Items
Starting Items:
- Tango Item Tango (Shared) Changelogs TangoB Forage to survive on the battlefield. Cost125 Bought FromConsumables Active Eat a Tree or Ward Charges 4 Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The Tango es for recovering hit points especially when received significant damage early on.
- Healing Salve Item Changelogs Healing SalveB A magical salve that can quickly mend even the deepest of wounds. Cost110 Bought FromConsumables Active Regenerate Health Charges 1 Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The gives you a 400 HPTechnology company heal, which a large amount of Medusa`s early game HP.
- Iron Branch Item Changelogs Iron BranchB A seemingly ordinary branch, its ironlike qualities are bestowed upon the bearer. Cost50 Bought FromAttributes Active Plant Tree Charges 1 Bonus +1 Strength+1 Agility+1 Intelligence Disassemble? No es provides early stats needed for last-hitting creeps and a small boost in your hit points and mana.
- Circlet Item Changelogs CircletB An elegant circlet designed for human princesses. Cost165 Bought FromAttributes Bonus +2 Strength+2 Agility+2 Intelligence Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The Circlet is an item purchasable at gives you plenty of stats and lets you pick up a Magic Wand Item Changelogs Magic WandB A simple wand used to channel magic energies, it is favored by apprentice wizards and great warlocks alike. Cost465 Bought FromCommon Active Energy Charge Charges 0 Bonus at the side shop. On top of that, planted Iron Branches increase the total healing from Tangoes.
- Ring of Protection Item Changelogs Ring of ProtectionB A glimmering ring that defends its bearer. Cost175 Bought FromArmaments Bonus +2 Armor Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The Ring of Protection is an item to compensate Medusa having the lowest base hit points.
Early Game Items:
- Magic Wand Item Changelogs Magic WandB A simple wand used to channel magic energies, it is favored by apprentice wizards and great warlocks alike. Cost465 Bought FromCommon Active Energy Charge Charges 0 Bonus is one of the most cost effective EHP items on Medusa early on, as storing charges can give you a huge burst health and mana for when things get rough.
- Ring of Basilius Item Changelogs Ring of BasiliusB Ring given as a reward to the greatest mages. Cost500 Bought FromSupport Passive Basilius Aura Bonus +7 Attack damage Disassemble? Yes Alert allies? No Recipe The provides mana regeneration, armor bonus and a small damage boost for last-hitting.
Core Items:
- Phase Boots Item Changelogs Phase BootsBL Boots that allow the wearer to travel between the ether. Cost1240 Bought FromCommon Active Phase Bonus +24 Attack damage+45 Movement speed Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe give movement speed, even boosted with the Phase ability for escaping ambushes early game. The additional damage also contributes to her Split Shot skill. It also helps her position herself better for a successful Stone Gaze, as her otherwise low mobility can make this difficult.
- Ring of Aquila is the upgraded version of Ring of Basilius Item Changelogs Ring of BasiliusB Ring given as a reward to the greatest mages. Cost500 Bought FromSupport Passive Basilius Aura Bonus +7 Attack damage Disassemble? Yes Alert allies? No Recipe The which gives stats and further damage boost.
- Eye of Skadi gives both survivability and killing power, and slowing enemies. The added stats grant Medusa health, mana for Mana Shield.
- Town Portal Scroll is crucial to escape early game ganks, which can be devastating against Medusa due to her high item dependence.
Situational Items:
- Hurricane Pike gives attack range, damage and overall stats - very effective item for Medusa.
- Aghanim`s Scepter Item Upgraded Abilities Old Abilities Lore Changelogs Aghanim s Scepter The scepter of a wizard with demigod-like powers. Cost4200 Bought FromCaster Passive Ultimate Upgrade Bonus +10 Strength+10 Agility+10 Intelligence+175 allows Mystic Snake to petrify any enemies it hits, giving the ability a hard-disable utility that allows for more strategic employment. It also provides stats in all departments, as well as adding a respectable amount of health and mana to Medusa.
- Linken`s Sphere can be purchased before or after Eye of Skadi. If fights are not in your favor early on, you`re farming rather slowly, or enemies have stuns to keep you down fights, consider a Linken`s Sphere.
