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Death to the Living (Undying Guide)

July 6, 2012 by knightsljx
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Build 1

Hero Build

DotA2 Hero: Undying

Offense

Damage 57-65

Defense

Armor 3.4

Other

Movement Speed 310

Attributes

Strength 74.5
Agility 30
Intelligence 77

Basic Stats

Health 1898
Mana 1235

Purchase Order

Core Items

Late Game

Situational



Hero Skills

Decay

1 9 10 13

Soul Rip

2 3 12 14

Tombstone

4 5 7 8

Flesh Golem

6 11 16

Stats

15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


Death to the Living (Undying Guide)

knightsljx
July 6, 2012


General Strategy

Undying's main role is to provide his Plague Aura for team fights and debuff enemy heroes. Hence this build is geared towards the following ideas

1) Maximise survivability
2) Provide maximum buff and debuffs for the team.

Decay should be spammed in team fights as it not only makes you stronger but also makes the enemy easier to kill by your team. Simply by spamming this while in Golem mode will cause enemy HP drop like crazy.

Soul Rip should be used to heal yourself. Use it to kill or heal others only if you are not in danger or if you are just cleaning up. The damage output you give to the team while alive far outweighs the kill.

Tombstone should be cast somewhere relatively safe but still within range. That way the longer the enemy team stays in the area, the more likely they will proc Deathlust and die to the zombies.

Flesh Golem. Your bread and butter. Just activate in team fights and wade in. Keep near to the enemy your team is focusing on and move around while spamming Decay. This will confuse the enemy team.
Make sure the enemy team see you transform to scare the **** out of them.

The best part of Undying is that it puts the enemy team in a Catch 22 situation. Do they try to kill one of the tankiest hero in the game to remove the plague aura from play? Or leave you alive and go for the DPS. Either way, your team wins regardless of whether they focus on you or not!

Lastly, never walk alone. Undying can survive ganks alone but his true potential shines when he is with a teammate

Skill Build

Decay -> Soul Rip -> Soul Rip is killer at level 3. If you lane with a disabler, you are set to kill over and over and over again.

After that, max Tombstone while getting Ulti and lvl 6. Tombstone is like having extra heroes on the field in a team fight. Never leave home without it. Deathlust FTW.

Item Build

The starting items will give you good survivability. Go immediately to Basilius to up your mana regen. Turn it off so you don't push the creep wave out. Turn on when you are pushing.

After the boots, go straight for Bloodstone in the order above. The fast perseverance will keep you alive and once you get Bloodstone, you are pretty much set.

Bloodstone is an absolute must for Undying as it fill ups his gaps perfectly. Undying has 2 skills that are very spammable and to make full use of his ulti, he pretty much as to be in the thick of the action. Bloodstone give Undying the HP/mana pool and regens that he needs to maximise his potential. The lovely thing about Bloodstone is that it's a high level item that can be built in parts cheaply. Compared to Heart where you need to store up 3200 gold for the Reaver.

After this, you can go get the items below according to the situation.

Vlads: Upgrade your Basilius to a Vlads if your team is not doing so hot. It will give you and your team lifesteal. If your team is going strong, go AC or Shiva first.

Assault Cuirass: My favourite item to get after Bloodstone is my team is doing ok. Gives Assault Aura to your team and debuffs the enemy by 5 armor. You have made any hero on your team a DPS just by standing next to him/her. In a team fight? Holy ****.
Skip AC if you are not getting farmed after the Bloodstone and get the items below

Pipe of Insight: Great item to have if your team is up against casters like Zeus, Luna, Prophet with huge nuke/area/global magic damage.

Blade Mail: Too many DPS on opponent team or getting focused all the time. Almost instakill on Huskar. Sadly does not work on Omnislash.

BKB: Swap out from Blade Mail if getting focused by enemy casters rather than DPS

Boots of Travel, Shiva's, Skadi and Sceptor are just nice to have if the game is somehow dragging on.

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by WorkPants » July 7, 2012 12:09am | Report
Undying is currently bugged at the moment. Decay essentially deals no damage (http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=44771). Tombstone's Deathlust threshold isn't scaling past Level 1/100 HP either (http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=44772).

I would recommend not playing Undying at all until he is fixed, as he is significantly less powerful than he should be in his current state.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by jaslam » July 9, 2012 2:10am | Report
leveling soulrip to at level 5 is pointless. It will be near impossible to have 15 units in lane at one time to have a better use other than faster cd. But it would still be pointless, as the creep wave will be dead, and you are waiting for the next wave, when cd is done..
max tombstone asap - then first or 2nd, upto you..

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Quote | PM | +Rep by knightsljx » July 13, 2012 6:26am | Report
Thanks for the comments. The previous build was due to Tombstone being buggesd. So I skipped Tombstone. Now that it has been fixed as of today, the build is now back to the max Tombstone build.

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