Hello and welcome to my second hero guide, this time for Bone Fletcher. Even though there is nothing wrong with previous guides I decided to make this one since this hero is pretty straight forward and I wanted to try out a new way of guide formating.
Since this hero just got introduced to Dota 2 I guess people will appreciate it.

Metagame revolves around fast paced combat and taking down towers fast for quick gold, and finishing the game early.
Bone fits in it pretty good, but is very dependant on the element of suprise and use of invisiblity. I think that 2 other invisibility heroes slightly outclass him because they are more tanky (Weaver) or provide more utility (Gondar) while all bone has is sick damage and ability to destroy towers. When comparing him to Riki I think that they are on the same level.

When it comes to DPS role, Bone is in direct competition with Lycan and Terrorblade who deal great amount of DPS and push towers very fast, but don't rely on invisibility. The only thing Bone has over them is that he can use his Hero/Tower killer ability every 30 second, while TB and Lycan can use it every 70 seconds midgame, buy still they are stronger picks then Bone

Overall Mid Tier hero

DPS Carry: Bone is a glass canon hero with very high damage thanks to Searing Arrows and Strafe, so he has to farm up. This means that in teamfights he will be the last one to enter and snipe enemy supports and low HP heroes from range with his high burst damage. Orchid is your primary choice for this role

Ganker: From level 6 he can kill lone heroes without disable, and his ganking power peaks mid game when he gets farmed a bit. Schyte of Vyse is your primary choice for this role

Building Wrecker: Bone can deal a lot of damage to building since Searing Arrows work on buildings so he should be pushing mid-late game and backdooring when possible. Natural extension to DPS Carry role

Clinkz has one of the worst attack animations in game so if you plan to play him regulary you should practice last hitting in solo mode

1.	Wind Walk/Searing Arrows
2.	Searing Arrows/Wind Walk
3.	Strafe
4.	Searing Arrows
5.	Searing Arrows
6.	Death Pact
7.	Searing Arrows
8.	Wind Walk/Strafe
9.	Wind Walk/Strafe
10.	Strafe
11.	Death Pact

Take Wind Walk on level 1 unless you are on solo lane and have no fear of ganks to impove your last hitting power and lane control.

Max Strafe or Wind Walk first based on your opponents, take Death Pact when possible.

Maxing Strafe first is the best strategy because Bone is a mid game hero and it doubles your damage output, but you should take 2-3 levels of WW before you max it based on your opponents

Fire a large number of arrows for 4/6/8/10 seconds.

Cooldown 60/50/40/30

Mana Cost 90

110% increased attack speed.

This ability almost doubles your damage output and is enough to kill almost any hero in those few seconds it lasts.

Leveling it is a priority since it lasts longer and has shorter cooldown on higher levels

Increases the damage of the Hero's attack by adding fire.

Bonus Damage 20/30/40/50

Mana Cost 8

Searing Arrows is an orb effect. non buff placer.

Searing Arrows deal damage to structures.

The damage is directly added to Clinkz' attack damage, as physical damage.

Look at the Orbwalking section for more info how to use it

Turn invisible for a period of time, increasing movement speed.

Mana Cost 75

Duration 20/25/30/35

Cooldown 20

Movement speed bonus 11/22/33/44%

Bone Fletcher can go through units when under the effects of Wind Walk.

Will not break most channeling of spells or items upon activation.

When attacking, invisibility is broken before the projectile reaches the target.

Has a fadetime of 0.6 seconds.

Don't spam it early game, you will run out of mana

Kills a target unit and gains bonus damage and HP.

Duration 35

Cooldown 45

Mana Cost 100

Gains 50/60/70% HP and 5/6/7% damage of consumed unit

If the target is an enemy or neutral unit, it will give the Clinkz the correct gold and experience bounty.

Bone Fletcher gains HP capacity based on the HP of the target. Increases his current and max HP by a certain amount.

When the duration ends, the max HP returns to normal, but the current HP remains the same.

Use it on every cooldown if you are farming, and before ganking enemy heroes

Bone is a midgame hero and he needs to be able to solo kill support heroes and stay away from carries in midgame until farmed.

Maxing Strafe reduces it's cooldown and increases duration so you can gank more often, so benefits from maxing it are greater then maxing WW.

