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Tidehunter

July 5, 2012 by Romottster
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Build 1

Build 1: Tidehunter

DotA2 Hero: Tidehunter

Offense

Damage 47-53

Defense

Armor 3.1

Other

Movement Speed 310

Attributes

Strength 97
Agility 52.5
Intelligence 58.5

Basic Stats

Health 2316
Mana 988

Purchase Order

Initial

Main Items

Core (need)



Hero Skills

Gush

1 3 5 8

Kraken Shell

4 7 9 10

Anchor Smash

2 12 13 17

Ravage

6 11 16

Stats

14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


Tidehunter

Romottster
July 5, 2012


Backround

Hello, this build gives you lots of survivabilty and initiation. It is for a support tidehunter that knows which heroes to pick to gush, and when to ulti. It is a wise choice to discard some items like Blade Mail and instead get something like a shivas guard or very rarely a Black King Bar. depending on the enimies and how good your early game is, some items order may also need to be swapped around.

It is crucial to get the items in the order for the initial and main items but depending on circumstances choose the components for your items and the core item order.

Make sure not to last hit too much, and anchor low gives you good mana - damage ratio in the woods/jungle for quick farming, also remember not to spam or kill steal with gush and use it for ganking not as a harass tool. Order of importance for this build: Denying,last hitting, harassing. if you are with a carry, do not last hit at all, but it is important to get some farm to complete your item builds. if you are against melee, harras them. laning against Ranged, dont get harassed (applies mainly to early game).

You don't want to die, but you will want to try and be the focus in a team fight. Blink dagger in, ravage, your sweet, then just be a dummy for damage and try to survive but if you die, no matter.

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » July 6, 2012 8:58am | Report
You won't farm this much to get those items with tide.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Malibu Stacey » July 6, 2012 9:42am | Report
What do you do with the Iron Branch & Gauntlets of Strength in starting items? Sell them? If so that's a waste of your starting gold.
You would be better served with a Clarity instead of the Iron Branch as Tide doesn't even have enough Mana to cast Gush twice for the first few levels.
Why a Ring of Basilius? Urn of Shadows would benefit Tide far more and make use of the Gauntlets of Strength you purchase with your starting gold. Hell even a Bracer would be useful & not waste the gold you spent on the Gauntlets of Strength.

Things you don't list in the items which you need as a support Observer Ward, Sentry Ward, Dust of Appearance & Smoke of Deceit. Also your text mentions Blink Dagger but the item build doesn't list it.

Why take stats at 14 & 15 if you're going to get level 4 Anchor Smash at 17?
Why take level 2 Kraken Shell at 7 instead of level 4 Gush?

You don't seem to get what "Core Items" means in the Dota community. Core is what you're calling "Main" while what you list as "Core" would be called Extensions.

Power Treads wouldn't be a useful extension for a support Tide. Late game you would want to disassemble the Tranquil Boots & build Boots of Travel. Also a support tide is very unlikely to have enough gold to build either Refresher Orb, Bloodstone or Assault Cuirass so out of your extension items Blade Mail is about the only one worth considering.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Junkrat » July 6, 2012 11:47am | Report
Horrible items and skill build for tide, anchor slam is possibly the best skill early game

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Quote | PM | +Rep by tolgaist » July 6, 2012 1:26pm | Report
Funny build:D

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Quote | PM | +Rep by WorkPants » July 6, 2012 11:25pm | Report

What do you do with the Iron Branch & Gauntlets of Strength in starting items? Sell them? If so that's a waste of your starting gold.
You would be better served with a Clarity instead of the Iron Branch as Tide doesn't even have enough Mana to cast Gush twice for the first few levels.
Why a Ring of Basilius? Urn of Shadows would benefit Tide far more and make use of the Gauntlets of Strength you purchase with your starting gold. Hell even a Bracer would be useful & not waste the gold you spent on the Gauntlets of Strength.

Things you don't list in the items which you need as a support Observer Ward, Sentry Ward, Dust of Appearance & Smoke of Deceit. Also your text mentions Blink Dagger but the item build doesn't list it.

Why take stats at 14 & 15 if you're going to get level 4 Anchor Smash at 17?
Why take level 2 Kraken Shell at 7 instead of level 4 Gush?

You don't seem to get what "Core Items" means in the Dota community. Core is what you're calling "Main" while what you list as "Core" would be called Extensions.

Power Treads wouldn't be a useful extension for a support Tide. Late game you would want to disassemble the Tranquil Boots & build Boots of Travel. Also a support tide is very unlikely to have enough gold to build either Refresher Orb, Bloodstone or Assault Cuirass so out of your extension items Blade Mail is about the only one worth considering.


-1, I essentially feel the same way.

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