Sasha's guide to be a Sexy Duelist
Orphelan
January 19, 2016
About me
Hi,
My name is Sasha and I want to help those players who want to play
Legion Commander.
If you already read one of my other guides you probably know I try to maximize the effective damage. In this guide I tried the same.
Usually I play a lot with
Legion Commander and I always spend so much time to try things.
My experience:
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I've been playing Dota 2 since 2011.
I was playing support for awhile but I tired of losing because of bad carries.
That's why I started to play carry.
I saw lot of replays and tried to learn what good and bad players do. I learned from my and their mistakes, learned how good players play and what items they use and why. I spent lot of times to adopt their playstyle.
I will explain every important items in my guide.
Sorry for the accidental grammatical errors but english is not my first language!
Imortant Things
What kind of Hero?
Legion is a DPS hero. It means you need to balance the damage and attack speed.
Not a support but you can heal your teammates a bit with the
Press the Attack. Also good on carries. It's just an option but very effective.
She is not a tank at all and also a very team based hero especially in early and mid game and sometimes in late game too.
Even if you have 200 duel damage you can lose the game if your team is bad (mostly in public) because Legion is squishy!
I would say one of my favorite heroes ever.
Proper jungler?
I think she is an OK jungler and sometimes you have to go into the jungle to complete your farm. For example against 2 ranged enemies you can't really farm but if you buy
Soul Ring that can help a lot.
Ranged enemies won't let you farm at all! In this case I go to the jungle to COMPLETE my farm by neutral camps.
Items and Builds
Legion is a DPS hero, so we need to pick DPS items. It means attack speed is important. Damage come from the
Duel, so we need to balance it.
Effective items
They are the most effective items on Legion but the combination and the playstyle are different. It means they provides the best DPS in the right combo.
I give you some item build to show you the pro and con concept.
You can make your own build with these recommended items but Choose Wisely! some combination looks good but you will lose damage and attack speed.
I recommend the
Assault Cuirass+
Black King Bar+
Desolator for mandatory items, so you have 3 more slots for your own combination.
Dream Build
Yes, dream! It gives you the best DPS but just too expensive. No BKB, no blink, just pure damage!
REAL BUILDS
My personal Build
This is my favorite because it's close to the "Dream build". I learnt to play with this combination because there is no Blink dagger. No need it! The Phase Boots + Sange and Yasha provides a ~430 base movement speed and 490 active speed. Very easy to catch enemies or run away.
Have BKB, crazy movement speed, very
HIGH DPS and the most important ARMOR! Legion has no armor and that's why we have to build it. It needs different playstyle and could be tricky when you try this first but it's very effective! You can hit hard with this.
Evasion Penetrate Build/Alternate Main build
This build against Dodge/Evasion/Parry heroes. The DPS is the same as the 1st build but you need 1k more gold. If you don't like the game without Blink Dagger, this is your build. The monkey king bar will negate all evasion on your enemies. There is Armor, BKB, and Blink Dagger too.
My Lite Build
It's very cheap and built for Team play when I don't want to be the hardest carry in my team. It's usually a simple carry build. Not the best damage nor attack speed but still very good because the Blade mail can compensate the lack of damage in early and mid game.
Good for Farming too. Have BKB, Blink and early game kill potential.
Silver Edge Build
I made this build because I have been asked for.
Sange and Yasha can be repleaced with another item like
Skull Basher or
Crystalys but highly recommended to keep it. Sange and Yasha + Phase Boots combo provides the movement speed and without it you would be slow.
For this build you need to sacrifice something, movement Speed or armor. If you have enough gold you can have both and you can replace the
Maelstrom wirh
Assault Cuirass. The movement speed gives you the gank potential and not just the invisibility. Keep it in mind, use the
Silver Edge and after that YOU NEED TO HIT THE ENEMY FIRST to disable him/her for 5 sec!
Have BKB, great speed, and silver edge.
Replaceable items
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They provides the same DPS and the same price but Armlet is active and Maelstrom is passive.
Armlet can save your life because gives you temporally HP.
Maelstrom is very good for farming and upgrade-able if you have lot of gold.
OR
Power Treads is passive and gives you HP which is damage too, however you will be slower.
Phase Boots is an active, movement speed booster and you can pass through creeps and heroes. Very useful item.
BAD Replacents
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I would not recommend to use Shadow Blade instead of the Blink Dagger.
Shadow Blade can be countered with sentries. Also hard to catch enemies without a proper movement speed or blink.
OR
Moon shard is a little bit better for DPS but doesn't give you armor! This is important because Legion is squishy. Not recommended!
OR
Silver Edge is not a good alternative of the monkey king bar ON LEGION. Silver Edge works very well on another heroes (like Shadow Fiend) but Legion is not one of them.
Silver Edge has CD and short period but the MKB is permanent.
How to play
I will show you how I play usually. Lot of players play differently but there are some crucial thing that we can't change.
EARLY GAME
Doesn't matter where you paly. Mid/Lane/Jungle Legion can play everywhere.
I prefer Dire TOP or Radiant BOT this way I can go to the jungle if I can't farm or if someone wants to be alone.
