Dota 2 - Spectre Build Guide

BIO
Just as higher states of energy seek a lower level, the Spectre known as Mercurial is a being of intense and violent energy who finds herself irresistibly drawn to scenes of strife as they unfold in the physical world. While her normal spectral state transcends sensory limitations, each time she takes on a physical manifestation, she is stricken by a loss of self--though not of purpose. In the clash of combat, her identity shatters and reconfigures, and she begins to regain awareness. She grasps that she is Mercurial the Spectre--and that all of her Haunts are but shadows of the one true Spectre. Focus comes in the struggle for survival; her true mind reasserts itself; until in the final moments of victory or defeat, she transcends matter and is restored once more to her eternal form.

INTRODUCTION
Spectre is an Agility Carry hero that will shine on late game. And on early-mid game, her job is to 24/7 farms. If you can't succeed farm, then you will be useless. So farm well cand carry your team into victory.
He is a hero that can teleport straight into enemy hero from anywhere on the map. And she also will deal damage to a lone hero and her damage is very painful on a lone hero.
She also deal damage to opponents using his health, which is the tankier she become, the more damage dealth on  a teamfight.

PROS	CONS
Can go through trees and hills using one of her skill	Needs lots of farms
Have a global detector and teleport	Low mana pool
Enemy feels pain on damaging her
Strong on late game

ROLE

Melee - Carry - Durable

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	511	1,043	1,803	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	208	554	1,061	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	46-50	77-81	119-123	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	3	8	13

ABILITIES
1. Spectral Dagger

Spectre flings a dagger to draw a Shadow Path, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed of any enemies along the trail. Units hit by the dagger also trail a Shadow Path. While treading the path, Spectre phases through otherwise impassable terrain.

MANA COST: 130/140/150/160	COOLDOWN: 16
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET, POINT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200
MOVEMENT SPEED CHANGE: 5% / 9% / 14% / 18%	DURATION: 7 / 7 / 7 / 7

Mercurial's dagger eclipses the physical plane in shadow, a state in which mortals cower, but spectres thrive. 
This is your one and only: nuke. Send a path of shadow that deals some damage and slowing down the enemies. You can move without collision in the shadow path, you also can move through trees and high land.

2. Desolate

Deals bonus pure damage when Spectre attacks an enemy hero with no nearby allied units.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	DAMAGE: PURE
BONUS DAMAGE: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65	RADIUS: 325 / 325 / 325 / 325

Often times, warriors find themselves alone with a vision of Mercurial - the fated question is if it is the true Spectre.
Attack with more damage to a lonely hero. So if you find a lonely hero in the jungle, don't afraid and fight one vs one. You will deal + 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 damage per attack based on this skill's level.
Combined with your ultimate, you can find a lonely hero with your ultimate which send a clone into every enemy hero, and then jump into that lonely hero and can harass him with extra damage.

3. Dispersion

Damage done to Spectre is reflected on her enemies, leaving her unharmed. The effect lessens with distance.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	DAMAGE: PURE
MIN RADIUS: 300 / 300 / 300 / 300	MAX RADIUS: 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000
DAMAGE REFLECTED: 10% / 14% / 18% / 22%

A daunting task lies before enemies of Mercurial - killing a shadow with blade and magic.
If your HP is being reduced, the HP loss percentage will damaging nearby enemies. It will become A very good skill the more HP you have because the damage received by your enemy will increase and become painful.
With the formula of this skill, you will deal more damage the more HP you have, so buying lots of Tarrasque will deal a massive AoE damage to nearby enemies. At least, if you have like 4000 HP and the enemy successfully kills you, they all will receive 4000x22%=880 damage

4. Haunt

Creates a spectral nemesis to attack each enemy hero after a short delay. Haunts are uncontrollable, take extra damage, and deal less damage than Spectre herself. At any moment during the duration, Spectre can use Reality to take the place of a given illusion.

MANA COST: 150/150/150	COOLDOWN: 120
ABILITY: NO TARGET	DURATION: 5 / 6 / 7
INCOMING DAMAGE: 100% / 100% / 100%	OUTGOING DAMAGE: 40% / 40% / 40%

At the height of combat, Mercurial's physical manifestation shatters, and the shadowy pieces haunt those who still cling to life.
Creates illusion of you that attack every enemy hero on the map. You can quickly jump into that illusion and your real self become the attacker of the enemy hero. If your real self has jumped, the other illusion will gone.

5. Reality

Spectre physically possesses a chosen Haunt, giving it solid reality while the other images blink out of existence.

