Elder Titan my way! 4K MMR 65.79% WINRATE

Hello guys!
My name is XP im a 4k player, who recently started playing Elder Titan or Tauran Chieftain for those who is dotA1 Veterans.
I started watching some gameplays from players playing Elder titan, but they always ended up losing, so i read his spells, and figured out the perfect build for him. I Have also made a pubstomping guide i used from 3,5--4k.. But thats not really why i made THIS guide.
I started playing elder titan a lot and now i play him quite well. My team started drafting me Elder Titan in both Mid and offlane. Mostly Offlane. Please take time, and read everything through the guide.

Elder Titan Dagon Build burst on 6 slotted morphling 1 shot

As you can see on the top i have a good kda and solid at 3.00.
I have put in this video, to show you the full burst of elder titan against a farmed morphling. with the following items:
Eye of Skadi
Power Threads
Ethereal Blade
Helm of dominator
Manta Style
Butterfly

Elder Titan Gameplay

Playstyle of Elder Titan

Elder Titans playstyle is really agressiv, you gotta get a fast soulring/bottle, so you can spam ur Astral spirit/W If you catch about 4-6 creeps + hero, you wil have a bonus attack of +40-80 depending on levels. So you can smash down enemy supports, and keep this in mind, if they have no stuns, feel free to go deep, and get the kills. Cause ur Naturals Order/E wil take down their early on Base Armor, and that leaves them with a For example. the mask of madness debuff, they wil take so much more damage because of your E.

A bit about the spells

Originally posted by dotaWIKI:

Echo Stomp: Elder Titan and his Astral Spirit both stomp the ground, damaging and knocking nearby enemy units unconscious around their locations. The Elder Titan stomp deals physical damage, while the Spirit stomp deals magical damage.
Note:
Applies a sleep on affected units, preventing them from acting, until woken up.

Fully disallows the cast of the following spells: Blink (Queen of Pain) icon.png Blink, Blink icon.png Blink, Teleportation icon.png Teleportation, Charge of Darkness icon.png Charge of Darkness, Phase Shift icon.png Phase Shift and Blink Dagger icon.png Blink Dagger.

When the Astral Spirit icon.png Astral Spirit is summoned, it will perform the stomp perfectly synchronized with Elder Titan.
The physical damage is dealt around Elder Titan, while the magical damage around the spirit.
The sleep is applied in the radius around Elder Titan and the spirit. if the radius are overlapping, the duration does not stack up.
If the spirit is not summoned, both, magical and physical damage are centered around Elder Titan.
If Astral Spirit is not learnt, it still deals both damage instances around Elder Titan.

The Astral Spirit icon.png Astral Spirit itself possesses this ability as well (with a different icon). Ordering the spirit to cast it forces Elder Titan to cast his part.
When being cast on the spirit while Elder Titan is disabled, it will go into cooldown for the spirit and do nothing.
However, Elder Titan can still use it afterwards and the spirit will still mimic, even though its own is on cooldown.
Echo Stomp cannot be canceled by ordering the spirit to stop. During the Echo Stomp animation, the spirit "Can't Act" (a red error message appears, reading that).

Affected units cannot be woken up for the initial 0.65 seconds of the sleep.

Only player-based damage can wake up affected units. lance creeps, neutral creeps and buildings (towers/fountains) cannot wake them up.

Originally posted by dotaWIKI:

Astral Spirit: Elder Titan sends forth his Astral Spirit, damaging any units it passes through. When the spirit rejoins the Titan, it grants bonus damage and movement speed for each unit it damaged.

The Astral Spirit possesses the Echo Stomp, Return Spirit, and Natural Order abilities.
Note:
The spirit is invulnerable.

The spirit is controllable by Elder Titan until the end of its duration.

The spirit can move over impassable terrain (e.g. cliffs, trees).

The spirit has no collision size, so it can't be used to block enemies.

The spirit cannot intercept any spell (e.g. Meat Hook, Sacred Arrow, Hookshot).

It is possible to teleport to the spirit using Boots of Travel icon.png Boots of Travel.

The spirit's movement speed is set equal to Elder Titan's movement speed upon cast. Changes to his movement speed afterwards are not adapted by the spirit.

Drum of Endurance icon.png Drum of Endurance is the only aura the Astral Spirit icon.png Astral Spirit benefits from (other auras which affect invulnerable units are useless for the spirit).

The Astral Spirit icon.png Astral Spirit will unite with Elder Titan when he comes within 100 range of it. So just walking through it will return it aswell.

Casting Echo Stomp icon.png Echo Stomp while the spirit returns to Elder Titan forces the spirit to stop and cast his part. He will continue returning once the cast finishes.

Does not prevent neutral creeps from spawning.

The spirit has 450 radius ground vision.

Originally posted by dotaWIKI:

Natural Order: Reduces all elements to their basic levels, removing base armor and magic damage resistance from nearby enemy units.
Note:
Armor reduction only applies to base armor and armor gained via agility.

Reduces most heroes' magic resistance down to 16%/10.75%/5.5%/0.25% if they don't have any other source of magic resistance and are not Meepo or Visage.

Reduces Meepo's total magic resistance down to 27.2%/22.65%/18.1%/13.55% and Visage's to -0.8%/-7.1%/-13.4%/-19,7% if they have no other sources.

The Astral Spirit icon.png Astral Spirit possesses this aura.

