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DarkTerror (Faceless Void)

DarkTerror, Faceless Void

1.Introduction
2.Pros And Cons
3.Skills
3A.Skill Description
3B.Skill Build
4.Items
4A.Item build
4B.Item order
4C.Items to avoid
5.WalkThrough
6.Faceless Void With Other Heroes
6A.Good Allies
6B.Worst Enemies
6C.Easy Preys
7.Conclusion
8.Changelog

1.Introduction

They say he was once human, but his background is shrouded in darkness, even to himself. What we know is that he was thrown into the Void between worlds and has emerged with the power of manipulating time. He can freeze his enemies in time and avoid hits by traveling a split-second back in time, right before receiving the blow. He can briefly rip apart the fabric of space-time to freeze both allies and opponents around him, yet remain free himself to act. It is rumored that he can instantly strike any man in a legion of soldiers, but nobody sees him move…

Darkterror, The Faceless Void
Range: 128, Move Speed: 300
Primary: AGI, Str: 17 + 2.2, Agi 21 +2.65, Int: 15 + 1.5
Damage: 44-50, Hp:473, Mana: 195
HP Regen: 0.76, Mana Regen: 0.61
Attack Speed: 1.34 (+ 21% IAS), Armor: 4

2.Pros And Cons

Pros:
1.Hard To Die as have a escaping skill, Time Walk and Has Back Track and Chronosphere to stop gangs
2.Decent Movement Speed
3.Nice Str and Agi Growth
4.Got A Slow and A 6 seconds disable
5.Chronosphere can stop channeling skills
6.High base damage, easy to last hit

Cons:
1.Chronosphere will stop your teammates from moving too
2.Slow Attack Speed
3.Whole game will be ruined if you keep dieing in early game as Darkterror is item dependant
4.Die Easily in Early or Even Mid game

3.Skills
3A.Skill Description
TimeWalk(W)

Quickly moves to a target location and slows the movement and attack of all units within 300 AOE at the end of its path for 3 seconds.
Level 1:700 Cast Range. 10% Slow
Level 2:900 Cast Range. 20% Slow
Level 3:1100 Cast Range. 30% Slow
Level 4:1300 Cast Range. 40% Slow

Mana Cost:120/120/120/120
Cooldown:12/12/10/10

My Comments:
1300 Range. Much More bettter then Escape Dagger and this skill can be used for chasing too. 40% slow will give you enough time to catch up with the enemy. Using this skill to even get up a spot which needs blink or some other skills to get up, making the enemy chasing you unable to hurt or damage you, but please do not use it when the enemy is ranged. And this skill makes faceless void invulnerable when doing it, that means when u are assassinated and when this skill is still in usage, you will not receive damage, this is one of the pros of timewalk. Make good use of this skill and use it wisely, it will greatly help you in your escaping and chasing. But remember this is not like blink which only have a 5 seconds cooldown, it have 12 seconds cooldown so do not spam it as you may need to use timewalk anytime.

Backtrack
Whenever damage is received, Faceless Void moves a moment back in time to try to dodge that damage. Can backtrack both physical and magical attacks.
Level 1:10% Chance
Level 2:15% Chance
Level 3:20% Chance
Level 4:25% Chance

Mana Cost:0/0/0/0
Cooldown:0/0/0/0

My Coments:
A very good skill in all time, early, mid and late game. One of the best thing of this is it is able to stack with butterfly. Unlike like motred’s evasion, which is unable to stack with butterfly. 25% + plus 30% = 55%. You are now a pain for heroes to kill, especially agility heroes and others who plainly attack you. But do not think you are imba, as you have low hp, any disables will make you dead meat. After you get butterfly, you should be able own and dominate.

Time Lock
Gives a chance that an attack will do bonus damage and stun an opponent for 1 second.
Level 1:10% chance per attack, 40 bonus damage.
Level 2:15% chance per attack, 50 bonus damage.
Level 3:20% chance per attack, 60 bonus damage.
Level 4:25% chance per attack, 70 bonus damage.

Mana Cost:0/0/0/0
Cooldown: 0/0/0/0

My Comments:
25% bash For 1 seconds plus basher. You would be permabashing even if you only bought one basher. The bonus Damage is more then sniper’s ministun and good for boosting up Darkterror damage.