COOLDOWN: 10

ABILITY: POINT TARGET

The scattered shadows unite into the one true Spectre.
Jump into one of your illusions. And you can attack the enemy there. If you choose the lonely hero you can have additional damage from your 2nd skill Desolate.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Spectral Dagger
Level 2: Dispersion
Level 3: Spectral Dagger
Level 4: Desolate
Level 5: Spectral Dagger
Level 6: Haunt
Level 7: Spectral Dagger
Level 8: Desolate
Level 9 : Desolate
Level 10: Desolate
Level 11: Haunt
Level 12: Dispersion
Level 13: Dispersion
Level 14: Dispersion
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Haunt
Level 17-25: Stats

Why take Spectral Dagger for level 1? You need Spectral Dagger to escape if enemy wants to get firstblood by killing you so you can use Spectral Dagger into trees or hill and escape there.

Why maxed Spectral Dagger first?  This is your only nuke, you will need this for ganking, farming, killing, and also escaping for early mid game.

Why maxed Desolate before Dispersion? Desolate is needed for mid game ganking which needs enemy to be alone to deal the additional damage, and if you increase this too late, the enemy is rarely to be alone because on late game, a team should be almost always together. So on about 15-30 minute into the game, is about the right time to increase this skill.
And Dispersion will deal more damage the more HP you have, and the late game is the time your HP reaches it's maximum.

STRATEGY
Early Game
On this stage of the game, your only job is to farm as much as you can. If you can kill all the creeps that come to your lane, you will have enough money to buy any items you need to carry the team into victory. On the early game, be careful of enemy's nuke and harassment. You are a melee hero, waht you need to do is to maintain your range not in the range of enemy's attack and only come near the creeps if there is a low HP creep.
If your team wants to gank enemy in your lane, what you need to do is to use Spectral Dagger to slow down and damaging the enemy and helps with your normal attack.

Mid Game
In the mid game, usually enemy wants to gank you and try to kill you so you can't get the farm you need to become strong on late game. What you need to do is to keep aware of enemy's icon on the map and if one enemy is missing you should protect yourself by hiding in your tower, tower keeps us save.
You can also jungling if the creeps equilibrium is not near your tower.
If there is a teamfight happening far away from your place, you can help using Haunt and if necessary, you can jump there using Reality and attack the enemy.

Late Game
Late game is your time to shine. here you should have the core items you need to carry the game. What you need to do in every teamfight is to Haunt and deal damage to every enemy, and then go inside the center of the teamfight and attack enemy hero one by one. Focus is the key o success. So keep clicking the right enemy and not the creeps, and you will be owning.
Here on the late game, you should already have thousands of HP, by keep stayingon the teamfight and receiving some damage, you will automatically reflect the damages to all enemies nearby (because of Dispersion), the damage is considering high so if enemy is successful in killing you, they at least should feel some painful damage of themselves.

ITEMS BUILD
1. Starting Items

Quelling Blade: for easier last hitting Stout Shield: to block some damage and makes you tankier on earliest stage of the game. Tango: to refill your health

2. Phase Boots
Total Cost: 1350
Recipe: Boots of Speed + 2 x Blades of Attack

Active: Phase - Gives increased movement speed and lets you move through units. Phase is cancelled upon using another item or ability. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. PHASE DURATION: 4 PHASE MOVE BOOST: 16%    + 55 Movement Speed    + 24 Damage Cooldown: 8

Why Phase boots? Gives you attck damage, and gives phase skill(+ms and can walk through creep/heroes).

3. Vanguard
Total cost: 2225
Recipe: Ring of Health + Vitality Booster + Stout Shield

Passive: Damage Block - Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are. + 250 Health    + 6 HP Regeneration    BLOCK CHANCE: 70% RANGED BLOCK: 20    MELEE BLOCK: 40

Why Vanguard. Will reduce physical attacks damage. So good for a tanker like Skeleton King. Really helps in a teamfight against some physical attacks.

4.  Radiance
Total cost: 5150
Recipe: Sacred Relic + Recipe

Active: Toggles Burn Damage on or off. Passive: Burn Damage - Deals damage per second in a 650 radius. + 60 Damage BURN DAMAGE: 45

Why Radiance? Helps yo to deal some constant damage in teamfights. Also helps in farming creeps. Also can farms while bear are far away from it's master.

