r/DotA2•9 yr. ago

Semi-daily hero tips. Day 79: Shadow Shaman

Tip

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.

Shadow Shaman

Notes:

You get the eul's so you can reliably trap enemy heroes in your ult.
Like chain lightning and other spells, cast ether shock on a unit in range to get the hero that is out of range
As with lion, spam cast hex on the enemy initiator and cancel so he will get hexed the moment he blinks in
You can shift queue hex during shackle so you can easily chain disable
Don't ever target the tower with your wards. They hurt most with burst attacks, so close to each other
Target your attacks with your vipers (box select or ctrl click)
Versus: You can phase through serpent wards
Counters: PL (diffusal mana burn + you only have single target disables + wards no longer do splash damage), Meepo, Visage, CK, Brood (you only have single target disables + wards no longer do splash damage), Sniper (can easily clear wards from a distance)
Versus: Have at least one disable or silence, shackles last for a long time
Versus: You can walk out of the wards trap with phased movement
Serpent wards do physical damage and splash damage
Good versus: AM, TA, Ursa, Storm, LS, Jugger, BS, Ember (high mobility heroes or heroes that hate to get kited)
Friends: Ursa (extremely long and good disables that lets ursa kill anyone)

Role: support (, mid)

Item build: bottle/wand/stick, Wind lace, arcanes, (mek, drum, eul's, blink, force staff, aether lens, glimmer) agh's (, refresher)

Skill build: lvl 1 shackles, max ether shock --> hex --> shackles

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Posted May 8, 2017, 12:22 PM UTC