Chronosphere©(Ultimate)
Faceless Void creates a rip in spacetime causing all units in that area to become trapped for its duration.
Faceless Void has a mysterious connection with spacetime that causes him to be unaffected by the sphere. Casting range increases per level and 1 second casting time for all level.
Level 1:3 Seconds
Level 2:4.5 Seconds
Level 3:6 Seconds

Mana Cost:175/200/225
Cooldown:120/120/120

My Comments:
This is the best ulti i ever seen, I must say. You can do anything in this 6 seconds, But do not waste it, 120 seconds cooldown is quite long. This skill is very useful, you can use this if you are ganged, making people get trapped in it and gives you time to run away. You can also use this to trap a group of enemies, letting you and your teammates which are ranged to hit the enemies, not letting the enemies a chance to even retaliate. With this skill you should be able to fight 2 person, killing one person in the chrnosphere time and killing the other after the killing the 1st one. Try to use this on some heroes which do not have any escape skills, escape skills are like blink and windwalk. The worst thing is seeing people windwalk then you ultimate, this skill is precious so do not waste it. If you really want to use it on windwalk heroes, make it quick, surprise the hero and give him no time to escape your clutches.

3B:Skill Build
Level 1:BackTrack
Level 2:Time Lock
Level 3:BackTrack
Level 4:Time Walk
Level 5:BackTrack
Level 6:Chronosphere
Level 7:BackTrack
Level 8:Time Lock
Level 9:Time Lock
Level 10:Time Lock
Level 11:Chronosphere
Level 12:Time Walk
Level 13:Time Walk
Level 14:Time Walk
Level 15:Attribute Bonus
Level 16:Chronosphere
Level 17:Attribute Bonus
Level 18:Attribute Bonus
Level 19:Attribute Bonus
Level 20:Attribute Bonus
Level 21:Attribute Bonus
Level 22:Attribute Bonus
Level 23:Attribute Bonus
Level 24:Attribute Bonus
Level 25:Attribute Bonus

Why do you get chronosphere so early? It does not even help.
Optional, this is my personal build. If you do not want to pump this in early game, Its Okay.
Some times in early game, people will gang, so i pump this skill to allow me to escape, not letting me die and lose my precious earned gold, you surely do not want to lose your gold early game, do you? I can farm in peace knowing i can run away from gangs with my ultimate, and this skill is also very good for trapping people when you want to gang with a allied hero and can stop people in the towers range and whack them with the tower’s help.

TimeLock? Why do you need it in early game? You do not have a chance to touch a hero.
I know some people argue about timelock in early game, it does little help in creeping and you wont have any chance to harass the hero as you have low hp pool and darkterror is a melee hero. But What if your opponent in your lane is a melee hero? You can be able to harass him with your high damage and can be able to damage more and have more chance of hitting one more time with that one second stun. What If Your friend almost killed a hero? You have a chance to do more damage with a 1 second stun to chase. The one second really matters in some time of the game, believe me.

4.Items
4A.Item build
Mask of madness
Cranium basher
Buriza-do Kyanon
Butterfly
Assault Cuirass
Power treads

1.Mask of madness
Mask of Madness
Shop Level: 2
Description:
17% Life Leech
Activate: Berserk
+75% Attack Speed
+15% Run Speed
+20% Damage Taken
12 Second Duration 30 Second Cooldown 25 mana
Orb effect does not stack

Recipe:
Mask of Death (900)
Mask of Madness Recipe Scroll (1050)

Total Cost: 1950

2.Cranium Basher
Shop Level: 2
Description:
+30 Damage
+3 Str
Passive: Bash
15% Chance (10% for Ranged), 1.1 Second Stun
+25 Bonus Damage on Bash
Recipe:
Gauntlets of Ogre Strength (150)
Mithril Hammer (1610)
Cranium Basher Recipe Scroll (1460)

Total Cost: 3220

3.Buriza-do Kyanon
Shop Level: 4
Description:
+75 Damage
Passive: Critical Strike
20% Chance 2.2x Damage Multiplier
Recipe:
Crystalys (2350)
Demon Edge (2600)
Buriza-do Kyanon Recipe Scroll (1250)

