"guidedata"
{
	"Hero"		"life_stealer"
	"Title"		"Standard Position 1, Facet 1"
	"Role"		"#DOTA_HeroGuide_Role_Core"
	"GameplayVersion"		"7.37e"
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	"GuideRevision"		"468"
	"AssociatedWorkshopItemID"		"0x0000000007AC3E3E"
	"OriginalCreatorID"		"0x000000000235D6F0"
	"GuideFormatVersion"		"2"
	"TimeUpdated"		"0x00000000677D38EE"
	"TimePublished"		"0x00000000677D38EE"
	"ItemBuild"
	{
		"Items"
		{
			"starting items"
			{
				"item"		"item_tango"
				"item"		"item_branches"
				"item"		"item_faerie_fire"
				"item"		"item_quelling_blade"
				"item"		"item_gauntlets"
				"item"		"item_gauntlets"
			}
			"Early game"
			{
				"item"		"item_blades_of_attack"
				"item"		"item_phase_boots"
				"item"		"item_blades_of_attack"
				"item"		"item_armlet"
			}
			"Core items"
			{
				"item"		"item_relic"
				"item"		"item_radiance"
				"item"		"item_yasha"
				"item"		"item_sange_and_yasha"
				"item"		"item_ultimate_scepter"
				"item"		"item_aghanims_shard"
			}
			"Core alternative"
			{
				"item"		"item_desolator"
				"item"		"item_yasha"
				"item"		"item_sange_and_yasha"
			}
			"Utility Items"
			{
				"item"		"item_tpscroll"
			}
			"Situational items"
			{
				"item"		"item_orb_of_corrosion"
				"item"		"item_hand_of_midas"
				"item"		"item_manta"
				"item"		"item_silver_edge"
				"item"		"item_mjollnir"
			}
			"Extension items"
			{
				"item"		"item_black_king_bar"
				"item"		"item_assault"
				"item"		"item_abyssal_blade"
			}
			"Luxury items"
			{
				"item"		"item_travel_boots"
				"item"		"item_nullifier"
				"item"		"item_sphere"
				"item"		"item_skadi"
				"item"		"item_rapier"
				"item"		"item_overwhelming_blink"
			}
			"  "
			{
				"item"		"item_ultimate_scepter_2"
				"item"		"item_ultimate_scepter_2"
				"item"		"item_ultimate_scepter_2"
				"item"		"item_ultimate_scepter_2"
			}
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		}
		"ItemTooltips"
		{
			"item_blink"		"Instead of wasting your slow to catch up on your enemy, you can immediately blink to engage. Then follow-up with your slow to improve your lifesteal and keep in place."
			"item_tpscroll"		"Activate your Rage before teleporting away. You should have just enough duration to escape if you pull it off right."
			"item_hyperstone"		"Hyperstone alone offers a lot of attack speed for a decent cost. This item will be later used for Mjollnir or Assault Cuirass depending if your team is at an advantage of not."
			"item_power_treads"		"Although phase boots is great for chasing, Strength Treads (red) offer more attack speed and HP (str)."
			"item_hand_of_midas"		"Hand of Midas guarantees neutral items which can hasten your farm very quickly. Hand of Midas also should be bought if youre ahead in the lane in farm and know youll need larger items to get ahead and you wont be getting as much farmer as the game gets later."
			"item_echo_sabre"		"With Echo Sabre, get close to an enemy with a creep (preferably Ancients) and then pop-out and attack them immediately.

The Echo Sabre will slow them for you to get a few attacks in before you need to activate Open Wounds!"
			"item_ultimate_scepter"		"The ability to Infest not only helps disable key enemy carries that are fighting you head-on, but it helps to get you out of abilities that limit you by running their duration.

For instance, when Viper uses his ultimate on you, you can pop Infest on an enemy to run that debuff out while disabiling and attacking your Infested target.

You will still proc things like Crit or Basher Stun while Infesting too."
			"item_assault"		"The increased armor from Cuirass will help you greatly. Generally, this is the extension item because of the desired armor and the aura it offers for the team."
			"item_heart"		"Heart of Tarrasque is your back-up if you need life towards the late-game."
			"item_greater_crit"		"Daedalus is especially for tankier foes that dont go down easy. While your lifesteal helps battle against these beasts, Daedalus will wear them down fast to prevent any more disruption."
			"item_basher"		"Basher with the increased attack speed through Armlet means a lot of stun with more damage. Lifestealer heavily enjoys this because it keeps your opponent still and lets you steal more life from them."
			"item_armlet"		"Armlet is a core item as its downside (losing incremental health) is mitigated by your Feast. The bonuses work very well towards Lifestealers goals (more damage and more attack speed) but also improves his health pool to survive longer, lifesteal more.

This item serves a similar purpose to your Feast increasing your max HP, so you wont always need it early-on."
			"item_sange_and_yasha"		"Sange and Yasha provides a lot more survivability for the hero.

