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Skill Build
1 – Call of Winter
2 – Piercing Shards
3 – Call of Winter
4 – Piercing Shards
5 – Call of Winter
6 – Avalance
7 – Call of Winter
8 – Piercing Shards
9 – Piercing Shards
10 – Stats
11 – Avalance
12 – Coldblooded
13 – Coldblooded
14 – Coldblooded
15 – Coldblooded
16 – Avalance
17 – Stats+
23 – Grapple+

Justification / Modifications:
Call of Winter at level one to scout runes/rune ganks.
Maxing Call of Winter before Shards when laning is better since you will get strong harass (Coeurl) and good Scouting (Shiver) in one spell while Shards only offer damage. You don’t have the mana to support Shards and Call.
If you are jungling, max shards first, followed by Call of Winter.

Lane Starting Items:
Runes of the Blight, Mana Potion, Bolstering Armband

Core:
Bottle >> Marchers >> Puzzlebox >> Post Haste

You are starting with a Bolstering Armband for extra HP/dmg and for a faster Puzzlebox. Your aim is to get Puzzlebox as fast as you can.
Bottle is required since Tundra is very mana hungry and your skills are very powerful. It is also a good ganking tool.
Once you got Puzzlebox Level 3 you should get Post Haste. The Aura from the Box + Post Haste allow you to chase/gank very effectively. Also your role towards the later stages of the game will shift from Ganker more to Pusher. Post Haste are the best pushing item.

After Core:
Daemonic Breastplate >> Kuldra’s Sheepstick

Everything here can be considered Luxury. Breastplate and Sheepstick are both semi-support items that offer a lot to the team which is a criteria you should have in mind playing Tundra.

Alternative Items:

Portal Key: Not having to waste 1+ seconds of Avalance stun when running at your target to beat on it can make the difference. Can also serve as semi-initiation. Get it after your core if you want one.

30-Seconds-Guide:
- When casting Call of Winter group yourself with the dog (Coeurl) and put the bird (Shiver) in another control group. Use Shiver to scout and Coeurl (+yourself) to harass.
- Either use Shiver at a rune spot as a mobile Ward or actively move him around to spot for ganks. Make use of the Patrol command.
- You maybe wanna share control over your hero to your allies so they can help you maintain good map control with Shiver. It is near impossible to always keep moving Shiver while playing your hero.
- It is important to cast Piercing Shards at max distance since this will increase the speed at which the Shards travel. The shorter the distance you cast them, the slower they travel and the higher is the chance you will miss. So cast them ahead/behind of the enemy hero.
- Avalance is considered one of the best ultimates in the game at level 6. It is best used in ganking, so gank a lot in early/mid game.
- To gank: Cast Call of Winter -> Avalance -> Puzzlebox -> attack with all units -> Manaburn with Puzzlebox -> Cast Piercing Shards at max distance.
- Later into the game you should switch to pushing mode and try to get towers down with all your pets. You can even suicide them into a tower to get a fair bit of damage done. Don’t push every lane all the time tho, your carries also want some safe farming.
- Tundra can jungle (or at least its dota counterpart can). I will try to record a short video or something of him jungling.

Counters:
- Kill Shiver on sight to deny map control.
- If he uses Shards, move sidewards to only get hit by one Shard.
- Wards are the most important thing if you don’t want to get ganked into oblivion.
- Once he switches to Pushing Mode you should have people carrying TPs at all times.

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Updated to 1.0.2

Skill Build
1 – Shell Surf
2 – Take Cover
3 – Song of the Sea
4 – Song of the Sea
5 – Song of the Sea
6 – Kelp Field
7 – Song of the Sea
8 – Shell Surf
9 – Shell Surf
10 – Shell Surf
11 – Kelp Field
12 – Take Cover
13 – Take Cover
14 – Take Cover
15 – Stats
16 – Kelp Field
17 – Stats+

Justification / Modifications:
One level of Shell Surf for escaping.
One level of Take Cover to avoid Stuns/Nukes.
Max Song of the Sea first since it is much easier to hit than Shell Surf and 3 Seconds silence is incredibly good and much better than the 40 extra damage from Shell Surf.

Starting Items:
Monkey Courier or Wards of Sight, Runes of the Blight, Health Potion, 3x Minor Totem, Mana Potion

Core:
Bottle >> Marchers >> Power Supply >> 1-2 Fortified Bracers >> Post Haste OR Plated Greaves

Bubbles is a ganker and thus profits a lot from Bottle and Power Supply. Basic Marchers are enough for the start.
Get 1-2 bracers to help him over his squishy-ness.
Post Haste are the best boots on him to be able to TP around the map and help pushing/defending. If you can’t afford them get Plated Greaves.
Also dont forget to keep buying wards.

