Semi-daily hero tips. Day 101: Ursa

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.

Ursa

Notes:

• Earthshock is a lot better than people think. 240 damage can be very surprising if it's maxed first
• Overpower attacks are used for denies
• Similar to refraction, cast overpower way before you go into a fight or rosh. The duration is 5 sec longer than the cooldown.
• Ursa can keep fury swipes stacks up on enemies because of his high base armor
• Apart from the shadow blade/blink, anything goes on this hero item wise, especially since fury swipes is no longer a UAM
• Rosh: get vlad's/morbid mask and smoke, cast overpower at the nearest tower, go into rosh, hit, cast overpower again
• bind "b" "chatwheel_say 57" //Current Game Time in your autoexec.cfg to show the rosh time
• Versus: Ursa jungler? kill him or share xp
• Versus: before he has basher, just TP out and hope you're fast enough
• Counters: force staff, eul's, Rod of Aui, Sheep, ghost scepter (get diffusal as ursa), manta, halberd, abyssal (anything that can kite him)
• Versus: WK, Lone druid, wisp, WD, Furion... on the enemy team? Rosh lvl 1
• Overpower charges are not used up on missed hits. This makes Ursa very good against heroes with < 100% evasion.
• Good versus: Pudge, Treant (tanky heroes that need to get close), Jugger, LS (Ursa doesn't care about magic immunity), Spectre (Ursa is very good early game), Zeus (squishy, slow)
• Counters: PL, CK, Naga (Illusions), WR (100% evasion), Veno, OD, SD (great kiting), Brood, Furion, LD (split pushing, summons) Role: hard carry (, jungler)

Skill build: Fury Swipes <-> Overpower with early value point(s) in earthshock

Item build:

• Standard: (OoV, Wind Lace,) PMS, Phase, (Vlad's/Morbid mask) <-> Shadow blade/Blink, (Midas,) Skull basher <-> BKB/Agh's, Abyssal (, Agh's/BKB)
• Situationals: Deso, Skadi, Satanic, Silver Edge, Diffusal, Eul's, sheep stick, moon shard, bloodthorn, BFury, Manta
• P(hase)R(ing of Aquila)M(ask of Madness) viable

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