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Quelling Blade
Gauntlets of Strength
Faerie Fire
Healing Salve
Blink Dagger
Phase Boots
Vanguard
Blade Mail
Magic Stick
Smoke of Deceit
Bracer
Blink Dagger
Phase Boots
Blade Mail
Crimson Guard
Magic Wand
Dust of Appearance
Smoke of Deceit
Platemail
Bracer
Crimson Guard
Heart of Tarrasque
Boots of Travel
Overwhelming Blink
Black King Bar
Assault Cuirass
Hood of Defiance
Pipe of Insight
Aghanim's Shard
Orchid Malevolence
Gem of True Sight
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Enchanted Mango
Enchanted Mango
Enchanted Mango
Enchanted Mango
Enchanted Mango
Clarity
Clarity
Clarity
Clarity
Dust of Appearance
Dust of Appearance
Dust of Appearance
Dust of Appearance
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Smoke of Deceit
Defiant Shell
Ascetic's Cap
Giant's Ring
Havoc Hammer
Pig Pole
Trickster Cloak
Titan Sliver
Dragon Scale
Bullwhip
Elven Tunic
Elven Tunic
Broom Handle
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10 | 18 |
Axe is by far the greatest initiator in Dota 2 with just a blink blademail and crimson guard he can "Cut them down to size" I have over 5,000 games with Axe and the game-play is relatively similar at all skill levels from 1k to 5k. He shines at stopping pushes setting up plays and defending in the late-game. In the early game tho is when Axe is the most important hero on your team. From when Axe is able to get his blink ideally at the 12-15 minute mark it is vital to play with pos 2 and 4 and get early kills. Axe is a relatively easy Hero he just needs to be able to create space and set teammates up for kills. These are the basic blocks of a good Axe. As Axe you should always consider buying smoke for the team for a good gank.
Axe will however not be at his strongest until he has blademail at this point the damage output is almost the same until the end of the game it just depends on how hard they hit. An Axe can take down a fed PA, Sven, Troll, and anyone with a huge right click or crit damage. He can take allot and give it back like a true champ.
Illusions? No problem go ahead and blink onto Cks ult or 500 Pl illusions the more hits you get the more chances counter helix will kill them.
Issues with Axe throughout the game will be mana regeneration however this tends not to be an issue if you keep a steady supply of both clarities and mangos in your backpack allowing you to keep on chopping everything down.
You Are the Leroy Jenkins of the team!!!!!!!!!!!
* Important things to note.
- Be fluid with your Axe build
- This means keep in mind what type of damage you are receiving throughout the game. A lot of this is just understanding the opponent's team dynamics sometimes physical will be the main source of damage, but many times its magic. A crimson is always amazing for Axe but if magic damage is what is killing the team a Pipe is just as good. Another example is building a BKB early on can be incredibly impactful and allow you to be even more aggressive than having pure strength items.
- Axe is the initiator
- This means you must play with your team and keep good communication as to what and who you are killing.
-Buying Smokes and making space is what you are there for, this will always ensure you are with your team and are able to make plays
- Keep the game time Axe plays differently depending on early mid or late game
Early Game
- This build starts off with a lot of regen..... it is needed since Axe is a mele it is difficult to incur damage without having to receive a bunch as well.
once you do have enough buy a stick immediately followed by bracer.
- this will help have both some regen along with the necessary stats to be able to stay in lane.
- Once you do have enough buy phase boots. this will give you enough speed to chase anyone under battle hunger your E. Spins do a bunch of damage in lane especially chasing heroes.
- After this you might have enough for either ring of regen or hood (if they do magic damage)
-Ring will give you regen but hood could be as impactful if it was pure magic damage such as a viper and sky in lane
All this Regen and stats will allow you to thrive in the early game and be able to run down Heros with ease.
It is extremely important to keep up the Culling dunks up as this is a great scaling tool for the late-game.
After you have acquired blink the fun begins.
Try your best to gather teammates for smoke to begin to initiate on enemy heroes. The pos 1 is always important to keep in mind but an impromptu gank to their offlaner as the blink reveal can be as easy to kill.
Continue making plays but try to build Bladmail as quickly as possible as this will be your main damage component throughout the game.
Smokes will still be important here but what will be as important will be to keep Rosh timers up along with any other important objectives
what is most important is to make sure you are playing with your safelaner and doing everything in your power to keep him from dying!
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