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Easy mode Skeletons

November 20, 2011 by dirrwen
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Build 1

Build 1: o.O

DotA2 Hero: Skeleton King

Offense

Damage 54-56

Defense

Armor 3.52

Other

Movement Speed 300

Attributes

Strength 94.5
Agility 60.5
Intelligence 53

Basic Stats

Health 2259
Mana 923

Purchase Order

Starting item toolbox

Early game items

Core item

Luxury items



Hero Skills

Hellfire Blast

Vampiric Aura

Critical Strike

Reincarnation

2 4 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Stats

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Easy mode Skeletons

dirrwen
November 20, 2011


Introduction

So uh.. this is my guide to Skeleton King, the easiest hero in dota, no question. He has one active ability and a free Aegis. Wtf Icefrog o.O. Despite being mega easy mode, he is still very powerful. Skelly is a pretty simple hero, so this guide will be quite short.

Skills

Hellfire Blast

Your only active ability, and quite a good one at that. It's a stun, a nuke, a slow, and a DoT. What more ya want? It's pretty spammable, but your mana pool sucks so use it wisely. It's incredibly versatile, use it to escape, chase, damage, kill, everything. Just don't spam it.

Vampiric Aura

One of your passives. Pretty self-explanatory again, just don't skill it early or you'll push the creep line.

Critical Strike

Exactly what it sounds like, this is yet another passive, and it allows you to crit. It isn't of much use early when you don't have much damage/attack speed, but it is OMG late game. Scales nicely per level, with a 15% percent chance at all ranks but ******ed strong 275% damage boost at max. This is like frikkin Morted's ult but doesn't require 40 minutes of farming. Umad Mortred?

Reincarnation

Your ultimate. Oh goodness. This is yet another reason Skelly is mega easy mode.. Free Aegis? ಠ_ಠ It has a pretty long cooldown however, so you gotta be wise with it. This doesn't mean you can't ever be in a position where you could die, just don't dive past 3 towers using this to kill that Crystal Maiden once. Also, be sure to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger when you die ;)

Items

Starting items

You can get any mix of these items to start off, it's up to you, your lane partner, and your expected lane opponents really.

Early game items

Really not much here either, Magic Wand is self-explanatory, Helm for the armor, hp regen, and a buildup to Armlet. Your choice of Treads or Phase, both are fine. Simple stuff. Now comes the "weird" part. "Dirrwen, soul ring on a hero with one ability? wtf man." Combined with Vampiric Aura, this lets you spam Hellfire Blast as well as giving you that clutch mana for an ult if you're about to die. I recommend picking this up in most games.

Core items

Armlet is absolutely the item for Skelly. It gives you damage, health, attack speed, everything. Synergies good with Vamp and Crit also. Just a perfect item, always go for this. Your combo is Activate Armlet -> Hellfire -> autoattack until dead -> repeat until all dead -> turn off Armlet.

Luxury items

All of these are good, again mostly self-explanatory stuff tbh... The Refresher might confuse some. It's pretty damn expensive, so only go for it if you're doing pretty good. While the Refresh itself has a long cooldown, it synergies great with your ultimate. If you're in a situation where you know you're going to die, and it will possibly lose the game or set your team at a disadvantage, and your ult is down, Refresher Orb will save you. Refresh, ult, run away >:3

General gameplay

So, take a lane and farm some creeps.. if you know you can kill, tell your lanemate, use your stun, he uses his stun or whatever, free kills. You generally wanna stick with your team once they start roaming for pushes and fights, and just spam your stun and be sure to activate Armlet. Smack some stuff, and hopefully you won the fight. That's pretty much it O.o Skelly is an incredibly simple, and strong hero. Have fun :o

Guide Discussion
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Quote | PM | +Rep by ixFusion » November 20, 2011 2:29pm | Report
Soul Ring, Threads, Battle Fury, Deso, Aegis, Heart or BKB = Ultimate killing machine. Also going taking vamp aura at like level 10 is the way to go. Maxing your crit and stun and spamming your stun in team fights (with the soul ring) makes you a gold machine which allows you to get some more expensive items.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by dirrwen » November 20, 2011 2:34pm | Report
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Soul Ring, Threads, Battle Fury, Deso, Aegis, Heart or BKB = Ultimate killing machine. Also going taking vamp aura at like level 10 is the way to go. Maxing your crit and stun and spamming your stun in team fights (with the soul ring) makes you a gold machine which allows you to get some more expensive items.

Hmm.. i never played much skelly king in dota, but im pretty sure Armlet is the core item for skelly =\

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Quote | PM | +Rep by PotatisFarfar » November 20, 2011 2:39pm | Report
Ussualy every thing you need to rape with him is an armlet and a BKB.

After that a currias is awesome.

Solid guide m8!

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Quote | PM | +Rep by LuvLes » November 20, 2011 3:08pm | Report
You forgot to add the part where Anti-Mage rapes this kid in the face.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Atlas » November 20, 2011 3:39pm | Report
Guinsoo made Skely, not IceFrog, or am I wrong? It's been too long.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by dirrwen » November 20, 2011 3:56pm | Report
Atlas wrote:

Guinsoo made Skely, not IceFrog, or am I wrong? It's been too long.

not sure ;D i just know icefrog is the father of dota currently =\



Ussualy every thing you need to rape with him is an armlet and a BKB.

