Alchemest is ideal for a fast winning game in Dota2

If you are good with last hitting creeps and want to have a fast game Alchemist will be perfect for you.

The reason why Alchemist is so good is because of his spell Greevil's Greed. It adds bonus gold for each unit killed in a certain amount of time. Which makes him quite capable of getting a lot of gold very fast and then making your game easier to win.

Acid Spray - Alchemist sprays acid on targeted area. Enemy units whom walk over it takes damage and armour reduction as long as they stay on the effected area. This spell is awesome to use to farm creeps or to push your lane out when you are struggling a bit to get last hit creeps. It is also a awesome spell to cast right before a team fight due to its armour reduction and damage making team fights a lot easier.

Unstable Concoction - Alchemist makes a unstable concoction that he can throw to enemy heroes to stun and deal damage to them. The longer he makes it the more damage and the longer the stun will last. When 5 seconds past the Concoction explodes and if not thrown to a enemy hero Alchemist will be stunned and dealt damage to. If used correctly this could be a very nifty spell to have. Try to start making your Unstable Concoction a little bit earlier before you go into battle to get a longer stun in and deal more damage to targeted hero.

Greevil's Greed - Alchemists signature ability. Alchemists gets bonus gold for each creep killed in a period of time. Bonus gold is capped at 30 gold per creep. This spell is a must get spell in early game because you can get twice as fast your items as any other hero can in dota 2.

Chemical Rage- Alchemists becomes a raging oger regenerating life faster than your fountain can heal you on level 16 and gaining a lot of attack speed and movement speed. When ever you go into a team fight make sure to use this spell every time. It will save your life and enable you to get kills.

How you are going to play him is as follow:

Farm as hard as you can. Last hit every creep and try to keep getting gold stacks with your spell Greevil's Greed. Try and keep it on 30 gold capped at all times. Also remember you get a gold stack for each 'unit' killed so those smaller neutral camps with 5 little units in will give you approximately more gold than a big camp 5 x 30 = 150 gold and that's dis including their own gold.

Remember to always engage with your ultimate on and start you Unstable Concoction a little earlier before engage, about 2-4 seconds before engaging. Also remember to throw your Acid Spray. The armour reduction will automatically let you win team fights and get more gold.

Usually a awesome way to surprise an enemy hero is to start your Unstable Concoction and then use a Shadow Blade Item to make your self invisible. As soon as your Unstable Concoction is about to blow up attack the enemy hero and throw it at him.

What you are getting for Alchemist

Power Treads

Power Treads will give you that extra attack speed you want and that bit of extra health you need. Reason why i don't recommend Phase Boots is because your ultimate already gives you extra movement speed.

Shadow Blade

To surprise wondering heroes and get some extra free kills. Also to escape  tight situations.

Assault Cruirass

Gives you a lot of extra attack speed and makes you rediciously tank.

Abyssal Blade

Gives you a 25% chance to stun a target and an activated ability to stun any unit even magic immune for 2 seconds. and it gives you +100 damage.

Heart of Tarrasque

gives you 300 health plus 40 strength and 2% of your max health to regenerate.

Wraith King a tricky hero in Dota2

Wrath King in Dota2 can be frustrating, especially to stay alive..LOL.  Even after Reincarnation you should know when to run into a team and fight.

Wraith king is the only hero in Dota2 who has a built in Ages (The item dropped by killing Roshan which enables you to to come back to life after death.) which makes him quite unique and a superb hero to play.

Remember, he is a carry so do not play this hero if you don't know how to 'last hit' properly and don't know the basics of Dota 2. Wraith King's spells are:

§  Wraith Blast - Wraith king shoots out a bolt of fire stunning an enemy hero dealing damage over time and slowing targeted unit down. This spell is awesome to initiate with or pick some heroes off or even slowing down enemy heroes who want to kill you and you don't have your Reincarnation ability available. Preferably only take one level of this spell till you hit level 8 then you can if you see fit level it up some more.

