Tresdin - (The Legion Commander)

My name is Tresdin, and there is a great threat growing in my kingdom. And that threat is the waves of filthy non-human refugees who litter our street corners and whose mongrel languages are belted out in every pub! I didn't become the greatest general this kingdom has seen in hundreds of years to see my lands reduces to this, but that will be dealt with shortly. For now my axe is called to battle the hordes of darkness that threaten every human in these lands. I march to turn the tables on these horrors, and I dare even one of them to test me in single combat! I go to see things are taken care of the right way, the human way!

 

Name: Tresdin
Affiliation: STR Sentinel 2
Strength: 26 + 2.6
Agility : 18 + 1.7
Intelligence: 20 + 2.2
HP: 644
Mana: 260
Damage: 57 - 61
Armor: 2.52
Attack Range: 128(melee)
Attack Animation: 0.46/0.64
Missile Speed: Instant
Movespeed: 310
Sight Range: 1800/800

Kelebihan
• Bonus damage permanen dan tidak terbatas!
• MS Imba dengan mudah.
• Anti-Cloners!
• Memiliki bonus Attack Speed tinggi.
• Kemampuan meremove efek buff negatif dan stun/disable.

Kelemahan
• Kalah duel = Nyumbang Damage!
• Silence.
• Physical immune dan blade mail
• Lihat sendiri dibagian Counter ;D
 

ere I will explain the usages of Legion Commander abilities. I will avoid explaining basic things such as Damage per Level, since that is something you can simply check by looking at the skill description.


The skill builds suggested are the ones I like the most. In the middle lane I prefer to max Overwhelming Odds, while in the Jungle I think it is enough to have 3 points in Press the Attack and 2 in Moment of Courage.

Hero Skills

Overwhelming Odds
 

Turns the enemies numbers against them, dealing damage and granting you 6% bonus movement speed per hero and 3% per unit in the 315 AoE for 7 seconds. Deals bonus damage to illusions and summoned units.

Level 1 - 60 Damage + 10 per unit
Level 2 - 120 Damage + 10 per unit
Level 3 - 180 Damage + 10 per unit
Level 4 - 240 Damage + 10 per unit

Cooldown: 18 Detik
Manacost: 100
AoE: 315
Cast Range: 1000
Durasi: 7 Detik

Note
• Bonus MS 6% per hero dan 3% per unit di AoE
• Bonus Damage untuk unit summon dan ilusi adalah 25%
• Tipe damage magical

Penjelasan
Skill anti-cloners, anti-summoner, anti-pusher, karena prinsip skill ini akarnya dari skill ultimate Raigor (Echo slam) dimana total damagenya berdasarkan jumlah unit musuh dalam area. Apalagi untuk ilusi dan unit summon menerima bonus 25% damage.
Selain menentukan efek damage, jumlah musuh juga menentukan MS yang kamu terima selama 7 detik.

Penggunaan
Karena menghasilkan damage, digunakan untuk nyicil dan AoE damage. Gunakan tepat saat war telah dimulai atau saat unit musuh dan creep-creepnya masih banyak.
Bonus MS tentunya berguna untuk mengejar atau kabur. Casting range 1000 mudah menemukan unit musuh terdekat untuk menambah MS agar bisa menjangkau atau menghindari kejaran musuh.

Lalu karena nukenya lumayan sakit, cocok menjadi modal defense dan kontrol lane di early game.

Press the Attack
  Removes all debuffs and disables from the targeted ally and grants them bonus attack speed and health regen for 4 seconds.

Level 1 - 60 AS, 30 HP Regen
Level 2 - 80 AS, 40 HP Regen
Level 3 - 100 AS, 50 HP Regen
Level 4 - 120 AS, 60 HP Regen

Durasi: 4 Detik
Cooldown: 16/15/14/13 Detik
Manacost: 80/90/100/110

Note
• Bisa digunakan ke Hero teman atau diri sendiri.
• Meremove semua jenis buff.
• Kamu tidak bisa meremove disable dirimu sendiri, termasuk saat terkena silence.

