Dota 2 hero drow ranger build

Dota 2 Item and Build Gu >Updated on January 20, 2017

“The mist that chills you keeps me warm.”

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Traxex, the Drow Ranger

“Drow Ranger’s given name is Traxex—a name well suited to the short, trollish, rather repulsive Drow people. But Traxex herself is not a Drow. Her parents . “

• Role: Carry
• Farm priority: 1 or 2
  

Drow Ranger is a ranged agility hero who can keep a truckload of damage through her passive abilities. Traxex is a typical carry that can become extremely powerful at every point in the game, with great early game presence. Despite her lack of escape spells, Drow Ranger can keep herself relatively safe from enemy spellcasters and melee heroes using her Silence and her Frost Arrows.

Skills

• Frost arrows:
  • The slow will not be increased by successive casts, only refreshed.
  • The slow is a unique attack modifier and conflicts with lifesteal, both when used automatically and when used manually.
• Silence:
  • Doesn’t stop usage of items.
  • Knockback distance is inversely proportional to travel range, 350 at closest, 0 at 900.
  • Does not interrupt channeling of items.
  • As with all silence, will NOT stop Skeleton King’s Reincarnation.
  • Disables Permanent Invisibility.
• Precision aura:
  • Only has an effect on ranged units.
• Marksmanship:
  • Effectively gives Drow Ranger 40/60/80 attack speed, 40/60/80 attack damage and 5.6/8.4/11.2 armor, as well as an additional 10.4/15.6/20.8 damage from level 4 Precision Aura. Dota 2 hero drow ranger build
  • There is a visual particle effect that indicates when this ability is active – it looks similar to dry ice emitting from her body. If the visual effect is no longer visible, you are in the ineffective range of this skill, and therefore the bonus is not granted.

Skill build

Skill Build Explanation

Frost arrows (Q) is maxed first for the increase in movement slow (11% to 60% slow is massive). Gust is maxed second for the increase in duration and Marksmanship (R) at all necessary levels.

Why is Precision aura maxed last?

• Drow Ranger has low natural agility growth (1.9 per level), and the damage from Precision Aura is drawn from this, getting one level gives so little damage that it isn’t noticeable (4.7 with first level aura at level 5, before Marksmanship (R)).
• This combined with the fact that Aura scales slowly, only increasing by 4% for each level after first, meaning that maxing Precision Aura pre level 11 is pretty much worthless.

Items

• Power treads: Increases DPS and damage
• Shadow blade/Blink Dagger: Good for escaping and initiating and more DPS, but only good in lower level skill brackets.
• Helm of the Denominator: Life steal good for jungling, works well with your high damage, doesn’t work with frost arrows together. If ganking, use frost arrows, if farming, use life steal. Can also be used to stack Ancients.
• Yasha/Manta style: More dps and move speed, creates illusions – good for escaping and confusing enemies.
• Crystalys/Daedalus: More damage and crit.
• Butterfly: More DPS and the agility goes with all the aura. Dota 2 hero drow ranger build

Phases of the Game

Early game:

• Get as much last hits and denies as possible.
• Know when to be aggressive and when to be defensive. If you can out harass your enemy while at a safe distance, then you can probably score a kill if you be more aggressive. If however, the enemy have killed/almost killed you multiple time, be more defensive.
• Don’t forget to use your Silence if enemies are coming to gank you.
• Your first priority is to farm, second priority is to kill enemies.
• Harass enemy hero’s frequently to lower their farm.
• Target using Frost arrows (Q) and use them sparingly, do not auto-cast (unless ganking or fleeing a gank).

Mid game:

• Continue farming, but leave the lane to help your team in fights, ganks, or push towers.
• Use the jungle to gain life instead of buying pots or going back to base.
• Always have a Town Portal Scroll.
• Don’t initiate team fights, let the disablers do that and you follow up with a Silence (W).
• Choose a method of escape: Shadow blade or Manta style.
• (Situational/optional) Dominate an alpha wolf with your Helm of the Dominator, then solo Roshan.

Late game:

• Stay with your team, you are far too squishy to be caught alone.
• Push towers and racks with your team.
• If you are losing health turn off the auto cast Frost arrows (Q). As a result, life steal will be active by default because of Helm of the Dominator.
• Always have a town portal scroll to defend your own towers and to TP back to base.

