posted by Malystryx.GDS,
Design the "perfect hero" for Ability Draft
We're all a bit impatient for the real start of the season and of course to find out who Secret's offlaner is, so I thought might be fun to do some theory crafting.
So for a bit of fun before TI7 I tweeted out asking joinDOTA followers to DM me their best Ability Draft hero builds on Twitter. Here are three of the suggested monster builds. Now I know what some of you theory crafting gurus are thinking: 'Their builds suck, mine are better', that is why I'm giving you a chance to share YOUR perfect hero, and then for us to ALL judge and decide whether you really know what you're talking about. Sound like fun? Great.
Brief rundown of how Ability Draft works
25 heroes in Dota 2 are not part of ability draft which means you have 88 heroes in the hero pool. At the start of the game you and the other 9 players are given a random hero. The abilities of your hero, your allies' and enemies' are put into a "pool" of abilities which you each take turns to pick from. The abilities of 2 random heroes not in the game are also added leaving you with the abilities of 12 heroes to pick from.
Each player takes turns to choose one ability and you can choose to pick an ultimate first if you wish. Once all players have four abilities the game starts. The abilities in the pool not chosen by any player do not feature in the game. So let's get into it! Here are three AD hero suggestions by joinDOTA followers and their argument for why this hero would be unstoppable.
1. Lewbot's Silencer Shredder
Hero: Silencer
Abilities: Time Lock, Arctic Burn, Glaives of Wisdom, Focus Fire.
Explanation: "When you random Silencer in ability draft you know you're going to have a good time, on top of his amazing stat gains whenever he levels up (+2.5Str, +3Agi, +2.5Int) you gain his in-built intelligence steal - taking an extra 2 int from any enemy who dies near you and giving it to yourself!" said Lewbot.
My near-unstoppable Silencer combination starts off with his signature skill, Glaives of Wisdom. This takes a percentage of your intelligence and turns it into pure damage, putting all that extra intelligence you'll steal to work.
joinDOTA user Lewbot's dream combination
Next we take Winter Wyvern's Arctic burn, this gives you a decent escape and also increases your attack range to 1175 units with a 40% movespeed slow and extra max health DPS! For your last standard skill I suggest Faceless Void's Time Lock. This gives you a 25% chance to stun your enemy for 1 second, while also adding an extra 120 magic damage (as if you need any more).
Finally for your ultimate, what could be more broken with this disgusting right click combination than Windranger's Focus Fire. With maximum attack speed you can completely annihilate any enemy in seconds, as well as stunlock them with Time Lock. Clearly this build is unbeatable already... but just imagine adding an Aghanim's Scepter. I'll let you work it out for yourself."
2. DualMonkey's "Aftershock God"
Hero: Nature's Prophet
Abilities: Aftershock, Essence Aura, Death Pulse, Ball Lightning.
Explanation: "Aftershock gives perma stuns with Ball Lightning. Ball Lightning gives stupid mobility to get on people. Essence aura gives infinite mana for Ball Lightning," said DualMonkey.
joinDOTA user DualMonkey's "Aftershock God" build
"Death Pulse gives you an ability that allows you to contribute early, sustain early until you hit your break point and most importantly trigger 1 aftershock as you Ball on someone, preventing almost any reaction. Hero is NP because of his strong range and base damage probably makes him best to get xp and last hits during the laning stage!"
3. 269hz's "Pure Misery"
Hero: Any Strength hero
Abilities: Spirit Lance, Counter Helix, Corrosive Skin, Juxtapose
Explanation: why its the best: If you manage to get the Aghs, it gets impossible to push lanes vs. this build. I believe the best ability draft builds are the most annoying ones. Then you farm a radiance just by pushing lanes and life becomes miserable for the enemy," said 269hz.
"One time your team are pushing as 5, then a lance flies with 5 splitting illusions who counter-helix,corrosive skin, radiance burn you, its like aids thrown at you. You can't even kill them and they have juxtapose. Ok ok, ok I can get too carried away, but theorycrafting ability draft is the shit. Thank you for doing an article about AD. I seriously love this mode!"
Which of these AD hero designs do you think is the best?
Our challenge to you is to design YOUR perfect hero in ability draft. We will pick the best to include in an article next week and let joinDOTA users vote for which is the most deadly. Simply reply to this news with the hero you choose, the four abilities you will pick and a brief explanation of why you think it would be unstoppable.
2 Rules for our Design a Hero
- Due to a known glitch you can not pick Treant Protector, Zeus or Elder Titan as your hero, (due to them having double ultimates) but you can choose their skills.
- Please note Orb effects such as Searing Arrows and Frost Arrows are bugged on melee heroes, so please avoid a build that abuses this.
- Even though there are 88 heroes in Ability Draft, just to make things simpler you can use the abilities of any hero in the game.
A few useful tips and tricks
The best heroes are ones with good stats gain. For example Alchemist is bad but Silencer has intelligence steal automatically as part of his character, making him a top pick in Ability Draft.
Bloodseeker's Thirstwill remove the speed cap on ANY hero.
Riki's Invisibility allows you to cast spells while invisible the same as Treant Protector. VERY useful on other heroes. E.g. You could pick two stuns and Jakiro ultimate and chain stun people while in Jakiro ultimate, WHILE being invisible.
Sticky Napalm is good: Bat Rider's Sticky Napalm works on ticks of damage, and adds up to 25 bonus damage per tick. So if you get a spell that deals continious damage such as Pudge's Rot or Ion Shell from Dark Seer it will deal massive damage.
Aghanim's Sceptre in mind: You can always pick a hero where ALL of his spells are improved by Aghanim Sceptre. So for example you could have Sand King's Burrow Strike and Phantom Lancer's Spirit Lance (bounces 5 times) or Tinker heat seeking missiles that bounces to more people.
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