KING LEORIC
The Skeleton King


There is no manlier, tougher, or more badass hero than KING LEORIC. Leoric has been through CENTURIES OF LIVING IN HELL then PUT BACK ON EARTH. Basically, HELL HAS COME TO EARTH. Run while there's still land, this chunk of pure testosterone(and hellfire) is OUT to KILL you. The mere presence of Leoric causes his fellow creeps(and himself) to STEAL THE VERY ESSENCE OF YOUR SOUL. He can also COME BACK FROM THE DEAD(faster than Jesus).

Let us begin this guide to THE manliest hero in Dota, King Leoric.

Btw, this is my first guide


Stats

Dmg: 54-56
Armor: 3.6
Movespeed: 300
Attack range: 128(melee)

Strength: 22+2.9
Agility: 18+1.7
Intelligence: 13+1.6


Pros and Cons

Pros:

• THE MANLIEST HERO IN DOTA
• CRITICAL LIFESTEALS
• TECHNICALLY FREE AEGIS(although with manacost)
• Tanky
• Painful low cooldown stun
• CAN'T FUCKING DIE

Cons:

• INFERTILE(no testicles)
• Mana problems

Skills


Hellfire Blast
Effects: 80/160/230/300 total damage(50/100/150/200 initial damage, 15/30/40/50 dps burn), 15% slow
Cooldown: 8
Casting Range: 525
Manacost: 140

As you can see, this low cooldown stun sets pussies on fire and stunning them at the same time. The low cooldown allows you to abuse it during teamfights, which means all your enemies are pussies(on fire). Do however, check your mana. You might have no mana for Reincarnation.


Vampiric Aura
Effects: Lifesteals 15/20/25/30% of attack damage
AOE: 900

Fuck Dracula. He needs to bite other people to turn them into vampires(not of the sparkling emo kind), all Leoric needs is his presence to turn people into vampires. Plus, Leoric gets testosterone from enemy blood.

Stacks with Vladimir's Offering/Mask of Madness/Dominator. Enjoy your 46%/47%/45% lifesteals.


Critical Strike
Effects: 15% chance to do 1.25/1.75/2.25/2.75x damage

What the hell do you expect from the sword of King Leoric?

Also, the crits work with Vampiric Aura, giving Leoric lots of health when he crits. Enjoy your critical lifesteals.


Reincarnation
Effects: 3 seconds delay, slows nearby enemies' movement speed by 30%
Manacost: 140
Cooldown: 260/160/60

This is what defines King Leoric. No unit in Dota is man enough to COME BACK FROM THE DEAD FASTER THAN JESUS(he had lots of lag). Just the sight of Leoric coming back from the dead causes nearby enemies to be paralyzed with fear.

As I said earlier, check your mana. You might have not enough mana for Reincarnation.

SILENCE DOES NOT STOP YOU FROM REINCARNATING.

UPDATE: AS OF 6.73 REINCARNATION HAS A COOLDOWN OF 260/160/60 SECONDS. IT NOW ONLY TAKES ONE GODDAMN MINUTE TO REINCARNATE AGAIN. ALSO, THE SLOW IS NOW FOUR SECONDS. THE TERMINATOR HAS BECOME MORE FUCKING UNKILLABLE


Skill Build

Lv1: Hellfire Blast
Lv2: Stats
Lv3: Hellfire Blast
Lv4: Stats
Lv5: Hellfire Blast
Lv6: DO I EVEN NEED TO TELL YOU? SHALL I STATE THE OBVIOUS?
Lv7: Hellfire Blast
Lv8-10: Critical Strike
Lv11: See Lv6
Lv12: Critical Strike
Lv13-15: Vampiric Aura
Lv16: See Lv11
Lv17: Vampiric Aura
Lv18-25: Stats


Item Build

Starting Build


Any combination of these items

Early game items

During early game you can try to buy these items before your core.

LEORIC, YER A WIZARD


DO-IT-YOURSELF ENEMY SACRIFICES


CONSTANT VIGILANCE


FUCK BRACELETS


Core


Why Armlet?

Not only do you become tougher than an actual tank with it on, you also get 57 more damage for only 2600. Cheaper and nearly as much damage as a Sacred Relic. Sure it drains your health, but you're a fucking royal reincarnating skeleton vampire swordsman from hell.

