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Stout Shield
Healing Salve
Tango
Quelling Blade
Hand of Midas
Orb of Venom
Phase Boots
Armlet of Mordiggian
Orchid Malevolence
Skull Basher
Town Portal Scroll
Assault Cuirass
Mjollnir
Abyssal Blade
Heaven's Halberd
Heart of Tarrasque
Desolator
Monkey King Bar
Daedalus
Boots of Travel
Black King Bar
Blade Mail
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PROS:
Good jungler
Best lifesteal ability in game
Good 1v1
Hard to kill mid-late game(very tanky and has "free bkb")
Great carry
Easy to farm with
Not so item dependent
Cons
Low attack speed
Small mana pool
normally easily countered by bane.
When to pick:
- enemy has high hp str carry like alch, sven, sk, balanar, etc
- your team need a versatile tank
START
Stout Shield + Healing potion + Tango
You will need this for the last hitting process since you'll be harrassed.
Often i just w8 few seconds after the begging and buy a queling blade at side shop, because it helps a lot, but this is optional.
If you think you wont be so much harassed, another start build option is Gaunlets + tango + Healing salve + 3iron branches. You will get a nice stats boost (more life, dmg and mana) and also gaunlets can be used to build drums after.
Midas is great item especially before 5,6 min but 7,8 min is still ok. It grants you IAS and will help you farm and lvl up more.
Orb of Venom: its a great item on naix especially if you want to go agressive and try some kills early. The slow synergizes well with your skill and the extra damage over time is nice too.
Phase Boots: I used to buy power treads for naix, but then I realized that phase boots is a lot better. With treads you have more AS, but quite often, enemy heros managed to escape with red hp wich frustrated me a lot. So i tried buying phase boots, and the result was amazing: nobody can escape open woounds + phase boots! Also, the +24 dmg make a huge diference in early game last hitting. So i really recomend you to buy phase over treads, at least give it a try! (note: now that open wounds has limited range, phase boots is a MUST for naix)
Armlet of mordiggan is a MUST. For strenght hero, is one of the best dota benefit/cost item.
It will give you AS, armor, dmg and hp regeneration.
Your lifesteal skills will counter the side-effect of -40hp/sec. And if you need a fast heal just ult in a creep.
Orchid Malevolence is an awesome item on naix. Lots of pro players builds this for lifestealer for these reasons:
1) it gives a REALLY NEEDED mana pool (25*19=475 mana) and regen (150%) so you will be able to cast all your spells everytime you need them.
2) It gives you 30 attack speed, that synergizes with your passive.
3) It gives you 30 damage.
4) It amplifies 25% on the target!!
5) AND its silence is a pretty nice disable. It is ALWAYS good to silence enemys: Imagine yourself against a hero with escape skill like, magina, qop, gondar, etc. You silence them, they will panic they cant run! or imagine silencing a nuker, he will be useless against your 6 sec rage + 5 sec silence! Also in teamfights, silencing key heros can be game breaker.
[b]Skull basher[/b] because of its bash wich synergizes with the IAS of rage. and It will be devasting especially after your Hyperstone!
Note:Drums is a great item. A must in competitive games. But in pubs you can skip it.
For core extension, you may consider assault cuirass or mjolnir. because the IAS synergizes with your passive skill.
I almost always go for AC, because it gives you a HUGE armor, making you even more tanky. and the -5 armor aura is rly nice and amplifies even more the extra dmg from your passive and malevolence!
I only go for mjolnir if someone is already doing AC. since it dont stack.
Abyssal is really a good option too especially to shutdown another enemy hard carry holding a bkb and because you already have skull basher (saving slots!). Also in that same "counter enemy scenario" you can think in buying Heavens Halberd or Blade mail.
Tarrasque is always a great choice for str heros.
I go daedelus when my oponents dont have high hp.
Think of bkb if the other team has a lot of disables and rage isnt enough.
MKB when i need to counter evasion.
With naix, I prefer going AC rather than Desolator, but its still a good choice.
Naix is a great farmer. Last hitting with him is very easy.
Lane is a lot better then jungle because you can set up some kills early on, because you rage and open wounds.
Try to finish your phase boots and armlet at 15min max and after that you must profit from his excellent mid game presence.
Always carry tp scroll with you in case a teamfight happens (especially if you already have armlet). Dont hesitate to tp to another lane who has enemy creeps for free farm.
Rage
"Your free Black King Bar, furnished with a temporary Hyper-Hyperstone ! Because you have an ultra-low casting animation, you can press on Rage's hotkey at the last moment in order to avoid that projectile spell.
This skill, combined with Feast and the right items, allows you to deal effectively with heavy tanks, carries and support heroes, as I'll elaborate later."
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