Dota 2 - Elder Titan Build Guide
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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
Well may you ask, "How did this world take its form?" Why of all the worlds in creation, has this one its strange properties, its diverse and motley collection of creatures, cultures and lore? "The answer," One whispers, "lies with the Titans."
These original progenitors were there near the Beginning--if not actual witnesses to the creation, then born with it still echoing in their ears. Stamped with the earliest energies of the universe, they wished nothing more than to continue as creators themselves. Thus they bent to the task of shaping matter to their will: hammering and heating, bending and blasting. And when matter proved less challenging than they liked, they turned their tools upon themselves, reshaping their minds and reforging their spirits until they had become beings of great endurance. Reality itself became the ultimate object of their smithing. Yet, along the way, they sometimes erred. In cases of great ambition, mistakes are unavoidable.
The one we know as the Elder Titan was a great innovator, one who studied at the forge of creation. In honing his skills, he shattered something that could never be repaired, only thrown aside. He fell into his own broken world, a shattered soul himself. There he dwelt among the jagged shards and fissured planes, along with other lost fragments that had sifted down through the cracks in the early universe. And this is why the world we know resembles an isle of castaways, survivors of a wreck now long forgotten. Forgotten, that is, by all but the One who blames himself. He spends his time forever seeking a way to accomplish the repairs, that he might rejoin the parts of his broken soul, that we and the world alike might all be mended. This is the One we know as Elder Titan.
INTRODUCTION
Elder Titan is considered one of the best initiator in DotA. He have 2 initiating skill that will helps his team to initiate well in a teamfight. He also have a skill to reduce enemy's armor and resistance which will greatly increase his allies damage. He can also acquire a nice amount of damage from his Astral skill. Elder Titan: A beast the enemy should afraid of.
These original progenitors were there near the Beginning--if not actual witnesses to the creation, then born with it still echoing in their ears. Stamped with the earliest energies of the universe, they wished nothing more than to continue as creators themselves. Thus they bent to the task of shaping matter to their will: hammering and heating, bending and blasting. And when matter proved less challenging than they liked, they turned their tools upon themselves, reshaping their minds and reforging their spirits until they had become beings of great endurance. Reality itself became the ultimate object of their smithing. Yet, along the way, they sometimes erred. In cases of great ambition, mistakes are unavoidable.
The one we know as the Elder Titan was a great innovator, one who studied at the forge of creation. In honing his skills, he shattered something that could never be repaired, only thrown aside. He fell into his own broken world, a shattered soul himself. There he dwelt among the jagged shards and fissured planes, along with other lost fragments that had sifted down through the cracks in the early universe. And this is why the world we know resembles an isle of castaways, survivors of a wreck now long forgotten. Forgotten, that is, by all but the One who blames himself. He spends his time forever seeking a way to accomplish the repairs, that he might rejoin the parts of his broken soul, that we and the world alike might all be mended. This is the One we know as Elder Titan.
INTRODUCTION
Elder Titan is considered one of the best initiator in DotA. He have 2 initiating skill that will helps his team to initiate well in a teamfight. He also have a skill to reduce enemy's armor and resistance which will greatly increase his allies damage. He can also acquire a nice amount of damage from his Astral skill. Elder Titan: A beast the enemy should afraid of.
| PROS | CONS |
| His spell range is so wide | Skill difficulties |
| Good movespeed | Low AoE on his 3rd skill |
| Can acquire lots of damage fro the Astral Form |
ROLE
Melee - Initiator - Durable
| LEVEL | 1 | 15 | 25 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIT POINTS | 606 | 1,218 | 2,035 | SIGHT RANGE | 1800 / 800 |
| MANA | 299 | 590 | 1,058 | ATTACK RANGE | 128 |
| DAMAGE | 47-57 | 79-89 | 122-132 | MISSILE SPEED | N/A |
| ARMOR | 3 | 6 | 11 |
ABILITIES
1. Echo Stomp
| MANA COST: 100/115/130/145 | COOLDOWN: 15 |
| ABILITY: NO TARGET, CHANNELED | DAMAGE: COMPOSITE |
| CAST TIME: 1.4 | RADIUS: 475 |
| SLEEP DURATION: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 | STOMP DAMAGE: 80 / 80 / 80 / 80 |
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
| MANA COST: 110/110/110/110 | COOLDOWN: 16 |
| ABILITY: POINT TARGET | DAMAGE: MAGICAL |
| RADIUS: 275 | DAMAGE: 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 |
| DURATION: 8 | BUFF DURATION: 9 |
| BONUS SPEED(CREEPS): 1% | BONUS SPEED(HEROES): 5% |
| BONUS DAMAGE(CREEPS): 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 | BONUS DAMAGE(HEROES): 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 |
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
| COOLDOWN: 0 | ABILITY: NO TARGET |
3. Natural Order
| ABILITY: PASSIVE, AURA | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| RADIUS: 275 / 275 / 275 / 275 | BASE ARMOR REDUCTION: 25% / 50% / 75% / 100% |
| BASE RESIST REDUCTION: 8% / 16% / 25% / 33% |
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.
| MANA COST: 175/175/175 | COOLDOWN: 100 |
| ABILITY: POINT TARGET | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| DAMAGE: COMPOSITE | DELAY: 3.14 |
| CRACK WIDTH: 300 | RANGE: 2400 |
| SLOW: 30% / 40% / 50% | SLOW DURATION: 3 / 4 / 5 |
| MAX HP AS DAMAGE: 35% |
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.
STRATEGY
Early Game
On early game, you should get lasthits and denies if your carry isn't in the same line as you. You may need to buy some items that will benefit the team. Last hits is quiet easy for you because you have a high base damage. And also you have the Astral Spirits to helps you get last hits by it's magical damage and also it eventually will gives you bonus attack damage that helps you get more last hits.
If you don't see any wards that will detect the enemy, you should buy it. Ward is a must item for the team. It gives a vision that preevents your teammates from enemys attempt on ganking.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. It's your time to roam too. Don't forget to buy the Smoke of Deceit to hid from enemy's Observer Ward.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, 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
b. Prepare Dust, Sentry Wards, or Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin
c. Use the Astral Spirit
d. Use the Echo Stomp
e. Use your ultimate
Late Game
On late game. The teamfight will be very intense. Beware! if your team lose a single teamfight it may cost you the game.
You should already reached high level here so you have an all high level skill and also an already high sats, HP and damage. And so does ebverybody in the map. And also with the high level, that means a long respawn time. That means that every move is becoming more important and decisive. So keep focus and also don;'t panic at every sitaution. Always think clearly and use all you have.
