Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI protect my mana pool, farm, and turn a late-game inventory into sustained damage against multiple targets.
Constant attack is the key to Medusa's success. Using her mana shield to stave off assault, she employs split shots to mow down waves of enemies. Once she gathers her full strength, she becomes a force powerful enough to stop anyone in their tracks.
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.
Provides illusions for pressure and a separate dispel. This item cannot help you wait out or remove every disable.
Improves attributes and lets attacks keep a target under control, limiting suitable sources of its restoration.
Increases physical damage and protection against suitable attacks. I check whether the enemy has an answer to evasion.
Increases a ranged hero’s attack range and provides useful attributes.
Hurricane Pike ↗Combines attack range with a tool for breaking a dangerous close-range engagement.
Satanic ↗Helps recover health through attacks during its active window; without access to a target, it is not a guaranteed save.
Black King Bar ↗Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
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 magically splits her arrows to attack multiple targets, but deals less damage. Attack effects such as critical strikes do not apply to the additional targets.
The hero magically splits her arrows to attack multiple targets, but deals less damage. Attack effects such as critical strikes do not apply to the additional targets.
Allows on-hit effects to apply to the secondary attacks from Split Shot. Increases arrow count.
A mystic snake made of energy jumps from target to target dealing damage. Damage and speed increases with each jump. After it reaches its last target, it returns to Medusa to replenish her with mana. The snake returns a percentage of the targets' total mana.
The hero rains arrows on 3 areas in the selected direction. The farther away an area is, the larger it is. Enemies hit take initial damage, then are rooted, cannot turn, become visible to opponents, and receive…
Medusa fires arrows in a line that land in 3 groups, with each grouping larger than the previous. Enemies struck by a volley of arrows take an initial burst of damage and then are rooted, cannot turn, are revealed to the enemy, and take damage per second.
Any enemy units looking at Medusa will have their movement and attack speed slowed. If 2 seconds of total time is accumulated looking at Medusa while Stone Gaze is active, that unit will turn to stone. Petrified units are stunned, and take bonus physical attack damage.
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.
When the hero is targeted by an enemy spell, she fires a snake from Mystic Snake at the caster. It turns the caster to stone for 1 sec. and does not bounce to other enemies.
When the hero is targeted by an enemy spell, she fires a snake from Mystic Snake at the caster. It turns the caster to stone for 1 sec. and does not bounce to other enemies.
Creates a shield that absorbs 98% of incoming damage in exchange for Medusa's mana. Illusions absorb 60% less damage per point of mana.
Creates a shield that absorbs 98% of incoming damage in exchange for Medusa's mana. Illusions absorb 60% less damage per point of mana.
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.
