Semi-daily hero tips. Day 57: Naga Siren

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• Naga Siren

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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.

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Naga Siren

Notes:

• Mirror image removes all the debuffs that manta would
• Mirror transformation time also makes you invulnerable
• Use unified commands after you used mirror image or it will be very obvious which one the real naga is
• To farm, select all other units from mirror image, attack command a camp/lane, shift click one of the illusions in the group, repeat. When sending illusions to camps, pay attention to the clock so you can stack by selecting them all again.
• Always keep 100 mana when you're 6 so you can song + TP to safety if you get ganked
• Couriers are masters of time (see void), but they can be ensnared
• Without a 5 stack, You might want to only use your ult as a defense mechanism
• Cancel your ult with R if you need to
• Friends: Dazzle (Weave in ult, Mirror image heal bomb), Disruptor (cage + ult), Enigma (midnight pulse), Sand king (wombo combo)
• Okay, here's another list of heroes that work with naga ult:
  • Eartshaker Fissure (to split the playing field and cut of escape paths)
  • Broodmother spiderlings (Sprout a hero without sprout)
  • Kunkka (for obvious sailing reasons)
  • Razor (static link to the max)
  • Undying tombstone (spawns zombies while enemy is slept)
  • Mirana arrow
  • Windrunner shackle shot
  • TA (trap, meld and refraction early so everything is off cooldown to do it twice)
  • Ursa overpower (twice in a row)
  • Warlock upheaval (slow increases with duration, regardless of sleep)
  • Tinker march of the machines + rearm
  • AA ult + slow
  • SS serpent ward (Allows you to perfectly trap a unit in them for free)
  • Jakiro macropyre + ice path
  • KOTL recall + illuminate
  • Invoker forge spirits + ice wall (mid song), sun strike + meteor (end song), deafening blast (song ended)
  • Omniknight repels (while initiating or repel an enemy to take down during song with net that goes through repel)
  • Dark Seer (Vacuum + Wall)
• You can deny towers during song, but not attack enemy towers
• You can kill roshan during song
• Sleep when one of the enemy has BKB'd, kill him
• Versus: Be careful with raging, spinning, repelling, BKB'ing with naga ult up
• Ensnare breaks channel, reveals invis, disables blinking and other mobility spells and goes through magic immunity, ghost scepter gets you out
• Counters: Lion (2 spells to kill illusions), Zeus (good illusion clear, can often hit you with his ult while you song defensively), Lesh (does damage while your ult is going), Axe (dangerous to song since he'll always be able to blink), Timber (lane winner), Alch (lane winner, comes online earlier), LC (OO), Tiny (high burst before you can song), Necro (Aura goes while songed)
• Good versus: TA (easy refraction with illusions and radiance), Brood, Chen, Lycan, Riki, BH (radiance)

Role: (Support,) mid, hard carry

Item build:

• Support: PMS, Magic wand, Arcanes, Urn, (Drum, Heaven's halberd, medallion, Aghs)
• Hard carry build: (PMS, RoA, Wand,) Arcanes/Treads/Brown boots, Radiance, Manta, BoT, Octarine, (Heart, BFly, Diffusal, Refresher, Moon Shard, Aghs)

Skill build:

• Support: Ensnare + Rip tide
• Hard carry: Rip tide --> Mirror image --> Ensnare