Here you should make a wise decision to choose btween 2 options:
1. To save money for buyback
2. To buy your next item
How to choose between those two? you may see how important is your next item. You can see it by: If you don't buy that item immediately, your team's can't compete with the enemy's power so buy it immediately, but if the item is not that important, you should save for buyback.
Your role in the teamfight is an initiator. What you need to do is:
1. Casting Astral Spirit and the Echo Stomp to make emnemy become sleep
2. Cast your ultimate
3. Use any clickable item in your pocket, you may have Mekansm or Necronomicon.
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!
ITEMS 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.
3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe
Why Drums? It gives Movement Speed and Attack Speed aura for the whole team . The attack speed aura is for teamfight and the movement speed aura is for chasing and for escaping. Also increase all your attributes so you get stronger and tankier.
Why Shiva's? The movement speed and attack speed reduction from this shivas guard will greatly reduces enemy's power in the teamfight. And combined with your Sigil, the sloer will be so high and will likely to dominate enemy in every teamfight.
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
Why Heart of Tarrasque? The survivability from this item is the core of your survival during any teamfight. Buy this and keep alive from all enemy's force.
Early Game
On early game, you should get lasthits and denies if your carry isn't in the same line as you. You may need to buy some items that will benefit the team. Last hits is quiet easy for you because you have a high base damage. And also you have the Astral Spirits to helps you get last hits by it's magical damage and also it eventually will gives you bonus attack damage that helps you get more last hits.
If you don't see any wards that will detect the enemy, you should buy it. Ward is a must item for the team. It gives a vision that preevents your teammates from enemys attempt on ganking.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. It's your time to roam too. Don't forget to buy the Smoke of Deceit to hid from enemy's Observer Ward.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, 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
b. Prepare Dust, Sentry Wards, or Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin
c. Use the Astral Spirit
d. Use the Echo Stomp
e. Use your ultimate
Late Game
On late game. The teamfight will be very intense. Beware! if your team lose a single teamfight it may cost you the game.
You should already reached high level here so you have an all high level skill and also an already high sats, HP and damage. And so does ebverybody in the map. And also with the high level, that means a long respawn time. That means that every move is becoming more important and decisive. So keep focus and also don;'t panic at every sitaution. Always think clearly and use all you have.
Here you should make a wise decision to choose btween 2 options:
1. To save money for buyback
2. To buy your next item
How to choose between those two? you may see how important is your next item. You can see it by: If you don't buy that item immediately, your team's can't compete with the enemy's power so buy it immediately, but if the item is not that important, you should save for buyback.
Your role in the teamfight is an initiator. What you need to do is:
1. Casting Astral Spirit and the Echo Stomp to make emnemy become sleep
2. Cast your ultimate
3. Use any clickable item in your pocket, you may have Mekansm or Necronomicon.
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!
ITEMS BUILD
1. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin
| Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute + 30 Attack Speed |
3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe
| Active: Endurance - Gives bonus +10 attack and +10% movement speed to surrounding allies. Passive: Swiftness Aura - Gives bonus attack and movement speed to surrounding allies. Multiple instances of Swiftness Aura do not stack. + 9 All Attributes + 3 Damage AURA ATTACK SPEED: 5 AURA MOVE SPEED: 5% Cooldown: 30 |
3. Shiva's Guard
Total cost: 4700Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe
| Active: Arctic Blast - Emits a freezing wave that does 200 damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4.0 seconds. Passive: Freezing Aura - Reduces attack speed on enemies. Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack. + 30 Intelligence + 15 Armor AURA SLOW: 25% Manacost: 100 Cooldown: 30 |
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
| Passive: Health Regeneration - Restores a percentage of max health per second. This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged. + 40 Strength + 300 Health HEALTH RESTORED: 2% Cooldown: 6 |
Dota 2 - Tusk Build Guide
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STATS
ABILITIES
1. Ice Shards
Tusk compresses shards of ice into a ball of frozen energy that damages all enemies it comes in contact with. If the ball comes in contact with an enemy hero or reaches its maximum range the shards are released, creating a barrier that lasts for 5 seconds.
This skill is needed to block enemy's way in your gank. So enemy can't escape from your team.
2. Snowball
Tusk and any nearby allied heroes roll in a quickly growing snowball towards the target enemy unit. Any victims caught in the snowball's path take damage and are briefly stunned; the final target takes extra damage and extra stun duration. The snowball moves at a percentage of Tusk's current movement speed.
This is your initiating skill. You may combo this skill with your friend's skill for exaple with centaur's stun. So you need to stick with your friend and roll together and then after it arrive at your target, centaur should immediatelt stun the enemy. It will so deadly to the opponent.
3. Frozen Sigil
Tusk summons a Frozen Sigil by calling upon the deepest cold of winter. The Sigil creates a snowstorm which slows all enemy units within 600 range.
This skill will slow down attack speed and also movement speed of your enemy near the sigil. The movement speed slow can be use to chase the escaping enemy, and the attack speed slow is a nice defense against enemy attack. Cast this in every teamfight and you will save your friends live because enemy will have their attack speed become slow.
4. Walrus PUNCH!
Tusk prepares his mighty Walrus Punch; his next attack will do a critical strike and launch the victim into the air. The victim will be slowed upon landing and take damage. More damage is dealt if the target is below a certain percentage of HP.
This skill is a skill to knock down enemy in the starting of a teamfight. usually, you combo this skill with the Snowball so you can punch your enemy after he is stunned by the Snowball. The 300% damage from your attack will reduce enemy's Hp by a lot so your carry can finish him easily.
SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Snowball
Level 2: Ice Shards
Level 3: Ice Shards
Level 4: Snowball
Level 5: Ice Shards
Level 6: Walrus PUNCH!
Level 7: Ice Shards
Level 8: Snowball
Level 9 : Snowball
Level 10: Frozen Sigil
Level 11:Walrus PUNCH!
Level 12: Frozen Sigil
Level 13: Frozen Sigil
Level 14: Frozen Sigil
Level 15: Stats
Level 16:Walrus PUNCH!
Level 17-25: Stats
Why take Snowball for level 1? This is needed if your team want to find the level 1 firstblood, so you can roll with your partner and then get the easy firstblood.
Why maxed Ice Shards first? This is your main nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, and killing on early mid game. And the damage is bigger than the Snowball.
Why maxed Snowball before Frozen Sigil? Frozen Sigil is a teamfight skill for late game where enemy have the high attack speed so you can slow them down. And Snowball is a ganking skill, therefore should be maxed on the mid game.
