Semi-daily hero tips. Day 34: Faceless Void

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
• Dragon Knight
• Drow Ranger
• Earth Spirit
• Earthshaker
• Elder Titan
• Ember Spirit
• Enchantress
• Enigma

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.

Faceless Void

Notes:

• Don't jump back in the lane to escape ganks. Jump in the middle of the trees and carry a TP.
• Time walk duration makes you invulnerable. Jump head first into a projectile stun.
• Chronosphere reveals invis units inside it (without dispelling it)
• Chronosphere does NOT freeze couriers. Strong donkeys.
• Units you control can move in chronosphere. Necrobook and/or manta are viable.
• Don't use time dilation in your chronosphere unless the enemy has already used a lot of spells. Time dilation only freezes the cooldown of spells that are already on cooldown.
• Friends: Disruptor, Sniper, Lich, DS, CM (wombo combo team), Ember spirit (Sleight of fist works inside Chrono), WD
• Good versus: Weaver, Slark (slippery heroes that get revealed by chrono), Lifestealer, Jugger (Chrono through magic immunity, No real lockdown), Abaddon (ult completely countered, has no lockdown), Undying (has no lockdown), Medusa (diffusal, has no lockdown)
• Counters: Tiny (craggy works in chrono, high burst), Morphling (Morph works in chrono, high burst), Eul's (chrono), Naga (sleep + split push), Enchantress (untouchable)
• Versus: Remember ultimate cooldown: 2'10/1'55/1'40/1'(aghs)
• Versus: Think twice before buying raindrops. Bash clears them incredibly fast for very little value. (/u/DOOMBRING3R)

Role: Hard carry, Offlane

Item build:

• General: Treads, Maelstrom, (Vlad's,) Manta, Diffusal, Mjollnir, (Linken's, MKB)
• Old school late game carry build: Midas, BFury, Crystalys --> Daedalus, Bfly, MKB, (Linken's)

Skill build: Time walk > Time lock > Time dilation