Tips for Ancient Apparition

[clab]

He is my current Hero in the challenge, and I am having a great amount of trouble winning a game as him. Any help would greatly be appriceated.

[urmom]

go carry AA

treads, wand, eul's, force staff, agh's

enjoy your free wins

[Crafozura]

he is good against tanks with his ultimate,
His 3rd abil is very good early harass (very powerful on weaver too combined with his passive)
Your second abil is slow and vision, put these behind the enemy and then cast the first abil on that hero, for a big chance to freeze him. if you have a very good farm , early or rush for scepter will make a big difference,

Arcane is a must
eul scepter of divinity works very well with the first abil - cast first abil on enemy hero , use eul on him, and once he got down, he is instant frozed.
his ultimate stops EVERY KIND OF HEALING, FOUNTAIN, MEKANSM , JUST EVERYTHING
cooldown is 40 seconds too. sometimes i even use this to push creep wave. and gather some money.

You could also watch live matches to improve your gameplay

[cold pastes and unguents]

I play a great deal of AA and would be happy to help. I recommend playing with a friend who is good with chaos knight and laning with him-- This lane duo is one of the deadliest and most underused in Dota right now.

First cast cold feet, and then use chilling touch as CK uses his stun/rift on the opponent. If you time it well it is literally impossible for even the fastest of heroes to run out of the cold feet radius (barring escape abilities). It basically guarantees a kill even with a one-second stun from chaos bolt.

Keep some clarities around for your mana-hungry CK. Once he gets some early feed thanks to your supporting he'll be able to start wreaking havoc around the map. Your job at that point is to get wards up, help him out with your cold feet, and toss ultis into teamfights and retreating foes. Work towards your agh's once you've got arcanes, but remember that wards come first!

Best of luck with your hero challenge.

[Kimber Prime]

You also need to be careful with his ult. Yes you can spam it whenever you see an enemy and this will occasionally work but then you might let a low enemy get away on another lane for example. If they have a jungler like Doom its also great for pickoffs if he's still in the jungle when you hit 6. Personally I tend to use AA's ult whenever I see a fight, or can see a low hero making his escape (and no-one else can catch him), but don't just randomly cast it on every hero in vision (e.g. a hero farming away alone at full health). I find it better to save it for when I need it rather than casting it all the time. 40 seconds isn't a long cooldown but it's plenty of time for someone to tp to base, or even walk there, and heal before you can hit them.