§  Vampiric Aura - Wraith King gives all nearby friendly units gain lifesteal. This is also an awesome ability to have if you want to jungle or if you need some healing you can level up this ability and it is great for your team. I only take one level of this till level 8 as well.

§  Mortal Strike - Wraith King gains a chance to do a massive critical strike. This is one of them most awesome abilities Wraith King has and if you have luck on your side this will also be your favourite spell on Wraith King. If you get your damage high enough with some nice items Wraith Knight will almost become like an Phantom Assassin criting the living hell out of anything close. I Maximize this ability usually out once I reach level 7.

§  Reincarnation - Wraith King becomes alive again after death and then once he is alive he slows all nearby enemies. The best part of Wraith King is this ultimate. Your enemies don't have to kill you once but twice ! Plus if you have Ages on you the have to kill you thrice. Always take this spell on level 6. Don't be shy to engage on enemy heroes even with low life, as long as you have your team behind you or just a quick sacrifice to get your health back. Point is this spell makes you the most self confidant hero there is with two lifes.

How you are going to play him is as follow:

Like I mentioned earlier don't be shy with him. If you see a team fight which you will win engage even if you are on 10% health just go for it. If you are bound to die try to run in the middle of all the enemy heroes to slow them all down once you die and when you come back pick them one by one off. Another thing always keep in mind that you have your ultimate and that you won't die just like that also remember and watch your mana. Reincarnation costs 140 mana to activate so be careful with your Wraith Blast's and keep track of that mana.

Farm hard to get your items. Nothing can beat a farmed Wraith King. And hope you have luck on your side for those amazing critical strikes.

What you are going to buy for Wraith King:

Phase Boots

Reason why you should go for phase boots is first of all for whenever you Wraith Blast a hero you can instantly get to him and be twice as fast as him. Secondly for the damage, it will enlarge your critical strikes with a decent amount.

Armlet of Mordiggian

Almost every recommend this item for Wraith King. It increases your life with an incredible amount as well as your damage enabling you to hit massive critical strikes.

Battle Fury

Awesome damage and health/mana regeneration. Plus you every time you attack you get splash damage dealing 30% of your damage in a area of effect. This means when ever you get a critical strike everyone feels it.

Assault Cuirass

This is a must get item for almost every strength hero. It gives you a lot of extra attack speed and gives your tremendous amounts of armour. Also reducing nearby enemy's armour.

Heart of Tarrasque

Another must get item for almost every strength hero. Gives you an insane amount of extra health and regenerates 2% of your maximum health per second when you are out of combat.

Satanic

Also a very good item to get for Wraith King. I used correctly you will theoretically have three lives. This item gives you a passive 25% extra livesteal on top of your Vampiric Aura and when activate another 175% extra lifesteal. Meaning every time you hit you will be almost full health.

Black King Bar

Very nice item to have for the fact that when you have this item and you activate it, almost 80% of all spells won't work on you. There are exceptions for some heroes though so just be wary.

Death Prophet, the meanest toughest girl in Dota2

One of the meanest, toughest, awesome girls in dota 2. She can do insane amounts of spell damage with her Crypt Swarm and her Exorcism. Take towers like no other hero can. It just is Death Prophet. The thing is I am really not joking on her tower taking skills, she can literally single handedly take about two towers on level 6 not to mention level 11 and level 16. The only problem is that with this much power comes insane amounts of  care.

Death Prophet's spells

Crypt Swarm -  Summons a wave of creatures dealing massive damage in a area.

Silence - Death prophet silences targets in a large area. Making them not able to cast spells.

Witchcraft - Increases the base movement speed of Death Prophet and make all her spells more sufficient.

Exorcism - Death Prophet releases a lot of flying ghosts damaging enemy units severely.

