DrTran’s Chronos Guide
Chronos is an epic hero who by end game becomes a carry that you team relies on for just pretty much kicking the s**t out of every hero.

Item Build
1) Circlet (2) (Pretenders Crown)
2) Tangos (Runes of the Blight)
3) Healing Salve
4)Slippers (2) (Duck Boots)
5) Wrath bands (2) (Soulscream Ring)
6) Boots of speed (Marchers)
7) Gloves of Haste (Gloves of the Swift)
8)boots of the Elvenskin (bolstering Armband)
9) Power Treads (Steamboots)
10) Mask of Death (Hungry Spirit)
11)Mask of Madness (Elder Parasite)
12) Quarterstaff (Steamstaff)
13) Eaglehorn (Dancing Blade)
14) Butterfly (Wingbow)
15) Blades of Attack (Punchdagger)
16) Broadswoard (Broadsword)
17) Crystalsis (RiftShards)
18)Demon Edge (Slayer)
19) Buriza (Flayer)
20)Ultimate Orb (2) (Blessed Orb)
21) Point Booster (Glowstone)
22) Eye of Skadi (FrostWolf’s Skull)
23)Messerschmidt’s Reaver (Axe of the Malphi)
24) Vitality Booster (Beastheart)
25) Heart (Behemoth’s Heart)
Final Item Build
1)Power treads (1850) (Steamboots)
2)Mask Madness (1900) (Elder Parasite)
3)Butterfly (6000) (Wingbow)
4) Buriza (5800) (Flayer)
5)EoS (6150) (FrostWolf’s Skull)
6) Heart (5500) (Behemoth’s Heart)
Skills
1) Time Walk, this is kinda like a blink, except it wont be used until you are in the range that you clicked in, but when maxed out you can basically use this about a screen length away.Slows units at end of path mana cost: 120 (HoN name: Timeleap)
2)Backtrack, this is an evasion (HoN name: Rewind)
3)Time lock, this is a bash, nothing more nothing less, it comes pretty clutch, does not stack with cranium basher. (HoN name: Time Freeze)
4) Chronosphere, stops everything inside of the sphere except you, attacks coming from the outside will still hit though. (HoN name: Chronofield)
Skill Build
1. Time Walk (Timeleap)
2. Time Lock (Time Freeze)
3.Time Lock (Time Freeze)
4. Backtrack (Rewind)
5. time lock (Time Freeze)
6. Chronosphere (Chronofield)
7. Time lock (Time Freeze)
8. Backtrack (Rewind)
9. Backtrack (Rewind)
10. Backtrack (rewind)
11. Chronosphere (Chronofield)
12-14. Time Walk (Timeleap)
15. Skills
16. Chronosphere (Chronofield)
17-25. Skills.
The reason a point goes into time walk first is because it is a great escape skill, and after that the first goal is to max out bash because it allows you to pummel someone without them running away.
Early Game
Early in the game, my strategy is always to go with a teammate and harass the opposing hero as much as possible. This will allow you to get ahead by causing them to get behind. This technique is for those who aren’t absolutely amazing at the game, Along with this, it is always smart to last hit and deny kills as much as possible. Now if it is hard to harass them, or if they are soloing, i try to just farm as much as i can and for as long as possible before running back to the base. It is always a good idea to go top or bottom lane and make good use of the side shop.
Mid Game
I normally Split mid game into 2 parts. And in the first half of mid game, its important to farm as much as possible and it is more important here than ever not to die. The item you are most likely saving up to buy is the butterfly, which is expensive, so really once you die once you just keep getting set back more and more. Then once you get your Wingbow, you can truly start to become the great hero that Chronos is. Then once you get your buriza, you can really start making bitches pay.
Late Game
The basic idea of late game is to walk around, and kill as many heroes as you can, at this point, if you really want you can trade the Steamboots for the boots of travel to make long distance traveling much easier. At this point you should be staying with at least one teammate at all times and just pushing into their base to win the game.
UPDATE I
Added the HoN names next to all items and skills
Update II
Changed the strat up a bit, made it more readable.
This guide is not complete. You cant just pop in and tell the items to get because it always change… Butterfly is not good agaisnt a caster team because you dont use the 30% avoidance. Then solo with chronos is totaly dumb you will try to get a carry but never solo then mid game farm its dumb. Overall i think your guide is bad and incomplete.
Sorry m8
Get rid of the bfly and who cares about a heart or the freeze orb? you wont even need those….Get steam boots hack and slash elder parasite and crit weapon and your set.Or get the warpcleft instead of hack and slash but really thats all you need for early-mid game and late get what ever.
I didnt like the guide, because is not too symply, is really hard to understand, and nobody can get ALL of this itens, put some fotos or links and it will be Ok
Seriously, this is a Heroes of Newerth website.
