Obsidian Destroyer
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Why Pick Destroyer?

Positives

- If you like to destroy things

- Strong 1v1 Laner

- Strong throughout the game

- Nice attack animation

- Fairly easy farmer

- High Base damage

- Large Mana pool

- High Intelligence

Negatives

- Low hp

- Pretty prone to ganks

- Weak against nukers (lion, lina ulti)

- No real escape spells

- Item dependent

- A bit team dependent

Hero Introduction

Among the small number of intelligence heroes who focus on getting a lot of powerful items late in the game, the Obsidian Destroyer relies on building up as much intelligence and mana as he possibly can. His deadly Arcane Orb enhances his attacks with large amounts of unresistable pure damage, and if his mana pool gets high enough the Obsidian Destroyer is capable of killing fragile enemies with only a few Arcane Orb attacks. Astral Prison is a useful ability, which can put a powerful enemy hero out of the fight or save an ally from death. In addition, it drains intelligence when cast on an enemy hero, and by repeatedly using this ability the Obsidian Destroyer can quickly reduce the enemies' mana pool, making it difficult for them to cast many spells. To keep both his own and his allies' mana pools full, the Obsidian Destroyer has a passive skill called Essence Aura. In addition to boosting the Destroyer's own mana pool, this aura gives any allied unit under its effect a chance to instantly regain a portion of their total mana pool every time they cast a spell. Essence Aura fuels Arcane Orb, giving the Destroyer potent damage with little risk of running dry. Although Arcane Orb and Astral Prison make the Destroyer deadly in small engagements, his powerful Sanity's Eclipse spell can turn the tide of large battles. An Obsidian Destroyer with a lot of intelligence items can kill or badly wound several enemy heroes at once with this spell. Few heroes are capable of putting out as much damage as a pumped up Obsidian Destroyer.

Background Story

An obsidian construct brought to life through the ill conceived necromancy of the Lich King, Harbinger craves magic to make up for the emptiness brought on by the incomplete nature of its summoning. Ironically however, to devour the magic that it so desires, Harbinger must tap into his own pool of mana time and time again, expending to the point where it ends up with even less than it began with. Yet despite this, the Obsidian Destroyer is a proud servant of the Undead Scourge, and takes great pleasure in annihilating the foolish Sentinels it encounters through psionic exploitation.

Basic & Advanced Statistics

19 + 1.85 24 + 2.0 26 + 3.3

Skills

Ability Type: Active
Targeting Type: Unit
Ability Hotkey: R

Gives the Destroyer extra power to damage his enemies based on his remaining mana pool. Damage type is pure.

Level 1
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting Range 450
Allowed Targets Enemy Units
Effects Deals 6% of your current remaining mana. Deals 100 bonus damage to illusions and summoned units

Level 2
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting Range 450
Allowed Targets Enemy Units
Effects Deals 7% of your current remaining mana. Deals 200 bonus damage to illusions and summoned units

Level 3
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting Range 450
Allowed Targets Enemy Units
Effects Deals 8% of your current remaining mana. Deals 300 bonus damage to illusions and summoned units

Level 4
Mana Cost 100
Cooldown 0
Casting Range 450
Allowed Targets Enemy Units
Effects Deals 9% of your current remaining mana. Deals 400 bonus damage to illusions and summoned units

Notes

- Damage type: pure
- The damage is calculated after the mana cost is spent.
- Does not stack with orb effects and buff placers.

Skill Order

1 Astral Imprisonment
2 Essence Aura
3 Astral Imprisonment
4 Essence Aura
5 Astral Imprisonment
6 Sanity's Eclipse
7 Astral Imprisonment
8 Arcane Orb
9 Essence Aura
10 Essence Aura
11 Sanity's Eclipse
12 Arcane Orb
13 Arcane Orb
14 Arcane Orb
15 Stats
16 Sanity's Eclipse

Skill Usage

This is the spell you use to destroy single targets. Its a late game spell because it drains your mana pool really fast. It's damage is also based on your mana pool which is low in the beginning of the game. This is why u dont skill it till level 8, where you can use it to kill heroes. You will max it at levels 14 and 15 because by then you should have an infinite mana pool, give or take. Either you have your core items, or your passive will provide you with mana since by this time you will be enjoying a lot of team fights. In the later stages of the games this can also be used to farm, making sure you will never miss a last hit.

Dare i say this is your most important spell? Why? Because it basically determines wether or not you are going to farm well and win your solo lane. If you don't win your solo lane and get your farm you are not going to be very effective. I usually start spamming this spell at level 3, because at level 1 the effects arent very big. It also costs a lot of mana and at level 2 you should have skilled one level of essence aura to increase your mana pool. Which allows you to spam Astral Imprisonment even more. There are several reasons why you should spam this spell:

- It increases your base damage tremendously, this allows you to deny and farm like a chinese pro. If your enemy is an int hero, you decrease his base damage.
- You decrease his entire mana pool. He may have a full mana pool but with 8 intelligence hes not gonna have a mana pool large enough to cast any spells. This brings the 1v1 back to a farming dual which you win with a very high base damage.
-Use it to deny him experience and last hits. Try using this spell at the moment that a creep is at low hp, this way you do not have to worry about him getting exp, gold or a deny.

Another way to use this spell, is ganks. Either you are getting ganked, or you are ganking yourself. If you are ganking yourself, use this spell to let your teammates get in position and give them a target to focus. When you are getting ganked, there are 2 things you can do. One of them is banish yourself and the other is banish one of the heroes trying to gank you. Probably the best thing to do is banish the hero trying to gank you however this requires good reflexes. If this is too late you can use it on yourself either to dodge a single target stun or some other nuke. And your last option is taking damage running to your tower and preferably a juke spot and banish yourself there. This way if they do follow you might actually live and get a kill.

Another thing you should know is if you banish a hero during a spell animation it won't go off, but it will go off when he returns to the surface, make sure to get take cover.

Items

In my opinion starting items are personal and may also depend a bit on what hero you are going to face. I normally like to get some bonus stats and in the case of obsi i would recommend getting a bit more regen, this way you can stay on the lane pretty long, to farm.

Friends & Enemies

These are your best friends, especially enigma and magnus because there ulti's disable for a long time. Cast your ulti after one of these heroes initiated. Whoever didnt die instantly from your ulti is 1 hit away from heaven with your arcane orb!

Overall Conlusion

Farm your butt off early game, do not bother to gank, try not to get ganked, win your solo lane, out farm him and call misses. Once you have treads magicwand and forcestaff you can participate in teamfights but do not stop farming, you still need to farm guinsoo which is a lot of gold! Your mid game is decent and your late game is rape! Have fun one hitting several enemies at once and hearing godlike and rampage very often!

Replay

http://www.playdota.com/forums/50551...naga-es-combo/

The first one is a replay of my clan (rway) against clan ax, which is more than just a good replay for watching how i play obsidian destroyer and rape the game. It is a very fun to watch replay and very close till late game arrived that is. I highly recommend watching this one, you will be entertained! I you will see that obsi can beat windrunner 1v1.

http://www.playdota.com/forums/504642/rway-ih/

The second one is a replay from an inhouse game from my clan (rway) which turned out to be a very bad game, never the less i did play a good destroyer and got several tripple kills and one very nice banish and ulti combo in a teamfight.

Harbinger the Obsidian Destroyer
Author: Lady.Liuwa
Map Vers.: 6.72f

RAarww grumble mumble!

Date Posted: 08/04/11
Last Comment:29/04/2012
Total Votes: 25
Current Rating: 5.99
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