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Item Stacking, Who and What?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Cuttleboss » August 9, 2015 11:21pm | Report
I was in a lobby, trying out builds for the three heroes I'm trying to make guides on, and I had this mad idea.

It involved item stacking, and I thought about item stacking in general. What heroes would you stack items on, like 3 or more?

In my test scenario, it was Outworld Devourer with Travels, Eaten Moon Shard, and 5 Octarine Cores, since it gives me more mana than any other item. The result was a monster with 5.5k mana and 4k hp, dealing nearly 500 bonus damage from his orb. Of course, in this form, he's just a beast with no utility items like Scythe or Aghs or Refresher.

What other heroes do you think could feasibly stack several items? Most of them would probably be carries since they rarely need more utility.

Here are some that came to mind:

The popular ones:

Ember Spirit: Battle Fury: Rarely gets more than 2, but in rare cases, it might be worth it against like illusion dudes.

Kunkka: Daedalus. Because more crit chance is nice, especially if the entire teamfight banks on the cleave criting in order to win. However, 3 is usually a stretch, since he'll often go divine at that point.

Meepo: Eye of Skadi or Ethereal Blade. After Aghs (and preferably a dagger), getting 3 of either of these items make Meepo's damage output quite scary, and thus, why its the standard build when he doesn't need to make things like Scythe.

The less popular ones:

Centaur Warrunner : Heart of Tarrasque, With a spot for dagger and one for aghs, he can stack 3, and make his returns the most painful thing in the world.

Chaos Knight: Heart of Tarrasque, He scales even better with strength than Centaur does with his illusions. However, he's still got major downtime. Heart stacking is mostly if you can't brute force your enemies if you got Octarine.

Sven: Heart of Tarrasque, Strength is such a nice stat to stack, since it makes you tankier. Sven has God's Strength, so 3 hearts with a bkb and blink can be quite effective in long drawn out fights.

Terrorblade: Eye of Skadi or Butterfly. Terrorblade is one of a handful of carries that uses all 3 attributes well. Skadi makes him tanky enough to nukes where he will always get off his Sunder, able to go up to 4, with a manta, seems more viable after his massive image damage taken nerf. For full splitpusher, three butterflies seems like a viable option, it was the Zenoth build that completely avoids fighting and rips towers into a mess of rubble.

Faceless Void: Butterfly. I personally avoid MoM on Void. Instead I go for a stat based illusion build that has options for splitpushing. Manta, Diffusal, Triple butterfly. It is an effective build against towers and gives the hero more options.

Huskar: Heaven's Halberd or Solar Crest, the hero benefits a lot from items that give him protection from physical damage and quite often, both of these items can be good to stack on him, since it'll make him pretty much a god of mid-game, and an unkillable machine.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by ThreadOfFate » August 10, 2015 12:13pm | Report
Faced a Huskar who had a Halberd and two Solar Crest's. Was not pretty until I was able to farm my MKB.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by ChiChi » August 10, 2015 2:59pm | Report
Btw, do you think it's legit to have Guardian Greaves and Boots of Travel in a fed support in the late, late game?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » August 10, 2015 3:01pm | Report
Yes.

When I'm really far behind, I stack Drums of Endurance on Morphling.

Kyfoid anyone?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Califocus » August 10, 2015 3:18pm | Report
5 bracer morphling best morphling. Kappa

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by KEEP CALM AND FEED » August 10, 2015 5:30pm | Report
TheSofa wrote:

Yes.

When I'm really far behind, I stack Drums of Endurance on Morphling.

Kyfoid anyone?

Miss this guy as well. Wasnt he gone only till TI5 ended. Why the heck isnt he back?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by michimatsch » August 10, 2015 6:21pm | Report
Because someone scared him away. I think is he hiding somewhere in the shades to pop up when the time is right

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » August 10, 2015 6:39pm | Report
And why do you think the time is right now?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Fedorable » August 10, 2015 7:49pm | Report
http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/blog/hamstertamer/spectre-6-slot-skadi-stacking-doto

No one has mentioned this? Speaking of, where did that hamster go? How will we know if we're dotaing like proper 7K (reddit) tryhards?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Haloon » August 10, 2015 7:58pm | Report
What about vlads+dominator on Lifestealer ? or wraith king ?

Btw,why some people likes to stack maelstorms on sniper ? Whats the point ? Does the lighting stacks with each maelstorm?

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