S.Rebel's Guide to the Omniknight

Foreword

Before you begin reading this guide let's have a little intro first. So this is my second guide to ever be submitted to the PlayDota. The game play used in this guide would be organized, meaning you have to have a grasp on the basics of DotA and the guide is best used when your in a team that is competent. Aside from the competency of your team this guide is used for competitive gaming and not Pubs

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Table of Contents

Hero Introduction
Hero Role
Hero Statistics
Skill Discussion
Skill Build
1. Supportive
2. Gank Oriented
Item Build
1. Starting
2. Core
3. Core-Extension
4. Situational
5. Luxury
6. Rejected
Game Plan
1. Choosing your lane
2. Skill Usage
3. Ganking
4. Team Clashes
5. Pushing
6. Strategy
Friends and Foes
1. Friends
2. Foes
Replays
Change Log
Credits

Hero Introduction

Purist Thuderwrath is a certified support hero and a great one at that. His mere presence in a clash can turn tides in favor of his allies. He can give any hero a free twelve second BKB effect. A heal and pseudo nuke that can change the outcome of any battle. An aura that can literally slow an enemy to a crawl. Lastly a superb ultimate that grants every ally around him near invulnerability status for seven whole seconds.

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Hero Role

Supporting: Purist Thuderwrath is geared towards being a full support hero. His skills aims to make his allies survive clashes and ganks. He is usually found near the rear of every team casting his heals and repels. The only time he should be found in the center would be when he initiates his Guardian Angel.

Tanking and Initiating: He can get the job done but he isn't really meant to do either. He can tank but his supportive skills allows real tanks do their job more decently. And he can initiate but he can't initiate every clash making him unreliable. He shouldn't attract any attention to himself if possible so leave this jobs to the real tankers and initiators.

Nuking: He has only one spell to be considered as a nuke. It has a small AoE but it can deal serious damage. But Purist's shouldn't be considered a nuker at all. His nuke is unreliable as it requires the target of the heal to be within melee range of the enemy in order to deal damage. Better used as a supportive skill rather than a nuke.

Ganking: The Omniknight is capable of initiating a gank simply by walking up to the target and slowing with degen aura, whacking them with his hammer and purifying himself to kill the target but he can't quite get the job done flawlessly. The lack of a disable means his targets can simply TP away before Omniknight can even deal a significant amount of damage. Overall he can gank to a certain extent.

Roaming, Carrying and Disabling : These roles are not even close to how Purist operates. He fails epically at roaming and at disabling he needs to get Euls or Guisoo to have a decent disable. And he can't carry as effective as "real" carries, he's not even at par with semi-carries.

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Hero Statistics

Strength: 20+2.65
Agility: 15+1.75
intelligence: 17+1.8

Damage: 51~61
Armor: 4.1
Movespeed: 295

Pro's:
[+]Free twelve seconds BKB
[+]Free seven seconds immunity to physical damage
[+]A single allied hero is invulnerable for seven whole seconds.
[+]A great heal and pseudo-nuke
[+]An aura than can slow heroes down to a crawl
[+]Cheap mana costs for that free BKB
[+]Great team presence
[+]Good survivability
[+]Late game presence doesn't deteriorate

Con's:
[-]Unreliable nuke
[-]Unreliable slow
[-]His slow requires him to be in melee range of enemy
[-]Poor starting mana, int gain and int
[-]Purge makes Purist useless
[-]Mana problems
[-]Item dependent

Purist Thuderwrath's Advanced Statistics

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Skill Discussion

Purification - (Active)

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Instantly heals a friendly unit and damages all nearby enemy units.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	12s	400	250	N/A	Heals/Damages 90 hit points
2	120	12s	400	250	N/A	Heals/Damages 180 hit points
3	140	12s	400	250	N/A	Heals/Damages 270 hit points
4	160	12s	400	250	N/A	Heals/Damages 360 hit points

~~*Notes*~~

Great nuke
Great synergy with allies with blink or a movement skill(e.g. Timewalk, etc)
360 Heal is big
Semi-spammable
Great push/anti-push skill
Cannot heal repelled allies

Repel - (Active)

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Creates a powerful divine ward that blocks all magic from affecting a target unit.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	50	14s	500	N/A	6s	Grants Spell Immunity
2	50	14s	500	N/A	8s	Grants Spell Immunity
3	50	14s	500	N/A	10s	Grants Spell Immunity
4	50	14s	500	N/A	12s	Grants Spell Immunity

~~*Notes*~~

Free BKB
Cheap mana costs
Long enough duration
Game breaking
Purge removes this
Can only repel one unit at a time.
Can dispel certain disables.(i.e. CM's Frostbite)
Guardian Angel will still affect repelled units, purify doesn't.
Rexxar's Primal Roar, Atropos' Fiend's Grip and Doombringers Doom, and some other ultimates, will still take effect on Repelled units but only the effect(i.e. Doom, Stun/slow, Disable) will take effect, no damage except for Doom. Doom does damage and silence.

Degen Aura - (Passive)

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Greatly degenerates the movement capabilities of units that stray too near.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	N/A	N/A	N/A	300	N/A	Reduces movement speed by 7%
2	N/A	N/A	N/A	300	N/A	Reduces movement speed by 14%
3	N/A	N/A	N/A	300	N/A	Reduces movement speed by 21%
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	300	N/A	Reduces movement speed by 28%

~~*Notes*~~

Great slow
Great synergy with heal-nuke
Good for chasing
Requires you to be in melee range of the target
Can help you juke
Haste gives you an almost sure kill in a gank

Guardian Angel - (Active)

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Grants all nearby friendly units near physical invulnerability and increases hit point regeneration greatly.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	125	150	N/A	600	5s	+1000 Armor and +25 HP Regeneration
2	175	150	N/A	600	6s	+1000 Armor and +25 HP Regeneration
3	250	150	N/A	600	7s	+1000 Armor and +25 HP Regeneration

~~*Notes*~~

Absolutely game breaking
A hero with Repel and Guardian Angel attains invulnerable like status
Great for pushing and clashes
Can be used to save that allied hero from that last hit
Affects repelled units.