After Core:
Get those 4 items in any order. Start with the ones you need most. Frostfield Plate: If you need more initiation and if their team mainly consists of physical damage dealers.
Kuldra’s Sheepstick: If they heavily rely on one hero to carry them.
Portal Key: Allows you to reliably escape after using Take cover.
Bloodstone: If none of the other options are a priority.

Information:
Roles: Ganker, Supporter
Properties: Nuker, Pusher, Babysitter
Prefered Lane: Any
Difficulty: 4 – Hard
Farming capabilities: 4 – Good
Item dependancy: 2 – Low
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Strong
- Mid Game / Ganks: 5 – Very Strong (Strong Ganker)
- Late Game / Team Fights: 4 – Strong (Good initiation and Team fight presence)

30-Seconds-Guide:
- In the beginning you should usually not put Take Cover on autocast and use it manually to dodge spells. Later you can put it on autocast. Unless you have very high APM to actually use it effectively.
- Shellsurf, Teleport -> Song of the Sea -> Kelp Field is a very strong gank combo starting in midgame.
- If you have a Portal Key you can use Take cover to let the 3 second cooldown on PK wear off and then blink away safely.
- Try to initiate next to the caster heroes to silence them asap.
- Bubbles is very flexible and fits most lineups and thus is most of the time a solid pick.

Counters:
- An early Mystic Vestments should help against the harassment.
- Bubbles has very low hp and can relatively easy be focused down.
- Bubbles is a ganking hero, so wards do a good job at seeing him coming and thus preventing you from getting ganked.
- Shell Surf can be dodged if you see it coming.
- Spread out in Team Fights so he can’t hit all of you with his AoE Silence (500 AoE @ level 4)
- Vindicator’s aura will make bubble’s life hell. Not allowing him to TP to his shell and not allowing him to chain his spells.

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I’m splitting each hero into their own post because when updating from his guide this will be.. A LOT easier on me, and you can enjoy a quicker update than normal.

Special thanks to Newti, the creator of this guide.

Updated to 1.0.2

Skill Build
1 – Regurgitate
2 – Corpse Conversion
3 – Corpse Conversion
4 – Demonic Pathogen
5 – Corpse Conversion
6 – Hell on Newerth
7 – Corpse Conversion
8 – Demonic Pathogen
9 – Demonic Pathogen
10 – Demonic Pathogen
11 – Hell on Newerth
12 – Regurgitate
13 – Regurgitate
14 – Regurgitate
15 – Stats
16 – Hell on Newerth
17 – Stats+

Justification / Modifications:
One level of Regurgitate early to generate Corpses. Slow and number of corpses stay the same across all levels, thus levels 2-4 can be delayed.
Max out Corpse Conversion as your main skill.

Lane Starting Items:
Logger’s Hatchet, Runes of the Blight, Healing Potion, 2x Minor Totem, Mana Potion

Core:
Plated Greaves >> Power Supply >> Abyssal Skull

Plated Greaves increase the damage of your minions by 20%, giving you very fast Movement speed and Survivability. A must have.
Abyssal Skull further increases the damage of your minions to a total of 35%! And provides some good Auras including Lifesteal, Mana reg and Armor.

After Core:

Tablet of Command >> Barrier Idol / Behemoth’s Heart

Tablet is much better than PK on Balphagore as he will already be in combat when he needs to reposition himself to cast the ultimate and there is no 3 sec cooldown on ToC when you get hit.
Then get Heart and Barrier Idol in order of what you need first considering the enemy lineup.

Alternative Items:

Ring of Sorcery: Allows you to harass more and gives some nice team support but greaty delays your pushing potential with greaves and skull.
Bottle: Cheap alternative to Ring of Sorcery.

Information:
Roles: Ganker
Properties: Pusher, Tank
Preffered Lane: Long/Short
Difficulty: 3 – Medium
Farming capabilities: 4 – Good
Item dependency:3 – Medium
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Strong
- Mid Game / Ganks: 4 – Strong (Sick pusher)
- Late Game / Team Fights: 4 – Strong (Good ulti and very tanky)

30-Seconds-Guide:
- One of your biggest strengths is to gank a hero with your minions then instantly go on and push that lane with the remaining minions. This puts extreme pressure on the other team and is very effective with Plated Greaves and Abyssal Skull.
- Pick up corpses even when you reached the cap. They will still give you 25 HP each!
- Regurgitate can be used as a cheap heal. With Corpse Conversion on level 4 it will regenerate 150 HP from those 6 Corpses for just 100 Mana.
- You can move while casting regurgitate. So you can activate it and run after an enemy to catch up / let your minions catch up and slow him further.
- Always try to get at least 40 Charges before using your ultimate.

