The Rogue Knight: Guide to Sve

Introduction

Sven is a Disabler, Initiator, Carry, Support hero. This means that Sven can be played as a Carry or as a Support. He is a good hero for initiating a war, for he has a good Disabler ability. If you play him as a Carry, he will be very powerful as he is able to deal a very high physical damage to multiple heroes at once.

Abilities

Abilities List

Storm Hammer

1. Storm Hammer (normal ability): He stuns and deals damage to enemy units in an area.

• Mana cost: 140 
• Cooldown: 13 
• Ability: Unit target
• Affects: Enemy units
• Damage type: Magical
• Pierces spell immunity: No
• Damage: 100/175/250/325
• Stun duration: 2
• Radius: 255

Great Cleave

2. Great Cleave (normal ability): Sven cleaves all his nearby enemy units with his attack. It means that he can deal damage to enemy units in an area at once. But, only the main target get the 100% damage.

• Ability: Passive
• Pierces spell immunity: Yes
• Radius: 300
• Cleave damage: 20%/35%/50%/65%

Warcry

3. Warcry (normal ability): Sven increases his allies' movement speed and armor in an area for 8 seconds.

• Mana cost: 25
• Cooldown: 32/26/20/14
• Ability: No target
• Bonus armor: 5/10/15/20
• Bonus speed: 12%
• Radius: 900
• Duration: 8

God's Strength

4. God's Strength (ultimate ability): Sven grants bonus damage for 25 seconds. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter. After the ability is updgraded by Aghanim's Scepter, Sven's allies also recieve the bonus damage aura in an area around Sven.

• Ability: No target
• Bonus damage: 100%/150%/200%
• Scepter ally aura radius: 900
• Scepter ally bonus damage: 50%/75%/100%

Abilities Sequence

1. Level 1: Storm Hammer
2. Level 2: Warcry
3. Level 3: Storm Hammer
4. Level 4: Great Cleave
5. Level 5: Storm Hammer
6. Level 6: God's Strength
7. Level 7: Storm Hammer
8. Level 8: Warcry
9. Level 9: Warcry
10. Level 10: Great Cleave
11. Level 11: God's Strength
12. Level 12: Warcry
13. Level 13: Great Cleave
14. Level 14: Great Cleave
15. Level 15: All Attributes
16. Level 16: God's Strength
17. Level 17-25: All Attributes

Items Build

Stout Shield

Clarity

Starting Items

• Stout Shield
• Tango
• 2x Iron Branches
• Clarity

Mask of
Madness

Power Treads

Early Game Items

• Bottle
• Boots of Speed
• Magic Wand
• Power Treads
• Mask of Madness

Black King Bar

Silver Edge

Mid Game Items

• Shadow Blade
• Black King Bar
• Silver Edge (upgrade Shadow Blade)
• Crystalys

Daedalus

Heart of
Tarrasque

Late Game Items

• Daedalus
• Heart of Tarrasque
• Boots of Travel (sell Power Treads)
• Boots of Travel level 2

Aghanim's
Scepter

Moon Shard

Situational Items

• Blink Dagger
• Moon Shard
• Monkey King Bar
• Divine Rapier
• Aghanim's Scepter

Sources

-http://www.dota2.com/hero/Sven/

 Date viewed: 15 May 2015

-http://www.dota2.com/items/

 Date viewed: 15 May 2015

The International 2015

Introduction

The International 2015 is the biggest Dota 2 competition in the world. It will happen on August 3rd-August 8th. This competition will take place in the Keyarena at Seattle Center.

Teams

There will be 16 teams competing at The International 2015 main event. There are 10 invited teams, 4 Qualifier winners (1 from each region, the regions are China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and America), 1 Wild Card winner and 1 Wild Card runner up.

The Invited Teams

1. Vici Gaming: This team comes from China. This team is The International 2014 runner up. This team is also the Dota 2 Asian Championship 2015 runner up. The members are Hao, iceiceice, Super, Fenrir, and fy.

2. Evil Geniuses: This team comes from America. This team is the Dota 2 Asian Championship 2015 winner. The members are Fear, Suma1L, UNiVeRsE, Aui_2000, and ppd.

3. Team Secret: This team comes from Europe. The members are Arteezy, s4, zai, KuroKy, and Puppey.

4. Invictus Gaming: This team comes from China. This team is The International 2012 winner. The members are BurNing, Ferrari_430, Luo, ChuaN, and Faith.

5. LGD Gaming: This team comes from China. The members are Sylar, Maybe, Yao, xiao8, and MMY!.

6. Cloud 9: This team comes from Europe. The members are EternalEnvy, FATA-, bOne7, BigDaddy, and MiSeRy.

7. Team Empire: This team comes from Europe. The members are Silent, Resolut1on, yoky, ALOHADANCE, and ALWAYSWANNAFLY.

8. Virtus Pro: This team comes from Europe. The members are Illidan, God, DKPhobos, fng, and Lil.

9. Newbee: This team comes from China. This team is The International 2014 winner. The members are Rabbit, Mu, June, Banana, and SanSheng.

