Dota 2 - Luna Build Guide

BIO
How had she been reduced to this? She was once the Scourge of the Plains, a merciless leader of men and beasts, and able to sow terror wherever she dared. Now she was far from her homeland, driven half mad from starvation and months of wandering, her army long dead or turned to worse. As she stood at the edge of an ancient forest, a pair of glowing eyes spied on from an elder branch. Something beautiful and deadly sought a meal in the wilting dusk. Without a sound, it turned and left. Fury overtook her. Clutching a rust-eaten dagger, she charged after the beast determined to reclaim even a shred of her past glory, but her quarry would not be caught. Three times she cornered the creature among the rocks and trees, and three times she pounced only to witness its fading shadow darting further into the woods. Yet the full moon shone brightly, and the creature's trail was easy to follow. Arriving in a clearing atop a high hill, the beast's massive feline form sat in the open, attentive and waiting. When the woman brandished her dagger, the creature reared and roared and charged. Death, it seemed, had come for her at long last in this strange place. She stood, calm and ready. A flash of movement, and the beast snatched the dagger from her hand before vanishing into the forest. Stillness. Hooded figures approached. In reverent tones they revealed that Selemene, Goddess of the Moon, had chosen her, had guided her, had tested her. Unwittingly she had endured the sacred rites of the Dark Moon, warriors of the Nightsilver Woods.

She was offered a choice: join the Dark Moon and pledge herself to the service of Selemene, or leave and never return. She did not hesitate. Embracing her absolution, she renounced her bloody past, and took up a new mantle as Luna of the Dark Moon, the dreaded Moon Rider, ruthless and ever-loyal guardian of the Nightsilver Woods.

INTRODUCTION
Luna is considered a decent carry. She deal high phisical bouncing damage and also deal a nice magical damage. You need to farms a lot and in late game you will be a monster that eating all of the enemy players. Unfortunately. you are a very squishy hero on early-mid game, you need a tanker taht will tank the damages for you.

PROS	CONS
Deal bouncing damage thorough units and buildings	Squishy
Have a +damage aura	Low mana pool
Have a decent nuke	No escaping ability
Have a high damaged ultimate	Her basic attack speed is not that good
Nice movement Speed
Have a ministun from Lucent Beam (can cancel teleport or channeling)

ROLE
Ranged - Carry - Nuker

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	435	940	1,681	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	208	545	1,045	ATTACK RANGE	330
DAMAGE	48-54	87-93	135-141	MISSILE SPEED	900
ARMOR	3	9	15

ABILITIES
1. Lucent Beam

Luna channels a concentrated beam of lunar energy at an enemy, stunning and dealing damage.

MANA COST: 90/100/110/120	COOLDOWN: 6
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300
STUN DURATION: 0.6 / 0.6 / 0.6 / 0.6

Selemene smites those who encroach upon the Nightsilver Woods.
Deal a decent damage to a single targeted hero. This ability also gives a ministun that will cancel teleportation and also channeling. This is a nice ability to kill an enemy who try to escape. He  then receive a decent amount of damage and cannot escape.

Also good for harassing on early game for controlling the lane.

2. Moon Glaive

Allows Luna's glaive to bounce to enemy units near the attacked unit. Each bounce deals less damage.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	BOUNCES: 1 / 2 / 3 / 5
RADIUS: 500 / 500 / 500 / 500	DAMAGE REDUCTION: 30% / 30% / 30% / 30%

Carefully sharpened, Luna's boomerang-like weapon cuts a wide swath through enemy numbers.
Gives you a Bouncing attack so your glaives will keep bouncing and damaging other enemies behind your target. Also bouncing via buildings (this will really helps in destroying enemy's Barracks). On early game it will really helps in jungling and farming on the lane. Your farms should be faster with this skill.

Combined with your 3rd skill (increase your damage), this skill will makes you deal a high damage that bouncing from one enemy to another. With this skill, all of the enemy heroes in teamfight will feel your attack and have their HP reduced quickly.