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Skill Build

Supportive
1.Repel
2.Purification
3.Purification
4.Repel
5.Purification
6.Repel/Guardian Angel
7.Purification
8.Guardian Angel/Repel
9.Repel
10.Degen Aura
11.Guardian Angel
12.Degen Aura
13.Degen Aura
14.Degen Aura
15.Stats
16.Guardian Angel
17.Stats

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Item Build

Starting Items
______Build 1________________Build 2_______________Build 3

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Game Plan

Choosing your lane

So three lanes to choose from. Short, Mid and Long lanes. You do better at the side lanes where you can build up your Soul Ring easily and where you can baby sit one of the carries.

For a more in depth look to which lane to take lets justify each lane. First mid lane, in my honest opinion Omniknight should never solo mid, never solo at all for that matter. He doesn't make good use of bottle, he lacks lane control compare to real solo's and he needs to build Soul Ring ASAP. The only time you would consider mid is if your carry takes mid and you have to babysit him there.

Next we look at the side lanes. We have two options the short lane(Top for Sentinel and bottom for Scourge). Side lanes are good except you don't have the advantage of a closer tower protection and you are more susceptible to ganks and lack a pull spot. But nevertheless you are still capable of baby sitting here, but you will have a hard time at it if the enemy keeps pulling. The short lane is an acceptable choice, you can build Soul Ring from the side shop and babysit with not too much difficulty.

Lastly we look at the complete opposite of the short lane. The long lane, which also has a side shop. Greatest advantage of the long lane is the pull spot and that tower protection. Disadvantage is usually this is where the enemy ganks more often. But compared to the short lane you'll have an easier time here. This lane is the more preferred lane of choice.

Both side lanes are acceptable though although the long lane is more preferred over the other. Main reason for picking these lanes are the side shops and ease of baby sitting.

Skill Usage

Purification or Repel: So there will be situations where you ally or you have sustained enough damage from physical harassment and the enemy is about to launch a full scale skill fiesta. So the first to your should consider is does your carry/yourself sustained more than 50% HP loss? If yes then purification first, then repel afterward if your mana can handle it. If no then just cast Repel and maybe you and your lane mate can harass the enemy back.

Getting Ganked and Harassed:First of all this is the easiest scenario, IMO, to tackle. When they are about to gank or harass they will always charge in or try to bait you and your lane mate. If you want to play it safe you can always just lay back and support your carry/semi-carry once the enemy starts to harass or gank. In the specific case of a gank you can always use Repel on yourself and scout the possible ganking routes the enemy will take. Once they begin the gank just cast Repel on whoever is the target and your problems are solved. Repel removes most disable when you cast after the disable has taken effect. Always remember to use Purification on the ganked/harassed target of the enemy team.

Team Clashes

This is where the Omniknight truly shines. So before a clash ever commences make it a habbit you cast Repel on your teams carry/initiator and always use SR before casting a skill to conserve mana.

Once a clash has been initiated begin to purify your damaged or dying allies. Don't ever wait for moments where you can damage an enemy at the same time. Heal as soon as possible but be wise on who to heal.

Whenever Repel's cd is over cast it back on your teams carry or a hero with a strong channeling spell(i.e. Rylai, Voljin). And always cast Repel on your allies that are vulnerable to a single nuke before death.

Now about Guardian Angel. Before casting always be at the center of the team so that all or most of the team receives the buff. Now when to cast should be when the enemy carry has shown himself, and when most of the super nukes have already been dropped. Don't randomly cast it.

Degen Aura requires you to be in harms way so what I suggest is wait until most of the enemy is already down and retreating before going in and proceed to chasing and slowing.

Basically stay out of harms way and keep casting those spells.

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Friends and Foes

Friends

Carries

You give your carry a free twelve second BKB allowing them to wreak havoc all they want.

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Gankers

You make these devious heroes fearless in any gank.

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Initiators

You make the manliest heroes in DotA moar manly giving them a certainty that they won't die as soon as they blink in.

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Channelers

Their dreadful ultimates are free reign with no interruptions.

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Mobile Mana Fountains

You'll never have to save that heal. Drop the bomb and let loose those spells of yours.

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Special Metions

The sight of Pudge is scary, but the sight of a pudge that is magic immune is scarier.

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Replays

Map: 6.66b
Version: 1.24

Lakuci vs DsD
Good game between Lakuci and DsD. Omniknight here is played as a full support and they employed a push strat using Arcane Ring. Omniknight displays how to use his spells effectively in this game.

Map: 6.67c
Version: 1.24e

PDGG Omniknight
PDGG game with me as omni. Epic bottom lane support, shows the use of SR and skills. Somewhat of an uncalled push strat because of Krobelus. And yes FunnyWarfare was annoyed with my Omni

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Change log

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Credits

Credits goes to PlayDota for a reliable database.
IceFrog for creating a great game.
PDGG where I actually learned to play Omniknight.
FunnyWarfare for helpin' me out with the guide.
sargaras for pointing out special features relating to Repel and adding two heroes to foes

And to Heldarion and Lycan for the warding guides

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