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Boots of Speed
Tango
Vladmir's Offering
Skull Basher
Aegis of the Immortal
Skull Basher
Orb of Venom
Battle Fury
Divine Rapier
Daedalus
Monkey King Bar
Mjollnir
Shadow Blade
Blink Dagger
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Summon spirit bear:
Summons a bear which can fight for you, equip items, and gains passives the more you level this skill up.
Rabid:
Increases the attack and movement speed of you and your bear.
Synergy:
Upgrades attributes and abilities:
Increased Spirit Bear Damage: 10/20/30/40
Increased Spirit Bear Movement Speed: 10/20/30/40
Increased Rabid Duration: 10/20/30/40
Increased True Form Health: 100/200/300/400
Battle cry:
Increases the damage and armour of the spirit bear and lone druid
True form:
Lone Druid morphs himself into a raging bear, losing his ranged advantage and some base movement speed, but gaining melee power as well as the Battle Cry ability. He can morph freely between druid and bear form. Synergy increases the druids health in his true form.
Throughout my games as Lone druid, i have always prefered to start in the jungle, but it is entirly optional. the reason i say this is because you can pick up an aegis of immortals from roshan with your vlads. The vlads is also a great help because it not only give you lifesteal, it is an aura, therefore giving your meatshield (bear) lifesteal too. With a vlad, jungling can never go wrong. Laning is a useful start because it gives the opportunity of first blood, and the opportunity to get a few kills in the bag. unfortunaly laning can be quite dangerous because lone druid is a little weak earlygame, until the bear has the entangle spell. once he has that, the real game begins for lone druid.
Pros:
Powerful ganker
can kill most enemies in a 1:1 fight
can solo roshan
High DPS
Ranged/Melee attacks
Cons:
Low first blood chance
Quite item dependant
Requires some getting used to
It is important if you are jungling that you pick up a vlads as soon as possible. once you have the vlad, farming goes very fast. you get faster kills and gold and a good sum of exp. as soon as you have your vlads, rush a skull basher on both you and your bear. why? hehe because you get 75% chance to stun your enemy! 25% from your skullbasher, 25% from the bears and 25% from the bear's entangle spell. this means that once you and your bear are attacking an enemy they are done for. Please take note, this only works with you in beast form, which i reccomend staying in from level 6 until the end.
When starting in a lane, it is important, as with any hero, to get some boots. this is why i go for power treads. after getting that, rush your skull basher, and once you have that get a skullbasher for the bear. after getting those, get yourself an MKB for that 0.01 second stun and the damage. you will now be full of stuns and disables. (pro). go to roshan once you have the 2 skullbashers and he will be stunned to heaven high. use the bear as a meatshield to protect you from damage, and when you are done, simply summon another one.
By now you should be the centre of attention. the reason being is that you have 3 dissables, with a 25% chance on each. You should be raking in the kills with minimal deaths and your aegis to save you. Kill roshan every 10 minutes. by this stage in the game you should only buy damage boosting items such as an MKB and a Battle fury. keep those only for yourself, dont worry about your bear, use him only for the stuns. In my history ive had k/ds such as 16:2 and even 33:1. this is because i got some kills earlygame, and the most important dota 2 formula: kills earlygame = kills lategame.
Be sure to stay in beast form, as you get the skullbasher chance from yourself too (25%) whereas if you stay as druid your chance is only 10% to stun. This is why it is important to level synergy too, as you and your bear's attackspeed rockets like crazy. you need damaging items so that you deal maximum damage during your stun time and so the enemy get killed before they get away. This is why a blinkdagger may come in handy for chases.
Playing lone druid is quite simple, you just select both your bear and yourself and attack someone (preferably from behind to stop running away). Make sure that you STAY IN BEAST FORM to maximise damage and stuns. only try to pick off lone enemies because in teamfights he often doesnt last long, like most heroes. this is why a shadow blade might come in handy for escapes. In earlygame laning use your bear upfront to kill creeps while you ranged them with your ranged attacks. if you have difficult lane enemies stay in druid form to avoid harassment. when your bear gets low on HP, summon another one to avoid the backslash damage. this can come in dangerous when you are on low health as it can deal 400 health as damage.
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