BIO
It had been a brawl to remember. There stood Ymir, the Tusk, the Terror from the Barrier, the Snowball from Cobalt, the only fighter to have bested the Bristled Bruiser in a fair fight, and now the last man standing in Wolfsden Tavern. What started as a simple bar bet of supremacy ended with four regulars, a blacksmith, and six of the Frost Brigade's best soldiers writhing against the shards and splinters of almost every bottle, mug, and chair in the building. The Tusk boasted and toasted his victory as he emptied his brew.
No sooner had the defeated regained consciousness than the cries for double-or-nothing rang out. The Tusk was pleased at the prospect, but none could think of a bet bigger than the one he just conquered. Horrified at the damage to his tavern and desperate to avoid another brawl, the barkeep had an idea. As skilled as he was, Ymir had never taken part in a real battle, never tested himself against the indiscriminate death and chaos of war. He proposed a wager to the fighter: seek out the biggest battle he could find, survive, and win it for whichever side he chose. The stakes? The next round of drinks.
INTRODUCTION
Tuskar is an initiator hero that needed to start a clash. He have a skill to roll together with his friends and then knock down his target. He have a mighty punch to deal massive damage in each clash. he also have a wall to prevent enemy from escaping. And finally he have a skill to reduce enemy's speed.
No sooner had the defeated regained consciousness than the cries for double-or-nothing rang out. The Tusk was pleased at the prospect, but none could think of a bet bigger than the one he just conquered. Horrified at the damage to his tavern and desperate to avoid another brawl, the barkeep had an idea. As skilled as he was, Ymir had never taken part in a real battle, never tested himself against the indiscriminate death and chaos of war. He proposed a wager to the fighter: seek out the biggest battle he could find, survive, and win it for whichever side he chose. The stakes? The next round of drinks.
INTRODUCTION
Tuskar is an initiator hero that needed to start a clash. He have a skill to roll together with his friends and then knock down his target. He have a mighty punch to deal massive damage in each clash. he also have a wall to prevent enemy from escaping. And finally he have a skill to reduce enemy's speed.
| PROS | CONS |
| A great initiator | Slow attack speed |
| Have a nice slowing skill | Need partner |
| He can initiate well with lots of heroes | The Frozen Sigil gives some bounty to the enemy |
ROLE
Melee - Initiator - Durable
| LEVEL | 1 | 15 | 25 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIT POINTS | 587 | 1,199 | 2,016 | SIGHT RANGE | 1800 / 800 |
| MANA | 234 | 5430 | 1,024 | ATTACK RANGE | 128 |
| DAMAGE | 50-54 | 82-86 | 125-129 | MISSILE SPEED | N/A |
| ARMOR | 3 | 7 | 13 |
ABILITIES
1. Ice Shards
| MANA COST: 120/120/120/120 | COOLDOWN: 18/16/14/12 |
| ABILITY: POINT TARGET | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| DAMAGE: MAGICAL | RADIUS: 200 |
| SHARD DAMAGE: 70 / 140 / 210 / 280 | SHARD DURATION: 5 |
2. Snowball
| MANA COST: 75/75/75/75 | COOLDOWN: 21 |
| ABILITY: UNIT TARGET | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| DAMAGE: MAGICAL | RADIUS: 200 |
| RADIUS GROW: 40 | DAMAGE: 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 |
| STUN DURATION: 0.25 / 0.5 / 0.75 / 1 | DURATION: 3 |
3. Frozen Sigil
| MANA COST: 75/75/75/75 | COOLDOWN: 50 |
| ABILITY: NO TARGET | RADIUS: 600 |
| DURATION: 30 | MOVEMENT SLOW: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25% |
| ATTACK SLOW: 30% / 40% / 50% / 60% |
4. Walrus PUNCH!
| MANA COST: 50/75/100 | COOLDOWN: 30/24/18 |
| ABILITY: NO TARGET | BUFF DURATION: 10 |
| CRIT MULTIPLIER: 300% | THRESHOLD CRIT MULTIPLIER: 400% |
| HP THRESHOLD: 50% | AIR TIME: 1 |
| SLOW DURATION: 2 / 3 / 4 |
SKILLBUILD
Level 2: Ice Shards
Level 3: Ice Shards
Level 4: Snowball
Level 5: Ice Shards
Level 6: Walrus PUNCH!
Level 7: Ice Shards
Level 8: Snowball
Level 9 : Snowball
Level 10: Frozen Sigil
Level 11:Walrus PUNCH!
Level 12: Frozen Sigil
Level 13: Frozen Sigil
Level 14: Frozen Sigil
Level 15: Stats
Level 16:Walrus PUNCH!
Level 17-25: Stats
Why take Snowball for level 1? This is needed if your team want to find the level 1 firstblood, so you can roll with your partner and then get the easy firstblood.
Why maxed Ice Shards first? This is your main nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, and killing on early mid game. And the damage is bigger than the Snowball.
Why maxed Snowball before Frozen Sigil? Frozen Sigil is a teamfight skill for late game where enemy have the high attack speed so you can slow them down. And Snowball is a ganking skill, therefore should be maxed on the mid game.
STRATEGY
Early Game
On early game, you may need some farm to buy some items. But if you becoming a support for the carry, just danying the creeps is enough. If you are the farmer, a Quelling Blade may help you get more last hits and denies.
If you see that your enemy is in a bad position, like if your team have stacked 2 wave of creeps or he is late to move from your creeps wave, then you can initiate a gank by using the Snowball to the targetted enemy hero. And then after the Snowball hit the target, you can block enemy's way to run by using the Ice Shards.
Also keep your eye on the area where enemy may gank you, so you can retread immediately fi they want to gank you. Observer Ward is needed here, so your team's support should provide it.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. It's your time to roam too. Don't forget to buy the Smoke of Deceit to hid from enemy's Observer Ward.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well then 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 item needed in the gank:
a. Use Smoke of Deceit
b. Prepare Dust, Sentry Wards, or Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin
3. Prepare the gank by assemble in one place with your team because you and your partner will roll together in the Snowball. Keep in mind that you can't always roll together with your ranged carry, it will be too dangerous for her/him.
4. Cast your ultimate: the Walrus Punch so after you arrive on your target you can immedately punch enemy in the face
5. You can cast the Ice Shards to block the enemy's way and prevent him to run away.
6. Roll toward your target. if your target is too far, the ball will stop before it hit the target, so make sure the range between you and your enemy isn't too far away.
7. The time the Snowball hits your target, he will be stunned, and that's the time to kill him, so now you can straight to punch your enemy in the face. And also your partner should harass the target too!
I believe that your target should be dead now, and if not, chase him until your team gets him.
If your team is outnumbered, you can gank the enemy, and if you are less in number, do not bother to attack them. This is the Sun Tzu's the Art of War.
