If the opposing team has a problematic auto-attack carry, where Black King Bar just wont do you any good, or just isn't helping, pick up a Blademail. Note that once you buy Point Booster, you do not have to head straight into Aghanim's Scepter, only that it is an option later down the road. That means instead of just using it once per fight, you will be using it at least twice. I cannot stress enough how Point Booster is amazingly good for it's price: A huge increase to both pools for a low price, that can be built into Aghanim's Scepter down the road, boosting Nether Strike from a minute long cooldown, to a short twenty seconds. It boosts his damage and health, while offering the chance to become magic immune in battle: Ensuring you can use Charge of Darkness and Nether Strike again, and again. If the opposing team has even a single disable or high damage nuke, get this item. Once activated, you become a moving slaughterhouse in battle. Sorry to say, you cannot have both, too much money spent this early on small items can lead to failure.Д«lack King Bar really is the holy grail of items for Spirit Breaker.

Pick it up and if you cannot find a lane to get some decent farm, start stacking jungles and farming off the small camp between ganks/pulls. I have replaced Urn of Shadows with Vanguard, it is pretty much a requirement if you want to do well with this hero in just about every game. Any hero that is put into the role of ganking and gets up close a lot, should have an Urn of Shadows as a desired item. The bonus damage on a fleeing target and ability to heal yourself afterwards is fantastic. It provides strength which increases your damage and mana regeneration to keep your mana flowing. Do not pick this item up with the play style I am suggesting, instead focus on being able to survive battles and ***** your active abilities, focusing less on your passives.ДЄs a hero that will be ganking a lot and roaming around, Urn of Shadows is for you. The life steal and increased chance to activate Greater Bash attracts many, but at the cost of your ability to absorb damage. The largest majority of players get Mask of Madness on Spirit Breaker. You would be a fool to not pick it up as the game progresses. It is improved through Aghanim's Scepter, which gives Spirit Breaker the ability to use this attack multiple times in a single fight. It provides a short blink, a great stun and if used to it's fullest, you can even use it to disjoint enemy attacks. Lastly we have Nether Strike, which brings this hero altogether. In combination with his ability to chase and two sure-fire stuns, he can easily take on most opponents one versus one with relative ease. Taking one level provides the same chance, it only improves in damage. Greater Bash ensures that Spirit Breaker isn't complete ****, offering a chance to stun with a very good chance to occur. The high amount of damage offered early on gives you an extreme advantage in the lane with your ability to last hit and many guides/players use Quelling Blade to enhance this trait. It grants a passive movement speed bonus to you and your allies, while it gives you bonus damage dependent on your movement speed. What makes this hero is Empowering Haste, it is the source of all of his damage. It gives you much more use in the laning phase, at the cost of your damage output and Spirit Breaker's dominance over creep score.

This is why contrary to other guides, I suggest getting two points into it early on.

Instead focus on it's stun and relatively low cool down early on.

This is a site for DOTA2 and it's heroes, so let's talk about the original version.Д¬harge of Darkness has no base damage, meaning you are relying on the bonus movement speed from it's effect and your passive, Empowering Haste, to deal any significant damage from this ability. I greatly prefer the Heroes of Newerth version of Spirit Breaker, as he adds a lot more to the hero, but I digress.

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