Dota 2
Rove Nov 16, 2013 @ 4:54am
"Diretide" Roshan build & team
I was thinking I want to beat the record on Diretide Roshan. (not the regular one)

What I came up with is that maybe a Roshan killing team should include Enigma and Necrolyte, this being due to both Enigma and Necrolyte's skills that remove HP based on % of maximum health. Enigma's being "Midnight Pulse" (7% loss, 8s, 25s recharge) and Necrolyte's being "Heartstopper Aura". (1.5% health loss constant in radius 1000). So Enigma can do 56% of Roshan's health every 25s while Necrolyte can do 45% of his health every 30s. Because each death grants a extra 30s and this does 101% every 30s this should be enough to farm him indefinetly right? Also in case of screw-ups Necrolyte's Ultimate which with scepter does 1.2 damage per missing health should be able to cover things & get faster kills at least 1/3 of the time (70s recharge).

The team could also include a fed pudge like the iG team and various others also. That sort of team can earn significant grace time in the start BUT they run into a hard cap when Roshan's health gets too high and they are all doing fixed DPS which is not based on his maximum health.

Can anyone confirm that Enigma's & Necrolyte's health loss work on Roshan? I think Necrolye's does work on the regular Roshan as I seem to recall checking.

Also if Lifestealer's "Feast" would work (which it does not on regular Roshan) then that would be aawesome and he should be included because his bonus damage / lifesteal will grow with Roshan's health.

Can anyone else think of any skills or items like that that would scale up the damage with his ever-increasing health?

I need a team for this and I don't have one so if anyone would like to do this with me or take me as Necrolyte to come and try this with their team then I'd really enjoy it. Please just post in this thread if you will and then add me as a friend. If you give random invites without posting here I will probably refuse.
Last edited by Rove; Nov 16, 2013 @ 5:27am
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76561198098260562 Nov 16, 2013 @ 5:14am 
Dude.. there is an old tacting on doing roshan as soon as he spawns when your heros are still lvl 1. Combine Lone druid, venomancer, lich, ursa, +1 (i dunno who). lich uses his second spell on lone druid's bear who is tanking Rosh, ursa is dealing great amount of dmg with his third spell, venomancer is using his snakes..
Rove Nov 16, 2013 @ 5:27am 
I mean Diretide Roshan.
Rove Nov 16, 2013 @ 7:40am 
Oh well, I can now Confirm that both Enigma and Necrolyte currently have no effect with their health loss and Necrolyte also can't use his Ultimate on Roshan.

That sucks, it's not part of Roshan's listed abilities or of the skill descriptions and by the rules as stated they "should" work just fine.
Last edited by Rove; Nov 16, 2013 @ 7:40am
Mantis Nov 16, 2013 @ 7:44am 
The best tactic in my eyes is a lifestealer, slardar, venge, dazzle, ursa, and any other high physical DPS/minus armour heros.

Another tactic that would work well would be to have a chen, a rubick, and a clinkz. The chen grabs a creep, raising it's health, then the rubick steals the spell and does the same. Repeat lots of times untill the creep is at like 15k health. Then have the clinkz eat him and get millions of extra damage.
Any thoughts on this tactic? Would it work?
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Date Posted: Nov 16, 2013 @ 4:54am
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