After that a currias is awesome.

Solid guide m8!

Thanks :D!


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You forgot to add the part where Anti-Mage rapes this kid in the face.

I'll put this in just for you

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Quote | PM | +Rep by LuvLes » November 20, 2011 4:09pm | Report
dirrwen wrote:


not sure ;D i just know icefrog is the father of dota currently =\

That's right. Eul is the mother, Guinsoo adopted it when it's mother died and abused it, then IceFrog came and took it back to raise it as it's real father.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Atlas » November 20, 2011 4:19pm | Report
I didn't like DotA when Eul was the person making it. Seemed like just another custom map, not really competitive. Guinsoo came and treated it seriously and then the e-sport potential in DotA started to shine, then Guinsoo deserted it and left IceFrog in charge.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by LuvLes » November 20, 2011 5:09pm | Report
Atlas wrote:

I didn't like DotA when Eul was the person making it. Seemed like just another custom map, not really competitive. Guinsoo came and treated it seriously and then the e-sport potential in DotA started to shine, then Guinsoo deserted it and left IceFrog in charge.

NEGATIVE. Eul created the terrain and placement of everything that eventually gave birth to juking, pushing, ganking, etc. when it was just WC3:ROC. When WC3:TFT was released, a lot of people made their own DOTAs, but one stood out: DOTA:Allstars. Guinsoo never actually made it competitive, he did however add many more features to the game like Recipes, Runes, Roshan and custom heroes/items. However when IceFrog took over the reigns, the game receiving the biggest balance patch it has ever had. Ever. After that, the game became competitive.

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NEGATIVE. Eul created the terrain and placement of everything that eventually gave birth to juking, pushing, ganking, etc. when it was just WC3:ROC. When WC3:TFT was released, a lot of people made their own DOTAs, but one stood out: DOTA:Allstars. Guinsoo never actually made it competitive, he did however add many more features to the game like Recipes, Runes, Roshan and custom heroes/items. However when IceFrog took over the reigns, the game receiving the biggest balance patch it has ever had. Ever. After that, the game became competitive.

DOUBLE NEGATIVE: I specifically remember there being e-sports for DotA way back in v5.0 and later. IceFrog came in in 6.0 Here is a list of everything Guinsoo added to the game:

� Steve �Guinsoo� Feak � Primary map developer, versions 2.0 to 6.01
o Created item combination system
o Added Rune system
o Added Roshan
o Created alternate game modes
o Created Creep Scaling System
o Created 50+ items
o Created Heroes
o Shendelzare Silkwood, Vengeful Spirit
o Zeus, Lord of Olympia
o Aiushtha, Enchantress
o Morphling, Morphling
o Rylai Crestfall, Crystal Maiden
o Sven, Rogue Knight
o Slithice, Naga Siren
o Raigor Stonehoof, Earthshaker
o Rikimaru, Stealth Assassin
o Syllabear, Lone Druid
o Lina Inverse, Slayer
o Yurnero, Juggernaut
o Nortrom, Silencer
o Rooftrellen, Treant Protector
o Darchrow, Enigma
o Ezalor, Keeper of the Light
o Ulfsaar, Ursa Warrior
o Aggron Stonebreaker, Ogre Magi
o Boush, Tinker
o Furion, Prophet
o Azwraith, Phantom Lancer
o Tiny, Stone Giant
o Squee and Spleen, Goblin Techies
o Chen, Holy Knight
o Luna Moonfang, Moon Rider
o Kardel Sharpeye, Dwarven Sniper
o Jah�rakal, Troll Warlord
o Rhasta, Shadow Shaman
o Mangix, Pandaren Brewmaster
o Bradwarden, Centaur Warchief
o Gondar, Bounty Hunter
o Knight Davion, Dragon Knight
o Magina, Anti-Mage
o Traxex, Drow Ranger
o Purist Thunderwrath, Omniknight
o Terrorblade, Soul Keeper
o Leshrac, Tormented Soul
o Kel�Thuzad, Lich
o Krobelus, Death Prophet
o Lion, Demon Witch
o Lesale Deathbringer, Venomancer
o Magnus, Magnataur
o Visage, Necro�lic
o Nessaj, Chaos Knight
o Banehallow, Lycanthrope
o Black Arachnia, Broodmother
o Mortred, Phantom Assassin
o Medusa, Gordon
o Balanar, Night Stalker
o Leoric, Skeleton King
o Lucifer, Doom Bringer
o Anub�arak, Nerubian Assassin
o Slardar, Slithereen Guard
o Akaska, Queen of Pain
o Bone Clinkz, Bone Fletcher
o Darkterror, Faceless Void
o Viper, Netherdrake
o Razor, Lightning Revenant
o Naix, Lifestealer
o Pugna, Oblivion
o Leviathan, Tidehunter
o Atropos, Bane Elemental
o Rotund�jere, Necrolyte
o Pudge, Butcher
o Anub�seran, Nerubian Weaver
o Nevermore, Shadow Fiend
o Crixalis, Sand King
o Mogul Kahn, Axe
o Strygwyr, Bloodseeker
o Added unreal tournament sounds

I see what you are saying, but while the game wasn't as balanced before 6.0, it still had a large competitive scene.

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