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Rise, stone.

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DotA2 Hero: Earth Spirit

Purchase Order

Starting Items

Starting Option 2

Gauntlets of Strength

Circlet

Clarity

Healing Salve

Tango

Core

Bracer

Power Treads

Perseverance

Blade Mail

Late - Adapt order to situation

Bloodstone

Assault Cuirass

Heart of Tarrasque

Situational

Black King Bar

Shiva's Guard

Hero Skills

Talents

Rise, stone.

1.	Items
2.	Skills, combos, and boulders.

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Items

These items are pretty standard on Kaolin, gives him early damage and hp, and quickly solves his mana hunger problems, while serving as a bridge for late game core tank-bruiser items.

Start with the second starting option if you feel like you're going to face a lot of harass or if you're somewhat new to this hero.

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Skills, combos, and boulders.

Always pay attention to your boulders, they are the core of your skills. They don't give vision but you can cast them from a huge range without vision as a requirement. For your E, remember to always put it in front of your enemy's escape route to assure that you stun then and they can't escape.

Your Q isn't useful in the early game and is only useful as the coup de grce of your combo, so we'll take an early point at level 3 and max it last.

Max your E first for the Boulder -> E early stun combo to harass and keep targets from escaping, and W afterwards to deal damage.

By the time you're level 3, you should be familiar with this basic combo:
Boulder in front of enemy -> E on boulder to stun -> Roll -> Q into your tower or the opposite way to prevent your enemies from running away.

When you already have your Drums/Perseverance/Bloodstone/Blademail, mana shouldn't really be a problem. By the time your W is maxed, you'll have a 4 second cooldown and you'll be able to Boulder->W your way around the map constantly. Remember that your W will go through unpassable terrain while in full speed, so time it correctly or you'll end up trapped, stomped against a wall and/or dead.

Your ult should be used mainly in teamfights after quickly spamming the area with your boulders to build perimeter where your enemies can't escape without being dealt damage.