PubStomp Lifestealer

Introduction

This guide is focused in getting an almost unbeatable headstart, and then keep them outgunned the whole game. This Lifestealer´s guide made for jungling, so be sure the enemy don´t pick a direct jungle counter like Bounty Hunter or Clinkz, all the other heros can be dealed with if you don´t have a extremely bad start.

Pros / Cons

Good against

Bad against

You are good against any Late game carry (most games last 30 to 40 min) and any tanky hero. You are bad against any stun that ignores magic inmunity, special mencion to Faceless Void and any Jungle-counter hero

Items

Why: The selling point of this guide is the farm/exp speed, and that makes this a no-brainer. since you are jungling the first 25 min of the game, getting this is easy. Reccomendations: Always use it when is off coldown and always on the smaller creep in the camp. This is the second item to replace,turn it into a Daedalus

Why:Is the best choice, you don´t really need The Treads HP and AS boost since is almost unnoticeable in the mid/late game for a naturally tanky hero like Lifestealer Tips:When farming Always use it since it make the farm a little bit faster and if you ignored the Introduction or Pro/cons and picked Lifestealer when the got an Anti-jungler buy brown boots before finishing the midas to keep you safe.

Why: This item is gonna give you the tankiness in the early game and an always welcomed 40 damage. And Feast counter the HP loss Tips: After getting this Always farm with this on but turn it off after.This is the third item to replace , turn it into a Mjolnir

Why: Why this instead of a Maelstrom or a Mjllnir.Is because of the power gap, if you get this when you´re 6 slotted is 60 AS that don´t make any difference , but 120 Speed in the early game is awesome Tips: This is the first early item to replace , turn it into a Assault Cuirass

Why: This is incredibly useful, if you can´t get away of a gank , infest wait 3 seconds and explode blink. this is a little tricky thing to do, You can use it to gank if your ultimate is on CD and finally this allows you to farm even faster (anti-mage style) Tips: The explode blink is as difficult as the euls blink, so if you can´t do it practice a little bit

Why: Without this is almost impossible to kill sneaky heroes,you only need to hit 2 second to kill a 2000 or less hp hero with the first 6 items Tips: Ignore this if you are against Evasion Based heroes and go directly for a Monkey King Bar

Why:Since 6.84 this is one of the best Lifestealer items,because Feastcounts as physical damage, and with this you can kill squishy heroes as easly as tanky ones. you can get this instead of a Skull Basher if you got a Tidehunter, Earthshaker or Enigma on your team.

Why: This is a matter of tastes, you can get any tanky item here and works , but assault is the best in almost any game (a Satanic is good too)

Skills

Uses:This is your BKB, and the main reason Riki is on the counter list, Always start the fight by blinking and then Rage.Never use this when farming

Uses:The main reason you are in the jungle, this is insane against tanky heroes, if you get low in a 1v3 situation, start hitting the enemy tank to regain health, if you go Open Wounds then hit a tank you can regain almost 600 hp per hit. When Jungling always start hitting the big one

Uses: This is an insane skill , anyone that hits the target heals, this is also a slow so you can blink > rage > open wounds or just blink rage, and when you are low use it on any enemy hero to go full health again

Uses: First of all when you hit 6 , you go to the ancient camp and use it on the big one, Explode, and then finish the camp any time is off CD, this is the main reason of the Speed farm. Second after the 30 minute mark use it to gank with an initiator hero ( Enigma deserves a special mencion) and then keep pushing the lane to the Tier 3 and repeat till you win. always keep farming when you can´t push a lane.

Summary

Tips:
If the mid isn´t on the lane (before the 25 min mark) farm there, is faster. Never Push a lane before the 25 Alone , you don´t have escape mechanism to run if necessary.Radiant is prefered over dire because of the easy access to the Ancient Camp. And finally if you can get a kill without (a lot of) risks, take it. If you can´t difference an easy kill from a teamfight just farm

Last words

Sorry for any grammar mistake, English isn´t my native language and this is my first guide.
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