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Hanthion's Quick Tip Guide to Heroes of Newerth
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- General Tips
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Hero Specific Tips
- Accursed
- Aluna
- Amun-Ra
- (All heroes listed alphabetically)...
- Item Specific Tips
- Abyssal Skull
- Acolyte's Staff
- Alchemist's Bones
- (All items listed alphabetically)...
- Miscellaneous
- Final Notes
Introduction
I've created this article to share an unparalleled collection of knowledge that exists among Heroes of Newerth's higher tiers of competition. It is not designed as a specific guide for heroes or items, but rather a generalized guide of tips and tricks that can be quickly absorbed by newbies and veterans alike. I want you, and hopefully many other volunteers, to not only read this but also contribute and reply with tips containing concrete information. Information that is not typically subject to change from patches etc. Tips should be short and sweet, one-liners, around 15-20 words (with some rare exceptions). I will also update false information that has slipped into this article based on constructive feedback.
This is a work-in-progress, and will be worked on when I have time. I will try my best to keep up with new HoN content released by S2 Games as it arrives. So, please! contribute your tips and I will update this OP as I feel necessary.
Also please note that there is no definitive way to organize such an extensive list - I will listen to your feedback regarding more optimal organization methods, but in the meantime I'll just try to make it as painless and pretty as possible.
General Tips
Beginner
- Use Wards of Sight to gain critical map information and monitor your enemies movements.
- Learn your Hotkeys! You can even rebind them to your liking.
- If there are no creeps within a creep camp at :00 they will respawn.
- There are two forms of Superior Magic: Application and Damage.
- Superior Magic Application is a Magic effect that cannot be prevented or removed.
- Superior Magic Damage is Magic Damage that cannot be resisted.
- Some spells have either Superior Magic Damage or Superior Magic Application, or both.
- Always carry a Homecoming Stone; use it to defend your towers, juke and port to avoid a gank or escape enemies without a stun.
- You can buy Wards, Health Potions and Mana Potions from the Observatory.
- Many hidden paths can be revealed when cutting down trees and can be used to aid you in your ganking and juking efforts.
- You can queue up commands by holding Shift; one of the first things you should learn to queue is the Courier.
- Runes can be denied, even by pets or illusions.
Intermediate
- Avoid the stun from Myrmidon's Magic Carp by stopping when the carp impacts you.
- A Mana Battery or Power Supply will charge quickly against an Armadon on the enemy team.
- Double-tap a dually beneficial, targetable ability or item's hotkey to cast on yourself; i.e. Succubus' Mesmerize, Stormspirit.
- Stack creep camps by initiating a creep camp pull between :53 and :56; this will remove them from their camp at :00.
- A maximum of three sets of creeps in each creep camp can be stacked simultaneously.
- Several heroes have abilities to prevent creep camps from spawning; i.e. Engineer's Spider Mine or Emerald Warden's Overgrowth.
- Portal Key has a three second cooldown if damaged by a player controlled unit.
- When crafting Steamboots, you can substitute the Bolstering Armband with Fleetfeet or Apprentice's Robe (Outpost item).
- Any item not requiring a recipe to craft can be disassembled.
- Fighting downhill not only gives you better vision than your opponent, but also 25% evasion.
- Fighting uphill (is really ****ing bad)...I mean...well, you know, it's just not smart to do.
- Deny an allied hero if they have a non-superior DoT effect on them to prevent the enemy from gaining Gold and XP.
- There is a lesser-known damage multiplier called Combat Type. Click the link for more info.
- Use Illusion Runes to trick your enemy into wasting mana, gain critical map information, or confuse your opponent in a team fight.
- Illusions and pets are great for helping to destroy gadgets with a set amount of attacks allowed; i.e. Arachna's Ulti, Wards, etc.
- Use pets to pull the enemy's pull camp into their creep wave while your team assault's the 1st tier tower in their short lane.
- You can cut down a tree above the Legion's pull camp allowing you to fight two creep camps at the same time.
- There is a tree above Kongor that the Hellbourne middle player may cut down to gain access to the Observatory.
- Parasite, Plague Rider and Tempest can deny a creep from the first wave; best utilized on a melee creep in a solo players lane.
- Use pets to scout ahead in common trap areas; they might trip enemy Spider Mines or Overgrowths.
Advanced
- Neutral creeps killed directly in their creep camp after :37 will not respawn at :00. (or :39? confirm please)
- Support heroes should stack creep camps for the carry heroes on their team.
- The real trick to understanding HP/Mana Regen and Consumption, is knowing that stat gains/losses are %based, not static.