Late Game
Late game is the time where all the heroes should already farmed, and that's the time for the decisive teamfight that will decide who will win the match. Be careful here because if your team lose the teamfight, it may means that your base will be raxed and you will lose the game. So ask your support player to always place the wards to spot the invisible area. It makes your team can keep an eye to the opponent's movement around the map. It is better to also place sentry wards that can detect enemy in the Smoke of Deceit. Sentry Wards can also detect enemy's Ward so your team can destroy it if there is any, also remember to place one near the Roshan's pit.
You should already reached high level here so you have an all high level skill and also an already high sats, HP and damage. And so does ebverybody in the map. And also with the high level, that means a long respawn time. That means that every move is becoming more important and decisive. So keep focus and also don;'t panic at every sitaution. Always think clearly and use all you have.
Here you should make a wise decision to choose btween 2 options:
1. To save money for buyback
2. To buy your next item
How to choose between those two? you may see how important is your next item. You can see it by: If you don't buy that item immediately, your team's can't compete with the enemy's power so buy it immediately, but if the item is not that important, you should save for buyback.
Now about your role in the late game teamfight. Your role is still the same as the mid game strat above. That is to initiate the teamfight. Roll together with your friends, stun your target, and then kncok him with your Walrus Punch!, an then block enemy's way using the Ice Shards. And finally knock him down using your attack.
Also don't forget to cast the Frozrn Sigil before the teamfight. It will slow down enemy's attack speed and movement speed that means a very good defensive skill that makes your teammates survive in a tough teamfight.
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!
ITEMS 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.
3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe
Why Drums? It gives Movement Speed and Attack Speed aura for the whole team . The attack speed aura is for teamfight and the movement speed aura is for chasing and for escaping. Also increase all your attributes so you get stronger and tankier.
Why Shiva's? The movement speed and attack speed reduction from this shivas guard will greatly reduces enemy's power in the teamfight. And combined with your Sigil, the sloer will be so high and will likely to dominate enemy in every teamfight.
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
Why Heart of Tarrasque? The survivability from this item is the core of your survival during any teamfight. Buy this and keep alive from all enemy's force.
Early Game
On early game, you may need some farm to buy some items. But if you becoming a support for the carry, just danying the creeps is enough. If you are the farmer, a Quelling Blade may help you get more last hits and denies.
If you see that your enemy is in a bad position, like if your team have stacked 2 wave of creeps or he is late to move from your creeps wave, then you can initiate a gank by using the Snowball to the targetted enemy hero. And then after the Snowball hit the target, you can block enemy's way to run by using the Ice Shards.
Also keep your eye on the area where enemy may gank you, so you can retread immediately fi they want to gank you. Observer Ward is needed here, so your team's support should provide it.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. It's your time to roam too. Don't forget to buy the Smoke of Deceit to hid from enemy's Observer Ward.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well then 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 item needed in the gank:
a. Use Smoke of Deceit
b. Prepare Dust, Sentry Wards, or Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin
3. Prepare the gank by assemble in one place with your team because you and your partner will roll together in the Snowball. Keep in mind that you can't always roll together with your ranged carry, it will be too dangerous for her/him.
4. Cast your ultimate: the Walrus Punch so after you arrive on your target you can immedately punch enemy in the face
5. You can cast the Ice Shards to block the enemy's way and prevent him to run away.
6. Roll toward your target. if your target is too far, the ball will stop before it hit the target, so make sure the range between you and your enemy isn't too far away.
7. The time the Snowball hits your target, he will be stunned, and that's the time to kill him, so now you can straight to punch your enemy in the face. And also your partner should harass the target too!
I believe that your target should be dead now, and if not, chase him until your team gets him.
If your team is outnumbered, you can gank the enemy, and if you are less in number, do not bother to attack them. This is the Sun Tzu's the Art of War.
Late game is the time where all the heroes should already farmed, and that's the time for the decisive teamfight that will decide who will win the match. Be careful here because if your team lose the teamfight, it may means that your base will be raxed and you will lose the game. So ask your support player to always place the wards to spot the invisible area. It makes your team can keep an eye to the opponent's movement around the map. It is better to also place sentry wards that can detect enemy in the Smoke of Deceit. Sentry Wards can also detect enemy's Ward so your team can destroy it if there is any, also remember to place one near the Roshan's pit.
You should already reached high level here so you have an all high level skill and also an already high sats, HP and damage. And so does ebverybody in the map. And also with the high level, that means a long respawn time. That means that every move is becoming more important and decisive. So keep focus and also don;'t panic at every sitaution. Always think clearly and use all you have.
Here you should make a wise decision to choose btween 2 options:
1. To save money for buyback
2. To buy your next item
How to choose between those two? you may see how important is your next item. You can see it by: If you don't buy that item immediately, your team's can't compete with the enemy's power so buy it immediately, but if the item is not that important, you should save for buyback.
Now about your role in the late game teamfight. Your role is still the same as the mid game strat above. That is to initiate the teamfight. Roll together with your friends, stun your target, and then kncok him with your Walrus Punch!, an then block enemy's way using the Ice Shards. And finally knock him down using your attack.
Also don't forget to cast the Frozrn Sigil before the teamfight. It will slow down enemy's attack speed and movement speed that means a very good defensive skill that makes your teammates survive in a tough teamfight.
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!
ITEMS BUILD
1. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin
| Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute + 30 Attack Speed |
3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe
| Active: Endurance - Gives bonus +10 attack and +10% movement speed to surrounding allies. Passive: Swiftness Aura - Gives bonus attack and movement speed to surrounding allies. Multiple instances of Swiftness Aura do not stack. + 9 All Attributes + 3 Damage AURA ATTACK SPEED: 5 AURA MOVE SPEED: 5% Cooldown: 30 |
3. Shiva's Guard
Total cost: 4700Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe
| Active: Arctic Blast - Emits a freezing wave that does 200 damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4.0 seconds. Passive: Freezing Aura - Reduces attack speed on enemies. Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack. + 30 Intelligence + 15 Armor AURA SLOW: 25% Manacost: 100 Cooldown: 30 |
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
| Passive: Health Regeneration - Restores a percentage of max health per second. This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged. + 40 Strength + 300 Health HEALTH RESTORED: 2% Cooldown: 6 |
Dota 2 - Bristleback Build Guide
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STATS
ABILITIES
1. Viscous Nasal Goo
Covers a target in snot, causing it to have reduced armor and movement speed. Multiple casts stack and refresh the duration.
Having caught a cold while stuck in the snow, Bristleback turns it to his advantage.
This skill is a great chasing skill. With stacking this skill into one enemy, you can harass hime asily because he will have a very slow movement and cannot run away.