Do you absolutely HAVE to list what the items and abilities WOULD be if I were playing DotA? Because last time I checked, this is a Heroes of Newerth guide about a Heroes of Newerth character. It’s a waste of time and space, and makes reading this guide much harder than it is worth.
for first>HoN is Dota practically. For second> this `guide` sucks… some noob aw
you should make crystalis before wingbow
why on earth would u ever solo with chronos? And you should of added more on the importence of ganking with chronos. Chronos is a star at ganking and helping his team back ( His Uilt, Chronofield, DUH)
4/10 bad item useage also.
Pretty average guide. Item build is just so unrealistic. I don’t see the point of Wingbow, EoS or Behemoth Heart. Evasion from Wingbow doesn’t stack with Backtrack and is just wasted. I really dont understand why you get EoS. I think your telling us to get it cause it helps a chase especially with Timeleap but the cost is just to much. Farming that just slows you from getting your core items. Plain confused about heart. Also, you need enchanted marchers for the AS.
Items you should get:
Enchanted Marchers
Thunderclaw
Elder Parasite
Staff of the Masters
(Cooldown changed to 70, duration 6 seconds)
Maybe Alchemist Bones for extra dps, Riftshards for crits or upgrade your Thunderclaw to Charged Hammer.
Hope this helps.
u wrote skills instead of stats
Geomenter’s bane for chronos + timesphere = 66% extra damage
Not a realistic build, and don’t ever solo with Chronos. Wingbow evasion should stack diminishingly with Rewind, because Rewind is a pseudo-evasion. Also, images do fake bashes, which do not stun but make the swirly stun symbol on the enemy’s head, and fake bashes are prolonged by Chronos’ real bashes, so Geometer’s bane is not viable.
My mistake, images actually CAN proc real bashes in HoN.
For the starters, Flayer is not Buriza and power treads dont cost 1850.
But more importantly, this build is totally unrealistic – the opponent wont EVER let u save 6k for butter, unless their IQ is 50. Gotta do cheap things before and if the game gets very late, buy butter then. in conclusion, this build would work only if the game was already won (and you would be buying your 3rd item at that time…)
this just gives chronos a bad name…
poor mans sheild (cant think of hon name)
enhanced marchers
elder parasite
geometers bane
thunderclaw
crit (if u get fed)
the more attack speed the more bash=GG
afaik 2x wraith, MoM, aghanims, bfly etc.
skadi pretty useless if uhave MoM anyway cuz u play AS for bash
and its enough to skill timewalk on lvl1….it just max the slow and if u wanna escape u just need the leap not the slow so u are pretty weak early game without skilling bash max first
bad guide. where’s the farming tips, good allies and enemies. and getting frostwolf skull and behe’s heart is stupid, savage mace is better.
@baal, hack and slash is a fail. its rather expensive and for what? more m/s and a/s? doesnt elder parasite and steamboots do the job? wingbow is for evasion as well, with ranged heroes whacking from outside the chron field, you’ll be dead if those heroes are heroes like arachna, engineer and forsaken archer. i’d rather go with geo’s bane.
@boneheadd. farming isnt hard. unless you’re a noob. and i think you are. you have 4 other players. there’s hopefully a tanker and some disables. when they go ganking you just farm near. anything happens. jump in for the kills, i dont think they will scold you for that.
can someone of u “PRO’S” make a guide that is good then
Fail item build >>> Core should be Thunder claw & GEOMETERS BANE. best item on chronos EVER
The best option is Geometer’s Bane. Your illusions will proc stuns and it works great as an escape if your leap is refreshing. DPS is hugely increased as well. This guide was so shitty lol. Admin, please delete this guide so someone else will step up with a better one. Thanks!
this is stupid. Theres no way that you could get all of those items with an hour of the game start. Tells you nothing about chronos. and flayer doesnt exist anymore, its riftshards. you need geometer’s bane as an option he rocks with it and stun. Take the last 4 items out, put geometer’s bane in, that should make items better. This is just a terrible guide though.
i have been playing with cronos and what it really worked for me was…..the shield that gives u 6 agiliti and 100% to block 20 damage from heros. Thats usefull to avoid the hard work to survive at the biggining with cronos. Then i rather buy ghost marchers really use full i it gives u a little bit more movement speed than steam boots and u can active it without any mana cost to haste your self 14% movement i think for 6 seconds and has a really low cd. Very usefull indeed. Then elder parasite not much explanation with it u can start killing almost any weak hero completely alone just time leap cronosphere active elder parasite and enjor the 100% attack speed of it while he is defendless. Then i choosed sange and sasha very ussefulls stats and atack speed and slows target very cool. Then u should buy items in order the enemy heros.
my english is not so good this days but i hope u all take a read and give me your thinks.
