Semi-daily hero tips. Day 12: Brewmaster

PREVIOUS HEROES

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

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.

Brewmaster

Notes:

• Don't forget to cyclone a unit with your ult. 2 seconds after the unit lands, cyclone is up again
• Dispel a random target (if you can't find a decent one right away) (never cyclone the same one!)
• Use storm's dispel to deal with heroes like CK and PL, or SD illusion spam, it clears illusions instantly. (/u/MaltMix)
• Earth's passive demolish is basically like Level 4 spirit bear's passive, more damage to structures. If you want to force a tower early, use the earth panda to hit the tower. (/u/MaltMix)
• Wind walk helps for extra damage, not just invis
• Blink dagger will always be off cooldown if you exit your ult, so use it!
• You are very likely to win a fight 1v1 fight mid game against a right clicker with drunken haze and drunken brawler evasion.
• Versus: Save manta for after drunken haze, it dispells it.
• Versus: MKB
• Versus: Kill the fire panda: he's a glass cannon
• Versus: Silences help to cancel the blink clap (haze) split combo somewhere in the middle.
• Counters: Beastmaster (Roar before ult), Rubick (steal ult), Lion, AM (mana drain), Timber (Brew does not have enough burst and lockdown to kill him during ult, drunken haze is useless), Axe, Necrophos (long disables, tanky)
• Good versus: SD (blink dagger and ult counter disrupt, has a couple of dispels in his kit)

Role: Mid semi-carry

Item build: Phase, (bottle + wand/drums, ) blink, (Echo sabre, Vlad's, agh's, heart, AC, BKB)

Skill build: Thunder clap --> Drunken brawler