Troll Warlord/Guide

Carry
Troll Warlord should be always played as a carry. A good Troll player is constantly farming, pushing, or roshing. One of the first important items on a Troll is a  which should be upgraded to a  as soon as possible. With this you can farm bigger Creepcamps without losing much health. Combined with a and  (or ) you should be able to fight in early team fights. You should find a good balance between in farming and pushing (Dependent on your Team´s Situation). A good Troll should always ult when his team is pushing or fighting without him to get bonus gold through assists or Towers. At the start of the lategame you should be well farmed and ready to engage in Teamfights.

Ability Builds
At the first lvl you always invest a point in to be able to get easy lasthits in the laningphase.

Then depending on the gamesituation you max out or  but you also can mix this 2 skills up by lvling up.

You always pick up your when you are able to do so (6,11,16).

At least you max out.

-You should always be in melee modus while running and fighting and farming to gain bonus movmentspeed and the chance to bash.

-Try to finish of running Heros or lasthiting creeps by changing to Ranged Attacks.

-When toggling on, exchanges with.

-The Bash chance is only 10% but you do bonus  20/30/40/50 Damage (when Bashing) and a 0.8/1.2/1.6/2 sec. stun!

-Only real purpose of this skill is to slow the opponent

-You should go in Melee modus after casting this to gain bonus movmentspeed

-It only Slows 30% (on any lvl.) but the duration of the slow can go up to 3/3.75/4.5/5.25!! (Considering that the cooldown is only 10 sec {on lvl.4})

-This spell only deal 75 Damage but you can try to lastit running or teleporting Heros if you have the Skill (or Luck) for it

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-Mainnuke with a bonus "Blind" effect (Enemy attacks have a chance to miss you)

-Axes whir in a circle Around you (yust saying)

-Blind effect explained : Miss Chance: 60% Blind Duration: 4/5/6/7

-You should pop this anywhere and anytime (by farming, pushing, teamfights but NOT by Roshan) but be careful with your Mana!

-Main DPS passive ability

-Dont constantly switch targets to prevent a resealing of your fervorstacks (Try to focus 1 targed)

-The reason why troll is the best 1v1 fighter in the game!

-Roshkiller

-Is good combined with your Bash

-As mentioned, try to ult whenever you or your team are engage in something important (Pushes, Roshing, etc.)

-You get Assists if a enemy Hero (on the map) is killed by one of your Teammates while in battle trace

-Enemy cant hear your "cry" when casting this spell, if they dont have vision over you

Items
Starting items: Early-game items: Core items: Situational items:
 * and give you basic health regeneration to stay in lane longer.
 * provides a minor armor bonus, it also builds into a.
 * helps against enemies that can spam spells, it later builds into.
 * doubles your mana regen in early game.
 * help you to escape bad situations as well get close to enemies to take advantage of your more powerful melee form.
 * is core on troll because only gives you 5 seconds to do crazy amounts of damage. Every second matters, and stuns and disables potentially make you unable to do anything for several seconds, costing you an important teamfight.
 * provides lifesteal which works well with your high attack speed. You can dominate a neutral creep with it to make soloing Roshan easier.
 * because his base movement speed is high, this item is a good choice as it adds agility and even more movement speed. Upgrade it into either a for some durability and slow, or  for the illusions. Not only can Troll create illusions from Manta, but it can also dispel some debuffs when its active is activated.
 * offers cost effective attack speed and damage increases, strong initiation and mobility, and a mediocre escape.
 * can be upgraded into a which when coupled with Troll's passive attack speed buffs, can allow Troll to go from little to full health in only a few seconds, while it also provides a large strength buff.
 * gives your attacks a great deal of damage. Because he can reach the maximum attack speed with his ultimate and passive, he can focus on damage and get multiple Daedalus to crit more often and lifesteal even more.
 * can also be picked up to counter evasion against heroes such as, and give a greater punch to your physical strikes including tower pushing. The mini bash can also help cancel spells/items that require channeling such as.
 * provides a massive agility and attack speed bonus as well as evasion. A good choice to continue to perma bash when your ultimate is over while the evasion combined with whirling axes makes you almost untouchable. The Flutter ability allows you to chase or escape.