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Once upon a time, in the rowdy, sweaty, PC Bangs in a certain South East Asian country, there sat a silent teenager, sipping his can of Coke staring intently at the loading screen, daydreaming of how he will own the game and ride off into the sunset in Lina's arms.
-ap, he types in chat, and I click eagerly over to the Scourge side in search of my favourite hero.
My favourite indeed, for what can possibly be more exciting than facing the world with nothing but a pair of crappy shoes, a couple of GG branches, and bottle or two of clean, refreshing, spring water, and then proceeding to try to earn 3800 (alternatively, infinite) gold for your first main item with a gimped attack animation that hits about an hour after your magical wand fires that magical bolt of magical electricity?
Yep, I like Razor. The rush of electric energy through your spine when you first kill a fleeing enemy by just floating cheerfully alongside him for the lolz of every other player, when you call out to your friend sitting next to you to ignore his own screen and watch you take down a whole creep wave with a haphazard chain lightning/Radiance/Ulti salad, it's... it's... monstrous.
Of course, given that you have a time machine to play Dota before Razor became a boring, cast-this-spell hero, you should grab those starters, take a friend, go bot, get chain lightning and that speed and regen skill up ASAP, farm a 3800 Relic, polish it into a golden, shining Radiance with conspicuous amounts of TLC (or gold), and run around away from everyone to make more money than you know how to spend.
Finally, you could buy crazy items with that money, but you'd still be weaker than a 1.3 Warp Prism, do so at your own risk.
Wow, that was a crap guide, you'd probably die if you picked Razor anyway because you will be ganked and you can't run, so a better guide isn't exactly useful. I just wanted a key for Dota 2.
Have fun~~~
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I loved playing Priestess of the Moon, going for SnR Butterfly MKB as a core. I usually like to be late game carry with POM. Nothing is more satisfying at hitting an enemy hero with that stun arrow. NOTHING. ok, ok maybe soloing axe in the middle of the forest with luna's ult.
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I like most heroes, but I usually play support/semi-carry even for heroes that can be hard carry. My favorites are more by type so for;
Strength - Dragon Knight, Tide, Axe, Centaur
Agility - Viper, VS, Brood, Troll
Intel - Rhasta, Lich, Lion, Silencer
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Nice guide, may I request one for Skeleton King as he is my favorite. Straight forward and easy to play as because he has 3 passives abilities. He is an excellent hero for new players and we are going to have a lot of them when dota 2 is released.
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Techies is my favorite hero. Straight to bloodstone then sceptre.
I've had so many first blood kills with mines (bot lane sentinel top lane scourge) it's almost not even funny. One time I was laning with a Tiny, I put up mines out of the way, stood on them, and he tossed this magebane right onto me, he died. I leveled up suicide. Magebane tp's back, tiny stuns him, I suicide on him, he dies. Then he leaves :D GG
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There is something wrong with me.
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It was indeed a cold and miserable day on my first game, one day I will never forget. You could barely see outside the window, it was fogging up and chills constantly ran down my spine. I was playing with no namers but that wasn't a big deal, as I'm no hot shot myself.
The picking began, and the plethora of heroes to choose from is just, well absurd. The combinations are endless, the characters are all so unique and different, and each ability affected the game like no other. I was just going to wait it out......but I found him. There he stood, the most feared hero in all of Dota2, he looked at me with his vicious eyes and I forgot everything in my life up to this point. He was the feared, the unstoppable, the immaculate "Doom Bringer'. I had researched this being previously, and all I could figure out was that he was also called Lucifer, Leader of the Doomguard attack force.
There was one line that caught my eye, which read 'Lucifer takes no prisoners and makes sure those who presevere through his wrath die by the agonizing and burning pain of doom itself'. This is how I was going to play this beast, relentlessly, like an immortal, a god.
The game loaded and I was on my way. I bought recommended items as that was all I knew at the time, and I was off laning. My abilities were relentless, and pounded each and every foe if they stepped an inch too close. My blade was feared by all in my lane, but eventually it was time to participate in team fights. My attacks were astonishing, my powers gave the enemies chills, and my ultimate ability rendered any hero of my choice useless. I was playing Doombringer, my all time favorite hero, and doing my best for the team.....
I finished 1/17 that game, with 4 assists, but I can assure you, that one person I killed will never forget the time they were slain by the one, the only, DOOMBRINGER!
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This is a spectacularly thorough and thoughtful guide. I'm to see content like this and I really hope TL becomes home to more members of the community like you.
