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February 9, 2012 by Mother Grandma
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Build 1

Hero Build

DotA2 Hero: Sniper

Offense

Damage 36-42

Defense

Armor 1.94

Other

Movement Speed 290

Attributes

Strength 58.5
Agility 93.5
Intelligence 80

Basic Stats

Health 1594
Mana 1261

Purchase Order

Starting

Early Game Core

Mid Game Dunking Machine

Luxury



Hero Skills

Shrapnel

22 23 24 25

Headshot

1 3 5 7

Take Aim

2 4 8 9

Assassinate

6 11 16

Stats

10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21


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Mother Grandma
February 9, 2012


Sniper Pwnage Guide

How to Succeed

Get boots + tangos so you can begin farming for your core. Boots lets you move fast so you can harass and not get harass. Only 1 tangos is enough since you are fast with boots and never die.

Now assuming you are in Mid lane (If you aren't uninstall the game), get a bottle because you don't want to be thirsty on the battefield. If your team don't have a horse yet then it's ok because you are sniper and can carry them.

Your whole purpose in as Sniper is to get Lothars ASAP so farm farm and farm. Once you have your lothars you won't ever get ganked or die. Lothars also let you play REALLY aggressive and you can even leave mid lane and become the ultimate ganker.

At this point you are a killing machine that can't be killed because you are running away real fast making the enemy angry. Go to the top or bot lanes and gank and push constantly and using shadow blade to chase as well as ensure that you never get killed EVER.

Once you pushed towers and got many dunks, if you are ballin enough start building your relic and turn it into a rapier. Tell your team to help you take roshan and you will become an unstoppable dunking machine.

How to fail
A lot of people like to argue that Lothars (shadow blade) is a mediocre item. Some people would tell you to get Manta style first but DONT. They are wrong and you should not listen to them. Lothars is everything and all this hero needs to be successful and I will prove you why:
Sniper + manta style = mediocre damage and no stealth/escape and no speed = YOU DEAD
Sniper + Lothars = Awesome damage, stealth/escape, AND speed = ENEMY DEAD

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by NappingPlant » February 14, 2012 9:04am | Report
Why do you talk about creep feeding and not put a single point in Shrapnel until last? That is his best skill for that task and you *will* need the gold for later. I don't see how it would be possible to get enough gold for a carry if you start leveling your ganking skills ASAP. Also, I would think a hero like Sniper would need more items than Shadow Blade to be an very effective carry. All of your luxury besides Butterfly are unfeasible in almost all situations. Instead of Quarterstaff and Claymore why not start building an agility item, like Manta Style?

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Quote | PM | +Rep by gyrate » March 13, 2012 5:41pm | Report
Thank you Mother Grandma. This guide helped me get started and begin to rebound from some serious beat downs. My later build is much different but I follow your early and mid game to the letter. Except that I like to get Shrapnel right after Take Aim. It gives me something to do with my mana and helps to protect my lane. I'll fire it right behind the enemy creeps to force the enemy back or slow them down. If they run into it I can get a few extra shots. I like taking them out of their comfort zone and punishing them for standing too close in a team fight. Anytime I can influence the enemy I can potentially come out a step ahead of them.

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