r/DotA2•9 yr. ago

Semi-daily hero tips. Day 92: Tidehunter

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.

Tidehunter

Notes:

Gush before anchor smash, it does physical damage to compliment the armor reduction
You can animation cancel anchor smash to chase enemy melee heroes away in lane from last hits
if you can initiate with ravage and you know the enemy has BKB wait for them to pop it so you can anchor smash during BKB. The damage reduction debuff will be applied through it but otherwise BKB will purge it.
Ravage as close as possible to primary targets with instant escapes or magic immunity.
Clear ancient stacks with anchor smash
Good versus: CK (damage block + anchor smash), Magnus (great counter initiation), Storm, LC, Nyx (You don't want to find pick offs on or near tide)
Counters: Chen (Hand of God on ravage initation), Alchemist, LD, Furion, Luna (You don't want to blow ravage on trees/illusions/bears/necro split pushing or even the heroes themselves), Bane (Nightmare tide to take him out of the fight), Pugna (nether ward)

Role: offlane

Item build: (Wind Lace, Stick/Wand, Infused raindrops, Talon,) Arcanes, (Midas, Blink <->) Mek, (Drum, Force,) Greaves, (Pipe, Refresher, Blade Mail, Shiva's, Agh's)

Skill build: smash --> shell --> gush

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Posted Jun 7, 2017, 12:08 PM UTC · edited