Item Build
Starting


Core


Extension


Skill Build (for first 8 levels; skill build for remaining levels is situational)


Play Style

Attack Animation:0.3 / 0.6

Damage: 48 - 54

Casting Animation:0.5 / 0.51

Armor: 5.1

Base Attack Time: 1.5

Movespeed: 300

Attack Range: 100 (melee)

Sight Range: 1800 / 800

A Dangerous Hero..
Terrorblade is an Agility hero with medium base agility and agility growth (+3.2). He has medium starting damage of 48-54 which improves reasonably well with successive hero levels. His damage is 67-73 at level 7, 80-86 at level 11, 96-102 at level 16 and 124-130 at level 25. Terrorblade's high damage combined with high attack speed and low BAT (1.5) make him a dangerous opponent.

..But also a Fragile Hero.
He has low starting strength (base HP at Level 1 is 435) and a low-to-medium strength growth of 1.9. Consequently he is fragile without items: HP at level 7 is 644, HP at level 11 is 796, HP at level 16 is 967 and HP at level 25 is 1290. That said, Terrorblade's high agility growth also provides him with an innate armor source: he has a very respectable armor of 16 at level 25.

Below is a table of the key Terrorblade stats at each Hero Level (excluding impact of items and attribute bonuses).

Soul Steal
Strangles the soul of a target enemy unit and extracts bits and pieces of it.



Comments
This skill is generally not leveled at all because it has no use in battle and little use in laning and jungling. It is utterly useless in battle because it is channelling; Terrorblade is unable to move, attack or use his abilities in battle while using this skill. It has little use in laning because it makes Terrorblade a sitting target for stuns and other nasty combos. Its range (500) and its leash (600) are too small, forcing Terrorblade to expose himself to danger when using this skill and the spell is easily stopped if targeted on an enemy who simply needs to move out of range.

However, in low level games, it is a good, forgiving skill (low manacost, low cd heal). It can work reasonably well if you lane with a strong laner (range or with a stun) who can protect you while you use the spell. However, always use the skill on the ranged druid. This maximises the HP gained from the spell as the druid will not leave the 600 range (unlike enemy heroes that will) and will not be quickly killed by your creeps (unlike melee enemy creeps that will). At most, level up only 1 level of this skill as it really delays your late game potential. Once you become a better player, avoid this skill completely.



Conjure Image
Creates a copy of Terrorblade which deals damage.



Comments
The best Image ability. Hands down. Medium-level mana cost, long duration, long cooldown, high damage (increases TB's damage output by 110%). There is great synergy between Conjure Image and Metamorphosis and both skills are used in tandem. The skill becomes useful mid to late game because the damage and the survivability of the images depend on Terrorblade's stats. As Terrorblade does not have a high mana pool, and is constrained for mana in the early game, Conjure Image is typically not prioritised. Metamorphosis and stats provide greater survivabiilty and utility early game. You may wish to take one level of this skill early (it has a reasonably low mana cost of 70 at level 1) to help jungling, scouting and creating confusion (while the real TB jungles, send an image to a lane and pull it out of sight before it dies to confuse the enemy into thinking Terrorblade is laning). Mana cost rises at each level (and the marginal benefits, +10% damage, are not equivalently good in the early game), and thus it is not advised to level up this skill further until mid game.

Conjure Image also makes stat items the best items for Terrorblade. You can usually have two images at a point in time (each image lasts for 30 seconds, and can be generated 16 seconds after each other, giving an overlap of 14 seconds). At level 4, each image provides 55% damage, raising the damage multiplier for each agility point to 1 + 2x0.55 = 2.1. Thus, because of Conjure Image, massing agility is the cheapest and most effective way to increase TB's output and is preferred over raw damage items.



Metamorphosis
Transforms Terrorblade into a powerful Demon with a 550 ranged attack.



Comments
Another top-tier skill that make Terrorblade the strongest image hero in DotA. The additional HP and HP regen (150HP at 3HP/sec at Level 4) helps strengthen TB in his early game. The additional +20 movespeed is invaluable for chasing enemies, running from danger, clearing out jungle camps faster and scouting better. The manacost and cooldown decrease significantly with each level of Metamorphosis, and the duration and the additional HP provided increase with each level (very valuable during the early game), making it worthwhile to level up Metamorphosis at every opportunity.

