Semi-daily hero tips. Day 98: Tusk
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.
Tusk
Role: semi-carry, support, offlane
Skill build: Shard --> Snowball --> Sigil
Item build:
- Damage dealing core: OoV, Wand, Blight Stone, Phase, (drums,) shadow blade/Blink, deso, (Silver Edge, Solar Crest, Lotus)
- Support: OoV, Arcanes, (Blink, Force, Ghost, Lotus, Glimmer, Solar Crest, Agh's, eul's)
Notes:
- Sigil is worth a lot of gold!
- Everyone inside snowball is invulnerable
- Do I have to say this? Be careful of who you take with you in the snowball
- Sigil doesn't affect magic immune units since 6.85
- Sigil gives flying vision, handy for finding wards
- Walrus punch breaks channels (fully stunned during air time), even through magic immunity
- Walrus punch debuff will stay if you deny a creep or hit a tower when you have it on autocast
- Try to throw ice shards to chokepoints when at long range or abuse the collision it gives
- Versus: kill the sigil!
- Versus: Cast AOE spells after the snowball is over
- "Immortaliteeeeaaaahhh"
- You can load your sigil (and other summons such as astral spirit) inside the snowball
- You can cast skills while snowballing (/u/wezagred)
- Versus: You can see the direction snowball is going in by checking the direction it spins in. (/u/wezagred)
- Good versus: Invoker, Slark, Oracle (great initiation, cc and burst to control and kill them), Beastmaster, Bane (Load ulted target into snowball)
- Counters: CK (strong illusions), Techies, IO (anti-roaming/ganking), Sven, DK (can withstand your ult due to high armor), Axe, Void, Puck (snowball counter)
- Friends: Techies, Axe
PREVIOUS HEROES
- Abaddon
- Alchemist
- Ancient Apparition
- Anti-Mage
- Arc Warden
- Axe
- Bane
- Batrider
- Beastmaster
- Bloodseeker
- Bounty Hunter
- Brewmaster
- Bristleback
- Broodmother
- Centaur Warrunner
- Chaos Knight
- Chen
- Clinkz
- Clockwerk
- Crystal Maiden
- Dark Seer
- Dazzle
- Death Prophet
- Disruptor
- Doom
- Dragon Knight
- Drow Ranger
- Earth Spirit
- Earthshaker
- Elder Titan
- Ember Spirit
- Enchantress
- Enigma
- Faceless Void
- Gyrocopter
- Huskar
- Invoker
- IO
- Jakiro
- Juggernaut
- Keeper of the Light
- Kunkka
- Legion Commander
- Leshrac
- Lich
- Lifestealer
- Lina
- Lion
- Lone Druid
- Luna
- Lycan
- Magnus
- Medusa
- Meepo
- Monkey King
- Morphling
- Naga Siren
- Nature's Prophet
- Necrophos
- Night Stalker
- Nyx Assassin
- Ogre Magi
- Omniknight
- Oracle
- Outworld Devourer
- Phantom Assassin
- Phantom Lancer
- Phoenix
- Puck
- Pudge
- Pugna
- Queen of Pain
- Razor
- Riki
- Rubick
- Sand King
- Shadow Demon
- Shadow Fiend
- Shadow Shaman
- Silencer
- Skywrath Mage
- Slardar
- Slark
- Sniper
- Spectre
- Spirit Breaker
- Storm Spirit
- Sven
- Techies
- Templar Assassin
- Terrorblade
- Tidehunter
- Timbersaw
- Tinker
- Tiny
- Treant Protector
- Troll Warlord
Posted Jun 22, 2017, 12:32 PM UTC · edited