Lich/Guide

Babysitting Support
Most commonly seen as Lich's skill set allows Lich to dominate a lane and secure the early advantage for your team.

Middle Lane
No longer seen nowadays, but Lich is a strong middle lane hero especially before the advent of the bottle. With Sacrifice and Frost Blast, not many could stand up against the constant spam of nukes as being grossly underleveled. It is vital to net some kills once Lich get his required levels since he does not scale particularly well into the later portions of the game.

Ability Builds

 * Maxing out is not necessary. Past the laning stage, the ability to deny experience and control the wave becomes less important. 2-3 points is good enough in most cases.

* Avoid skilling Frost Blast or Ice Armor at level 1 unless it will help secure a huge advantage.

* Adding a value point in early is useful when dealing with enemy heroes that primarily relies on auto attacks.

General
focuses on mana to support his allies, so investing on Intelligence is important for usage of abilities, extra damage, and mana.


 * Frost Blast is a slowing damaging spell used for harassing and dealing with creeps, and is more effective when used on a hero close to a group of creeps. This is 's only AOE damage-dealing spell, so paired with it can be a good farming spell.
 * Frost Blast only deals damage at a small area, so is really good for using it repeatedly.
 * Frost Blast doesn't deal much damage, so use it for creeps or for chasing enemies.


 * In the early game, Sacrifice is primarily used to control the lane equilibrium and deny the opponent vital early experience points. Constantly casting Sacrifice will tend to have your creeps closer to your tower thus Lich or whoever he is support will have a safer place to farm. It also allows Lich and his allies to grossly out-level whoever Lich is laning against and thus able to net kills or force the opponent out of his lane with stronger spells. In the later stages, it will be mainly used for obtaining mana.
 * Use Sacrifice for fueling Chain Frost, as it gives good mana.
 * Typically you would want to use Sacrifice on a high health creep, because the obtained mana is based on HP or hitpoints. But in the laning stage, focus on casting it on the ranged creep as it provides the most gold and experience for the enemy.
 * Dropping items that increases your mana pool like Arcane Boots or Aghanim's Scepter before casting Sacrifice will net you more mana. Be careful when doing it in front of your enemies as they can deny your item. This is especially important if Sacrifice is not maxed out.

A good support spell, Ice Armor can protect buildings and heroes, giving them resistance to attacks.
 * When the Glyph of Fortification isn't available, Ice Armor can give some bulk to towers and buildings.
 * Ice Armor can be used on squishy heroes too for some defense, or, even better, to provide additional resistance for bulky heroes.

Chain Frost is a massive damage-dealing, slowing, multi-target nuke. It is very fatal when bouncing between enemy heroes, doing massive damage and slowing them.
 * Chain Frost is most effective when used on a group of enemy heroes with on  because this removes the limit of bounces, making it a very dangerous orb of frozen death, enabling him to do a one-on-five fight.
 * Abilities that trap or disable multiple enemies sync well with Chain Frost, because this allows Lich to not worry about enemies separating far enough to surpass the bounce range.