Penjelasan
Press the attack memberikan efek 'purge' yaitu meremove buff negatif seperti minus armor, slow, bahkan disable. Bukan itu saja, skill ini juga menambah AS dan HP regeneration yang bisa dimanfaatkan teman carry atau dirimu sendiri mendapat DPS tinggi atau Heal selama beberapa detik.
Press the attack adalah skill support imbalance yang akan menjadi skill utamamu di late game, karena durasi empat detik sudah sangat cukup untuk Duel.

Penggunaan
Kalau dilihat dari efek-efek yang diberikan :
- Gunakan untuk menolong teman menghilangkan efek negatif seperti stun,disable,track,dll
- Meremove buff slow,minus armor, track,dll untuk diri sendiri.
- DPS untuk dirimu atau carry jadi di late game, terutama yang membutuhkan AS seperti permabasher/critical.
- Heal untuk teman yang sekarat.
- Attack speed untuk push tower.

- Ngutan
- Duel

Moment of Courage

  When Tresdin is attacked, he has a chance to gain a moment of courage, instantly attaking again with bonus lifesteal.

Level 1 - 16% Chance, 20% Lifesteal
Level 2 - 18% Chance, 40% Lifesteal
Level 3 - 20% Chance, 60% Lifesteal
Level 4 - 22% Chance, 80% Lifesteal
Note
• Tidak bisa terpicu lebih dari satu kali setiap 0.9 detik.
• Lifesteal skill ini BUKAN orb, Stack dengan item/skill berlabel orb effect.
• Lifesteal yang dihasilkan berdasarkan damage yang kamu hasilkan.
• Attack dari tower juga bisa memicu skill ini.
• Tidak ada animasi lifesteal saat skill ini bekerja.
Penjelasan
Moment of Courage memberikan efek counter attack dengan bonus lifesteal amat tinggi. Skill pasif inilah yang akan mempertebal ketahananmu selama duel.

Chance terpicunya berdasarkan jumlah serangan attack yang kamu terima, jadi bukan berdasarkan attack speed seperti kebanyakan efek pasif. Lalu tidak seperti kebanyakan skill pasif, moment of courage tetap aktif saat Duel.

Duel

Calls the targeted enemy for a duel. Both you and the enemy will be forced to attack each other and will both be unable to use items or abilities. The victor gains 10 permanent bonus damage.


Level 1 - Lasts 4 seconds.
Level 2 - Lasts 4.75 seconds.
Level 3 - Lasts 5.5 seconds.

Cooldown: 50
Manacost: 75
Cast Range: 100

Note
• Petarung duel akan dinyatakan kalah apabila dia mati selama durasi skill ini.
• Pemenang dari Duel akan mendapat 10 damage PERMANEN!
• Kedua hero yang berduel tidak bisa menggunakan skill maupun item aktif, seperti saat terkena Doom.
• Beberapa efek pasif masih aktif saat duel (dijelaskan dibawah)
• Kedua hero sama-sama disable tapi tidak invulnerable, tetap bisa diserang.
• Saat Duel, Gem of True Sight tidak berfungsi.
• Skill ini diblock Linken sphere.


Penjelasan

Skill ultimate paling LAKI!

  Duel akan membuat kamu dan rivalmu disable sementara untuk bertarung 1 vs 1 mengandalkan kemampuan attack masing-masing. Tidak bisa menggunakan skill, item aktif, dan sebagian besar efek pasif juga disable. Namun kalian berdua tetap bisa menerima efek serangan dari masing-masing teman.

Apabila selama durasi berhasil membunuh lawan duel kamu mendapat bonus 10 damage permanen meski bukan yang membunuhnya. tapi kalau sebaliknya rivalmu itu yang mendapat 10 damage permanen. Apabila tidak ada yang terbunuh selama durasi buff maka tidak ada satupun yang mendapat damage permanen.
Berhati-hatilah memilih lawan duel terutama di late game, karena hero-hero dengan DPS tinggi (carry jadi) bisa mengalahkanmu, jadi jangan sampai kamu hanya mempersakit DPS nya saja.

