Semi-daily hero tips. Day 3: Ancient Apparation

PREVIOUS HEROES

• Abaddon
• Alchemist

DISCLAIMER

A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Ancient Apparition

Role: Support (also seen in offlane, though rarely)

Item build: (Midas, Eul's, Rod of Atos(/Aui_2000), Aghs)

Notes:

• At close range, shoot ult past the enemy. Debuff + vortex slow is more usefull for when they try to run than the small nuke.
• Versus: Try not to get hit by ult when running back to fountain. Wait a while, take a detour, etc.
• AA ult cancels any HP gain. Including lifesteal, fountain, armlet toggle, morphling morph, regen and PYOORIFICAYSHUN. The only exceptions are Sunder, Time Lapse and Supernova (/u/eNlighter66).
• Good versus: Chen, Abaddon, Armlet building heroes and/or lifestealing heroes, Morph, Alchemist, Huskar, Timber (Rod of Atos can now stop Timber Chain as well, making it even better)
• Friends: Weaver (chilling touch + germinate), Slark (cold feet + pounce), LC (duel + cold feet and blast + OO)