I love that hero. With him i start off wih a sobi + tango or RoB+ tangos then i get bracers, and work my way for an MKB or a heart after. Some people give him a dagon and ginso but i don’t like it… anyway, just practice last hitting. Try out Sand King too…
I usually like getting some treads and then a Dagon as my first item for Nerubian Assassin (besides ring of regen and other generic start items) for early game hero kills. Nothing is cheaper than Nerubian Assassin appearing out of nowhere with a nasty backstab, an impale, a dagon burst, and end with with a nice mana burn. Usually kills most int and agility heroes early game and leaves strength heroes in the red. After the Dagon I like getting S&Y for damage/AS/MS/Maim proc and then followed by a Butterfly or MKB.
Theres already guides on dota-allstars.
For the most part you wanna get carry hero items for Templar and Storm, Tank items for Huskaar, generic pushing/survival/mana items for Pit Lord/Dark Seer, and Radiance/Assault/Mekanism on Undying.
what are your fav/best 5 heroes to use?
Mines is techies, lycan, Spectre, Sandking, rasta, and QoP
Two butterflies is pointless, the evasion doesn’t stack. Once you have a butter, the next item is usually a buriza to maximize your dps.
Nerubian Assasin is fun, though his effectiveness varies a LOT. Your skill build will be impale/manaburn until 6 when you get vendetta. After you max out impale and manaburn, it’s up to you what to get next. Either stats or armour. Since you’re playing pubs, don’t get a dagon with him , as it’s effectiveness gets reduced hella fast. SnY is nice for him as you will be doing a lot of chasing, and you need the movespeed. Mana burn is awesome for controlling your lane. Just make sure you’re spamming it when they have the max amount of mana = to the spell damage. What I mean is, if your mana burn can do burn a max of 120 mana, try and use it when they have 120 mana+.
NA is pretty bread and butter, he’s good for ganks. Find a lowish hp hero on the map, hide near, vendetta him, hit 1-2 times, impale, hit 2-3 times, chase a bit, and mana burn to finish him off.
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Tiny, Void, Drow, Viper would prob. be my favourites. They’re all pretty boring, but they’re the only ones i’m vaguely decent with in TDA games.
I played battle techies today, hella fun. Guinsoo/skadi = rape. I was always a couple of levels above everyone else, he farms SO fast. He can take out a neutral creep camp before they even wake up.
hmm
Silencer (godlike), Tinker, Rhasta, QoP, Centaur
For Nerubian Assassin:
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He is not a good hero.
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You’re gonna need nulls not bracers, his mana use is too much because you’re sometimes using 4 or 5 spells per fight (Ult, burn, stun, burn, stun)
-I like going straight battlefury on him. Impale plus a few attacks = dead creep wave which leads to greater farming. You’re also gonna need the mana regen.
-Best Orb effect = Sange & Yasha no doubt. I can see Frenzy Mask being ok but the life leech isn’t gonna help as much as the agi/str stats. This is also why you get nulls instead of bracers.
-Get Boots of Travel, NOT TREADS.
-Dagon is ok, but useless late game.
Yeah, Dagon is kind of useless late game, which is why I only snag it early on and leave it at its first rank. It also depends if there are low hp heroes in your game, which makes it great for ganking.
I dunno though, late game NA seems kind of gimp. His specials and ult don’t do enough damage to make him THAT big of a threat by himself. He’s more of an early game/mid game ganker to me. @_@
He’s a bitch early game. If he doesn’t fuck you up from the start he blows asshole. Not a hero I enjoy playing to be honest…
Best advice would be to go with what krasshole said and get some nuls really early.
any good nightstalker fans? What are your builds?
-2 bracers
-BoTravel
-satanic
these are the must haves…
then it just really depends. there are alot of things you can put on him depends who you are against…
One basher is good early game for damage and a stun… though I haven’t played NS yet. If there are heroes that can windwalk/turn invisible in your game, you want want to invest in a Radiance as well.
sa w/radiance is fucken boss. Actually, images w/radiance is Jesus.
some people feel this way, but BoT and satanic is way more important that a 15% chance to stun for 1.1 second… you can outrun them like hell anyway…
usually a buriza is a good choice after satanic… if you are having troubles with some heroes you could always go guinsoo too… sheep stick is so rape
hmm now that i think about, a lothars might not be bad… i lose a lot of kills because of creep blocks and the 15% speed + invisible would help me get outta the way and in front of them… hmmm
so maybe
-2xBracers
-boots
these are by first night, you should be about level 5 if doubling, level 7-8 solo
try to get a few kills, most of the time you can get at least 1 or 2 the first night
then,
-HoD
-BoT
by second night assuming you had a good first night, you should have both of these… if not get the BoT to help you in the second night…
-satanic
-crystalis
in a pub, its almost never 5v5 at this point… third night you should rape, 3-4 kills easily…
Does anyone wanna play at all? Lately my friends haven’t been on to play. My account name is spirit_drink. I can play on East or West, but I mainly play on East.
Do you play TDA or pubs?
Pubs for now. I haven’t played all the heroes yet, so until I become familar with all of them I’m not doing TDA.
im a pub all star… ill hit you up when im playing, mostly late nights around 11-3am. i rarely see people on from here that late:sad:
my account is slogan8r on east
i wish they would make a tauron hero… he was cool in the original wc3
Night stalker is the only hero in the game that gradually gets worse as he levels.