Yet another guide to Meepo, the Geomancer

Introduction to Meepo, the Geomancer

This is a guide from Rune Naundrup Dahl (Dahl)

Bio

"If you ask me, life is all about who you know and what you can find. When you live up in the Riftshadow Ruins, just finding food can be tough. So you need to cut corners, you need to scrounge, you need to know your strengths. Some of the beasts up there can kill you, so you need a way to trap the weak and duck the strong. On the upside, the ruins have history, and history is worth a lot to some people. There used to be a palace there, where they had all these dark rituals. Bad stuff. If you survived the ceremony, they would shatter a crystal and split your soul into pieces. They made great art though! Sculptures and such. Let me tell you: sometimes you stumble onto some of those old carvings. Take a pack full of those to town and sell them, then get yourself food for a few weeks. If luck is really on your side, you might find a Riftshadow crystal. Get it appraised and start asking around. Someone always knows some crazy fool looking for this kind of thing. If all else fails, sell it to a Magus the next time one's in town. They love that stuff. Still, whatever you do, be careful handling those crystals. You do not want one to go off on you. It really hurts."

Item's explained

This section is where we discuss the items.

Tranquil Boots

He doesn't have much Health early game, this is why we compensate for health loss. Activate when your 170 health points short

Tranquil Boots Disemble

Whenever you don't need health, disemble Tranquil Boots and pick up in right order to make Ring Of Basilius to gain faster mana

Vladmir's Offering

Does 16 % lifesteal to all melee units, plus it buffes the damage with 15%.
Attack speed on XXX is equal to 0,9 attacks's per second

Based on level 16. (without items except scepter)

With one Meepo = 72 * 1,12 * 0,16 * 0,9 * 1 = 11,61 hp/s
With five Meepo = 72 * 1,12 * 0,16 * 0,9 * 5 = 58,06 hp/s

Boots Of Travel

Gives extra mobility since Meepo can have, up to five Meepoes each with a Boots Of Travel able to teleport around the map with assistance of the Poof spell

Blink Dagger

Gives an extra advantage in ganking enemies and escape possibilities

Aghanim's Scepter

Summons an extra clone, but most importantly gives 100% attribute scaling (get this as soon as possible, if you're getting farmed well)

Assault Cuirass

Makes every Meepo attack faster, and gives damage reduction to incoming damage (this is a win more item)

Heart Of Tarrasque

Huge health boost, 1060 points along with 2% of maximum health HP/s (this is a win more item)

Pros and Cons

Pros Incredible good Nuker Initiater for team fights Net lock most heroes Excessively good farmer

Cons Squishy hero Net's can be hard to land Easy target in team fights Almost completely useless if opponents have silence

Team Work

Best teammates Beastmaster Skeleton King Riki Io Tidehunter Treant Protector Enigma Drow Ranger

with the spell Primal Roar Vampiric Aura Smoke Screen Tether and Relocate Ravage Overgrowth Black Hole Frost Arrows

As listed above is a handfull of heroes with crowd control, stun and aura that is a good combination with Meepo

worst enemies Medusa Earthshaker Sven Sand King Lich Lina Enigma Drow Ranger

with the spell Split Shot with Stone Gaze combo Echo Slam with Fissure combo Storm Hammer with God's Strength combo Burrowstrike with Epicenter Chain Frost Laguna Blade Black Hole Frost Arrows

As listed above is a handfull of heroes with nuker abilities that is the worst enemies for Meepo

Skills

You may have a lot of different questions regarding the spells, I will try to answer them all in this section.

Earthbind

Type: Target: .

Active Enemy Units

Rains earthen spikes that ensnares enemy units for 2 seconds in a 220 AoE.

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Poof

Type: Target: .

Active Self / Enemy Units

After channeling for 1.5 seconds, Meepo instantly teleports to nearest target Geomancer, dealing 50/80/110/140 damage in 375 AoE in the departure and arrival locations.

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Geostrike

Geostrike

Type: Target: .

Passive Enemy Units

Geomancer's basic attacks will slow enemies and deal damage over time for 2 seconds. Stacks with attacks from other Geomancers.

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Divided We Stand

Type: Target: .

Passive N/A .

Meepo summons a clone of himself. This clone can gain gold and experience as he does, but the clone cannot equip items besides the boots that Meepo has equipped.

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Experience calculation

Content based on dota2.gamepedia.

If you have ever played Meepo, you will notice your level 25 long before the rest of the player's, and here is an explanation on why.

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Summary

I hope this guide have enlighten you with the hero Meepo, with the pros and cons. Furthermore I hope to have explained how to play him and what items to pick.

Pick Meepo if: If you know how to micro If you're against squishy heroes, and they don't have escape abilities If you are not having delay over 50 ms

Don't pick him if: If you are against any of the heroes on my "Worst Enemy List" (recommendation) If you are having a hard time microing If you are having delay over 50 ms

PS: If there is anyone who has english fluent in writen, and wanna help out with my grammer, please contact me, would be appreciated allot

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Sincerely
Rune Naundrup Dahl