Facless Void Dumb Hero

Early Game

Quelling blade is for last hitting. While some may view it as a crutch, and pro players don't use it, meaning it is a crutch, 112 gold is a good trade for easy and effective last hitting throughout the game. Rather than sell my quelling blade when I temporarily need the slots, I put it in my stash. Get two last hits you wouldn't have otherwise with it, or use 2 less tango since you're not standing near the creeps as long taking harass, and it breaks even.

You don't need clarities but if you don't think you'll need them but Void's QR takes almost 250 mana so by level 6 it's easy to have used a Q to escape. You can also just get a tp and tp back to base for a full heal. It wastes exp but you're likely not in exp range with a clarity anyways unless you're winning lane so hard your opponent doesn't even dare to come in exp range.
Void is not strong early but sometimes you can get a kill using Q to slow and then using autos. Q's area of effect is very forgiving.

He relies on his ult so play passive till you get Ult. Dota isn't all about gold. Get as much as you can but recognize that you'll be stronger late. Alchemist often has the highest gpm on his team and has a 43% win rate.

I prefer E to Q. It adds 40dps during his ult assuming decent aspd since time lock damage doubles during the ult, but more importantly it can stun targets which makes them unable to fight back and easier to chase. W can dodge spells so if you don't intend to go aggressive ever and just want to survive you can skill that. Q range and slow increase and the cooldown decreases so it's defensible to skill that too. I go R>E>Q>W

Don't be afraid to buy salves or tangos as needed.

Mid Game

Keep your treads on str early on. 19 health from str is a lot better than 13 mana or 1 damage + 1 aspd. Tread swap to int if you're good enough so you use less %mana, then tread swap to agi during ult to increase dps while activating mask. If you don't want to think about this you can just swap treads and activate mask before you ult.

Once you have your ult just ult someone or jump to someone and ult them, and kill them with your ally. At level 6 and for most of the midgame you don't have the damage to gib someone from full to 0 alone, even after you've gotten treads and mask. Be patient and wait for openings. Don't be too afraid to tower dive as the tower can be chrono'd.

You need more damage. Place your ult well so you not only don't freeze your ally, but also place it away from them so they can get close and contribute to the kill.

Your ult breaks all stealth including slarks, doubles timelock damage, goes through bkb, stops evasion, ccs an entire team, disable all towers including the fountain, gives Void over max move speed, phase, slaps you in the ***, and sleep with your girlfriend.


Void unlike antimage is actually a decent midgame team fighter. I'm low elo so my team is always fighting. It doesn't matter if I get 600 gpm in the jungle if the enemy team is winning teamfights and taking raxes and getting overall 800 gpm more than your team. Go teamfight if you have to or make use of mask of madness being core on you to jungle. Mask is good on void because people can't fight back for 4 seconds. Carry a tp as it can be used to port back to base quickly or react for a teamfight.

When your ult is down, alt click it to tell your allies when it's coming up and try to persuade them not to fight. You're useless without ult.

Late Game

Don't be afraid to initiate even though you're carry. You can often get an ult that can pick people off if not win a 5v5 through a godlike ult.

Don't chase kills but if your team is going to chase for kills, don't let them go alone. Towers and rax are worth way more than diving towers for kills or padding your kda so your end game stats get overinflated.

When you ult, be aware of targets that have ghost blade, halberd, euls, sheep, or several other spells and items that can waste your ult for yourself. Ember spirit and anti mage can often blink out before you ult if they've practiced it. TA can often activate refraction before you ult. Many heroes can also purchase blademail to make them bad targets. Riki and Brewmaster can make your attacks miss. Be aware of targets that can stun you if you don't ult immediately after timewalking into a fight. Doom can mute you forever with aghs. Omniknight can make you do no damage. Sven's E can raise his team's armor by 16. Silencer can theoretically silence you before you hit ult.

Your core is completed on treads and mask.

I prefer getting 1 more damage item so I can kill people during my ult before considering bkb. Any pure damage item other than battle fury that costs more than 4k gold will let you kill most people during your ult. But if you're getting blown up by magic then get the bkb next.

• MKB is necessary if your enemy team has evasion. Even though you go through evasion with your ult, your ult isn't always up. It offers like 95% of the dps of Daedalus until you have more attack damage. When two stuns stack, the longer one takes precedence so timelock will still work at full effectiveness. The build path on mkb is just worse than Crystalys -> Daedalus.
• Diffusal is good vs warlock and summonables. It also adds a slow to help chase. It removes Blademail.
• Manta is best after you've gotten some other damage items as it doesn't add much dps before you get it.
• Hand of Midas is a **** item imo. In pubs there is an infinite amount of farm unlike in pro games and games in pubs are usually not easy to drag out to make midas worthwhile. It forces you to leave pushes to go find stuff to midas and lowers your early game power. I'd never get it. You can get gpm by killing more people and towers and dying less, or you can get gpm through midas and die more and kill less people.
• Butterfly is good if you need to dodge attacks from multiple enemy right clickers. Check if they have mkb first or are getting it. It also dodges WD ult and DP ult.
• Crystalys has a good build path and offers the highest dps increase but is random and offers no utility. Randomness is generally considered a bad thing in games and is given more effectiveness to compensate because you often overkill things (and it messes with your cs).
• Rapier is a silly item that's situational and almost never gotten.
  Shadowblade is defensible as it gives you an escape and many pubs people don't buy dust.
• Battlefury falls under the same trap as midas imo except the cleave can be useful in a teamfight if people are bunched up in your ult.
• Assault Cuirass, and Bloodstone make you tankier and offer utility to the team.
• Desolator offers a huge damage spike but is hard to build and doesn't work with lifesteal.
• Satanic is a good item to build when you've gotten to 5 or 6 items and want to sell mask of madness.
• Mjolnir increases your farming speed and offers some teamfight potential but can make you miss last hits and doesn't provide as much single target damage as the other items. Being able to kill one person is much more important than being able to damage several only for them to mek/pipe.
• Dust, wards, and smoke are still vital for winning games. In pubs if no one else is buying dust you will have to. You can give wards to allies if you don't have the slots by dragging it to them, or if you only want to give one, ctrl+click then drag to them. Of course ask your supports to buy them but if they won't buy them you have to.
• Blademail is good if you're having a bad game, feeding, and want to just reflect as much damage as possible to let your team carry you. It also reflects with mask of madness. I'd probably never get blademail though because I'd hope to drag the game out until I could contribute with more dps but it's not technically wrong to get it.
• Sange and Yasha's stats are great and the utility is not terrible. I often underrate this item but it helps you get around and chase.

Refresher orb is in my opinion better than aghs. It'll let you place 2 5s ults instead of 1 7s one. Thought aghs costs less mana, gives more stats, and lowers the cooldown on ult so it's defensible to get aghs. Many voids like to rush aghs after mask and I think this raises your 5v5 teamfight potential but lowers your solo potential and skirmish potential. I don't agree. I think it's best to only get one of these and only as a 6th item.

Just drag these items into a build (under library, builds, or click the edit button in game as void in the shop and then click the check mark to save).

TLDR

Dur hur, press Q, press R, right click. Collect mmr till people get gud or riot nerfs faceless