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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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