- Change Steamboots to Stength when losing HP, Intelligence when losing Mana, and Agility when gaining Health and/or Mana.
- If it is safe to do so, drop any Strength and/or Intelligence items on the ground when gaining Health and/or Mana.
- Switch Steamboots to Agility while sipping from a bottle or using health/mana potions to maximize health and mana pool gains.
- Attack an enemy hero to aggro their creeps and move them to a more advantageous position.
- You can cancel your abilities by hitting the "Stop" hotkey mid cast (S by default), to fake out your opponents.
- Valkyrie's Javelin and Devourer's Hook are examples of abilities that can be cancelled. Try experimenting with other heroes.
- Use pets to remove on-damage effects; i.e. Succubus' Mesmerize and Gauntlet Blast.
- Deny yourself with the self-damaging effect of your Cauterize to prevent your enemy from gaining gold and XP.
- Cauterize can be used to give a burst of health while Flame Consumption is active.
- Fire Shield will dispel debuffs or interrupt channeled spells; i.e. Succubus' Hold, Pandamonium's Face Smash.
- Stack several creep camps at once with an Emerald Red Power Throw.
- Path of Destruction provides terrain and unitwalking; use this mechanic for a surprise or to escape a gank.
- Path of Destruction and Ignite both destroy trees, granting unobstructed vision or even removing the cover of jukers.
- Aurora can be used to block creep camps from spawning.
- Regurgitate spawns corpses in front of Balphagore, and can be used as an effective burst heal when being chased.
- Regurgitate in your fountain to max out Corpse Conversion for free before going back into action.
- Boom Dust a friendly creep just before it is last-hit to harass enemy melee heroes.
- Take Cover at max level provides invulnerability long enough to endure the three second cooldown on a damaged Portal Key.
- Hook 'em is excellent for countering minions Commanded by Ophelia or a Whispering Helm.
- Taint Soul can be used to effectively harass and last-hit while being pressured.
- Charging Strikes can be used to go around perfectly placed pathing blockers; i.e. Behemoth's Fissure or Empath's Illusory Wall.
- Dark Blades will effect all targets hit by Charging Strikes; basically creating an AoE Silence in addition to the extra burst damage.
- Consume on creeps to generate essences or to provide a quick self-heal.
- Use Uproot to remove an enemy's Null Stone buff before using Willowmaker.
- To maximize Demented Shaman's Healing Wave dissipation, stand behind your target with allies in front.
- Deny yourself with the self-damaging effect of your Decay to prevent your enemy from gaining gold and XP.
- Use a Blood Chalice to expedite and aid in denying yourself via Decay from a situation where death by your enemies is certain.
- Devour provides several defensive buffs including health while channeling; use it to stay alive during a team fight.
- Decay can be toggled on/off rapidly to apply the full effect of the slow to an enemy while avoiding significant damage to Devourer.
- Use Cleansing Shock to remove an enemy's Null Stone buff before using Static Grip.
- Cleansing Shock will even dispel your Enemy's Rune Buff.
- Cleansing Shock does 600/800/1000 damage to summoned units.
- Use Overgrowth to block enemy jungle camps.
- Use Spider Mines to block enemy creep camps.
- Keg next to a cliff to knock yourself up or down the cliff.
- Explosive Flare damages towers and can even be used to effectively last hit them.
- Explosive Flare provides Clearvision where it lands, use this to catch people trying to juke you.
- Call of the Damned can be toggled to store minions for later use.
- Grapple ignores creeps.
- Infernal Instability gives a moderate movespeed boost, which is useful for chasing or escaping.
- Twin Strike's second attack can crit and is even affected by Riftshards.
- Use a Portal Key in the middle of Geomancer's Dig ability to stun at the location where you Portal Key to.
- Ice Imprisonment allies to provide 20/30/40/50% damage reduction but also immobilize them.
- Call to Arms prevents injured allies from using a Portal Key for 5/6/7 seconds after a fight.
- Flagellation will not go on cooldown when denying.
- Showdown Level 2 has the perfect duration to land never-miss Pitfalls.
- Showdown can be used on any hero including yourself and can be used to escape combat or even disjoint.
- Showdown your allies as they Homecoming Stone to their fountain, providing them a quick return to action.
- Protective Charm and Sol's Blessing can be removed by Parasite's Facehug, Electrician's Cleansing Shock, or a Nullfire Blade.
- Enemies can use a Tablet of Command to disjoint themselves from Root. (disputed, confirm please)
- Enemies can use a Geometer's Bane to disjoint themselves from Root.
- Barrel Roll provides quick invulnerability against enemy spells; i.e. Rampage's Stampede or Engineer's Spider Mines.