How are you going to use these spells

 Crypt Swarm - One of the reasons why I hate  playing against a Death Prophet is because of Crypt Swarm. It is very low on mana cost and it has almost no cooldown depending on which level your Witchcraft is. Try and start using this spell on level 3 and not on level 1 because there is a large damage difference and almost no mana difference. Meaning you will just waste mana and by the time you hit level 3 you will have no mana to cast your deadly wave of death. You can also use this ability while defending a tower which your enemies are attacking, just continuesly use it against them. Sooner or later if they don't have a hero like Dazzle, Omniknight, Warlock or Chen they will have to fall back because of they health getting to low. Witchcraft reduces mana cost and cooldown.

Silence - Awesome ability to use when you don't want an enemy hero to use a spell to escape or even to cast on yourself. Also an awesome time to cast this spell is if you are about to initiate in a team fight. If the enemies cant cast spells, they wont have anything but normal attacks to stop your team meaning your team will have the upper hand for the first 5 seconds and remember an entire team fight sometimes just go on for 3 seconds. You can also sometimes save your allies life just by silencing a enemy hero which is about to cast an spell on your ally for the final blow. Witch Craft reduces mana cost and cooldown.

Witchcraft - This is a passive spell which Death Prophet has and therefore it is constantly having an effect on you. If you are looking to use your Crypt Swarm spell between level 1 to level 5 I recommend getting at least one level of Witchcraft because of its effects on Crypt Swarm. Like decreasing its mana cost and the time that requires to pass before you can use it again. It also increases the number of ghosts created by Exorcism.

Exorcism - The ability that when you see it, you run away because you know that if you come close, you will lose a ton of health and most likely your life. It is the ability that summons all those green flying monstrosities of  that eat everything in their paths. Best way to use this ability is when you want to gang a enemy hero and maybe want to take the tower down with him or when you and your team are going to start a teamfight. And when you want to push our a lane and take a few towers and even rax.

What you should look out for

Like I mentioned in the beginning, there are a few things you should always look out for and always be aware of. First thing is if the other team have a hero with an item called BLADEMAIL this item will almost instantly kill you if you activate your ulti while he just activated his Blademail. Reason is that this item returns a percentage of the damage you dealth to him. So if all your ghosts go for this hero, your health will drop just as fast as his is dropping.

Luckely there is a way to counter this. Just save up for a BLACK KING BAR. This item makes you immune to almost all magic spells except for passive stuns like SKull Basher and some of the heroes passive stun spells liek Faceless Void, Troll Warlord, Slardar. So if you see Blademail going up, start saving for Black King Bar immediately.

Items which you should buy for Death Prophet

Phase Boots / Boots of Travel

Phase boots is awesome to get early game and to get for your first real non-basic item. It increases your damage with a lot and just makes you super fast once you activated it plus with your Witchcraft spell you will almost reach the max speed limit. Boots of Travel is more meant for late game when you want to quickly sneak in a tower kill or be able to always teleport back to base when help is needed or you are in trouble.

Bottle

This should be your first item you should buy after you bought all your starting items. It will let you be able to store runes which lye in the river or heal you and regenerate you mana 3 times. You can refill your bottle by either capturing a rune or returning to your fountain in base. How you capture runes is quite simple, just right click on the rune and it will automatically go straight into your bottle.

Shadow Blade 

Wonderful item to have for escaping your enemies grasp and to initiate. What you can also do is activate your Exorcism and then activate Shadowblade by just clicking on your item in your inventory. What this will do is your evil ghosts will still fly around you while you are invisible and deal damage to all the nearby units.

Bloodstone

If you somehow happen to be having mana problem this will solve everything. Awesome item to have to regenerate your mana with an insane amount and it gives you a lot of extra health making you harder to kill. Bloodstone starts of with 8 charges on it. The charges are increased every time a enemy heroes dies within a radius of 1675 of you. Each charge adds 1 mana regeneration, reduces buy back gold by 25 and re-spawning time with 4 seconds.

or

Orchid Malevolence 

Also adds an insane amount of mana regeneration, attack speed and damage. It also grants the user the ability of silencing a single target and the target get 30% extra damage from spells and attacks.

