r/DotA2•9 yr. ago

Semi-daily hero tips. Day 91: Terrorblade

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.

Terrorblade

Notes:

You have the highest starting armor in the game at 10.14
You have the 3rd lowest starting health at 500, only KOTL and Medusa are lower.
The above stats make you a good laner against physical damage dealers.
Good attack animation and BAT, bad cast animation
Sunder has a bad cast animation and a travel time, so it's a really unreliable spell to use as it's not instant, it cannot be avoided unless by phasing out or dying.
Reflection illusion is invulnerable and non-targetable
Metamorphosis has a 140 second cooldown, so treat it as an ultimate
Unlike mirror image or similar spells, the conjure image is spawned, so you are not invulnerable like naga is when casting
~~Sunder has a mini stun so it will interrupt channels~~ (not the case since 6.82c, u/PowderSmile)
Sunder + dagon sounds good on paper, but it sucks because of the cast time.
Supports NEED to zone out the enemy for him to work in a line-up if the enemy has an aggressive lane against you.
If your supports can go really agressive, he can work in an agressive line-up because he kills people fast, but he shouldn't take nuke damage.
Before fighting, metamorph and conjure image
Level 7 without items metamorph TB does 153 dmg per hit, not including illusions.
When you kill a hero in lane, start pushing as fast as you can.
The difference with PL is you really should split up your illusions instead of clumping them together. Make use of your ranged form.
Farm like naga, gank like SF, clash like luna and chase like Naix
Versus: Gank him with magic nukes.
Counters: QoP, DS, Timber, Tinker, Axe, Lina, Puck (High non-physical AOE burst), Sniper (Kills TB from a distance. Often gets maelstrom/mjollnir), PL (TB has no AOE damage), ET (natural order)
Good versus: TA, Slardar, Beastmaster, Lycan, LS, WK, Visage, VS, Clinkz (physical damage, armor redux, single target all don't work against TB), Chen (TB pushes faster), Meepo (nothing to keep TB from using sunder)
Reflection chases the enemy unit at 522 MS, ignores terrain, TP and invis, but it can't attack when it doesn't have vision
Reflection illusion carries all the aura's the initial target had.
Metamorphosis damage boost is considered as base damage
Metamorphosis can't be purged
Metamorph no longer disjoints as of 7.00
Sunder can target allies, enemies and illusions
HP swap is % based
Sunder is no longer hp removal or gain, but direct hp manipulation, meaning it's not affected by ice blast, borrowed time and blade mail.
Linken's on enemies blocks sunder
Use manta before metamorphosis, Melee illusions hit harder and have lower cooldown (/u/RikoudoX)

Role: Hard carry, Pusher

Skill build: max meta --> conjure image, skip sunder at 6 because of high mana cost. Consider a value point in reflection.

Items: A lot of viable items. Wand, Treads and RoA are pretty much core. Dragon Lance --> Pike and Manta are also often core. Other items include but aren't limited too: BKB, Skadi, Satanic, SnY, Rod of Aui, Diffusal, Drum, Daedalus, HotD, BFly, Armlet.

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Posted Jun 6, 2017, 1:00 PM UTC · edited