Stats and Introduction

The Soul Keeper has one of the most feared growth potentials of all. While initially weak, if left unchecked he can come back to slaughter his enemies with ease. His ability to Soul Steal allows him to slowly siphon life from one target to himself. To aid in his physical prowess, Terrorblade can Metamorphosis into the powerful demon hunter, gaining a ranged attack and additional life. He can also Conjure Images to deceive or simply unleash them upon his enemies. Some have questioned his mortality, as he can Sunder to swap his current health with that of someone robust and lively, essentially escaping death, and sending someone close to their own.


Terrorblade is the twin brother of the Anti-Mage. Both of Night Elf descent, Terrorblade was drawn in by the powers of the Undead, plunging deeper into the abyss of no return, growing large, gargoyle-like wings to symbolize his breaking from the Night Elf world. Having mastered the art of image-creation and soul manipulation, he has the ability to transform into a fearsome and terrifying demonic form, obtaining the powers to hurl energy at his opponents. Large moonblades slashing, he is one to fear on the battlefield.

Skills and Skill Build

A Detailed Version Of Terrorblade skills can be found here: Skills

1.
This is your Escape/Chasing skill because of it's slow.It can also be used to Harass due to the formation of illusions.



2.
This is a very good skill in early game because it provides some Hp regen for your survival.In mid game the skill will be used for Attack Speed it provides.

3.
This is your Signature skill.It is one of the best non - ultimate's in the game.It transforms you to Ranged form providing you bonus Damage.Other than terrorblade only Troll is able to transform into melee and ranged form,but he benefits from melee and you benefit from ranged form.



4.
This is your Ultimate Survival Skill.You will be using this often throughout the Late game.You should mostly use the skill on a carry or a tanker when his Your HP drops below 1/4 of you Max HP.







This Skill build is Preferred for players who cannot farm very well in the early - mid period of the game and often get easily harassed by the enemy

Pros and Cons

Pros:-
1. High Agility and Agility Gain throughout the game
2. High Base Armour
3. Above average movespeed
4. High attack speed because of Zeal
5. Nice Base Damage good for farming
6. one skill as good as an ultimate

Cons:-
1. Low Strength and Strength gain
2. Very Fragile Early to Mid game
3. Item dependent
4. Need's some experience to play
5. Early - Mid game affects Late Game
6. Need's a lot of farm to Own the game

Item Build

Items at Base:-



Core Items:-



Early Game Items:-



Occasional Items:-




Luxury or Late Game Items:-





Rejected Items:-

Early Game

This is the period where you must play carefully because it will affect your late game.All you have to do is just Farm till Level 8 or 9.Farm well for your items.As soon as you farm your Helm of the Dominator go Jungle for Manta and EoS.Be careful because you may be ganked by other team.By level 12 you must have your core items.If you don't have then simply keep farming.Always keep an eye on the map if the enemy heroes are missing because they do not want you to farm.

Mid Game

You must have your core items by now.Just look for some careless fragile heroes and PWN them with meta and manta.If you are low on health by taking one or two kills then watch the map for single hero.As soon as you see one use the Fog of War and use your Ulti on him/her.Just try to kill him if you are able to,If not Then go jungle for one or two luxury items.This is the Period where you must Farm 75% and Gank 25%.Play well,DO NOT FEED THE OTHER TEAM.Feading means your low level and also Huge Loss of gold which means you are not able to farm your items.REMEMBER TB is a hero which is item dependent.NO ITEMS = YOUR TEAM LOSSES.

Extra mid game info:-

ABOUT ORBS AND TB

EoS is an orb but it stacks with Helm Of Dominator in ranged forn.You can get both EoS and HotD as mostly u will be fighting in the Metamorph from so u will be ranged.And in this form both EoS and Domi stacks.So early game Domi and Late game EoS can wreak HAVOC on your enemy team.Here is a pic showing that EoS stacks with other orbs in Ranged form.The pictures are posted usin -test mode.Here are the Pics:-

In this picture u can see the words written is that orb effect frm EoS does'nt stack in melee form.It simply means that it stacks in ranged form.and you will be in ranged form while using metamorph.


Here you can see the creep's status bar showing the frost buff meaning that the orb from EoS has worked.At the same time you can also see terrorblade's image showing the lifesteal animation.This shows that THE two orbs .i.e. EoS and Domi stack in ranged form.

Late Game,Your Game

This is the time when everyone fears From TB.Remember that a well-farmed TB can OWN the whole game.If you have farmed your Items well then you will OWN the game leading your team towards Victory,but if you are not able to farm your items then you will just hear words like Noob TB,F**k that noob TB and so on.

About Farming

Farming is one of the most important things to master while playing with TB.Last hitting is very effective if you time it correct because of TB's high base damage and Quelling Blade.But just last hitting will not work you must also deny creeps using the button 'A' and clicking a low HP Creep.The symbol which Denotes a successful deny is an exclamation mark.

There are two Benefits of denying:-1. You do not go too close to the enemy tower remaining safer and 2. The amount of experience the creep normally gives is reduced.

Normally you will go to jungle as soon as you get your HotD.While Jungling you can put some observer wards at a few places where you doubt the enemy can come from.This ensures that you are not being ganked by the enemy.Also use the dominate from HotD to a creep with high level so that you can farm faster. I normally dominate a Centaur ,Furbog Ursa Champion or stryr Trickster lvl 6, but it's up to you whom you want to dominate.

Good Allies and Worst Enemies

Good Allies:-

1. Babysitters:-

They Heal you during your laning period so that you do not run to the base every now and then and miss your farm and levels.

2. Long time Stunners and Disablers:-

They disable the enemy so that you hit them with your insane attack speed.They are the best Allies for Every Hero.




Worst Enemies:-

1. Long time Stunners and Disablers

They are your bad enemies two of them can easily kill you.But you can always have a BKB or linkens to prevent them.

2. High Damage Nukers.



3. Mana burners

Tb has a very low mana pool and these heroes will not allow you to save mana for sunder.

Replays

Terror blade Ownage Replay no. 1
In this replay zach doesn't have much farm in early game due to harass.But manages to farm Eye of Skadi late game and Takes triple kills twice.Tb also uses his skills pretty well.

Credits

1. Icefrog for creating this game and playdota for this site to share views.

2. Playdota user No_Worries for his suggestions on sange and yasha as a mid game item.

3. Playdota user gwho for writing a guide on how to guide better.Here is the link:The Right Guide to Guide-Write.[Note that I did not read the guide fully].

4. Lycan for the idea on colorful skillbuild and early game items

5. My friend PARTHJK and Playdota user Rockha for suggesting hand of midas.

6. Zach111694 for the replay he provided.Thanks.

Changelog

Sr.no Date Changes
1. 2/5/2012 Started writing the guide
2. 2/5/2012 Completed section 1,2,3 and 4
3. 3/5/2012 Completed section 5,6,7,8,9,10 and 11
4. 17/5/2012 Changed the guide style by adding spoilers
5. 17/5/2012 Added Sange & Yasha as a mid game occational item.
6. 17/5/2012 Added skills images and credited No_Worries and gwho.
7. 30/5/2012 Added two more images and minor info about skills.
8. 30/5/2012 Added a section on good allies and worst enemies.
9. 3/6/2012 Guide Published.Yipeeeee!!!!!
10. 4/6/2012 Credited Lycan for suggestion on early game itema and colorful skill build.
11. 11/6/2012 Minor additions in worst enemies section.
12. 26/6/2012 Added a replay.
13. 28/9/2012 Added pictures of Orbs stacking