Dan sebaiknya lakukan kalau agak sepi musuh (sendirian), karena skill ini tidak didesain untuk digunakan kalau sedang banyak musuh apalagi untuk war.

Penggunaan
Saat terbaik menggunakan skill ini adalah saat kamu melihat atau bertemu musuh siapapun yang HP nya tinggal sedikit (Kecuali satu Hero, lihat di bagian Counter-Nightmare). Jangan bunuh dia dengan attack atau spell-spell damage karena dengan duel dia akan memberimu 10 damage permanen.
Terdengar pengecut? beraninya cuma sama yang lemah? Memang iya kalau bicara late game, tapi untuk early-mid itu adalah strategi terbaik untuk membangun DPS mu! Jadi jangan gengsi.
Skill ini sama sekali tidak berguna saat war, tapi cukup membantu dengan menculik satu musuh untuk berduel. Semakin sering kamu berduel dan menang, DPS mu akan semakin naik dan mungkin bisa berguna untuk menyaingi DPS hero-hero carry late game.
Sementara untuk casting rangenya melee, hanya bisa digunakan kalau musuh tepat didepanmu.
  

Sedikit merepotkan untuk melawan musuh Range tapi bonus MS overwhelming bisa membantu, atau beli saja Dagger/Lothar.
Cara kerja skill ini sama seperti saat terkena Doom, jadi seluruh skill dan item aktif akan DISABLE. dan untuk efek pasif sebagian besar disable tapi ada juga yang masih bisa bekerja. Untuk lebih jelasnya lihat daftar dibawah..
Note: Mohon koreksi kalau ada kesalahan. Skill yang tidak dicantumkan berarti masih butuh konfirmasi.

TIDAK AKTIF

Skill pasif:

• Frostmourne, Abaddon
• Geminate Attack, Weaver
• Headshot, Sniper
• Frost Attack, Dragon Knight Elder Form level 3
• Incapacitating Bite, Broodmother
• Geostrike, Meepo
• Caustic Final, Sand King
• Poison sting, Venomancer
• Phase Shift Auto cast, Puck ( Tidak diblok )
• Fury Swipes, Ursa
• Split shot, Medusa
• Last Word, Silencer
• Permanent invisibility, Rikimaru
• Kraken Shell, Tide
• Bash, Void (dan seluruh skill bash lainnya, kecuali Greater bash - Barathrum)
• Blur, Mortred (dan seluruh skill evasion lainnya, kecuali Psedu-evasion Backtrack - Darkterror)
• Great Cleave, Sven (dan seluruh skill cleave lainnya, termasuk Tidebringer - Kunkka)
• Coup degrace, Mortred (dan seluruh skill critical lainnya, tidak ada pengecualian!)

Item pasif:

• Chain lightning, Maelstorm dan Mjolnir
• True Strike, MKB
• Maim, Sange, Heaven Halberd, dan Sange and Yasha
• Feedback, Diffusal Blade
• True Sight, Gem
• Immolation, Radiance
• Damage Block, Stout shield, PMS, Vanguard.
• Cold attack (RANGE), Eye of skadi
• Critical Strike, Buriza
• Evasion, The Butterfly, Talisman, dan Heaven Halberd.
• Bash, Cranium basher, Abysal Blade
• Lifesteal, Mask of Death (dan semua item lifesteal lainnya, kecuali Unholy Rage - Satanic aktif)
• Splash Damage, Battlefury

AKTIF

Skill pasif:

• Feast, Naix
• Blood Bath, Bloodseeker
• Strygwys Thisrt, Bloodseeker
• Untouchable, Enchantrees
• Backstab, Rikimaru
• Greater Bash, Barathrum
• Reincarnation, Leoric
• Spell shield & Mana Break, Magina
• Liquid Fire, THD
• Juxtapose, PL
• Phantom Edge, PL
• Craggy Exterior, Tiny
• Moon Glaives, Luna
• Fervor, Troll
• Bristleback, Bristleback
• Dragon blood, Dragon Knight
• Counter Helix, Axe
• Corrosive Skin, Viper
• Desolate, Spectre
• Dispersion, Spectre
• Backtrack, VOid
• Flesh Heap, Pudge
• Necromastery, SF
• Return, Centaur
• Overload, storm spirit
• Psi Blades, Lanaya
• Berserker Blood, Huskar
• Essense Shift, Slark
• Hunter in the night, Balanar
• Borrowed Time, Abaddon (akan meremove Duel kalau HP nya dibawah 400)

