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Hello I am Lorbid and my newbie guide welcome to my guide to Phoenix!
As a 'newbie' myself with less than 1000 games under my belt, I find that I love playing this hero. He looks great, has lots of damage potential, and can dominate team fights. However, I see a lot of information out there that is either not true, unrealistic, or confusing, and that's what this guide is here to help with.
Common Roles for Phoenix are...
Baby Sitter Support
Aggressive Lane Support
Offlane Solo
Midlane
Each role have different items and has different responsibilities. Be mindful of these. Look at the build tabs above if you want quick access to those items/skills I recommend.
I'm going to assume you know what each skill does, so I won't go into that detail... however, I will go into detail when I would level each skill.
In short, it's your job to keep your carry alive in the safelane.
So as a STR hero, here are the STARTING ITEMS I recommend.
Your goal is to prevent the other team from denying or last hitting, with looking for opportunities for the kill.
The main difference Skill build between Aggressive Lane Support and Baby Sitter Support is that you'll max out
asap. Add 1 level of early sunray if you think you can get early kills.
Your goal is to harass the lane and gank. In this role, you have to plan and expect your partner to hold their own.
Your starting items will stay the same as each of your spells require HP.
Your early items do change.
Headdress, Boots, Ring of Basilius, and Bracer (and Sange if you're getting farm). This will give you some early killing power and survivability.
Your core items also change. You want treads, mek, Veil of Discord, and BKB. This will make you a killing monster. (alternatively if they enemy has a lot of right click power, pick up the Heavens Halberd instead to disarm the target after you dive. Nothing pisses off an Ursa, Blood Seeker, or Viper, if they can't right click attack.)
Here is a combo I try to get once I have my Veil and BKB. Hit an enemy with the Veil active, activate and fire 1 fire spirit, then dive (auto attack them during dive), then BKB, then fire spirits, then sunray, then fire spirits, auto attacking while casting your spells, and if they're still alive after all this, ult. This should not only get you the kill, but prevent any counter ganks as well. (If you need some additional regen, I recommend Perseverance.)
Late game items should be Shiva's and Linkin's. Shiva's will allow you to do a VERY large AOE slow when combined with your dive and Linkin's prevents targeted spells from hitting you.
As long as your enemy doesn't have a long list of silences, You should rack up a lot of kills and assists.
Your goal is to stay alive and not feed. Forget last hitting unless you're under your tower. Forget harassing unless it's defensive. More than likely you'll be against 1 or more than has a stun, and if Phoenix is stunned, you're probably dead unless you can dive out quickly afterwards.
Starting items DO change.
This is where things become 'interesting'.
Depending on the hero you're against, you could be a monster, or feeding. I don't like taking Phoenix against Viper, Invoker, Drow, or Sniper. These heros can and usually will make your life hell mid.
If you're mid, you want to try to rush bottle... however, I usually go with an offlane solo item build.
You need to be aware of your friends / foes.
The best combo for Phoenix is Necro and Warlock. The 3 of you are basically unstoppable, unless the other team completely gets BKBs for all of their heroes.
Why do you say?
A.) Necro nuke is also a heal (which you need).
B.) Necro's ult is also a stun.
C.) Necro's passive helps take the enemy down just a tad and prevents regen from helping as much.
D.) Warlock's Shadow Word can also heal you.
E.) Warlock's Upheaval can slow the enemy. Combine that with your dive, and the enemy won't be getting away any time soon.
F.) Warlock's Ult is also a stun. If you time it right, you can fire spirit, dive, fire spirit, Supernova, then Warlock can Ult on top of you, buying you much needed time, then your ult explodes stunning everyone, then you can fire spirit everyone and dive out of the way.
I also find CM and Bloodseeker to be a great lane partner. Enigma can be a great team fight partner as well if you can time your ult in conjunction with his Blackhole.
In short, Phoenix can kick some serious tail, however he takes some practice with his combos / skills.
Here's a link to the Dota2 guide to be used in game. (it's a tad different than this)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229292363
Also, feel free to add me on steam and I'll be glad to play some games with my fellow dota players.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/lorbid/
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