At the moment, the game "Dota-2" has 115 unique characters, each of which has its own set of characteristics, abilities and talents. It is thanks to such diversity and the highest replay value that the game has been afloat for so many years, attracting thousands of players every day.
The ability to play well on certain heroes is the key to victory in the game. Your team may have tactical genius and excellent coherence, but if you don’t know how to play on your chosen character, how to upgrade it and what to buy, you will definitely lose.
One of the most difficult to manage, but one of the strongest solo characters is Visage. Let's try to figure out how to play Visage in DotA 2.
Hero story
Turn to Laura game. In their world there is such a thing as a Narrow Maze - a place where the souls of the dead fall and, according to their mental abilities and other factors, are distributed to hell or paradise. Visage is the guardian of this maze. By the way, Razor plays a similar role and drives slow-moving spirits with his whip-lightning. Necrolik (the so-called Visage in the first "DotA") got to the earth, chasing Lyon - he is the only one who managed to escape from hell.
Makeup skills
Like most Dota heroes, Visage has 4 basic abilities:
- Grave Chill. A visage sucks the speed of attack and movement from the indicated target, adding these indicators to its own. Buffet also familiars, if they are nearby. We use it on the line to slow down the fleeing enemy, as well as in fights to reduce the enemy's DPS and increase our own. If we can not reach the skill of the trainer, when he runs away, you can throw in a creep, we will accelerate due to this.
- Soul assumption. Whenever ANY hero near Vizazh takes damage over 110, we accumulate a charge. Discharging the ability into the enemy, we inflict strong damage on him. Used for nuking on the line and in fights.
- Gravekeeper's Cloak. The charges accumulated in the second skill give us and familiars resistance to damage. If you take damage above 50, one charge flies.
- Summon Familiars. Avatar of Visage. Summons two (with Aganim - three) creatures, also called gargoyles or birds. Birds are flying units and do long-range damage, having a high attack speed. They have an active skill, when used, they sit on the ground, stunning the enemies standing nearby. While sitting, invulnerable. After a time they rise again, healing their health.
How to rock makeup.
The buildup of Visage in DotA 2 depends on the role and line chosen. If we go to the mid, the emphasis is on the first ability, then the second and third (they can be interchanged depending on what is more important for us, density or nuke). If we swing into a tank or stand solo-offline, then we give priority to the third ability. In the case of support work, Maxim is the second skill, if our core has its own nukes for quickly killing a target. If not, then the first is better for slowing down and killing.
Up to level 6, we pump all the abilities by at least one, because they are all useful. We swing the ult and talents as they appear, they are all extremely useful.
What about the talents of Necrolik, they are all balanced and situational enough. Let's consider in more detail:
- 10 level. +30 Damage or +125 Cast Range. We look at the situation and ITembild, but the range caste, as a rule, is more useful.
- 15 level. + 40% to experience gained or double hit of the second skill. Again, we look at the situation. If you are the support of the 5th position, clearly lacking experience, then we take the first option. Strengthening the nuke also looks very profitable and brings a cloud of damage.
- 20 level. +80 Gargoyle Speed or +15 Damage per Soul Assumption Charge. We look at the situation, if we took the nuke gain at the 15th level, then the 2nd option is more priority, with damage. In the remaining cases, the gargoyles movspeed is a little more useful in order to catch up with enemies or take birds away from them.
- 25 level. +1 bird or -2 seconds to the recovery speed of the 3rd skill. We take the second option only when swinging into the tank, and the bird is more important.
What to buy from artifacts.
The assembly on the Visage in Dota 2 is always very situational and depends on: position, role, peak of the enemy, their items.
- Initial purchase for support: 2 packs of tango and twig + chicken and ward (if you did not buy). If a courier with wards is not needed, take Windows Lance or Blythe Stone. 2 packs of tango and iron starch can be replaced with 1 pack of tango and flask.
- Initial purchase for the mid: a bundle of tango and a talisman zero.
- The main assembly. Take PT, Dominator, Medal. By the end of the game we collect Solar Cross, Aganim, Cuirassa, Bloodthorn. According to the situation, and also depending on the role, you can get: Drums, Vladimir, Eul, Forsstaff, Halberd, Glimmer, Hex, Rod of Athos.
- Assembly in the tank. If the enemy damages with physical damage, we collect Crimson, Cuirassa, Shiva. If there are many magicians, then Link, BKB, Pipe, Lotus will be useful.
- Build in nuker. Exotic build for very strong players. Use only against weak opponents. Kaya, Dagon, Ezereal, Orchid, Octarin, Vale of Discord.
- Build in push. Also a non-standard ITembild, which can be tested for lulz. Travel, Dominator, Necrachi, Mjolnir, Desolator, Breastplate.
How to act on the line.
Guide to Visage in Dota 2 will be incomplete without a story about the tactics of the game. The actions described below are more calculated for the mid, but in general can be applied to other roles.
Stop creeps. If it did not succeed - agrim enemy and bring to his tower. We strain the enemy hero to the maximum, trying to re-encode it at the expense of the first skill, not forgetting about deny creeps. Do not push the line so as not to go far under the enemy tower, substituting under the gank. Playing for support, we can go to level 3 in conjunction with another hero who has a strong nuke or camp on the mid-gang in smok.
The main task is not to die and to maximize the upkeep. Both experience and gold are equally important to us. Charges accumulate well when we are not on a solo line, so Vizazh is good for triple kills. After receiving level 6 and the fast dominator, who is our first, we leave with friends to push towers.
Midgame and Leytgame.
With the receipt of the 6th level, dominator and medal, we begin to actively farm and go into the push. We press on the enemy towers, not substituting for large fights. On occasion, we try to get in conjunction with partners on the gang of weak supports in the forest or on the line. We try to put as quickly as possible the first two lines of the towers, driving the enemy to xg.
After that, we place wards in the enemy forest, trying to catch farming heroes. After the allies remove the key art, we carefully go to xg to demolish the first T3. Then we switch to the shrains and finish the key art.
If it came to late, we play as much as possible on the team. We’re not trying to “ruin” the enemy’s team alone, even with a refarm. Makeup is a hero for pushing and teamwork. We concentrate as much as possible on the buildings and push them through familiars and creeps from the dominator.
Bundles with other heroes.
Ligaments with Visage in Dota 2 are good for heroes with point camps, which we will extend by "landing" the birds. Sven, Lyon, Ogre mage are great here. In conjunction with the last two, it’s good to gank the enemy.
Characters that give bonus damage or attack speed to us and the birds come in well: Drow Ranger, Invoker, Ogre Mage, Bloodsicker.
An interesting bunch with Tinker, which can hang out on our familiars and nuke the enemy.
How to counter visage.
The counter-peak for Visage in Dota 2 is practically absent. Most effectively he is opposed by Ax, killing birds through agr + passivation, as well as Bristleback, who has a lot of protection and quickly merges familiars with the first and second skills.
How to counter Visage in DotA 2? The best way to confront him in the mid is to repharm on the line. Experienced Bloodsickers, SFs, Exorcist Invokers, Snipers do a good job of this. Also Visage is quite vulnerable in the mid for ganks, as it does not have escape (ways to escape from the enemy). The chance of being killed is cut slightly by a passive and partially decided by the wards.
When playing against him in the middle of the game, the main thing is to try to kill familiars to the maximum. A lot of money is dripping for them, and a big cooldown for re-calling birds. Also unforgettable about card control. If we do not give Visage a farm, then it will not reveal its full potential. Without Solar Cross and Aganim, he is rather weak.