Semi-daily hero tips. Day 11: Bounty Hunter

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PREVIOUS HEROES

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

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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.

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Bounty Hunter

Notes:

• If you're laning, leave your lane at 6 and try to get track kills with your team.
• Recast your invis in the fog, it has a visual effect
• You can use shadow walk mid TP
• Versus: Manta, diffusal (/u/DimitrijaT) and a lot of skills dispel track
• Versus: Track shows a debuff icon
• Wait to throw shuri to ensure a kill or to cancel TP. Never use it before that if you're alone, you have no other stun.
• Don't be afraid to trade kills with your team, track makes sure you're actually ahead instead of even.
• Versus offlane BH: Get sentries and dust the moment BH starts roaming. He's strongest in mid game.
• Versus support BH: Try to predict his movements. Ward the lanes where you're most vulnerable. Ward outside the camp spawn boxes to spot him if you have a jungler.
• Every time someone builds BFury on BH, IceFrog kills a kitten.
• Good versus: Riki, SK, Clinkz, Weaver, Treant (Track), lvl 1 junglers that go really low in HP
• Counters: Slardar (Amplify damage), Rubick (Any spell of BH is great), PL, Meepo, Naga, CK (heroes with illusions, this is also the reason BH is not a handsdown counter vs junglers as Chen, Enigma, Enchantress), Oracle, Slark, AM (Heroes that can easily purge of Track, also the reason BH doesn't counter the often jungling LC), Techies (can keep track of BH by putting mines everywhere), Puck (can easily dodge shuriken toss, gets eul's often to purge track), Razor (static current gimps BH's single target spells).
• Bounty Hunter can attack right after using Shadow Walk for the bonus damage and it wont break the invisibility.
• Missing an attack (because of evasion) as BH doesn't break your invis.
• Just like with all invis ganking heroes, you shouldn't be on the map unless you're going on an enemy hero. A missing hero is a dangerous hero. (/u/DRHST)
• Shuriken always bounces to tracked targets, even if the initial target isn't tracked. Abuse this to bounce shuriken's off of creeps or other units to kill tracked targets that are too far away. (/u/pyorokun7)

Role: (Offlane/)enemy jungle disruption/support

Offlane:

• Starting items: boots + pooled tango's
• Item Build: phase, bottle, wand, bracer --> drums, BKB, Vlad's, Yasha/Orchid/Halberd, AC/deso/manta/BFly/MKB/Basher --> abyssal, Skadi/Satanic
• Item build snowball: BoT, Blink, EBlade, Linken's, yasha
• Skill Build: lvl 1 shadow walk, lvl 2 jinada, max shuri toss --> jinada --> shadow walk

Support:

• Item build: OoV, (Urn, Wand) Arcanes, Greaves, Vlad's (, Aghs)
• Skill build: same as offlane, but max shadow walk over jinada