Your Guide to Chuck Norris

Introduction

Before we start, just want to say Don't vote my guide down to make yours have a higher rating. That's just douchey and stupid. Also this isn't a guide from Play Dota.

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Yo, this is wilddeonpwn and welcome to my guide on Purist Thunderwrath, the Omniknight. This guide can be targetted to any type of players, new or old to Omniknight.
Omniknight is a great support, especially as a Lane support. Your job as Omniknight is to keep your laning partner alive, as he fits in as one of the "keeping their partner alive" heroes in the game along with Warlock, Dazzle and so forth.
Without further ado, let's begin!

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Hero Stats

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Pros, Cons and Other Stuff

Pros Incredibly powerful babysitter Can be paired with a carry to make sure he gets farmed 99% Chance with his ultimate of winning fights Free BKB to any ally! Best Heal/AoE Nuke in the game Pretty strong throughout the whole game Who wouldn't run from CHUCK NORRIS!!

Cons Can't deal enough damage by himself You have to be in melee range for the slow to take effect Mana-***** Anything with a Purge will render him useless. Hard to get gold unless farming (especially early game) When he's not "Winning!" he is "Losing!" :(

Skills

Purification

Type: Targets:

Active Ally Units

Instantly heals a friendly unit and damages all nearby enemy units.

Repel

Type: Targets:

Active Ally Units

Creates a powerful divine ward that blocks most magic from affecting a target unit.

Degen Aura

Type: Targets:

Passive Enemy Units

Greatly degenerates the movement and attack capabilities of enemy units that stray too near.

Guardian Angel

Type: Targets:

Active Ally Units

Omniknight summons a Guardian Angel that grants all nearby friendly units near physical invulnerability and increases health regeneration greatly.

Items

Starting

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Cost: 443 gold The Tango is for health regen early when you just can't sustain enough mana to heal nonstop. Clarity potions are for some mana regen, which is great since Omniknight should be healing the carry when (or before) his regen runs out. Iron Branch is for some early stats, can either be sold later or made into a Magic Wand Since your a hardcore support, Animal Courier is just an absolute necessity, but if someone else has bought it, guess what? Wards.

Early Game

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Cost: 1920 gold Boots of Speed, blah blah blah.. Soul Ring is a great item on Omniknight, as it takes health for the mana, and you can just heal yourself for that health back. Great item as a healing support. As I said (I think) always carry a Town Portal Scroll with you, to help defend or help a hero being ganked in tower vicinity. Flying Courier, Observer Ward, Sentry Ward, your the support, and a hardcore one too. It's your job to buy these.

Core

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Cost: 5530 gold For your boots, Arcane Boots is the usual best and common option for omninknight, being a great support item but also helping out your mana problems. Although, if you can Tread Switch accordingly with skill, Power Treads are a great item, especially with that Tread Switch Carry a Town Portal Scroll always, as I told you before. Support, blah blah blah - Dust of Appearance, Observer Ward, Sentry Ward

Core Extension

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Cost: 7806 gold Mekansm is THE BEST support item, and personally my favorite item in the game along with Force Staff this will keep you alive longer in fights and such, and a great item for Omniknight Eul's Scepter of Divinity is a great item, serving as a disable or buying you more time in ganks for your team mates. A nice combo is this with a Blink Dagger. Cyclone yourself then blink out. Necronomicon is a good item, but get at least Mekansm before this. The summons are powerful and when the warrior dude dies, it does quite a lot of damage to the killer.

SITUATIONAL ITEMS

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Cost: 509 gold This is a valid option, but usually the Soul Ring with your heal is enough for healing. After Arcane Boots, you won't have as much mana problems, so this is a very situational

Cost: 350 gold A minor slow, only get if you need some sort of slow (this isn't even that much of a slow). Also note that this STACKS with you Degen Aura, so it does kinda prove that it's a slow.

Cost: 2200 gold Ah, my Force Staff, how much I love it. Ahum.. This item is great as a support item (usually I just get it for the fun of it :D) to force your team dudes out of a horrible gank or save yourself.

Cost: 875 gold Another heal, it is an OK item, but getting a Soul Ring is better and you have a constant heal. Only get it if you really need it and nobody else has it.

