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MORTRED - THE PANTHOM ASSASSIN

Born into the reclusive Night Elf group called the Wardens and shunned by the mainstream Night Elf society, Mortred pledged allegiance to the Scourge to take revenge. A perfect blend of strength and speed, the years spent alone in the forests of Ashevalle allowed her to blend into the terrain, appearing phantom-like at times and striking when you least expect it. The deadly precision in which she carries out her attacks have made her a valuable member of the Scourge, and it is clear why she is known as the Phantom Assassin.

HP: 473 | Mana: 169 | Damage: 46 - 48 | Armor: 2.2 | Str: 17 + 2.05 | Agi: 23 + 3.15 | Int: 13 + 1
Attack range: 100 (melee)
Starting Movement speed: 310

As we see, Mortred has a high agility growth (3rd to the highest), a good strength growth but with a low starting Hp, and a horrible intelligent growth. Like many melee Agility heroes, mortred will have a hard time farming and surviving at the start of the game but don’t worry because the item and skill build that we will use will cover this weakness.

Strenghts:
- One of the Best Killer in the game and might be the Best if you played her Right.
- She can survive and farm early game with her regeneration items and Blurr to make her late game a Heaven.
- High Critical + Satanic = High Lifesteal = Survivality
- High Critical + Battlefury = Dead Creeps = Lots of Gold = Lots of Item = Ownage?

Weaknesses:
- Low HP = very vulnerable against nukers
- She also has low Int/Mana
- Very Item Dependant

SKILL DESCRIPTION

Shadow Strike
Hurls a poisoned dagger which deals large initial damage, and then deals damage over time. The poisoned unit has its movement speed slowed for a short duration.

Level 1 - 50 strike damage, 10 duration damage. Mc: 90
Level 2 - 70 strike damage, 20 duration damage. Mc: 105
Level 3 - 70 strike damage, 40 duration damage. Mc: 120
Level 4 - 100 strike damage, 50 duration damage. Mc: 135

Cooldown: Around 20 seconds
Casting time: Around .5 second

Blink Strike
Teleports to a unit and strikes it if it is a foe, dealing bonus damage. Costs 50 mana.

Level 1 - 30 second cooldown, deals 30 extra damage.
Level 2 - 20 second cooldown, deals 60 extra damage.
Level 3 - 10 second cooldown, deals 90 extra damage.
Level 4 - 5 second cooldown, deals 120 extra damage.

Mana cost: 50
Casting time: Around .5 second

Blur
The Phantom Assassin becomes hard to see by blurring her body. Some enemy attacks miss.

Level 1 - 7% chance to evade an attack.
Level 2 - 14% chance to evade an attack.
Level 3 - 21% chance to evade an attack.
Level 4 - 28% chance to evade an attack.

-Passive Skill-

Coup de Grace (French; Finishing Stroke)
Mortred has refined her hero-killing skills to a high degree.

Level 1 - 15% chance to do a 2x critical.
Level 2 - 15% chance to do a 3x critical.
Level 3 - 15% chance to do a 4x critical.

-Passive Skill-

SKILL BUILD

Level 1: Shadow Strike
Level 2: Blur
Level 3: Blink Strike
Level 4: Blur
Level 5: Blink Strike
Level 6: Blur
Level 7: Blink Strike
Level 8: Blur
Level 9: Stats
Level 10: Coup de Grace
Level 11: Coup de Grace
Level 12: Blink Strike
Level 13: Stats
Level 14: Stats
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Coup de Grace
Level 17 - 22: Shadow Strike
Level 23 - 25: Stats

REASON FOR SKILL

One level of Shadow Strike because you need last hit. Hit Creeps near you and Shadow Strike or Blink Strike for far Creeps. Watchout for the nukers. Getting Blur and Blink Strike early game will help you survive against aggressive enemy hero and you can use this skill for Escaping, Harassing, Killing and Farming. Learning lvl 1 Coup de Grace at 10 for an early stat bonus and i think 2x crit w/ no damage item is useless.

Coup de Grace at level 10 and not on level 6?
Yes, I want you to get your first level of Coup de Grace at level 10. Here are some reasons why I believe that Coup de Grace is nearly useless earlygame:

-You have a slow attackspeed early game, meaning you will have low chances of triggering Coup de Grace.
-You have low damage, meaning your criticals will not be strong.
-You cannot kill a hero early game, Mortred is a late game hero- don’t make her a early game super hero.
-Mortred needs to be defensive early game.

ITEM BUILD

1. A lot of Tangoes + Branch
2. Helm of Iron will
3. Mask of Death - Helm of Dominator
4. Boots of Speed
5. Bracer x2 (+2 pcs Gauntlets of Strenght and Bracers recipe Scrolls)
6. Mithrill Hammer
7. Perseverance (Ring of Health+Void Stone)
8. Claymore - Battlefury

EXTENDED ITEM BUILD

9. Upgrade Boots to Power Treads
10. Messerchmidt’s Reaver
11. Finish Satanic
12. Demon Edge
13. Javelin (new item v6.49 - costs 1400 golds)
14. Javelin (again) –> Monkey King Bar

FINAL ITEM

GENERAL GAMEPLAY

Early Game:

Go to the bottom lane for sentinel and top lane for scourge with an ally because you cannot solo, at the start your main objective is to survive and farm Helm Dominator. If your ally in lane can solo, go to the jungle… Why ? You and your ally can get the Level faster. Use HD to dominate Centaur in the jungle and use him to farm neutral creeps. Go home to buy Boot of Speed and Bracers and Treads.

Middle Game:

By level 11-15 you should have at least 2 bracers, Power treads, and a Helm Dominator and now working for Battlefury. Participate also in ganks so if you succeed you will have extra experience. After you finish your Battlefury. Now is the time for you to shown up.

Late Game:

At this point usually heroes get their first big item, and for you that is your Battlefury. After you get your Battlefurry, you will be a Powerful Killing and Farming machine, you can get all the creeps on a wave 100% and finish it within seconds. After this, your Satanic, and Monkey King Bar will be finished within a few minutes and if you want, give your extra gold to your team mates to help them. Also at this point of the game (Levels 16-25) the mid-pushing will begin. Participate in it by appearing LAST and killing first their Nukers/ Agi Heroes. In pushing always go second, Tanker(Centaur + Dagger, Magnatour + Dagger or SandKing) or Target Stunner (Venge or Sven) go first than use your Blink Strike to jump in the middle of battle and finish them off.