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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Stats
3. Pros and Cons
4. Abilities
5. Skill Build
6. Early Game
7. Mid Game
8. Late Game
9. Final Words



1. Introduction

Ursa is a hero that isn't played very often, but when someone do picks him you usually hear many people whining about how overpowered he is. Ursa can easily be unstoppable with a good early-game and some useful teammates. He is the only hero who can solo Roshan within a few minutes of the game starting. If you play him correctly, and buy the right items you almost certainly will go imba, and I'm here to teach you how.

Screenshot >> Yeah, Imba
* Note: This was a noob game, but it's proof enough that Ursa can go completely insane. *


2. Stats



3. Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Easier to survive at lane then with many other heroes
- One of the best woods heroes there is
- Solo roshan in ~10 minutes
- Usually highest level (mainly because Roshan dies fast and gives ~2 levels first time)
- Great ganger (assuming you have a slow or stun to help you out)
- Nice slow
- Sick IAS
- HP = Damage (which makes you a great carry and lets you survive)
- Good early game usually means you will rule the game

Cons:
- Melee
- People know you can go imba, so you tend to get ganged early
- Poor mana pool
- You already have an orb effect (a great one at that)
- It's hard to hit the slow if you're chasing your opponent (it takes a short time to cast)
- People (in the opposite team) tend to whine a lot if you're playing great
- Bad earlygame means you're gonna suck until the other team wins


4. Abilities



5. Skill Build
1. Fury Swipes
2. Overpower
3. Fury Swipes
4. Overpower
5. Fury Swipes
6. Enrage
7. Fury Swipes
8. Overpower
9. Overpower
10. Earthshock
11. Enrage
12-14. Earthshock
15. Stats
16. Enrage
17-25. Stats


6. Early Game
In my opinion there are three good ways to play early game with Ursa.


A, Woods/Jungle/Forest (or whatever you like to call it)
If you're going creeping you should get these items:

This will give you a damage boost of 7 damage and 1 IAS +blocking damage. If you buy this you will have 0 gold (assuming you're playing -ap). This is a great start if someone else bought a courier, and once you get enough gold start buying:

However, if you don't have a supporter in your team (or he just doesn't buy a courier) you should buy one, it's important to have as Ursa. In that case your inventory should look something like this:


and then try to finish up that poor mans shield ASAP.

Now I know some of you are thinking "OMFGZOR what a n00b, you can just buy so u have no gold left and die on purpose!!!". People are rather busy with their own game, many of them don't even notice when a player leaves the lane because they are busy lasthitting. In other words, they probably won't even think another second that you're in the game, so if you die by neutrals they will constantly be reminded that "Ursa is probably farming great, let's gang him". It's better to stay invisible all together and let people forget that you're in the game.

For the few people who actually doesn't think like noobs, it's good to have a few wards to alert you from gangs. So here's what you do;
1. Tell a support to buy wards and place in the forest, or tell him to buy them and let you place them yourself.
2. Wait for him to refuse. (I'm assuming you're playing on some sort of public level here, either normal Battle.net, Garena or www.dota-league.com)
3. Flame! (might wanna skip this part if you're careful about getting PP's if you play on Dota-League)
4. Buy the wards yourself.

There's a lot of people saying that it's bad for carries to buy wards, but think about it this way. If you buy the wards and survive one gang you've already saved up the money (Wards: 200, Dying: -250), not to talk about all the time you lose when you're dead.

The key to warding woods when you're creeping is to put them on a place where you see as much as possible (Thanks for the latebreaking news, Captain Obvious). If you're scourge i.e. you usually only creep on the 3 of the 5 spawning places (because pulling makes people realize that someone is woods and then you get ganged). This is usually enough anyway, because when you're done with the third spot there's usually a respawn in a few seconds. So, when you're coming from the top rune spot and want to go woods the road splits in to two - one to the left and one to the right - and if you go straight up you will hit a wall. Just above that wall is a great place to place a ward. This ward lets you know if anyone comes from the river, or from the top lane. If they come from mid you will most likely see it. This way you only have to use one ward each time to survive, making it much cheaper. If you have a better place to put down a ward, please let me know. This is just an example, there are many good places to put down wards, so be creative and find your own.

This goes on until your inventory looks something like this:


I usually buy the boots after Roshan, because killing Roshan ASAP is key, the faster he dies the faster you could have the next Aegis, and you don't really need boots before if you're just going woods. It might save you some time, but not enough for you to gain back the amount of money you spent on the boots.
When you have these items it's a good idea to go back to restore mana and HP and just to top it off I usually buy a TP just so I could get away if things starts heating up. Time for Roshan.

A little trick for killing Roshan faster is to use the Double Overpower Tactic. As mentioned before, Overpower buff lasts 15 seconds while the cooldown is just on 10. So ~10 seconds before you're at Roshan you use Overpower, and when you get to him you probably won't have any cooldown left, so hit him a few times until the buff is gone and then use it again. This ofcourse is a good way to kill heroes aswell, if you've farmed dagger you can use Overpower, when the cooldown is almost over you Blink > Earthshock > Enrage > Attack 6 times > Overpower again and Fury Swipes will take care of the rest.