Total Cost: 6200

4.The butterfly
Shop Level: 4
Description:
Damage: 30
Attack Speed: 30%
Agility: 30
Passive: Evasion
Chance: 30%
Recipe:
Eaglehorn (3400)
Quarter Staff (1150)
The Butterfly Recipe Scroll (1800)

Total Cost: 6350

5.Assault Cuirass
Shop Level: New Recipes
Description:
+10 Armor
+5 Armor Aura (allies)
-5 Armor Aura (enemies)
+40% Attack Speed
+15% Attack Speed Aura
Recipe:
Chain Mail (620)
Plate Mail (1400)
Hyperstone (2300)
Assault Cuirass Scroll (2000)

Total Cost: 6320

6.Power treads
Shop Level: 1
Description:
+65 Run Speed
+35% Attack Speed
Recipe:
Boots of Speed (500)
Gloves of Haste (610)
Power Treads Recipe Scroll (420)

Total Cost: 1530

4B.Item order
Early game(1-7):
1.Ring of regeneration(375)
2.Flask of sapphire (100) water/Ancient tango of essifation(90)
Go to one lane, and wait for the creep to spawn, and go follow or block the creeps if you can and farm.
Use the money you have to buy these items in order.
3.Boots of speed(500)
4.Slippers of agility(150)
5.Circlet of nobility(185)
6.Wraith band scroll(125)
7.Gloves of haste(610)
8.Power treads scroll(420)
9.Mask of death(900)
10.Mask of madness scroll(1050)

Total cost : 4415

Mid game(8-16):
1.Gauntlet of strength(150)
2.(1610)
3.Cranium basher scroll(1460)
4.Blades of attack(650)
5.Broadsword(1200)
6.Crystalis scroll(500)
7.Demon edge(2600)

Total cost : 8170

Late game(17-25):
1.Buriza-do kyanon scroll(1250)
2.Eaglehorn(3400)
3.QuarterStaff
4.The butterfly(1800)

Total cost : 7600

Game should have ended by now, if not, continue with………

1.Hyperstone(2300)
2.Chain Mail (620)
3.Plate Mail (1400)
4.Assault Cuirass Scroll (2000)

Total cost : 6320

4C.Items to Avoid
Refresher Orb
Though you are going to have extra 6 seconds of disable, you do not have enough mana to support this, you must buy some mana boosting items to use the combo, why waste money? You can just buy some damage boosting items like buriza or monkey king bar, its more worth it then buying refresher orb and some mana boosting items.

Monkey King Bar
This Monkey King Bar is still okay, but buriza is much a better choice. Though this items give you 15% attack speed and also will boost your damage by 75, the passive of this item is to have a 30% chance of getting a bonus of 100 damage and 0.01 second stun. But even with bash, 70 plus 90 only equals 160, while buriza will multiply ur normal damage. So buriza would be much better, i really recommend buriza.

Heart of Tarrasque
You should really consider before buying this item, though this item gives darkterror hp quite a boost, but darkterror is not a tanker, its a agility hero which should have high damage and as, but not tanking like centaur. The amount spent on Heart of Tarrasque is also quite a sum, you could use the sum of money to buy some other damage items to help you to dominate the game, not just helping your teammates to tank the damage.

Sange and Yasha
This item is a no-no for darkterror, no matter what you want to buy, do not buy this item, i rather you to buy monkey king bar then to buy this item. You already have a slow(timewalk) and you do not need the maim, and lifesteal would be much better than that maim and the movement speed will not do you a great help as you have chasing spells and escaping spells, so do not buy this item, and this item gives a low damage boost while buriza or monkey king bar boost your damage by 75, which is think is quite good.