- Mana Rift deals regular magic damage but will use Superior Magic to stun the target even through a Shrunken Head.
- Steam Bath can be used to avoid targeted spells with a long cast or flight time; i.e. Andromeda's Comet, Tundra's Cold Shoulder.
- Possession gives a massive armor boost; use this to protect against an attack that would otherwise kill you.
- Chrysalis allies to heal them and provide 30/40/50/60% damage reduction but also immobilize them.
- Can vault over the rock summoned by Wan Jin Slam, this is considered a building and doubles the distance travelled.
- Arcane Shield can be used to block enemy abilities either when they cast OR impact.
- Arcane Shield will block many odd abilities like Devourer's Hook, Valkyrie's Javelin, and most global ultimates.
- Enemies can avoid Magic Carp's stun if they stop when the spell impacts.
- Wave Form can be used to go around perfectly placed pathing blockers such; i.e. Behemoth's Fissure or Empath's Illusory Wall.
- Edge Counter as Amun-Ra respawns from his Pyroclasmic Rebirth for an easily timed hit.
- Ophelia's Judgement can be used to teleport allies to safety.
- Face Smash will interrupt Swiftblade's Blade Frenzy. (disputed, confirm please)
- Infest minions summoned by Puzzlebox; a Mauler will deal massive damage to an enemy that kills it.
- Infest is excellent for countering minions Commanded by Ophelia or a Whispering Helm.
- Infest can be used on some enemy pets; i.e. Tundra's Shiver but not Wildsoul's Booboo or Temble's Shutter.
- Facehug will even steal your enemy's Rune Buff or Jereziah's Protective Charm.
- Chuck damages towers and can even be used to effectively last hit them.
- Wall of Mummies to block off a choke point while you, or even your team, is escaping.
- Wall of Mummies next to a cliff, then deny one of the mummies to run up and down the cliff.
- Hellfire will not hit invisible or fogged enemies.
- Tormented Soul can stack a single creep camp or prevent multiple enemy creep camps from spawning at once.
- Tormented Soul to last hit creeps while simultaneously harassing the enemy.
- Tormented Soul is excellent for cancelling an enemy's health or mana potion.
- Plague Carrier deals regular magic damage but will use Superior Magic to mini-stun the first target even through a Shrunken Head.
- Voodoo Wards can be controlled to attack a specific target, stop attacking or even deny a friendly tower.
- Blazing Strike's damage is not Superior and can therefore be prevented.
- Desert's Curse provides terrain and unitwalking; use this mechanic for a surprise gank or to escape a gank.
- Use Electric Eyes to block enemy creep camps.
- Essence Shift can be ally or even self targeted.
- Soul's Sight gives clearvision; use this to catch jukers.
- Shadow, upon activation, works similarly to Geometer Bane's "on use" ability; see item "Geometer's Bane" for more info.
- Poison Burst has Superior Application, but not Damage; i.e. Shrunken Head will not disjoint Poison Burst but will stop damage.
- Geometer Bane's "on use" ability removes all of Slither's debuffs except Poison Burst.
- Toxin Wards can be used to completely block off an enemy's path.
- Soul Burst hits regardless of vision; use this to kill jukers.
- Use Mesmerize to remove an enemy's Null Stone buff before using Succubus' Hold.
- Mesmerize provides quick invulnerability against enemy spells; i.e. Pebbles' Combo or Flint's Money Shot.
- Blade Frenzy can be interrupted by Pandamonium's Face Smash (Ulti). (disputed, confirm please)
- Swift Slashes' deals physical damage but will use Superior Magic to mini-stun the first target even through a Shrunken Head.
- Use Chain Lightning to remove an enemies Nullstone buff before using Blast of Lightning or Lightning Storm.
- Blast of Lightning and Lightning Storm can be used to reveal stealth units around the target.
- Impalement will hit invisible enemies and even persists after Torturer dies.
- Dark Swarm can be used as a powerful defensive mechanic when fleeing.
- Terrorform will destroy trees; use this to catch jukers.
- Use Post Haste to teleport to Coeurl or Shiver for a gank.
- Follow your Piercing Shards with a Cold Shoulder to stun your enemy and guarantee your Piercing Shards will hit.
- Call of the Valkyrie will not hit invisible or fogged enemies.
- Glyph of Silence passively counters combo-dependant heroes such as Pebbles, Bubbles and Chipper.
- Silver Bullet's damage is not superior and can therefore be prevented.
Last edited by Hanthion; 07-27-2012 at 12:27 AM.
Item Specific Tips
A
Abyssal Skull
- Disassemble a Whispering Helm to use the Hungry Spirit in an Abyssal Skull.
