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I'm a little confused as to how you plan on playing him with this guide. The build is named "initiator", you say to play him as a support in your text, and you have things like Butterfly in the items. Seems like you combined all the ways to play Venomancer into one confusing guide.

A few notes:

-As I said, split the whole guide into multiple builds. Support, Ganker, Semi-Carry, Initiator, etc. Each with their own builds and sections.
-If going full initiator you need a Blink Dagger, no exceptions. Venomancer is too slow and squishy to just walk into the middle of the team and ult.
- Shadow Blade is not an escape and is better suited on gankers. Blink Dagger is almost always better.
-Missing items that are really good on Venomancer and you have some items that are very sub-par:

• Eul's Scepter of Divinity- Solves mana problems, speeds you up, and can dispel silences or save you with the active.
• Yasha- Far better than Sange on Venomancer. Movespeed and attack speed, plus it builds into Manta Style which is far more useful than Sange and Yasha.
• Pipe of Insight- Protects you (and your team) from spell damage, gives great regen.
• Black King Bar and Linken's Sphere- Spell block. Initiators usually need one of these so they can actually get in and do what they need to. Usually BKB.
• Orchid Malevolence- Cheaper than Scythe of Vyse and is good for ganking. Good counter against heroes who blink away.
• Vanguard- just not that great on him. Usually you want to be skirting the edges of the fight after you initiate, not in the middle. Builds into Crimson Guard, which is good, but it's better on tanks like Axe or Bristleback.

-Early levels of Poison Sting are better than wards. The DoT falls off after awhile, and you need the slow a lot more for securing kills. One point in wards is all you really need until the others are maxed.

Yeah, that ring looks quite confusing, i will fix that.

Pardon me... I don't think you have enough starting gold to buy all your starting items...

525 + 125 + 150 is... 800.

Consider using icons... or see Dr. D's guide to formatting!

Cheers!
TheSofa