chabuchabu's guide to Drow Ranger

Eye of Skadi is absolutely never an item choice for Drow Ranger. -1

If you want to build the ricer version of her, by all means do it. Take Trueshot Aura and Stats, then your ultimate when you can. Start leveling silence at level 7 through 10. Then go back to stats. Your items here are Power Treads, Helm of the Dominator and Shadow Blade. Eventually building into a Satanic after you finish Black King Bar.

Either that, or you build focusing around survival and your Frost Arrows, which means no other orbs.

Honestly not a very good guide =/

Maxing frost arrow isn't just about ganking. Maxing it early allows you to greatly help out your team, allowing you to help slow an enemy so they can't run away instead of being killed. It also helps keep you safe in the lanes when an enemy decides to rush you at any point in the game, since you can slow them and make your escape. And especially near end game when rushing the base, slowing all the enemy heroes around allows your team to easily kill them, instead of the usual situation where they run back to their fountain to heal.

Orb of Venom is a waste of money. It's 3 damage per second for 4 seconds, and only 4% slow. That's a total of 12 damage.... Diddly squat. For 353 coins, you can get two Slippers of Agility and Iron Branch, which will give you +7 Agility, +1 Str/Int. Increasing your base attack by at least 8. So when you start out, you have an Attack Speed of 1.32sec/ea. So within 2.64 seconds, you've done 16 extra damage, and 3.96 seconds you've done 24 extra damage.

So to sum that up:
Orb of Venom = 12 damage per 4 seconds
2x Slippers of Agility + Iron Branch = 24 damage per 4 seconds.

Plus since it's your base attack and not a damage over time effect, it will help a lot more with your creep killing ability early on.

And I realize the Orb is part of your build later on, which brings me to another point, Eye of Skadi. This is a waste of money. You have a perfectly good, cheap mana cost slowing skill to use already. Why pay money to replace it? That money would be MUCH better spent going towards something like Monkey King Bar, Butterfly, Mjollnir, Daedalus or Black King Bar depending on how you want to play and who your opponents are. Any really good weapon really that's going to increase your DPS and Attack Speed. Later in game you'll be able to plow through other heroes before they can get to you.

A lifesteal item is fine to tack on later in the game if you want to of course. But Satanic really isn't as useful to Drow as it is many other characters. Much better other items to spend money on that benefit her more.

At level 20, with only 2x Wraith Bands, Monkey King Bar, Daedalus, Hyperstone and Power Treads, you'll have:
Atk = 149-160 + 218
AtkSpd = 0.52sec
1423 HP
18 Armor

That's some pretty heavy damage on your opponents, especially considering the 35% mini bash chance, and 25% chance for 250% crit. And that's a pretty moderate build. If you play well you can build up a much better inventory by lvl 16.

Dislike. Why the aura first? It's so weak on Drow early game. I disagree 100%.

well , my this guide is not for ganking in early. Just pure farming and survive.

And this is not a solo lane guide , u should be lane-ing with a babysitter like vs/jakiro/lion. The aura for u and your teamate will gives better harass-ing and farming + denying.

If you are solo-ing, I would prefer for stats first until level 8 only up trueshot aura.

Max frost arrow if only you playing gank. But i would prefer ganker to do the job, like sven,lina those.

Using same boot with opponent, level 1 frost arrow is good enough for you to chase and kill. If u know how to shoot and run.

Damage and stats will make you survive in team fight and kill the enemy faster.
With your team disable , stun/slow/hex etc , the higher damage is better than frost arrow. Kill them before they run, not chase them. Lifesteal/critical + drow high agis with high damage is good enough to kill support hero or fighting hero with disables.

Imagine 1 stun hero + another hero gank u. What can you do with frost arrow? You can't run away. But with aura and stats, you got higher possibilities on killing 1 of them before you die.

to me , Drow is not as good as other ganker. She can be better performance with farm-ing out item and deal some massive damage in mid game onwards.

I REALLY don't agree with the lack of use of frost arrow.

For one, it gives you amazing lane domination potency. Maxing out your aura first doesn't do much of anything because it is based on % of damage, which means it becomes more useful as the game goes on, but is more or less useless early game.

Drow is what you would call a utility hero, so when you opt for damage over utility when the damage isn't even worth it, you are seriously hampering her ability to do anything. She isn't an afk farmer. Most Drow's dominate the game through their utility and supporting their team, but you seem to have gone completely against that and tried to play on her weaknesses instead of her strengths. You won't bring anything to a gank in your lane, which costs your team gold, and the enemies in your lane will walk all over you because you lack the ability to kite them. Sorry, but that is a really bad skill build in my opinion.

You're also giving up silence until level 4, which makes you even more useless early on.

My guide doesn't use frost arrow =)

skadi + satanic , stack and better effect and performance in late game

Good guide, although please remove the Helm of the dominator/Satanic. Life steal on other "orb effects" dont wor if you use your Frost Arrows =\