Acolyte's Staff
Alchemist's Bones
- Disassemble Steamboots to use the Gloves of the Swift in an Alchemist's Bones.
Amulet of Exile
- Disassemble a Blood Chalice to use the Mark of the Novice in an Amulet of the Exile.
Apprentice's Robe
Arcana
- Disassemble an Arcana to use the Steamstaff in a Wingbow, Assassin's Shroud, or Insanitarius.
- Disassemble an Arcana or Steamboots to interchange the Apprentice's Robe between the two or use it in a Barbed Armor or Nullfire Blade.
- Disassemble an Arcana, Blood Chalice or Ring of the Teacher to use the Scarab in a Stormspirit or Arcana.
Assassin's Shroud
- Will not break your current channeling or toggled spell when activated.
- Disassemble a Barbed Armor to use the Broadsword in an Assassin's Shroud.
Astrolabe
- Can be used on invulnerable allies; i.e. an ally in a Stormspirit's Cyclone
Axe of the Malphai
B
Bananas
Barbed Armor
- Disassemble to use the Ringmail in a Demonic Breastplate or Sol's Bulwark.
- Disassemble to use the Broadsword in a Runed Cleaver, Assassin's Shroud or Riftshards.
- Disassemble a Barbed Armor or Steamboots to use the Apprentice's Robe in an Arcana, Barbed Armor or Nullfire Blade.
Barrier Idol
Beastheart
Behemoth's Heart
- Disassemble an Icon of the Goddess or Helm of the Black Legion to use the Beastheart in a Behemoth's Heart.
Blessed Orb
Blood Chalice
- Disassemble to use the Crushing Claws in a Fortified Bracer.
- Disassemble to use the Mark of the Novice in an Amulet of Exile.
- Disassemble a Blood Chalice or Ring of the Teacher to interchange the Scarab between the two or use it in an Arcana or Storm Spirit.
Bolstering Armband
Bottle
- Switch Steamboots to Agility while sipping from a bottle to maximize health and mana pool gains.
- Store a rune by performing the Bottle's use function and then clicking on a rune.
- Provides a flat 135 Health and 70 Mana - great for early game, but loses effectiveness over time as players gain levels.
- You can use one charge of your bottle during the fade time of a stored Invisibility Rune without breaking the Invisibility.
Bound Eye
Broadsword
Brutalizer
- Disassemble a Staff of the Master to use the Mighty Blade and Quickblade in a Brutalizer.
C
Charged Hammer
Codex
- Disassemble Ghost Marchers to use the Punch Daggers in a Codex.
Crushing Claws
D
Daemonic Breastplate
- Disassemble a Barbed Armor to use the Ringmail in a Demonic Breastplate.
- Affects structures which includes barracks and towers, making it a powerful pushing and defensive item.
Dancing Blade
Doom Bringer
- Disassemble a Savage Mace to use the Slayer in a Doombringer.
Duck Boots
Dust of Revelation
E
Elder Parasite
- Disassemble a Whispering Helm to use the Hungry Spirit in an Elder Parasite.
Energizer
F
Firebrand
Fleetfeet
Fortified Bracer
- Disassemble a Blood Chalice to use the Crushing Claws in a Fortified Bracer.
Frostburn
- Disassemble to use the Firebrand in a Geometer's Bane and the Icebrand in a Frostwolf's Skull.
Frostfield Plate
- The "on use" ability also provides 2 seconds of Clearvision; use this to catch jukers.
- Disassemble a Kuldra's Sheepstick to use the Acolyte's Staff in a Frostfield Plate.
Frostwolf's Skull
- Disassemble a Frostburn to use the Icebrand in a Frostwolf's Skull.
- Disassemble an Icon of the Goddess or Staff of the Master to use the Glowstone in a Frostwolf's Skull.
G
Genjuro
- Disassemble a Genjuro to use the Dancing Blade in a Wingbow.
Geometer's Bane
- The "on use" ability disjoints non-superior magic debuffs; i.e. most DoT and stun effects.
- The "on use" ability disjoints non-superior magic buffs; i.e. Rune effects, Potions, and even Jereziah's Protective Charm.
- The "on use" ability disjoints Keeper of the Forest's Root (ulti).
- The "on use" ability disjoints all of Slither's debuffs except Poison Burst (ulti).
- Disassemble a Frostburn to use the Firebrand in a Geometer's Bane.
Ghost Marchers
- Disassemble to use the Punchdaggers in a Codex and Marchers in any other boots.
Gloves of the Swift
Glowstone
Grave Locket
- Disassemble a Ring of Sorcery to use the Amulet of Exile in a Grave Locket.