Skill yang tetap aktif saat duel (kalau diaktifkan sebelum duel) :

• chilling touch, Kaldr
• rot, pudge
• guardian angel, purist
• Repel, purist
• rage, Naix
• Charge, Barathrum
• Chemical rage Alchemist
• Track, Gondar
• Diabolic Edict, Leshrac
• Web, Broodmother
• Mana Shield, Medusa
• Vendetta, NA (tetap invisible)
• Shukuchi, Weaver (tetap invisible)
• Spectral dagger collision, Spectre
• Decrepify, pugna
• Refraction, Lanaya
• Meld, lanaya (tetap invisible)
• Inner Vitality, Huskar
• Focus Fire, Alleria
• Eye of the storm, Razor
• Static Link, Razor
• Dark Rift, Pit Lord (tetap akan teleport)

Item pasif:

• Block damage, Linken sphere
• Cold attack (MELEE), Eye of skadi
• Damage Return, Blade Mail*
• Unholy Rage, Satanic*
• Unholy STR, Armlet of Mordiggian*
• Invisible, lothar*
• Death Charge, Bloodstone
• Corruption, Stygian Desolator
• Semua Aura (kecuali Radiance)
(*)Kalau diaktifkan sebelum duel

Middle Lane

Legion Commander depends on her Ultimate during the early stages of the match so she can snowball out of control. For this reason, I believe the middle lane is the most appropriate lane for this Hero. You will get level 6 faster and, also important, you will most likely have level advantage in comparison to the other lanes.

Tresdin can hold her own in the Middle Lane, even against hard matchups. If you are against another Melee Hero you can actually win the lane and sometimes even go for kills.


- Hard Matchup

If you are matched against a much stronger Hero, you should just try to last hit with Overwhelming Odds. In this situation Bottle Crow will allow you to remain in the lane, when you shouldn't, similar with Dragon Knight and his breath fire or Magnus with his Shockwave. Use Press the Attack to regen when needed.

Remember, if you cannot win the lane don't worry about it. You should be able to get enough last hits to grab Phase Boots, Magic Wand and maybe a Bracer for early stats. Make sure to grab the runes, even if that means you miss some creeps. A Haste or Invisibility Rune go a long way to make sure a gank in the sidelanes will work out. Don't forget Overwhelming Odds also gives you bonus movement speed, which will also help you to take the runes.

After you reach level 6 you should start ganking. Buy your own Smoke of Deceit to ensure your ganks are successful. The effectiveness of your initial ganks are of major importance, especially if you had a hard time during the laning phase.

If you have a bad time in the middle lane and your ganks fail, you will have huge dificulties in getting a grip of the match - I can't stress this enough.

- Easy/Medium Matchup

Against a Melee Hero you will be able to farm all you want and even zone your enemy out of the lane. Since your opponent is Melee, he will have to get close to the creeps to farm. Using Overwhelming Odds every time he tries to last hit, starts to heavily damage your adversary (but be careful not to be constantly pushing the lane to his side). If he gets low after one of your nukes you can even chase him to get the kill, because, don't forget, Overwhelming Odds also gives you bonus movement speed. Also at level 4, when you already have 1 point in Moment of Courage, you can trade hits with him near the creeps. Both of your will aggro the creeps, but you will have lifesteal to mitigate the damage; he won't.

Against a Ranged Hero who isn't exactly harass-intensive (like Invoker) or your opponent is just playing too passive, don't be afraid to farm and tank a bit of harass: You have a good Health pool, Press the Attack will allow to shrug off the little damage you are taking and if you manage to secure the runes even better.




Now, in the middle lane if you get level 6 before your opponent, you can straight up kill him and give you and your team a considerable early advantage. Let us analyze the possible scenario:

- At level 6 you should have 3 points in Overwhelming Odds, 1 in Press the Attack and 1 in Moment of Courage.