The status resistance from Sange means stuns and disables duration are reduced while the Yasha portion gives you the movement and attack speed to close the gaps on foes and start dealing damage much faster and efficiently.

To add, Sange means that you also get more Lifesteal from your Feast."
			"item_desolator"		"Desolator is a cheap way to improve your damage and tear down foes for massive lifesteal return. Lifestealer wants to play his mid-game advantage and skills as much as possible and Desolator improves his damage if your team can ensure the disables."
			"item_orb_of_venom"		"Great for keeping foes down as you gank them, makes chasing especially easier."
			"item_ancient_janggo"		"Drums of Endurance gives you the even more increased movement speed boost that make Lifestealer practically a race car. "
			"item_abyssal_blade"		"Abyssal Blade will pretty much cement your damage while also offering a way to cripple rivaling enemy carries. With Abyssal Blade, you can tear down foes, lifesteal all their life and subsequently break down team fights in your favour."
			"item_sphere"		"Linkens Sphere is great when you are getting initiated with hard disables that prevent you from breaking out or reacting with BKB.

More importantly, it can be necessary versus great initiating or finishing ultimate abilities like Necrophos Reapers Scythe or Legion Commander duel."
			"item_silver_edge"		"Silver Edge is dependent on the enemys line-up. If they have passive abilities that you want to cut off, then Silver Edge will help with that to make them easier to kill (e.g: Bristlebacks passive abilities).

Alternatively, if you cant get in close to enemies using Blink Dagger, Silver Edge can be an alternative."
			"item_radiance"		"Radiance solves Lifestealers big issue: damage. He has the attack speed, the slow, the movement and the survivability with Feast to stay in fights.

Staying in fights means more Burn from Radiance even if you are getting kited and unable to attack enemies.

Furthermore, you should be farming with this item rather than seeking fights until you have a bit more stats from items."
			"item_heavens_halberd"		"The Sange portion of Heavens Halberd combines with your lifesteal, amplifying the amount you get back with each attack.

The Evasion portion combines with your level 20 talent, meaning you evade even more attacks leading to a very powerful combination of insane life back and a high % of evaded attacks."
			"item_skadi"		"Eye of Skadi is great at the end-game to take down high health targets, strong rivaling physical carries by slowing their attack speed and also prevent enemies from fleeing with your movement slow debuff. It provides stats across the board providing everything a carry needs to cap the game to a win."
			"item_phase_boots"		"The big annoyance for Lifestealer is getting kited by enemies, unable to reach them. The armor and movement bonus from Phase Boots repairs that problem."
			"item_monkey_king_bar"		"Monkey King Bar is ideal for heroes who need additional attack speed and versus evasive heroes either via Butterfly, inherent passive abilities or cause you to miss attacks.

The Pierce effect also means a mix-up in damage, especially strong against enemies who have high armor (Dragon Knight, AGI carries) that can outlast your physical damage output."
			"item_nullifier"		"Nullifier is a key item for you late-game: it dispels your target. Especially useful against enemies that rely on key passive abilities or items like Ghost Scepter, Euls, Glimmer and Satanic to have them nullified against you.

Hero passive abilities like Windrangers Windrun and Monkey Kings Jingu Mastery are also nullified by Nullifier."
			"item_orb_of_corrosion"		"Opt for Orb of Corrosion versus high regenerative heroes like Centaur Warrunner or Dragon Knight.

This item for a relatively aggressive Safelane team who are comfortably harassing and following-through on the extra slow from this item and the additional dps it deals."
			"item_branches"		"Iron Branch can be placed on the ground to then be consumed by your tangos for additional healing."
			"item_bracer"		"An early bracer increases your survivability in the lane especially versus a heavy harassing team."
			"item_satanic"		"With Satanic, you have sufficient damage output but need to remain in fights. Satanic gives you more survivability and works great to capitalize on the damage youre dealing to extend fights long enough for you to win them.

The key value is the dispel which helps you avoid being slowed or diminished when you need it most in a fight."
			"item_magic_wand"		"Opt for Magic Stick early if the enemy spam a lot of spells or you’ll be in the lane significantly. Magic Wand can be bought as early as before Boots of Speed or as late as after your core Boots upgrade depending on how the enemy and their spell usage. Magic Wand can also be bought to make room for other items due to limited space."
			"item_maelstrom"		"An early maelstrom hastens your farm with great chain lightning attacks. To add, Maelstrom is a nice mix-up of damage against enemies that have high armor as the damage you’re dealing with Chain Lightning is magical."
			"item_bloodthorn"		"The value in Bloodthorn is both its increase in massive attack speed but also in disabling your opponent, making them unable to cast their abilities. Any physical attacks you and your allies do will be count as critical, allowing you tear them down relatively quickly before the duration of Bloodthorn ends!