I do have to disagree with Necronomicon though...it's a strange item to get on AM even with invis heroes on the map.
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I would put obsidian destroyer in foes as in the pro matches i have seen them matched up lately(mostly sea games) he absolutely gets shit on lategame by him as he bypasses spell shield armor, am has no real int so ult wrecks him and od passive keeps him from really even losing mana.
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That is like the most longest Hero guide I have ever read. LOL
Very informative as well. Well now for the not as good as your guide blurb.
My favourite hero is Juggernaut!!!!
My skill build is: spin/dance/spin/dance/spin/ulti/spin/dance/spin/stats/ulti/stats x4/ulti/ healing ward x4/ STATS finish
My Item build: BattleFury/BootsOfTravel/Butterfly/AssaultCuirass/HOT or Hood of Defiance.
Most memorable moment was when we went to gank the opposing team, my team was already well infront of me while I was lagging behind, my team then went to attack all out, but they only killed one hero and left the rest at low health, then I go in and cast my ulti which immediately killed the remaining heroes. Well nothing special but I really enjoyed that moment 
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Just one thing you've missed in your guide
A lot of good players tend to go for blink->shield->venom orb+mana break
As long as you get the venom orb before mana break then you still get to keep the slow aspect
Also, if you're going to get vanguard, you should almost always get phase boots
Oh an obviously, my favourite hero is balanar, why?
His Overpowered in night!!
No one can touch him at night!!
Balanar grants :
75% IAS
35% IMS
4 sec slow spell
8 sec silence spell
40% to miss an attack spell
What more do you need than above thing??
Just dont stay close to him on night!!
(lol)
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Favorite hero definitely for all the crazy games with him, just you bulldozing through the enemy base with armlet on, stunning people and wishing for those high crits while not giving a damn about your own health pool dropping down rapidly.
Who else but King Leoric.
Favorite build was of course
SB,VA,SB,CS,SB,Ult,SB,CS,VA,CS,Ult,CS,VA,VA, then of course 3rd rank ulti @ 16 and rest into attributes
I usually started my game with the typical shield/loggers, 3x branches and tango&pot
Wand when I could for some emergencies or just for mana replenish
Got myself power treads next and after that Armlet
Already being a str hero with armlet and str treads, I had a good amount of health and could focus on my damage for my next item, I usually made stygian desolator as my next item (I simply liked it, and since you already have a source of life steal, I could focus on a damage orb.) Now that I had built my damage item, I could focus more on the tanky side of the hero, of course this too could be accomplished without forgetting about the damage side of the hero by building Assault Cuirass, Good amount of Armor and Attack speed, asp aura was a good bonus for you and your team but the idea behind it was the debuff aura, synergizing well with stygian and getting a -11 armor on my targets, making even tanky heroes like dragon knight, centaur warchief, etc... feel somewhat squishy for me.
I still have 2 empty item slots left (sold wand & shield/loggers at this point of the game since mana pool will have grown a lot because of +attributes) for more str/survivability items which I most often used them for, HoT and BKB for some more str/dmg, usually ending up having +3k hp and critting for ~800.
This build often resulted in some crazy games with me going rampage and diving the enemy team with more than often being ahead in farm already and just rampaging through the agi/int heroes of the enemy team, I could solo kill ~2 of the enemy heroes before they killed me, and the rest went down or fled after reincarnating and unleashing hell upon them again.
Much fun and laughs were shared with the pain train that Leoric is, I'm still devastated from the fact that S2 didn't port leoric into HoN, I'd still be playing the game if they had (Amun-Ra just doesn't feel the same).
EDIT: Of course, don't forget to have your TP's with you and switch your Power Treads into Boots of Travel in the late game! You don't want to lose to backdooring bitches.
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Hey!
I once had a game with Rattletrap and I just kinda predicted a rocket on a guy that would surely fail. but he wend to the shop and bought something be4 going and then I hit him in the face :D.
Everyone called me a maphacker ;p.
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Nice job on the guide. ALthough i only played HoN i still have a favorite DotA hero:
Tiny!
Go solo mid bottle first. This build is very dependent on runes though so if your team doesnt get a rune ward at 1 you might consider a stoud and standard regen. Pebbles is a ridiculously strong solo mid and once you hit level 5 and can do your combo racking in kills is easy. Haste or invis runes pretty much guarantee you a kill everytime you get them. Standard items at the beginning of mid-game should be: Bottle, Power treads, Blink, toss in a talisman or too for bigger manapool. After that you get whatever tanky style support items your team needs, AC, Shivas, or even hex or cyclone are all good.