- If you get level 6 before your opponent you will also have a slight stats advantage.

- You will probably need to hit Overwhelming Odds on your opponent, unless he is already half HP. Use the bonus movement speed to get near him.

- Use Press the Attack, to assure at least 1 or 2 extra hits.

- Duel your adversary.

If your opponent has no escape mechanism and if he is half HP when you Duel him, you should be able to kill him during the Duel. If not he will at least be very low and you can finish him off.

  

Jungle

f you so desire you can go Jungle at level 1 with Legion Commander. The jungle, after the 6.79 update, offers a lot less to you (less xp and gold). However it is still a good source of xp and gold that your team can take advantage of. If one support is enough to ensure farm to your Main Carry, then the other support can be a position 4 jungler, getting the gold from the Jungle that otherwise wouldn't be going your Team's way.


I will explain the best way I found to Jungle with Legion Commander. It is very straight forward, with a slight detail that you should take into account and it is actually something that most guides overlook. Around minute 13 you will be level 9, with 4000 gold farmed. Now, considering you are playing the 4-role position, level 9 with 4000 gold at that time mark is quite good. However, this will restrict you to the Jungle and you won't be of much help to your team, so make sure you have very solid lanes.

Also the other support of your team will have the burden of buying courier, Flying Courier and all the wards (so make sure you have someone willing to do this for you!)



Brief Explanation

- Initially you should level up Press the Attack and Moment of Courage. These two spells will give you sustainability to keep jungling.

- Start off with the medium camps, as the hard camps are too much for you in the beginning. When you are level 5 you can start farming the heavy camps.

- At level 7 and 8 put points in Overwhelming Odds.

- While you are farming in the medium camps you should sometimes stack creeps in 1 of the hard camps. Do this only when you are near the hard camp you want to the stacks and you don't have to waste much time for the 53 second mark.

- Once you are close to reaching level 9, go to the hard camp you stacked. The 2 points in Overwhelming Odds will help you here. The initial creeps that you kill with this spell should give you level 9, but even if it doesn't, don't worry. Cast Press the Attack and farm the creeps.

- By the end of all of this, you should be level 9 and have 4000'ish farm, at around 13 - 13:30 minutes.

  

Detailed Explanation

- Stout Shield and Quelling Blade are a must to do this. 1 Tango will give you enough regen. I prefer Tango over a Healing Salve, since it gives you more HP regen and it doesn't get canceled by hits, so it will enable you to keep being active in the jungle.

- Get the Ring of Basilius as soon as you can. The armor and bonus damage are very useful to farm the jungle. The mana regen is also extremely important, so you can keep using your spells that are what enable you to jungle. Be careful not to call the courier before your Mid Hero has his Bottle!

- I prefer 1 initial level in Press the Attack. It will give you HP and will also let you kill the creeps faster, which will ultimately make you lose less health. Also Moment of Courage lifesteal is a percentage of your own attack damage and, lets face it, your damage isn't that impressive at level 1.

- 3 levels in Press the Attack plus 2 in Moment of Courage is enough to farm the jungle with self-sustainability. After that level up your Ultimate at level 6 and then level up Overwhelming Odds. This spell will help you farm the stacked hard camp and will also be very useful in team fights.

- You should just farm medium camps until you reach level 5. Before you reach this level, hard camps will be too much for you.

- Every time you can stack one of the heavy camps, do it. You should not take this as a priority, though. For example, if you finish a medium camp at around minute 1:45, you can go to the hard camp near it and stack it at minute 1:53. While you are farming the jungle, you can do this stack 3 times. When you are near level 9, head over to the stack. Use Overwhelming Odds on it. If you do not reach level 9 with the initial last hits Overwhelming Odds gives you, don't worry. Cast Press the Attack on yourself. This should be enough. If the stacks you got are particularly nasty ones, don't worry if you need to drag the creeps a little bit and hit them as they go back to the camp. Make sure you have enough mana to do all this.

