this is my first guide here and i hope you enjoy my way of playing leoric. Btw i rather like doing short guides without any annoying pictures,paints or other stuff that help you, the reader, to get eye cancer.

King Leoric, The Skeleton King

Table of Contents:

1. Hero´s stats and skills
2. Skillbuilt
3. Itembuilt
4. Strategies

1.

Once a noble knight protecting his kingdom, the man was thrown into Hell, where he was ripped apart over and over for centuries. Now, Lucifer has thrown him back onto the soil, corrupted and mindless, as King Leoric, the Skeleton King. He marches on, leading his minions with an unfaltering gaze, knowing only one thing: the orders given to him by the dark lord himself. Able to cripple his opponents by drawing power from the fiery depths of hell itself, King Leoric is a major threat on the battlefield. His mighty blade allows him and others in his presence to drain the blood of their enemies. It is said that he is unkillable, and those who are struck down by his hellfire don't wake up again.


Hero Stats
Name: King Leoric Strength: 22 + 2.9
Affiliation: Scourge Agility: 18 + 1.7
Damage: 54 - 56 Intelligence: 13 + 1.6
Movespeed: 300 HP: 568
Range: 128 (melee) Mana: 169
Armor: 3.5

Hellfire Blast

Leoric launches a sphere of hellfire from the end of his sword, causing his victim to burst into flames. Deals damage and stuns for 2 seconds.

Level Cooldown Mana Cost Damage
1 8 seconds 140 100

2 8 seconds 140 150

3 8 seconds 140 200

4 8 seconds 140 250


1. This skill is blocked by Linken's Sphere.
2. Hellfire Blast deals Magical damage which is reduced by the target's Spell Resistance and is blocked by Spell Immunity.

Nice, a stun. nothing special...cd and cost is constant. dmg growth is average.


Vampiric Aura

Nearby friendly melee units gain hit points when they hit enemy units.

Level Gain in %
1 5
2 10
3 15
4 20

Awesome.Built in Lifeleech. nothing more to say xD


Critical Strike

Gives a chance to do more damage on an attack.

Level Effect
1 15% chance, 1.25 times normal damage
2 15% chance, 1.75 times normal damage
3 15% chance, 2.25 times normal damage
4 15% chance, 2.75 times normal damage

Legendary! A built-in buriza. even slightly better imho
Reincarnation

When killed, the Skeleton King will come back to life.

Level Mana Cost Cooldown in sec
1 100 300
2 150 220
3 200 140

The revived Skeleton King will have full hp and mana.

so here we have an built-in Aegis of the imo. full package now.



2.

1.Hellfire Blast
2.Stats
3.Hellfire Blast
4.Stats
5.Hellfire Blast
6.Reincarnation
7.Hellfire Blast
8.Critical Strike
9.Critical Strike
10.Vampiric Aura
11.Reincarnation
12.Critical Strike
13.Critical Strike
14. - 25. Stats and Vampiric Aura


Hellfire Blast is chosen first because you maybe want to get first blood (possible with stunner or slower on duallane)
Along with Blast u get stats so you pimp your lack of mana.
Get Ultimate whenever possible the decrease in cd is a dream.
Vapiric aura is chosen last, because we dont want to push in early......but in late.......of course.

this smiley looks a little like leoric.....

3.

I play Leo this way:

starting items:
2x
2x
2x

situational exchange one Gauntlet for
2x


core items:



thats rly all u need.

Luxury items:


if u want to be a great pusher.




tanky tank tank




dps tank




wanna chase?



unbelievable leech experience


there are mass more items u could get with him, but the rest is over the edge......no real game lasts that long xD


4.

1. choose a lane.

i prefer short lane ( sentinel bottom, scourge top) with another stunner or a slower so we can get firstblood for our team.but long lane isnt that bad for leo imho.
soloing? why not, if there is noone else who can solo.
jungling? y u can do this. but i would let someone else get the jungling thing done

2. deny and lasthit

you have a rather high base dmg so there should be no problem.

3. gank.

from lvl 6 on you can gank. even tower dive with your ulti ( WATCH YOUR MANA!!!!!!!!) go with a teammate. initiate with a stun, whack, chase, stun again and wack him dead.
should deal most heroes.......

does not sound that special, but it is not that easy either

4. farm

keep on farming your core items. when you have everything, ( should be around min 20-25 if u are not that good at lasthitting and didnt get fb or kills, GANK, little change, stun, turn armlet on, go on.

PS: the negative reg on armlet is nothing compared to your leech in late.......

5. push

at the very late of game, go and push and push and push.





I see that Leoric doesn´t sound that great but damn he is fun and maybe the easiest hero to play......



hf playing

criticism on me!