TIDEHUNTER,THE LEVIATHAN

Tidehunter The IMBA Hero

A massive sea monster of incredible strength and toughness, Leviathan is a real tank. Using his Gush skill, he can slow and damage a single target while reducing their armor, allow the Tidehunter and his allies to pummel the target to a pulp. To aid his close combat skills, the Leviathan has a powerful Anchor Smash passive skill, which gives him a chance to unleash a devastating area of effect spin with every attack. A target of Gush who is hit by an Anchor Smash or two is in deep trouble. To protect himself while chasing down and smashing enemies, Leviathan has a second passive: Kraken Shell. This ability reduces all damage from physical attacks by a set number, allowing the Leviathan to wade into combat without fear, ignoring the blows of lesser foes. Kraken Shell also occasionally dispels negative spell effects from Leviathan, making him even more difficult to stop. By far the most feared ability of the Tidehunter is Ravage. This mighty ability allows the Tidehunter to cause immense damage and stun all enemies in a large area around him. This ability is most effective in large team battles, where it is a simple matter to hit the entire enemy team at once with its spikes, setting up the Tidehunter and his allies for an easy victory.

1. Hero Stats

2. Spells and Descriptions

3. Skill Build

4. Item Builds

5. How to Play

6. Good Allies and Bad Enemies

1. Hero Stats

Why Tidehunter? Tidehunter is not what you would call a Early-game, Mid-game or Late-game Hero. Leviathan is an All game Pwner, aside from his amazing amount of health from the beginning his spells disable enemy opponents.

Pros and Cons for Tidehunter

Pros
1. One of the most HP tanks.
2. Can absorb amazing DPS with his Kraken Shell.
3. Can slow and Disable Heroes.
4. Can Attack multiple Enemies at the same time.
5. Auto-Eliminates negative buffs from himself.

Cons
1. One of the biggest heroes. (Very common to be targeted 1st)
2. Relatively low mana trough the whole game.
3. Long cooldown on his ULT.
4. Low Agi and Int.
5. Only has One active ability apart from the Ult.

2. Spells and Descriptions

2. Spells and Descriptions

Gush is like the nuke of the Tidehunter, although it is not as powerful as other nukes it slows by 40% the enemy. This makes it possible to approach it and attack it. It has a relatively short cool-down. (Recommended as 1st skill).

Anchor Smash is a mix between a normal critical and an axe counter. It has a 20% chance to deal damage to enemies surrounding it. This is better than a regular nuke because if your attack speed is very high, it can proc 10+ times in a single battle which can be over 1000dmg in 10-15 seconds. (I recommend maxxing this spells before Gush).

Kraken Shell, my personal favorite. This spell reduces the amount of damage your enemies inflict on you. Since Tidehunter has one of the highest HP's of all the heroes, with this spell it makes him one of the best tanks. (I reccomend maxxing it out 1st)

Ravage, a stunning nuke ultimate. Probably the best ult in the whole game. Capable of stunning and dealing massive damage to units in an area of 600x600 around the Tidehunter. Really effective at ganking and PWNning low HP enemies.

3. Skill Build

Tank Build (Best One for Tidehunter)

1.Gush
2.Anchor Smash
3.Kraken Shell
4.Kraken Shell
5.Kraken Shell
6.Ravage
7.Kraken Shell
8.Anchor Smash
9.Anchor Smash
10.Anchor Smash
11.Gush
12.Ravage
13.Gush
14.Gush
15-25.Attribute Bonus + Ravage

DPS Build
1.Gush
2.Anchor Smash
3.Gush
4.Anchor Smash
5.Gush
6.Ravage
7.Gush
8.Anchor Smash
9.Anchor Smash
10.Attribute Bonus
11.Attribute Bonus
12.Ravage
13.Kraken Shell
14.Kraken Shell
15.Kraken Shell
16.Ravage
17.Kraken Shell
18-25.Attribute Bonus

4. Item Builds

Item Build for the Tank Build:
Starting Gear:

2x Gauntlets of Strength
1x Circlet of Nobility
1x Healing Salve (or Tangos)
These items grant the hero +8 Str at the begging of the Game which is a lot for any Strength hero at such an early stage.

Upgrade:
Upgrade the Starting Items into:

2x Bracers
Increases Str by 12
Then get as in order shown:

Vladmir's Offering gives the Tidehunter extra armor, attack bonus and a lifesteal attack, all of which help maintain him alive.

Threads give an Str bonus, a movement bonus and an attack speed bonus that helps by speeding up the Tidehunter and assures more Anchor Smash Proccing.

Loathars is really helpful to the Tidehunter because it can help him sneak unto his opponents and melee attack them by surprise.

As the Tide is going to be almost always the tank he needs good HP recovery and the HP bonus of this item.

Extremely helpful to Tide for its attack speed increase.

Item Build for the DPS Build:
Starting Gear:

2x Bracers
Increases Str by 12
Then get as in order shown:

Threads give an Str bonus, a movement bonus and an attack speed bonus that helps by speeding up the Tidehunter and assures more Anchor Smash Proccing.

Satanic is really a goos DPS item for tide because it adds +25 Strength, +20 damage, +5 armor, Lifesteal and an active ability that will lifesteal 120%.

Radiance is perfect because Tide's slow makes it easy to deal 60 damage to the enemy as he is chasing them down. It also adds +60 to Tide's attack.

Other items such as Monkey King Bar or Crystalys are good for their damage bonuses.

Leviathan the Tidehunter
Author: Dmazzz
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Date Posted: 10/14/09
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