3. Lunar Blessing

Grants bonus damage to nearby allies, while blessing Luna with extra night vision.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	BONUS DAMAGE: 14 / 22 / 30 / 38
RADIUS: 900 / 900 / 900 / 900	BONUS NIGHT VISION: 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000

The Goddess of the Moon smiles upon her kin.
Gives bonus damage to you and your nearby allies . This will helps you in dealing more physical damage to creeps and heroes. You also will farms faster and jungling faster. This also helps another heroes in your team with +damage to every teammates.

The ability should really helps in teamfight which physical damage is important to kill all the enemies on late game.

Can be comboed with Drow Ranger & Vengeful Spirit to max its + Damage that will give your team a very high + damage.

4. Eclipse

Calls an eclipse that follows Luna, striking units with her current level of Lucent Beam. A single target can only be hit a maximum times. Unlike individual Lucent Beams, Eclipse does not stun. Eclipse turns day into night for 10 seconds. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 150/200/250	COOLDOWN: 160/150/140
ABILITY: NO TARGET	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
RADIUS: 675 / 675 / 675	STRIKE INTERVAL: 0.6 / 0.6 / 0.6
BEAMS: 4 / 7 / 10	MAX HITS: 4 / 4 / 4
DURATION: 1.8 / 3.6 / 5.4	SCEPTER BEAMS: 4 / 8 / 12
SCEPTER MAX HITS: 6 / 6 / 6	SCEPTER DURATION: 1.8 / 4.2 / 6.6

In times of great need, Selemene herself descends into the world, blocking out the light and hope of the opposed.
All enemies around you will receive lots of Lucent beam. Lucent beam will deal damage randomly, so the less the enemy the better. An alone target will receives all the Lucent Damage and die quickly.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Lunar Blessing
Level 2: Lucent Beam
Level 3: Lucent Beam
Level 4: Moon Glaive
Level 5: Lucent Beam
Level 6: Eclipse
Level 7: Lucent Beam
Level 8: Moon Glaive
Level 9 : Lunar Blessing
Level 10: Lunar Blessing
Level 11: Eclipse
Level 12: Lunar Blessing
Level 13: Moon Glaive
Level 14: Moon Glaive
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Eclipse
Level 17-25: Stats

Why take Lunar Blessing on Level 1? this will helps you in lasthitting every creeps because of it's additional damage.

Why Lucent Beam maxed first? You should max this immediately. This skill is a high damage nuke that should be maxed on early game. Because in early game, enemy's Hp is still relatively low. enemy harassing will be easy.

STRATEGY
Early Game
In early game I recommend you to take 1 level of Lunar Blessing to increase your damage and helps you in last hitting the creeps. Your main job is to farm as much as you can. Try to last hits carefully so you can earn gold quickly. You should also harass enemy using Lucent Beam and make them uncomfortable in lasthitting. If you need to deny, that is ok, but you must remember that your main job is to last hits.

Beware of enemy's attempt to gank you. Your team's needs a vision so your support better buy the Observer Wards.

Mid Game
We recommend you to keep farming everywhere, you should farming in your lane, you should also farming in the jungle. The faster you got your core item, the higher the chance your team will win the teamfight. You can also helps your team in some teamfight if you think your allies can't handle the teamfight with just 4 person . You have Eclipse which is a very nice ultimate in a teamfight because of it's high damage.

Late Game
Here is your time to show off and come to the battleground. You should already have the items you need, maybe Manta Style, or DPS item or another nice items. You should start a teamfight using Eclipse, and then just right click. You have a very high right click damage that bouincing. You Just need to wait until all enemies are all dies. This hero have a very nice ability to destroys all of the enemies. Your bouncing damage is also have a decent damage from the Lunar Blessing so the enemies that receive the bounced damage of your glaive will  have their HP reduced quickly.

After you won the teamfight, you better fight the Roshan to get the Aegis for your safety.
And then after that, you can push conveniently.


ITEM BUILDS

1. Boots
You have 2 choices, Power Threads or Tranquil Boots. All of that have it's own advantages.

a. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin

Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute   + 30 Attack Speed

Why Power Threads? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and and also damages. Power threads is also a flexible shoes, you can change it into Pt STR, Pt AGI, or Pt INT for what you need the most.

b. Tranquil Boots
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Boots of Speed, Ring of Protection, Ring of Regen

Active: Heal - Restores 170 HP over 10 seconds for the wearer. If you take damage from another player or Roshan, the heal is lost. Passive: Break - If you take damage 4 times in 10 seconds, Tranquil Boots become Boots of Speed until the last 10 seconds don't have 3 instances of damage. + 75 Movement Speed + 3 Armor    + 3 HP Regeneration    Manacost:25   Cooldown: 40

Why Tranquil Boots? It will really helps you in farming phase. With this item, you can recover HP immediately if you receive some damage. And this boots also have high movement speed that helps you for fast jungling and can helps in chasing enemies.

