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Doom Bringer

Lucifer


This guide will focus on the item build, skill build, and creep choices. The farming, in game strats, skill use, etc may come later, but that is really only learned through experience and is fairly hard to teach effectively through words. Dota, like most games, is a game of practice and guides are not going to make you better last hitting or anything like that without the required hours.


Foreward:

Unfortunately, most of us are not pro. Thus, it is likely that you will watch a replay of a pro farming items 20 minutes ahead of where you are. I can only give advice on what they are doing and what I have done. If your skill lies between me and them, then you will have to adjust your item build and skill build accordingly. Just keep this in mind.


Skills:

Devour:

Eat an enemy melee or ranged creep at any level. Also lets you eat a neutral lvl 2/4/5/6 creep and gives you 40/60/80/100 bonus gold. Keep in mind this gives you the exp and gold (not bonus) immediately.

Devour has a pretty good range so know this range. You deal damage to the creep when eating him so the lower a creep is, the less time it will take to get the bonus gold (and thus faster bonus money). Also, you cannot upgrade Devour when eating so if you want to level it, wait!

Scorched Earth:

Deals damage in a 600 AOE while healing you for the same amount. 15/20/25/30 per second for 8/10/12/14 seconds. Gives 16% MS bonus.

This translates to 120/200/300/420 heal/damage. So at 1, it is a tango. For 60 mana, it's not too bad since it also deals damage!

Gives you an escape/chase/heal in case of a gank early.

LVL? Death:

My favorite skill. Deals 100/150/200/250 damage + 250 if target's level is divisible by 6/5/4/3.


Doom:

The famous skill that does it all. Not much to say.


Items:

Starting:

3 branches
1 Salve
1 Tango
1 Stout shield

You will be working towards a tanky build since that is what I have seen the most success with. That means an early vanguard. You can opt for str treads if you want a tankier lucy or phase if you want more escape and chase ability. After that, you can go Hood of Defiance for a nuke heavy team or go for your shiva's.

For lifesteal, it is a plus to get Vlad's for your team's bonus damage aura and that means also you can go an early basilus. Helm is a great choice too since that means you can get good early damage, farm the jungle, and get TWO neutral abilities. Dominate a Centaur and eat a wolf to ROFL in your opponent's face as you bang on them hard with your str treads and crit for massive dps after a stomp. Or eat a kobold and chase like you are a maniac.

Radiance for massive immolation since you never die. Basically, you are free to just build TANK TANK TANK items once you get farmed. A guinsoo's will let you sheep+doom netting you a hero advantage in team fights.



Skill section on scorched earth vs lvl death


Neutral creep section