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Stout Shield
Tango
Healing Salve
Poor Man's Shield
Boots of Speed
Quelling Blade
Town Portal Scroll
Medallion of Courage
Blade Mail
Phase Boots
Power Treads
Black King Bar
Manta Style
Helm of the Dominator
Boots of Travel
Abyssal Blade
Assault Cuirass
Butterfly
Eye of Skadi
Daedalus
Monkey King Bar
Satanic
Drum of Endurance
Heaven's Halberd
Force Staff
Hand of Midas
Armlet of Mordiggian
Mjollnir
Orb of Venom
Bottle
Desolator
Vladmir's Offering
Battle Fury
Diffusal Blade
Ethereal Blade
Mask of Madness
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Bloodseeker is an agility hero a carry and a ganker. His can be #1 and #2 depending on the lane he will choose to go.Personally I am not a huge fan of solo mid bloodseeker but he can do very good against certain heroes for example invoker and skywrath.
I decided to make this guide due to changelog of 6.78 which is the following
- Strygwyr's Thirst now gives you bonus 3/4/5/6 armor when active
- Bloodrage dispels the target before applying its buff
Pros:
Good laning potential (High armor and regen by bloodbath)
Great last hit animation and damage
Highly mobile (especially with Thirst)
Long duration Silence
Cons:
No nuke
Teleport scroll totally counters him
Low mana pool
Supports if you choose to go #1 bloodseeker and heroes who will move your enemies (so rupture does even more damage) if you choose to play #2 bloodseeker.
To be brief also nukers who can give a setup exhausting enemy heroes' hp
Pudge,
Rubick,
Dazzle, Force Staff,
Disruptor,
Tiny
Tinker,
Lion
Special mention #1 to 
Magnus for non of the reasons mentioned above mag is a good ally
he is simply offering you a 2nd buff of damage which will offer you a free battle fury also a great initiation for teamfight.
Heroes who can outlane you supports that can buy time for enemy heroes living a bit longer so you dont bloodbath on them and you die.
Examples are:
Shadow Demon,Outworld Devourer,
Brewmaster, Lion,
Shadow Shaman
Special mention #1 to 
Nature's Prophet this hero becomes a pain more in late game because you have already sold you quelling blade.So even with bkb on a skilled natures prophet can sprout ground and disable you for a few seconds.
Special mention #2 to 
Razor this hero is annoying to deal with before your bkb using your combo of active skills into him will cause you to slow so much that he can probably get away.
Pick easy or mid lane depending on what your team has picked.
Regardless of where you are going the default build is simple. Quelling Blade (although your hero has a nice last hit of his own) is life because you farm easier and you lifesteal by that.Also to live enough to last hit you will to tank so Poor Man's Shield is your best friend.
Consider Bottle as situational in mid lane if you have to contest your enemy to runes.
If you pick easy lane ask constantly from your support hero to pull .You need the level 6 as fast as possible.
About the boots that you will pick, personally I suggest Power Treads but Phase Boots are great choice too. Since its too early for travel and the other boots choices arent worth mentioning.
So basicly this phase is all about grabbing your level 6.Farm as much as you can grab some last hits and prepare your core items for ur fast level 6 and the beginning of fights.
After you reached your level 6 you have to find weak targets (if you have a level advantage thats easier thats why I am so miserous about levels).Grab a weak crystal maiden silence her use rupture and finish her off by right clicks if he doesnt run for it.During your ultimate's cooldown you will farm.
And that's how its done till now.
Note:Playing Bloodseeker in passive games is only annoying and disgusting so dont pick him when you have ****loads of carries with you.
Also if you go for 
Radiance build you might wanna skip some of the ganking mentioned.
And remember THE EARLIER THE RADIANCE the more impact.
Special mention to Medallion of Courage personally one of my favourite items.A great cost effective choice and in my humble opinion new buff of thrist DIRECTLY SUGGESTS Medallion of Courage in bloodseeker.Since you can finish off your enemies faster be a bit more tanky and regen some mana faster.
At this point you should start making your cheap core items that you will keep until you will start getting full luxury inventory.
Of course keep the ganks running and try to kill as much as possbile . At this point your goal is to be tanky enough to dive,kill and get away.As its normal since you dive into the enemy team many people will focus you which is the reason that Blade Mail is the greatest item choice at this stage of the game provided that you are being enough tanky (medallion synergizes great with blade mail) so you will need to get some hp up.
Note:Keep in mind that blade mail works with effective hp.Which means that blade mail reflects physical damage but it filters it through armor so your high armor is a great priviledge when carrying blade mail.
To get some backup tankiness to your Blade Mail choice I suggest that your next item is either Manta Style or Black King Bar depending on what kind of enemies you face.
The cheap alternative is a 
Vitality Booster and the luxury alternatives are either heart of tarasque or Assault Cuirass
You might also wanna consider the Eye of Skadi.
Note:Keep in mind that both Manta+BKB remove your bloodrage buff which you may consider a source of damage.
Regardless of whatever items mentioned above you picked .You will need to take roshan down.
Of Course since you are doing the dirty diving work of your team there is no better candidate for aegis carrier than you (unless you have a great MVP ally) so normally pickup aegis.
Note:Medallion will help you finish off roshan earlier than you normally should.
At this point you should ve picked many kills and have a decent amount of farm.
Since you are only getting tanky until now you should start getting damage items.
Still your ganking aim doesnt change but now you have more targets .
After finishing off weak heroes with ultimate and silence you should turn around and manage to kill core heroes like solo or carry of the enemy team.
Note:If Bloodrage is higher than level 1 think twice about silencing an enemy right clicker.
Silence may be good but it could also snowball against you.For that reason dont max up your Bloodrage before you have a good enough carry inventory so it would ONLY for yourself.
Best choice of bloodseeker at this point (if not facing evasion) is by no doubt Butterfly.
It makes him harder to kill and offers him huge damage at the same time.
Your alternative choice is Monkey King Bar which becomes core when you are facing evasion.
A very interesting item to consider as well is Abyssal Blade extension of 
Skull Basher
which will minimize the chances of your enemies TPing out in your face.
Last but not Least Daedalus a critcal strike source is great combined with Bloodrage.
Bloodseeker was almost never used in competitive scene with a few exception of MYM.Playmate in dota 1 stomping some Tier 2 teams.So I am afraid we will have to wait for the blossom of this new patch to affect competitive into picking bloodseeker.
Bloodseeker has tons of damage not only because of his good damage on right click but also due to buffing himself with Bloodrage which is why its worth it to get an early critical strike because even before level 14 he can hit for 700-800 damage which could make him 2-3 shot enemy heroes.Of course this is a pub build and not recommended for high level games
but dont forget bloodseeker is a pub hero so who cares anyway ...
Many thanks to Lumninous Drouks and Nemesis who is the best bloodseeker of Balkans .I will keep the guide updated to whatever change give me some feedback please .
Also this guide is a bit dedicated to Tikru8 who actually gave the code of items and heroes icon appearing with that nobody else bother doing :)
I decided to give this a shot due to his suggestion.
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