Semi-daily hero tips. Day 10: Bloodseeker

PREVIOUS HEROES

• Abaddon
• Alchemist
• Ancient Apparition
• Anti-Mage
• Arc Warden
• Axe
• Bane
• Batrider
• Beastmaster

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.

Bloodseeker

Notes:

• Bloodrage is a free 40% damage boost and huge sustain, use it.
• Bloodrage usage: When chasing one on one, bloodrage yourself. When with your team, bloodrage your target. If your team has no target, Bloodrage a squishy target and kill it or bloodrage a teammate (or you) with blade mail or the one targetting the blade mailed unit.
• Friends: Pudge, VS, Force staff, batrider (rupture), Kotl (Get hit by blast + silence or rupture + mana leak), Zeus (long range big nukes)
• Good versus: Weaver (rupture + silence + thirst), AM (rupture + silence), Slark (thirst)
• Versus: TP scrolls!, ghost scepter, eul's
• Counters: Storm, Brewmaster (invulnerable during ult), WK (doesn't care about rupture, gets blade mail of his own sometimes), Puck (phase shift), Tiny (high burst to kill you with blood rage)
• When you have very little stuns on your team and/or you feel like you're all alone, get a basher/abyssal to cancel TP's. You can also get eul's to ensure a silence and to cancel TP's.
• Bloodseeker can survive axe's culling blade with blademail and bloodrage on himself.
• Bloodrage stacks. Meaning you will amp your damage more and gain double the heal if both you and the target are bloodraged. (/u/SquidBoyX)

Role: semi-carry/mid/jungle

Build: Treads/Phase, SnY, BKB, Blade Mail (, Basher --> Abyssal, BFly, MKB, Skadi, Eul's, Silver edge, Mjollnir). Bloodseeker is also P(hase)R(ing of aquila)M(ask of madness) viable

Skill build: lvl 1 bloodrage, max thirst --> lvl 2 bloodrage --> blood rite --> max bloodrage