Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI catch an isolated target, close the gap and increase burst damage with illusions.
Chaos Knight is an army unto himself. Able to summon a cavalry of clones to demolish enemy defenses, should an enemy present itself, he can rift reality to pull him and his phantasms close enough to rain brutal cudgel blows upon their head.
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.
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.
Provide attack speed and switchable attributes for farming and managing my resources.
Improves physical fighting up close; requires attention to your health and activation timing.
Strengthens a melee hero’s short engagement and helps secure the first attacks.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Adds health and regeneration for prolonged play; I check the enemy’s answers to healing.
Harpoon ↗Helps close the gap to a target and builds on items for close-range combat.
Assault Cuirass ↗Gives the team armor and attack speed, helping it apply physical pressure to heroes and objectives.
Aghanim's Shard ↗Unlocks or upgrades Chaos Bolt, Reality Rift. The exact effects are shown below in the abilities section.
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.
Throws a mysterious bolt of energy at the target unit. It stuns for a random duration and deals random damage.
Throws a mysterious bolt of energy at the target unit. It stuns for a random duration and deals random damage.
Creates a Phantasm illusion near the victim that attacks the target and deals 15% less damage.
Teleports the hero, all his illusions and the chosen enemy to a point between them. Reduces the target’s armor for 6 sec.
Teleports the hero, all his illusions and the chosen enemy to a point between them. Reduces the target’s armor for 6 sec.
Allows Reality Rift to be cast on any enemy hero that is within 1200 range of you or one of your illusions. Gathers all of your illusions and your hero and teleports them to the target enemy.
Chaos Knight and his illusions' attacks have a chance to deal a critical strike of varying strength with bonus lifesteal. Lifesteal from creeps is reduced.
Summons several copies of the hero from parallel dimensions. The copies are illusions, deal 60/80/100% damage and take 350% damage.
Summons several copies of the hero from parallel dimensions. The copies are illusions, deal 60/80/100% damage and take 350% damage. DISPEL TYPE: basic
Adds a passive component: whenever an illusion of this hero is created, there is a 50% chance for another illusion under his control to appear. On activation, the ability also creates an illusion of every hero on the caster’s team.
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.
Chaos Knight's Neutral Items get an additional random enchantment.
Chaos Knight's Neutral Items get an additional random enchantment.
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.