This is the farming stage. You have low damage.
You have only 1 job: Try to farm and survive (aka play safe).
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Orb of Venom can help to chase down enemies combined with the
Overwhelming Odds.
I buy the
Phase Boots first because it's cheap and need the movement speed.
Farm is the priority and I go to the jungle if I can't farm. If there is already a jungler I just stay in EXP range and use the
Overwhelming Odds when I need it and try to land some hits to get the gold.
Don't take too much risk or you will lose more than some gold! Sooner or later the creeps will reach you and than you can farm.
When you hit the level 6 your priority is to use
Duel on Low HP enemies.
It's the best when you have help because you need successful early Duels.
The trick is to farm but always check the map and your teammates because only 1 hit could be enough to win the Duel and if you miss that you lose at least 10 DUEL damage. If there is an action go with the team.
Next item is the
Blade Mail or
Armlet of Mordiggian. With this and the
Phase Boots I can win the
Duel alone if the enemy is not a tank.
MID GAME
The next item is the
Sange and Yasha or the
Blink Dagger. For now I have the ability to catch enemies easily.
We have the
Phase Boots +
Armlet of Mordiggian +
Sange and Yasha. What next?
It's the tricky part. The next item depends on the game, enemies, how you can farm etc.
The rule I try to follow:
- If there are 2 disablers/stunner I build
Black King Bar.
- If the enemy has high Armor heroes or I can't farm properly I build the cheap
Desolator.
- If I can farm/I have gold I build the most Expensive item usually it's the
Assault Cuirass.
- If there is an enemy with Evasion try to build the
Monkey King Bar.
5-man/Team fight in mid game
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Usually the enemy start to stick (permanently or temporally) in this phase or in late game. When they do that you need to be careful!
Never initiate even with BKB because if you don't have Assault Cuirass you will die soon. Be there and use the
Overwhelming Odds on the enemies to reduce their HP. That's all you can do because this is your only AOE. However it's also very good against illusions to see which one is fake.
Legion is good in 1v1 but that's all. That's why you need to be smart and not die. Try to us DUEL on the lowest HP enemy and avoid any stun.
If you know you can win the DUEL but you don't have BKB to negate all stunners/disablers don't start it! If the enemy win the DUEL you give him/her the damage and that is very bad. Your job is to hunt down squishy or not too fat enemies especially from early to mid game.
LATE GAME
The playstyle is basically the same as in the MID GAME. I prefer to kill supports first and then carries.
In late game if you have proper items and damage the 1v1 is not a problem anymore even without using DUEL.
How to use the
Duel
1. Hunt down/gank the enemy
3. Use Damage booster like
Armlet of Mordiggian
2. Use
Press the Attack
4. Use
Blink Dagger if you have it
5. Use
Black King Bar (always use this AFTER the
Press the Attack ability)
6. Use
Duel
Like you can see this is a 4 - 5 buttons combo. You have to deal with it and learn how to do it fast! Only 3 when I use the Sange and Yasha Build
How to counter
Linken's Sphere
Enemies with Linken could be so brave because they think you can't use the
Duel against them. If your team use disables on Linken heroes you can use DUEL OR... sacrifice a damage item and buy
Force Staff or
Eul's Scepter of Divinity and use them before the DUEL. It's cheap, problem solved!
Enemies
When not to pick?
- If your team has no support DON'T pick Legion!
- I think Legion can't handle lot of disables and stuns. So, if the enemy team has 2+ disablers I don't recommend Legion.
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aka Bambi
She is pain is the ***. Her
Untouchableability is slow your attack speed and she has huge damage too. Very good support or nuker. BKB is the counter. Hunt down in early game when she is jungling. IF you can, kill her before she could use the
Nature's Attendants healing ability.
Easy to shut him down in early and mid game but in late game he can eat you.
His
Infest is really annoying. He has Armlet and
Skull Basher too.
The problem if he is in someone and they attack you together. BKb can help and a good support. Try to hunt him down in early game.
Should I explain? 1v1 is not a problem but if he uses his abilities on you and he has 600 - 1k movement speed... that is insane! He can eat supports and be very fat. No one can run away even with Blink.
You can avoid her Stun with BKB but you can't do anything with her ULTI + Scepter combo. It's 100% pure damage.
Shallow Grave can save everyone from death and his healing is very good too.
Kill him before he could use his protective skills.
Just simply avoid him!
He can resurrect and kills you because he is tanky and just 1 click hero (aka stupid).
Wex
Invoker is your firend.
Multiple stuns, very tanky and hitting tiny is not a good idea without BKB.
He is the hero who can kill your entire team with 1 combo. The team should know to not stick together against him.
Conclusion
You probably noticed the most scenario is about using
Duel. And why is that?
Because enough Duel damage is like a Lite but permanent version of the
Divine Rapier.
That's how Legion can be very strong and destroy enemies with a few hits.
Legion is basically a 1v1 hero. In Early and Mid game she needs help to be fat and win the game WITH the Team. Very fun to play with her.
Good Luck!
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