Scythe of Vyse

A must get item for games where there is a spesific hero which is annoying you constantly. Like an Axe or Phantom Assassin. It enables you to turn a single units into a chicken for 3.5 seconds and grants somewhat mana regeneration and a lot of intelligence and some strength and agility.

BLACK KING BAR

VERY important to get if the other team has a hero with the item Blademail. Also a good part of this item is that you don't have to be scared of people stunning you with spells. Except from Passive Bash abilities from the mentioned heroes and item.

Counters

Good against:

Bristleback,  Medusa,  Batrider,  Lion,  Bremaster,  Alchemist,  Wraith King,

Bad against:

Invoker,  Anti-mage,  Omniknight,  Rubric,  Bloodseeker,  Doom

Kill and own and entire 5 man team with Lifestealer

If you want to starting owning with Lifestealer and kill an entire 5 man team this post is for you.

Lifestealer is one of the few heroes in Dota 2 that can jungle/bush on level 1 due to his spell Feast which gives your entire team an advantage and your self. Your team will have one extra solo lane and if you jungle/bush right you will also gain as much experience as a solo lane. Which means there are 3 people on your team gaining a lot of experience.  Lifestealer's spells are :

§  Rage- Lifestealer becomes magic immune and gains bonus attack speed . This spell is one of the most useful spells Lifestealer has because no spell can stun or damage you as long as the spell is active. Activate the spell when you know the enemy are going to stun you or when you want some extra attack speed.

§  Feast- Lifestealer gains health according to the current health of the enemy Lifestealer is attacking. This is why Lifestealer can Jungle/Bush exactly when the game starts and not like some other heroes who needs to farm up and get some items to be able to bush.

§  Open Wounds- Slows targeted enemy and allows all other allies to lifesteal from the target under the spell. Nice spell to use when you want to engage on a enemy target or using it for when enemies are getting away.

§  Infest- Lifestealer jumps into an targeted unit, Enemy Creep or Ally Hero/Creep. As long as Lifestealer is in the unit he is undetectable and can't be seen. If the targeted unit is a creep, Lifestealer will gain health according to the current health of the Creep. This spell is awesome to use when you want to escape the enemy's clutches or if you want to ambush and enemy hero or if you want a quick heal by just using this spell on a big neutral creep.

How you are going to play him is as follow

Farm hard. Start off with the small neutral creep camp to almost get to level 2. The reason why you are going to start at the small neutral creep camp is because they don't do so much damage so you won't lose so much health and you will have more health to spare at the next neutral camp.

Remember when you engage that you have your Rage spell which will make you magic immune. Be wise when you use it. You don't want to waste it and then die afterwards because you used it to early.

You can also infest an allied Hero. Usually its a good idea to jump into a melee ally hero because they need to run right up to the enemy to attack. This will get your Infest spell's damage in range to damage most of the enemy and it will surprise them. The element of surprise is always good.

What you are going to buy for Lifestealer

Power Treads / Phase Boots

Power Treads will give you some extra attack speed and make your more durable in team battles.

Phase Boots will give you that extra bit of damage and if you are chasing a hero down or running away from you can always phase. Giving you a lot of extra movement speed.

Hand of Midas

This item depends on you. If you want to farm for 20 minutes and then join the team battles. Get this item. If not I personally think this just delays your farm.

Skull Basher

Gives you some extra damage and enables you to get a 25% chance on stunning a target for 1.4 seconds on an attack.

Assault Cuirass

Very nice item to get because it gives you +10 bonus armor which makes you a lot more tankier and a +35 bonus attack speed making you hit faster. It also gives an aura to your allies of +20 bonus attack speed and +5 armor, also a aura to your enemies of -5 armor.

