Skeleton King Role: Carry Skeleton King has it all: a stun ability, a lifesteal passive and even an ultimate that can bring him back from the dead. If you’relearning to play Dota 2, you can’t get much simpler than Ostarion the Skeleton King. Skeleton King is a tough – and fairly tanky – melee carry with simple abilities to use. The reason we suggest Skeleton Kingover Sven is due his ultimate, Reincarnation, which will let him revive with full HP and mana if heis killed – an understandably useful ability. With the Skeleton King you’ll want to focus first on his Hellfire Blast ability, which will enable him to stun enemies as well as deal a decent amount of damage. After that focus Mortal Strike which increases your critical chance quite dramatically and can be activated to drain a large chunk of health from an enemy before returning it after 7 seconds. It’s a useful tool in a hero fight, especially in 1v1s since it’ll put the fear in your opponent quite quickly. Vampiric Aura is a great passive to have too, since it adds lifesteal to any nearby allies meaning health is gained just by being near Skeleton King. However you’ll want to start levelling this last of all since it will help you push the lane far too much, reducing your ability to farm creeps. As you might expect such as passive means that SK is best suited to a dual lane, and whether that’s top or bottom depends on your overall team composition. Having another ranged character will help and Skeleton King’s generally high health means he can be a decent combo with a ranged carry morecapable of higher damage (but also a little squishier). If you seem to enjoy Skeleton King after playing for a while, consider upgrading to Sven who is played a little more commonly and has similar benefits to Skeleton King.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:37:33 +0000
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