2. Quill Spray
Sprays enemy units with quills dealing damage in an area of effect around Bristleback. Deals bonus damage for every time a unit was hit by Quill Spray in the last 14 seconds.
An enforcer's honor can be a prickly thing. So can his quills.
This skill is spammable. Deal small damage but will become a painful nuke because you always cast this every time. This will also trigger your ultimate which increase your damage to harass enemies more.
3. Bristleback
Bristleback takes less damage if hit on the sides or rear. If Bristleback takes 250 damage from the rear, he releases a Quill Spray of the current level.
Turning his back to a fight might be just the thing.
This is your defense skill to become a tank. With this skill, your body will become hard and enemy will have a hard time knocking you down. And also you will automatically release your Quill Spray if you receiva damages.
4. Warpath
Bristleback works himself up into a fury every time he casts a spell, increasing his movement speed and damage. The first stack (base) provides larger bonuses.
'Temper, temper,' his mum always chided. But in a fight, a temper can come in handy.
You get bonus damage and movement speed each time you cast any skill. So you must spam your Quill Sray and the Nasal Goo to increase your damage and movement speed.
SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Quill Spray
Level 2: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 3: Quill Spray
Level 4: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 5: Quill Spray
Level 6: Warpath
Level 7: Quill Spray
Level 8: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 9 : Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 10: Bristleback
Level 11: Warpath
Level 12: Bristleback
Level 13: Bristleback
Level 14: Bristleback
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Warpath
Level 17-25: Stats
Why maxed Quill Spray first? This is your main nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, and killing on early mid game.
Why maxed Viscous Nasal Goo before Bristleback? You need Viscous Nasal Goo more than the Bristleback because you will need to chase enemy hero on early-mid game.
BIO
Never one to turn his back on a fight, Rigwarl was known for battling the biggest, meanest scrappers he could get his hands on. Christened Bristleback by the drunken crowds, he waded into backroom brawls in every road tavern between Slom and Elze, until his exploits finally caught the eye of a barkeep in need of an enforcer. For a bit of brew, Bristleback was hired to collect tabs, keep the peace, and break the occasional leg or two (or five, in the case of one unfortunate web-hund).
After indulging in a night of merriment during which bodily harm was meted out in equal parts upon both delinquent patrons and his own liver, Bristleback finally met his match. "Your tusks offend me, sir," he was heard to drunkenly slur to one particularly large fellow from the northern wastes whose bill had come due. What followed was a fight for the ages. A dozen fighters jumped in. No stool was left unbroken, and in the end, the impossible happened: the tab went unpaid. Over the weeks that followed, Bristleback's wounds healed, and his quills grew back; but an enforcer's honor can be a prickly thing. He paid the tab from his own coin, vowing to track down this northerner and extract redemption. And then he did something he'd never done before--he actually trained, and in so doing made a startling discovery about himself. A smile peeled back from his teeth as he flexed his quills. Turning his back to a fight might be just the thing.
INTRODUCTION
Bristleback can be considered atanker and also can be build to be acarry hero. A tanker because he have the ability to reduce enemy's damage he receive. And he can also become a carry because he have the ability to increase his damage, and he also have the slow ability to help him chase his target.
After indulging in a night of merriment during which bodily harm was meted out in equal parts upon both delinquent patrons and his own liver, Bristleback finally met his match. "Your tusks offend me, sir," he was heard to drunkenly slur to one particularly large fellow from the northern wastes whose bill had come due. What followed was a fight for the ages. A dozen fighters jumped in. No stool was left unbroken, and in the end, the impossible happened: the tab went unpaid. Over the weeks that followed, Bristleback's wounds healed, and his quills grew back; but an enforcer's honor can be a prickly thing. He paid the tab from his own coin, vowing to track down this northerner and extract redemption. And then he did something he'd never done before--he actually trained, and in so doing made a startling discovery about himself. A smile peeled back from his teeth as he flexed his quills. Turning his back to a fight might be just the thing.
INTRODUCTION
Bristleback can be considered atanker and also can be build to be acarry hero. A tanker because he have the ability to reduce enemy's damage he receive. And he can also become a carry because he have the ability to increase his damage, and he also have the slow ability to help him chase his target.
| PROS | CONS |
| Tanky | Have spammable skill which will trigger enemy's Magic Wand |
| A great slower / chaser | Have no disable |
| Low cooldown on spells |
ROLE
Melee - Durable - Initiator - Disabler
| LEVEL | 1 | 15 | 25 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIT POINTS | 568 | 1,153 | 1,951 | SIGHT RANGE | 1800 / 800 |
| MANA | 182 | 692 | 1,316 | ATTACK RANGE | 128 |
| DAMAGE | 51-62 | 83-93 | 125-135 | MISSILE SPEED | N/A |
| ARMOR | 3 | 7 | 12 |
ABILITIES
1. Viscous Nasal Goo
| MANA COST: 30/30/30/30 | COOLDOWN: 1.50 |
| ABILITY: UNIT TARGET | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| DURATION: 5 | ARMOR LOSS: 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 |
| BASE MOVEMENT SLOW: 20% | SLOW PER STACK: 3% / 6% / 9% / 12% |
| STACK LIMIT: 4 | CONTOH: DIHAPUS10 |
This skill is a great chasing skill. With stacking this skill into one enemy, you can harass hime asily because he will have a very slow movement and cannot run away.
2. Quill Spray
| MANA COST: 35/35/35/35 | COOLDOWN: 3 |
| ABILITY: NO TARGET | DAMAGE: PHYSICAL |
| RADIUS: 625 | QUILL BASE DAMAGE: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 |
| QUILL STACK DAMAGE: 30 | STACK DURATION: 14 |
| MAX DAMAGE: 400 |
This skill is spammable. Deal small damage but will become a painful nuke because you always cast this every time. This will also trigger your ultimate which increase your damage to harass enemies more.
3. Bristleback
| ABILITY: PASSIVE | SIDE DAMAGE REDUCTION: 8% / 12% / 16% / 20% |
| BACK DAMAGE REDUCTION: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40% |
This is your defense skill to become a tank. With this skill, your body will become hard and enemy will have a hard time knocking you down. And also you will automatically release your Quill Spray if you receiva damages.
4. Warpath
| ABILITY: PASSIVE | BASE DAMAGE BONUS: 20 / 25 / 30 |
| DAMAGE PER STACK: 20 / 25 / 30 | BASE MOVEMENT BONUS: 5% / 7% / 10% |
| MOVEMENT PER STACK: 1% / 2% / 3% | STACK DURATION: 10 / 10 / 10 |
| MAX STACKS: 5 |
You get bonus damage and movement speed each time you cast any skill. So you must spam your Quill Sray and the Nasal Goo to increase your damage and movement speed.
SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Quill Spray
Level 2: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 3: Quill Spray
Level 4: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 5: Quill Spray
Level 6: Warpath
Level 7: Quill Spray
Level 8: Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 9 : Viscous Nasal Goo
Level 10: Bristleback
Level 11: Warpath
Level 12: Bristleback
Level 13: Bristleback
Level 14: Bristleback
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Warpath
Level 17-25: Stats
Why maxed Quill Spray first? This is your main nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, and killing on early mid game.
Why maxed Viscous Nasal Goo before Bristleback? You need Viscous Nasal Goo more than the Bristleback because you will need to chase enemy hero on early-mid game.
STRATEGY
Early Game
Try to spam your skill Quill Spray once in a while. It will harass your enemy on the lane. Also don't forget to get the last hits and deny. You need golds to buy some items. And if you feel your enemy needs to be harass more, you need to cast Viscous Nasal Goo too and attack him. Beware from enemy's gank. You may buy some wards and place it on the rune spot to view if there is any enemy comes to you and you should retreat immediately if you see enemy is coming. Last hitting as Bristleback is not so hard, you have a nice early damage to do it, so keep focus and last hits the low HP creep.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. So always keep your eye on the important place from where the enemy can comes up and always be careful. Always remember to replace the ward if the time is up and also always keeps an eye on the vision from the wards.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to also participate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack A and your teammates attack B, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.
2. Use the Nasal Goo to slow down the enemy, and also reduce his armor
3. Use Quill Spray for every 3 seconds to increase your damage and also harass enemy with the Spray damage
4. Attack the enemy with your increased attack damage from your ultimate
5. If you fain in the gank, retreat immediately, I believe you can escape because you have reduced enemy's damage from your 3rd skill
7. If there is enemy that is run away, you can chase him with your Nasal Goo
8. Remember to push enemyy's tower after a successful gank
9. Remember that your spamming skill trigger enemy's magic wand so they will got the charge maxed easily.
Late Game
Late game is the time for big teamfights. What you need to do is apamming all your skills. Spam the Viscous Nasal Goo into squishy enemy first. And also don't forget to spam your Quill Spray to increase your damage more. And then after that you can right click the enemy.
If you already bought good item, always use it on every teamfight. You may already bought a Blademail so don't forget to activate it through the battle. With the more stacking of Viscous Nasal Goo, your target become so much more vulnerable. it will be good for your teammates because the outcoming damage will increase dramatically.
Remember that you are the tanker for your team. You should become the man that is in the front line of your team's line-up. And should be brave to attack everything in the way. You may also buy some survivability items like Tarrasque to increase your defense more. And if you are terribly lose the teamfight, retreat immediately.
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!
ITEMS 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Why Shiva's? The movement speed and attack speed reduction from this shivas guard will greatly reduces enemy's power in the teamfight. And combined with your Sigil, the sloer will be so high and will likely to dominate enemy in every teamfight.
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
Why Heart of Tarrasque? The survivability from this item is the core of your survival during any teamfight. Buy this and keep alive from all enemy's force.
GOOD ALLIES
1. Carries
(Example: Magine, Void, Luna)
Early Game
Try to spam your skill Quill Spray once in a while. It will harass your enemy on the lane. Also don't forget to get the last hits and deny. You need golds to buy some items. And if you feel your enemy needs to be harass more, you need to cast Viscous Nasal Goo too and attack him. Beware from enemy's gank. You may buy some wards and place it on the rune spot to view if there is any enemy comes to you and you should retreat immediately if you see enemy is coming. Last hitting as Bristleback is not so hard, you have a nice early damage to do it, so keep focus and last hits the low HP creep.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. So always keep your eye on the important place from where the enemy can comes up and always be careful. Always remember to replace the ward if the time is up and also always keeps an eye on the vision from the wards.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to also participate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack A and your teammates attack B, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.
2. Use the Nasal Goo to slow down the enemy, and also reduce his armor
3. Use Quill Spray for every 3 seconds to increase your damage and also harass enemy with the Spray damage
4. Attack the enemy with your increased attack damage from your ultimate
5. If you fain in the gank, retreat immediately, I believe you can escape because you have reduced enemy's damage from your 3rd skill
7. If there is enemy that is run away, you can chase him with your Nasal Goo
8. Remember to push enemyy's tower after a successful gank
9. Remember that your spamming skill trigger enemy's magic wand so they will got the charge maxed easily.
Late Game
Late game is the time for big teamfights. What you need to do is apamming all your skills. Spam the Viscous Nasal Goo into squishy enemy first. And also don't forget to spam your Quill Spray to increase your damage more. And then after that you can right click the enemy.
If you already bought good item, always use it on every teamfight. You may already bought a Blademail so don't forget to activate it through the battle. With the more stacking of Viscous Nasal Goo, your target become so much more vulnerable. it will be good for your teammates because the outcoming damage will increase dramatically.
Remember that you are the tanker for your team. You should become the man that is in the front line of your team's line-up. And should be brave to attack everything in the way. You may also buy some survivability items like Tarrasque to increase your defense more. And if you are terribly lose the teamfight, retreat immediately.
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!
ITEMS BUILD
1. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin
| Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute + 30 Attack Speed |
2. Blade Mail
Total cost: 2200
Recipe: Broadsword + Chainmail + Robe of Magi
| Active: Damage Return - Returns any damage you take to the unit that dealt the damage. Lasts 4.5 seconds. + 22 Damage + 5 Armor + 10 Intelligence Manacost: 25 Cooldown; 22 |
3. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe
| Active: Avatar - Grants magic immunity. Duration and cooldown decrease with each use. Some Ultimate abilities are able to disable through Black King Bar. + 10 Strength + 24 Damage DURATION: 10/9/8/7/6/5 Cooldown: 80 |
4. Shiva's Guard
Total cost: 4700Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe
| Active: Arctic Blast - Emits a freezing wave that does 200 damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4.0 seconds. Passive: Freezing Aura - Reduces attack speed on enemies. Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack. + 30 Intelligence + 15 Armor AURA SLOW: 25% Manacost: 100 Cooldown: 30 |
5. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster
| Passive: Health Regeneration - Restores a percentage of max health per second. This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged. + 40 Strength + 300 Health HEALTH RESTORED: 2% Cooldown: 6 |
GOOD ALLIES
1. Carries
(Example: Magine, Void, Luna)
You initiate the teamfight and also tank the damages, and the will deal damages to the enemy!
Dota 2 - Enigma Build Guide
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BIO
Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.
There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified-a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient-his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.
INTRODUCTION
Enigma is one of the best initiator in DotA. He has Black Hole that will suck all nearby enemies and damaging them. While all enemies are being sucked, your team can easily harass - kills all enemies.
