 17-25: Stats

Why maxed Astral Spirit first?  This is your main nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, and killing on early mid game.

Why maxed Echo Stomp before Natural Order?  On early-mid game, the enemy's armor and resitance are still considerably low. Better to increase the Echo Stomp to increase it's Sleep duration for initiating a teamfight.

BIO
The sands of the Scintillant Waste are alive and sentient--the whole vast desert speaks to itself, thinking thoughts only such a vastness can conceive. But when it needs must find a form to communicate with those of more limited scope, it frees a fragment of itself, and fills a carapace of magic armor formed by the cunning Djinn of Qaldin. This essential identity calls itself Crixalis, meaning 'Soul of the Sand,' but others know it as Sand King. Sand King takes the form of a huge arachnid, inspired by the Scintillant Waste's small but ubiquitous denizens; and this is a true outward expression of his ferocious nature. Guardian, warrior, ambassador--Sand King is all of these things, inseparable from the endless desert that gave him life.

INTRODUCTION
Sandking is a decent initiator and a ganker hero that all of his skills is AoE. Sandking is an active ganker with high mobility.
He have a jumping stuns to initiate a teamfight. And more importantly he have a high damage AoE wich is his ultimate. Usually you need a Blink Dagger for this hero for easier and more range initiation.
ROLE
Melee - Initiator - Disabler - Nuker

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Burrowstrike
Sand King burrows into the ground and tunnels forward, damaging and stunning enemy units above him as he resurfaces.
Crixalis often lies in wait, burrowing under the surface to ambush his adversaries.
Your main ability for ganking purposes. You need this skill to stun the enemies and deal some damages. Very good ability to catach enemies, and makes the enemies get killed by your team. You can combine this ability with a Dagger, the initiation range will be so far. After using this skill you can either use Sand Storm or Epicenter. It is based on the situation and the cooldown.

2. Sand Storm
CHANNELED - Sand King creates a fearsome sandstorm that damages enemy units while hiding him from vision. The invisibility remains for a short duration after the sandstorm ends.
Some say Crixalis is a mirage; his carapace appearing then vanishing between the whirling sands of the Scintillant Waste.
Nice skill to harass the enemies and creeps. It does deal a decent damage per second to the enemies. You just need to wait under your Sand Storm and all the enemies who touched it will feel some pain. You are become invisible but your location is obvious because the Sand that comes out near your body. The enemy just need Sentry Wards or Dust to reveal you. Beware!

3. Caustic Finale
Sand King's attacks inject a venom that causes enemy units to explode violently upon death, spreading area damage. Caustic Finale is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifier.
An injection from Crixalis makes one brittle and as dry as the arid wastes, subject to implosive demise.
If you attack an opponent, makes your opponent to blast when he die and deal some damages. A very good skill for farming and harassing. Just hit every creeps 1 time, and wait until the creeps death, and you will gets a nice AoE damage.

4. Epicenter
CHANNELED - After channeling for 2 seconds, Sand King sends a disturbance into the earth, causing it to shudder violently. All enemies caught within range will take damage and become slowed. Each subsequent pulse increases the radius of damage dealt. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Many an explorer was lost to the quicksands of the Scintillant Waste.
Your ultimate skill, will deal a high AoE damage to all enemies nearby.

Usually, you need Blink Dagger to position yourself into the middle of teamfight. First you need to channel this skill in the area where no enemies sees you, and after channeling is complete and pulses has already started, blink into the crowds of the enemies and deal tons of damages.
And then you can burrowstrike after you jump. And then you can use Sand Storm after Burrowstrike.

The weakneess is: You need channeling for this skill, and if you receive damage while doing channeling, this skill is cancelled and you must wait its cooldown, Actually you can use Black King Bar before channeling and makes yourself safe from channeling cancellation.

SKILLBUILD


STRATEGIES
Early game
You need to know your part in the game, are you a support? or there is no rule? If you are a support, you do not need to lasthit the creep. You should let your carry to last hits all the creeps. But if there is no rule, you need to lasthits the creeps and also denying.

If your enemy is on a low guard, you can initiate an attack with your Burrowstrike. For example: If there is an enemy who are surrounded by your creeps. And then you can knock him together with your friends.

Or you can defend yourself from a gank using the Burrowstrike either to
1. stun the enemy. or
2. go away from the enemy.

Mid Game 
Mid game is the time for ganking. You need to patrol around the map and find an easy target you can kill easily.

You are one of the best ganker in dota. You have the combo Burrowstrike + Epicenter that will deal tons of damahe.

You need to coordinate a gank with your friends, and gank as much as you can.