2. Ring of Aquila
Total cost: 985
Recipe: Wraith Band + Ring of Basillus

Passive: Aquila Aura - Grants mana regeneration and armor in a 900 AoE. Active: Toggle whether the aura affects other non-hero units. Multiple instances of Aquila Aura do not stack. + 9 Damage + 3 All Attributes    + 3 Agility    + 1 Armor AURA MANA REGEN: 0.65    AURA BONUS ARMOR: 2

Why Ring of Aquila? You need this to increase your damage to helps you farm and harass enemies. You also need the +mana regeneration for you and your team. Also good in giving additional stats.

3. 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.

4. Helm of the Dominator and upgrade it into Satanic Later.
Total Cost: 1850
Recipe: Morbid Mask, Helm of iron Will

Active: Dominate - Take control of a non-hero, non-ancient target unit. Passive: Lifesteal - Gives lifesteal on attacks. Helm of the Dominator is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifiers. + 20 Damage    + 5 Armor     LIFESTEAL: 15% Manacost: 75     Cooldown: 60

This items gives you lifesteal ability and also add some damage. With lifesteal you can survive in a tough teamfight. This item also gives you the ability to dominate a creep, we recommend you to dominate Alpha Wolf to increase your damage.

If your enemy have some high magical damage and have many stunner, you will need this items for your protection
5. 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 gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfight.

6. 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.

7. Daedlus
Total cost:: 5750
Recipe: Crystalis + Demon Edge + Recipe

APassive: Critical Strike - Grants a chance to deal critical damage on an attack. + 81 Damage CRITICAL CHANCE: 25%        CRITICAL DAMAGE: 270%

Why Daedlus?
With this, you become a true moster. This is because you have a very high damage and this item will multiply your damage so everyone can't match you anymore.
You can also buy MKB, its up to you, both MKB and Daedlus is good.

8. 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.

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

Supportive heroes have disables and nice skills 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

Dota 2 - Dragon Knight Build Guide

BIO
After years on the trail of a legendary Eldwurm, the Knight Davion found himself facing a disappointing foe: the dreaded Slyrak had grown ancient and frail, its wings tattered, its few remaining scales stricken with scale-rot, its fangs ground to nubs, and its fire-gouts no more threatening than a pack of wet matchsticks. Seeing no honor to be gained in dragon-murder, Knight Davion prepared to turn away and leave his old foe to die in peace. But a voice crept into his thoughts, and Slyrak gave a whispered plea that Davion might honor him with death in combat. Davion agreed, and found himself rewarded beyond expectation for his act of mercy: As he sank his blade in Slyrak's breast, the dragon pierced Davion's throat with a talon. As their blood mingled, Slyrak sent his power out along the Blood Route, sending all its strength and centuries of wisdom to the knight. The dragon's death sealed their bond and Dragon Knight was born. The ancient power slumbers in the Dragon Knight Davion, waking when he calls it. Or perhaps it is the Dragon that calls the Knight...

INTRODUCTION
Dragon Knight is a tanky and also DPS hero whose can deal high damages while tanking damages. He is the type of hero that fights on the frontline of formation. he will breakthough enemy's defense and destroy them. He is also a flexible hero which can become Ranged hero or can become melee hero. With this hero you do not need to afraid of anything, yo need to progressive persist and destroys enemy's base.

PROS	CONS
Tanky	Low mana pool
Have a decent Aoe nuke for early-mid game	Low attack speed without a boosting attack speed items
Have a decent stun
Can deal a splashed + dps + slower attack without Orb and Buff.
Have a nice armor and regeneration
Can become a ranged hero, and can become a melee hero

ROLE
Melee - Carry - Durable - Disabler - Pusher

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	511	1,256	2,168	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	195	504	985	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	46-52	85-91	133-139	MISSILE SPEED	900
ARMOR	4	8	14

ABILITIES
1. Breathe Fire

Unleashes a breath of fire on enemy units in a line in front of Dragon Knight.

