Khopi by lonelyfreak

Primary Attribute - Strength

Primary Attribute - Agility

Primary Attribute - Intelligence

*Base stat projections for each primary attribute provided player levels ultimate when available.
*It should be noted that level 1 stat projections are the same since Khopi can only be Intelligence based at this level.

Starting items:

Null Talisman and it's components give Doppelganger a decent early game attributes boost.
Tango regenerates health so Doppelganger can survive the lane.
Healing Salve restores health also.
Stout Shield mitigates damage taken from enemy harass.
Enchanted Mango gives health regeneration and burst mana to use skills in lane.

Early game:

Power Treads is the item version of Doppelganger, thus has a lot of synergy with his kit.
Drum of Endurance is a pretty decent early game item to pick-up if your team is fighting a lot or the lane was really hard since the build up is easy. The stats and movement speed the item provides are really useful for Khopi. Otherwise skip this and go for Radiance.
Magic Wand is again useful if you are fighting a lot as a team or getting harassed in lane by spells. Otherwise skip this and go for Radiance.

Mid game:

Radiance is a great pick-up since Doppelganger can get it fairly quickly with Cutting Dash and Arcane Tough. It deals heavy damage to the enemy team the longer Doppelganger is alive in a fight and he can accomplish that due to Pound of Flesh. It also speeds up his already fast farming capabilities.
Aghanim's Scepter is a second or third item pick-up. It significantly raises the possible skill ceiling for Doppelganger, allowing him to effortlessly switch between primary attributes for more efficient use of skills.

Late game:

Heart of Tarrasque gives Doppelganger a massive amount of health. Combined with Pound of Flesh, which scales with maximum health pool, Khopi becomes practically impossible to bring down in a fight.
Octarine Core lowers cooldown to allow longer uptime of Pound of Flesh, more Cutting Dash usage in a fight to chase or run away with, and more Arcane Touch nukes. The spell lifesteal allows Doppelganger to gain back some health with Arcane Touch and Radiance.
Manta Style is excellent for sieging buildings, spilt pushing, and also provides Khopi with a much needed disjoint mechanism.
Boots of Travel allows Doppelganger to split push lanes and get to fights more quickly. This should replace Power Treads in the late game.

Situational items:

Shiva's Guard grants tankiness with armor and attack speed slow aura. Arctic Blast also slows enemy movement speed, keeping them in range of Radiance.
Black King Bar protects Khopi from disabled but more importantly keeps Pound of Flesh from being dispelled.
Scythe of Vyse gives good attributes, something from which Khopi obviously benefits a great deal. Hex is also one of the strongest hard-disables in the game that can completely turn teamfights around.
Silver Edge gives him another option for escape, even more bonus damage when coming out of invisibility by attacking the enemy, the stats are a nice bonus, and for the break effect. Mostly, you will pick it up for the break effect.
Eye of Skadi is a good luxury item on Khopi the Doppelganger. The stats benefit all of his abilities and the slow means enemies won't be able to escape you.

The Doppelganger generally fits any of the core roles. He benefits spectacularly from levels and farm, pushing him more specifically into the middle lane when the match-up allows for it. He is strong in lane in the sense that other cores and supports struggle to effectively harass him due to the tankiness Pound of Flesh provides him as well as his ability to escape ganks with Cutting Dash. However, he struggles laning up against heroes with low cooldown burst abilities like Skywrath Mage, Zeus, Pugna, or Queen of Pain because of their ability to easily break his Pound of Flesh shield charges. Skill and item builds can vary widely, thanks in large part to how flexible Attribute Shift allows him to be but the standard build can feel similar to Radiance carrying cores like Alchemist and Naga Siren. Quickly farm up a Radiance, get an Aghanim's Scepter or Manta Style, and then pack on the stats.

An effective skill build looks like the following:



Taking two points in Pound of Flesh and one point in Cutting Dash give Khopi a very safe lane. Putting more points into Pound of Flesh doesn't scale well since you will using the skill when strength is set to your primary attribute. The single point in Cutting Dash is mostly for escape but can be used for more efficient farming patterns going into the mid game. Generally, maxing Arcane Touch after taking the first point in your ultimate, Attribute Shift, is best since it is your primary farming tool. Khopi relies heavily on getting items and levels faster than the enemy cores.

Talents are a bit more flexible. Vision and movement speed are both nice but vision probably wins out unless you are getting kited really bad. At level 15, if you are building a Radiance, the spell lifesteal is an absolute no-brainer. The next set of talents are situational. If your team has a decent amount of lock-down then you probably don't need a lower cooldown on Cutting Dash and Khopi scales very well with extra stats. Both of the level 25 talents are strong. If the enemy team can put out a lot of damage with no dispels then an extra Pound of Flesh charge is really good. At the same time further reducing the cooldown of his ultimate raises the skill ceiling by testing the efficiency of skill usage.