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Finger him!

January 19, 2012 by WhiteMilk
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Build 1
Build 2

Build 1: Gank / Triple Lane / Roam Lion

DotA2 Hero: Lion

Offense

Damage 42-48

Defense

Armor 1.1

Other

Movement Speed 290

Attributes

Strength 58.5
Agility 52.5
Intelligence 97

Basic Stats

Health 1594
Mana 1482

Purchase Order

Starting items

Early game

Mid game

Late game

Rejected items(Unneeded and DPS)

Situational



Hero Skills

Earth Spike

1 3 5 7

Hex

2 4 8 9

Mana Drain

12 13 14 17

Finger of Death

6 11 16

Stats

10 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


Finger him!

WhiteMilk
January 19, 2012


Skills

Usage

Earth Spike - When there are several enemies coming, you may want to turn around and throw an impale. Done also for initiating minor battles. Try to align yourself with the foes and click the farther target. Chances are that you'll catch him and one or two other enemies in the Impale.
DON'T CANCEL ANIMATION ON IMPALE. It may make it run shorter than it should, thereby making you miss it. Be patient, it only takes a split second to cast it fully. Can be cast up/down cliffs and for that you must click ground in the general direction of the target.

Hex - Be reasonable. Try to cancel any chanelling skills, to disable starters/blinkers/disablers and key heroes. Think outside the box and decide who and when you must Hex. Also, Hex has no casting delay, abuse it.

Mana Drain - Do it whenever you're safe to do it and still capable of catching up with foes (unless you're laning, in this case you can just MD to harass) or escaping by yourself. E.g. Enemy Sven is chasing an ally with 350 mana and casted Storm Bolt like 10 seconds ago. As the cooldown is 14 seconds, he may stun your ally and kill him. But, if you Mana Drain lvl 4 Sven for 3 seconds, he'll be left with 50 mana, what's not enough to cast Storm Bolt, leaving your ally safe. At this moment, you may get away too, help your ally further more for him to get away or still turn around and kill Sven as he's out of mana, you can easily gank him.
Mana Drain can be casted right after Impale, also can be shift-issued, but not necessairly. Abuse it inlane because it takes a lot of mana out of your enemies and replenishes your own mana. Just remember to play it safe.
Also useful at teambattles for denying low mana pool heroes to cast key spells, like Treant's Entangling Roots and Leviathan's Ravage. It does destroy illusions you Mana Drain, it takes less than a second and takes only 10 mana, so it's awesome for this.

Finger of Death - You may use it on every situation that you are not sure if you can get the kill without it, but still totally sure that you can get the kill with it.
Can be rapidly cast after Impale, just like MD, has large range and can be used up/down cliffs. Try not to overkill with it as it's your precious weapon. Also, try to leave the frag to the carries.


When to upgrade what

MD at levels 2 and 4, Voodoo at levels 8 and 9 when:
You're facing a highly mana dependant hero inlane
You're ganking a lot and need to disable dangerous heroes

Max Voodoo ASAP when:
You're facing a lot of dangerous heroes that can do well without much mana
Heroes that have magic stick or bottle / chanelling spells / you're ganking a lot

Note that you may change the skill build accordingly to the game. Just be reasonable. If you don't feel like getting MD because you barely have the chance to use it because the ganking action is really intense, so go for stats at levels 10/12 and so on. But I should advise that if you have 2 levels of MD skilled, you may stop by a lane to regen mana and later proceed with the ganking. Also, as stated earlier, mana dependant heroes really suffer if MD'ed.

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Guide Discussion
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Quote | PM | +Rep by WhiteMilk » January 19, 2012 9:08am | Report
This is an alt tab guide I made for a friend since this site lacks Lion guides, I wrote the things from my experience at DotA so I might have some mistakes, would love it if you would give me some things to change.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by DemonicSnow » January 19, 2012 3:29pm | Report
Okay guide, but I would rather see you sub the necronomicon for a CC staff like Vyse (since you already have Eul's). While it is a lot less costly and provides amazing pushing and ganking power, I feel sustained CC from Lion is the way to go. Also, I disagree with the Aghanim's choice. CC and support items > scepter imo. Also, what is the purpose of the Force Staff and Blink Dagger? Other items would be way more effective and could be farmed faster without picking up Blink and Force. Other than that this guide is pretty okay.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by JayDe101 » January 19, 2012 11:24pm | Report
great guide - support lion is cool. I do think for that role the mekanism should be more of a core though?

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Quote | PM | +Rep by WhiteMilk » January 20, 2012 1:14am | Report
Ok noted, thanks for the tips guys.

WhiteMilk


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Quote | PM | +Rep by Lionbone » January 20, 2012 3:05am | Report
Why the hell would you name a guide like that!? :(

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Quote | PM | +Rep by WhiteMilk » January 20, 2012 3:27am | Report
In DotA when we chased enemies with Lion we used to yell "FINGER HIM!! FINGER HIM ALREADY!!!" :D

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Quote | PM | +Rep by BoredomIsFun » January 21, 2012 7:55am | Report
Confused...Imaple + Hex would be better as a support.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by WhiteMilk » January 22, 2012 5:18am | Report
Mana drain is for support, hex is for easy killing.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by A3gis » April 4, 2012 11:51am | Report
Won my very first game of DotA 2 with this build =P

I bought a bottle because I was mid and ganking a lot.
We were stomping them so I bought an early aghanims to finger people more effectively.


Here's my score:

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Quote | PM | +Rep by ConMasterFlash » April 4, 2012 1:13pm | Report
Getting 1 level of hex just got buffed, so I would take that at level 2. Even if you are playing support having both of those really early should secure kills for your carry in lane.

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