Mjollnir

Adds a +80 bonus attack speed and a 25% chance to damage the enemies with Chain Lightning dealing an extra 160 damage. This item also has a activate ablility,  giving a target the ability of static charge. What this does is on every attack an enemy does to the target under the effect of Static Charge will have a chance on releasing another Chain Lightning.

Desolator

Increases your damage by +60 and on every attack you give you minus the targets armor by -7 points. Meaning you start hitting like a truck.

Daedalus

Daedalus is also a very good choice. Because you sometimes hit Critical Strikes. A 25% Chance to do 240% of your base damage. Nuking down targets.

Monkey King Bar

If you are tired of hitting miss. Get this item. It enables you to get True Strike ability. What this does is it enables you to never miss an attack and it increases your damage by +88 points, a +15 Attack Speed bonus and a 35% chance to do a mini Bash which deals an extra 100 damage.

Puck ultimate in spells but can be hard to play initially

Puck is a high spell damage hero and frankly very hard to play if you don't know what you are doing. This is why I made this post, to make you know what you are 'doing'

Now if you want to play a proper Puck I suggest first practicing against Unfair Bots. (You can do this at  'Play Against Bots' option near the 'Find Match' option.) Puck is one of the harder hero's to play in Dota 2 and therefore  you need some skill and knowledge and practise before you will be able to play him in a normal public match and not flush your name down the toilet. I would say you need to play at least 150 games before you should try out Puck.

Puck's Spells

Illusory Orb - Puck throws out a magical orb going in one direction and damaging any unit who comes close to it.

Ethereal Jaunt - Puck teleports to her Illusory Orb.

Waning Rift - Puck lets down an explosion damaging all nearby units and silencing them for a few seconds.

Phase Shift - Puck exists the battle for a few seconds and becomes invulnerable.

Dream Coil - Leaches all enemy heroes in the area to a chain and damaging them. If the enemy hero leaves the area the chain breaks dealing damage and stuns the enemy hero for a few seconds.

How you are going to use these spells.

Illusory Orb - Illusory Orb is almost like a blink except its slow and does some amounts of damage. This spell is awesome to use when trying to escape and even better to use to initiate. Its also a nice ability to spam the enemy heroes with. Not that high in mana cost and it has a large area that it effects so you will be able to get a few heroes health down.

Ethereal Jaunt - Once you throw your Illusory Orb and you want to blink to it click on this spell. It teleports you straight to where your Illusory Orb was at that time.

Waning Rift - A must use ability when you initiate. Because of its awesome silence and its damage. Its also very nice to use for farming creeps, a Illusory Orb and a Waning right together can farm an entire creep wave.

Phase Shift - One awesome spell to have for escaping your enemy clutches. Throw your Illusory Orb in the direction you want to go and then Phase Shift. Once the time is right for you to  Ethereal Jaunt to it. Just hit the hotkey and you are gone. Another thing is that if you are quick enough with it and you use it right time. You will dodge almost every spell there is and even normal attacks from towers, hero's and creeps.

Dream Coil - Once you have Initiated with your Illusory Orb and you have Waning Rifted. Use this ability on the enemy heroes and try to get as much heroes in as possible. It will paralyse their entire team. Making you win the team fight.

What you are going to buy for Puck

Power Treads / Arcane Boots

If you are throwing your spells left and right and you don't have enough mana all the time i suggest going Arcane Boots. If you are not always low on mana go for Power Treads and put it on strength for making you more durable in combat.

Blink Dagger

An awesome item to get for puck. Its just another extension to your escaping and engaging factor. One awesome way to use this is use your Phase Shift and then Shift + Blink Dagger where you want to go instead of using your Illusory Orb and saving you some mana.

Aghanhim's Scepter

Upgrading your ultimate. Making it stronger and reducing its cooldown.

Shiva's Guard

Awesome to use when you initiate. What it does is once you activate it, it blows out in a radius of 900 a wave dealing 200 damage and slowing enemy units in it.