5.Walkthrough
Early Game
Get a flask And a ring of regeneration, try to go to top for scourge and bottom for sentinel and try to block the creeps so that when the creeps meets the enemy creeps, it will be at the tower(for top scourge and bottom sentinel). If that side is taken, go to mid or bottom/top. I would recommend solo but it is not really compulsary, because if you solo, you would be higher level then most of the enemies(4), giving you an advantage when they come to try to kill you, you would have the upper hand. Remember to last hit, stay behind the ranged creep if your opponent in your respective lane is long ranged like sniper and harass you alot, and try to wait for the last hit. Press alt everytime to see the creeps hp, last hit the creep if you can, but just stay passive if you have quite a low hp, especially when you have nukers in your lane to nuke you everytime they see you. If your hp is high enough, last hit the creep, to earn money and buy the items you need to dominate the game. Try not to push so far to their tower as the enemy’s tower would hit your creeps and your creeps would die faster than before and you would not earn much experience points which helps you to level up. Try to let them push a little to the tower and last hit as much as you can around the tower. Most likely the enemy would not dare to attack you when you are around the tower as the tower would attack the enemy attacking you and they would receive more damage than what they did to you. Remember also not to chase the enemy when you know you cannot and would die half way in the chasing. Even if the enemy have only a little hp left, let him go if you cannot chase, it is better for you as you could get the gold when you are creeping. One kill is only 200 plus gold where like killing 4-5 creeps will pay for it, and chasing is risky and even you get a kill, you may die, sometimes you will die when you have not killed the enemy you are chasing yet, so dont risk and stick to your lane unless the other lane really need help. Go back to heal when you have very low hp left, dont be obstinate and continue leeching exp with like 200 life, an easy nuke could finish you off and it would make no difference, you would only go back to base faster with lower gold. On the other side, the enemy who pawned you would earn an easy 200 plus gold, you wouldn’t want your enemy to earn more gold because of you, would you?

Mid Game
Farming too happily is not a good sign, get ready to timewalk or chrnosphere, timewalk if like two person is ganging you or either chrnosphere when like 3-5 person are ganging you. Remember to look at minimap often so that you can be aware of how many enemy heroes are missing so that you can be on your guard when like 3 or 2 person are missing, if 4-5 person are missing, i recommend you to farm neutral, they may be thinking of ganging you as you are a very powerful late game hero which can change the fate of the match. You can also try to hunt a little heroes in mid game as you are quite powerful by now, you should be able to kill most heroes if you are overpowered, remember that farming is the priority, it is very important to get powerful so that you can own in late game. Farm as much as you can but please remember to back when needed, ask for help if strong enemies that you cannot take so that when ganged, you would be able to farm freely without enemies on your lane, so that you can push faster, get more money and would not have to get hit by the respective hero in your lane, in mid game, after enemy died, it would take like 45 seconds for him to respawn, so make use of the time. Do not go back to base unless you have really low hp and you have quite alot of money. After getting buriza, you should be able to take more enemies, try to farm until level 16 as fast as possible as your ultimate is a very important factor to win the game. Remember to ask for help when needed and help your teammates when they cannot take the enemies in your lane, and continue farming even if you see another person farming in another lane, as it would take time to go to that lane to kill that particular enemy. Ask your teammate to try to kill that guy farming, so that you can get more exp and gold, if you spend that time to go to that lane to kill that enemy who is farming, you would get less exp than that person and you may even die. So just farm, farm and farm. And remember to bring a town portal scroll with you so that if the enemies suddenly push, you can easily go back to the particular tower and get the enemy away, or maybe deny the tower in time, sometime you would not get there in time you see. If you want to kill an enemy, you must see whether it is only one person or maybe more than one, if it is more than one, i recommend to take them by yourself but together with your team. Teamwork is very important as without teamwork, 80% you would lose the game unless your team is very good, thats why there is a phrase called united we stand, divided we fall. When the enemy is there, timewalk there, causing the enemy to be slowed for 40% and on your mask of madness and whack the enemy, remember that activating mask of madness also gives you a 15% movement speed boost which can also help you in chasing the enemy, if you can kill the enemy, try not to use chrnosphere as it is a really good skill and try not to waste it.

Late Game
Finally you come to the stage when most agility heroes own. This stage is most about pushing. You can still farming at this stage and back after you farm for a little while as most people would aim you when they see you, most probably in some numbers. You could also farm neutral most of the time in this stage to finish your build, and when they push, you and your team should try to hug tower as around your base, you would have the upper hand. Maybe after the battle, some of the enemies must have died, try to push when some enemy dies as it is a really good chance as in late game, the enemy respawn time is around 70-95. You and your team must push together. Remind your team to back when it is time as if some of your team members dies when pushing, you will give them the upper hand when the two teams clash. When nobody is pushing, and if any enemy is farming alone, you could try to kill that person, if you are successful in killing, immediately push with your teammates in a lane where the rax has yet to be destroyed. Because of that person who died, you have the advantage. When the enemy defend, try to kill some too, so that when the enemy respawn, some enemy is still waiting to be respawned, which gives your team the advantage everytime, so do your best, but of course, back when you have low hp, same for your teammates, so remind them when to go back to base. Killing roshan in late game is of course, an easy thing, but dont do that when the enemies creep are pushing near your tower, because the enemies may just come in a group and destroy the tower, and even the rax(if that tower is the last of that lane). After killing roshan, back immediately as the enemy would most probably come to the roshan area to find for you and your teammates to kill or maybe even steal the aegis dropped by roshan.