I will try for the geometers bane. Another advantage of making sange and sasha i dont remeber it names in the hon( the fire and the frost blade) is that their componends doesnt have a really high cost so u will be enjoing some of their bonus and has a lot of less risk of loosing money.
I’m a Warcraft 3 Player,
This is an exact mirror of the Faceless Void Build in DoTA. I haven’t quite gotten used to HON yet, but i’m sure the build should not be exactly the same as FV for DoTA.
Do some more research before you post a guide and kill all the people that use it
For me it works best with chronos with these items in this row..
Steamboots
Iron Shield
Elder Parasite
Riftshards (full)
and Starving mace
It rocks!!
P.S.
Wingbow is not needed with the speciel from elder parasite …
waste of gold.
in dota i used to buy him (mkb)(savage strike)
i think it fits him well…
I usually start up with hatchet and a iron buckler + food. Later on i get my stone shield and 1 soulscream or bracer + boots. Farm up elder parasite fast and you will rape hard in chronofield.. Dont forget that your ulti is probably the best in the game for teamfights and solofights so dont use it wrong. After that i farm up savage mace which gives massive damage. Then geo orb, thunderclaw, crit, frostburn.. yeah all works
This guide is one of the worst guides ever. It is incomplete and with close to retarded item builds. Why on earth would you buy 2 boots of speed? They don’t even stack with eachother. Sorry to say it but I wouldn’t follow this guide even if my life depended on it.
whats a flayer? never saw it in hon
Ok,Here goes a realistic guide for cronos(Not his Dota counterpart):
Steamboots(You need the AS early on to get something out of ur cronosphere and it stacks with Firebrand(Not Hack anymore))
Firebrand(Good midgame item and needed for GeoBane)
GeoBane(If u find yourself desperately behind,make the Elder Parasite now)
Elder Parasite(By now not really needed, but helpful so u can heal off creeps)
IF you haven’t won yet,make Wingbow if you’re chased by ranged or Warpcleft for added pwn(and you can use it to make charged hammer)
Pwn.
I’ve been very successfull with:
Health Potion, Tangos, Hatchet, Slippers
Upgrade Slippers into Iron Shield
Power Treads, Elder Parasite, if a miss is called you go jungling instead of farming on Lane.
Thunnderclaw, Geometers Bane. You should be ready to end the game.
Best lanemate: Demented Shaman
Worst enemies: Defiler, Electrician, Arachna, early on lane Silencer.
This is a HoN website, not DoTA and this is a Chronos Guide, not a Faceless Void Guide so you can’t just walk in and tell everything about chronos. And for the item build, the other team must suck really much or you would be hacking to get that much money to buy them before endgame. Please provide a Chronos guide next time. And use HoN names and maybe DoTA in bracets. This isn’t DoTA.
For a really hardcore chronos i ussaly go:
Steamboots
Elder Parasite
Savage Mace
Staff Of The Master
Wingbow
Riftshards
y dont u put rewind first, then you dont have to buy as much food at the start saving you lots of money.
its a good guide…. for learner chronos. who wouldnt get rewind first? its he’s ability that keeps him alive. he’s skillsare basicly keeping him alive early game theres no point getting time freeze. this is the proper skill build.
1.rewind(chance to dodge nukes and auto attacks)
2.timeleap(to escape from dying)
3.rewind
4.time freeze
5.rewind
6.time freeze
7.rewind time
8.time freeze
9.time freeze
this is if your getting babysat
1.time freeze
2.rewind
3.time freeze
4.time leap
5.time freeze
6.chronofield
7.time freeze
8.rewind
9.rewind
you see how different it is? when your getting babysat the babysitter should do the harrassing while you freefarm. if you got no babysitter and they do then you gotta play defensively. if you go up to kill/deny a creep and you get nuked then theres a 25% chance (lv 4) that it will get ALL of it back.
the item build is pretty simple. if they have magebane or a hard carry like yourself, go this build.
steamboots (agi)
savage mace
wingbow
behemoth heart(it gives you bonus tankage and 10%+ to all abilities.)
riftshards
anything you want or if they got invis get an eye. (dont save it for the token because your initiator should grab that)
if they dont have hard carry
steamboots (agi)
riftshards
savage mace
elder parasite
shieldbreaker
wingbow.
pretty much anything that will get most of them dead in your ultimate asap.
Daninja’s skill build is fail. Max time leap and rewind, your ult when u can, and curse of the ages. One of the best item builds is runed axe to help u do damage and farm, then elder parasite to help u kill in your ult, then savage, then riftshards. GG.
Oh and steamboots after runed axe.
ELDER P.
THUNDERCLAW
WINGBOW
RIFTSHARDS
doesnt matter whats happening, u are a killing machine after these.
depending on the game shrunken head works fine after elder. stuners rape chronos.