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Attack Type: Melee
Strength: 22 + 2.6 | Agility: 19 + 1.8 | Intelligence: 21 + 2.7
Dark Seer Items build
Meta build:
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- Boots of Trave
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- Crimson Guard
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- Lotus Orb
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- Aghanim’s Scepter
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- Octarine Core
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- Overwhelming Blink
Full Items
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- Guardian Greaves
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- Blink Dagger
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- Aghanim’s Scepter
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- Pipe of Insight
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- Lotus Orb
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- Soul Ring
Dark Seer’s Skill Order
Skill Order: Ion Shell -> Surge -> Vacuum -> Wall of Replica.
Combo Dark Seer
Combo: Dark Seer + Bounty Hunter
How To Counter Dark Seer ?
Pros
- Strong solo.
- Excellent at escaping or disengaging.
- Good initiator.
- Solid pusher.
Cons
- Melee attack range.
- Lacks stun.
Bad against:
- Hero
- Items
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- Orchid Malevolence
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- Blade Mail
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- Eul’s Scepter of Divinity
Good against:
- Hero
How To Play Dark Seer ?
Best items for Dark Seer
Start items for Dark Seer in dota 2 are: Tango, Healing Salve, Enchanted Mango, Faerie Fire, Quelling Blade.
Meta items for Dark Seer in dota 2 are: Boots of Trave, Crimson Guard, Lotus Orb, Aghanim’s Scepter, Octarine Core, Overwhelming Blink.
Pro items for Dark Seer in dota 2 are: Guardian Greaves, Blink Dagger, Aghanim’s Scepter, Pipe of Insight, Lotus Orb, Soul Ring.
Tips and Tricks
When laning, be sure to use Ion Shell to harass opponents by putting it on their melee creeps.
Ion Shell enables Dark Seer to quickly harvest in both lanes and the jungle.
To stop them, use Vacuum before Wall of Replica. The enemy could have a little more time to respond if you utilize wall first.
Dark Seer’s Ability
VACUUM
The opponent units are sucked into a vacuum that Dark Seer generates over the target region, disrupting them and doing damage.
ION SHELL
Bristling shield surrounds the target unit, dealing damage to nearby opponent units.
SURGE
Charges a friendly unit at its target with energy, providing it a momentary boost to phased movement speed. enables the unit to move at its fastest possible rate and cannot be slowed down.
NORMAL PUNCH
Passive ability. Depending on how far Dark Seer has advanced in the last 3.0 seconds, the next attack Dark Seer makes on a hero will have True Strike knock a replica out of the victim, injuring and stunning them. The maximum power is used after traveling 1100.0 miles.
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