(Thank you Blizzard for the awesome pic !)

Introduction:

Hello, this is my first guide and il try to make it as good as possible. Well the first time i played venomancer i didnt know anything about him and i skilled the wards at max and then Poison Sting. It worked awesome actully, so ive decided to share the build. Il be talking about pushing mainly and secondary ganking/harrasing. Thanks for reading.

Table of contents:

1: Hero details
2: Hero skills
3: Items
4: Allies
5: Strategies

Hero Details:



* Affiliation: Scourge
* Attack Animation: 0.3 / 0.7
* Damage: 46 - 48
* Casting Animation: 0 / 0.51
* Armor: 3.1
* Base Attack Time: 1.7
* Movespeed: 290
* Missile Speed: 900
* Attack Range: 450
* Sight Range: 1800 / 800

* Strength 18 + 1.85
* Agility 22 + 2.6
* Intelligence 15 + 1.75

He has normal sight range, a normal attack range, average missile speed, low movespeed, average starting armor, average damage and quite good attack animation. The strength gain i quite low, average agility gain and below average intelligence gain. He is a squishy hero so you want to be really carefull early game for ganks and harrasment. Try to deny your creeps (or attack them a much a you can) so you stay closer to your tower. That way it will be harder for them to kill you. But dont forget to last hit enemy creeps too, if theres a situation where you can last hit your's or enemy's creep, do it on enemie's (unless your laning with a carry, leave it for him), but first priority is gold rather than deny.

Roles:
Support
Pusher
Ganker

Hero Skills

• Venemous Gale
• Poison Sting
• Plague Ward
• Poison Nova

This combined with your ultimate (which we will talk about later...) can kill a whole team if done right. Its also a good escaping/ganking ability. You can get it at level 1 if your going to want first blood with your teamates.

The range is like that in-game:






A prety good harrasing spell. All you have to do is attack your opponent every 7 seconds and that way you will harras him with normal attack + 140 poison damage. Its prety good if they try to escape with 1 hp left (anoying? YES). It stacks with Lesale's other spells.


Your main and awesome skill. It can save, kill, scout and if you massed alot of them, they can kill almost anything without any regeneration. They are the most awesome spell on Lesale!


Your ultimate weapon in team fights. It does insane ammount of damage over time. Combined with Poison Sting and Venomous Gale it can kill a whole team. The range is almost the whole screen (1 of the biggest AOE spells).



Skill Build

• Build 1
• Build 2
• Build 3
• Build 4

Gank/Push

1: Venomous Gale / Plague Ward
2: Plague Ward / Venomous Gale
3: Plague Ward
4: Venomous Gale
5: Plague Ward
6: Poison Nova
7: Plague Ward
8: Venomous Gale
9: Venomous Gale
10: Poison Sting
11: Poison Nova
12: Poison Sting
13: Poison Sting
14: Poison Sting
15: Stats
16: Poison Nova
17-25: Stats

Explanation: Well this is my ganker/pusher/escaper build. I use Venomous gale to gank or escape and the plague ward to push or escape. If you wana harras with plague ward, click on W and then click on the enemy hero. The ward should attack its nearest target, but it wont if the hero is not attacking creeps, if he is not and there are other creeps attacking something, it will attack them and not the nearest target, it basicly has the same A.I. (or it thinks the same way) as a tower.

TIP: You can click on the ward and right click enemy hero, this way it will focus him.


Lane Control/Gank/Push

1: Poison Sting / Plague Ward
2: Poison Sting / Plague Ward
3: Plague Ward
4: Poison Sting
5: Plague Ward
6: Poison Nova
7: Plague Ward
8: Poison Sting
9: Poison Sting
10: Venomous Gale
11: Poison Nova
12: Venomous Gale / Stats
13: Venomous Gale / Stats
14: Venomous Gale / Stats
15: Stats
16: Poison Nova
17-25: Stats / Venomous Gale

Explanation: Well, this is prety good build if you want to harass your opponent alot. He might freak out actualy lol. It has the same pushing potential as 1 and 3. So its more of a harassing build than a ganking, but i think its prety good for ganking too (really good). Mid game you can skip level 2, 3 and 4 of Venomous Gale for stats because it loses its effectivness mid-late game, but every point counts in dota so you can get it if you want, but you will have less mana/survivability. If you ask me, if they are real luckers and escape with 1 hp get gale, if they gank you and you need just a few hp to escape (or have mana problems) get stats. At beggining i prefer to get Venomous Gale then max Plague Ward and Poison Sting.
Push/Survaivability/Gank

1: Stats / Venomous Gale
2: Plague Ward
3: Plague Ward
4: Stats
5: Plague Ward
6: Poison Nova
7: Plague Ward
8: Stats
9: Stats
10: Stats
11: Poison Nova
12: Stats
13: Stats
14: Stats
15: Stats
16: Poison Nova
17-25: Stats / Venomous Gale / Poison Sting

A build if you want more survaivability and your teamates dont need the damage venemous gale can do, only the slow. It can work for ganks and escapes. I dont think you will have mana problems or low hp with this build early game. Its a pure push and escape and if you want, a litle gank. If you are pure pusher get stats at beggining, if you want first blood get venemous gale. If they gank you too much get venemous gale and not stats sometimes in the game, so you can slow them.
1. Venomous Gale
2. Venomous Sting
3-5 Plague Wards
6 Poison Nova
7 Plague Wards
7-10 Venomous Gale
11 Poison Nova
12-15 Stats/Venomous Sting
16 Poison Nova
17 Whatever is left

Suggested by Rivirland. I havent tried it but it has a litle out of everything.