- Butterfly offers bonus damage, attack speed and armor, and its evasion gives you even more survivability.
- Monkey King Bar can be needed if the enemies have evasion items or heroes.
- Divine Rapier is the best damage item on Medusa. She`s tanky enough that, even with Mask of Madness, the odds of her dropping this are extremely slim, and it`ll help you massacre a whole team with Split Shot. That being said, if against heroes that can burn through your Mana Shield like no tomorrow, it may be too risky to consider this unless absolutely necessary.
- Manta Style Item Old Abilities Changelogs Manta Style An axe made of reflective materials that causes confusion amongst enemy ranks. Cost5000 (900) Bought FromArmor Active Mirror Image Bonus +10 Strength+26 Agility+10 Intelligence+15 `s bonus directly increases Medusa`s movement speed, and the illusions hit for a total of 56% of your base damage. In addition, the illusions can be used to farm multiple places at once, and benefit from Split Shot.
- Drum of Endurance is a great cost effective stat item on Medusa. It gives her both Intelligence and Strength which is needed on her, and the slight movement and attack speed it gives are great for farming or pushing.
- Maelstrom into Mjollnir can be considered if the enemies have a lot of heroes with illusions.
- Scythe of Vyse for an extra disable, stats and mana regeneration which may help Mana Shield.
- Black King Bar is an item to be considered if the enemy is keeping you locked down before you can get Stone Gaze off.
- Bloodthorn, while expensive, is a great luxury item on Medusa. The mana it gives will make you even tankier than before, and it effectively gives you a Crystalys and Monkey King Bar in one slot.
- Mask of Madness is good for increasing your farming speed and being slightly active in the mid game. Her Mana Shield pretty much negates the increase in damage taken from it, it gives her the movement speed and attac
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Medusa Hero Strategy Counters Equipment Gear Responses Sounds Lore Old Abilities Changelogs Known Bugs Medusa 14 + 1.95 20 + 2.5 19 + is a very hard carry who can easily turn teamfights around in her favor. Her Mana Shield makes her one of the tankiest carries in the game, but her extreme item dependence requires her to farm for much of the game before she can be effective in teamfights. Split Shot allows her to farm really fast in the jungle and deal considerable damage to multiple heroes in fights. Be that as it may, her early game is filled with problems, such as having the lowest base @@@#@@@HP(hp.com)###@### in the game, very little mana, and slow movement speed. | |
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- This build gives Medusa great sustain and harassment on the early game, while enabling quick farm mid-game with Split Shot. Mana Shield and Stone Gaze only get one level early on as that`s all you`ll need for farming, fighting, and escaping ganks. Be that as it may, you may consider adding extra levels in Mana Shield if there are enemy heroes that can eat through your mana.
- Mystic Snake is not very powerful at level one, with only 3 jumps and very low damage. Getting the first point into Mana Shield allows you to safely trade hits with the enemy when necessary, and most importantly assuring you can stay in lane and farm.
Talents
Hero Talents Main Table of Gained Bonuses The Talent Selection interface. Talents are traits unique to each hero. They are chosen every 5th level starting at level 10, offering a permanent choice between | ||
+2s Stone Gaze Stun | 25 | 25% Lifesteal |
+600 Mana | 20 | +1 Split Shot Target |
15% Evasion | 15 | +20 Attack Speed |
+15 Damage | 10 | +12 Intelligence Intelligence is the attribute that grants mana, mana regeneration and spell damage amplification. For each point of intelligence a hero gets: 11 Mana 0.04 Mana regeneration 0.07% Spell damage Additionally, intelligence heroes also get 1 |
Notes:
- The attack damage is added as bonus attack damage, and therefore does not benefit illusions.
- The evasion stacks multiplicatively with other sources of evasion.
- Upgrading mana increases maximum mana capacity and keeps the current mana percentage.
- The lifesteal is not a unique attack modifier Unique Attack Modifiers (abbreviated UAM; formerly known as Orb Effects) are special attack modifiers that cannot be used simultaneously with each other—one always takes priority. They may be provided by abilities (e.g. Anti-Mage s Mana Break), and fully stacks with other sources of lifesteal.
