Skeleton King
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Ostarion the Skeleton King is a powerful melee strength hero, capable of taking plenty of damage before dying. His ultimate allows him to rise again, acting like an Aegis of the Immortal, making him especially difficult to kill. He also has a nuke that deals reliable damage and stun while he is also able to stay in his lane longer because of his lifestealing passive.He can become hard carry in later stages of game depending on his farm.
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[edit] Abilities
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[edit] Recommended items
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- Hellfire Blast is a very good nuke, allowing you to disable and slow at the same time. A perfect tool for ganks and team fights, it has a relatively low cooldown, so spam it if you have enough mana.
- Learning Vampiric Aura during laning phase will shift the creeps equilibrium and you'll be forced to farm and fight under enemy tower. Good for pushing, but hurts your farm and puts you and your allies in disadvantageous position.
- Critical Strike drastically increases Skeleton King's melee DPS. Synergizes well with Vampiric Aura, healing Skeleton King a big chunk of health every time he crits.
- Always make sure to save some mana for Reincarnation, if you have less than 140 mana, you will not reincarnate. Soul Ring is handy for this purpose.
- Hellfire Blast is usually maxed first and Reincarnation is taken as soon as possible. It's also recommended to take two levels of Stats on early levels to improve Skeleton King's mana pool and health. Alternatively take two levels of crit for slightly more dps early on, only do so if you really know what you're doing with Skeleton King though.
- Armlet of Mordiggian and Soul Ring are commonly built for Skeleton King because Vampiric Aura allows him to heal up quickly after taking damage from these items.
- Activating Phase Boots and Drum of Endurance at the same time will give you enough mobility to chase and kill.
- Grabbing a Force Staff can help make up for Skeleton King's lack of mobility.
- Divine Rapier is a very strong item on Skeleton King, allowing him to take advantage of his great survivability (from Reincarnation and Vampiric Aura).
- Refresher Orb is situational. It allows you to potentially Reincarnate twice in a fight allowing you to be that much more useful in a team fight as well as solving all of your mana issues.
- Although picking up the Aegis of the Immortal may seem redundant on Skeleton King, it is recommended if he is his team's main carry. This way, he has 3 lives to expend, and unlike Reincarnation, the Aegis doesn't require mana.
- It seems counter-intuitive, but you should try to initiate or try to soak all the damage; if you are the last to die, nobody will be able to help you when you proc Reincarnation!
- Although some people think that Divine Rapier is risky even with Skeleton King, combining it with his critical and vampiric aura allows him to deal insane damage and heal insane amounts of HP, making it also an excellent item to improve his already enormous survivability.
[edit] Trivia
- In DotA, Ostarion was known as King Leoric. Leoric was a recurring boss in the Diablo franchise, another game made by Blizzard.[1] He is an iconic boss in Diablo; he reprises his role in Diablo III, through the alias "Skeleton King."
- King Ostarion Leoric has made an AMA thread on r/Dota on reddit[2]
[edit] Update history
- Pseudo Random chances are now enabled for these abilities:
Phantom Assassin's
Coup de Grâce
Slardar's
Bash
Faceless Void's
Time Lock
Brewmaster's
Drunken Brawler's critical strike
Sniper's
Headshot
Juggernaut's
Blade Dance
Chaos Knight's
Chaos Strike
Lycanthrope's
Shapeshift's critical strike
Skeleton King's
Critical Strike
- [Undocumented] Added injured animations for Skeleton King.
- [Undocumented] Added chase animations for Skeleton King.
- Buying an item while dead no longer puts it in the main inventory. Fixes an exploit of buying items while dead with Aegis or as Skeleton King and respawning with the item.
- Added more movement lines for Dazzle, Dark Seer, Dragon Knight, Furion, Huskar, Riki, Skeleton King, Slardar, Spectre, and Jakiro.
- Fixed loss of vision while reincarnating.
- Fixed Aegis not working on him once he levels up Reincarnation.
- Fixed Vampiric Aura on mechanical units.
- Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
- Enabled Broodmother, Skeleton King and Queen of Pain in Captain's Mode.
- Added Broodmother, Queen of Pain and Skeleton King!
- Fixed Reincarnate to trigger first if he also has Aegis.
- Fixed bug that could result in invisibile Lina and Skeleton Kings.
- Characters with a 0.4 turn rate such as Skeleton King and Earthshaker now turn around faster.
[edit] Balance changelog
6.75
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Hellfire Blast slow increased from 15% to 20%.
6.73
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Reincarnation
- Slow duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds
- Cooldown decreased from 300/220/140 to 260/160/60
6.72
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Reincarnation
- Now does a 700 AoE 3 second 30% slow around the area where he respawns
- Delay decreased from 5/4.5/4 to 3 seconds
6.69
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Hellfire Blast damage redistributed to some on impact and some dps
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Reincarnation
- Scoreboard now displays Skeleton King's ultimate cooldown time
- Skeleton King will be automatically selected for you after he reincarnates
6.68
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Vampiric Aura lifesteal improved from 10/16/22/28% to 15/20/25/30%
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Reincarnation manacost increased from 100 to 140
- Reworked
Hellfire Blast
Old Hellfire Blast:
- Stun Duration: 2
- Damage: 100/150/200/250
- Cooldown: 8
- Manacost: 140
New Hellfire Blast:
- Ignites the target on fire, dealing damage over time. Stuns the target for a brief period followed by a movement speed reduction.
- Stun Duration: 2
- Slow Duration: 2
- Slow Amount: 15%
- Damage per second: 30/45/60/75
- Cooldown: 8
- Manacost: 140
- Note: The dps duration is the full 4 seconds.
6.67
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Vampiric Aura AoE increased from 600 to 900
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Reincarnation now costs a constant 100 manacost instead of 100/150/200
6.64
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Vampiric Aura increased from 5/10/15/20% to 10/16/22/28%
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ↑ http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/King_Leoric
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1ed7nh/your_skeleton_king_here_ama/
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