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Attack Type: Melee
Strength: 25 + 2.4 | Agility: 19 + 2.6 | Intelligence: 15 + 1.8
Lifestealer Items build
Meta build:
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- Assault Cuirass
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- Phase Boots
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- Sange and Yasha
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- Radiance
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- Abyssal Blade
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- Heart of Tarrasque
Pro Build:
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- Swift Blink
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- Phase Boots
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- Manta Style
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- Silver Edge
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- Nullifier
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- Abyssal Blade
Lifestealer’s Skill Order
Skill Order: Feast -> Ghoul Frenzy -> Rage -> Infest.
Combo Lifestealer
Heroes: Lifestealer + Clinkz
How To Counter Lifestealer ?
Pros
- Can do Jungle.
- Built in lifesteal is always good.
- Good chasing.
Cons
- Quite weak early on.
- Very item dependant.
Bad against:
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Good against:
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How To Play Lifestealer ?
Best items for Lifestealer
Start items for Lifestealer in dota 2 are: Quelling Blade, Orb of Venom, Iron Branch, Tango.
Meta items for Lifestealer in dota 2 are: Assault Cuirass, Phase Boots, Sange and Yasha, Radiance, Abyssal Blade, Heart of Tarrasque.
Pro items for Lifestealer in dota 2 are: Swift Blink, Phase Boots, Manta Style, Silver Edge, Nullifier, Abyssal Blade.
Tips and Tricks
Lifestealer can easily zone opponent heroes during laning if they lack mobility or an escape route because his passive quickly regenerates their harass. Depending on the lane, Lifestealer may choose to level Feast early to deal with harassing or level Rage quickly to deal with significant spell damage and lockdown.
Lifestealer’s Ability
RAGE
Become immune to debuffs, have 80% more magic resistance, and move more quickly when you fly into a rage.
FEAST
Attacks from the Lifestealer hurt their targets and heal them for a portion of their maximum health.
GHOUL FRENZY
For 1.5 seconds, Lifestealer’s strikes greatly slow down the enemy’s movement speed. you get Attack Speed.
OPEN WOUNDS
When an enemy unit is “lifestealed,” its movement speed is slowed, and friends can recoup health for a portion of the damage they dealt to the victim. Life will be stolen by all forms of harm, including spell damage. Over time, the victim’s movement speed returns. Per attack, real heroes dealing damage to the target deal 2% of their maximum health. The Open Wounds fester and spread to a random adversary who is not infected within a radius of 700.0 after taking 500.0 damage.
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