Sand King, the naked Jungler.

Introduction

Hello guys, this is my first guide. I'm kinda newbie so look at this guide as a Work In Progress :)

I'm writing this guide becouse I really like my Sand King Jungling playstyle and it's satisfying to blink early on enemies. Nothing is better then an early Triple Kill.

Ps. I'm sorry for my english, it's not my motherlanguage so it is a Work in Progress too. :)

Why this build.

Jungling with Sand King is not about fast farming, you're not a jungle monster. But your skillset can let you farm completely naked.

Jungling with Sand King counters his weak presence in lane and I am starting to love to jungle with him.

Sand King in lane requires Boots, Regens, Bracer. In Safe Lane he won't steal last-hit to carry, while in hard lane he requires more items to survive and if enemies use dusts he can die with no much efforts.

So i see often Sand Kings that buy Blink dagger too late and they start Epicenter when it's already too late.

In the Jungle you will build up a Blink Dagger as a first item (after the start items) (after the start items) and at level 6 you can Blink> EPICENTER+BURROWSTRIKE+SAND STORM the enemies that probably are pushing one of your tower.

They probably won't able to touch you cos with this combo they will die or almost.

Let's do this!

We begin with Tango and Branches.
We won't buy any courier or wards becouse the target of this build is to get the fastest blink possible.

At 0.30 kill the easy camp of the jungle. Just go in the middle of hit and start your SAND STORM . The creeps will run away but you will be able to kill them at the end of your channeling.

IMPORTANT If courier goes across the camp when you are SAND STORMING, the creeps will attack your courier. So pay attention.

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After killing the easy camp start stacking the hard camp at x.53. Continue to Sand Storm the easy camp and when you see the safe lane too pushed pull the camp to creeps.

Keep doing this, kill neutrals and stack hard camp.
You will have some points in BURROWSTRIKE so if needed in the lane, Hit and Run or... Stun and Run :)

At level 5 you can kill the stacked Hard camp.
Pay attention to the minimap and avoid be ganked becouse you have no escapes except your Stun (that is not an "escape" but can save your life :D).

After this job you can hit level 6 not so slowly and you will have a fast Blink Dagger!

Level 6+ Let's have fun.

Until you get Blink Dagger avoid ganking the other lanes except if you see a REAL opportunity.

when you get 2150 gold buy Blink Dagger and start to be awesome!

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AFTER BLINK DAGGER:

When you will get Blink, help the team, tell your team-mate you want to gank on an enemy.
Ping on him, Blink on him and Burrowstrike on him. If he attacks you SandStorm to immediately defend.
If the situation is dangerous wait for the cd of Blink and Blink yourself away while SANDSTORMING.

Look at the minimap, your main wish is too see a group of enemies near each other. It's not so difficult, becouse you can find this situation when one of your ally is ganked or a tower attacked.

So tp when needed, hide yourself behind trees and start channeling.
When channeling will be finished blink on enemies and watch them die.

Usually you want to Epicenter your enemies when you have allies to help.
ganking with your Ultimate alone is a waste of potential pownage for your team.
(think about it cos your Epicenter has a long cooldown).

The opposite mistake is saving your Ultimate for too much time. Of course you want to avoid wasting it but it's a waste if you don't use it :D

Epicenter them!

After you started your waves! to your enemies try to stun'em all with your Burrostrike, it will do more Aoe Damage and they wont be able to get away, so the epicenter will do the most damage.

after the stun sand storm immediately to add more AoE damage.

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With the damage combined of your Ult, Stun, Sand Storm, Damage done buy your ally/allies you can imagine the effects.

CHANNEL! > BLINK IN! >STUN EVERYONE! > MORE DAMAGE!

Late Game - Need.To.Know List

• In late game the Epicenter will do a lot of damage, but not so much as the beginning.
  
• In late game your Burrowstrike will be the most important skill, becouse you can stun the enemy carry (main priority!) and support the kills.
  
• Sand Storm after Burrowstrike let you be way more safe than the other supports in late game.
  
• The combination of your blink dagger and your Burrowstrike can stun enemy from far ranges.
  
• Your target in late game is to stun a lot, more people as possible and often as possible.
  You can Burrowstrike > Sand storm (wait the cooldown) > Burrowstrike> Sand Storm> etc.
  
• With this combo you can stun enemies and let your carry have a huge advantage.

Item Explanation.

I talked just about Start Items and Blink Dagger.
I did it on purpose, cos' that's all Sand King needs.

Other items can be important, but

what Sand Kings really needs to play is Blink Dagger, boots and levels.

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Core:

Blink

Lets you play. :D

Arcane Boots

They let you and your team have mana. (you're skills consume a lot of mana)

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After Core:

After core i suggest to buy utility items, wards, Mekansm to help your team.
but if you are doing really well it can be worth to build stronger items to semicarry.

• Aghanim: This lets you be more devastating with your Ult and tankier/safer. great if you are becoming really rich.
  
  
• BKB/BladeMAil: When you are doing epicenter enemies will hate you, and they will try to eat you. This items help you with that.
  Note. Bkb let you channel your ult safer so you can use your ult really well after burrowstrike in the middle of the teamfight.
  
  
• Veil of Discord: It will increase magical damage for your team (all of your skills are magic)
  
  
• Urn: It's a lot useful immediately after core, when you will start ganking.
  Force Staff: You can save, gank, push ahead. 360° utility item.
  
  
• Heart of Tarrasque: If you have the best K/D Rating, buy it. Your right-click attacks will have finally some damage and you will die a lot less.
  
  
• Shiva's Guard: this is my favourite one becouse it's another Aoe Damage+Slow Effect that transform you in a teamfight God.
  It will increase also your mana pool and armor. So, wow!
  
  

Conclusion.

I wish tips and suggestions, becouse i'm not an expert.

Insults are accepted Folks!

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Pepp.