How to play Shadow Demon. Hero guide
Yuriy SheremetBuilds are situational, the main disadvantage of the hero is survivability, so items for escape and survivability are more relevant than ever Shadow Demon is a support hero that has excellent synergy with many late carries. It is great for ganking and saving your characters....
Advantages anddisadvantages of the hero:
Advantages:
- Shadow Demon is a good and most importantly up-to-date support at any stage of the game;
- One of the most powerful ults in Dota, which makes it possible to deprive the enemy of powerful buffs and greatly slow down. Against some heroes, this fact can be key and will allow you to quickly deal with a dangerous enemy.
- At the initial stage of the game, it can greatly help in killing opponents with a combination of Disruption + Soul Catcher
- The Disruption skill can be used as an effective tool to save allies from imminent death. Also, the skill can be used to summon powerful illusions, which will significantly increase the team's combat potential.
- The Shadow Poison ability can be used effectively for scouting the area, which is very important for a support.
- Doesn't depend much on items and can easily buy artifacts needed for the team.
Disadvantages:
- A small supply of health and, therefore, low survival rate of the hero.
- In order to inflict perceived damage with poison, you need a lot of stacks, which, in turn, hits the reserve of mana
- High mana consumption and low survival rate entails a large number of consumables, which takes a lot of gold.
- There is no way to quickly leave the battle, there are no mobility skills.
- Slightly reduced auto attack range. Harassing your opponent with normal attacks is a little harder on the lane.
- High threshold of entry in terms of mastering the game. You need to understand the mechanics and good points to pick it effectively.
Hero abilities
Now, having learned the advantages and disadvantages of the hero, consider the hero's abilities:
Disruption
Disruption - the first ability of the demon is one of the key ones and it is on it that you should pay your attention first of all.
Activating the ability allows you to send a target to the astral plane for a while. In other words, an ally or enemy simply disappears from the map and, accordingly, cannot take damage or be targeted by the spell. This feature can be used not only as a control of an enemy hero, but also as an ally's save game.
Due to illusions, the Demon can significantly increase its combat potential.
Also, the pluses include the fact that the created illusions appear very close to the enemy and immediately begin to attack him. This is a very convenient way to start a battle on the line, as your allies will have time to approach, and the illusions that appear can block the path to retreat and the enemy will have to stumble over them.
It should be noted that during the astral plane, you can use other abilities of the hero (stack poison, use the second skill).
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Soul Catcher
The hero captures the souls of enemies in the selected area, dealing damage to them in the amount of a fraction of current health and increasing his damage from abilities for each soul. When the effect ends, victims gain back half of their lost health. Also works on creatures affected by Disruption.
The debuff is removed with bkb, but cannot be removed with purification.
When a skill hits an invisible enemy, it creates an animation of the ability's action on the field. Thus, you can roughly determine the location of the enemy and, for example, stick a ward.
Shadow poison
Launches a cloud in the selected direction, damaging and poisoning enemies. The first 5 hits on the same target increase the base damage from poison by 1/2/4/8/16 times, and for the next ones, 50.0 damage is added. The accumulated damage is applied when the effect ends or when the Release Poison additional ability is used.
Demonic Purge
Cleans the target, removing all buffs from it and slowing it down. The target's movement speed gradually returns to it. At the end of the action, the speed will be fully restored, and the target will take damage. Affects enemies affected by Disruption.
Ability boost
As we can see, the main emphasis on laning is on skill 3 with the passing of skills 1 and 2. Already at level 4-5, Shadow Demon turns into a formidable weapon.
Talents
The leveling of talents is straightforward, but reaching the required level, the hero becomes noticeably stronger.
Items:
Builds are situational, the main disadvantage of the hero is survivability, so items for escape and survivability are more relevant than ever
Peaks and counter-peaks:
At the moment, our hero is pretty strong against any mills, thanks to the illusions created in the astral plane:
Counter-picks, for the most part, are heroes who have the ability to quickly close the distance
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