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 Burrowstrike to stun the enemy
4, Cast the Epicenter, this will greatly reduce enemy's HP
5. Use the SandStorm
6. Right click until your target dies
7. if the enemy hasn't die yet, chase the enemy using Burrowstrike and Blink Dagger.

The more your team get kills, the more chance your team will win the match.

You will need Arcane Boots to provide you mana for ganking, this boots also helps to fulfill your teams mana. You also need Blink Dagger for faster mobility and more range for initiation You can Blink-Burrowstrike to initiate a gank, and then use Epicenter to kill the enemies.

Or if there are enemies that pushing your tower, you need to help your friend defending it.


Late Game
Here your main part is to initiate a teamfight. You need Epicenter the most in this stage of the game. You need a Blink Dagger to prepare the Epicenter. You+ your team can wait at the base or in the jungle secretly if the enemies are trying to push your base. You should cast epicenter in the fog of war and then jump using Blink Dagger and moves the pulse into the enemy's concentration, thats how you should started a teamfight. After epicenter, you need to Burrowstrike and then cast Sandstorm, and with the helps of your team I believe your team shold be OWNING.

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

BIO
It's said that a centaur's road is paved with the corpses of the fallen. For the one called Warrunner, it has been a long road indeed. To outsiders, the four-legged clans of Druud are often mistaken for simple, brutish creatures. Their language has no written form; their culture lacks pictographic traditions, structured music, formalized religion. For centaurs, combat is the perfect articulation of thought, the highest expression of self. If killing is an art among centaurs, then Bradwarden the Warrunner is their greatest artist. He rose to dominance on the proving grounds of Omexe, an ancient arena where centaur clans have for millennia gathered to perform their gladiatorial rites. As his fame spread, spectators came from far and wide to see the great centaur in action. Always the first to step into the arena, and the last to leave, he composes a masterpiece in each guttering spray, each thrust of blood-slickened blade-length. It is the poetry of blood on steel, flung in complex patterns across the pale sands of the killing floor.

Warrunner defeated warrior after warrior, until the arena boomed with the cheering of his name, and he found himself alone, the uncontested champion of his kind. The great belt of Omexe was bestowed, wrapped around his broad torso, but in his victory, the death-artist found only emptiness. For what is a warrior without a challenge? The great centaur galloped out of Omexe that day with a new goal. To his people, Warrunner is the greatest warrior to ever step into the arena. Now he has set out to prove he is the greatest fighter who has ever lived.

INTRODUCTION
Centaur is a hero that have high STR and HP to tank all enemy's damage. Be the first who comes to every teamfights! You are a teamfights initiator. You have the AoE stun that makes you can start a teamfight.

We recommend you to buy tanker items like tarrasque or Blademail. Your part is to be the first to start a teamfight, you need to stun your enemy so that your friends can deal the damages to kill all the enemies.
ROLE
Melee - Durable - Disabler - Initiator

STATS

ABILITIES
1. Hoof Stomp
Slams the ground, stunning and damaging nearby enemy units.
Your main ability as a teamfight initiator. You will get every enemy around you to be stunned so your teams can attack them. You need to place yourself beside your opponent, so you may need initiator item like Dagger, Shadow Blade, or you can use your ultimate skill Stampede.

2. Double Edge
Centaur strikes a mighty blow at melee range, damaging both himself and a small area around the target. Centaur cannot die from Double Edge.
Your ability that have high damage to a target. This ability will also hurts you. But, because you almost 100% will have more HP that your opponent, it will be no problem. Very good to lasthit enemy heroes.

3. Return
Centaur immediately counters every attack, damaging the attacker based on a percentage of Centaur's strength.
Very good ability to defend yourself against carries who will hurts you with their physical attacks. It will deal more damage in the late game because of your high STR. Carry that right clicks you in late game, can die because of this skill. Your attacker will not feel it, but suddenly they will be in a low condition or if you're lucky he will death.

4. Stampede
Centaur leads all allies into a vicious charge causing them to move through units at max speed and stun enemy units they tread upon. Each enemy can be trampled once and takes damage based on the Warrunner's strength.
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Makes yourself and all of your teammates to move so fast in 3.75 second and can move through untits, and stunning and damaging the enemies. Very good ability to initiate a teamfight. With the bonus movement speed, your team can catch opponents easily and then stun them and makes teamfight to your teams favor.You also can use this ability on surprise gank from the jungle, and stun all the enemies you move through. After using this ability, you better use Hoofstomp to make the stun duration become longer, and the enemies can't do anything.

SKILLBUILD