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Attack Type: Melee
Strength: 19 + 2 | Agility: 21 + 3.2 | Intelligence: 15 + 1.4
Phantom Assassin Items build
Meta build:
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- Battle Fury
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- Power Treads
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- Aghanim’s Scepter
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- Divine Rapier
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- Black King Bar
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- Satanic
Pro Build:
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- Nullifier
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- Power Treads
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- Black King Bar
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- Battle Fury
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- Desolator
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- Divine Rapier
Phantom Assassin’s Skill Order
Skill Order: Stifling Dagger -> Phantom Strike -> Blur -> Coup de Grace.
Combo Phantom Assassin
Heroes combo: Phantom Assassin + Ancient Apparition
How To Counter Phantom Assassin ?
Pros
- Has natural evasion.
- Fairly mobile.
- High burst damage.
Cons
- Weak disable.
- Extremely weak.
Bad against:
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Good against:
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How To Play Phantom Assassin ?
Best items for Phantom Assassin
Start items for Phantom Assassin in dota 2 are: Quelling Blade, Circlet, Iron Branch, Tango.
Meta items for Phantom Assassin in dota 2 are: Battle Fury, Power Treads, Aghanim’s Scepter, Divine Rapier, Black King Bar, Satanic.
Pro items for Phantom Assassin in dota 2 are: Nullifier, Power Treads, Black King Bar, Battle Fury, Desolator, Divine Rapier.
Tips and Tricks
Phantom Assassin is unable to deal with numerous targets at once because she is mostly a single-target damage hero with minimal disable potential.
Due to everything said above, developing spell immunity is crucial for Phantom Assassin.The fact that Phantom Assassin only possesses inexpensive active abilities means that she rarely needs to take extra steps to expand her mana supply.
Phantom Assassin is extremely vulnerable to pure and magical damage bursts.
Phantom Assassin’s Ability
STIFLING DAGGER
Throws a dagger that slows the movement of the target unit, deals physical damage equal to 65.0+25.0% of the Phantom Assassin’s attack damage, and activates attack abilities and equipment.
PHANTOM STRIKE
Teleports to a unit, whether friendly or hostile, and if it’s an enemy unit, gives additional attack speed and lifesteal while attacking.
BLUR
Phantom Assassin turns her attention inward, which improves her capacity to deflect opponent blows. When used, her body will become blurry, making her difficult to notice until she is close to opposing heroes, towers, or outposts.
Decreases in value when combined with other sources of evasion.
FAN OF KNIVES
Phantom Assassin unleashes razor-sharp blades surrounding her, breaking on hit and dealing a portion of each victim’s maximum HP.
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