dota 2 guide

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
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.

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.
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE
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