Scout guide by NomedSoul

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Trained since youth to be swift,
silent, and deadly, Scouts spend
much of their lives deep in the wild,
apart from their brethren. After the
alliance with the Beast Horde, they
learned yet more ways of the wild,
and turned all their craft to defeating
the Hellbourne. Though many view them
as aloof, none doubt the importance of
Scouts in the war against the daemons
,as the countless enemy corpses, dead
by a single blow, attest.

Stats

Attack Type=Melee
Attack Damage=45-59
Attack Range=128

Movementspeed=315
Turnrate=320
Armor=4.94
MagicArmor=5.5

Strength=17
Agility=21
Intelligence=16

Strength per level=1.9
Agility per level=3.0
Intelligence per level=1.4

Spells
Vanish
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The Scout slips into stealth mode
for a brief time. He is able to backstab
opponents when attacking from stealth mode,
dealing bonus damage.
Level 1 : Applies Vanish to self for 15 seconds, deals 30 damage to first target attacked while in Vanish
Level 2 : Applies Vanish to self for 20 seconds, deals 60 damage to first target attacked while in Vanish
Level 3 : Applies Vanish to self for 25 seconds, deals 90 damage to first target attacked while in Vanish
Level 4 : Applies Vanish to self for 30 seconds, deals 120 damage to first target attacked while in Vanish
Mana cost 50
Cooldown 15 seconds

Vanish effects
+25% movement speed stealthed,
with 0.5 second fade time
unit walking.

Electric Eye
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The Scout places an Electric Eye which provides sight
in an area around the eye. Vision granted by the eye
is obscured by obstacles and reveals invisible units.
The Electric Eye is stealthed, but will be revealed if
an enemy gets close to it.
Level 1 : Places an eye that reveals invisible units, has infinite lifetime. May have 1 Ward up at a time
Level 2 : Places an eye that reveals invisible units, has infinite lifetime. May have 2 Wards up at a time
Level 3 : Places an eye that reveals invisible units, has infinite lifetime. May have 3 Wards up at a time
Level 4 : Places an eye that reveals invisible units, has infinite lifetime. May have 4 Wards up at a time
Mana cost 50
Cooldown 150/120/90/60

Improve Dexterity
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The Scout improves his dexterity,
increasing his chance to evade
incoming attacks and increasing
his chance to critically strike
an opponent.
Level 1 : 5% Evasion 15% chance for a 1.25x Critical Strike
Level 2 : 10% Evasion 15% chance for a 1.50x Critical Strike
Level 3 : 15% Evasion 15% chance for a 1.75x Critical Strike
Level 4 : 20% Evasion 15% chance for a 2.0x Critical Strike
Mana cost n/a
Cooldown n/a

Ultimate

Marksman Shot
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The Scout uses his crossbow to perform
a devastating ranged attack on a single
target unit, damaging and slowing it.
Level 1 : After channeling deals 355 and applies Wounded to target
Level 2 : After channeling deals 505 and applies Wounded to target
Level 3 : After channeling deals 655 and applies Wounded to target
Channeling Time 3/2.25/1.5 seconds
Range 1500/2000/2500
Mana Cost 125/175/250
Cooldown 40/30/20 seconds
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So, now the guide part
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Skill order:
lvl skill
1 Vanish
2 Electric Eye
3 Improve Dexterity
4 Vanish
5 Improve Dexterity
6 Marksman Shot
7 Vanish
8 Improve Dexterity
9 Vanish
10 Improve Dexterity
11 Marksman Shot
12 +
13 +
14 +
15 +
16 Marksman Shot
17 +
18 +
19 +
20 +
21 +
22 +
23 Electric Eye
24 Electric Eye
25 Electric Eye
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Your basic item choice would be:
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Value 450

Passive Bonuses

+6 Strength

+ 1 pack of Runes of the Blight and 1 Mana potion
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First priority, after you chose one of the side lanes – don’t go mid if you don’t HAVE to, you should buy yourself
MARCHERS. Buy them to your stash, don’t leave the line.
When you get 2nd lvl – take Electric Eye, but don’t run for placing the ward near the rune just right away. Wait
until enemies get closer to your tower, and then Vanish and run to the rune. Place the ward near a Tree (if top rune),
or near cliff side (if bottom rune).

!!!PLACE THE WARD!!! Don’t ignore this part – ward makes informed on your enemy
movements on the river, so you, and especially your not invisible pal on the line would become really difficult to gank.

You should constantly annoy your weakest (by HP) opponent by harrasing him – vanish, wait for a good hit, and strike.
Just watch out for you mana pool not get too low that you would be unable to run for it.

Try to last hit creeps and deny your own creeps too – this seems to be giving exp.

If you have a good mate on a line – you’d probably get first blood - good mates are:
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and so on… as you may have noticed – they are Stunners/Nukers – they should stun the target you’ve been hitting in your
Vanish-Hit’n'run pattern, then nuke him, and if he’s not dead – you’ll finish him off. Just don’t get yourself killed, you can,
practically, never leave stealth – just wait for cool down, so you can hit and re-stealth.

Worst enemies i’ve noted are:
these, together:
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this guy is dangerous – very powerful aoe nukes and loads of hp:
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he can see you if you are wounded badly:
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and he can finish you off:
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and
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are bad too – they counter you for a long period, so that others can whack you to death

The fun is, that everyone is dangerous for you. So be smart. You are a menace for everyone also.

Main rule – JUST BE CAREFUL) Don’t let those slowpokes kill you, and then stab them in the back after
slowing them with ulti.

Speaking about ultimate – It’s very strong – loads of damage and snare, but it will shoot only visible target,
so… Vanish, run around trees so enemy doesn’t see you un-stealth – shoot ultimate while he’s creeping,
or otherwise makes himself visible for a long period. then vanish and attack – use your brains,
attack, re-cloak, attack, re-cloak and stalk him – he won’t get away.

So, what i meant to say – Don’t just steal with ultimate, deal your portion of damage too.

You should try to gather these items:
steamboots – strength
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shieldbreaker
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or instead of shieldbreaker, go for mana burning or lighningstrikes – whatever suites you.
I prefer armor reduction.
Then build Wingbow
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Slash
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and
Brutalizer
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Some tricky guys buy him several Riftshards, so he, theoretically, will crit several times on attack
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but i am unsure.

That’s, basically, it. Try, sneak, kill and ambush. And post your comments too.

PS.
If there is
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idiot in enemy team, buy yourself Bound eye
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and pwn him with the help of your nukers and controllers.
He’ll whelp and nag, and scream that you are “**** MH!!!!$%&$&%^!!!!”
That’s so sweet)
PSPS.
Grab some homecoming stones to shatter the dreams of Bloodhunter and Thunderbringer
IF YOUR ASS IS ON FIRE – run for it, prefferably from a safe spot teleporting to the fountain.