This is my second guide I posted here in playdota. This time the hero I'll be focusing at is the Queen of Pain, Akasha. Again, the basic aim for this guide is to further explain the usage of this hero. Hope you like it!!!




Table of Contents:


I. Hero Introduction
II. Pro's and Con's
III. Skills
IV. Items and Skill Build and Skill Usage
VI. Laning
VI. Friends and Foes

I. Hero Introduction

Background Story:

Akasha is one of the many souls claimed by the blade, Frostmourne. Raised to serve the Lich King as a Banshee, she desired to become pure substance once more. Driving deep into the forests, she was able to subdue and possess a Succubus minion. Rightly bearing the title, Queen of Pain, she enjoys nothing more than inflicting massive damage on her foes, using both the poisonous strikes of her succubus host and the vicious howls retained from her Banshee nature. Akasha breaks her enemies' eardrums with torturing screams, some so loud they manifest into powerful waves that ripple across the lands, shattering all in their wake.

Trivia about Akasha the Queen of Pain:

Did you know:
-The word 'Akasha' is a sanskrit word that sometimes refer to as one of the grand physical elements having the property of sound.
-In DotA games, Akasha can be called as QoP,QP or Aka.
-Akasha is a Succubus. Succubi are demon that seduces men in their sleep, continuous contact with them will result to death.
(to be added mor)

Hero Statistics:
Strength gain: 16 + 1.7
Agility gain: 18 + 2
INTELLIGENCE gain: 24 + 2.5

Graph Representation of Attribute Gain in Intervals of 5 Levels(w/o any skills):
As you can see Agility is higher than Strength, so she is soft during the beginning of the game.


Below you can see the difference between her starting stats and full stats(w/o any item or skill besides her bonus attribute):
Starting Stats:


Full Stats:


Other Statistics:

Attack Range: 550 units

Projectile Speed: 1500

Movespeed: 300


Pro's:
QoP is very agile because of her Blink ability
Good farmer = Good pusher
QoP is deadly in solo lanes
One of the heroes with deadly nuke spells and also having the capability of a one-hit-combo
Good in ambushing, good assassin
QoP can be built as a hybird between a DpS'er and a nuker.

Con's:
Low hp in the beginning, thus she is soft and fragile. Also she has a low strength gain
Her Blink ability has a casting animation, thus can be cancelled by stuns and ministuns
Mana hungry all the time, needs mana and mana regen items
Even if you can use one-hit-combo with your enemy, you too is in danger of a one-hit-combo


Shadow Strike: D
Hurls a poisoned dagger which deals large initial damage, and then deals damage over time. The poisoned unit has its movement speed slowed for a short duration. Slow quantity increases per level.

Level 1: 80 mana, 50 strike damage, 20 duration damage, 20% initial slow, 20 seconds cooldown
Level 2: 100 mana, 70 strike damage, 40 duration damage, 30% initial slow, 16 seconds cooldown
Level 3: 120 mana, 70 strike damage, 50 duration damage, 40% initial slow, 12 seconds cooldown
Level 4: 140 mana, 100 strike damage, 60 duration damage, 50% initial slow, 10 seconds cooldown

-Damage type: Magic
-Has a duration of 15.1 seconds
-Duration damage is dealt every 3 seconds
-Affected unit recovers original speed every second for 15 seconds
-Units affected by this can be denied by their allies if its health drops 25% of max.

Using Shadow Strike:
-Shadow Strike is primarily used as a good form of harassment of enemies and slowing them. Slowing will give you a chance to deal more damage like attacking or other spells.
-The duration damage is useful so that enemies avoid consumables like clarity and salve.

Shadow Strike cast range is shorter than your attack range which is 550. The cast range of this ability maybe 450 or so. Look at the picture below:

-With this cast range, be careful when landing this. There will be some instance that your opponent cast their skill first before you just by approaching them, like Shadow Fiend.
-Because its poison, enemy heroes dying that got away affected with this skill still have the chance of killing it.

Blink: B
Short distance teleportation that allows one to move in and out of combat.

Level 1: Up to 700 maximum distance teleportation, 12 sec. cooldown.
Level 2: Up to 850 maximum distance teleportation, 10 sec. cooldown.
Level 3: Up to 100 maximum distance teleportation, 8 sec. cooldown.
Level 4: Up to 1150 maximum distance teleportation, 6 sec. cooldown.

- Has a 200 minimum distance teleportation.
- 60 manacost all levels.
- Global cast range.
- Avoids some incoming projectile(Magic Missile, Stifling Dagger, Normal Attacks of Ranged Heroes) when casted before collision.
- If casted outside the maximum distance teleportation, Akasha will only teleport 80% of the maximum distance.

Using Blink:
- Blink is the primary skill used by Akasha for ganking and escaping.
- This skill is like your Linken's Sphere (only without the mana and hp regen and others), which you can use to avoid some targeted spells.

Scream of Pain: F
The Queen of Pain lets loose a piercing scream, damaging nearby enemies.

Level 1: 80 damage per target, 110 manacost, 400 AoE.
Level 2: 165 damage per target, 120 manacost, 425 AoE.
Level 3: 225 damage per target, 130 manacost, 450 AoE.
Level 4: 300 damage per target, 140 manacost, 475 AoE.

- Damage type is Magical
- Can hit invisible units(i just notice this when 6.72 came out).

Using Scream of Pain:
- This is your primary arsenal in farming and dealing damage to enemies. A good QoP farmer is a threat to the other team.
- Keep in mind, just to make sure you could spam this skill you must have a good source of mana regeneration.

Sonic Wave: W
Creates a gigantic wave of sound which deals heavy damage to all units in a line.

Level 1:350 damage(*350), 250 manacost
Level 2:475 damage(*530), 350 manacost
Level 3:600 damage(*725), 500 manacost

-shows improve values with aghanim's(*).
-cooldown w/o aghanim is 135 seconds.
-cooldown with aghanim's 100/70/40 seconds.
-cast range of 700 units and with a maximum range of 1200 units.