Helpful Tips

• Manually casting Frost Arrows (Q) (known as orbwalking) will prevent you from drawing creep/tower aggro. This is also needed to kite and escape opponents in a bad situation.
• An early level of Silence is crucial to defend against spellcasters, although it will still be maxed last.
• With the new Marksmanship (R) , maintaining a distance is important for Traxex now. Make sure you are more than 375 units away from your enemy and kite them to keep your distance so you will enjoy the full bonus effect of Marksmanship,
• If during a team fight the enemy heroes get close to each other, using Silence in many or even all of them can simply turn the battle aside, making Drow Ranger not just a great carry, but also a powerful disablers/initiators too, if given the chance.

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In the start you showed that silence should be maxd

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Is the new Drow really nerfed ?

Drow Ranger 7.20c

DotA2 Hero: Drow Ranger

Purchase Order

Starting Items

Early Game Items

M > Maelstrom

Late Game Items

Optional Items

Hero Skills

Frost Arrows

Multishot

Marksmanship

Talents

Hero Talents

Is the new Drow really nerfed ?

1.	Explanation
2.	Items and Gameplay
3.	To Conclude

Explanation

When i saw Drow changes made in 7.20 patch i was like – “WTF” . Drow was utterly useless . I couldn’t believe that they destroyed her so much . Then i tried , and tried , all with the same result – very hard games with most loses . It was like a creep with attack speed , no more – no less . And then , when 7.20b happened they actually gave Drow some bonus dmg on her ult , and that made mid-game easier . Now Drow could actually return to being core once again .

When we talk about skills and Talent Tree , you don’t have to upgrade it it this way that I did . But the whole point is to upgrade 1st and 2nd skill first , not the third , because in early game Drows passive skill doesn’t give you as much Attack Speed . So it is not very important as Slow and Silence debuffs .

NOTE : This build is only for advanced players that already have some experience with this hero .

Items and Gameplay

Starting and Early Game Items :

The >Wraith Bands as soon as possible . The original >Wraith Band and Tango . But with Wraith Band price going up it became impossible to get Tango too . Tango would have to be shared with carry by his supports , so carry would depend even more on his supports than before . This is why I used this approach as best solution for “These new Hard Times” xD .
After getting two Wraith Bands you need to get Power Treads which will give you even more dmg , agility and attack speed . Note that Drow is all about AGI stats now 🙂 .

Mid and Late Game Items :

Maelstrom is a obvious choice here , giving Drow what she lacks most after new patch – DAMAGE . That will make your farm even faster , and your kills easier . Also it is a good choice if you have to fight high armor heroes , because of chain (magic) damage that ofc ignores armor . That combined with Drow Rangers ulttimate which ignores armor when triggered becomes a real deal . But , just to remind you that drow is not invulnerable . So she gonna need some safety . That you may find in Dragon Lance . It will give you more AGI and STR stats and ofc it will increase your attack range and allow you to attack from rather safe distance and even allow you to attack towers out of their range . And finally , for same purposes , Morbid Mask is unavoidable , making you even more durable and independable because of lifesteal .
In Late Game , you gonna have a lot of attack speed because of your 3rd skill combined with AGI that was giving you attack speed anyway . So all you need now is more stuff like : DMG , STATS or ESCAPE . Obvious choices are Hurricane Pike , Butterfly , Daedalus and Satanic . These items should be enough to make you one of strongest guys in your game especially because of new Satanic bonuses .

For some people Aghanim’s Scepter would be logic choice even as one of first items considering its great combination with Drows ult . With scepter , which gives Drow split DMG (similar to Medusa) Drow can proc bonus 120 DMG on any of units near the creep that was originally attacked , which would kill creeps instantly ; meaning – You would be able to farm even faster and you would get good stats .
I think you all know how other items that I suggested work , so I won’t be explaining each of them separately . Just give some thought about who you play against , and choose optional Items wisely even if you have to buy them before Items that I suggested .

How Drow should be played now ?

It would be preferable to have a support with healing or stun ability , if you ask me Dazzle would be perfect . With dazzle , enemy heroes are easily slowed and harassed . Ofc , in case of gank he could save Drow with his 2nd skill . After you get lvl 6 , you should occasionally push your lane and then go clear some Ancient and Hard capms (It’s now easy because of Drows new ability to kill creeps with 1 hit regardless of their hp). That would prov >

To Conclude

IMPORTANT

Drows early Items are probably best items that any AGI carry can buy . That is because soon after taking runes and getting few creeps , you can upgrade them to “Wraith Bands” and so get the bonuses .

CONCLUSION

Looks like Drow Ranger still can be played as a carry. So , in this new patch she can even be played as a middle laner and Win against opponents that she had no chance against before . Not everything is so GREY . 😉 .