The One and Only Wraith King

Meh, it was a thought, it's just like buying Eye of Skadi+ Satanic+ Vladmir's Offering on Lifestealer, which is extremely effective, it makes you so much more survivable. Also, for the author, when do you get your Boots of Speed upgrade? It's confusing me...

Doesn't sound that appealing to me. You can buy other item combinations that suits him more than that lol.

Is a Vladmir's Offering+ Eye of Skadi+ Satanic combo legit on Wraith King? Or is that too much life-steal?

Not a bad guide, has some interesting ideas.

I don't care for Mjol though unless I'm fighting PL, CK or TB. Assault C. is a much tanker item and synergizes well with WKs strengths. If someone already has it, then maybe I'd consider it, but still probably not.

I also agree with the above poster, eeon regarding MKB. It's a great item, damage + attack speed and you never miss. Awesome for taking down evasion heroes or just in general. And you already have a chance to crit. I always max Mortal Strike, usually going between it and aura after maxing stun.

As for boots, powertreads is all I use, unless I'm really owning them then maybe travel. The other boots don't do much for WK. Now that movement speed on both boots is 50, except for the handful of seconds when you activate the item, I don't see any use in them. Arcane boots, I'm not even going to address, not a good fit for WK, seem quit noobish on him.

I'm a bit odd, in that I typically build treads, then Drums, then armlet. Drums are great because you get +9 str and + 9 int. The int really comes in handy. And of course no one complains about the extra movement and attack speed. The Agi is better than a poke in the eye.

I never build lifesteal. So I'd replace those items with halberd. It synergizes well with WK giving him dodge, str, damage and a nice disable which is perfect for taking down a fed BS or Lycan. I mean think about it, you already have a lifesteal which is based on a percentage of damage. So... I can either improve my LS by adding lifesteal, or I can just do more damage. So I'd rather get something that makes me do more damage.

Again, Daedalus? Why doesn t anybody like Monkey King Bar? it does more damage, more attack speed and you don t miss!EVER! What good is a 1000 crit if you can t hit that PA? And you already have crit from Mortal Strike.
Everything else is great. good job!

Updated guide. Not a bad idea LittleTinGod, added skadi/OoV as situational items.

One item you don't have on here that I've been building on him lately in games where people try and mana drain me with like invoker or silencer is skadi, it works well with my builds which usually feature blink dagger and SNY for even more slow, makes it really hard to get away from him and makes him super tanky and never have to worry about mana again. BTW for the noobs out there that don't realize Skadi does stack with Wraith King's Lifesteal

You should mention your "tank build" is actually Hailrake's WK build. He's a solo queuer with 6400 MMR and 74% winrate by exclusively playing wraith king (go google). Or if you are Hailrake... but anyway, just put that up there to give recognition.

Damn I like this guide and it even has Radiance build like I want. I would max Wraithfire Blast and Vampiric Aura and only 1 level on Mortal Strike. Check out this guy http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1412268

You have a typo that is "Wrait hKing". Haven't seen this type of build and strategy before.