Born as the heir to the satyr dominion, Rikimaru was trained by the mightiest warriors of his race. However, the power of the Burning Legion managed to corrupt many of his kind, leaving them as mindless beasts in the forest. Vowing revenge against the Scourge, he sharpened his skills for battle. Using his small size to his advantage, he can render himself invisible, enabling him to stab his enemies in the back. And by using thick smoke as cover he becomes nearly untouchable.



Range: 125 | Move Speed: 300
Primary: AGI
Str: 17 + 2 | Agi: 22 + 2.9 | Int: 14 + 1.3
Damage: 46 – 50 | HP: 473 | Mana: 182
HP Regen: 0.76 | Mana Regen: 0.57
Attack Speed: 1.29 | Armor: 6

Smoke Screen : Throws a smoke bomb down in the area, silencing opponents and causing them to miss on most of their attacks. Also slows by 25% at all levels. Doesn`t silence item spells. Lasts 7 seconds.
Level 1 - 250 AoE, 50% miss.
Level 2 - 275 AoE, 60% miss.
Level 3 - 300 AoE, 70% miss.
Level 4 - 325 AoE, 80% miss.
Mana Cost: 75/ 80/ 85/ 90
Cooldown: 15

Blink Strike : Teleports to an enemy and strikes at it, dealing bonus damage.
Level 1 - Deals 30 extra damage.
Level 2 - Deals 60 extra damage.
Level 3 - Deals 90 extra damage.
Level 4 - Deals 120 extra damage.
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 30/ 20/ 10/ 5

Backstab : The Stealth Assassin isn`t afraid to fight dirty, and specializes in attacking his opponents from behind.
Level 1 - Deals .25x the Agility of the SA to the target.
Level 2 - Deals .5x the Agility of the SA to the target.
Level 3 - Deals .75x the Agility of the SA to the target.
Level 4 - Deals 1x the Agility of the SA to the target.
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A

Permanent Invisibility : Hero becomes permanently invisible when not attacking.
Level 1 - 3.5 second fade time.
Level 2 - 2.5 second fade time.
Level 3 - 1.5 second fade time.
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A

Skills Build:
1 Smoke Screen
2 Blink Strike
3 Backstab
4 Blink Strike
5 Blink Strike
6 Permanent Invisibility
7 Blink Strike
8 Backstab
9 Backstab
10 Backstab
11 Permanent Invisibility
12 Smoke Screen
13 Smoke Screen
14 Smoke Screen
15 Stats
16 Permanent Invisibility
17 Stats
18 Stats
19 Stats
20 Stats
21 Stats
22 Stats
23 Stats
24 Stats
25 Stats

Items Build:



Priority: 2 Circlet of Nobility(s), 2 Slipper of Agility(s), Boot of Speed, 2 Wraith Band recipes, 2 Boot of Elvenskin(s), Glove Haste, Powet Tread Recipe, Blade of Alacrity, Yasha recipe, Blade of Alacrity, Yasha recipe, Sacred Relic, Radiance recipe.

I bulid Rikimaru with all-about-agility. Set PT in Agility mode and complete 2 yasha(s) . In the late game, you can sell WB for Eaglehorn and upgrade it to the Butterfly! If the game continues and you're a greed person, sell another WB for MKB's slot. I prefer MKB than Buriza since Rikimaru's core is damage, not AS. You need high AS to use Buriza effectively. MKB offers 30% +100dmg and Buriza 20% 2.2x crit strike. It's nice if the critical actives when you blink strike ((base dmg + 120dmg + your agility)*2.2). But the main point is, you deal high damage in a strike. That's Rikimaru's style. I prefer MKB after all.

How to play:
I don't like solo for this hero. In early game, this hero is very weak and has nothing to do but farming. Place Riki with range enemy is bad idea. Try to line up with baby-sitting hero like Omniknight, Crystal Maiden, Treant or Holy Knight. Full your BS and backstab first bcause they're your only weapon to kill. Get 1lvl SS to drive out your enemy from farming field so you can easily hit and deny creeps. If the situation becomes hard (you're solo and face double team Mirana+Traxex or Luna+Lion, example), you can farm neutral creeps. Hunt the EXP and gold. After that, your BS+SS will be a deadly play (i hope).

Best Ally(S) : Omniknight, Crystal Maiden, Treant Protector, Holy Knight, Vengeful Spirit.
Worst Enemy(s) : Phantom Ass, Earthshaker, Axe, Stone Giant. Read More..

A treant of immense age and wisdom, Rooftrellen was merely a sapling during the invasion of the Burning Legion. Having grown powerful over thousands of years, Rooftrellen has lent his considerable might to the Sentinel cause. An omnipresent force in the forest, he is capable using his power over the forest to hide his allies. Rooftrellen is aided by the forest itself, providing him with a thick living armor of vines and entangling nearby foes in a deadly embrace, allowing Rooftrellen to pound his victims to dust with his massive gnarled limbs.

