Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI pressure heroes who want to move around a lot and enter after health has already been lost.
Bloodseeker forces difficult decisions on his enemies. Able to drive his foes to a retreat by bathing a large area with a damaging ritual, his gruesome ultimate asks his opponents to hold still, or die.
My recommendation is a starting point. We choose another position together with the team and for its needs.
I need protected farm, my item window and damage on important targets.
Levels, lane control and joining the team at the right moment matter.
This is an editorial starting plan based on hero mechanics. It is not presented as a match I have already tested or a popularity ranking.
Here is my initial plan: I do my role's job first, then choose the items the team needs. I adapt the order and expensive purchases to the opponent.
Help maintain close contact and pass through groups of units.
Speeds up creep clearing and adds attack damage against multiple targets.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Upgrades Maelstrom for frequent attacks and adds a defensive electrical effect to the chosen target.
Adds a chance to stun on attack, making it harder for the target to get out of melee range.
Blade Mail ↗Makes enemy focus fire more costly by returning damage when the opponent is forced to keep attacking.
Sange and Yasha ↗Adds speed, attributes and durability for a physical damage hero fighting up close.
Abyssal Blade ↗Provides a targeted disable when slows and attacks are no longer enough.
I do not assign one ‘correct’ minute to every purchase. I look at my gold, the next fight and the problem: am I missing mana, target access, control or protection? If an expensive slot will arrive too late, I get a useful answer earlier.
Original Valve icons and descriptions. Cooldowns and mana are shown by level from the data snapshot; talents and upgrades can change the values.
Drives Bloodseeker into a bloodthirsty rage which causes him to attack faster and deal more spell damage at the cost of a percentage of his health per second.
Drives Bloodseeker into a bloodthirsty rage which causes him to attack faster and deal more spell damage at the cost of a percentage of his health per second.
When self-cast, adds pure damage to attacks equal to 1.5% of the victim’s maximum health.
Bloodseeker baptizes an area in sacred blood. After 2.9 seconds the ritual completes, causing any enemies caught in the area to take damage and become silenced.
The hero revels in his enemies’ wounds, gaining movement speed whenever an enemy hero’s health falls below 100%. The lower their health, the stronger the effect.
Bloodseeker is invigorated by the wounds of his enemies, gaining bonus movement speed when an enemy hero's health falls below 100%, with the bonuses increasing as their health falls further. If an enemy hero's health falls below 25%, he will also gain vision and True Sight of that hero. Bonuses stack per hero. Unlocks max movement speed for Bloodseeker.
Causes an enemy unit's skin to rupture, dealing initial damage based on its current health. If the unit moves, it takes damage based on the distance moved.
Causes an enemy unit's skin to rupture, dealing initial damage based on its current health. If the unit moves, it takes damage based on the distance moved.
Increases the initial damage and replaces the cooldown with 2 charges.
These abilities are not necessarily available at the same time. I check the condition beside the name: innate ability, another form or an Aghanim purchase.
Killing any unit heals the hero for 30 health plus a portion of the victim’s maximum health.
Bloodseeker restores some life when he kills a unit, equal to 30 health plus a percentage of the units max health. Restores for half values if an ally kills a nearby enemy hero.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
Items, slang and real episodes help connect abilities with what happens in a match.
