Semi-daily hero tips. Day 23: Death Prophet

PREVIOUS HEROES

• Abaddon
• Alchemist
• Ancient Apparition
• Anti-Mage
• Arc Warden
• Axe
• Bane
• Batrider
• Beastmaster
• Bloodseeker
• Bounty Hunter
• Brewmaster
• Bristleback
• Broodmother
• Centaur Warrunner
• Chaos Knight
• Chen
• Clinkz
• Clockwerk
• Crystal Maiden
• Dark Seer
• Dazzle

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.

Death Prophet

Notes:

• Ult is physical --> goes through BKB
• Change targets by right clicking the one you want, EVEN when disabled! (/u/pyorokun7)
• Your crypt swarm can hit units at up to double the distance of the point where you cast it
• Versus: DON'T CHASE A KROBELUS WITH ULT ON
• Versus: Gank her early (before 6). She has no escape and is quite squishy. This is harder since spirit syphon came out though. Chain stunning or silencing is now key.
• Versus: Remember ultimate cooldown 2'25
• Counters: Sniper, Drow (can kill her from a distance, high armor), Mirana (long disable, high burst), SF, PA (high burst, high armor), LC (long disable)
• Good versus: Ember (spammable AOE silence, lane counter), Timber, Axe (exorcism doesn't trigger helix or armor) (/u/Marconidas)

Role: Mid

Item build:

• General: bottle, wand, Phase, Eul's (Octarine, BKB, BoT, Shiva's, Sheep, Refresher)
• Bloodstone rush: bottle/wand, arcanes --> Bloodstone, BoT, Octarine, (Heart, Skadi, Refresher's, Shiva's)

Skill build: Siphon --> Nuke --> silence