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Wraith Band
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Bottle
Hand of Midas
Eye of Skadi
Power Treads
Black King Bar
Butterfly
Daedalus
Mjollnir
Orchid Malevolence
Refresher Orb
Satanic
Scythe of Vyse
Manta Style
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Hello This is my 2nd guide. I made this guide because Medusa is a really good counter to most annoying and popular heroes in the game. In despite of that Medusa has no real counters. A good Medusa will be countered by noone. Also, Medusas is weakness is this, you need to play good to be active early game. Medusa is a hard hero to play. Landing ulties are hard and snake is not a killing tool, but a lane winning tool. That is why medusa is best plaayed on mid.
I will add medusa support somewhat later after i have test it enough.
When to pick;
When enemy has strong nukers, like Lina, Ogre.
When they have really strong carries, and late gamers like Void, Anti Mage,Phantom Lancer.
When they have illusion heroes.
When they have Undying.
When your teammates are ******s.
When you have too much carries.
When you have too much magic damage in team, and you think that you can not cooperate.
When you cannot rush mjollnir, when they have broodmother.
What Makes you the one of the best carry in the game. It can theoretically increase raw damage (damage not caused by Unique Attack Modifiers, etc) output to 160%/240%/320%/400%.
Great Synergy with manta; The active from Manta Style (when split shot is active) coupled with Medusa's split shot could potentially increase total damage output to 249.6%/374.4%/499.2%/624% (Not including raw damage, since illusions do not benefit from it).
One of the best lane controll skill. When maxed you can destroy a creepwave in seconds and push to tower with buff of aquila. Here i will copy paste from dota2wiki, they explained it great there.
If Mystic Snake hits all jumps and all targets have remaining mana, Medusa will steal
(lvl1) 20/25/30
(lvl2) 30/37.5/45/52.5
(lvl3) 40/50/60/70/80
(lvl4) 50/62.5/75/87.5/100/112.5 mana (a total of 476 mana).
If Mystic Snake hits all jumps, Mystic Snake will deal
(lvl1) 80/100/120
(lvl2) 120/150/180/210
(lvl3) 160/200/240/280/320
(lvl4) 200/250/300/350/400/450 damage (a total of 1,950 damage).
Mystic Snake cannot be disjointed by blinking or going invisible. It will also jump to units out of sight.
When snake is maxed, its a really high damage nuke.
Snake deals purified damage when ulti is.
Graet skill when you have enough mana. It almost doubles your hp. This is skill is really great, which lets you to go against most powerfull carries in the late game. İn my opininon medusa is the only carry who can stand against a farmed void in the late game.
Your counter initiaton tool, and anti-carry mechanism. If you need to initate you can always buy blink or shadow blade. Increases damage output really good, but it is really bad with clumsy allies, who uses while ulti is on.
aura items are always good. It gives good armor, which you can gain advantage of skadi with that way. ac is a good choice 4or 5th item slot.
When enemy has too much nuke damage, or when the mana-burn is countering you. (Manaburn will go through black king bar, but no damage will be dealt to you.
A situational item, i almost never build it. But sometimes you might need it.
A very good item, but try to not to build it, if the enemy team has void. Crono shut downs any king of evasion.
Good source of damage.
When you need to focus only 1 person, and others are weaklings.
A very costly and trashy item. Try to not to make it. Ask politely to a sup if he can build it.
A very risky item. Do this when you are sure that you will not die.
My favourite item on medusa. Gives better durability than heart of tarasque or satanic.
35attack speed slow comes in handy too. Choose skadi over linken unless they have a doom.
When you need to stack.
Really good damage for cheap. A risky investment though. Try to evade it.
Really good lategame item for medusa. Since illusions have split shot too. İt will increase your dps rly much. Theoritically, you will have a damage of 600percent.
The active from Manta Style (when split shot is active) coupled with Medusa's split shot could potentially increase total damage output to 249.6%/374.4%/499.2%/624% (Not including raw damage, since illusions do not benefit from it).