5. Diffusal Blade
Total cost: 3300
Recipe: 2 x Blade of Alacrity + Robe of Magi + Recipe.

Active: Purge - Purges a target unit, removing buffs, slowing, and dealing damage if it is a summoned unit. Passive: Feedback - Your attacks burn 20/36 mana and deal the same amount in damage. Upgradable. Diffusal Blade is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifiers. + 22/26 Agility     + 6/10 Intelligence      Cooldown; 12

Remember that your illusions can deal pure damage and manaburn too. You will get tons of damages by using this because that.

6. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster

Passive: Health Regeneration - Restores a percentage of max health per second. This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged. + 40 Strength   + 300 Health     HEALTH RESTORED: 2%    Cooldown: 6

Why Heart of Tarrasque? Makes you tanky. And also this item will increase damage from Dispersion that will deal tons of damage in a teamfight.

7. Manta Style
Total cost: 5050
Recipe: Yasha, Ultimate Orb, Recipe

Active: Mirror Image - Creates 2 illusions of your hero that last 20 seconds. Melee illusions deal 33% damage and take 250% bonus damage. Ranged illusions deal 28% damage and take 300% bonus damage. Percentage based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack. + 10 Strength + 26 Agility    + 10 Intelligence    + 15 Attack Speed    + 10% Movement Speed Manacost:165    Cooldown:50

Why Manta Style? Creates 2 illusion of yourself to attack the enemy. Because your damage is high, this item will reach its maximum potential beecause your illusion will also deal some high damage. This items also provide a defense mechanism for you because your opponent will be confused and don't know whose to attack, they should guess where is the real you. So while they are confused, kill them.

8. The Butterfly
Total cost:: 6000
Recipe: Talisman of Evasion, Eaglesong, Quarterstaff

+ 30 Agility            + 30 Damage + 35% Evasion      + 30 Attack Speed

Why Butterfly?
It gives you more damage and more attack speed that makes you become much more powerful. It also gives evasion to helps you survive in teamfight.

Alternative

a. Refresher Orb

Total cost: 5300
Recipe: Obilivion Staff + Preserverance + Recipe

Active: Reset Cooldowns - Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. + 5 HP Regeneration + 200% Mana Regeneration    + 40 Damage    + 6 Intelligence Manacost: 375     Cooldown: 160

Why Refresher Orb? It will gives you ability to cast Haunt 2 times that can demolish all of the enemies.

b. Blade Mail
Total cost: 2200
Recipe: Broadsword + Chainmail + Robe of Magi

Active: Damage Return - Returns any damage you take to the unit that dealt the damage. Lasts 4.5 seconds.  + 22 Damage   + 5 Armor   + 10 Intelligence Manacost: 25   Cooldown; 22

Why Blade Mail? After you initiate a teamfight, your opponent is likely to target you because they will hate you. So you can reflect their damege using this item

GOOD ALLIES

1. Supportive Heroes
(Example: Shadow Shaman, Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit)

Supportive heroes have disables and nice skill to helps carries and makes a teamfight easier for the team.

Shadow shaman: Have hex, shackles, and wards to helps you disables enemy

Crystal Maiden: Have 1 lockdown, 1 slower, and have +mana regeneration

Vengeful Spirit: Have stun, swap, and +damage aura

2. Initiator Hero

(Example: Tidehunter, Earthshaker, Treant)

They have initiating skill that will make your way into the teamfight. After they use their skill, you can jump into the enemy and kill them all!

ANNOYING ENEMY

1. Early Game Harasser - Mid Game Ganker

(Example: Venomancer, Shadow Shaman, Balanar)

 If they suceeded in obstruct your farm, you will have a hard time on mid-late game because your item will be suck.

ART
These are some spectre art I found on google.

Dota 2 - Crystal Maiden Build Guide

BIO
Born in a temperate realm, raised with her fiery older sister Lina, Rylai the Crystal Maiden soon found that her innate elemental affinity to ice created trouble for all those around her. Wellsprings and mountain rivers froze in moments if she stopped to rest nearby; ripening crops were bitten by frost, and fruiting orchards turned to mazes of ice and came crashing down, spoiled. When their exasperated parents packed Lina off to the equator, Rylai found herself banished to the cold northern realm of Icewrack, where she was taken in by an Ice Wizard who had carved himself a hermitage at the crown of the Blueheart Glacier. After long study, the wizard pronounced her ready for solitary practice and left her to take his place, descending into the glacier to hibernate for a thousand years. Her mastery of the Frozen Arts has only deepened since that time, and now her skills are unmatched.

