DotA2 - Original Thread

[MENTION=6823]Polantaris[/MENTION]
Dotafire is a pretty bad website for guides honestly Sadly there's no hood hub for DotA2 guides. I've been thinking of writing a small mini-guide for every single hero, might do that tonight/tomorrow. Would include general role, general skill-build and general items and a few tips on how-to-play, is that something anybody would be interested in?

Wind runner works as a carry lategame, she's not a good one if built directly into one, but after getting up some core items on her, like boots mekansm/pipe of insight + forcestaff + scythe of vyse you can start building items such as Desolator, daedalus and MKB to increase her DPS.

There's a lot of heroes like this though, if you're a ranged hero in the third position building up some DPS past your core items is pretty common.

But the utility forcestaff, mekansm/pipe of insight and a scythe of vyse give your team are invaluable.

Not that you can't build her as a carry, it's viable, just not quite as good.

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If you were to try and build her as a carry i'd go for power treads of phase boots.
The items i would get would be
For defensive purposes: Linkens sphere or Black king bar.
For offensive purposes: Desolator, Monkey king bar, orchid of malevolence, Daedalus.

And tossing in a maelstrom or crystalis without upgrading them between items also work.

Diffusal blade is a great item on her too if you want to remove mana from a target or need to purge something from an enemy(You can purge away all the buffs omni knight provides for his team, for example) and aghanims scepter is also pretty decent in the mid to lategame on her when you have the mana regen to cast your ult when it's off cooldown.

And for the why the pineapple not items:
Eye of skadhi(It's too expensive to be gotten otherwise, but not bad if you're winning hard or just have a lot of cash, or if it's super late-game.)
Satanic(It's pretty expensive and it generally wont save a WR in a fight, but if it's late or if you're winning, you can get it for the lifesteal and strength)
Rapier(Well, if you're winning, this kicks ass)
And.. battlefury, as weird as that sounds. It's not a BAD item on wind runner, she doesn't benefit from the cleave but she needs the mana regen and it has a good damage:gold ratio, if you aren't building an orchid or linkens for some reason, i guess this could work.

Carry WR can be done and it's not bad, it's just that utility windrunner with carry items in the late-game is better for the team, in general.
but if you want to build her as a carry for fun, by all means you can do it.

Windrunner is just a great hero because.. She's so versatile, she can help her team at all parts of the game and doesn't fall too much off at any point, if you look past that her prime-time is around 15~25 minutes, she's not much worse after that but her damage is just relative at its 'prime' in that period and she's amazing as an aggressive hero.

Also a fun fact: Although you'd think attack speed is pointless on her with her ulti, she has a BAT(Base Attack Time) of 1.5 which is really low.
BAT affects how much attack speed improves your actual rate of attack, most heroes have 1.7(95% of the hero pool i think) and then there are some that get reduced BAT from their skills(Lycan, lone druid, alchemist) and heroes with naturally low BAT(Anti-mage, huskar and wind-runner) and heroes with naturally high BAT(Treant protector at 1.9)

Lower BAT=good. Doesn't mean building attack-speed if the goal for a wind-runner that wants to carry though.

Also, Unique attack modifiers don't stack, generally.
But desolator applies a debuff and can work with mjollnir or maelstrom due to this, since it'll apply a desolator debuff and even if mjollnir or maelstrom trigger in the middle of your attacks you'll still have the benefit from both modifiers. So you CAN get maelstrom for farming purposes on windrunner coupled with a desolator for damage, if you really want.

spoilered a lot of it because wall of text.