For the skillbuild you max stun over toss. I usually dont take the ult until they've both been maxed. This gives you that ridiculous burst early.
The reason i love this hero is for the hilarious one-shot potential. If you get an early level advantage mid coupled with a reasonably fast blink(10-15 minutes) the map is just yours. Single out their squishies and keep blinking on them with the stun-toss combo and laugh maniacally as they die within your combo. ø
I've had so many good tiny games. Me and a friend used to go tiny/lion if we were tired of losing. Pretty much guaranteed kill at lvl 3 against any lane.
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On November 02 2011 11:22 seraphe wrote:
Huh. AM didn't change much at all, huh? (Though I prefer the Illidan model to the mohawk guy). The question is... IS HIS NAME STILL MANGINA?
Also, stack bashers #1 build ^^
MANGINA, the PANTYMAGE.
The double bASSher build to go along with it was redonkulus. (Treads, Fury, Double Basher, Bfly and Curiass)
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That guide was amazing, so glad I read it.
Favourite hero? Got to be the good old Brewmaster. Forget abilities, forget roles in the game. Nothing in the game makes me smile more than seeing a giant panda waddle around the map, bringing Pandamonium, and declaring things to be grizzly :D
But seriously, I used to build him mostly for the ulti, then a tank later on:
- Thunderclap
- Drunken Haze
- Thunderclap
- Drunken Brawler (a lot of people get stats, but I like to crit more :D)
- Thunderclap
- Primal Split
- Thunderclap
- Drunken Brawler
- Drunken Brawler
- Drunken Brawler
- Primal Split
- Drunken Haze
- Drunken Haze
- Drunken Haze
- Stats
- Primal Spirit
- Stats
Items would normally be rushing for a blink dagger (after boots and normal consumables), then going for a scepter, because who doesn't want better pandas :D
Then the massing would begin
- Manta
- Necro
7 units, 5 of them crazy pandas, bringing the pandamonium
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I think Rexxar is a "Foe".
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Hello tl,
I'm a drow player. I played dota from v6.53 about 1 1/2 Year. Never played ESL just some fun matches with four of my friends through IRC.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/QrwzM.gif)
I would start with shoes, tree healer (forgot the name  I think tango or something), and Branches.
I would then go for
-> Haste -> agi belt
= treads of agility
then I go for Lothar's Edge to hit out of the shadow and survive ganks. After that farming gets really easy and I try to get enough together for a Yasha -> Manta Style. After that I get a Hyperstone for more health and then proceed with Butterfly, burizia.
My Skillpoints were like:
- Aura
- Frostarrow
- Aura
- Frostarrow
- Aura
- Marksmanship
- Aura
After that: If they have many casters ->silence / stats / Frostarrow
or if not -> stats / Frostarrow / silence
I think my coolest moment is something no one beside my dota / wow / starcraft2 Buddys will understand I mean it was always so loud in our vent But maybe when I can save the ass of my buddys with a well placed silence is always an awesome moment More rewarding then killing the enemy hero
Sorry that I don't have "this" story! Would be happy about a beta key.
Best regards,
Chiller274
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I'm a DotA noob but I have put time into HoN and my favourite heroes are Tiny And Behemoth (don't know DotA name). I usually start off with stats on tiny with +3 str and +3int items (they build blood chalice later on in HoN) and work up to a bottle. then I get striders (again don't know dota name) and work up to blink dagger. From there hilarity usually ensues!
Skill build: Stun + toss till maxed, and then get other 2 skills. Innovative, i know.
For behemoth I start out some stats and mana potions building him as a support. I get striders, blink dagger, and mana ring all the while picking up wards and setting up kills. Probably the one of the coolest heroes because blocking off people trying to get away always makes you feel like a bad ass.
Skill build: I get his fissure and heavyweight (the passive) and get ult at six, after that you max fissure and the passive and put points into the AoE melee range damage boost.
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my fav hero = nessaj.
i've always had a thing for fast heroes, and while i played dota he was the fastest hero available. he could gank pretty well with stun+blink, had insane damage with mirror images + he was a str hero so I could tank if no one else was available. needles to say, i ended up tanking most of the time, but it was fun as hell because he wasn't the standard tank type because of his speed and insane ganking abilities <3
anyone know if he's in dota2 already?
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