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

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-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