Counters:
- The Minions are very vulnerable to any form of AoE damage.
- If you get silenced, run away from your team mates so the curse will not spread.

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Special thanks to Newti, the creator of this guide.

Updated to 1.0.2

Skill Build
1 – Infernal Instability
2 – Grapple
3 – Infernal Instability
4 – Cripple
5 – Infernal Instability
6 – Gauntlet Blast
7 – Infernal Instability
8 – Cripple
9 – Cripple
10 – Cripple
11 – Gauntlet Blast
12 – Stats
13 – Stats
14 – Stats
15 – Stats
16 – Gauntlet Blast
17 – Stats+
23 – Grapple+

Justification / Modifications:
Infernal Instability is what makes or breaks Gauntlet in his current state. Grapple and Cripple are both very lackluster. While Cripple serves as an Anti-Carry tool Grapple is just inferior to stats except the first level. Grapple is very situational already and 1.5 sec silence is not enough to compensate for 6 stats.

Lane Starting Items:
Logger’s Hatchet, Runes of the Blight, Healing Potion, 2x Minor Totem, Mana Potion

Core:
Bottle >> Marchers >> Power Supply >> Ghost Marchers >> Storm Spirit

Bottle and Power Supply for his mana hungry spells and low Mana pool. Ghost Marchers to close up once you activate Infernal Instability and finally Storm Spirit for more mana and as the ultimate ganking tool.
Throw a hero into the air, run up and hit him with everything you’ve got.

After Core:
Shrunken Head >> Daemonic Breastplate

Gauntlet loses efficiency as the game goes on and he is not able to truly carry. These items help him to stay alive in team fights to hopefully allow him more than one big punch.

Alternative Items:

Portal Key: You can get this in place of Storm Spirit. It serves the same purpose just without the Manareg attached to it. Its a matter of taste but I find that Storm Spirit gets the job done good enough.

Information:
Roles: Ganker
Properties: Nuker, Anti-Carry
Preffered Lane: Long/Short
Difficulty: 3 – Medium
Farming capabilities: 4 – Good (Instability)
Item dependency: 3 – Medium
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Stong (Smack ‘em)
- Mid Game / Ganks: 5 – Very Strong (Smack ‘em some more)
- Late Game / Team Fights: 2 – Weak (Tickle ‘em. No Teamfight presence.)

30-Seconds-Guide:
- Activating Instability when you use your Ultimate is a very strong combo for 400 Magic + 400 True damage!
- After using storm spirit run up to your target and smack him with instability. Then pound him and finish off with your Ulti (can be caculated precisely since its true damage). Save Grapple to cancel chanelling spells.
- Unfortunately you can’t do anything else but this.
- Btw, i don’t recommend using instability with grapple, as it is very easy to miss with that, wasting 2 spells.
- You can also use Instability defensively. When you have 3 Charges and activate it, it will ignore all slow effects, allowing you to escape.

Counters:
- Any form of CC is good.
- Except for his initial burst, gauntlet won’t do much. No need to worry much about him. He also loses power drasticly as the game goes to lategame.
- Try to keep him off your Carry.

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Updated to: 1.0.2

Skill Build

1 -Scythe Stance
2 – Burning Shadows
3 – Burning Shadows
4 – Cull
5 – Burning Shadows
6 – Reflection
7 – Burning Shadows
8 – Cull
9 – Cull
10 – Cull
11 – Reflection
12 – Stats
13 – Stats
14 – Stats
15 – Stats
16 – Reflection
17 – Stats+
23 – Scythe Stance+
Justification / Modifications:
In my opinion Scythe Stance is superior to Shadow Stance since you want the ranged stun and melee nuke. Therefore you get 1 point into Scythe Stance right away and switch to that.
Maxxing Burning Shadows over Cull is a matter of taste, but i prefer the ranged stun.
Mid- & Lategame Stats is actually better than more points into Scythe Stance in almost every aspect.

Lane Starting Items:
Runes of the Blight, Healing Potion, Logger’s Hatchet, 2x Minor Totem, Mana Potion

Core:
Bottle >> Marchers >> Power Supply >> Steamboots >> Soulscream Ring

Even though she is a semi-carry, at heart she is a ganker. And she needs those ganking items.

