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Semi-daily hero tips. Day 83: Slark

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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.

Slark

Notes:

  • Use dark pact mainly when you think a disable is coming or you need the purge and only secondarily like a nuke
  • Dark pact can't purge Doom + Duel, Battle Hunger, Ice blast, Rupture, Enfeeble, Maledict, OoV slow, Berserker's call, Weave, Glimpse, Spirit Siphon, Earth Spirit agh's, Burning spear, Deafening blast (knockback AND disarm), Stone Gaze slow, Reaper's scythe, Dream coil leash, Caustic, Demonic purge slow, Spectral dagger slow, Poison sting and Nova, Viper Strike, Weaver swarm, Winter's curse, Heaven's halberd disarm, Skadi slow, Silver edge and some other stuff like channels, links, drags, attribute stealing, stacks etc.
  • Medallion is a funny pickup because you can purge off the armor reduction with dark pact
  • Pounce will not latch on illusions
  • Pounce disjoints some spells and ranged attacks Not anymore since 7.00 (/u/reapr56)
  • When running away, pounce in the trees or over cliffs, not just along the lane
  • Direct pathing can be a very handy feature for pounce
  • Watch your speed and regen when you get ult. If you slow down, you're in vision (wards)
  • Versus: Don't stun slark if dark pact is coming
  • Versus: He may have low HP, but be careful when trading hits with slark because of essence shift
  • Note that you can keep stealing attributes even without doing damage so keep hitting through omni ult, WW cold embrace and even abaddon ult
  • Versus: TP out when chased
  • Counters: Bloodseeker (thirst), Timbersaw, Storm (Can't leash them, high burst), IO (slark thrives in pickoffs, which are hard with wisp around), Puck (silence + non-purgable dream coil), Earth Spirit (silence + agh's)
  • Good versus: Spectre (Very different timings), Bristle, Abaddon (plenty of essence shift stacks + high armor), Sniper (squishy back liner)
  • If you thread switch to INT when using dark pact and then back to STR, you barely lose mana AND health. (/u/PageEnd)
  • Versus: You can escape pounce by planting an ironwood branch behind you at the edge, because it pushes you out of the threshold. (/u/BearBuddha)
  • Dark Pact has 10 damage AND purge instances. (/u/DOOMBRING3R)
  • Use Dark Pact during the shadow blade fade time to give you a chance of purging dust if they use it right as you go invis. (/u/Chrissgun)

Role: mid, carry

Item build: OoV, (Wand, PMS, Midas,) Treads, Shadow blade/Blink, Echo Sabre, Skull basher, (SnY,) Skadi, (Abyssal, BKB)

Skill build: Dark Pact --> Pounce --> Essence shift. Value point in all 3 by lvl 3

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Posted May 17, 2017, 11:50 AM UTC · edited

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