General
- Medusa has one of the lowest base health in the game, making her quite vulnerable in the early game.
- Medusa is arguably the hardest carry in the game, but also the most item dependent. Knowing how to farm well is the most important aspect of playing her.
- Early on, Medusa should just focus on farming and surviving. Once you get Mana Shield, you`ll have a lot more survivability in lane, but always keep an eye on the minimap for incoming ganks and your health and mana pools to see how much damage the enemies are doing.
- In the late game, Mana Shield and Stone Gaze allows Medusa to withstand much more punishment than most carries.
- Enemy teams who cannot kill Medusa quickly enough will often lose the teamfight.
- Because of this, a well farmed late game Medusa can often turn a losing match around.
Split Shot
- Split Shot makes you a really good farmer and pusher, especially once you get more levels in it. Use it to quickly farm jungle camps or push lanes to try to take early towers
- When pushing towers with Split Shot, keep the tower as your main target, and the other arrows will hit creeps or nearby enemies. If you target creeps while trying to push, the extra arrows won`t hit towers.
- Split Shot also gives you immense damage during fights. While Medusa`s single target damage isn`t much for a lot of the game, with Split Shot you can easily deal decent damage to each enemy in a fight.
- Keep in mind activating this ability reduces the damage of your attacks by 20%. Remember to turn this off when facing single targets or just deal more damage to certain enemies.
- Split Shots works on Medusa`s illusions Default buff iconPlay Spawn soundPlay Death sound “ Play A legion sprouts from one! Click to listen— Phantom Lancer ” Illusions (also commonly called illus) are imperfect, weaker copies of heroes, created by spells or items. They , but only if it is active when the illusions are spawned. Spawn illusions with Split Shot on to increase their DPS and pushing power.
- It is possible to farm ancients with Medusa at level 1 by putting a point into Split Shot.
Mystic Snake
- Mystic Snake is potent throughout all points of the game. It lets you harass enemies and keep your mana nearly full while posing minimum risk to yourself
- For maximum damage against enemies in lane, try to bounce the snake off a few creeps into the enemy hero.
- The mana steal works against heroes and creeps to the full extent. Use this in the jungle to keep Mana Shield`s EHP from dropping too low so you can tank hits from creeps. Medium Satyr and Mud Golem camps work the best for this.
- Mystic Snake deals Pure damage to enemies petrified by Stone Gaze, so be sure to cast it after activating Stone Gaze.
- Both in lane and in the jungle, take advantage of Mystic Snake to keep your mana up so Mana Shield keeps you alive.
- Mystic Snake can be maxed first as it is Medusa`s only nuke and can be used to push your lane.
- Mystic Snake`s damage increases per jump, so it is best cast so that it would hit enemy heroes at last, to make them take the most damage. If used for farming, casting it so that it hits the creeps with more health can prevent overkill damage on lower health creeps, making it more effective and faster to farm.
- Since Medusa does not have much mana and the ability has a high mana cost, it is important to make sure that it hits at least 2 enemies which have mana (e.g. ranged lane creeps), to get some mana restored back. It does not matter if targets with mana are hit as first or at last, since the mana drain is static and does not increase per jump like the damage.
- Lane creeps have a mana pool of 500, so Mystic Snake can drain 55/70/85/100 mana from them. So in order to get its full mana cost basically refunded, it has to hit at least 3/3/2/2 ranged lane creeps. This means it is also important to hit enemies with the spell in order to not run out of mana during the laning phase.
- In order to refund the full mana cost, Mystic Snake must hit units with a sum of 1273/1072/942/850 total mana.
- Use Mystic Snake on a nearby creep to have it bounce and hit an enemy that`s out of range.
- With Aghanim`s Scepter Item Upgraded Abilities Old Abilities Lore Changelogs Aghanim s Scepter The scepter of a wizard with demigod-like powers. Cost4200 Bought FromCaster Passive Ultimate Upgrade Bonus +10 Strength+10 Agility+10 Intelligence+175 , Mystic Snake will petrify all enemies it hits, improving Mystic Snake`s utility tremendously by giving it a hard-disable aspect.