After Core:

Geometer’s Bane >> Nullfire Blade >> Wingbow

Get a Nullfire first if your team needs to counter Hellbringer, Hammerstorm or Dark Lady.
Geometer’s to get some HP and burst damage after your ultimate.
Nullfire for the Synergy with Geo and for the purge slow.

Alternative Items:
- Codex. Yep I said it. Codex might actually be good on her. I didn’t test it yet, but it was good on pub Nerubian Assassin and thus it most likely will work on Fayde. Get it asap if you decide to get one at all.
- Puzzle Box. Great burst damage and utility item. This is more of a pure ganking / support role instead of semi-carry. But it works well.

Information:
Roles: Ganker, Semi-Carry
Properties: None
Prefered Lane: Any
Difficulty: 4 – Hard
Farming capabilities: 3 – Medium
Item dependancy: 3 – Medium
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Strong
- Mid Game / Ganks: 5 – Very Strong
- Late Game / Team Fights: 3 – Medium
Still not entirely sure here.

30-Seconds-Guide:
- At level 6+ you can use your ult, send the image on your lane and micro it to get last hits while you sneak off and gank another lane. No miss calls or wards will see you coming and should net you a kill.
- Use your items (Geobane, Codex, Puzzlebox) right after you open on an enemy with Reflection. Then stun, mana burn and chase if needed.
- As far as I have seen her playstyle is similar to nerubian assasin from dota. Sneak up invis, unleash hell. Don’t just use invis to escape, that is wasted potential. You should be ganking and not farming much.

Counters:
- Carry dust. When she ults use it to try and prevent her from escaping.
- She is no carry, so you don’t need to be too worried about her getting freefarm. Actually let her farm, thats better than having her roaming around.
- As with any ganking hero, wards are a good counter. But do note she has invis and can sneak past wards.

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This is updated for version: 3.6

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Skill Build
1 – Uproot
2 – Rotten Grasp
3 – Uproot
4 – Rotten Grasp
5 – Clearcutting / Rotting Grasp
6 – Willowmaker
7 – Rotten Grasp
8 – Rotten Grasp / Clearcutting
9 – Uproot
10 – Uproot
11 – Willowmaker
12 – Clearcutting
13 – Clearcutting
14 – Clearcutting
15 – Stats
16 – Willowmaker
17 – Stats+
Justification / Modifications:
2x Uproot for last-hitting purposes at start. Max out Rotting Grasp for longer immobilization and magic-damge/-armor. 1x Clearcutting before ultimate to enable unsuspected ganks through the woods. You may take Clearcutting later on if you can do without it and instead maxing Grasp first.

Lane Starting Items:
Logger’s Hatchet, 2x Runes of the Blight, 1x Healing Potion, 2x Mana Potion

Core:
Bottle >> Marchers >> Power Supply >> Ghost Marchers >> Portal Key

Portal Key can be built before Ghost Marchers if you farm well.

After Core:

If you’re dominating: Shieldbraker >> Daemonic Breastpate
Safety first: Icebrand >> Frostburn >> Behemoth’s Heart

Alternative Items:

Kuldra’s Sheepstick: If you want to prevent anyone escaping your ganks! Giving extra mana-regen to roam around endlessly. Also one of the strongest late game items in the game.

Information:
Roles: Ganker, Semi-Carry
Prefered Lane: Middle, Long
Difficulty: 3 – Medium
Farming capabilities: 4 – Good (Uproot)
Item dependancy: 2 – Low (Mana & Boots)
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Good (Uproot & Grasp)
- Mid Game / Ganks: 5 – Very Strong (Willowmaker, Grasp)
- Late Game / Team Fights: 4 – Good (Willowmaker still pwns heads! Well placed Grasps will net many kills.)

Noteable +/- and synergies:
+ Can gank all on his own
- Map & Rune Awareness required

30-Seconds-Guide:
- Try to get middle lane and last-hit and deny with Uproot to finance your Bottle/Power Supply/Marchers.
- Use Rotten Grasp > Auto-Hit > Oakbolt > Auto-Hit to net a bloodlust in the right occasion.
- When you hit level 6 and get Willowmaker, try to rape your opponent on the lane or gank another lane. Fetch runes and fill up your bottle while traveling to your victims.
- Gank Combo: Pick a gank target > Fetch a tree with Uproot > Place a grasp on targets location (2sec delay!) > Clearcut through the woods straight in target’s direction > Willowmaker > Auto-Hit > Death! (Oakbolt > Auto-Hit again if necessary)

Counters:
- Deadwood has low base Armor and can be harassed with auto attacks quite effectively.
- If you are laning against him try to get Plated Greaves before he hits level 6. This will most likely make you survive a Deadwood Punch.
- Nome’s Wisdom and Armor in General are very good to mitigate Willowmaker damage. Keep in mind that Grasp reduces some armor.
- When he casts Grasp you can notice it in 3 ways: You hear a very unique sound. You see a brief casting animation. You see his mana go down. Whenever you see one of those 3 things immediately change direction and run the most unexpected way. Once you get the hang of this it’s very easy to dodge Grasps.

