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The Lord of Bones

July 29, 2012 by Romottster
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Build 1

Build 1: Laning

DotA2 Hero: Skeleton King


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

Initial

Main items

End game



Hero Skills

Hellfire Blast

1 3 5 7

Vampiric Aura

8 14 15 17

Critical Strike

9 10 12 13

Reincarnation

6 11 16

Stats

2 4 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


The Lord of Bones

Romottster
July 29, 2012

1.Tips:
2.Items:

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Tips:

this guide means that most of your items will be usable, despite quelling blade, all these items will be needed to be used in fights so make sure that your keys are well binded.

Try to remember to tread switch intelligence treads before casting hellfire blast, then back to strength. This will let you have much more mana throughout the fight, and let you get more stuns and keep enough mana for ulti.

when past level six, if being caught out of position,while low on hp, it is best to fight, stay alive with wand and such and just reincarnating and force staffing away and waiting for team to group.

be ballsy, if you die you come back so don't be afraid to initiate and stay to fight. Wand and armlet are key items to your survival armlet gives you a significant boost to your hp when activated, so bear that in mind when running away from enemies, or 1v1'ing

keeping at least 1 tp scroll on you until you need to sell it for skull basher/mkb, will allow you to always escape to base after a force staff away. also, in early game, keeping a salve on you will give you the option to retreat, then instantly be back in the fight, which is what Skeleton King is great for.

If using forcestaff, remember to use it defensively as well as offensively, saving a team mate, reincarnating THEN saving your self is better that him/her dying

Skeleton king CAN solo roshan, this normally would happen just after you get a black king bar, as by that time you should have at least 3 points in your vampiric aura, turn on aura and auto attack to win

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Items:

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT buy both skull basher and monkey king bar OR Buying both battle fury or divine rapier. Depending on your farm, these items should be bought. If low on farm, get skull basher, if high on farm, get monkey king bar, same for battle fury. Battle fury could be replaced with a heart of tarrasque if need be, so bear in mind that the last item you get (if you reach that far in the game) is a very versatile choice. Also, if nobody else needs it, an aegis after roshan is not too bad on skeleton king. 2 reincarnations can really help the team.

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by Jonathan Hancock » July 30, 2012 2:28pm | Report
Force Staff wtf
Skip Force Staff Build a Battlefury.
WOW
you pick stats over a hero with lifesteal and crits I'm speechless.
Jonathan Hancock


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Quote | PM | +Rep by Romottster » August 1, 2012 12:20am | Report
@Jonathan Han****, Crits does not scale well early game as you g=have jack all damage to use to crit with, also, bot crit and vampiric aura ESPECIALLY vampiric aura, both will achieve nothng really but push the lane, both these 2 skills are really good against enemies late game as they synergise well in the sense that crit = more lifesteal, if you could toggle vampiric aura, it would be great early game, but pishing to a tower and just giving enemies last hits is pointless. and stats means that by level 4, you will be able to cast 2 hellfires as opposed 2 one, same reason you get stats on juggernaut. Farce staff is imperative to an sk, as the bonus int will allow you to cast more and have a higher chance to have you ultimate available, also the active will yet you initiate. Did you actually try the build or did you just look at the skills, then see that battlefury (which you shouldn't rush on sk) wast there and say noob. Thnink about it, try the buld, go watch dota cinemas guide aswell, they do the same as i do. so does purge, your talking out your *** have no idea how to play an sk
Romottster


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Quote | PM | +Rep by Great F8 » August 1, 2012 5:59am | Report
I recommend Desolator after or possibly in lieu of Force Staff. It's easily the most effective orb on Leoric as it amplifies the effectiveness of Vampiric Aura, Critical Strike, and Armlet of Mordiggian. Battle Fury is not a strong choice on Leoric and does not deserve a mention. Lastly, Power Treads could be replaced by Boots of Travel if a game goes super late.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Jonathan Hancock » August 4, 2012 1:02pm | Report
Romottster wrote:

@Jonathan Han****, Crits does not scale well early game as you g=have jack all damage to use to crit with, also, bot crit and vampiric aura ESPECIALLY vampiric aura, both will achieve nothng really but push the lane, both these 2 skills are really good against enemies late game as they synergise well in the sense that crit = more lifesteal, if you could toggle vampiric aura, it would be great early game, but pishing to a tower and just giving enemies last hits is pointless. and stats means that by level 4, you will be able to cast 2 hellfires as opposed 2 one, same reason you get stats on juggernaut. Farce staff is imperative to an sk, as the bonus int will allow you to cast more and have a higher chance to have you ultimate available, also the active will yet you initiate. Did you actually try the build or did you just look at the skills, then see that battlefury (which you shouldn't rush on sk) wast there and say noob. Thnink about it, try the buld, go watch dota cinemas guide aswell, they do the same as i do. so does purge, your talking out your *** have no idea how to play an sk


Dota Cinema sucks ***, why build a staff if you have Perseverance or Battlefury, you can farm and kill faster with 1 level of Hellfire and 3 levels of Crits by lvl 5.
Purge says Phantom Assassin should be picked in tournaments and Vlad's shouldn't be picked over a Manta on Riki, he is ****.
A skeleton with survivability, 6 hp regen 4 mana regen, will be better than an SK with a larger mana pool.
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