He is a great jungler on early game, with his ediolons. He can stay in the jungle until he gets all items he need to be ready for the action.
ABILITIES
1. Malefice
Focuses Enigma's hatred on a target, causing it to take damage and become repeatedly stunned for multiple instances. An instance strikes every 2 seconds.
The presence of Enigma causes a sensation of the nether pulling at one's very existence.
Stun enemy every 2 seconds. A good skill to helps you catch enemy. The damage is not so big but it's ok to help damaging your target.
2. Demonic Conversion
Splits a creep into three malevolent aspects of itself, all under Enigma's control. Repeated successful attacks cause them to multiply again; when this happens, the eidolons have their health restored.
Enigma is capable of tearing a being into another dimension - the result is a trio of ethereal eidolons that haunt the corporeal plane.
This is your jungling skill, you converts a small jungle creeps into eidolons that will tank the damage from jungle creeps and also helps killing them. Can't converts big jungle creeps like Centaur or Wildkin.
3. Midnight Pulse
Steeps an area in black magic, damaging enemy units based on their max HP.
A section of the world slowly descends into the void.
A skill that will damaging enemy that stand in the Aoe of this skill. The damage is considered good. a 3%-6% of max HP per second. A nice skill for harassing enemies in the teamfight.
4. Black Hole
CHANNELED - Summons a vortex that sucks in nearby enemy units. Enemies affected by Black Hole cannot move, attack, or cast spells. The closer units get to the center, the more damage is dealt.
The world trembles as Enigma channels the ethereal vortex of destruction, bringing it into the world of mortals.
This is the strongest ultimate in the game. A Black Hole that sucks all nearby enemies and also damaging them. If you can cast this successfully and at least catch 2-3 heroes inside your Black Hole, it is almost a guarantee that your team will win the teamfight because while the enemy is being sucked by the Blackhole, your allies can easily harassing them.
SKILLBUILD
Level 1: Demonic Conversion
Level 2: Malefice
Level 3: Demonic Conversion
Level 4: Malefice
Level 5: Demonic Conversion
Level 6: Black Hole
Level 7: Demonic Conversion
Level 8: Malefice
Level 9 : Malefice
Level 10: Midnight Pulse
Level 11: Black Hole
Level 12: Midnight Pulse
Level 13: Midnight Pulse
Level 14: Midnight Pulse
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Black Hole
Level 17-25: Stats
Why maxed Demonic Conversion first? You need it for jungling, to raise creeps and use it for tanking and damaging the jungle creeps.
Why maxed Malefice before Midnight Pulse? Malefica is a targetted stun that is more needed on early- mid game in ganking activities. and the Midnight Pulse is more useful on the late game to damaging enemies in the teamfight.
Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.
There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified-a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient-his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.
INTRODUCTION
Enigma is one of the best initiator in DotA. He has Black Hole that will suck all nearby enemies and damaging them. While all enemies are being sucked, your team can easily harass - kills all enemies.
He is a great jungler on early game, with his ediolons. He can stay in the jungle until he gets all items he need to be ready for the action.
| PROS | CONS |
| Have the best ultimate in the game | Kinda need a perfect positioning for Blackhole |
| A very good jungler | The longest cooldown for the utimate |
| Good pusher | Doesn't have an escape mechanism |
| A decent teamfight controller | Squishy |
| Slow |
ROLE
Ranged - Disabler - Initiator - Jungler - Pusher
STATS| LEVEL | 1 | 15 | 25 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIT POINTS | 473 | 1,032 | 1,811 | SIGHT RANGE | 1800 / 800 |
| MANA | 260 | 879 | 1,581 | ATTACK RANGE | 500 |
| DAMAGE | 42-48 | 90-96 | 144-150 | MISSILE SPEED | 900 |
| ARMOR | 4 | 6 | 10 |
ABILITIES
1. Malefice
| MANA COST: 110/130/150/160 | COOLDOWN: 15 |
| ABILITY: UNIT TARGET | AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS |
| DAMAGE: MAGICAL | STUN DURATION: 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 |
| DAMAGE PER HIT: 40 / 40 / 65 / 65 | INSTANCES: 1 / 2 / 2 / 3 |
Stun enemy every 2 seconds. A good skill to helps you catch enemy. The damage is not so big but it's ok to help damaging your target.
2. Demonic Conversion
| MANA COST: 170/170/170/170 | COOLDOWN: 35 |
| ABILITY: UNIT TARGET | ATTACKS TO MULTIPLY: 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 |
| EIDOLON HP: 180 / 200 / 220 / 240 | EIDOLON DAMAGE: 20 / 28 / 38 / 47 |
This is your jungling skill, you converts a small jungle creeps into eidolons that will tank the damage from jungle creeps and also helps killing them. Can't converts big jungle creeps like Centaur or Wildkin.
3. Midnight Pulse
| MANA COST: 95/110/125/140 | COOLDOWN: 25 |
| ABILITY: POINT TARGET | DAMAGE: MAGICAL |
| RADIUS: 400 / 400 / 400 / 400 | DAMAGE PER SECOND: 3% / 4% / 5% / 6% |
| DURATION: 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 |
A skill that will damaging enemy that stand in the Aoe of this skill. The damage is considered good. a 3%-6% of max HP per second. A nice skill for harassing enemies in the teamfight.
4. Black Hole
| MANA COST: 250/350/450 | COOLDOWN: 200/190/180 |
| ABILITY: CHANNELED, POINT TARGET | DAMAGE: MAGICAL |
| RADIUS: 500 / 500 / 500 | MIN DAMAGE: 30 / 50 / 70 |
| MAX DAMAGE: 60 / 100 / 140 | DURATION: 4 / 4 / 4 |
This is the strongest ultimate in the game. A Black Hole that sucks all nearby enemies and also damaging them. If you can cast this successfully and at least catch 2-3 heroes inside your Black Hole, it is almost a guarantee that your team will win the teamfight because while the enemy is being sucked by the Blackhole, your allies can easily harassing them.
SKILLBUILD
Level 2: Malefice
Level 3: Demonic Conversion
Level 4: Malefice
Level 5: Demonic Conversion
Level 6: Black Hole
Level 7: Demonic Conversion
Level 8: Malefice
Level 9 : Malefice
Level 10: Midnight Pulse
Level 11: Black Hole
Level 12: Midnight Pulse
Level 13: Midnight Pulse
Level 14: Midnight Pulse
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Black Hole
Level 17-25: Stats
Why maxed Demonic Conversion first? You need it for jungling, to raise creeps and use it for tanking and damaging the jungle creeps.
