Frozen Ball of Doom - A Lich guide

Everything you need to know

This is my first guide here on DotaFire, so I'm not really sure how to do this. Anyway,
Lich is a FANTASTIC support hero, he has an amazing slow, frost blast, and is completely spammable even from the early game. Although you should save it until you have level 2 frost since it doesn't do much damage at level 1. He can also deny creeps regardless of their HP, and provide a massive armor bonus (+9 at max level) which also slows enemy attackers. And let's not forget his ultimate which can completely decimate a team if they aren't careful about their positioning.

When the game starts (1 minute countdown to actual creep spawn),buy all your stuff and buy wards and go put them on both top and bottom runes, then quickly run back to mid lane.

If you have to do the long lane (top for Radiant, bottom for Dire) then go back to the barracks of that lane, and wait for the creeps to spawn. When the creeps spawn, immediately use your E skill to deny a melee creep. This skill allows you to deny one creep every 35/30/25/20 seconds, depending on the level. Try to use it when the creeps are out of exp range of your opponents, so they get ZERO exp. If you're laning in the short lane, then deny a melee creep and head up to your tower.


Laning phase:
Your main goal is to

Babysit the carry
Deny creeps
Harass the enemy using auto attacks and frost blast

Lich has absolutely ZERO mana problems, thanks to his Sacrifice ability.
You should use Sacrifice even if you have full mana. Denying enemy carries (enemy anything really) will always be beneficial to your team.

Mid Game:
Now it's way past the laning phase and everyone is pushing towers/ganking etc.
What you need to do is remember to constantly be warding, both runes, and both jungles. roam around and coordinate ganks. It's VERY easy to gank as lich with someone else since you have a huge AOE slow. If you see 2 or more clumped enemies WITHOUT creeps nearby, hit them with your frost blast and then follow up with your ultimate, hopefully your teammates will run after them since this combo will greatly reduce their HP to about half depending on their level, and if they don't split up, the chain frost WILL kill them both.
Also you should have your phase boots completed by now so you can chase with ease. Now, do NOT go dower diving or chasing by yourself unless you can kill your opponent in a few hits, remember, Lich is VERY squishy and can easily get nuked down if you're not careful.

Teamfights:
I prefer to not have my frost armor on autocast, as it can sometimes interrupt the casting of your chain frost or frost blast, and it gets VERY annoying. So make sure your teammates always have armor on, it makes a huge difference in whether you win or not. next look for the initiation, if no one else is the initiator then you can do it. Find an enemy that has gone way too close to your team, and hit him with frost blast, then throw a Chain Frost at him, this will either cause him to run back into his team, therefore making the Chain Frost bounce all over his team, or cause him to run away from his team, and into yours, making it easy to kill him and start the teamfight.


I might add more to this after I play a few more games though
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Thank you for reading!