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Slippers of AgilitySlippers of AgilitySlippers of Agility
Iron Branch
Phase Boots
Battle Fury
Sange and Yasha
Crystalys
Town Portal Scroll
Assault Cuirass
Vladmir's Offering
Boots of Travel
Butterfly
Divine Rapier
Daedalus
Heart of Tarrasque
Mjollnir
Monkey King Bar
Wraith Band
Wraith Band
Wraith Band
Ring of Aquila
Sentry Ward
Sentry Ward
Sentry Ward
Sentry Ward
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Battle Furry- used for Health/Mana Gen and easy farm
Phase Boots- used for chasing and damadge
Sange&Yasha- used for agility, movement, and damadge
Crystalys- Builds into Daedalus, massive crit and damadge
Vlad's- Vampire + no Unique Modification
Assault Cuirass- Armor and attack speed
You can change slippers into bands if having a rough start, that will help with agility/health and give you a boost in backstab.
Pros
Fun to play
Easy to learn
Weakens enemy team
Constant map pressure-and makes people waste their money on wards
High damdge
Best escape
Late game he is unkillable
Easy to get ahead
Every one loves a Riki
Cons
Easy counter
Squishey in early game - Untill ulti
Have to understand towers/dissable/True sight/and when and who to gank
Easy to get behind
Every one hates a Riki
Riki is Great! That is if you know how to counter a stealth counter.
Riki does great at mid for early levels but is more risky because you dont have a back up and most mids are ranged, however you have quick access to the side lane making ganking very easy.
Riki is goood either lane depending on the person your with, if you have a healing support then suicide or hard lane work fine, it also means the support can counter ward sentry wards making your farm much easier. In the safe lane Riki just needs a poker to help him out but often times this poker isn't a support so Riki's farm is decreased because he has to buy wards.
Once you hit ulti, you'll start your ganking process.
Ganking is complicated and fairly simple at the same time. The most important part of Ganking is watching that mini-map this ques you into when there is a stragler, someone hurt taking cover way behind creeps, the carry singled out (main priority) and the various nuker squishies.
The battle is once you found your target there is an art to Riki that becomes more elegant as his ulti progresses. To start you gank you want to position yourself behind the target hero, you then auto attack, staying behind the hero best as possible. Note if its hero with a major disable(Sven, Lion, ect...) tehn throw dust as soon as you hit that first time. If not save it till the Chase starts.
The Chase is the finaly stage of ganking in which you get your kill. This is part of the reason you get Phase Boots, Sange/Yasha, and late game Travel Boots. You will be getting constant backstabs while they run but if they some how get far enough away you can use Phase Boots to catch up, if under tower or still cant keep up use blink, then if still not dead, throw dust(if you have it up) to slow down then kill away. If you cannot kill the target hero easily, then proceed to feed off of the weaker heros till you have enough power to kill him/her.
Riki is one of the best gankers in PUBs but in a real match Riki is easily counter. However you can always counter that counter. The basics are simple and to be good you just have to understand Dota fairly well. Just play it safe till ulti then gank away and watch the money, exp and GG's role on in.
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