How To Shred with Ulfsaar the BearMan (Ursa Guide)

Introduction

Ulfsaar the Ursa Warrior (or simply Ursa) is a melee agility hero whose abilities' main focus is the increase of autoattack damage, allowing for some of the most impressive sustained damage in the entire game.
He specializes in increasing damage against one target. His abilities allow him to attack at up to maximum speed (400 IAS) and gain bonus damage with each consecutive hit on a single target. With these abilities Overpower and Fury Swipes Ursa can savage beefy targets for as much as 700 damage per hit. He is a ferocious jungler and straightforward attacker, able to solo even Roshan at low levels if he has lifesteal. Ursa is a carry who can snowball if he is farmed, but the array of anti-melee abilities existing even by the early game and his lack of any counterspells, especially to strong nukers and heroes with the ability to evade him make him a hero reliant on other spellcasters on his team. Although an agility hero, Ursa's strength gain makes him very durable, and his ultimate allows his damage to scale by building strength items.

Pro's and Con's

Pro's
- One of the Heaviest Auto-attackers in the game
- If becomes snowballed/farmed effectively, can win the game by himself
- Amazing kill potential
- Ability to Solo kill Roshan.
- High strength early and late game.

Con's
- High Mobility issues
- Can be killed from range
- No Stuns/Disables

Itemising Ursa

When it comes to Ursa, the item choices are very diverse. As with any hero, you will have to choose what items to buy based on your enemy team. This guide is very focused on the solo killing of Roshan, which you should be able to do at levels 4 - 7 and after, keeping in mind that you need extra armour and lifesteal to solo Roshan effectively.

Generally, These are the starting items I recomend on Ursa;
- Tango
- Healing Salve
- Ring of Protection
- Iron Branch
- Iron Branch
- Iron Branch

This will cover the basic regen and stats you need to lane and last hit. You should always be last-hitting in your lane, and laning with a support is usually best. If you are very greedy, you can scrap these starting items and go straight for a Ring of Basilius and a Tango, but this is highly not recommended.

Early Game

During the Early Game, you will wanting to rush a Vladmir's Offering. This will allow you to solo Roshan and gain an instant gold and experience advantage in the game. Also, Boots of Speed are an essential pickup early game as Ursa has high mobility issues and will have trouble getting kills without some boosted movement speed.

After Roshan has been savagely slain at the claws of the BearMan, you are going to want to use your offensive early-game advantage to get some kills up your sleeve. Phase Boots are basically ALWAYS the boots of choice on Ursa, but Boots of Travel are an acceptable pick up later in the game. Other that your boots, a Blink Dagger or a Shadow Blade is going to be essential for initiation and possibly escape. Blink Dagger is almost always picked up, Shadow Blade being a much less popular option. This mobility is essential for playing ursa, and after you have boots and your mobility item, you can start considering larger items.

Mid/Late Game Item Choices

Eye of Skadi is a great and very popular pickup item un Ursa. It gives a great bonus of 200 health and +25 to all your attributes. This will not only increase your damage, but your base HP, HP regen, attack speed, armour and all those great things. But that's not the best thing about this item. The cold attack bonus will crush any enemies that do not have escapes. This item is awesome against all supports, and harder to kill tanky heroes like Pudge, Bloodseeker, Chaos Knight, Dragon Knight, Lone Druid and heaps other.

Black King Bar is almost considered core on Ursa. The only reason I did not place it there is because it is sometimes (but rarely) not needed. Because of Ursa's high mobility issues, stuns, slows and disables will shut him down easily. Getting nuked in the mid game can also get you killed by annoying spells such as Ice Blast, Thundergod's Wrath and Sonic Wave. This item will protect you entirely and make those nice and squishy supports and casters food for your ravenous hunger! This item is especially good against hero's with DPS slows such as Viper, Venomancer and Queen of Pain. This item is also good against Skywrath Mage, Tiny and Ogre Magi

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