6.Faceless Void With Other Heroes
6A.Good Allies
Naga Siren
One Of the best allies you can have, with ensnare that last 5 seconds and with your wonderful ultimate to give them a small stop in time. If the enemy did not die after your ultimate, ask naga siren to use her ulti to give them a good sleep. After that good sleep, naga siren could just net again as the cooldown of net is over. After this net, the enemy would have been dead, or maybe if he could revive he would be dead two times after so long.

OmniKnight
Yes, he is the best ally every hero could have, The best supporter in dota i must say. Guardian angel will keep you alive and repel helping you to take care of those pesky stunners. Having repel enables you to kill any stunners without any worries and no stoppage when trying to kill the enemy(No stuns and no slows).

Treant Protecter
Ahh, Same like Naga, With Treant Protecter’s ultimate, you can kill your opponent much more easily, and nature guise will give you invisiblity for easier ambush so that you could ultimate straight to surprise the enemy and give the enemy no chance of escaping to either blink or windwalk(if they did, they must be maphacking :D).

6B.Easy Preys
Note: Natural preys, but if the enemy is a pro, the outcome will be different.
Zeus
This guy have a decent base hp for intelligence heroes, but still weak in late game, but if he is a pro and well-fed in early game, he would have quite good items to escape your clutches. He is a real monster in early game which can pawn you easily, if he is in your lane and he is quite a good player, you should ask for a swap in lanes. Late game there should be no problem, but just becareful as he may run among trees and surprise you when ever he have the time.

Dwarven Sniper
This guy have very low hp and armor, which makes a perfect prey to darkterror. But if sniper is well-farmed or well-fed, he may have quite good items to be able to reduce your hp, but you should have no problems in killing him unless he is a real pro. And this hero does not have any escape skills, unless he buy lothar, then he can be able to escape, but using a chrnosphere on him should suffice to kill him.

6C.Worst Enemies
Tiny
A very hard enemy for faceless void to counter as it have the 3rd skill, craggy exterior to stun you when you start to attack tiny, especially when you use your ultimate, your ultimate effect will be like lesser and will only be like 2 or 3 seconds to hit tiny for you. He would have a chance to stun you and within that time you are stunned, he would do lots of damage because of his ultimate and he would have bought assault to increase his attack speed and armor so that he can hit you faster with tons of damage.

Motred
OMFG, i hate this hero indeed. His Shadow Strike make you so slow and his blink strike will make up for your time walk. His Movespeed is more then you. Her Blur make you so hard to find in the chronosphere and her ultimate is deadly. You may even miss when you try to whack her as she have blur, the highest evasion that heroes can get by skills.

Doom Bringer
His Ulti make you silenced for 14 seconds! Scorched Earth give him 30% movement speed increased and his level death is pain. Remember, doom will also silence item and 14 seconds is more then enough to finish you off.

7.Conclusion
Remember, never Use chronosphere to kill steal or to steal other people tower money since chronosphere also effects teammates. Its better to use the chrnosphere to kill the enemy by yourself as it is not counted a wasted chrnosphere. Though ksing with a chrnosphere or killing a person by yourself with a chrnosphere does not affect the amount of money you get, you must also spare a thought for others. Use both timewalk and chrnosphere wisely, those skills are really good skills, one of the best escape skills and chasing skills. You must be really cautious, no matter which stage of the game you are. You also must look at the minimap to see which heroes are missing, if all the heroes is missing and have quite a high possiblity to gang you, i suggest you to farm neutral, dieing often is not a good thing as you lose gold. People will try to aim you as you are a very good late gamer, so be very careful.

Posted on 2008 under DarkTerror, Guides and Technique |

24 Jun