Tips for Chaos Knight?

[vaanyuul]

I'm an extreme noob and I like chaos knight but i'm bad at him, any tips?

[Woody]

He is strange to skill, best skill build I've seen is 4 points in both stun and reality rift by lvl 8 (so no points in anything else) then a point in crit lvl 9 and then 10 & 11 skill ulti. You want to build a lot of stats and some tank so items like Sange&Yasha, Armlet, drums, Satanic, heart, AC and skadi are all good choices.

[vaanyuul]

Ok thanks! I'll try building that now.

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Originally posted by woody36:

He is strange to skill, best skill build I've seen is 4 points in both stun and reality rift by lvl 8 (so no points in anything else) then a point in crit lvl 9 and then 10 & 11 skill ulti. You want to build a lot of stats and some tank so items like Sange&Yasha, Armlet, drums, Satanic, heart, AC and skadi are all good choices.

Why the hell would you get SnY over manta?

[Woody]

Originally posted by Purdurabo:

Originally posted by woody36:

He is strange to skill, best skill build I've seen is 4 points in both stun and reality rift by lvl 8 (so no points in anything else) then a point in crit lvl 9 and then 10 & 11 skill ulti. You want to build a lot of stats and some tank so items like Sange&Yasha, Armlet, drums, Satanic, heart, AC and skadi are all good choices.

Why the hell would you get SnY over manta?

Mana issues, if you aren't going skadi you are going to run out of mana v.quickly with manta. But yes it can be a good item.

[Pwnage]

Originally posted by woody36:

Originally posted by Purdurabo:

Why the hell would you get SnY over manta?

Mana issues, if you aren't going skadi you are going to run out of mana v.quickly with manta. But yes it can be a good item.

manta gives a nice chunk of int and it synergizes well with the ult

[Woody]

Originally posted by CK pwnage:

Originally posted by woody36:

Mana issues, if you aren't going skadi you are going to run out of mana v.quickly with manta. But yes it can be a good item.

manta gives a nice chunk of int

Only 10.

[Zero]

I would go manta for the int and for the fact that it works with reality rift. More or less ensures that you'll completly body block them from escaping. Plus it removes debuffs.

[Nova]

to be honest I also go for manta first straight after my armlet...it helps me alot more. but your skill build is right :)

[Psychotic Man]

As a noob ck player, I have some tips to give

• Preferably level up rift and stun to max by level 8. I personally start with maxing rift first because chaos bolt is unreliable stun wise and rift gains a lot of power with each level and has lesser mana cost, perfect skill if you have someone with any form of disable in your lane.
  
• You are a ganker, not a duelist. CK is not good in 1vs1 early game because his skills deal too little damage, but he is the best at securing a kill if your lane partner can follow up. Try to go top lane because then you can gank mid lane (running from behind the enemy in mid lane won't aggro tower because you can be outside tower range). This will really help your mid laner.
  
• CK gains a massive power spike from levels 9-11, you transition from a ganker into a ganker that can get rampages. People really underestimate his power spike during this time, use this to your advantage and make the enemy commit to a fight they will lose. Your team will get a huge advantage and you will be able to take a tower or two as well.
  
• Your ult provides you 0.5 seconds of immunity, use this to your advantage when targetted by delayed reaction spells like assassinate or WR's nuke or any projectile stun. Same effect is achieved with manta style, though the invulnerability period is 0.1 seconds.
  
• Don't pick CK if enemy has Sven, ES, Medusa or OD.
  
• My optimal build, tango+salve+clarity*2+gauntlet+iron branches->boots->bracers->helm of iron will->armlet->treads->trambone->yasha->manta->heart->BoT->situation based item. Gives me 212 base damage with armlet forever active and 4k hp with loads of armor.
  
• Late game when you have cash and want to buy items, you should get items like skaldi for tankiness, chase power and stats, linkens for mana regen and a counter to spells like doom or rupture, halberd for tankiness and a disable, and butterfly for attack speed and evasion.
  
• Manage your mana, don't spam spells a lot, you have enough mana and mana regen after manta to own people, anything more would be useless because you aren't that spammy spell wise, linkens is still great after getting cores because it helps against disables.
  
• You are the ultimate duelist late game, no hard carry can duel you unless they have inbuilt cleave damage or a way to destroy illusions.
  
• CK counters champions that are squishy and depend on their range to survive, like drow and sniper. Early game, his spell damage is enough to kill them.
  
• Don't build stuff like bkb and satanic if you are doing well, they are dead give aways and tell the enemy the real you. Also, if you activated armlet before popping ult, keep it on else enemy will know the real you. Same goes if you didn't activate it before ulting, keep it off then.
  
• Lastly, play like a crazy guy, most people play it safe cause ck has too much randomness. Don't do that, use this randomness to your advantage and scare the opponent with it. If done properly, they will be scared to engage you cause you may dish out too much damage cause of rng.

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[YUV12]

The Chaos Knight has one of the highest damage potentials among strength heroes. Hero Comparison Tool[www.dotahq.com]
So he can play a hard carry and farm super hard.

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[HuancaNar]

si eres CK tienes q farmear lo mas rapido posible al tanto q solo a min 4 tendrias midas y asi sucesivasmente.
debes saber q rol estas jugando o en q momentom entrar ta la peleas

[vaanyuul]

thank you for the tips.

[corbet]

i've played him. and i played many other illusion heros.

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Chaos_Knight

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Illusions

these 2 pages are crucial to read before playing him or illusion heros.

my suggested build for chaos knight is armlet heart. the ult illusions would use all the health and strength from those 2 items, and aswell as the active from armlet. . if you rush armlet heart it can be somewhat hard to farm up for those 2 early on as chaos knight with his horrible mana issues, and some sustain issues early on. you might be better off rushing skadi, drum of endurance, urn of shadows. and you might want a healing support to assist you early on.

armlet heart is decent on other illusions heros, but chaos knight is the strength illusion hero.

skadi is a nice pick up for him aswell as the illusions would use all it's attributes and the added bonus health, aswell as the on-hit effect. you could also get diffusal as all illusions benefit from it's attributes and the on-hit, but stacking diffusal with skadi is not efficient. and chaos knight makes great use of manta style aswell.

i don't suggest you get raw damage items, and this would not make his illusions stronger.

[corbet]

to sum it up. my build would be urn, drum of endurance, skadi, armlet, heart. then sell urn for manta style.

but some of the best chaos knights i seen get manta style early in the match, and armlet early, and heart. but for me it is rough doing those 3 first, i'd need a good support to help me out.