Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI accelerate my farm and look for a Chronosphere in which the team can actually deal damage.
Time is everything to Faceless Void. He speeds time to dash between locations, manipulates it to dodge attacks, stops it in a large area to devastate his foes, and given enough of it to gather resources, he can make himself unbelievably powerful.
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.
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.
Increases physical damage and protection against suitable attacks. I check whether the enemy has an answer to evasion.
Mask of Madness ↗Speeds up attacks and farming, but needs a safe window: its active mode imposes restrictions on the hero.
Eye of Skadi ↗Improves attributes and lets attacks keep a target under control, limiting suitable sources of its restoration.
Refresher Orb ↗Lets you repeat your main power window. Before buying, I consider whether I will have enough mana for both casts.
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.
Rushes to a target location while backtracking any damage taken the last 2 seconds.
Rushes to a target location while backtracking any damage taken the last 2 seconds.
Applies a Time Lock to all units at the landing destination.
Envelops nearby enemies in a time field that slows their ability cooldowns. Applying the time field and each ability on cooldown add a stack that deals damage every second and slows…
Faceless Void envelops nearby enemies with time dilating fields to slow cooldown progression of their abilities. Each enveloped enemy gains one Time Dilation stack when applied, and one stack per ability they have on cooldown. Each stack deals damage per second and slows movement and attack speed. The duration is paused while affected by Chronosphere.
Increases slow per stack. Provides Faceless Void with stacks that increase his attack and movement speed. Amount of stacks is equal to the total amount of Time Dilation stacks applied to enemies at the moment of the cast and linearly fades out over the duration.
Adds the chance for an attack to lock an enemy unit in time while attacking it a second time.
Creates a blister in spacetime, trapping all units caught in its sphere of influence and causes you to move very quickly inside it. Only Faceless Void and any units he controls are unaffected. Invisible enemies in the sphere will be revealed.
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.
This ability can be used within 1,5 sec. of Time Walk to return to the previous position. Returning does not affect the hero’s health or apply the Time Lock granted by Aghanim's Scepter to enemies.
This ability can be used within 1,5 sec. of Time Walk to return to the previous position. Returning does not affect the hero’s health or apply the Time Lock granted by Aghanim's Scepter to enemies.
Enemy Attack Projectiles targetting Faceless Void or allied heroes within a 1200 radius of him get slowed by 40%, when they get within 500 distance of their target.
Enemy Attack Projectiles targetting Faceless Void or allied heroes within a 1200 radius of him get slowed by 40%, when they get within 500 distance of their target.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
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