My guide to Huskar

Howdy. This is my first guide to my beloved hero sacred warrior. I'm just sharing my experience with him, so please, I need your comments to build this guide . And note that english isn't my native language. I'm so sorry for my bad grammar Hero Details : Sacred Warrior Huskar __Strength__ _Agility_ _Intelligence_ __________ _18 + 2.4_ _20 + 2.4_ _18 + 1.5_ Affiliation : Neutral Damage : 39 - 48 Armor : 1.9 Movement Speed : 300 Attack Range : 400 Attack Animation : 0.4 / 0.5 Casting Animation : 0.3 / 0.24 Base Attack Time : 1.6 Missile Speed : 1400 Sight Range : 1800/800 This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 713x70 and weights 4KB. Inner Vitality Burning Spear Berserker’s Blood Life Break Inner VitalityAbility Type: Active Targeting Type: Unit Ability Hotkey : V ____________________ Magically unlocks the potential regenerative power within a target unit, healing it’s life force based upon it’s primary attribute. If the target is below 40% it will heal faster. __ ____. ________. _______. ___. _______. __________________________.   Mana Cooldown C. Range AoE Duration Effects 1 170 Mana 25 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 25 seconds Duration 5(15*)% of main attrib + 2 hp regen per sec 2 170 Mana 25 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 25 seconds Duration 10(30*)% of main attrib + 4 hp regen per sec 3 170 Mana 25 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 25 seconds Duration 15(45*)% of main attrib + 6 hp regen per sec 4 170 Mana 25 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 25 seconds Duration 20(60*)% of main attrib + 8 hp regen per sec Notes: The best healing spell in DotA (IMO) since it heals based on target's primary attribute and how small hp left on target, so it scales throughout the game. Burning SpearAbility Type: Active Targeting Type: Unit Ability Hotkey : R ____________________ Using his own life force to set them aflame, the Sacred Warrior can cause his spears to deal stackable damage over time as they impact the foe. __ ____. ________. _______. ___. _______. __________________________.   Mana Cooldown C. Range AoE Duration Effects 1 - 0 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 6 seconds Duration 4 Damage per Second 2 - 0 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 6 seconds Duration 8 Damage per Second 3 - 0 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 6 seconds Duration 12 Damage per Second 4 - 0 seconds Cooldown 400 Range - 6 seconds Duration 16 Damage per Second Notes: This skill requires 15 healthcost to cast (Direct HP removal) Stack with the other burning spear No Cap (means you can stack an infinite amount of Spear so the 16 DPS at level 4 can be stacked.) Huskar's Signature Skill Damage type to target : Magical If Huskar has less than 100 life this spell can still be cast, but will have no effect. Berserker's BloodAbility Type: Passive Targeting Type: - Ability Hotkey : B ____________________ Huskar feels each of his wounds and channels the pain, increasing attack speed and damage for each 7% missing health. First bonus starts at full health. __ ____. ________. _______. ___. _______. __________________________.   Mana Cooldown C. Range AoE Duration Effects 1 - - - - - 2% IAS and 2 Damage 2 - - - - - 4% IAS and 4 Damage 3 - - - - - 6% IAS and 6 Damage 4 - - - - - 8% IAS and 8 Damage Notes: Huskar's anti-gank and battle ability. There will be a special effect when Berserker's Blood is giving a large bonus (49% missing health). Life BreakAbility Type: Life Break Targeting Type: Unit Ability Hotkey : F ____________________ Huskar reaches into the well of his own life force to heavily damage an enemy. The target takes damage equal to 50% of its hp. Slows target by 50% for 5 seconds. Huskar pays a certain percentage of his hp to cast this. __ ____. ________. _______. ___. _______. __________________________.   