Key strategic elements to consider when playing Queen of Pain

• Use Scream of Pain to secure ranged creeps and hit opponents at the same time.
  
• Avoid overinvesting points in Shadow Strike. It will make your farming and midgame fights hard.
  
• When in trouble, blink into fog, into treelines or over cliffs.
  
• Look around for opportunities to gank once you have Sonic Wave and control runes.
  
• Blink or position yourself in such a way that you land a multi-hero Sonic Wave in the fights.
  
• When not much is happening, push out the sidelines.
  
• Pick up Aghanim`s Shard around minute 15 as it provides silence and extra damage. Using it on creep waves also gives you instant wave clear when paired with Scream of Pain.
  
• Aghanims scepter is very strong in teamfights. Try to get it at an early timing.

Main skill and item combo order: Blink => Scream Of Pain => Shadow Strike => Attack => Sonic Wave

Power level during the game:

• Laning phase: Mid (1.8 out of 3)
  
• Mid Game: Mid (2 out of 3)
  
• Late Game: High (2.4 out of 3)
  
• Very late game: High (2.3 out of 3)

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