10. Team Malaysia: This team comes from Southeast Asia. The members are kYxY, Kecik Imba, Ohaiyo, JoHnNy, and Mushi.

Qualifiers

The qualifiers will happen at different times in each region. The regions are China, Southeast Asia, America and Europe. The winner of each region will compete at the main event. This year, everyone has a chance to compete in the qualifiers.

Wild Card series

The qualifier runner up of each region will compete at the Wild Card series. The winner and runner up of this competition will earn the last 2 spots in the main event.

Invited Teams Logo

Vivi Gaming

Evil Geniuses

Team Secret

Invictus Gaming

LGD Gaming

Cloud9

Team Empire

Virtus Pro

Newbee

Team Malaysia

Sources

-https://www.dota2.com/international/announcement

-http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-announces-dates-for-the-international-2015/

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Vici_Gaming

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Evil_Geniuses

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Team_Secret

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Invictus_Gaming

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/LGD_Gaming

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Cloud9

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Team_Empire

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Virtus_Pro

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Newbee

-http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Team_Malaysia

The Assassinator: Guide to Phantom Assassin

Introducing Phantom Assassin

Phantom Assassin is a Carry, Escape hero. Although she can kill in early game, she still need to rely on farming to be very powerful. You can play her either in mid or bot lane in early game. If you play her in mid lane, you need to play her as a Ganker and buy bottle.

Abilities

Abilities List

Stifling Dagger

1. Stifling Dagger (normal ability): Deals pure damage and slows enemy unit's movement speed. Deals half damage to heroes.

• Mana cost: 30/25/20/15
• Cooldown: 6 (all levels)
• Ability: Unit target
• Affects: Enemy units
• Damage type: Pure
• Pierces spell immunity: No
• Damage: 60/100/140/180
• Slow: 50% (all level)
• Duration :1/2/3/4

Phantom Strike

2. Phantom Strike (normal ability): Blinks (teleport) to an ally or enemy unit, and grant bonus attack speed while attacking, if it's an enemy unit.

• Mana cost: 50 (all level)
• Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
• Ability: Unit target
• Pierces spell immunity: No
• Bonus attack speed: 130 (all levels)
• Max attacks: 4 (all levels)
• Range: 1000 (all levels)

Blur

3. Blur (normal ability): She increases her chance to evade enemy attacks, and allows her body to blur and disappear from the minimap when her distance is far away from enemy heroes. The evasion stacks diminishingly with other sources of evasion.

• Ability: Passive
• Evasion: 205/30%/40%/50%
• Minimap vanish radius: 1600 (all levels)

Coup de Grace

4. Coup de Grace (ultimate ability): She gains the chance of dealing critical strike when attacking. Stifling Dagger shares the same critical strike chance.

• Ability: Passive
• Pierces spell immunity: Yes
• Critical damage: 230%/340%/450%
• Critical chance: 15% (all levels)

Abilities Sequence

1. Level 1: Phantom Strike
2. Level 2: Stifling Dagger
3. Level 3: Stifling Dagger
4. Level 4: Blur
5. Level 5: Phantom Strike
6. Level 6: Coup de Grace
7. Level 7: Phantom Strike
8. Level 8: Stifling Dagger
9. Level 9: Phantom Strike 
10. Level 10: Stifling Dagger
11. Level 11: Coup de Grace
12. Level 12: Blur
13. Level 13: Blur
14. Level 14: Blur
15. Level 15: All Attributes
16. Level 16: Coup de Grace
17. Level 17-25: All Attributes

Items Build

Iron Branch

Stout Shield

Starting Items

• Stout Shield
• Tango
• 2x Iron Branches

Phase Boots

Perseverance

Early Game Items

• Poor Man's Shield
• Magic Wand
• Phase Boots
• Perseverance

Black King
Bar

Battle Fury

Mid Game Items

• Battle Fury
• Helm of Dominator
• Black King Bar
• Skull Basher

Satanic

Monkey King
Bar

Late Game Items

• Monkey King Bar
• Satanic
• Abyssal Blade
• Boots of Travel

Abyssal Blade

Boots of Travel

Complete Items Build Set

• Boots of Travel
• Battle Fury
• Black King Bar
• Satancic
• Abyssal Blade
• Monkey King Bar

Divine Rapier

Butterfly

Situational Items

• Butterfly
• Power Treads
• Mask of Madness
• Sange and Yasha
• Divine Rapier

Sources

-http://www.dota2.com/hero/Phantom_Assassin/

 Date viewed: 02 May 2015

 Items used: Phantom Assassin picture, roles, abilities pictures, and abilities information

-http://www.dota2.com/items/

 Date viewed: 02 May 2015

 Items used: Pictures of Stout Shield, Iron Branch, Perseverance, Phase Boots, Battle Fury, Black King Bar, Monkey King Bar, Satanic, Boots of Travel, Abyssal Blade, Divine Rapier, and Butterfly