MANA COST: 100/110/120/130	COOLDOWN: 12
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
ABILITY: TARGET POINT	DAMAGE: 90 / 170 / 240 / 300

Knight Davion's breath has become that of the mighty Eldwurm Slyrak, remembered for burning numerous other knights to a crisp.
Your AoE ability for fast farming and harassing on early-mid game. This is a nice wide range spammable ability. You need this if there are 2 or more creeps in low Hp and you will last hits them. And you need this to deal seome damage to your opponent in lane.

2. Dragon Tail

Dragon Knight smites an enemy unit in melee range with his shield, stunning it while dealing minor damage. When in Elder Dragon Form, the cast range increases to 400.

MANA COST: 100/100/100/100	COOLDOWN: 9
ABILITY: UNIT TARGET	AFFECTS: ENEMY UNITS
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100
STUN DURATION: 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 / 3.25

Davion's combination of dragon talents and knightly skills makes him a vicious opponent in melee combat.
Your 1 targetted stun to stun 1 target, a reliable stun for 1 target, this skill also deals damage, but not so big. If you're in melee form, this skill will stun if your'e near the target, but if you're in Dragon form, this will stun from your attack range. A nice skill for chasing 1 target.

3. Dragon Blood

The life blood of the Dragon improves health regeneration and strengthens armor.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	HEALTH REGEN: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
ARMOR: 3 / 6 / 9 / 12

Slyrak's blood still courses through Davion's veins, giving him twice the vitality of an ordinary knight.
This skill makes you more tanky than everybody. Adds 12 Armor which is a big big armor for a hero. With this, your enemy will have a hard time reducing your HP. You will be the real tanker and can tank damages in the front line. This skill also helps you regenerates HP for your early game survivability.

4. Elder Dragon Form

Dragon Knight can take the form of three powerful elder dragons. LEVEL 1 - Green Dragon: Short poison damage over time on attack. LEVEL 2 - Red Dragon: Splash damage on attack. LEVEL 3 - Blue Dragon: Splash damage and frost attack that slows enemy units.

MANA COST: 50/50/50	COOLDOWN: 115
ABILITY: NO TARGET	DURATION: 60 / 60 / 60
BONUS MOVE SPEED: 25 / 25 / 25	BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 372 / 372 / 372

The dormant dragon power springs forth from within Davion, combining the powers of a legendary knight with a legendary Eldwurm.
This ability will transform you into a dragon form. a

Level 1. Deal damages over time for short duration.
Level 2. Deal damages over time + splashed damages
Level 3. Deal  damages over time + splashed damages + and a slower ability.

This hero is one of the ranged hero whose has splashed attacks, and that will really helps you in teamfights and farming. (You may stacking the ancient for more golds)

Dragon form also gives +Movement Speed that helps you in chasing somebody. You need to transform into Dragon Form before the teamfight start, and always doing the teamfights as a Dragon Form.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Dragon Tail
Level 2: Dragon Blood
Level 3: Breathe Fire
Level 4: Breathe Fire
Level 5: Breathe Fire
Level 6: Elder Dragon Form
Level 7: Breathe Fire
Level 8: Dragon Tail
Level 9 : Dragon Tail
Level 10: Dragon Tail
Level 11: Elder Dragon Form
Level 12: Dragon Blood
Level 13: Dragon Blood
Level 14: Dragon Blood
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Elder Dragon Form
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Dragon Tail on level 1? Needed if you + friends want to get firstblood. You need stun the target

Why Dragon blood on level 2? You need surivivability in early game. You need the +regen +armor

Why Breathe fire maxed first? This is your main nuke. you need it for harassing enemy heroes and also for fast farming. Because you are a carry, you need lots of farming.

STRATEGY
Early Game
You are a hero who is a tanker-carry. I think you also needs gold to buy some nice items. You need to lasthits every creeps you can. The more you lasthits the better. The faster you get your items the better. And you also need to harass enemy once in a while using your Breathe Fire. You need to reduce their HP continuously and make them uncomfortable, this is what a nukes is for.

