Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI stick to my chosen target, use my defensive window, and recover health through attacks.
Should Lifestealer get close to his prey, there is little that can save them. Travelling within a creep or an allied hero, once he nears a foe he explodes from his host body, surprising enemies and tearing into them with his claws.
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.
Help maintain close contact and pass through groups of units.
Improves physical fighting up close; requires attention to your health and activation timing.
Speeds up farming and pressures nearby enemies with constant damage; an expensive investment that needs time to pay off.
Adds speed, attributes and durability for a physical damage hero fighting up close.
Adds a chance to stun on attack, making it harder for the target to get out of melee range.
Assault Cuirass ↗Gives the team armor and attack speed, helping it apply physical pressure to heroes and objectives.
Abyssal Blade ↗Provides a targeted disable when slows and attacks are no longer enough.
Nullifier ↗Limits eligible defensive effects on the chosen target; I check exactly which answers it removes.
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.
The hero enters a furious rage, gaining debuff immunity, bonus magic resistance, and increased movement speed.
Launch into a maddened rage, becoming Debuff Immune, increasing magic resistance and gaining movement speed. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
Lifestealer rends an enemy unit, slowing the victim's movement speed and allowing all allies to regain health for a percentage of the damage they deal to that unit. The victim recovers movement speed over the duration.
Lifestealer's attacks deal damage and provide heal for a percentage of his target's max health. He gains permanent max HP whenever he kills a unit.
The hero enters the body of the selected unit, becoming undetectable to enemies and restoring a portion of his maximum health every second. He can then burst out of the host, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
Lifestealer infests the body of a target unit, becoming undetectable, and healing for a portion of his max hitpoints every second while inside. He can then explode from the host body, dealing damage to nearby enemies. If the infested unit is an enemy creep or a neutral creep, he can take control of the unit's ability to move and attack, and the creep loses a portion of their max hitpoints over time. Does not work on enemy heroes. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
Increases cast range and reduces cooldown to 20 sec. Allows the hero to briefly enter an enemy hero’s body and attack it from within, with increased health regeneration.
Consuming a creep with Infest drenches enemies in blood which deals damage over time based on the host's remaining health.
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.
Passively grants Lifestealer Attack Speed.
Passively grants Lifestealer Attack Speed.
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.