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Skill Build
1 – Lava Surge
2 – Steam Bath
3 – Lava Surge
4 – Stats
5 – Lava Surge
6 – Eruption
7 – Lava Surge
8 -Volcanic Touch
9 – Volcanic Touch
10 – Volcanic Touch
11 – Eruption
12 – Volcanic Touch
13 – Stats
14 – Stats
15 – Stats
16 – Eruption
17 – Stats+
23 – Steam Bath
24 – Steam Bath
25 – Steam Bath
Justification / Modifications:
Lava Surge is your bread an butter. It’s maxed first and mainly used for starting stunning in on ganks, for escaping or helping out teammates.

One point in Steam Bath ensures you live when you get ganked or dropping low in your lane. I prefer to max out stats first before Steam Bath to give you that extra HP/MP for longer teamfights.

Volcanic Touch is your mid-game farming ability which will clear out creep waves with some good timed clicks on low HP-creeps. In harder games get Stats instead of Volcanic Touch and delay it until levels 12-15.

Lane Starting Items:
1x Runes of the Blight, 1x Healing Potion, 2x Mana Potion, 1x Pretender’s Crown, 2x Minor Totem

Core:
Power Supply >> Bottle >> Portal Key >> Marchers >> Fortified Bracelet

Portal Key is your most needed-item! Try to farm it during the laning-phase as fast as possible. If you’re not able to, get Marchers first and get the Portal Key in the early mid-game with help of Volcainc Touch.

After Core:

Ghost Marchers (Post Haste) >> Staff of the Master >> Behemoth’s Heart

Post Haste should be prioritised over Ghost Marchers, due to being able to push/farm lanes quickly and easily with Volcanic Touch. Staff of the Master will improve your ultimate further. Behemoth’s Heart to top Magmus off and make him much more durable.

Alternative Items:
(Due to Magmus’ relative effectivness with little core-items, you should think about buying supportive items and wards.)

Barrier Idol: Build an Idol if you’re opposing strong magic opponents/ultimates.
Wards of Sight/Revelation: If you’re team is lacking supporters and you got your core-items together.

Information:
Roles: Initiator, Ganker
Prefered Lane: Long
Difficulty: 3 – Medium
Farming capabilities: 4 – Good (Volcanic Touch)
Item dependancy: 2 – Low (Portal Key!)
Power:
- Early Game / Lane Control: 3 – Medium (Higher if paired with another stunner!)
- Mid Game / Ganks: 3 – Medium (Can’t gank alone, Lava Surge ensures a kill most of the time)
- Late Game / Team Fights: 4 – Good (Very potent Ulti if timed properly, relatively squishy compared to other Str heroes)

Noteable +/- and synergies:
+ Strong early game when paired with another stunner on the lane
- Can’t pull off ganks alone, must be roaming with one or more allies

30-Seconds-Guide:
- You have to hit with your Ultimate in every teamfight!
– With Portal Key: Position yourself outside of the bulk of your team – preferably hiding behind trees or on higher ground – but in range to blink in. Then: Activate Ulti > Wait 2 seconds > Blink in the center of the enemy team > Walk a bit to position yourself perfectly while Eruption continues > Lava Surge to stun/kill/escape (> Steam Bath).
- Without Portal Key: Lava Surge in > Ulti (Opponents will try to stop your channeling though!) OR Ulti > Wait 2 seconds > Lava Surge in (Safer but no guarantee to hit in time in the right place!)
- Once you have Volcanic Hammer level 2+ you can Lava Surge a Creep Wave, hit the ranged creep and then hit one melee creep for a full wave of gold.

Counters:
- A Barrier Idol greatly reduces the damage from his ultimate. Be fast to activate it though.
- Shrunken Head will also negate most of his damage as well as make you immune to the stun.
- Carrying dust or Wards of Revelation on at least one teammate is recommended to kill him when he tries to escape with Steam Bath (He can directly Port Key out of it).

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