Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Spotlight Build: FnC Lifestealer (Naix / Na'ix)

This is the signature build for FnC. These are my observations based off a few replays I've watched.

Abilities

  1. Feast (1)
  2. Open Wounds (1)
  3. Rage (1)
  4. Rage (2)
  5. Rage (3)
  6. Infest (Ult)
  7. Rage (4)
  8. Feast (2)
  9. Feast (3)
  10. Feast (4)
  11. Infest (Ult)
  12. Open Wounds (2)
  13. Open Wounds (3)
  14. Open Wounds (4)
  15. Stats
  16. Infest (Ult)
  17. - 25. Stats

Items

  • Starting
    • Ring of Protection (175g)
    • Gauntlets of Strength (150g)
    • Tangos (90g)
    • 2-3 x Iron Branches (53g / each)
  • By 20 Minutes:
    • Ring of Basilius
    • Phase Boots
    • Drum of Endurance
    • Magic Wand
  • Mid-Late Game
    • Mjollnir
  • Situational
    • Vladamir's Offering (though, very common)
    • Daedalus
    • Heaven's Halberd
    • Abyssal Blade
    • Boots of Travel
    • Monkey King Bar
Core Build Progression:
  1. Phase Boot
  2. Ring of Basillius
  3. Magic Wand
  4. Drums
  5. Mjollnir
  6. Vlad's / Situational/Late Game

Playstyle

  • Take Lifestealer to the lane (either Safe or Hard)
  • Stack Camps (if possible) and use Infest to help you kill it (auto the creeps as far down as possible, then use Infest to go back to full HP and splash damage them)
  • Ring of Basillius gives you mana to use Rage more often than normal
  • Mjollnir is your farming item
  • Goal is to farm fast and easily in the lane - if you cannot get your core by 20, you're doing it wrong

Justification

  • Feast helps you last hit in lane
  • Rage helps you survive and get kills
  • Lifestealer basically needs movespeed (to not be kited) and attack speed (to deal damage with Feast quickly)
  • Rage scales very well early game (better than small percentages of Feast, which is good late game)
  • Open Wounds gives you more life leech, but not additional movespeed slow

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