Items:

Starting Items:

Without Chicken:






A normal starting item build for almost every hero. You can upgrade the branches into a wand and the circlet into a bracer (or null or wrath, i prefer bracer because it gives hp which means more survaivability which is always good)

EDIT: You can get wraith bands too because they are cheper and give a bit more armor. Yes they give twice less hp but they are cheaper. I still prefer bracer tho.

With Chicken:






Again a prety good build. The only worse thing from the other build is that you get -2 to all stats, which i dont think its that much of a loss. Now lets look at the core.

Core:



The aghanim is for the ultimate upgrade. Its awesome actiully, because it can do soooo much damage. In team fights you will own !

Other Items:

Ok il start listing all the items and tell which is good and which is not so great (but still good).

Good items:


Great item for every hero ! Get it if you have the money and dont know what to get OR dont have alot of hp.


Defenatly a good item.it blocks a spell, gives nice stats and regen. If you finished core you can get it if you want.


Prety good for every hero, get it if you finished core, its like a mini Heart of Terrasque.


Morthred sais: Venomancer will never stop me MWAHAHAHA.
Veno turns blade mail on...
Morthred sais: Wtf?


AWESOME DISABLE, and not needed mana, get it only if you really want the disable. It can save you or help you gank. Its awesome.


Got a doom on enemy team who hates you that much? Well you gota stop him somehow.


For me its 1 of the most awesome items in DotA. Get it if you finished core and you want it. It can help you in alot of stuff.


Again, great item... if they have nukers/spell casters. Get it if you finished core and they are full of nukers or spell casters.


You need those 300 points to escape a gank or something? Get it then.


When you finished core and if your only ranged in team (and want to support).


Got alot of nukers on other team? Get it asap. (after core of course)


Yes, it can help you in pushing and you can spell dodge with it too. Its prety good.


You are pushing, why not? When you push 1 place and at the same time another place is pushed, kill the tower, teleport to other place, kill the other tower, continue or go elsewhere do something.


If you dont have enought gold for boots of travel. Get them into strength mode, its better than agility or inteligence.


You can put a ward and block yourself with the enemy. Turn phase mode on, go thru the ward and he is blocked. (Suggested by Dagguh)

Bad or not needed items :
(you can still get them if youre going to play carry is a 1v1 or something like that)


It has nice attack speed, which is not needed on venomancer AT ALL. He is no physical carry, he is a pusher, supporter and ganker, nothing more. Get it if you want, but i dont recomend it.


Hmm, it got nice mana but i dont think you need that much mana, it got a slow, but you allready have 1, only thing i can think of is the -attack speed aura and the armor, but i dont think they are worth it. There are better items for you.


Prety good hp and regen, but you dont need the mana that much, if you want the hp, just get heart of tarrasue, its better.


Nice burst but too much money, i dont recomend it just for a burst. Dont get it unless your winning and you REALLY want it.


Ive never used the item, but ive seen it in action, the demons do alot of damage and they are awesome vs just about anything. Get it if you want.


If you cast the ulti 2 times it wont stack...


You dont need THAT much mana. I personaly never had mana problems with my venomancer and ive almost never got any mana reg items.


I dont think it will be that much usefull, only if teamates lose alot of hp and you want to heal them like a nice gamer :P.


I dont recomend it at all, only if you have heart of terrasque and/or aegis.


Hmm, i just dont see how it will work on venomancer, like i said your no physical carry, get it if you are winning and want, but i dont like it on this hero.


Good on most of heroes. But i dont recomend it. Its for chasers and your no chaser !


Good on every agility hero ! EXEPT VENOMANCER ! Lesale is a spell caster not a figher. You can make use of evasion, but you dont need it.


Not needed again, ive explained allready.


Leave guys like Anti-Mage get it. You dont need it at all.


You dont need damage. The regen is nice but a normal percervance will do almost the same and alot cheaper price.


You are not a tank, let tanks get it.


Dont get in inhouse games, only in pubs because most pub players dont bother getting dust.


It synergises with nukes not with damage over time. It wont do that much damage.

Il say it from now, you dont need any kind of orb effect, only usefull is diffusal because of the slow. But you got a slow allready. You dont need it that much.



As i said, you dont have mana problems.


Your not a carry/farmer.

Thats all for the items.

Allies:


A total team rape = you + magnataur. He ults + shockwave + overpower and you ult + venemous gale. It can kill most of the team, usually.


He maledict you ult + venemous gale, the damage you do will increase the damage he does.

and will make an AWESOME push. (dont get if enemy team has eartshaker and/or techies or alot of AOE which will kill your things in just a second)

Atm i cant think of other heroes, when i get an idea il post.

Credits

Well that was all for now, if i have anything to add i will do.

Credits go to:

Blizzard for making the great game.
IceFrog for making the great map.
LoveYueru because i looked at hes guide structure.
Wendek because i saw a few things in hes guide.
The comments.

Replays:

Note to self: Play some game with venomancer !