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Don't be worthless riki

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DotA2 Hero: Riki

Purchase Order

Power Treads

Orb of Venom

Wraith Band

Poor Man's Shield

Power Treads

Orb of Venom

Ultimate Orb

Point Booster

Power Treads

Poor Man's Shield

Eye of Skadi

Abyssal Blade

alternative

Manta Style

Monkey King Bar

Moon Shard

Hero Skills

Talents

Don't be worthless riki

1.	The true heir
2.	Team Work

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The true heir

i made this guide base on my perspective on how to play rikimaru, there are alot of players out there that doesn't know how to bring out the full potential of the hero based on how they play. basically rikimaru is powerful as PA or any carry in the game. the skill backstab is underrated, and players prefer to level invisibility rather than this skill, actually backstab will lead to early kills rather than being a moving ward on your lane, this is what i hate about other players using rikimaru, bec. most of the time they are useless on the lane. This gives you more chances on last hits when creeps clash within your tower so basically you need to block creep waves so that its always within your tower, you get to have last hits and more exp than just moving around while the other team is last hitting your creeps. which ever lane is fine, but i havent tried playing mid yet i dont want to argue with mid laners giving the spot, but once u get lvl 6 your fine you can definitely kill heroes, if you are laned with a good support you can kill much earlier than expected, backstab has its own crit, it doesnt show but you can see it once your enemy turns its back on you your like doubling your damage,now most guides with riki will show you MOM as a core item, let me ask you a question why do you build up MOM for riki? for attack speed and life steal, yeah thats good but whenever you use MOM you become too soft and trying to kill someone with unexpected reinforcement and sentry wards you will definitely die right away even before finding out that there's a sentry or a reinforcement on your victim. now taking all of those things in consideration i focused on survivability first, rather than buying MOM i'll buy an ulti orb for 10 to all stats, now playing safe is the key, definitely the mid laner will be ahead in level and stats if you didnt lane mid so once you have invi try to gank mid so your mid laner can farm and level much faster, how, if you try to gank mid then opponents mid laner will think twice crossing the river, forcing him to buy sentry or ask for support,reducing exp gained and gold for sentry wards, but i dont do that, i prefer roaming around once i got level 6. why bec. moving to another lane will reduce exp gain,and getting level 6 is your prio, eventually you will gain gold and you can start farming for items once your level 6, remember riki is a hero killer so you shouldnt farm neuts but farm heroes that roam basically supports,you will catch these guys putting wards or dewarding. 1 key to remember in farming heroes pick the support first bec they are much easier to kill,once you have your first ulti orb you have the advantage when it comes to stats bec basically everyone else building for damage, survivability items, remember items like shadowblade only gives them damage for broadsword, now these heroes that build up these items are my first target, i just need to buy dust and boom once i initiate on them they are dead before they realize that they made a mistake on building up shadowblade, now if your level is the same and he has shadowblade thats only 22 dmg and 30 attck spd and it cost him 2800, 2 wraith bands powerthreads orb of venom poormans shield and a dust can kill them already, so he wasted gold on that and once you get a few kills you can get ulti orb now your 10 stats ahead of everyone, now you might be thinking where is the attck speed on that, doesnt matter bec you can stay longer on clash even if they use dust on you it will take time for them to kill you especially when your in a clash your too small to be targeted so make sure when its clash dont just stick on 1 hero if they initiated on a hero that is tough you should pick the heroes behind the clash so positioning is a prio when clashing, now there are times that your teammate is ****ing gay you need to initiate first you can do that just make sure to initiate on ranged heroes then use smoke as soon as your inside now it comes to your teammates if they will back you up or ***** out of the clash,remember that even though they can use skill on you melee heroes wont be able to attack you inside smoke screen, only range heroes so pick wisely on whom to initiate on to if i see a lion on a clash that would be my prio, why i'll take away their stun, vodoo, finger of death once smoked, if someone disables me i hope thats enough time to let my teammates to come in having 2 disablers disabled,lion being smoked and other disable used on me,now you might think if they dont push through with the clash you still have blink strike,by now your done with skadi, why skadi?when i see this question from a teammate i just laugh and say you definitely know nothing, skadi bec it makes you tougher,it gives you +25 str/dex/int +250 hp/mana and it complements your skill backstab and smoke screen, it slows 35% mvspd 45 asp duration 5 for melee and 2.5 for ranged,and the delay on turning around inside smoke screen gives you more backstab hits,now if your opponent decides to not turn its back on you your slowing his attckspd down even though he has lifesteal he will be forced to run away, and dont forget about your last skill if the opponent decides not to turn its back on you you can use blink strike, using skadi will lessen your use of blink strike since it recharges for 35 sec with 4 charges, after skadi next prio is skull basher, why?basically you need to make them stay much longer inside the smoke screen and since you have +25 agi thats a decent aspd already, by the time you get abyssal its most likely gg. i will post some videos here to show what do i mean on playing safe. actually i don't think it's much of a guide, remember you dont always have to be doing what other people are doing already,or sticking with the builds that are already out there, its ok to be playful with your builds,you just need to take everything in consideration when your going to try a different path. "i'm not a sponge, that will just absorb everything that you tell me."

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Team Work

you can lane with any support, but its much better to be laned with dark seer, warlock,omni.
if you are laned with dark seer you can take invi first and him ion shield that would be a nasty combo in the beginning, while there is sentry, you can take the rune and put some damage on your enemies, while laning you can put ion shield on riki to harass the opposing team while dark seer can take last hits once you have the advantage buy sentry so they wont be able to counter your combo now since you have the advantage you can keep doing this and your lane would be outfarmed, now with skill combos put ion shield on riki then let riki attack them if they turn there back thats double damage, use smoke screen as soon as you initiate if enemy is out of smoke screen range use vaccum. when it comes to warlock i prefer to level channeling fast this is the most effective way to make use of backstab, the movspd is reduced significantly when inside warlocks channeling skill making it hard for the hero to move away from smoke screen, thus giving you more backstab hits,and when it comes to omni, any carry would want omni to be their support, especially when the player using omni is dope.