But taking 2, maybe 3 levels of WW is preferable in almost all games since you can chain cast them, though more levels are not needed unless you are against a high mobility hero that can escape from you like Lycan and Weaver

If you decide not to make Orchid/Guinsoo and arm yourself with pure DPS items, you should only take 1 level of strafe and max WW because you won't have mana for it]

Core Items Make Treads and 1-2 optional itemsOtherwise it will delay your extension too much

Power Treads:You benefit from all stats it gives, abuse stat transformation

Magic Wand(optional) : Great troughout the whole game for burst healing and mana

Ring of Aquila(optional) : Gives laning and pushing power early game. You will sell it later to make space for other items

Soul Ring(optional): You will sell it after Orchid/Schyte, but it gives you tons of mana before it and has synergy with your ultimate. Can be skipped in some cases, but highly recommended when going for Schyte of Vyse

Medallion of Courage(optional): Great item to make if you decide to gank early, if you are gonna farm for bigger items skip it. Great when rushing BKB

Extension Items Make Orchid or Guinsoo + BKB/Linken when you need itThese items give just enough mana regen, and making more then one would be a waste of gold. In some cases with enough disables on your team you can go straight for DPS items and BKB

Schyte of Vyse: Gives the best disable in game and enough mana to spam your spells. Your most common choice of extension. Ganker Item

Orchid: Secondary choice of extension when you have enough disables in team, plus it's 1.5k gold cheaper. Gives you enough mana for entire game, a nice silence that increases damage taken by 25%, some damage and attack speed. DPS Carry item

Black King Bar: In higher level games you might need to make BKB before Guinsoo/Orchid and in some cases you can skip those items and go straight for BKB + DPS items

Linkens is made for mobile carries like Weaver, Akasha and Storm who can escape before they get chain stunned with it. BKB does the job better imo, but it allows you to evade that first stun and stop you from being chain stunned

Luxury Extensions

Black King Bar: Allows you to kill people during Strafe and escape from ganks. Most common and usually your first luxury extension. DPS Carry item

Monkey King Bar: Usually your first choice of luxury before or after BKB. DPS wise it's worse against heroes then Daedlus/Buriza but a lot better against buildings, and it interrupt chanelling spells and counter heroes with evasion. Building Wrecker & DPS Carry item

Daedlus/Buriza: Gives you the highest damage of all pure DPS items (except Divine Rapier), critical strike is really strong because it allows you to suprise and 2 shot enemy players. Ganker and DPS Carry item

Divine Rapier: Make it lategame when you have Aegis to win the game. Awesome in combination with Daedlus/Buriza that allows you to 1 shot enemy support with 1.3k+ crits. DPS Carry & Building Wrecker item

Butterfly: Make it instead or in addition to Daedlus/Buriza to deal with a team heavy on physical damage. DPS Carry item

Boots of Travel: Sell your treads after 40-60 minutes in game and buy these, Bone eats towers and rax in seconds so you should be able to participate in any push and quickly go back to base to defend.

Heart of Tarassque: Allows you to tank enemy carries, chain stuns and survive when doomed. DPS Carry item

Situational Items

Ghost Sceptre: Make it when facing enemy permabasher, primary for Barathum since he can gank you before you finish your Guinsoo and if he lands a charge you are probably already dead. Use it right before he charges at you, or in combination with WW to escape if he has used his charge

Mjollnir: Situational pushing item that increases your farming and pushing speed by a lot. It works with Searing arrows in Dota 2, in DotA you have to toggle arrows off. BKB and Pipe users counter this item hard so keep that in mind

Assault Cuirass: Situational pushing item that you should make if noone else on the team can

Necronomicon: great item when dealing with invisible heroes, counterwarding, backdooring and pushing towers. Stats are also not wasted on you

Utility Items

TP Scroll: To look pretty in your inventory because you will never use it

Observer Wards: Bone is a great warded because of his high mobility and invisiblity, but you should not buy wards, only place them (except when going to short lane, look under strategy section for more info)

Sentry Wards: you can place for counter warding, for other purposes get dust

Gem of Truesight is fine when you have aegis

Aegis: Great item if you are the main carry and going for Divine

Rejected Items

Rod of Atos: The slow is nice but it gives no mana regeneration and 0 damage. Pretty bad item on Bone

Dagon: NO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOO

Orbs don't mostly work on Bone since his arrows are orb effect and anything but Mjollnir is wasted on him

Radiance: It signals your enemies you are there and all they have to do is use dust and kill you. You are not Weaver to chase heroes with max MS and use ultimate when ever you get in danger

Shadow Blade/Lothar: Yo dawng, we hear you like Wind Walk so we put Wind Walk in your Wind Walk so you can Wind Walk while you Wind Walk... or something

Eye of Skadi: Doesn't work with Searing Arrows in Dota2, and medicore benefits in DotA. Works only against really bad opponents