Your team needs ward here. This will gives your team the vision of the fog of war. Very good to anticipate enemy's gank. You may ask your Supprt partner to provide it,

Mid Game  
Here you have 2 options.
1. You can continue your farms and get some nice items for late game.
2. Or you can ganks enemies in their lane and jungle. If you choose to gank, I recommend you to gank together with your friends. That is the fun part of the gank, to gank togrther with friends. ganking can also provide more golds than farming in jungle or in lane if the ganking succeeded in getting kills. You need to use Dragon Tail to stun the target, and you also need Breathe Fire to nukes your enemies. And then you can deal damage using the Dragon Form

Late Game
In late game, you should have maxed your Dragon Form. It is very important here, this skill will makes you become much more stronger because it gives bonus attack range, splash attack, and slower attack. You need to transform into Dragon Form before the teamfight starts.

In a teamfight, you need to stun 1 enemy, and then right click the enemy's crowds with your splashed attack.  Keep tanking the damages and focusing on dealing your splashed damage with your Dragon Form. Black King Bar will really helps you in tanking in teamfights.

I also recommend you to buy some +Damage item that makes you DPS more stronger.

And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team's main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEM BUILDS
1.  Power Thread
Total cost: 1900
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin

Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute   + 30 Attack Speed

Why Power Threads? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and also damages. Power threads is also a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.

2. 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 you +Attack speed that will benefit you because you are considered a carry-tanker

3. Sange & Yasha

Total cost: 4100
Recipe: Sange (Ogre Axe, Belt of Giant Strength) + Yasha (Blade of Alacrity + Boots of Elvenskin)

Passive: Greater Maim - Gives a chance on attack to slow movement speed for 4.0 seconds. Percentage based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack. + 12 Damage + 16 Strength    + 16 Agility    + 15 Attack Speed     + 12% Movement Speed MAIM CHANCE: 15%    SLOW: 30%

Why Sange & Yasha? It will makes you more tanky, more damage, more attack speed and more movement speed and gives more slower ability on your attack. Very good item for a carry-tanker like you.

4. Assault Cuirass
Total cost:: 5300
Recipe: Platemail, Hyperstone, Chainmail, Recipe

Passive: Assault Aura - Grants attack speed and armor to nearby allied units, and decreases armor for nearby enemies. Multiple instances of Assault Aura do not stack. + 35 Attack Speed     + 10 Armor       AURA ATTACK SPEED: 20 AURA BONUS ARMOR: 5                ARMOR REDUCTION: 5

Why Assault Cuirass?
Increase attack speed that makes your damage flowing rapidly, it is very good because you already have very high damage, it also gives you +aura for the team and your clones.
+Armor aura is very important for late game, so good for increasing team's defense.
- Armor aura is important for late game too because thr damage dealt from your teams will be increased

5. Daedlus
Total cost:: 5750
Recipe: Crystalis + Demon Edge + Recipe

APassive: Critical Strike - Grants a chance to deal critical damage on an attack. + 81 Damage CRITICAL CHANCE: 25%        CRITICAL DAMAGE: 270%

Why Daedlus?
With this, you become a true moster. This is because you have a high damage and this item will multiply your damage so everyone can't match you anymore.
You also can buy MKB, its up to you, both MKB and Daedlus is good.

If you need more survivability, you need to buy this.
6. 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 gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfight.

GOOD ALLIES

1. Enigma

He will blinked in and use Blackhole to catch all of the enemies. After that, you can deal lots of damages to enemies.

2. 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
1. Slardar

You have Dragon Blood that increases your armor, but this hero will reduce it again with his -armor.

Dota 2 - Sandking Build Guide

BIO
The sands of the Scintillant Waste are alive and sentient--the whole vast desert speaks to itself, thinking thoughts only such a vastness can conceive. But when it needs must find a form to communicate with those of more limited scope, it frees a fragment of itself, and fills a carapace of magic armor formed by the cunning Djinn of Qaldin. This essential identity calls itself Crixalis, meaning 'Soul of the Sand,' but others know it as Sand King. Sand King takes the form of a huge arachnid, inspired by the Scintillant Waste's small but ubiquitous denizens; and this is a true outward expression of his ferocious nature. Guardian, warrior, ambassador--Sand King is all of these things, inseparable from the endless desert that gave him life.