Guardian Ring
H
Harkon's Blade
- Disassemble a Kuldra's Sheepstick to use the Acolyte's Staff in a Harkon's Blade.
- Disassemble a Hellflower to use the Arcana in a Harkon's Blade.
Health Potion
Hellflower
- Disassemble to use the three Arcana in a Harkon's Blade, Restoration Stone and Spellshards.
Helm of the Black Legion
- Disassemble a Helm of the Black Legion to use the Beastheart in an Icon of the Goddess or Behemoth's Heart.
- Disassemble a Helm of the Black Legion, Shaman's Headdress or Sustainer to use the Lifetube in any of the three.
- Disassemble an Iron Shield to use the Iron Buckler in a Helm of the Black Legion.
Helm of the Victim
Homecoming Stone
Hungry Spirit
I
Icebrand
- Disassemble Steamboots to use the Bolstering Armband in an Icebrand.
Icon of the Goddess
- Disassemble a Ring of Sorcery to use the Pickled Brain in an Icon of the Goddess.
- Disassemble an Icon of the Goddess to use the Glowstone in a Staff of the Master or Frostwolf's Skull.
- Disassemble a Helm of the Black Legion to use the Beastheart in an Icon of the Goddess.
Insanitarius
- Toggle on before a damaging spell hits and then turn it off right away to resist up to 475 damage from the spell.
- Disassemble a Shaman's Headdress or Whispering Helm to use the Helm of the Victim in an Insanitarius.
- Disassemble an Arcana to use the Steamstaff in an Insanitarius.
- Disassemble Steamboots to use the Gloves of the Swift in an Insanitarius.
Iron Buckler
Iron Shield
- Disassemble to use the Iron Buckler in a Helm of the Black Legion and the Duck Boots in Soulscream Rings.
J
(None)
K
Kuldra's Sheepstick
- Disassemble to use the Acolyte's Staff in a Frostfield Plate or Harkon's Blade.
- Disassemble Sustainer to use the Manatube in a Kuldra's Sheepstick.
L
Lifetube
- The two Trinkets of Restoration required to craft a Shaman's Headdress can be substituted by a single Lifetube.
Logger's Hatchet
- The "on use" function allows you to throw the Hatchet and potentially last hit creeps from range.
- Can also be used to aid you in your ganking and juking efforts by cutting down trees to reveal hidden paths.
- Ignores combat type allowing you to deal full damage when attacking Siege units.
M
Major Totem
Mana Battery
- Charges quickly against an Armadon on the enemy team.
Mana Potion
Manatube
Marchers
Mark of the Novice
Mighty Blade
Minor Totem
Mock of Brilliance
Monkey Courier
Mystic Vestments
N
Neophyte's Book
Nome's Wisdom
Null Stone
- Blocks most global ultimates like Flux's Discharge, Sand Wraith's Mirage and Thunderbringer's Lightning Storm.
- Thunderbringer can use Chain Lightning to remove the Null Stone buff before using Blast of Lightning or Lightning Storm.
- Armadon and Bombardier have spamming abilities to almost passively remove the Null Stone buff.
- Deadwood can use Uproot to remove the Null Stone buff before using Willowmaker.
- Succubus can use Mesmerize to remove the Null Stone buff before using Succubus' Hold.
- Electrician can use Cleansing Shock to remove the Null Stone buff before using Static Grip.
- Disassemble a Runed Cleaver to use the Sustainer in a Null Stone.
Nullfire Blade
- Disassemble an Arcana, Barbed Armor or Steamboots to use the Apprentice's Robe in a Nullfire Blade.
O
(None)
P
Pickled Brain
Plate Mail
Plated Greaves
- Disassemble to use the Shield of the Five in a Sacrificial Stone and the Marchers in any other boots.
Portal Key
- Use in the middle of Geomancer's Dig ability to stun at the location where you Portal Key to.
- Gladiator's Call to Arms (ulti) prevents injured allies from using a Portal Key for 5/6/7 seconds after a fight.
- Has a three second cooldown if damaged by a player controlled unit.
Post Haste
- Can be used to teleport to pets; i.e. Tundra's Shiver, Whispering Helm Pet, etc.
- Disassemble Ghost Marchers, Plated Greaves or Steamboots to use the Marchers in Post Haste.
Power Supply
- Charges quickly against an Armadon on the enemy team.
Pretender's Crown
Punchdagger
Puzzlebox
- At Level 3, the summoned Mauler minion provides Truesight, use this to catch invisible heroes or even counterward.
- Parasite can Infest minions summoned by Puzzlebox; a Mauler will deal massive damage to the unit that kills it.