INTRODUCTION
This hero is a nice support hero whose have 2 disables,
1. a targetted frozen,
2. and a slower for an area
This hero also have global aura that gives +mana regeneration for all allies.

People choose this hero to buy wards and animal courier, that's because this hero doesn't need much farm to become useful in teamfights. This hero just need to level up a bit and can useful because he have 2 disables, and 1 powerful ultimate..The weakness of this hero is that this hero is very very squishy, usually the enemy just need 2-4 hits to knock you down. You must be careful on your move.

PROS	CONS
Have a nice mana regeneration aura for global range	Squishy
Have a powerful ultimate (deals lots of DPS in an area)	Low movement speed
Have a decent lock down ability	Low attack speed
Have a decent slower	Low right click damage
No need much farm
Beautiful

ROLE
Ranged - Support - Disabler - Nuker - Lane Support

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	454	906	1,609	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	273	801	1,438	ATTACK RANGE	600
DAMAGE	38-44	79-85	128-134	MISSILE SPEED	900
ARMOR	1	4	9

ABILITIES

1. Crystal Nova

A burst of damaging frost slows enemy movement and attack rate in the targeted area.

MANA COST: 100/120/140/160	COOLDOWN: 15
ABILITY: POINT TARGET	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
DAMAGE: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250	DURATION: 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5
RADIUS: 400	MOVEMENT SLOW: 30%
ATTACK SLOW: 20%

The air temperature around Rylai drops rapidly, chilling all around her to the core.
This skill is your decent AoE slower that helps in ganking, chasing, and on teamfights. You need to combine this ability with frostbite and Freezing Field to deal continuous magical damagae. You can also use this ability for farming, you actually don't need that much farms, but, farming is no harm.

2. Frostbite

Encases an enemy unit in ice, prohibiting movement and attack, while dealing damage per second.

MANA COST: 115/125/140/150	COOLDOWN: 10
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 70 / 70 / 70 / 70
DURATION: 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3

Rylai channels winds from the Blueheart Glacier, imprisoning attackers in thick blocks of ice.
Your decent disabler. Disables 1 opponent. Makes the targetted enemy can't do anything for 3 seconds. Enemy also receive some damage per second from this skill. A nice skill to lockdown enemys and kill him with your friends.

3. Arcane Aura

Gives additional mana regeneration to all friendly units on the map. This bonus is doubled on Crystal Maiden.

ABILITY: PASSIVE, AURA	AFFECTS: ALL ALLIED HEROES IN THE MAP
MANA REGEN BONUS: 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2

Cold temperatures promote the essence of magic, causing Rylai's presence to allow spell usage in abundance.
Your nice skill that really helps all aliies to regenerate mana faster every second. Makes your team can be more aggressive because plentiful of mana.

4. Freezing Field

CHANNELED - Surrounds Crystal Maiden with random icy explosions that slow enemies and deal massive damage. Lasts 7 seconds. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 200/400/600	COOLDOWN: 150/120/90
ABILITY: NO TARGET, CHANNELED	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
RADIUS: 685 / 685 / 685	EXPLOSION RADIUS: 215 / 215 / 215
MOVEMENT SLOW: 30%	DAMAGE: 105 / 170 / 250
SCEPTER DAMAGE: 170 / 250 / 310

Once the place of her exile, Icewrack has become an anchor for Rylai's frigid onslaught.
This skill has a very high AoE damage and very useful to reduce enemy HP in teamfights. This ability will deal lots of magical damage and often kill the enemy. The disadvantages of using this skill is that you need to channel this ability so you cannot do another thing while doing this skill, you can buy BKB and activate it before using this ability so you can channel this skill and can't get cancelled..

The damage from this ability is so high. I believe the highest AoE damage in DotA. The enemy should run from the area of this skill if he don't want to get killed.

The damage can be increased if you buy the Aghanim Sceper. But because you usually don't farm that much, it is ok to not buy it.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Frostbite
Level 2: Crystal Nova
Level 3: Frostbite
Level 4: Arcane Aura
Level 5: Frostbite
Level 6: Freezing Field
Level 7: Frostbite
Level 8: Crystal Nova
Level 9 : Crystal Nova
Level 10: Crystal Nova
Level 11: Freezing Field
Level 12: Arcane Aura
Level 13: Arcane Aura
Level 14: Arcane Aura
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Freezing Field
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Frostbite should be maxed first? Usually people choose to max Crystal Nova first because it has a wider Aoe than the Frostbite. Nothing's wrong with that. But, in fact, you need frostbite to guarantee a kill. Crystal Nova slows the opponents, but he can still do something to fightback and save himself. Frostbite will have the higher chance to kill someone because it will lock him 100% for 3 seconds in Lv.4, and deals some damages too.

