Low!-A guide to Bounty Hunter [6.84]

hello, i like your skill build, but i like going E-Q-Q-W-Q for the early game, why? because i pick BH just because of killing supports before someone can nuke me down!, you say pure damage glass cannon BH is wrong... ok, so how can he contribute late game? he is exactly a living a ward! which just tracks people! like everyone says! what i do, is to rush deso, then work on MKB,against heroes even without evasion! , because the damage is too good! after that, i buy either a butterfly, or BKB, sure, i could just skip MKB and get butterfly... but i consider MKB more useful

Bounty isn't a carry. The cooldown of Jinada is too long to be considered a damage steroid, instead it's more akin to a scaling nuke. He's a semicarry, or a semi-support, depending on how you play it.

Guardian graves, and pipe, and maybe mek depending on mana, are all legit items on him. His damage lategame is pathetic no matter what you buy, so why not fill the utility holes in your team?

There are Carry, Semi-Carry and Hard Carry. Bounty Hunter is a typical carry, where Spectre is a hard carry. At least you should have known that before starting writing guides or anything. Nice comparison, liked it very much. Next time, compare bounty hunter with medusa, omg. And yes, Daedalus is a more-or-less a viably luxury extra-lategame item (after 60 mins), as it gives ~ 300 damage for a guaranteed crit AND gives chance to crit twice, effectively doubling your burst damage output and Skady or other items will give time to actually try critting from daedalus and not die in that time. Skady + daedalus = quick dead support.
Mekanism, guardian grives, etc are for supports and semi-supports, period. A situational item, which is not even worth advising in a guide, as Dota 2 is a situational game and in some games Shadow Fiend and Viper buy meka too. Advising and encouraging to actually build meka and greaves on Bounty hunter in games is like "Hey Riki buy a cour plz. And wards." Okay, I ll tell you this straight - you build meka or grieves - you can't do a ****. You either rush meka to minute 20-25 or it becomes useless. You don't have damage, survivability or mobility as a result and after minute 30 you will have boots, meka and desolator, maybe drums, IF your team is winning, you are giving lots of tracks and overall doing very well.
After that, meka will start to quickly fall down and you will have almost 0 combat presence, having maybe 600 burst damage (crit + shuriken), 0 survivability and 0 mana as a result of casting meka, as BH typically builds linken for health+mana regen, but getting linken after minute 30 is like a joke. Nive suggestions, dude. Maybe buy Euls after that to have mana and dress in blue and become a CM. Burst-damage carry playing like a support. Seriously, laughted my *** off.

First you say he is not r-click carry type, then you recommend Daedalus? Wut...
Also he is not a carry! And he never was. Yeah, he has damage but six-slotted BH vs six-slotted Spectre has no chance. Also as other ppl said(and I watched some pro BH games), Bounty Hunter right now is played as a pos 4,5 and more rarely as a pos 3. That's why these items( Mekansm, Guardian Greaves etc.) are here. Dagon and E-blade? Hell, this works but not past 25-30 mins, where everyone has BKB and makes you totally useless.
Daedalus? Yeah, you will need some dmg items to not be useless late but I never liked this one on him. Desolator, MKB, Vlads give you enough dmg to actually do something apart from tracking...

Totally don't like this guide. Bounty hunter is not r-click carry type. You suggested half items we have in dota, by the way. He IS a squishy hero. He gives tracks, makes one-shot kill, maybe toss, then fades away and thats it. THATS IT. RIGHT UP TO THE END. What moonshard? What cuirass? What guardian greave? What pipe? MEKA? LeeeeoL. If going crazy - Daedalus is a better item than 90% of your suggestions, to crit twice and fade away. Dagon and E-blade sits nice in pubs too, not suited for ranked though.

Guides are meant for those, who want to learn to play hero or to get something new. This guide totally teaches how BH should NOT play.
Feels like trolls guide.

Okay, thanks. Sorry for, you know, ranting.

Moon Shard. Well, yes BH does not benefit much from attack speed as Jinada isn't a proc. Still, it basically does not take a slot and can be gotten when you feel like you have enough damage, but you cannot apply it fast enough. I am agreeing that Moon Shard is not the best item on BH, but as it does not take an item slot, why not ?

Never tried Rod of Atos, will add it when I try it(and like it ofc).
This also goes for Diffusal Blade.

Awesome guide!!! +1
I largely agree with you except for the 2 following points:

dagon
Dagon isn't a bad pickup for BH and in fact, he is one of the best Dagon holders as the way BH can translate more kills> more gold > upgrade Dagon > more kills. It is just that in Pubs, people stupidly rush dagon upgrading even when they are losing and that cost them the game as they could have gotten more ultility items which could have a larger impact in that game. Dagon is a good item when you are snowballing, it might not be a core item on BH but certainly not a rejected item.

Moon Shard
I had to shake my head with this one. Attack speed doesn't benefit BH at all as he isn't really the right-clicker, especially a 4k+ investment that only gives attack speed. Even Jinada proc isn't based on critical rate. If you really want to play semi-carry BH, better items would have been Daedalus. I assume you want to get moonshard mainly because it can be consumed to save slot but I really don't see the point in getting it even so. You don't need the attack speed, that gold could be spent elsewhere (maybe that Skadi you were talking about).

Extra:
Sometimes I get an extra level of Shadow Walk before maxing Jinada as the extra 5s duration gives me abit more flexibility when waiting to gank.





Haha you are recommending your favourite diffusal balde again. Well, of course i'm here to recommend Rod of Atos for BH. The health and mana pool it provides is a blessing to a ganking hero like BH who also lackes a hard disable.

Level 2 Jinada is just a no brainer for me. BH is my most played hero, I've played him for several years in all roles and positions. There are a couple big reason you need Jinada early. #1 is double windwalk harassment(attacking during fade time to get bonus dmg from windwalk twice) is much more effective when you time it with your Jinada strike. Its also super important when you rotate to other lanes or the jungle early to gank and harass. You can pick up Shuriken at 3. I understand your argument but the number of times shurkien is going to make a difference in the first few minutes vs. the utility you get from Jinada harassment is not even a close call. You will get way more out of having Jinada early. I also don't see any mention of exploting the double windwalk bonus dmg during fade time. Its what makes BH so strong in early levels, especially vs low armor heros. At level 2 vs low armor heros you can harass them completely out of lane or at least burn through most of their consumable regen simply by exploiting windwalk fade time attacks.

What about Diffusal blade ? The stats are ****ing nice, also you can purge dust and it works with desolator, absolutely necessary against walorck and omni
Very coool guide indeed, + 1

Dagon is not bad if you just get a level 1 or 2 Dagon. Dagon 5 is too expensive an item, but Dagon 1 provides 2 things bounty lacks: mana and an extra. The mana is the big part though, the burst is just for, say, the finishing nuke on an escaping enemy

^ Bounty Hunter against Junglers is all about screwing with there timings, not shutting them out entirely by killing them. You snipe last hits, blocking camps, sapping EXP, and generally be a pain in there arse all to make the timings on there first item slower, and basically profiting from there greed. But in pubs it's just better to screw with lanes instead of the jungler, because they generally won't have the same timing pushes that competitive play does when they use junglers.

And level 1 Dagon is fine on a support Bounty Hunter. It's all about the extra burst taking someone out of the fight that little bit quicker, which is more important in competitive than in pubs. Like, you only upgrade it if you really get an influx of gold, otherwise you just leave it at 1, and go into utility like Vlad's and Force Staff.