Semi-daily hero tips. Day 43: Legion Commander

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
• Faceless Void
• Gyrocopter
• Huskar
• Invoker
• IO
• Jakiro
• Juggernaut
• Keeper of the Light
• Kunkka

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.

Legion Commander

Notes:

• Both heroes in a duel are doomed for the duration
• Toggle armlet/blade mail/bkb on right before you duel.
• Other items that work well if you use them before duel: Halberd, Abyssal, etc
• Tower triggers moment of courage. Tank the towers late game in base races to get a few extra hits.
• Press the attack has similar dispel mechanics as aphotic shield. (Does not dispel things like Ice blast, Weave, Viper strike)
• Press the attack does not go through BKB, so use it BEFORE your BKB
• OO does not work on LD bear, dominated creeps (chen + enchantress), DOES work on illusions
• Friends: Zeus, Troll, Spectre, Furion, Wisp, AA, Silencer (global duel help), Lycan, Magnus, Invoker (damage boost), Skywrath, ET
• Counters: Dazzle, Oracle, WW, Bane, OD/SD/Tusk, IO (against duel), WK (very hard to kill in duel)
• Good versus: Lycan, TB (Heroes with summons or illusions), Slark, Bloodseeker, AM, Jugger, Drow, Sniper (hard hitting squishy heroes), Bristle (duel forces him to turn to you and stops him from using spells), Zeus (squishy spell caster)
• Good mid lane matchups: QoP, Puck, Zeus, Invoker (he can fuck your duel with sun strike though)
• Mid matchups to avoid: Storm, Lina, WR, SF, Lesh
• In a 1v1 duel, ALWAYS click the enemy hero first to check his items. You do not want to lose this duel.
• Throwing stuns on a dueled enemy is often a bad idea as it stops LC from proccing MoC.
• Never 5v5 initiate duel unless you have BKB and know you will survive. The enemy target dying is less important.
• Your usual combo is PtA --> Blademail (--> BKB) --> OO --> blink --> duel
• Versus: linken's

Role: Mid/Offlane

Item build:

• General: Treads, (armlet,) Shadow blade/Blink dagger, Blade Mail, BKB
• Mid item build: Pooled tango's, (salve, ) stout shield (magic stick vs Spell Spammers), quelling blade, bottle, treads, TP scroll, blink, blademail, BKB
• Situationals: BKB, shadow blade/Silver edge, MKB (look out for solar crests), Mjollnir, AC, Abyssal, Armlet, Skadi, Deso, Satanic, Refresher, Heart, Halberd, Force staff, Rapier

Skill build: Overwhelming odds --> lvl 2 MoC --> press the attack