Which boots?

Any of them except Arcane(pussy) Boots. They all work for him. Treads for tankiness and attack speed, Phase for the "I'M COMING TO GET YOU" effect, and Travel if you want to give your enemies chornic diarrhea.

Extension

Leoric is ridiculously flexible when it comes to skill builds. The following are builds that you can make after your core.

FUCK YOU AND DAMN YOU SLARDAR


FUCK YOU ABBADON


FUCK YOU BARATHRUM


FUCK YOU EARTHSHAKER


FUCK YOU CENTAUR


FUCK YOU NAIX


DAMN YOU PANDAREN


FUCK YOU PUDGE AND RUBICK


FUCK EVERYTHING


What not to get

SHOULD I COME OUT NOW?


I DO NOT UNDERSTAND BASIC GAME MECHANICS


ONE OF THESE SWORDS IS JUST A DECORATION


A DECORATION


I CLEARLY HAVE A SKILL FOR WHICH THIS ITEM IS USEFUL FOR


AGI LEORIC


WANNABE PUGNA



Strategy

Leoric is a tank and a DPS carry. During a teamfight, the enemy will have to choose between killing you when you can just reincarnate and while your allies are beating the shit out of them, or killing your allies, leaving you to just beat the shit out of them.

Laning

Always have a lane partner. Leoric is not built for the Solo Mid.

What to do in a teamfight

Activate Armlet, choose pussy out of other pussies, stun, and beat the shit out of it. Once it runs out of shit to beat out of, stun and beat the shit out of the other pussies. Once every pussy is out of shit, deactivate armlet.

I'm being ganked

Manliness also involves common sense. Get the fuck away. Stun the most dangerous enemy and run into the jungle and leave them in the fog.

I'm still haven't got Armlet

Farm. Don't help your allies unless the fight ends up where you are, just farm until you get Armlet.

Don't venture too far away from allies. You will be gangbanged by necrophiliac shemales.

I'm feeding

FUCK YOU. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO KING LEORIC'S MANLINESS.

Or blame your teammates for not ganking the enemy carry enough. Unless you fed the carry, of course.


Best friends, Worst enemies, Prey and Notable enemies

A fucking royal reincarnating skeleton vampire swordsman from hell is not that dependent on friends. Real men aren't dependent. The only thing he needs are stunners and slowers to help him stop cowards from running home to Mommy.

He does however, have enemies, and worthy and manly adversaries.

Worst enemies


Lion
This gender-confused faggot who just put "witch" in his title is a fucking shemale mana whore. You can't reincarnate, you can't stun, all thanks to mana drain. Don't let him mana drain you in a teamfight, lest you get smoked by this faggot.


Magina
Yes, the Anti-Mage(Anti-Pussy as I prefer) can counter a non pussy. Sure he isn't a fag like Lion, but he's a weakling that doesn't want to fight you like a man. As usual, you can't stun, you can't reincarnate. Stay the hell away from this weakling. He's not worth your testosterone.


Azwraith, Terrorblade and Slithice
These three are cowards who don't want to get up close and personal and just leave lookalikes to do their dirty work. Since you can only focus on one pathetic mortal during a fight, these three will attempt to literally gangbang you in the middle of a fight. Avoid these literal fuckers.


Rhasta
Rhasta has quite possibly the gayest fighting style ever. He prefers to shackle you BDSM style and have his wards do a bukkake on you. Wait, that doesn't describe his gayness correctly. He prefers to turn you into a chicken(a literal cock), shackle you BDSM style and have his snake wards attack you in a manner like that of a blowjob. No, let me simplify his fighting style. It is like that of a gay, bestial BDSM gangbang. Rhasta is beyond a sexual deviant.


Darkterror
This Cthulhu wannabe is infinitely(cubed to the tenth power squared) less awesome than Cthulhu. At least Cthulhu is an unfathomable fucking alien, this guy is a fucking coward who likes to stop time and then "fight", whether just by hitting you or by stopping time around whatever area. Then he can also leap across the map like that fucking whore-on-a-tiger Mirana. You can't hit him, he stops fucking time. I cannot believe that with the power to mess with time, he decided to use the skill of whores.

