Semi-daily hero tips. Day 15: Centaur Warrunner

PREVIOUS HEROES

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

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.

Centaur Warrunner

Notes:

• Your return works on towers. Draw tower aggro to take them down quicker. As of 7.00, illusions don't get return!
• Double edge has no mana cost. Once you get Hood of Defiance you can use it freely to push (with return).
• Be aware of the map to use stampede to help allies run away or chase.
• Good versus: WR, PL, PA, Sniper, Troll, CK (squishy very hard hitting heroes), Skywrath, Storm, Mirana (squishy high burst heroes, get rekt by pipe + blade mail)
• Versus: Hoof stomp has a small radius, juke left and right to avoid it.
• On the other hand, abuse the pretty large cast time to cancel hoof stomp.
• Counters: LS (he loves high HP heroes), Necrolyte, Enigma (% based), Timber, Undying (STR reduction), Ember (you have no way of catching him), Jugger (built-in BKB + omnislash)
• Versus: Run an agressive tri lane and put him in a 1v1 against your LS, ET, Slardar or similar. If you don't, get 2 ranged supports to zone him out.

Role: offlane

Item build: Stout shield, RoP, Tango's, Tranquils, Magic wand, Blink, Blademail <-> Hood of defiance --> Pipe, (Aghs, Heart, Crimson, Basically anything that helps out your team)

Skill build: lvl 1 return (don't skill until the laning phase, you might want to get hoof stomp!), lvl 2 hoof stomp, max double edge --> hoof stomp --> return