Bloodstone

Bloodstone is one awesome item for almost any hero. Every time a you get an assist or get an kill it adds 2 charges to bloodstone and for each charge on it, it gives you an additional extra health and mana regeneration and reduced respawn time. Also it gives you a lot of extra health and mana.

Scythe of Vyse

Adds a lot of extra attributes and enables you to hex a enemy unit. Meaning you can make an enemy unit a pig or a chicken for 4 seconds and the unit loses all it effects and buffs for that period of time. This item is preferably aimed on late game when you have a problem with a single hero and he is killing your entire team.

The only guide you need to play Juggernaut and its Ultimate Omnilash

Juggernaut is one of the dangerous heroes in Dota because of is dreadfull Ultimate, Omnislash and his  very naughty little secondary spell, Blade Fury. Here are some more info about Juggernauts spells :

• Blade Fury- Juggernaut swings his sword like a tornado damaging nearby enemies and making him immune to magic. Blade Fury is a must get spell for Juggernaut. Reason is because it will get you out of sticky situations and it will get you "First Blood" fairly easily.
• Healing Ward- Juggernaut places down an ancient ward healing nearby allies. The Healing Ward spell will most likely save you and most of your team in some situations. All you got to do is just place the ward when you and your team enters a battle and then the magic will happen.
• Blade Dance- This spell gives Juggernaut a chance on every attack to do a critical strike. If you have luck on your side, then you are going to love this spell. It's awesome to have whenever you are PvP a enemy hero. Gives you a lot of extra damage if you do get a critical strike and in some cases it might get you some sexy hero kills.
• OMNISLASH- The name says it all. Juggernauts leaps towards the targeted enemy and then slashes him with his sword. Bouncing around if there are other enemies in range. One evil spell to use if you find a stranded little enemy hero wondering in your jungle or in the river. Note when you activate the spell and there are other enemy heroes or creeps ( even the creeps in the bush/jungle)  Juggernaut will most likely bounce to them to.

Play long winning battles with Bristleback

If you want to learn how to be durable in battles and in some cases last longer than your whole entire team. This post is for you !

Bristleback is one of the more durable heroes in dota so he is always a good idea to have in your team. He is not very hard to play.

§  Viscous Nasal Goo, Covers a target in goo slowing his movement speed and reducing the targets armor. Amount of casts on target stack.

§  Quill Spray, shoots out quill's damaging nearby enemies in a radius of 625. Does bonus damage every time a target is hit.

§  Bristleback, this spell enables Bristleback to take less damage from enemy attacks and spells from the back and sides. The damage taken stacks up and once it reached 250 damage points it shoots out a Quill Spray of its current level.

§  Warpath, every time Bristleback casts a spell he gets a damage and movement speed bonus.

How you are going to play him is as follow

Depending on who you are laning with. Try and last hit most the creeps to get nice items quickly.

You are also going to be the teams main initiator meaning you are going to run in first in team battles and in gangs. So look for opportunities, keep and eye on your team if they got your back or not and remember to try and turn your hero around so that your back faces the enemy direction so that you take less damage.

What you are going to buy for Bristleback

Power Treads

you don't want phase boots due to it is unnecessary because you have your Warpath for bonus movement speed.

Vanguard

To make you more durable in team battle and for some extra hitpoints and regeneration.

Skull Basher

For when you are chasing someone down and you really need a stun this item will help. Also gives you a bit of extra damage and hitpoints.

Assault Cuirass

This item will make you really durable and your team also helps with attack speed. +10 Armor and a +35 Attack speed. Also a +5 Armor Aura and a +20 Attack Speed aura.

Heart of the Tarrasque

This item is will also make more durable but only with hitpoints. It adds +300 hitpoints and +40 strength.

Armlet of Mordiggian

Armlet is also a good item to get in some situations. It will give you a lot of extra hitpoints as long as it is activated and damage.