- Another important detail, that may seem small and unnecessary, is to move yourself between every hit. This reduces the cooldownm between auto-attacks. Again, this may sound nit-picking, but doing it every time between auto-attacks for 13 minutes will give you a larger auto-attack output at the end.

What then?

There are several ways you can go with your farm after the 12 minutes mark.

You can go the Semi-Carry way, buying an Armlet of Mordigian, for example. This will push your other support to be a full hard-support, buying most of the wards and getting very little items through the game. This can be the best option if you feel the game is progressing very slowly and you will have room to keep farming and scaling with items. Legion Commander isn't hard carry material, but having another hard-hitting Hero in your team, instead of a squishy support, can be the difference.

If your team lacks initiation/ganking potential you can buy a Blink Dagger, Force Staff or a Shadow Blade. These items synergize very well with your Ultimate and they will also increase your chances to start snowballing. Personally I prefer the Blink Dagger. Not only it is easier to combine it with Press the Attack + Duel but also can't be easily countered by gem or sentry wards, so it will remain more relevant during the different phases of the match.

Finnaly, my personal favorite (since I'm a badass, try-hard team player) I go full utility with Legion Commander and start to stack auras. After the 12 minute mark I buy a Mekansm for my team, since your other support won't have much chance to farm, Boots of Speed and a fresh set of Observer Ward and Sentry Ward. The Mekansm around 12 minutes is a very good purchase and allows your team to group up and start forcing team fights and take towers. It is also one of the best responses against an aggressive lineup. After that I can try to get Shiva's Guard, for example, following the trend of Doom Aura stacking for his team. You could also buy a Vladmir's Offering, especially if your carry is melee. These items will make you fairly tanky and will allow you to play a very active role in the team fights as a Support.

If the enemy team has to focus you down during a team fight, you have already done your job to allow your main carries to crush them.

Items

The items you can buy with Legion Commander vary a lot, as with most heroes. The items you choose depend on the direction you want to take with the Hero for a particular match, the composition of your Team and the Enemy Team.

In this section I will divide the possible item builds you can go for, depending on the role you want to adopt.



Starting Items


If you go to the Middle Lane, buying 3 Iron Branch and 1 Tango is a must. More than that will depend on your matchup. A Healing Salve is good if you expect a lot of harass. Stout Shield is also good for this reason, but I usually only buy it instead of a Healing Salve if I'm against Sniper. Early Magic Stick is essential if you meet Batrider or Zeus.

To jungle the items are pretty standard and fixed: Quelling Blade and Stout Shield will help you farm faster and tank more, respectively. Buy 1 Tango with the gold left. As mentioned already in this guide, I prefer 1 tanto over 1 Healing Salve




Semi-Carry




Armlet of Mordiggian


Armlet of Mordiggian is a good pick up if you want to become a significant right click damage dealer. It sinergyzes very well with Legion Commander due to her passive ability. Moment of Courage will somewhat mitigate the HP loss when you have the Armlet toggled. Activating Armlet of Mordiggian before you Duel someone is extremely effective.






Desolator


Desolator single target armor reduction is strong and will give a buff to your auto-attacks, making it much easier and faster to kill single targets with your Ultimate. The damage bonus should also be taken into account. Remember, your passive doesn't count as an attack modifier (and you can only have 1), so there is no problem with having Desolator as your attack modifier. If your game is going very well for you, I think you should not buy this item. If you are snowballing, your Duel charges will be giving you enough bonus damage, so you do not need more items that only give you damage.






Skull Basher


This item is extremely cost-efficient on Legion Commander. It gives almost as much damage as Desolator, since you are a Strength Hero and also benefit from the strength gain of the Item. The passive ability of bashing an enemy Hero is very useful, considering one of the flaws of this Hero is her lack of stuns. Also the Bash will proc with an attack from your passive, so the chance of bashing your enemy will increase considerably. You can also upgrade to an Abyssal Blade, which is one of the best items for a carry to have lategame, due to the sheer damage output it provides and the stun that goes over magic immunity.






