Semi-daily hero tips. Day 26: Dragon Knight

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
• Death Prophet
• Disruptor
• Doom

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.

Dragon Knight

Notes:

• Corrosive breath is not lethal Changed in 6.84
• Versus: DK becomes an amazing teamfighter once he gets lvl 12 and especially 18, be aware of that
• You can take ancients easily with red and blue dragon
• Dragon knight's bonus armor is affected by ET aura despite being bonus armor. (Is this still the case?)
• Good versus: TA (Corrosive breath, tanky and high armor), CK (lvl 2 and 3 dragon splash damage), Naga (splash + high armor)
• Counters: Timber (Doesn't care about your armor, loves STR heroes), Enigma, Necrophos (% based damage), Undying (Decay), AA (Armlet counter)

Role: Mid, pusher

Item build: Bottle, (Soul ring/Wand,) Treads, (Blink/Shadow blade -> Silver Edge,) Armlet, BKB, (Satanic, AC, mjollnir)

Skill build: Max Breathe fire -> dragon blood -> stun. Value point in stun early on.