Range: 100 | Move Speed: 300
Primary: STR
Str: 27 + 3.4 | Agi: 15 + 2 | Int: 17 + 1.8
Damage: 59 – 67 | HP: 663 | Mana: 221
HP Regen: 1.06 | Mana Regen: 0.69
Attack Speed: 1.48 | Armor: 3

Nature's Guise : Changes a target friendly unit's appearance so that it blends in with the forest. It is invisible to enemies eyes, but it must remain near a tree, or the guise is lost.
Level 1 - Lasts 15 seconds.
Level 2 - Lasts 30 seconds.
Level 3 - Lasts 45 seconds.
Level 4 - Lasts 60 seconds.
Mana Cost: 90/80/70/60
Cooldown: 3 seconds

Eye in the Forest : Creates a spiritual link between Rooftrellen and a target tree, allowing Rooftrellen to see the tree's surrounding area at all times. Vision improves slightly per level. Very large cast range.
Level 1 - 300 second cooldown.
Level 2 - 225 second cooldown.
Level 3 - 150 second cooldown.
Level 4 - 75 second cooldown.
Mana Cost: 100/75/50/25
Cooldown: 300/225/150/75 seconds

Living Armor : Magically creates an armor of vines around a friendly unit or structure, protecting it from harm and healing wounds.
Level 1 - Adds 3 armor and regenerates 1 hit point per second.
Level 2 - Adds 6 armor and regenerates 2 hit points per second.
Level 3 - Adds 9 armor and regenerates 3 hit points per second.
Level 4 - Adds 12 armor and regenerates 4 hit points per second.
Mana Cost: 30/35/40/40
Cooldown: 7 seconds

Overgrowth : Summons an overgrowth of damaging vines and branches. Prevents all nearby enemies from moving or attacking and deals 85 damage per second to each.
Level 1 - Lasts 3 seconds.
Level 2 - Lasts 4 seconds.
Level 3 - Lasts 5 seconds.
Mana Cost: 150/175/200
Cooldown: 160 seconds

Skills Build:
1 Living Armor
2 Nature's Guise
3 Living Armor
4 Living Armor
5 Eye in the Forest
6 Overgrowth
7 Living Armor
8 Attribute Bonus
9 Stats
10 Stats
11 Stats
12 Stats
13 Stats
14 Stats
15 Stats
16 Stats
17 Stats
18 Stats
19 Stats
20 Eye in the Forest
21 Eye in the Forest
22 Eye in the Forest
23 Nature's Guise
24 Nature's Guise
25 Nature's Guise

Items Build:



Priority: 2 Circlet of nobility, 2 Gauntlet of ogre srengths, 2 Bracer's recipes, Boot of speed, Mask of Death, Mask of Madness's recipe, Sobi mask, Robe of Magi, Quaterstaff, Ring of Health, Void Stone, Refresher orb's recipe, Glove Haste, Boot of Elvenskin, Power Tread recipe. After that, up to u :D

Refresher Orb is important to refresh his ultimate skill's cooldown since it's 160s, quite long. 2 Heart of Tarrasque is standard Strength Hero's items. A radiance will add more damage to him and MoM, is the first item that must be completed in early game. MoM'll give 75% IAS and increase movement's speed too. Power Tread in Agility mode for 30% IAS will help you killing.

How to play:
Rooftrellen is a good baby-sitting hero. Spam your Living Armor to your allies and yourself since it has short CD and low mana cost. Farming will be easy in early game with this skill. His Overgrowth is very valuable. Use this when your enemy try to run and make sure to active the MoM first. Be a leader in the ganking mission and be a nice tanker by following the rule (first in last out). Dont worry, your "little" strength and Living Armor will help the survive.

Best Ally(s) : Faceless void, Bristleback, Slayer, Earthshaker
Worst Enemy(s) : Lifestealer, Nerubian Assassin, Enchantress, Demon witch Read More..

While I play Mangix and found myself lose (death more than 15 times), I'll sell all items, buy a ton of Chicken Couriers and use them. Select all chickens with Mangix included. After that, move this grup to enemy's fountain and keep chat, "I'm a civilian! I'm only a farmer and let me go please!"

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After release of Dota allstars 6.59d, some bugs had founded and it's not trivial bugs. Here some bugs via dota-allstars-blog:

• Spirit Breaker is keeping his maximum speed form of charge even though his charging state is over when Spirit Breaker charge Leviathan.
• Luna's Eclipse never stop. The procedure is unknown.

and when I'm surfing for search 6.59d bugs, I found a video where Ursa Warrior become invulnerable without special items :o

Is there any other bugs?

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The beta version of v6.60 dota map has leaked. Here's the changelog

• Replace all the heroes tavern into top left of the map. There're 9 taverns:
  Sentinel Strength Tavern, Sentinel Agility Tavern, Sentinel Intelligence Tavern
  Neutrals Strength Tavern, Neutrals Agility Tavern, Neutrals Intelligence Tavern
  Scourge Strength Tavern, Scourge Agility Tavern, Scourge Intelligence Tavern
  (Neutrals Hero can be picked by either Scourge or Sentinel)
  
• All Razor skill is remade, except for his Chain Lightning
  
• Viper 2nd skill was remade, replace Frenzy with Nethertoxin (passive, give additional damage depends on enemy's health)

And 2 new heroes, Tauren Chieftain (Sentinel Strength) and Bat Rider (Neutral Intelligence). Bat Rider is old hero and appears in previous maps on Fun Tavern. You can type -fun for game modes for activing the Fun Tavern (you can try it in v6.58 or v6.59).
Not only that, there're 2 new items too! The items and their recipes:

• Magic Wand
  Magic stick + 3 x Ironwood Branch + Recipe (150)
  +3 all attribute and Energy Charge (up to 15, Magic Stick only 10)
• Force Staff
  Quarterstaff + Staff of Wizardry + Recipe (700)
  Give +10 Int, +10 Damage, +10 Attack Speed and Force ability (Active)
  Force can push enemy 500 units on the direction he is faced

Magic Wand is Magic Stick's upgrade, has Energy Charge to restore a bit of hero's health and mana. And Force Staff, is awesome item! The Force ability is like SpiritBreaker's passive skill, Greater Bash!
Unfortunately, it's still beta version and not official releases. But beta version is not bad for a try.

Get Dota map 6.60 Beta21

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