- Disassemble Steamboots to use the Bolstering Armband in a Puzzlebox.
Q
Quickblade
R
Refreshing Ornament
Restoration Stone
- Disassemble a Runed Cleaver to use the Sustainer in a Restoration Stone.
- Disassemble a Hellflower to use the Arcana in a Restoration Stone.
Riftshards
- Riftshards even affects crits from the second attack of Gemini's Twin Strike.
- Disassemble a Barbed Armor to use the Broadsword in Riftshards.
- Disassemble Ghost Marchers to use the Punchdagger in Riftshards.
Ring of Sorcery
- Provides a flat 135 mana - great for early game, but loses effectiveness over time as players gain levels.
- Can be used on invulnerable allies; i.e. an ally in a Stormspirit's Cyclone.
- Disassemble to use the Pickled Brain in an Icon of the Goddess and the Amulet of Exile in a Grave Locket.
Ring of the Teacher
- Disassemble a Ring of the Teacher or Blood Chalice to interchange the Scarab between the two or use it in an Arcana or Stormspirit.
Ringmail
Runed Cleaver
- Disassemble to use the Sustainer in a Null or Restoration Stone and the Broadsword in a Barbed Armor, Assassin's Shroud or Riftshards.
Runes of the Blight
- Can also be used to aid you in your ganking and juking efforts by cutting down trees to reveal hidden paths.
S
Sacrificial Stone
Savage Mace
- Disassemble to use the Warhammer in a Shieldbreaker, Shrunken Head or Thunderclaw and the Slayer in a Doombringer.
Scarab
Shaman's Headdress
- The two Trinkets of Restoration required to craft a Shaman's Headdress can be substituted by a single Lifetube.
- Disassemble Whispering Helm to use the Helm of the Victim in a Shaman's Headdress or Insanitarius.
- Disassemble Shaman's Headdress, Helm of the Black Legion or Sustainer to use the Lifetube in any of the three.
Shield of the Five
Shieldbreaker
- Disassemble a Savage Mace to use the Warhammer in a Shieldbreaker.
Shrunken Head
- Will not break your current channeling or toggled spell when activated.
Slayer
Snake Bracelet
Sol's Bulwark
- Toggle to provide extra armor when being chased down.
- Disassemble a Barbed Armor to use the Ringmail in a Sol's Bulwark.
Soulscream Ring
- Disassemble an Iron Shield to use the Duckboots in Soulscream Rings.
Spellshards
Staff of the Master
- Disassemble to use the Mighty Blade and Quickblade in a Brutalizer.
- Disassemble an Icon of the Goddess to use the Glowstone in a Staff of the Master.
Steamboots
- When crafting, you can substitute the Bolstering Armband with Fleetfeet or Apprentice's Robe (Outpost item).
- Switch Steamboots to Stength when losing HP, Intelligence when losing Mana, and Agility when gaining Health and/or Mana.
- Switch Steamboots to Agility while sipping from a bottle or using a health/mana potion to maximize health and mana pool gains.
- Disassemble to use the Gloves of the Swift in an Alchemist's Bones, Insanitarius or Thunderclaw and Marchers in any other boots.
- Disassemble to use the Bolstering Armband in an Icebrand or Puzzlebox and Marchers in any other boots.
- Disassemble to use the Fleetfeet in a Firebrand and Marchers in any other boots.
- Disassemble Steamboots or Barbed Armor to use the Apprentice's Robe in an Arcana, Barbed Armor or Nullfire Blade.
Steamstaff
Stormspirit
- The "on use" ability provides quick invulnerability against enemy spells; i.e. Pebbles' Combo or Engineer's Spider Mines.
- Disassemble an Arcana, Blood Chalice or Ring of the Teacher to use the Scarab in a Stormspirit.
Striders
Sustainer
- Disassemble to use the Manatube in a Kuldra's Sheepstick or Stormspirit.
- Disassemble a Sustainer, Helm of the Black Legion or Shaman's Headdress to use the Lifetube in any of the three.
Sword of the High
Symbol of Rage
T
Tablet of Command
- Can be used to disjoint Keeper of the Forests Root (Ulti) ability. (disputed, confirm please)
- Use to push allies out of or enemies into AoE Disables; i.e. Chronos' or Tempest's ultimates.
Thunderclaw
- Disassemble Steamboots to use the Gloves of the Swift in a Thunderclaw.
Token of Life
Trinket of Restoration
- The two Trinkets of Restoration required to craft a Shaman's Headdress can be substituted by a single Lifetube.