Sange and Yasha


I like this item quite a lot on Semi-Carries such as Tresdin. It is a great all-around item to have. The bonus stats it gives you are great and it helps you to be a relevant right clicker in team fights. Also, the bonus damage, bonus attack speed and bonus movement speed synergize very well with your Ultimate. Combine this item with Phase Boots and a charge of Overwhelming Odds and it is very difficult to escape from a Legion Commander that wants to Duel you. Also, don't forget the passive ability of slowing down your opponent which also compensates somewhat your lack of stuns.






Assault Cuirass


If your main carry isn't going to pick up this item, go ahead and buy it. The attack speed and armor reduction aura helps you in your path of becoming a right clicker beast. The 15 bonus armor will help mitigate the physical damage coming your way when you throw yourself into the teamfights. The Assault Cuirass aura will not only help you, but your teammates will also benefit from it. Even if your carry doesn't get this item, he will still benefit from the 20 attack speed bonus coming from the aura. Since ideally you will be in the midst of the enemy team, the aura will be reducing the armor of most of them.






Heart of Tarrasque


A must buy item, especially if the game is dragging and you will be facing a late-game scenario. The health boost and HP regen it provides is just incredible. Also the strength bonus also converts into damage, since, as mentioned, you are a strength hero. This item will also complement very well the Armlet of Mordiggian, if you decided to buy it. Heart of Tarrasque will allow you to have Armlet of Mordiggian toggled, without having to worry about the HP loss.






Black King Bar


The bread and butter of almost every carry in current metagame. Gives you significant bonus damage, makes you a bit tankyer and the magic immunity ability will allow you to jump into the enemy team, without having to worry about getting locked down or burst to death. If the enemy team is very magical damage heavy or has several disables, consider rushing this item as soon as you can. Otherwise, you can maybe make Black King Bar your second big item purchase. Keep in mind that you can't cast Press the Attack on yourself while under the magic immunity effect of Black King Bar.






Heaven's Halberd


This item will give you 45 bonus damage, so do not disregard this item as a right clicker item for you. The HP bonus and evasion passive will also make you a harder target to take down. However, more importantly, and the reason why you should sometimes pick this item up instead of something else, is the active ability to disarm. This is extremely strong, even more if the opposing team has only 1 or 2 right clickers. With this item you can effectively remove one carry out of the fight in a split second. This is an underrated item, but it sits well with Legion Commander. You should definitely consider getting this item if you see your enemies' carry is delaying his Black King Bar purchase.






Initiator




Black King Bar


As mentioned, this item gives you several bonus (check above in semi-carry part of this section). If you plan on being one of the initiators for your team, you should buy this after getting your initiation item, especially if your enemy has good lockdown. If you are the one initiating, you will be the primary target and focus of your enemies spells. For this, magic immunity goes a long a way to ensure to accomplish the objective of your initiation, which is give time to your team to follow up and not getting obliterated in 2 seconds.






Blink Dagger


Personally my favorite item to increase my initiation capabilities. It is very easy to cast Press the Attack on yourself and blink right away and Duel your target. It also gives you other value in chasing down your opponents or running away from them (as long as you don't get hit, in which case your Blink Dagger will be on cooldown). There is no particular counter to this item, so it will be something you will take advantage of in the several stages of the match.






Force Staff


Similar to the Blink Dagger, Force Staff propels you forward and helps you initiate. However, it does not have the same precision of a Blink Dagger and that precision is quite important since your Ultimate has melee range. Still you can combine Overwhelming Odds and Phase Boots after getting forced forward with Force Staff to get near your target. Also, this item will give you more stats, besides the active ability: the HP regen is always good and the intelligence boost helps you cast more spells over time, although you don't necessarily need that, especially if you went Mid and have a Bottle. The active ability can be used for several other purposes other than initiating.






Shadow Blade


Another good item for initiation, but inferior, in my opinion, to a Blink Dagger or a Force Staff. Because of that, if you already bought Blink Dagger, don't buy this item. The invisibility ability allows you to get in melee range of your enemy in order to duel him. Make sure to attack him, before casting your Ultimate, to take advantage of the bonus damage. The attack speed of it will also synergize with Duel since you want to deliver as many auto-attacks as possible during your Ultimate. If you choose this item to make your initiations, make sure the initial ones are successful, because after you get 1 or 2 ganks a smart team will start buying Dust of Appearance, warding with Sentry Ward in strategic spots and maybe even buy a Gem of True Sight. All of this will make your 3000 gold investment somewhat useless. They can even kill you if you initiate while unaware of their vision on you. For all these reasons it is riskier to choose Shadow Blade as your initiation item, since its effectiveness will highly depend on the enemy team reaction to it.