INTRODUCTION
Sandking is a decent initiator and a ganker hero that all of his skills is AoE. Sandking is an active ganker with high mobility.
He have a jumping stuns to initiate a teamfight. And more importantly he have a high damage AoE wich is his ultimate. Usually you need a Blink Dagger for this hero for easier and more range initiation.

PROS	CONS
Have a decent stun to initiate a teamfight	Low mana pool
Have a decent ultimate with the high AoE damages	Slow attack speed
Have an all AoE abilities	Need a perfect timing for using his Epicenter
Sandstorm deal a decnt AoE damage	Not so good at tanking

ROLE
Melee - Initiator - Disabler - Nuker

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	492	1,184	2,058	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	208	536	1,030	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	43-59	79-95	125-141	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	3	7	13

ABILITIES
1. Burrowstrike

Sand King burrows into the ground and tunnels forward, damaging and stunning enemy units above him as he resurfaces.

MANA COST: 110 / 120 / 130 / 140	COOLDOWN: 11.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT, TARGET POINT	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 100 / 160 / 220 / 280
STUN DURATION: 2.17	RANGE: 350 / 450 / 550 / 650

Crixalis often lies in wait, burrowing under the surface to ambush his adversaries.
Your main ability for ganking purposes. You need this skill to stun the enemies and deal some damages. Very good ability to catach enemies, and makes the enemies get killed by your team. You can combine this ability with a Dagger, the initiation range will be so far. After using this skill you can either use Sand Storm or Epicenter. It is based on the situation and the cooldown.

2. Sand Storm

CHANNELED - Sand King creates a fearsome sandstorm that damages enemy units while hiding him from vision. The invisibility remains for a short duration after the sandstorm ends.

MANA COST: 60 / 50 / 40 / 30	COOLDOWN: 40.0 / 30.0 / 20.0 / 10.0
ABILITY: NO TARGET, CHANNELED	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
DAMAGE: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80	INVISIBILITY DELAY: 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.9 / 1.5
RADIUS: 275 / 325 / 375 / 525

Some say Crixalis is a mirage; his carapace appearing then vanishing between the whirling sands of the Scintillant Waste.
Nice skill to harass the enemies and creeps. It does deal a decent damage per second to the enemies. You just need to wait under your Sand Storm and all the enemies who touched it will feel some pain. You are become invisible but your location is obvious because the Sand that comes out near your body. The enemy just need Sentry Wards or Dust to reveal you. Beware!

3. Caustic Finale

Sand King's attacks inject a venom that causes enemy units to explode violently upon death, spreading area damage. Caustic Finale is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifier.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	DAMAGE: 90 / 130 / 170 / 220
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	RADIUS: 400

An injection from Crixalis makes one brittle and as dry as the arid wastes, subject to implosive demise.
If you attack an opponent, makes your opponent to blast when he die and deal some damages. A very good skill for farming and harassing. Just hit every creeps 1 time, and wait until the creeps death, and you will gets a nice AoE damage.

4. Epicenter

CHANNELED - After channeling for 2 seconds, Sand King sends a disturbance into the earth, causing it to shudder violently. All enemies caught within range will take damage and become slowed. Each subsequent pulse increases the radius of damage dealt. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 175 / 250 / 325	COOLDOWN: 140.0 / 120.0 / 100.0
ABILITY: NO TARGET, CHANNELED	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
PULSES: 6 / 8 / 10	DAMAGE PER PULSE: 110 / 110 / 110
SLOW: 30% / 30% / 30%	SCEPTER PULSES: 8 / 10 / 12
SCEPTER COOLDOWN: 120 / 100 / 80

Many an explorer was lost to the quicksands of the Scintillant Waste.
Your ultimate skill, will deal a high AoE damage to all enemies nearby.

Usually, you need Blink Dagger to position yourself into the middle of teamfight. First you need to channel this skill in the area where no enemies sees you, and after channeling is complete and pulses has already started, blink into the crowds of the enemies and deal tons of damages.
And then you can burrowstrike after you jump. And then you can use Sand Storm after Burrowstrike.

