Huskar/Guide

General

 * Huskar is not a true initiator. Try to let another team member initiate, then jump in to single out soft targets.
 * A good amount of Huskar's damage comes from Burning Spear's magical burn damage, meaning that magic resistance makes Huskar much less effective.
 * Huskar's abilities synergizes well with each other, Burning Spear and Life Break both use up health, and feed your Berserker's Blood increasing your damage output while Inner Vitality makes you more durable.
 * Due to his low base armor, Huskar is susceptible to physical burst damage.
 * Good examples of this is and  as well as any carry who has a  or  completed.


 * Use Inner Vitality on yourself or your allies before jumping into a fight to increase their durability.
 * Do not worry about casting it too early before a team fight as it has a fairly long duration and its cooldown at max level is a few seconds shorter than its duration. This will reduce the chances that you are caught off-guard and become disabled long enough before being able to cast it. This will also increase the chance that you can re-cast it during a fight in case that you are dispelled or another teammate is in dire need of regeneration.
 * Always use Inner Vitality before using your ultimate to increase your chance of surviving and reduce the toll on your HP done by your ultimate.
 * With enough mana regeneration, you can even use Inner Vitality constantly, mitigating the need to return to base. This makes heroes such as and  a good ally of Huskar.


 * Burning Spears is useful for harrassing enemies during the laning phase.
 * Keep in mind the cast range of Burning Spear is, but Huskar's attack range is only . Therefore you can increase your range by   when manually casting Burning Spear. However, putting Burning Spear on autocast will not increase your range.
 * Remember that Burning Spears will stack on an enemy. You can manual cast them repeatedly on laning phase to harass enemies without drawing creep aggro. When you can regenerate health enough to sustain Burning Spear, switch it to auto-attack and burn them down!


 * Berserker's Blood makes Huskar very potent against heavy magic damage teams.
 * With enough stacks and health left, Berserker's Blood can help you survive finishing spells that deal magical damage such as, and.
 * Berserker's Blood does not protect against pure damage. Dealing with heroes such as and  can result in death, as using your ultimate in their presence can have dire consequences, since some of their spells are not reduced by magic resistance.
 * It is important to remember that the magic resistance from Berserker's Blood DOES NOT equate to spell immunity, a common mistake for new players is to treat it as such. Huskar is still vulnerable to huge burst of magical damage when at nearly full health. Examples of this would be at point blank range (most likely after using Life Break) with the maximum amount of souls and stacks of  both of which could kill Huskar even at full health.
 * Berserker's Blood works best against gradual magical damage or damage spread over multiple instances like, , , , , , and , all of which are almost impossible to be used to insta-kill Huskar since their damage will be greatly reduced. But keep in mind that some of these also provide debuffs like stun, slow and silence that could hinder Huskar.
 * The attack speed from Berserker's Blood is unreliable as it depends on your current health. If you are your team's main carry, consider building attack speed items like and  to further boost your DPS.


 * In most cases, if an enemy hero used their escape skill while Huskar is airborne, Huskar will still be able to finish his jump.
 * Be wary of heroes that have high natural magic resistance like due to his  because using Life Break against them might deal more damage to you than to them.
 * Same can be said against heroes that usually build or.
 * You should also be warned not to use Life Break on a hero who has spell immunity or else you lose a percentage of your health while the target does not. However, the slow will still pierce through spell immunity.
 * As Life Break deals magical damage to an enemy relative to his current health, it is possible to kill any enemy in one hit with the help of damage amplification, provided they are not spell immune or has access to high magic resistance.
 * It is possible to use certain combinations of items and heroes together with Huskar to kill any hero instantly. For example applying the effects of, , and to a target and then hitting them with an  upgraded Life Break will cause an instant death. However, building all these utility items on Huskar himself will destroy a great deal of his carry potential.
 * The same effect can be achieved by using instead of Veil of Discord or  instead of Ethereal Blade.
 * Beware of heroes with as they can destroy you if you use Life Break on them recklessly.
 * Any hero using Blade Mail with sufficiently high health will probably kill you if you use Life Break on them assuming that you do not have spell immunity.
 * enables Huskar to destroy enemy heroes with high health quickly. The reduced cooldown will probably allow Huskar to remove more than half of the enemy's HP with magical damage in seconds if he can use Life Break twice in quick succession and the target does not have too high magic resistance.
 * Life Break can also be used on multiple different enemies in a team fight making it easier for the rest of your team to finish them off.
 * The low cooldown from Aghanim's Scepter can also be used to jump from one hero to another. If you are being focused on by a melee carry who happen to have spell immunity, jump to another hero to kill them off, or stall enough time so that the enemy's spell immunity runs out.
 * Jumping to a different enemy is also useful for timing out debuffs on Huskar. Jumping to another enemy while you are slowed, rooted, or disarmed will give you a chance to turn the tables against your enemy.

Items
Starting items:
 * helps Huskar regain lost health from Burning Spear.
 * also restores health to Huskar.
 * gives cheap attributes and builds into Magic Wand later; or, Huskar can use it with Tango to get more healing.
 * gives passive health regeneration that may offset the health cost of Burning Spear.

Early game:
 * give a nice movement speed boost.
 * helps Huskar recover health in a pinch.
 * helps Huskar restore health after a gank and has a good to support allies and use it to heal himself if Inner Vitality has no mana.

Mid game:
 * provides every stat that Huskar needs to be more effective and its Unholy Strength provides a way for Huskar to control his health. If you are able to practice armlet toggling, it will drastically improve Huskar's damage output and allow him to use it to survive fights as long as there is no Heartstopper Aura or Radiance Aura or you are not afflicted by any DPS debuff. An important fact to remember is that its active ability also adds to Inner Vitality's regeneration.
 * allows Huskar to lifesteal from attacks, sustaining the health cost of Armlet of Mordiggian and Burning Spear. It upgrades to Satanic in the late game.
 * will cause Huskar to take no self-damage from Life Break, allowing him to use it to initiate with little risk of dying.

Late game:
 * allows Huskar to sustain his health while under focus from the enemy team. It provides strength, damage, and lifesteal. Its active could also be used in a pinch to keep yourself from dying.
 * gives protection from physical damage, which synergizes well with Berserker's Blood which gives magic resistance.

Situational items:
 * provides both armor and evasion to complement magic resistance bonus of Berserker's Blood, making Huskar difficult to kill in the mid game. He has an option to disassemble it to recycle the Talisman of Evasion for building Heaven's Halberd.
 * gives some strength and evasion, and provides disarm to halt an attacking enemy.
 * makes Huskar into a much better ganker. It also gives attack speed for more Burning Spear stacks.
 * increases the effectiveness of Life Break.
 * gives a massive HP regen bonus from Inner Vitality, it allows Huskar to keep Unholy Strength active indefinitely and it gives enough health to allow you to be at a low enough percentage to increase stacks from your Berserker's Blood but not low enough to be burst down. This also complements an Aghanim's Scepter pickup as it will allow you to use Life Break frequently, even against Roshan or creeps.
 * procs Chain Lightning frequently with attack speed bonus from Berserker's Blood.
 * counters enemy evasion with magical damage proc.
 * procs Bash at a decent rate due to Huskar's high attack speed. He can also make use of Overwhelm after approaching enemies with Life Break. Keep in mind that melee carries will still proc it more even if you have the same attack speed, you do however have the range advantage.

Huskar/Руководство