You can farm lanes with manta as wells, increasing your gpm greatly.
Really good carry item. Go for it as much as you can. Chain lightning is great for flash farming with snake.
Make this, when you need true strike only.
Only against juggernaut.(Not every game, if juggernaut jumps to you an kills 1-2of your supports. As a carry your duty is to protect your sups aswell.
Really good item when mid. When you have need silence for a certain enemy, like witch doctor, invoker etc. go for it.
Better choice. It gıves more dps compared to phase boots.
Best early game item in the first 10min. When your enemy midlaner, leaves the lane you will get the tower and after that you can gank lanes too.
When you have a teammate like troll warlord, and when you need to last your ulti longer you can go for this item. Do not forget to use snake 2 times too.
Skadi is great, it stacks with lifesteal, when you need more durability and have enough damage you can go for it. If you plan to make Satanic, be sure that you make helm of the dominator and stack. But protecting stacks are really important. Make sure you always have ward there.
When you need to go split push (rat doto). Or initiaton power, but not much as a blink dagger you can go for it.
Sometimes it is a considerable 6.item. Slow of shiva and skadi, will increase your durability. Attack slows are great.
It is really good, ıf they have a really strong carry who needs a shut-down, wait at back and use vyse.
When you want to go like naix.
Most instresting item for Medusa. Not so good because you are not a strenght hero. Make items like armlet of mordiggan, mask of madness or drum etc. only when you cannot farm well. Be sure to make lifesteal after, armlet.
When you have no initiators.
Trash item for medusa never make this.
When you want to go early rosh, or you have really mid game oriented carry. If you intent to go teamfights at min 15 or less, you make this item. My winrate with this item is low. Not a suggested item.
Make sure you get this before you go to rosh. This item is not costly, if supports do not buy, dont hesitate to buy the item.
Never.
Only against Warlock or Omni. (When others will not make it or do not want to)
This round thing is best sh*t for medusa. Because Medusas hard part is farming all of the stats and damage. You only need to farm this much to alchemist, to other heroes you have 1focus to farm, this why medusa is unpopular in competitive paly.
Only buy this when they have a doom, and focuses on you. If you land your ulti, the doom will be wasted on you, so your teammates will have a great advantage. İf doom does not focus you, do not make linken.
There are 2types of ancient jungling in Radiant, i prefer the first type. But i do no usually go for ancient jungling. When a ******s wants the mid, even after i pick medusa and insists on medusa not being a mid hero i go to ancient farming.
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Radiant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLR2IsxFZO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbaiVMJOi4
Dire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbCEy02-YNs
Try to avoid ancient jungling.
When your team has too much magic damage, let them use their magic first but be sure to tell them that you will wait to use your ulti, so they can focus the enemy with everything they have.
Medusa is a really versatile hero. Hard to play, hard to farm but fun to play. Well as having late game power a good medusa player can go to teamfights in the 15th min. Most fundamental part for Medusa is to learn how to use mystic snake. Mystic Snake cannot be disjointed. My suggestion for mystic snake is to trade one last hit (your deny, enemy heroes last hit) to nuke. Do not use mystic snake on level 1. 3jumps are useless. But after having 4jumps, you kill one or two creeps and use it when enemy hero comes. After 5jumps its really easier to use snake, when enemy hero comes use the snake. Try to use snake in a way of clockwise or counterclockwise. When you use snake on the middle creep, it is much more likely to miss the enemy hero. İf hero is on the right site, aim left side of the wave. İts the reserve if the hero is on the left.
I want a hero like medusa to become more popular. Medusa was picked only 1 time in ti4. with a score of 0-6-2 and items of linken phase manta. I was shocked. That is the reason i created this guide, i wont cange the competitive scens but a slight change in pubs is enough for me.
You can allways add me on steam. It is Thrud's Evening Primrose. With a picture of a anime chick from touhou project.
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