U
(None)
V
Void Talisman
W
Ward of Revelation
Ward of Sight
Warhammer
Warpcleft
Whispering Helm
- Use Post Haste to teleport to your Whispering Helm pet.
- Use your Whispering Helm pet to stack creep camps.
- Disassemble to use the Hungry Spirit in an Abyssal Skull or Elder Parasite.
- Disassemble to use the Helm of the Victim in a Shaman's Headdress or Insanitarius.
Wingbow
- Disassemble a Genjuro to use the Dancing Blade in a Wingbow.
Winged Courier
- Cannot stack creeps, but can use vision to block enemy creep camps.
X
(None)
Y
(None)
Z
(None)
Miscellaneous
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I also plan to post useful links here but I'd like to see my thread grow a bit before I send away viewers!
Final Notes
This article is a partial collaboration of Nytemair's retired thread, and as such, I'd like to thank Nytemair for such a massive contribution. Although 100% of Nytemair's info has been transitioned here, this is a link to Nytemair's retired thread http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...t-suck-at-HoN!.
I'd also like to personally thank Clytemnestra for helping me throughout the construction phase of this thread. Clytemnestra provided a list of useful links that you can find in a reply below, as well as a nice list of tips contributing directly to my post. Thanks Clytemnestra!
And most importantly, I'd like to thank each and every individual who has replied and contributed to this thread. Keep up the good work!
Often times I use a certain article of food my mother used to pack for me in a bagged lunch to eat at school each day to find inspiration. That article of food was a Red Vine Liquorice and it taught me to never give in, to endure the hardships we go through every single day, and most importantly - to persist. I loved eating that Red Vine every day and I want everyone else to love it to - so on three I want everyone to shout "Red Vine"...1...2...3...Okay that's only a partially true story (although I'm not opposed to Red Vine chants because Red Vines are delicious) but this thread does have a lot of good info in it from a lot of good people so I just hope that everyone can appreciate it all and hopefully, like me and my Red Vine, find the inspiration to contribute to it.
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You might want to take a look at IGotThis's tip of the day videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwWOx...39DD82D576FB63
Thank you for that link onesantaplz.
I don't want to discourage others from posting links to tips and useful information because your link is great and very useful and I appreciate that.
But most of igotthis's tip of the day videos are minutes in length each.
Keep in mind, the goal of my list here is to provide 100s of tips that you can read and learn in minutes.
Are you going to be doing just item/skill tips?
Blackbird, no I'd like to see a variety of tips from all aspects. For example, heroes that counter other heroes would be a good tip idea.
1)Swiftblades ult will mini stun the first target, making it good to interrupt channeling skills. (goes thru bkb)
2)Plague riders ult will mini stun the first target, making it good to interrupt channeling skills. (goes thru bkb)
3)Nullstone will block global ultimates like flux, sw and tb.
4)Check if enemies have heroes like armadon, bombardier and tb before buying nullstone. They have so easy mechanisms to get it off. Also think first before getting it against tundra/dw/pebbles because they can easily get their main spells off.
5)Moraxus arcane shield will block even a bit weird spells like ews wolves, devourers hook etc.
6)Geomancer can use pk when digging making it awesome initiation tool. You will stun the are where you pk if you blink from middle of a dig.
7)You can use spells like ews traps or engis mines to block jungle camps, to counter junglers/making pull spot unpullable.
Theres some advanced tips
E: I will most likely add more in here so check this regulary, gotta go now
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* Geometers Bane (When used) is a great item for canceling dmg over time spells like Sliter's Posion Spray and to get out of KoTF's ultimate.
* Magmus Steambath can be used to avoid target spells like Andromedas Comet Stun
* If you kill a neutral creep inside it's spawning area after the :37 (or :39, not sure) mark the creeps in that spawn will not respawn the next new minute.
* If you attack a neutral creep inside it's spawning area between the :53 and :56 mark and make sure all creeps follow you there will spawn new creeps inside that area the next new minute resulting in twice as many creeps in that spawn.
* If your having a hard time pulling creeps beacuse you don't know when to attack, use the time marks xx:16 and xx:46
* Pay attention to the mini map, if all enemy heroes are missing and you are far away from your nearest tower/your allies it might be a good idea to get back since a gank might be incoming.
* If you are playing as deadwood and the enemy have a nullstone throw your tree at them (to remove the nullstone) before using your ultimate
* Good ward placement will win you games
I like the idea, maybe you should have a look at the Youtube Series "Things not everybody knows". Its from Baumi, I think.Originally Posted by Hanthion
The above mentioned are wrong though, just wanted to point that out. You can't use tablet to disjoint the roots, you can use geometers though. And Blade Frenzy does not get interrupted by Face Smash, it just goes through it (since its physical). You're welcome
Geobane removes bottle effects and all buffs, also debuffs you from minor debuffs.