B, Laning and lasthitting
There is a lot of different ways to buy items if you're laning, it all depends on what hero (and his/her items) on the lane with you. If noone buys a courier it's a good thing to go something like this:



This is good because everything you need for Roshan (except for Vladimir's Offering Recipe which you have to run back and heal when you have anyway) can be bought in the sideshops.

If there is a courier in the team you could buy some HP or damage items such as the items for

and with the courier just finish them off and start buying things for the Vladimir's. It really doesn't make that much of a difference no matter what you buy (within limits, as long as you don't start getting items for Mekansm or something similair you're fine), but getting a Quelling Blade is very important! It adds almost one third of your damage. Preferably get either a babysitter a range lane partner that can either heal you or harass the other team, making it easier for you to lasthit alone. Once you have farmed a Vladimir's it's time for Roshan.


C, Lane killing
The third way is a bit different and unusual. I never would've though about this on my own, so unfortunately I can't take credit for it. When a friend of mine told me about it all I could think about was "What a noob!", but I figured I'd try it at least once, and it turned out to be really good.

Here's what you get:
and or
(I just want to make it clear, that this is one of two times I would go boots first item, the other being with Yurnero due to his spin)

Go to lane (preferably bot lane with Sentinel or top lane with Scourge) with a teammate that can slow/stun or disable in any other way. I prefer

They're both ranged and can keep slow up indefinitely.

Most people (even the noobs) have learned that getting boots as their first item is a bad thing. Most heroes are 300 ms as well. Ursa with boots have 360. Add the slow from the previous mentioned heroes (which is 10/20/30/40 % depending on the level of the hero). Just play with the thought that you're lane partner is level 1 and you decide to go for first blood. He slows the low hp opponent with 10 % (which is 30 of the 300, and we all know that 300-30 is 270). This means you have 90 more movement speed then the guy you're trying to kill! So what happens is even if he tries to run back to tower you could just run after him and hit him in the back as he go.

I'm gonna help you with the math here. If Viper/Traxex is level x you get:

1: 10 % movement speed reduction, ~30 ms on most people, leaving them with ~270 which makes you run ~90 ms faster.

3: 20 % movement speed reduction, ~60 ms on most people, leaving them with ~240 which makes you run ~120 ms faster.

5: 30 % movement speed reduction, ~90 ms on most people, leaving them with ~210 which makes you run ~150 ms faster.

7: 40 % movement speed reduction, ~120 ms on most people, leaving them with ~180 which makes you run ~180 ms faster, which is twice as fast as him/her!

Once you get a few kills get your hands on these ASAP:

These will give you 380 movement speed, 426 if you use them, giving you an average of 403, making it easy to outrun most people, leading to more kills in the same way as you got the first one, but easier and now you can solo them aswell.

Keep killing until you have Vladimir's Offering, and go for Roshan, thus endeth the earlygame.

Replay >> Lane Killing Ursa.w3g
* Note: This was a laggy noob easy mode game, but it was enough to show you what I meant, how the Double Overpower Tactic works and that first item boots always isn't a bad thing. Atleast not for Ursa. *


7. Mid Game
By now you should be level ~10. You're most likely highest level, due to Roshans experience boost. Your inventory should be something like one of these.

If woods:



If laning and lasthitting:



If lane killing:




Don't sell the Quelling Blade or Poor Man's Shield until you need the spot. The next item you're going to get is:

Ofcourse you should get boots first if you don't already have them. This should be quite fast, usually just 1-3 minutes farming woods after Roshan.

Your tactic for mid game should be ganging, killing easy targets, destroying towers and getting stronger. When it comes to ganging and killing easy targets:
* Note: Dagger has a max range of 1200. However, if you target a location beyond 1200 range, your hero only blinks for 960 range. *

Look out for heroes without:
* Invisibility
* Stun/Slow
* Blink/Movement speed increase (such as Surge or Wolf Form)
These will almost certainly give you a sure kill.

Enrage + Overpower is enough to do the last few hundred hp on a tower, and getting the tower kill can give you 400+ more gold. Rinse and repeat.

Towards the end of mid game your inventory should look something like this:





8. End Game
I'm assuming that you've lost the Aegis by now, but if you haven't; Kudos! Finish


Now you should have one slot left, which is good to use for countering.
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If you don't feel like countering I can recommend:

It all depends on your team. Another Aegis is always a choice.
++=RAMPAGE!
Same goes for Magnus and his ultimate! However, if you have Ezalor and he keeps using Blind you might wanna skip it and go for Buriza. If you got this far it really doesn't make that much of a difference.

Your inventory should now be similair to this:




Your only job right now is to rub your opponents face in the loss, say well played to your teammates and destroy the barracks for megacreeps and then go for the Throne/Tree.


9. Final Words
Not much to put here, I just wanna say good luck to everyone who wishes to try some of the stuff I put in here. If you have any questions/comments I'll respond to them ASAP. If you wish that I add something to the guide, let me know. Thanks!