Why Crystal Nova should be maxed before Arcane Aura? Crystal Nova is a nuke, nuke damage will be steady along the time, and will deal higher percentage of HP in early-mid game when opponent's HP are still hundreds.

Actually, taking Arcane Aura in early-mid game is not a bad option, this will depend on how your team play, if you need more mana for all teammates, this will be the choice.

STRATEGY
Early Game
In early game, usually your partners will charge you to buy animal courier and wards. This is your general job. You don't need to buy these things if your friends already did. You do not need lots of gold, so buying supportive items is ok for you.
In the laning phase, you need to helps your friends to get enough farm by denying the creeps and also harassing the enemy once in a while. You can use frostbite or Crystal Nova for harassing.

Mid Game
I recommend you to chnage lane and help your teammates. You need to change lane if:
1. You already destroy 1 or 2 towers in your lane
2. You already Level 6-10
Your need to helps your friends using Frostbite and Crystal Nova. Your teammate will be greatly helped by you. You and your teammates needs to get as much kill possible to assure victory.

Late Game
In late game, you must continue your participation in every teamfight. You need Frostbite to lockdown 1 enemy for 3 seconds. And the most important, you must cast Freezing Field in the middle of enemy crowds.
Freezing Field, I belive still deal a decent amount of damage on late game. You also need to move together as one. And don't go alone if the situation isn't really safe.

ITEM BUILDS
1. You need to buy courier and wards for the team. If someone already done it, you don't need to.
Courier: 150
Wards: 150

Courier: Transfer items from shop to heroes Wards: Scouting some important area to protect teams against some ganks.

2. Arcane Boots
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster

Active: Replenish Mana - Restores mana in an area around the hero. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 60 Movement Speed + 250 Mana MANA RESTORED: 135 Mana Needed: 25    Cooldown: 55

Why Arcane Boots? You have spammable skills, so you need more mana, with this item, your mana will be fulfilled. And also to replenish mana of the team.

3. Drum of Endurance
Total Cost: 1725
Recipe: Bracer + Robe of Magi + Recipe

Active: Endurance - Gives bonus +10 attack and +10% movement speed to surrounding allies. Passive: Swiftness Aura - Gives bonus attack and movement speed to surrounding allies. Multiple instances of Swiftness Aura do not stack. + 9 All Attributes + 3 Damage    AURA ATTACK SPEED: 5    AURA MOVE SPEED: 5% Cooldown: 30

Why Drums? It will gives you survivability with + STR and gives your team  +Attack speed and +Movement Speed that will benefit your whole team.

4. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe

Active: Avatar - Grants magic immunity. Duration and cooldown decrease with each use. Some Ultimate abilities are able to disable through Black King Bar. + 10 Strength + 24 Damage     DURATION: 10/9/8/7/6/5     Cooldown: 80

Why Black King Bar? It will makes you can channel Frozen Field without getting cancelled from damages. It  also gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfight.

5.  Schyte of Vyse
Total cost: 5675
Recipe: Mystic Staff + Ultimate Orb + Void Stone

Active: Hex - Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 3.5 seconds. Destroys illusions. + 10 Strength   + 10 Agility  + 35 Intelligence + 150% Mana Regeneration Manacost: 100   Cooldown: 35

Why Schyte of Vyse? Very good to initiate a teamfight. You are considered a support, and this item is one of the best supportive items you can get.

6. Aghanim Scepter

Passive: Ultimate Upgrade - Upgrades the ultimates of certain heroes. + 10 All Attributes   + 200 Health   + 150 Mana

Why Aghanim's Scepter? It will increase the damages of your ultimate. Nice item to win a teamfight. And this item also gives you more survivability because of its + HP.

If you need a better initiation you can buy

7. Blink Dagger
Cost: 2150

Active: Blink - Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. If damage is taken from an enemy hero, Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds. Manacost: 75   Cooldown: 14

Blink Dagger is a perfect item for initiating purpose.

GOOD ALLIES

1. Carries
(Example: Magine, Void, Luna)

Carries should come after you initiate a teamfight, and they should the right click and use all their skills to the enemies.

BAD ENEMIES
For enemies, you need to be careful from many heroes especially heroes with high burst damages. That is because you have a low HP and small armor that makes you become squishy and vulnerable.