The most important benefit of Metamorphosis is the 550 range attack gained from it. This transfers across to images, allowing Terrorblade to produce ranged images. 550 range is very good for any hero and greatly helps TB position himself during battles to stay as far as from danger as possible. Ranged images are wickedly strong compared to melee images because they do not get in each others way (assuring full damage output) and can spread apart to prevent AoE nukes from clearing them out.



Sunder
Sunder severs the soul from both Terrorblade and a target hero, then exchanges them, carrying part of the units' life forces. The percentage hit points of each unit are switched with the souls. Some hit points must remain on enemy heroes.



Comments
A great survival skill that should (normally) be leveled up whenever possible, particularly because manacost and cooldown decrease significantly with each level of Sunder.

Its main downside is its low cast range of 250, which forces Terrorblade to go into melee range to sunder an enemy. In most team battles, TB will be in range form and dishing damage from 550 range away but will need to run into his opponents to cast the spell. He will likely be stunned, nuked and combo'ed to death before he can successfully cast sunder.

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Gankers/Roamers
Terrorblade will be targeted in ganks due to his game-changing late game potential. Map awareness (and warding) is key to avoid being caught in their deadly stun/burst damage combos. Moreover, roamers are often good junglers and they may farm neutral creeps in your jungle, making it difficult for you to farm.

Invisi heroes are particularly dangerous because you cannot see them scouting the jungle to hunt you down. If you cannot see invisi heroes on the mini-map, avoid jungling and tower/ally hug and farm creeps in lane.



Pushers
They can destroy your outermost towers quickly and push the game further towards your base. This makes it difficult to jungle as it is safer for them to roam and gank inside your jungle. Also, it forces your team onto the defensive to stop their pushes, forcing you to become useful to your team more earlier.

In such scenarios, try to farm the creeps near your towers and pop into the jungle when safe. Terrorblade is a good anti-pusher due to Metamorphosis and Conjure Image. It is also important to join counter-pushes with your team because they need as much help possible to overcome the gold disparity (leading to item disparity) between the two teams (opposing team has extra gold through taking your towers).



Pseudo-Warders
Be careful of their warding abilities, particularly when jungling.


Orb-Walkers (if Terrorblade lanes)
Nasty heroes that can completely shutdown your in-lane farming.

Modifier	Damage	DPS	HP	HP Regen	Attack Speed	Armour	Mana	Mana Regen
Base
Hero Level
Attribute Bonus
Ironwood Branch
Wraiths
PMS
Treads (str)
Treads (agi)
Treads (int)
Boots of Elvenskin
Blade of Alacrity
Yasha
Ultimate Orb
Point Booster
Manta
Skadi

1. Hold down the shift key and select a location on the map to create a flag point:



See the flag marked in the red circle above. Terrorblade will now move to the flag point.

2. Keep holding down the shift key while Terrorblade moves to the flag point. Press metamorphosis and Manta style, one after the other (order does not matter), remembering to simultaneously hold down the shift key during the sequence.

Terrorblade will metamorphosis and create 2 ranged images once he reaches the flag point. It is useful to use Conjure Image immediately after this sequence to create a total of four ranged TBs!

The green dots represent the Sentinel towers. The yellow stars represent your allies in mid and bot lanes. If you are in danger of a gank, seek your towers and your allies. This makes the enemy hesitate and possibly cancel their gank. It can lead also lead to a counter-gank. Hence, your main escape routes are towards your towers and allies, as illustrated by the thin light blue and yellow arrows.

The thick purple arrows highlight the three main entrances into the Sentinel's jungle for the Scourge. It is clear that the two neutral camps (1 small and 1 large) parallel to mid lane are the safest camps to farm, as noted by the squiggly green boundary because they are furthest from the Scourge's entrance points. The other camps are near the entrance points and are higher risk areas.

Watch the position of the Scourge heroes at all times. Whenever mid lane or bot lane go missing, you face a real risk of being ganked. You should proceed to the safer camps next to mid lane, or return to either mid or bot lane and farm creeps.

An additional point: from my experience, the two greatest gank spots are the two orange diamonds. It is useful to follow the yellow arrows when being ganked. This is because you are likely to encounter enemies converging from the middle and bottom lanes onto the two orange diamonds. By following the yellow arrow, you force the enemies coming from bottom to go past the 2nd Sentinel tower (more dangerous) to intercept you because of the line of trees that acts as a safe divide.