Gemini's passive (double attack effect) can crit with riftshards too!
After an ally has casted gladiators ult, you can't use blink for 7 seconds. (portal key).
Gunblades physical dmg nuke does not affect barricade units (the wooden catapults).
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...t-suck-at-HoN!
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...e-1600-and-bad
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...The-black-code
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...ctical-Theory)
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...r-Game-Updated
http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/...asics-Here!!!/
http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/...tter-Mid-Solo/
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...tomping-heroes
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...team-Viability
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...ar-Beast/page2
http://www.clanmilk.com/heroes-of-newerth-videos/
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...ins-amp-Losses
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...uction-and-EHP
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...-Spots-Texture
http://www.goldhorde.com/hon/hon-ctrl+f-guide.html
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...-List-of-Lists
http://heroes-ofnewerth.blogspot.ro/...rategy_22.html
http://grimmscrossing.com/response/index.php
read all these and it is still not enough.
Ackwell1's info added, thanks!
SimplyEvert's info added, thanks!
Uroefl's info added, thanks!
Thanks for all the links Clytemnestra!
Insane2k, you should definitely provide a link to Baumi's YouTube series. Also, I know tablet used to disjoint KotF's ulti, and Panda's ulti used to cancel Swift's Blade Frenzy. I haven't performed those actions myself in awhile though, can you test those out for me by chance? If not, can someone else confirm that these no longer work? I'd just like a 2nd input before I go changing things based on one person. I'll add a confirmation request to the OP.
Thank you for everyone's contributions thus far. This is turning out to be exactly what I was hoping it to be.
Eventually I am going to organize the tips based on categories like "Swiftblade Tips", "Jungling Tips", "Nullstone Tips", "General Tips", etc.
Keep up the great contributions and don't be afraid to dispute any of the information you see. I promise I'll get around to it eventually.
**OP is completely updated to this point**
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The reason behind not being able to use pk after glad's ult is because glad's ult takes half the damage you would have received, and puts it off until a few seconds after. Effectively you can take 800 damage when you only have 600 hp, and live, but as you're running away, your hp will drop to 1, since it's non-lethal damage like slithers. You took only 400 damage during the fight, and the other 400 is done a bit after the ult. During this time, since you're taking damage, you can't PK for obvious reasons. Glad's ult doesn't make it so you can't blink, there's just a period of additional damage you take after the ult.
For organization, perhaps you should start to seperate it by hero/item. Also, you can group some things together, like "Moraxus's Arcane Shield can also absorb: Devo Hook, Emerald Warden's Wolves, etc"
Blackbird, does Glad's ulti indeed prevent allies from using PK? It sounds like you're saying that it does prevent enemies from using PK because of the residual damage dealt after the initial impact. Can you confirm for me 2 things: Does Glad's ulti prevent allies from using PK throughout the entire duration from cast to impact or longer? and Does Glad's ulti prevent enemies from using PK from cast to impact or longer?
That's all I really need to know, if you'd like to elaborate and explain more about the duration and exactly when it prevents PK (at cast? at impact? etc..), I'd appreciate that.
It deals damage after the ult has ended which prevents pk from being used.
Summons a Chariot 1000 units behind The Gladiator that travels 2000 units in the direction it was cast. Any allies near where it passes have Call to Arms applied to them for 5 / 6 / 7 seconds.Rallied! Effect(s)
When it reaches the end, it deals 300 / 400 / 500 Magic Damage and stuns all enemies in a 400 radius for 1 second.
Grants 800 day and night clearvision for 6 seconds around the Chariot.
- % Movement Speed: 10
- Damage taken is halved
- Prevented damage is taken over 5 / 6 / 7 seconds at the end of the buff and is non-lethal.
Read the description and you'll get what I mean.
If you shoot tundras piercing shards and cold shoulder an enemy, you will have a guaranteed hit with the piercing shards.
a funny thing i use on devourer.if you have a chalice and get ganked/amubshed against a lot of people you can deny yourself by using chalice+decay.chalice will get you to 1 hp and decay will deny.with a bit of practice you can deny yourself a lot of times rather than give the opponents kills.a self-deny will keep your kill streak and doesn't count at the score at the end of the match.
moraxus shield will also block
-bombardier's bomb
-gauntlet grapple
-gunblade crippling slugs
-ravenor ball lightning
-chipper rockets
-VALK JAVELIN!!!
-global ults like NULLSTONE does(sandwraith,flux,tb,vindigaytor)
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