- Enemies petrified through Mystic Snake take on the same properties as if they were hit by Stone Gaze.
- Illusions are immediately destroyed upon being hit by an an Aghanim`s Scepter Mystic Snake.
- Mystic Snake does the damage and mana steal first before applying the petrification debuff.
- Unlike Stone Gaze, an Aghanim`s Scepter Mystic Snake does not bypass spell immunity and will not apply the petrification debuff should an enemy turn spell immune before the snake reaches its intended target.
- Enemies petrified through Mystic Snake take on the same properties as if they were hit by Stone Gaze.
Mana Shield
- One point in Mana Shield gives you the full 60% damage reduction. Subsequent levels just lower the mana lost per damage.
- Level Mana Shield based on what the enemy has. If enemies have items such as Diffusal Blade Item Changelogs Diffusal BladeB An enchanted blade that allows the user to cut straight into the enemy s soul. Cost3150 (700) Bought FromArtifacts Active Purge Charges 8 Passive Manabreak Bonus +25/35 Agility+10/15 , grabbing more points may not be a bad idea to lower the overall mana lost from it.
- Even if you do level Mana Shield up early, be wary of enemies who tend to build illusions with mana burn, such as Anti-Mage with his Mana Break and Manta Style Item Old Abilities Changelogs Manta Style An axe made of reflective materials that causes confusion amongst enemy ranks. Cost5000 (900) Bought FromArmor Active Mirror Image Bonus +10 Strength+26 Agility+10 Intelligence+15 illusions.
- Medusa`s mana pool needs to equal at least 93.75%/78.95%/68.18%/60% of her current health to maximize the damage reduction of Mana Shield, assuming she does not lose mana in any different way than by the absorption of Mana Shield.
- Be wary about leaving Mana Shield active in the early game without a high mana pool or some mana regen items. Heavy damage may leave you unable to cast Stone Gaze, which can turn the tides of a gank or teamfight when used correctly.
- Mana Shield does, be that as it may, provide an immense amount of damage reduction at all levels. An alternative build is to max this by 7 and take a lot of points in stats.
- The ideal ratio of mana to health is 0.94/0.79/0.68/0.6 mana per health, meaning every consecutive skill point in Mana Shield becomes less cost efficient, consider grabbing a point in your other skill points over another point in mana shield if you already have the ideal mana/health ratio (any more points basically mean wasted mana; do not forget about Stone Gaze and Mystic Snake costs).
- With careful and strategic use of Mystic Snake in the heat of battle, you may be able to replenish and keep your mana pool up even if you are taking a heavy beating.
Stone Gaze
- Leveling Stone Gaze only increases the duration by 1 second each level. As such, one value point early on should be enough for both escaping ganks and turning the tides in team fights.
- Stone Gaze goes through magic immunity, meaning the only way to escape it is to turn away from Medusa. It`ll even freeze a Puck Hero Strategy Counters Equipment Gear Responses Sounds Lore Old Abilities Changelogs Puck 15 + 2 22 + 1.7 25 + 2.4 Level Base who used Phase Shift and take them out of the Phase, so use that to your advantage.
- Mystic Snake deals pure damage to enemies who have been turned to stone by Stone Gaze. Considering that Mystic Snake also increases damage per jump, you can deal massive nuking damage if you bounce it correctly after using your ultimate.
- Proper use of Stone Gaze together with Split Shot makes Medusa a great counter to heroes that depend on illusions.
- Be that as it may, be very wary with its activation - smart users may attempt to use illusions to bait you either by taking you to poor spots or by forcing your ultimate out, which can leave you very vulnerable, especially to heroes like Phantom Lancer as they almost always build Diffusal Blade Item Changelogs Diffusal BladeB An enchanted blade that allows the user to cut straight into the enemy s soul. Cost3150 (700) Bought FromArtifacts Active Purge Charges 8 Passive Manabreak Bonus +25/35 Agility+10/15 (making your mana shield much less effective) and he can easily overwhelm you beyond your capacities even with Split Shot active.
- Remember that petrified heroes take no damage from magical attacks. This is especially important if you have a nuke heavy team as activating Stone Gaze at the wrong time can cost your team a battle that could have been won otherwise.