Mana Cooldown C. Range AoE Duration Effects 1 - 45 (*24) seconds Cooldown 135 Range - 5 seconds Duration Huskar pays 40% of his current hp to cast. 2 - 30 (*16) seconds Cooldown 135 Range - 5 seconds Duration Huskar pays 33% of his current hp to cast. 3 - 15 (*8) seconds Cooldown 135 Range - 5 seconds Duration Huskar pays 25% of his current hp to cast. Notes: This skill will damage both huskar and the target magically Can be improved by Aghanim's Scepter ((*) shows the improved values) Slow works on magic immune units. Improved version deals 65% of the target current's hp as damage. Pros and Cons Pros : An early-mid monster with his burning spear and berserker's blood Only has 1 consuming mana spell The only ranged str-hero Very Fast missile speed of 1400 Great Base Attack Time of 1.6 Can gank mid game, then tank late game Superb lane control with Burning Spear Fun to play with <3 Cons : The only skill that requires mana, costs very much mana for a non-caster str hero If not farmed early-mid game, you're just a walking meat. You have to orb walk with him, If not then, you'll just wasting time with his backswing and animation. Very little str-growth for a strength hero Very low starting damage Role in team : In my opinion, the most viable role for him is ganker. Yes, he can carry sometimes. But sure, a true carry will definitely defeat him. Either in a team clash or 1 vs 1. (Unless the carry hasn’t farmed any of his core item lol). So, in this guide, I’ll write about ganker huskar only. If you're looking for a more carry-oriented huskar then this guide is not for you. Skill Build : Burning Spear Berserker's Blood Burning Spear Berserker's Blood Burning Spear Life Break Burning Spear Berserker's Blood Berserker's Blood Inner Vitality Life Break Inner Vitality Inner Vitality Inner Vitality Attribute Bonus Life Break Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Attribute Bonus Skill Build Justification : We have to max Burning Spear ASAP! Why? Because Burning Spear itself is huskar's powerful tool to become an early-mid monster. Any early-mid game will surely has <1600 hp. And will die easily because of stacking Burning Spear on him. Next is Berserker's Blood. Why? Because we'll need this so bad for it's IAS and +damage. This skill will give you a slight advantage over your enemy in a losig battle (Of course we assumed that both huskar and the enemy's item looks almost same and the enemy is not over-farmed :P). Taken last, Inner Vitality. Yep, it's good to level up this as soon as possible if you're having a hard time in your lane (facing another orb-walker). But, a ring of regeneration or two will help you much better than this skill early game. Notice that Inner Vitality needs 170 mana and will heal based on your primary attribute. So, this skill won't help you that much early game. Because of your tiny starting strength and strength growth for a strength hero. Life Break, has to be taken asap when available. Why? Because this skill is the only huskar's ganking-skill with it's 50% slow for 5 seconds that goes through magic immunity and a frustrating damage of the enemy's 50% current HP (65% when upgraded with Scepter). Item Build : Ganker Huskar Core Items : : First item that a Ganker Huskar will need is Power Treads for it's little and cheap IAS, a little HP form str+, and the 65 ms. Second, Hood of Defiance is also viable because of it's magical damage reduction (which synergies well with your ult so you won't take much damage. So here is the question. Q : "Hey, we know that we need our HP relatively but acceptable small to increase Berserker's Blood efficiency." A : "I agree, but, when you don't take this defiance in your build, after that let's say you leave your lane at 7'ish and meet a PoTM, what will you do? Of course life break her to make her depressed because of the slow and massive damage. But, guess what? Your HP is decreased much without +magical_resistance from Defiance. If that PoTM do realize this, she'll just Melee Arrow you then Starfall. Boom, you're just a Life-Break-Skilled creep for her. Without defiance, you'll become very fragile to nukes at early game. So what's the point not taking the Defiance?"). The third is Armlet of Mordiggian. Huskar will need this for it's massive DPS, and IAS for a cheap price. But it will give you a 35 hp degeneration per second while activated, and a massive str boost (+25 str), +31 damage, and +10 IAS. The forth item, Kelen's Dagger (or just dagger), will give us a big opportunity in a gank. You just have to give a signal to an ally (usually disabler) to help you take down that unlucky hero. Then you blink next to that victim, life break him, after that your ally disable that victim. A definitely die for the victim.