Optional Starting Items

Courier: Buy it instead of Magic Stick/Sobi Mask if your team doesn't have one. I buy it anyway on almost any hero, don't put your trust in other pubbers

Observer Wards: Buy them if you are going to short lane, more info in strategy section

Magic Wand Start

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

Magic Stick: For early regen and Magic Wand

Tangos: Cause skeletons are vegetarians

Healing Salve

Soul Ring Start

Ring of Regeneration

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

Healing Salve

Ring of Aquila Start

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

Slipper of Agility

Ring of Protection

Tangos: Cause skeletons are vegetarians

Healing Salve

or

Wraith Band

Tangos: Cause skeletons are vegetarians

Replace

I am going to gank other lanes on level 3-5

Replace

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

with

Clarity Potion

Clarity Potion

Sorry pal, you don't have enough gold for this pro build

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

GG Branch: For cheap stats and Magic Wand

DPS Carry Build

Power Treads:You benefit from all stats it gives, abuse stat transformation

Ring of Aquila(optional) : Gives laning and pushing power early game. You will sell it later to make space for other items

Orchid: Secondary choice of extension when you have enough disables in team, plus it's 1.5k gold cheaper. Gives you enough mana for entire game, a nice silence that increases damage taken by 25%, some damage and attack speed. DPS Carry item

Monkey King Bar: Usually your first choice of luxury before or after BKB. DPS wise it's worse against heroes then Daedlus/Buriza but a lot better against buildings, and it interrupt chanelling spells and counter heroes with evasion. Building Wrecker & DPS Carry item

Black King Bar: Allows you to kill people during Strafe and escape from ganks

TP Scroll: To look pretty in your inventory because you will never use it

Ganker Build

Power Treads:You benefit from all stats it gives, abuse stat transformation

Soul Ring: You will sell it after Orchid/Schyte, but it gives you tons of mana before it and has synergy with your ultimate. Can be skipped in some cases, but highly recommended when going for Schyte of Vyse

Schyte of Vyse: Gives the best disable in game and enough mana to spam your spells. Your most common choice of extension. Ganker Item

Daedlus/Buriza: Gives you the highest damage of all pure DPS items (except Divine Rapier), allows you to suprise and 2 shot enemy players. Ganker and DPS Carry item

Black King Bar: Allows you to kill people during Strafe and escape from ganks

TP Scroll: To look pretty in your inventory because you will never use it

BKB Rush Build

Power Treads:You benefit from all stats it gives, abuse stat transformation

Soul Ring: You will sell it after Orchid/Schyte, but it gives you tons of mana before it and has synergy with your ultimate. Can be skipped in some cases, but highly recommended when going for Schyte of Vyse

Medallion of Courage(optional): Great item to make if you decide to gank early, if you are gonna farm for bigger items skip it. Great when rushing BKB

Black King Bar: Allows you to kill people during Strafe and escape from ganks

TP Scroll: To look pretty in your inventory because you will never use it

+ any extension/luxury you need

BEST IN SLOT BUILD
Any remaining gold you would save for buybacks or to buy another Divine Rapier. Or if you can't afford to buy Divines or can't get aegis swap them with MKB and Butterfly
2nd BEST IN SLOT BUILD
If you can't get Aegis and therefor Divine

So if you gank a lot you should make Guinsoo, and if you decide to farm you can make Orchid+MKB so that any hero dies in those 5 seconds and doesn't have a chance to port out

Until recent 6.73 patch, Orchid was only 500g cheaper then Schyte and Schyte had superior mana regen, but now it's 1.5k gold cheaper and still offers 25% damage boost on silenced target for 5 seconds while Schyte's mana regen was reduced by 40%. So it is a viable alternative to Guinsoo if you need raw damage more then the best disable in game (no pun intended), but you should still make Schyte in most of your games.

Also note that Orchid silence has 18 sec cooldown, while Guinsoo's hex has 35 sec

Swap stats on Power Treads

This means that when you decide to kill someone or start ganking swap your Treads to Agi, and when expecting a gank or team fight swap them to Str just in case. If you need additional mana to use Wind Walk or Pact swap them to Int.

Just remember that swapping will cancel wind walk, so if you start attacking someone with Treads on Str double click them to change to Agi, (use hotkey programs like Warkeys to do that)

Gank early with TP scrolls

While laning, if you notice that enemy heroes on dual lane are easy kill for you, teleport to that lane if needed and ambush then with Wind Walk. They can't see you coming.
Conserve your mana early game so you have at least 260 mana if you decide to TP to another lane.

