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Attack Type: Melee
DURABLE HERO WHO SHRUGS OFF ENEMY DAMAGE
Tidehunter’s Pros and Cons
Pros
- High survivability.
- Flexible item choices.
- Amazing team fight ultimate.
Cons
- Needs mana in the early game.
- Kraken Shell does not dispel everything.
- Low damage output without items.
Tidehunter Items build
Start
- Tango
- Tango
- Healing Salve
- Enchanted Mango
- Enchanted Mango
- Enchanted Mango
Early Game
- Quelling Blade
- Power Treads
- Soul Ring
- Morbid Mask
Core Items
- Vladmir’s Offering
- Blink Dagger
Full Items
- Boots of Trave
- Vladmir’s Offering
- Blink Dagger
- Lotus Orb
- Shiva’s Guard
- Assault Cuirass
Tidehunter’s Ability
GUSH
Summons a gush of water to damage an enemy unit, reducing their movement speed and armor.
KRAKEN SHELL
Thickens Tidehunter’s hide to passively block a portion of any incoming physical attack damage. The hide also removes negative status effects if the damage taken crosses a threshold. Does not stack with items that provide Damage Block.
ANCHOR SMASH
Tidehunter swings his mighty anchor to attack and deal bonus damage to nearby enemies and reduce their attack damage.
RAVAGE
Slams the ground, causing tentacles to erupt in all directions, damaging and stunning all nearby enemy units.
ANCHOR SMASH – SHARD ABILITY UPGRADE
Increases Anchor Smash damage by 90 and causes it to affect buildings. Reduces cooldown by 1 second.
GUSH – SCEPTER ABILITY UPGRADE
Gush becomes a ground targeted wave ability that affects enemy units in a line. Decreases cooldown.
Tidehunter’s Skill Order
Skill Order: Anchor Smash -> Gush -> Kraken Shell -> Ravage.
Combo Tidehunter
Heroes combo: Tidehunter + Underlord
Tidehunter’s Tips and tricks
Tidehunter can be played as an initiator or a tank, or some combination in between.
Because of his innate toughness and strong array of debuffs, Tidehunter generally benefits from building mobility items that aid him in initiating with his ultimate
Tidehunter to initiate fights by stunning the entire team for a long duration.
Tidehunter can also discourage enemies from engaging by standing at the front lines and debilitating their ability to fight.
Tidehunter’s flexibility allows him to be played either as a safe-lane support or solo offlaner. His skill and item build differs drastically depending on which path is taken.
Counter Tidehunter
Bad against:
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Good against:
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Tidehunter’s Lore
The Tidehunter known as Leviathan was once the champion of the Sunken Isles, but his motives are as mysterious as those of his people. We all know the importance of the Drylanders’ shipping lanes, how empires may rise and fall according to who controls the open water. Far less is known of the submarine lanes, and how the warring tribes of the Meranthic Diaspora have carved out habitations through endless undersea skirmishes. In the fragile treaties between the Mer and Men, we can glimpse the extent of the drowned empires, but their politics appear complex and opaque. It would seem that Leviathan tired of such petty strife, and set off on his own, loyal only to his abyssal god, Maelrawn the Tentacular. He stalks the shallows now in search of men or meranths who stray into his path, and with a particular loathing for Admiral Kunkka, who has long been his nemesis for reasons lost in the deepest trenches of the sea.
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