Bloodthorn also has True Strike meaning all your attacks will land during its Active component."
			"item_black_king_bar"		"With the amount of stuns and disables you may be receiving, Black King Bar can be extra justified despite having Rage.

If youre playing against someone who built Orchid, you should buy Black King Bar so arent prevented from using your Rage when needed."
			"item_aghanims_shard"		"Aghs Shard can be a great follow-through if using Infest as an initiation with an ally to both slow nearby foes and for your to regain a ton of health through Open Wounds."
			"item_relic"		"Buy Sacred Relic to hasten your farm to finish Radiance."
			"item_manta"		"Opt for Manta Style if youre dealing with a lot of disables like stuns or silence that prevent you or are used outside of your Rage immunity duration"
			"item_mjollnir"		"If you are dealing with illusions or need a mix of damage output through your attacks to deal with a high-health and armor enemies, Mjollnir can be an item to pick up but it is dependent on you constantly attacking your opponent and them hitting you back for the Static Charge benefits."
		}
	}
	"AbilityBuild"
	{
		"AbilityOrder"
		{
			"1"		"life_stealer_ghoul_frenzy"
			"2"		"life_stealer_open_wounds"
			"3"		"life_stealer_ghoul_frenzy"
			"4"		"life_stealer_rage"
			"5"		"life_stealer_ghoul_frenzy"
			"6"		"life_stealer_infest"
			"7"		"life_stealer_ghoul_frenzy"
			"8"		"life_stealer_rage"
			"9"		"life_stealer_rage"
			"10"		"life_stealer_rage"
			"11"		"life_stealer_open_wounds"
			"12"		"life_stealer_infest"
			"13"		"life_stealer_open_wounds"
			"14"		"life_stealer_open_wounds"
			"15"		"special_bonus_unique_lifestealer_2"
			"16"		"special_bonus_unique_lifestealer_5"
			"18"		"life_stealer_infest"
			"20"		"special_bonus_unique_lifestealer_6"
			"25"		"special_bonus_unique_lifestealer"
		}
		"AbilityTooltips"
		{
			"special_bonus_evasion_15"		"The movement speed talent perk means less trouble in getting kited. If you know your target cannot escape or out-run you, you can prefer the evasion talent instead where chasing foes and fighting in team-fights can become more comfortable."
			"special_bonus_all_stats_5"		"While the attack speed can seem more attractive, especially given the amount of damage Lifestealer outputs early on. But the stats has a versatility to offer that can alleviate some of other problems Lifestealer may have such as a bigger mana-pool and improved armour (AGI)"
			"special_bonus_movement_speed_25"		"The movement speed talent perk means less trouble in getting kited. If you know your target cannot escape or out-run you, you can prefer the evasion talent instead where chasing foes and fighting in team-fights can become more comfortable."
			"special_bonus_hp_200"		"The health means more value in your lifesteal and improved healthpool to avoid being nuked out of orbit. However, the damage provided is also a solid alternative if you know you will be on the offensive for guaranteed ganked kills as well as a bit behind your farm or damage."
			"special_bonus_attack_speed_15"		"While the attack speed can seem more attractive, especially given the amount of damage Lifestealer outputs early on. But the stats has a versatility to offer that can alleviate some of other problems Lifestealer may have such as a bigger mana-pool and improved armour (AGI)"
			"life_stealer_rage"		"Rage works similarly as Black King Bar. Take advantage of this moment to really tear down opponents.

You can also use this to safely teleport out if you have the mana for it."
			"life_stealer_feast"		"Unlike traditional lifesteal, Feast is not dependent on your damage output but reliant on the targets max health.

This ability is especially useful to help sustain yourself in the laning phase but also against high-health tanky targets.

Work on denying your own creeps as well as last-hitting to build up your health but also to balance out the lane from being excessively pushed."
			"life_stealer_open_wounds"		"Open Wounds is your gap-closer. 

You rely on Open Wounds to slow opponents from afar for you to then chase them down and entrap them with your slow from Ghoul Frenzy

Its also a great way to flip 1 vs. 1 fights where you are losing health and need to recover when fighting an enemy."
			"life_stealer_infest"		"You can heal while inside of a unit for as long as you stay inside.

Infest enemy units or Ancients to take control of them and either further your escape or simply to take advantage of their capabilities and movement speed to gank."
			"life_stealer_control"		"Use this in combination with units that give you movement advantage of a unique abilities that immobilize your foes. Using this to control an Ancient creep can mean comfortable pushes or additional ability to flash-farm depending on the Ancient Creep."
			"life_stealer_consume"		"When in this position, you cannot lose health from activating Armlet BEFORE-HAND."
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			"life_stealer_ghoul_frenzy"		"Ghoul Frenzy is your farming ability due to its increased attack speed combined with your Feasts damage."
		}
	}
}