Support/Utility




Mekansm


A great pickup if you are playing the Jungler role. The active ability gives an edge to your team during fights and the aura is also quite useful. It will give you more survivability, which is much needed if you intend to get close to your targets to cast Duel. Combine this item with Press the Attack and just by standing in the backline you can be healing your teammates and removing debuffs and disables (counter initiating, overall).






Shiva's Guard


Another very good pickup if you want to become that Utility/Aura-carrier support for your team. The active ability will increase your team fight potential, plus the slow it provides complements the lack of crowd control abilities from Legion Commander. The passive is also pretty good against carries, since it decreases their attack speed by 40. The 15 armor bonus will also give you more sustainability and the 30 intelligence will increase your mana pool, which is much needed considering you will have a Mekansm and a Shiva's Guard to activate, besides your abilities.






Vladimir's Offering


Extremely good item if your team's cores are melee. If you are thinking about getting this item, you should do it quickly. Personally, I would consider buying it after having the Mekansm, but not later than that. The aura is quite strong in early engagements and will also allow an early roshan. If you win a teamfight in the early/mid game, but if some of your teammates are dead and the rest half HP, you can't capitalize on your victory and take roshan most of the times. However, a vladimir's offering enables you to do that. It also means that your carry (if melee) can skip a lifesteal item and go for something else, such as a damage item or a Black King Bar






Pipe of Insight


As obvious, this is a good counter against magical-heavy lineups. The health regen, magic resistance increase and general stats it provides you is really good in making you more durable. You don't want to be a support that can't get in the middle of the fights and needs to resort too much to expert positioning, or else get destroyed. The active ability is just incredibly good against teams that depend on their magical damage to have enough damage output or, for example, when they depend on big impact ultimates such as Sand King's Epicenter or Chain Frost from the currently famous Lich.





Assault Cuirass


Not the ideal purchase if you are playing the utility role, but, if your other cores aren't buying this item, you can consider acquiring this. However, if you are playing the utility role, I would much rather buy a Shiva's Guard or something of the sorts. Buy Assault Cuirass only if it is really late-late game and you can afford it and your cores are definitely not going to buy it!





Boots


To finish up this section I'm going to go over the boots of choice for Tresdin. Basically it will be a choice between Power Treads and Phase Boots, since each has its advantages over the other. If you play the utility role, Arcane Boots are also extremely useful. You should never get Tranquil Boots. Consider getting travel boots in the later portion of the game.




Phase Boots


My boots of choice in more than 90% of the games. The bonus damage it provides is quite useful, since early game you want to kill your target as fast as you can (as you will be playing a sort of ganker role most of the times). The bonus movement speed is also very useful to catch your opponents and Duel them. It is very hard to run away from 16% movement speed bonus plus more bonus coming from your Overwhelming Odds, unless you have an escape mechanism.




Power Treads


Also a possibility, Power Treads will give you more survivability and attack speed. Since you already have the possibility of double hitting your opponent (due to Moment of Courage), you don't exactly need the extra attack speed provided by these boots and that is why I usually go for Phase Boots. In case you buy Power Treads and you also have a Bottle, be sure to tread switch to maximize the charges from your Bottle.

"Tread switching" is changing the attribute bonus of Power Treads so your stats lower, thus maximizing charges of your bottle.




Arcane Boots


There is the possibility of buying Arcane Boots. Usually I will only go or for Phase Boots or for Power Treads, but if you are going to play the Aura-Carrier Role, you should consider Arcane Boots as your option. The mana boost (for you and your team) is useful and with it you will be able to cast all your abilities and items. If you watch some games from Speed Gaming, Eternal Envy usually goes Arcane Boots on his Carry Doom.

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