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The secret is out!

August 21, 2012 by Sallomi
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Build 1

Build 1: General Build

DotA2 Hero: Templar Assassin

Offense

Damage 53-59

Defense

Armor 4.22

Other

Movement Speed 305

Attributes

Strength 70.5
Agility 90.5
Intelligence 70

Basic Stats

Health 1822
Mana 1144

Purchase Order

Starting Items

Early Game

mid game

late game/situational



Hero Skills

Refraction

1 3 5 7

Meld

4 12 13 14

Psi Blades

2 8 9 10

Psionic Trap

6 11 16

Stats

15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


The secret is out!

Sallomi
August 21, 2012


Pros / Cons

Pros

-High burst damage
-Great survivability tool
-an easy escape when combined with blink dagger
-Lots of neg damage which can help your other carry get some easy kills
-spam-able spells with low mana costs

Cons

-Both survivability tools can be fairly easily countered (invis detection/damage over time)
-initially low hp and range
-....thats about it, there is a reason why this hero got nerfed recently

Items

I get basic regen with iron branches to rush a bottle

Although some prefer treds, i prefer phase, the extra damage and chase synergize nicely with with your traps and neg armor.

medalion is the most cost efficient way to increase your damage early, with this item and meld alone you get 14armor reduction, combine this with deso and your talking about -20armor just by yourself, imagine having a slarder on your team

next is blink, because of your medalion and phase your pretty good in the damage department, and because of the max refraction your pretty survivable, so now getting a blink dagger for easy kills is a good choice.

next there are some options, you can opt for deso, or you could get an mkb (if the enemy has evasion) or you could even get an orchid if your against an anti mage or storm spirit (the soul burn 25%damage also synergies with your high burst but low sustained damage), but i'd recomend deso at this stage or a daedelus if you have another source of -armor on your team.

Skills

maxing refraction first makes it far easier to last hit and makes you immune to harassment, it also gives more damage when using psi blades to spill damage +if you max it by 7 u'll have far more damage than anyone in the game (at that time) and you will be able to tower dive while ganking far easier.

One level of meld is high enough becuase of your medalion, this will compensate for the low -2armor and level one.

Friends

Friends of this hero are other high dps heroes and those with -armor, heroes such as bounty hunter, naga, and slarder fit this bill, also some heroes such as invoker (cold snap forge spirits) and drow can be really useful in ganks.

Enemies

There are two types of enemies that counter this hero=her best friends, slarder and bounty, and also those with damage over time, obvious heroes that fit this bill are huskar, batrider, invoker and even just an urn.

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by Detritus » August 21, 2012 6:18pm | Report
I personally prefer to level Psi Blades to max asap. I find it allows for quick farming and stuff. Add an explanation for why you did it this way?

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 21, 2012 6:25pm | Report
maxing refraction first makes it far easier to last hit and makes you immune to harassment, also, if you max it by 7 u'll have far more damage than anyone in the game (at that time) and you will be able to tower dive while ganking far easier.

Sallomi


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Quote | PM | +Rep by babylon#274306 » August 21, 2012 7:39pm | Report
i always used to only get one in refraction and max psi blades and meld, but this build is awsome :)

i don't understand why medalion isn't considered situational on this hero, now that someone has pointed it out it seems kinda obvious lol

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Hades4u » August 22, 2012 3:06am | Report
I agree with the maxed out Refraction, it gives a massive damage boost in early game.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by TehIce98 » January 18, 2013 3:20am | Report
I prefer to max meld after refraction, and only get one point in psi blades mainly for the spill, since the spill is the same at all levels

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