Lion Item Build | DotA Demon Witch Item Build, Guide and Strategy

Lion Item Build - DotA Demon Witch Item Build, Guide and Strategy. Lion is a great hero to disable your enemies with it’s Voodoo skill that transforms enemy into random critter, disabling special abilities. Also, the impale skill that not only deals damage with the enemy but stuns it, then combo it with Lion’s special skill Finger of Death that deals 850 damage at level 3. Beat that. The Mana drain for the enemy just makes you more powerful to prevent heroes casting their special skill on you.

I. Introduction

Lion would be the best disabler in game if you pair him with rhasta. But there are so much problem with Lion user such as Useless Impale, wrong hex casting, miss time casting etc. So i’m here to guide you all how to use Lion properly.

II. Hero Stats And Skill

Lion – The Demon Witch

Range: 600 | | Move Speed: 290 | Primary: INT

Str: 16 + 1.7 | Agi: 15 + 1.5 | Int: 22 + 3

Damage: 42 – 48 | HP: 454 | Mana: 286

HP Regen: 0.73 | Mana Regen: 0.89

Attack Speed: 1.45 (+ 15% IAS) | Armor: 1.1

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Voodoo (D)

Transforms an enemy unit into a random critter, disabling special abilities.

Level 1 – Lasts 1 seconds.

Level 2 – Lasts 2 seconds.

Level 3 – Lasts 3 seconds.

Level 4 – Lasts 4 seconds.

Mana Cost: 110 / 140 / 170 / 200

Cooldown: 13

Impale (E)

Slams the ground with massive claws, shooting spiked tendrils out in a straight line, dealing damage and hurling enemy ground units into the air in their wake.

Level 1 – 60 damage, .5 second stun.

Level 2 – 130 damage, 1 second stun.

Level 3 – 200 damage, 1.5 second stun.

Level 4 – 260 damage, 2 second stun.

Mana Cost: 100 / 120 / 145 / 170

Cooldown: 12

Mana Drain (R)

Absorbs the magical energies of a target enemy unit by taking mana from it every second. Channeling Spell

Lasts 4 seconds.

Level 1 – 20 mana drained per second. 600 Cast Range.

Level 2 – 40 mana drained per second. 650 Cast Range.

Level 3 – 60 mana drained per second. 700 Cast Range.

Level 4 – 100 mana drained per second. 750 Cast Range.

Mana Cost: 10

Cooldown: 25/20/15/10

Finger of Death (F)

Instantly rips at a target, attempting to turn it inside-out. Deals massive damage.

Level 1 – Deals 500 (600 with Scepter) damage.

Level 2 – Deals 650 (800 with Scepter) damage.

Level 3 – Deals 850 (1025 with Scepter) damage.

Scepter reduces cooldown of level 3 Finger of Death by 5 seconds.

Mana Cost: 200 / 420 / 650

Cooldown: 150 / 90 / 55

III. Skill Build

1,3,5,7 : Impale

2,4,13,14 : Mana Drain

8,9,10,12 : Hex

The Rest : Stats

Finger Of Death : 6,11,16

Q : Why did we put 2 skill point on mana drain?

A : Because we need lane controlling in early game. Mana drain work well with impale, when you stun it, then when enemy moving in the air, use mana drain. Your enemy will not have mana to spam and harass you, hence they will out of farm and being pushed.

Hex taken in lvl 8 because we need one more disable thing, even though mana cost was ridiculous, don’t hesitate to take it, it will save your life sometimes even just 1 seconds.

IV. Strategy And Tactics

Start item with 2 gauntlets of ogre or mantle of intelligence with 2 sets tango. it will provide you more life time until lvl 6 or more. Since lion is fragile, so we don’t need to rush an early kill. Do this way

1. Impale then when your enemy stunned in the air, use mana drain. With this way, you prevent of being harassed and can harass with impale more.

2. Don’t cast impale on hero but cast impale on the ground. Like this and this. So we should know how far can impale goes. Once you mastered it, you can use trick impale + drain easily.

This is the example of using mana drain while your enemy flying in the air.

So in lvl 1 – 7, i hope you get this item. This will help you find a better way in mid game.