Why maxed Malefice before Midnight Pulse? Malefica is a targetted stun that is more needed on early- mid game in ganking activities. and the Midnight Pulse is more useful on the late game to damaging enemies in the teamfight.
STRATEGY
Early Game
On the early game, I recommend you to straight go into the jungle. Enigma is a nice jungler. He has Demonic Conversion to convert a creep into 3 Eidolons that can multiply itself and make you can stay in the jungle to farms on the early game. I recommend you to first stay on the easy camp until you have a level 2 Demonic Conversion that is stronger to be able tobeat the big creeps.
You may also needs a ward to gives you vision to the jungle entrance. So you can see if there is enemy going into your jungle and can immediately retreat.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. So always keep your eye on the important place from where the enemy can comes up and always be careful. Always remember to replace the ward if the time is up and also always keeps an eye on the vision from the wards.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to also participate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack A and your teammates attack B, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.
2. If there is more than 1 enemy, imeediately come near your target,a and cast the Blackhole
3. If there is just 1 enemy and not their carry, Blackhole is not needed, you can just use the Malefice + Midnight Pulse
Late Game
You are the determinants for your team whether your team will have a good teamfight or not. Your Black Hole, that is the key of your team's success in every late game teamfight. If you successfully cast a Blackhole for 4 people, your team is 100% will dominate the enemy and win the teamfight easily.
ITEMS BUILD
1. Soul Ring
Total cost: 800
Recipe: Ring of Regen + Sage's Mask
Why Soul Ring? It will meake your skill 'Spawn Spiderlings' more spammable in every situation in early game (to create more spiders, or to harass and get kills)
3. Boots of Speed
Cost: 450
Why this default boots? Well you need to save your gold foe Blink dagger and Bkb. So it will be wise to use this brown boots.
4. Dagger
Cost: 2150
5. 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. By magic immunity, you can keep fighting and cannot be interrupted (except from Beastmaster's Roar or Batrider's Lasso)
If your team still haven't got this item, then you must buy one for them.
Why Shiva's? This item is very good in teamfights, With the slowing of attack speed and movement speed, the enemy will hardly move and attack on the teamfight. A nice defense mechanism for your team.
Recipe: Obilivion Staff + Preserverance + Recipe
Why Refresher Orb? It will gives you ability to cast Blackhole 2 times that can demolish all of the enemies.
9. Boots of Travel
Total cost: 2450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Recipe
GOOD ALLIES
1. Dark Seer
2. Tidehutnter
3. Naga Siren
Early Game
On the early game, I recommend you to straight go into the jungle. Enigma is a nice jungler. He has Demonic Conversion to convert a creep into 3 Eidolons that can multiply itself and make you can stay in the jungle to farms on the early game. I recommend you to first stay on the easy camp until you have a level 2 Demonic Conversion that is stronger to be able tobeat the big creeps.
You may also needs a ward to gives you vision to the jungle entrance. So you can see if there is enemy going into your jungle and can immediately retreat.
Mid Game
Mid game is the ganking time! Everybody will roam around the map and find somebody to kill. So always keep your eye on the important place from where the enemy can comes up and always be careful. Always remember to replace the ward if the time is up and also always keeps an eye on the vision from the wards.
You have some ganking skill here. So if you want to also participate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack A and your teammates attack B, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.
2. If there is more than 1 enemy, imeediately come near your target,a and cast the Blackhole
3. If there is just 1 enemy and not their carry, Blackhole is not needed, you can just use the Malefice + Midnight Pulse
You are the determinants for your team whether your team will have a good teamfight or not. Your Black Hole, that is the key of your team's success in every late game teamfight. If you successfully cast a Blackhole for 4 people, your team is 100% will dominate the enemy and win the teamfight easily.
ITEMS BUILD
1. Soul Ring
Total cost: 800
Recipe: Ring of Regen + Sage's Mask
| Active: Sacrifice - Consume 150 HP to temporarily gain 150 Mana. Lasts 10 seconds. + 3 HP Regeneration + 50% Mana Regeneration Cooldown: 30 seconds |
2. Mekansm
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
Why Mekansm? Heal for all allies in AoE, is a must for teamfights.
Total cost: 2306
Recipe: Headress + Buckler + Recipe
| Active: Restore - Heals 250 HP and gives +2 armor in an area. Passive: Mekansm Aura - Bonus HP Regen in an area. Multiple instances of Mekansm Aura do not stack + 5 All Attributes + 5 Armor BONUS HP REGEN: 4 Mana:150 Cooldown:45 |
3. Boots of Speed
Cost: 450
| + 50 Movement Speed |
4. Dagger
Cost: 2150
| Active: Blink - Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. If damage is taken from an enemy hero, Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds. Manacost: 75 Cooldown: 14 |
Blink Dagger is a perfect item for you for initiating purpose. This item will make you can jump straight into enemy's concentration so you can do a perfect Blackhole.
5. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe
| Active: Avatar - Grants magic immunity. Duration and cooldown decrease with each use. Some Ultimate abilities are able to disable through Black King Bar. + 10 Strength + 24 Damage DURATION: 10/9/8/7/6/5 Cooldown: 80 |
If your team still haven't got this item, then you must buy one for them.
6. 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.
Total cost: 3628
Recipe: Hood of Defiance + Headress + Recipe
| Active: Barrier - Gives nearby friendly units a shield that blocks 400 spell damage. Multiple instances of spell resistance from items do not stack. + 11 HP Regeneration + 30% Spell Resistance Manacost: 100 Cooldown: 60 |
7. Shiva's Guard
Total cost: 4700Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe
| Active: Arctic Blast - Emits a freezing wave that does 200 damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4.0 seconds. Passive: Freezing Aura - Reduces attack speed on enemies. Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack. + 30 Intelligence + 15 Armor AURA SLOW: 25% Manacost: 100 Cooldown: 30 |
8. Refresher Orb
Total cost: 5300Recipe: Obilivion Staff + Preserverance + Recipe
| Active: Reset Cooldowns - Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. + 5 HP Regeneration + 200% Mana Regeneration + 40 Damage + 6 Intelligence Manacost: 375 Cooldown: 160 |
9. Boots of Travel
Total cost: 2450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Recipe
| Active: Teleport - Teleports you to an allied non-hero unit or structure. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 100 Movement Speed Manacost: 75 Cooldown: 60 |
Boots of Travel is a Recommended for late game, for fast defense. Good item for support and initiator like you
GOOD ALLIES
1. Dark Seer
| His Vacuum + Your black Hole is the worst nightmare for all the enemy team |
| His Ravage + Your black Hole is a perfect initiating combo. |
| His Song + Your black Hole is a perfect setup for every teamfight |