Don't gank without Death Pact

It gives you great damage and HP buff, and can decive opponents thinking you are easier to kill then you actually are. If you are getting ganked or are in teamfight consume a nearby lane creep to gain advantage if possible

Orbwalking is manual casting of Orb effects used to harras and chase enemy heroes in lanes because enemy creeps won't react to your attacks, and is your most powerfull tool in establishing lane dominance.

You can toggle manual casting of orbs on/off with ALT+W (or what ever your keybind is)

Once you have Guinsoo/Orchid you can permanently toggle Arrows on

Execution:
Get near your targeted hero and manually cast Searing Arrow on him. When you make the attack (when the arrow flies out) quickly right click on the ground to stop your horrible attack animation and click in front yourself to chase the hero and make another attack, or behind your self to get back

You can see how to orbwalk and force enemy player to back off effectively

Attacking towers when your creeps are not around gives the tower 90 health regen per second, so if you fail BD attempt the tower will regenerate back when you leave.
This makes BD pretty hard for T2 and T3 towers, but not impossible.
Bone is the best backdoorer for T1 and T2 towers, and able to BD T3 tower with Divine Rapier or help from another ally.

On Level 9 with maxed Searing Arrows and 3 levels of Strafe and Agility Treads and Ring of Aquila Bone will be able to take down T1 towers by him self and escape with more then 1/3 of his HP

On level 16 with Agility Treads, Ring of Aquila, and Monkey King Bar Bone can take down T2 towers.

Taking down T3 Tower and Rax is not possible without Divine Rapier or help from another ally (Preferably Furion with AC/Deso)

When to Backdoor
Don't do it when enemy heroes are near and they are free to TP and defend the tower.

Keep in mind that creeps spawn every 30 seconds, and that you attack you if you try to BD T2 tower around 12 seconds after they spawn.
If you BD T1 tower you have 15 seconds before encountering creeps on mid lane, 17 on short and 22 on long lane if you start when they spawn.

At the beggining of the game when you are going to the short lane, you should buy (pubs ofc) Sentry Wards to ward enemy pull and and rune spot to establish lane dominance.

This is how it works:

On the short lane you will usually face enemy carry and his support or random "weaker" hero. In order to farm they have to stay near their tower or they will be suspectible to ganks and harrasment from you and your lane partner, and the most common way to pull creeps closer to their tower is by pulling neutral creeps.
You place the other ward on the rune spot so that you mid hero can get rune control and to prevent your self from being ganked. However, if both mid heroes are not rune whores and you do not fear ganks in first 4-5 minutes of the game, you can wait a bit with warding the rune spot so that you have the protection when ganks actually start to happen

So in a way, you are not SPENDING money on wards, you are INVESTING it, and you can expect to get at least 400 gold return from warding via rune and lane control

What is most important you are not at risk of getting killed by doing so because of Wind Walk

WARDING AS SENTINEL/RADIANT
Ward this spot when the game starts at 00:01 and get ready ward the creep camp before 00:31

Warding the top creep camp is dangerous, so you need Wind Walk at level 1. While invisible make sure to ward it before 00:31
That way you will prevent 6 cycles of creep spawning

WARDING AS SCOURGE/DIRE
Ward this spot when the game starts at 00:01 and get ready ward the creep camp before 00:31

Warding the bottom creep camp is not dangerous, because enemy creeps can't see you when you stand in spawn point, and in case you need to escape you can eat a tree with tango. Make sure to ward it before 00:31
That way you will prevent 6 cycles of creep spawning

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Don't gank enemy heroes in river, they can escape to higher ground and hide.
At best you will lose 3-4 seconds of your strafe, at worst his ally will appear from fog with him and kill you.

You have to position on enemy escape route when ever you want to kill them, and in certain places they have multiple routes to choose from so you have to guess which they are most likely to use
You win teamfights by ambushing opponents when they are engaged in a fight with your allies because if you were to charge in first you would get killed before you'd have a chance to attack.

For example after combo of Skeleton King and Witch Doctor tried to First Blood me.
I escaped and thinking I went back to heal they decided to kill my lane partner Jakiro.
I quickly noticed that and positioned my self near them but far enough so that WD's Cask doesn't chain stun us.


