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.

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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