Originally posted by dotaWIKI:

Earth Splitter: Sends forth a jagged crack in front of Elder Titan. After 3 seconds, the crack implodes, slowing movement while dealing damage to each enemy based on their maximum life. Half of the damage dealt is Magical damage, while the other half is Physical damage.
Note:
Deals 17.5% of the affected units' max hp as physical damage, and 17.5% as magical damage.

The crack extends at a speed of 910.

Can hit units up to 2700 range away (2400 distance + 300 radius).

The crack visualy extends up to 2600 distance, but the actual effects stop at 2400.

Affected units are instantly pulled towards the crack once it implodes.

The pull interrupts channeling spells.

7 (6) useful tips for Elder Titan. Some is

1. Echo Stomp has long casting time, but HUGE AoE. In early game you should be capable of catch enemies with your Spirit + Stomp combo easily, when they don't have a lot of mobility. With right timing and positioning you can pull off Stomp when opponents don't see you or your spirit (trees, fog). By the way, your spell is activated as soon as you press on it (just like with Sand King's ultimate), not when casting is finished (like Shadow Fiend's ultimate) so be wise when you use it.
   
2. Ultimate MUST have a set up, either with your stomp or something else (makes wonders with Void, Enigma, Naga, Shaker and Magnus). There are also narrow spots on the map where enemies can't escape from it (especially Roshan Pit). Damage is half magical half physical, which synergises well with your passive.
   
3. One of the most item independent heroes, can hit hard though with bonuses he gets from spirit. Recommended Items are usually utility based: Arcane Boots, Soul Ring, Urn, Scythe, Refresher. Don't recommend getting DPS items even though he has 10 second steroid, since he has bad stat gain. ♥♥♥♥♥♥
   
4. Echo Stomp does NOT STUN, BUT SLEEPS..... Otherwise, towers and creeps don't wake them up. Abuse it when enemies tower dive or overextend near creeps. Turn off radiance or any source of hero damage (except of HP removal) when needed so that you don't wake them. Each stomp deals it's own damage, ET - 80 physical, spirit - 80 magical. If you did not cast spirit it will be summoned next to him automatically, regardless if you have any points in Ancestral Spirit.
   
5. All your skills hit invisible units.
   
6. Maxed aura is broken as hell, but it has quite small AoE. But your spirit carries it, so it should compensate that.
   
7. Counters: Clockwerk, Lifestealer, Naga, Pudge, Rubick <---------- focus these guys down first, 90% of the time last spell you cast in scirmish is your Ultimate

Building And skilling.

Elder Titan is known for his Auras, cause his Astral Spirit also gets the buffs. So you wil most of the time buy aura items such as...

• Vladamirs Offering
  
• Shivas Guard
  
• Assault Cuirass
  
• Drums of endurance.
  
• Pipe of insight.
  
• Crimson Guard
  
• Mekanism

Here is my Skill order.


Here is my Building.

As you can see, i choose to start Stout shield. That is like an obious choice, because you wil need suviveabilty against the duel/trilanes, 2 clarityies to help you spam your W as much as possible and keep farming with the sterioid. Later on i rush a Soulring, can be replaced by bottle, depending on your teams rune control. And Power threads cause of your low stat gain.



The Cores is pretty simple,
* Drums as it helps your missing stats, and gives a strong early/mid game.
* BKB helps you set up your stomp without getting interrupted. Also you are a strength hero, so it gives good stats aswell.
* Veil of Discord, is just my own little tricky item. Cause it helps you to deal even more damage with your ulti, and just synegyzes good with other heroes, such as shadowfiend-invoker etc..


The Situationel items, is pretty simple, If you know about the game, you wil probally know what to choose, but if you arnt familiar with aura or atleast these items, i can make some small notes for each of em..



* Scythe of Vyse. A really strong item against heroes with passivs like Void/Pa/Antimage. So your carries/you wil have easier to kill the target enemy.

* Refreshers Orb. Whats better that 35% damage? 70% DAMAGE! Remember, your ulti is enemy "Max hp" so you wil nearly do multi kills by using double ulti. Not really recommended, but its strong if you use it in the right cases.

* Vladamirs Offering. Helps your team with good rosh fighting. Remember you wil need 2+ Meele heroes before its worth it going this item.

* Shivas Guard. Strong active aswell as the Passiv. Kinda much ruins enemy carries attack speed, and grants you a bigger mana pool aswell, so you can cast your spells more. And the active slow also helps setting up the ultimate.

* Crimsonguard. Pretty new item, i dont really know much bout it. If you try it, please leave a comment about some important things bout it. ty :) ♥♥♥♥♥♥

* Heart of Tarrasque. Gives great stats

Originally posted by liquid.net:

Heroes potentially never have to return to their fountain.

* Pipe of insight. Really storng against magic damage teams. * Multiple Insight Auras do not stack.

* Assault Cuirass. Strong damage, good toghter with heavy physical damaging team. Gives great armor stats aswell, for you, and your team.

* Linkens. Great item against Nyx, Orchid carries and Abbysal blade buyers.

*Mekanism. If no support picks it up, its a great item for teamfights, and the aura is strong aswell. with that small regn +. ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

*EDIT Aghanims Scepter. Aghanims now upgrades on Earth Splitter. Really strong, highly recommended.!!! 8 Secs Disarm