Witch Doctor falls to my Strafe+Searing Arrows combo and I get FB


Skeleton King tries to run but I Orbwalk him to death granting me double kill. Notice how far from me he is and that without Orbwalking I wouldn't get the kill

Solo Lane
You shine on solo lane, be it side or mid. You can get early levels and gank heroes by teleporting and/or windwalking to their lanes

Dual Lane
Long or short, doesn't matter. Make sure to establish lane dominance if you can and farm as much as you can, and try to get a kill from level 3.
Teleporting to other dual lane (again from level 3 and higher) and backstabing enemy heroes also works because you are invisible and have great hero killing potential

Trilane
Bone benefits a lot from early levels and farm so that he can snipe low level and HP heroes so he should not be tri laning in lower organized games, but he can lane with 2 great supports like Shadow Fiend does nowdays

Your HP is pretty low and you don't have a way to disable an enemy except by using Guinsoo/Orchid, and to do so you have to leave WW and lose 44% speed buff.
And if enemy player has diffusal and you don't have BKB you will certanly not escape.

You can deal with wards by carrying wards or gem of your own, but do not carry a gem if you don't have aegis.

If you can not gank because of that go farm, you are a carry and transition very well into later stages of game.

Disablers
These kind of heroes allow you to nuke your target down without giving them a chance to escape like Crystal Maiden, Witch Doctor,Storm Spirit, LionBabysitters
These kind of heroes allow you to stay on lane and farm and have some kind of offensive or defensive skill that lasts long enough to kill someone during Strafe too. Laning with Crystal Maiden or Witch Doctor allows you to be very agressive, while Warlock and Pheonix make sure you get all the farm you need and survive against strong lanesArmor Reduction Heroes
Heroes with spammable and reliable armor reduction spells are your best allies after the laning phase like Sladar, Dazzle and Alchemist, and heroes that buy Assault Curiass and Desolator as part of their coreSpecial Mention

Omniknight is your best midgame friend that allows you to wreck enemy team during midgame battles, coupled with your BKB you are unstoppable. Linken's is good too if he perma repels you and you have Divine Rapier

With Furion you can backdoor enemy rax and towers in a matter of seconds

Permabashers

Barathum is your counter since he can permabash you and you can't do anything until you have Ghost sceptre or Guinsoo against him.

Void carries harder then you do, and as if having permabash isn't enough his Chronosphere reveals invisible units, and he can just blink+tp away every time you want to gank him

Sladar is also a bad enemy since he can lock you in a position and his allies can finish you off if you manage to escape from his range because of Amplify Damage

Illusion and Tanky Carries

Naga Siren is probably your hardest counter since she can net you which reveals invisiblity, and you can't damage or disable her when she has permanent illusions out when she gets manta. Also her DPS is so high from midgame you don't stand a chance if she manages to net you and hit you, and not even ghost sceptre helps because she can just purge it

Phanotm Lancer: like Naga, but a lot easier to shut down early game and easy to kill if you carry dust. But late game you don't stand a chance

Dragon Knight : You can't outlast him late game when he has satanic and high damage and early game he can TP out every time you decide to gank him

Void carries harder then you do, and as if having permabash isn't enough his Chronosphere reveals invisible units, and he can just blink+tp away every time you want to gank him

Ursa: He is a 1v1 monster, has tons of HP, Fury Swipes+Overpower>Searing Arrows+Strafe, you don't stand a chance against him until you have Guinsoo

Burst Nukers
These heroes can kill you early mid game without you having a chance to react. Play with caution and make Hearth if BKB is not enough later in gameSpecial Mention

Linken's won't help you against him since any decent doom will put it on cooldown with LVL? DEATH and whack your pathetic HP pool until you die, your only chance to survive him is to make Hearth of Tarassque and tank his ultimate

These guys don't care if you are invisible, they can still hit you with their spells

These guys don't care if you are invisible, they can still hit you with their spells

Omniknight is also one of your worst enemies, because his Repel and Guardian Angel counter your searing arrows and make you deal next to no or no damage at all

QW Invoker is one of the most annoying opponents you can imagine. He burns up your mana and disables you long enough so he can escape and your Strafe runs out. Soul Ring is recommended against him so that you can WW away after being hit by Tornado+EMP combo

My replay:
Match id: 4533778

Match id: 4205410
Pub game by Na'Vi Dendi. This game is really good to watch because he plays against stronger team and manages to snipe enemy heroes and carry the game, as a pubber you will often find yourself in situations like this one, highly recommended to watch

You watch it by enabling console for Dota 2 (Steam->My Games->right click on Dota2->Properties->Set Launch Options -> type "-console" launch Dota 2, type dota_match_details id (id=4533778 in this case)

Clicky
A great v6.72b replay that features various famous players, Bone's performance here isn't anything special, but you can learn how to manage mana when you don't go for Soul Ring and Orchid/Guinsoo here

Clicky
Excellent 6.71b replay between LGD and Nirvana with Bone as main carry. Game version is 1.24, use DotA version switcher to watch