Cost: 500 gold This is great, and lots of omniknights go for this in their Early Game items. He simply needs some extra mana regen, but it still is situational/optional

Cost: 2050 gold This is a good support item, especially to your melee carries. Great item, and since your a melee support too, you get the lifesteal! :D

Cost: 2150 gold Not a very great item, especially since your a support, and should be spending your money on other support items. The only time you would get this is if you needed more chasing or escaping power.

Cost: 1600 gold This is great against a Juggernaut that is ult'ing you to death. Next time he won't target you. But also your ULT makes in ineffective to ALL your team mates in an area, so this is kinda a last resort.

Cost: 3628 gold Another great support item. After your Mekansm, if there is a whole bunch of casters and nukers on the enemy team, get this item. It helps tonnes, especially in team fights. Pop your ult, Mekansm and then Pipe of Insight. Very effective combo.

Luxury items

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As a support, Scythe of Vyse and Shiva's Guard are great items. A chicken disable and an AoE Slow. It's great stuff! If your planning to get an Assault Cuirass, which you might be, only get it if you have completed you "Support Criteria" meaning you have most support items e.g. Mekansm, Pipe of Insight and then you can go for this (or something like that) Boots of Travel are great late game when you just need that TP whether it's to join a team fight or to escape, it's a great item late game. Do not get this early game. Blade Mail is a great counter to the heroes like Phantom Assassin and Ursa, they will fall to your Blade Mail in a matter of seconds (Especially Phantom Assassin). Refresher Orb is another great support item. A double Guardian Angel is beautiful and freaking amazing

ULTRA-Luxury items

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Once you have more than enough gold for..well, anything, start buying these sort of items. I remember one match where I bought a Radiance and destroyed a team (I rushed Radiance because I wanted to be an idiot :P). Heart of Tarrasque is another great item, especially in the tanking sense. Offensive: Radiance Tanky/Defensive: Heart of Tarrasque

Gameplay (NOT COMPLETE)

Doing this part is easy, kinda..not really. Well, at least choosing your lane is the easy part; the answer is simple, go with your carry, or preferably a ranged hero. One thing to note: only start healing him when he's about to die, obviously, or when your heal is lvl 2-3, which is when it is strong enough for a proper heal. Your carry should have regen, so let him use that first. But of course Repel him when needed.
GOing mid as Omniknight is a complete no-no. You simply don't need the things that going mid provides:

• Protection
• No competition for last-hitting
• The cliffs/steps

Just..don't go mid..

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This stage of the game is, in my opinion, the easiest role, and most important role, that Omniknight will ever do. You have one main objective that you must do above EVERYTHING else: Keeping your carry alive. Simple, huh? Nope. It's not that easy, and you can get quite stressed fairly easily, and if you fail, your carry might even rage at you (trust me, I've had experience) and that of course is NOT good.
Never go for ganks unless your doing the Degen Aura Build, because all you can do is Repel and Heal someone without it. Okay, on to the next part.

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By now you might have your Mekansm, depending on your early game and farm. Usually, you probably won't have it, but you should definitely have a Soul Ring. Anyway, this phase of the game is what I like to call the "Teamfight Era". It's true, and scrap what I said before, this is also a very important stage in the game for Omniknight. Make sure that you are in EVERY teamfight, and if you ultimate is not up yet, tell you team to stall for a while, then go in and destroy face when your ulti is up. Trust me, my experiences with playing against Omniknight is that that Guardian Angel is so, SO annoying, especially if I am playing a carry.

Always remember the range of your Guardian Angel. It takes time, but you'll be able to estimate it eventually. Try to get every hero in it, blah blah. Farm your Mekansm.

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This is when I think you start to fall off in usefulness, but only slightly. You can still heal, but best of all you have a free BKB! Screw what I said, your still HELL useful! This is pretty much the same concept as "MID GAME", be in every team-fight, make sure your ultimate is up, and best of all, destroy face and pwn!

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Conclusion

Thank you guys so much for taking the time to read this, I love writing guides and it's always a pleasure to hear people praising me, THANKS!

Have fun Owning Team Fights and Teams with Omni!

~wild

Credits

• Dr.D for his AMAZING guide on formatting guides.
• DOTAFire for the awesome guide making system.
• You guys for reading it.
• Icefrog and Valve for making the ******* game.
• S.Rebel for inspiring me to make this.
• SingSing (IDK, He's funny -.-.....)