My Axe Dream Build

Black King Bar
Vangaurd
Desolator
Assault Cuirass
Divine Rapier
Satanic

No boots: Dark Seer W/ Surge

Replace vanguard with mekanism and you are good to go. :P

O.o no dagon, personally I would opt for a heart rather than a vanguard.

Why only 1 rapier?

Keep dreaming.

I'm listening to the suggestions and questioning, but I have an issue and question first with what I am aiming for with the build...

Many people know about my double boot approach, whether it is phase + tranquil or Phase + Boots of travel (Bot suggested for axe)

If double boots are so hindering and not really worth it, why would I even go boots on him at all?

Why wouldn't I just, going back to the build, substitute black king bar with shadow blade and say screw boots all together...

Then sneak up on the enemy team, use Q and Satanic, maybe get off an ultimate before going invisible once a lot of damage is soaked up before going back to invisible

(could still make up for any lost speed with a dark seer partner)

Here come the trolls who will say that invisibility doesn't mean anything in this game.

Invisibility doesn't mean anything in this game.

Yes of course it doesn't mean anything, so let's design a character who has an ultimate whos ability is soley invisibility...

http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/skill/permanent-invisibility-196

Clearly Riki is the most underpowered hero in the game with a completely worthless ultimate.

I was kidding man. :)

Seriously though, I don't expect you can "Then sneak up on the enemy team, use Q and Satanic, maybe get off an ultimate before going invisible once a lot of damage is soaked up before going back to invisible" against a decent team that actually buys detection. In the first place, getting to that level of farm with Axe is probably not possible unless it's ultra-late game or you're simply facerolling the other team. In other words, in a decent game it wouldn't be possible.

And dps items really don't shine on axe tbh.

Saying that if double boots are bad, boots are no good at all is wrong because you only need the first boot... the second is unnecessary. You know, like a head. Or nose.

lmfao... because clearly each slot represents a body part... yeah...

People don't like the idea of feeling comfortable, even if a better build was 5 different armor items, and sadly, they would probably feel so unmotivated by this discomfort of being visually unnatural, that they would perform worse.

In my opinion, axe almost fulfills a totally different role on the battle field like "Ancient Killer" (not roshan)

I don't see why the center laner has to be forced to have the exclusive role of ancient killer with bottle going back and forth between ancients and grabbing the runes...

I wonder if axe could even use a bottle for a little while if what I'm saying holds any weight.

With that said, I wish there were more ancient killer exclusive roles in the game, because axe seems to fulfill that role more then any other chars I can think of....