6.88 Support Phoenix- Watch them Burn

What do you think of Midas on Phoenix in the support position?

Getting level 2 Nova is a big difference (kind of like getting level 2 AA ult).

I just was messing around Dotafire looking for interesting guides for my favourite heroes or to learn, play and probably like a new hero. Thanks to your guide I liked Phoenix :D I hope I'll play him properly (probably yes, because of this guide). Thank you! :3 +1 and favourited of course!

Very cool guide! Easy +1! Keep up the good work!

as you said in the guide, your third skill is % based pure damage.
*puts on math glasses*
consider an enemy unit with the total health points of 800 (at level 7, decent right?)
now, IF you can land Sun Ray, you will do a staggering 250 pure damage + 45% of enemy's total health pool which would take me hours to calculate considering tick damage, so... a lot of damage!

NOW, if you were to max your second skill, you would be doing (280 * 4) of magic damage which is 1120

after factoring in magical resistance that comes to : 1120 - 280 = 840 PURE DAMAGE

now ofc one can say that solar ray gun does more damage, but it's also much more risky. i mean walking around trying to keep your beam onto enemies is pretty damn dangerous, it's just so much safer to use Fire Spirits, and it has so many other uses because of it's DoT,zoning potential and massive attack speed slow which synergies with your ult so much that it hurts.

All i'm saying is that the advantages of Fire Spirits really shine in the early game, while Sun Ray does the real damage after like the 30 minute mark when every enemy hero is reasonably tanky, so I don't really see the point of maxing it first.

I hope I didn't confuse anyone!
Ciao!

Nice guide, i will surelly try your build, i am usually at pos.5 with omniknight, time to try a new thing :p

Great guide! wish more people like you could understand how strong phoenix is. keep up the good work! just wanted to point out something. your allies can't eul's you because it can't target allies. only the enemy or yourself. definitely a +1 dude! keep up the good work ;D