The weakneess is: You need channeling for this skill, and if you receive damage while doing channeling, this skill is cancelled and you must wait its cooldown, Actually you can use Black King Bar before channeling and makes yourself safe from channeling cancellation.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Burrowstrike
Level 2: Sand Storm
Level 3: Burrowstrike
Level 4: Sand Storm
Level 5: Burrowstrike
Level 6: Epicenter
Level 7: Burrowstrike
Level 8: Sand Storm
Level 9 : Sand Storm
Level 10: Caustic Finale
Level 11: Epicenter
Level 12: Caustic Finale
Level 13: Caustic Finale
Level 14: Caustic Finale
Level 15: Stat
Level 16: Epicenter
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Burrowstrike should be maxed first? This is your main skill, you need  it to stun your enemies to start the gank or a teamfight. You also can use this skill for defensive purpuse so that you can save lifes.

Why Sandstorm maxed second? To helps you with some damage per second after you initiate a teamfight, this also can provide invisibility to protect yourself against enemy.

STRATEGIES
Early game
You need to know your part in the game, are you a support? or there is no rule? If you are a support, you do not need to lasthit the creep. You should let your carry to last hits all the creeps. But if there is no rule, you need to lasthits the creeps and also denying.

If your enemy is on a low guard, you can initiate an attack with your Burrowstrike. For example: If there is an enemy who are surrounded by your creeps. And then you can knock him together with your friends.

Or you can defend yourself from a gank using the Burrowstrike either to
1. stun the enemy. or
2. go away from the enemy.

Mid Game 
Mid game is the time for ganking. You need to patrol around the map and find an easy target you can kill easily.

You are one of the best ganker in dota. You have the combo Burrowstrike + Epicenter that will deal tons of damahe.

You need to coordinate a gank with your friends, and gank as much as you can.

So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:

1. Talk with your teammates about who is the target. You should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack the A person and your teammates attack the B person, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.

2. Prepare the items needed in the gank:
a. Use Smoke of Deceit to be invisible from the Ward
b. Prepare a Dust, a Sentry Ward, or a Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin

Get ready to gank

3. Use Burrowstrike to stun the enemy
4, Cast the Epicenter, this will greatly reduce enemy's HP
5. Use the SandStorm
6. Right click until your target dies
7. if the enemy hasn't die yet, chase the enemy using Burrowstrike and Blink Dagger.

The more your team get kills, the more chance your team will win the match.

You will need Arcane Boots to provide you mana for ganking, this boots also helps to fulfill your teams mana. You also need Blink Dagger for faster mobility and more range for initiation You can Blink-Burrowstrike to initiate a gank, and then use Epicenter to kill the enemies.

Or if there are enemies that pushing your tower, you need to help your friend defending it.

Late Game
Here your main part is to initiate a teamfight. You need Epicenter the most in this stage of the game. You need a Blink Dagger to prepare the Epicenter. You+ your team can wait at the base or in the jungle secretly if the enemies are trying to push your base. You should cast epicenter in the fog of war and then jump using Blink Dagger and moves the pulse into the enemy's concentration, thats how you should started a teamfight. After epicenter, you need to Burrowstrike and then cast Sandstorm, and with the helps of your team I believe your team shold be OWNING.

And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team's main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEM BUILD

1. 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? With Arcana Boots, you can fill your mana for your skills. And also you can helps team to fulfill their mana.

2. 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 Sandking for initiating purpose.

3. Aghanim Scepter,

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

Why Aghanim's Scepter? Make an initiator more stronger because your ultimate skill damage will increase.  Increase the chance of winning a teamfight.

4. 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.

5. 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 makes you can channel your ultimate without afraid of getting cancelled. It also gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfight.

6. Shiva's Guard  

Total cost: 4700

Recipe: Plate Mail + Mystic Staff + Recipe                                                  

Active: Arctic Blast - Emits a freezing wave that does 200 damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4.0 seconds. Passive: Freezing Aura - Reduces attack speed on enemies. Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack. + 30 Intelligence   + 15 Armor    AURA SLOW: 25% Manacost: 100   Cooldown:   30

Why Shiva's? This item is very good in teamfights, With the slowing of attack speed and movement speed, the enemy will hardly move and attack on the teamfight. A nice defense mechanism for your team.

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.