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46 Votes

Rock Lobster-- A Guide to Slark

August 13, 2013 by TangoNCash
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Nahmae (1) | November 19, 2014 2:34am
Beautifully crafted guide.
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[deleted] (1) | August 29, 2014 10:12pm
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Don't build a Sange and Yasha like every other guide says

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Why? becuz getting a Drum of Endurance with a naked Yasha is a superior build to building a Sange and Yasha.


All aside, this is a well-made guide.
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Hutska35 (1) | June 23, 2014 10:20am
Can you explain how slark is decent again sf? I played slark mid vs sf recently and with razes and autoattacks I couldnt even leech xp because of him.
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Izzet Cthulu (1) | May 5, 2014 4:04pm
TangoNCash, I would love to thank you for this guild. The first time I played Slark was in all random in my first week of playing. Played him wrong, fed, and lost. I hated him, but later I learned I was playing him wrong, read 2 Slark guides (Yours being the first and the one that got me into him), and now about half my games have been with Slark, and he is by far my favorite and best character. Thank you ever so much. +1
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Wisheezy | January 25, 2014 4:32pm
Really nice guide mate, thank you very much for your time and effort into this.
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Nebuljr | August 28, 2013 9:10am
Geat guide, literally opened an account just to up vote this.
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TangoNCash (3) | August 13, 2013 12:28am
Thanks! I've always been puzzled about what to do if you want to build into orchid. You need early survivability but you also need the orchid super early, I'll try this point booster strat.
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BlackT | August 8, 2013 2:25am
Pretty Awesome Guide. I first experiment with more standard guides (SnY etc.), but after playing A LOT of Slark, this strikes me as the most reasonable by far. I'd agree with pretty much all the item reasonings as well. Definitely +1.
The only thing I've come to change is that after going drum-yasha or drum-diffusal in a lot of games is to replace the drum by an early pointbooster, in particular when going diffusal or orchid. Those items already give me all the INT i need and chasing or escaping is not an issue with yasha or diffusal anyways, so the only reason for the drum is survivability. For this, the point booster is better and i can build it into a Skadi later on (and I'm almost always starved for item slots with slark).
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TangoNCash (3) | May 27, 2013 7:01am
@mirror,

The Soul Ring build is in the fourth tab. I'm not nuts about it myself because there are more costefficient (although less reliable) ways to deal with mana issues -- treads wand and a drum usually does it for me. But to each his own!

And yes, percentage move speed buffs from different items do stack. You can't stack %-based movespeed buffs from yasha-derived items, but everything else works.
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Mirror (22) | May 26, 2013 12:23pm
Yay! A triple twig guide!

I like the guide, one suggestion is soul ring. It scales the ENTIRE game. It lets you spam dark park when pushing, infinite leaps, great stats.

Percent move speed from items does not stack. Drum and Yasha should not stack there buffs.
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TangoNCash (3) | May 21, 2013 5:42am
@O-R-W-K it's still in there, no? showing up on my browzer
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O-R-W-K | May 20, 2013 9:59am
WHERE DID MY KITTY SLARK PIC GO?! You make me sad :(
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