Prey


Lucifer
And they say this guy is the counter to everything . Scorched Earth? You're a fucking tank. Lvl?Death? You're still a fucking tank. Doom? Silence doesn't stop you from reincarnating. This guy claims to be the Lucifer that put Leoric on Earth. Shut this wannabe archenemy of God.


Goblin Techies
Let them suicide and blow the four of you up and let them posthumously crap the shit out of their tiny goblin selves as you reincarnate and walk out of the flames like a boss.


Pugna
What's this guy gonna do? Turn you into some intangible ghost-like thing that causes you to take more damage from spells? It works if he has a partner, but without one? What the shit will that thing do? You're a goddamn tank! Life drain? Stun the fucker! Nether Ward? Fuck that shit, you have one goddamn active skill. Fuck this guy's shit up.



Notable enemies

Sven
Finally, a worthy adversary for Leoric. You have an 8 sec cd 300 damage burning stun, he has a 15 sec cd 325 damage aoe stun. You have critical lifesteals, he has cleave and an armor and movespeed increasing skill. You can come back from the dead, he can increase his damage a hundred fifty fold. Fittingly, Sven is a Night Elf and Leoric is an Undead. When it comes to a 1v1, Leoric has the slight advantage of Reincarnation and a lower cd stun. However, in a teamfight, Sven will beat the shit outta you.


Naix
Ah, THE anti-tank. He would be more badass if Leoric didn't have lifesteal too. You still have the slight advantage of Reincarnation, but you can't stun him. He may have Open Wounds and Feast, but you have Critical Strike. The fact that both of you have Armlet as a core means you're gonna have a really epic battle against this hero. Not to mention that the two of you are carries, the difference is that you're also a tank. It's all a matter of who gets more farm.


Slardar
And yet another anti-tank carry, and unfortunately can also be a tank. Unfortunately, you have no innate advantage against this hero. He won't let you get away because of Sprint and Bash, and you can't come close because of Slithereen Crush. And either ways, you are like a creep when it comes to his ultimate. The solution to this fucker is to ask your allies to keep ganking him while you farm for the Fuck You and Damn You Slardar build, unless your team already has another, much better carry. If there is another carry, you should gank him with your teammates instead and always try to last-hit him.


Pandaren
Seriously, if you let this guy farm, you're fucked. Somewhat luckily, you'll be fucked with Kung Fu, not through bestial bdsm gangbangs. It is, either way though, still gay. Still don't do it. It'll ruin your manliness. Anyways, this kung fu panda is easily beaten through two items: Monkey King Bar and Linken's Sphere. Get both, and only his ultimate skill will help him against you. 8 second slow? It's blocked by Linkens. 4 second reduced ms and as? You have a 2 second stun(of hellfire). Evasion? You have MKB. Ultimate? Well, I can't help you with that. But imagine if it's on cooldown.


Huskar
Do not, I mean, DO NOT let this guy get fed. If he doesn't get his items, or you've gotten some really powerful item or got really tanky in time and he still hasn't, then great! It will make this fucking easy mode bitch of a hero useless!


Credits

I created this guide.
Thanks to saleee for recommending Soul Ring in Leoric's build.
Thanks to No0b.1337 for recommending Slardar as an enemy.
Thanks to judd1515, Immense, Kanashii and †André† for pointing out I had multiple orbs in some of my item builds.



Changelog

6/10/2011: Guide created.
6/12/2011:
-Added a notable enemies section
-Added an early game items section
-Renamed some of the builds in Leoric's extension
-Added Vladimir's Offering to extension
6/14/2011:
-Added Slardar as a notable enemy
-Added MoM and Helm of the Dominator as possible items
7/19/2011:
-Added Rhasta and Terrorblade as a worst enemy
-Added Mangix as a notable enemy
-Removed HotD and MoM from item build
-Added Talisman of Evasion and Linkens to item build.
1/24/2012:
-Moved Faceless Void to worst enemies
-Added Huskar as a notable enemy
-Added Pugna as prey
-Updated Reincarnation information(60 FUCKING SECONDS)
1/26/2012:
-Added two items to extension
-Added a What not to get section
-Added several items to it

Please help me improve this guide if need be, and point out typos. Thanks.