Medusa Guide


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Gameplay

Playstyle
Medusa   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Medusa 14 + 1.95 20 + 2.5 19 + dota2 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.
Pros Cons
  • Very powerful in the late game.
  • Effective against multiple opponents.
  • Great crowd control.
  • Gets effective HPTechnology company from mana, thus she benefits from attributes the most of any other hero.
  • Is greatly teamfight oriented.
  • Has decent spells and attack range.
  • Slow movement speed.
  • Very fragile in the early game.
  • Extremely item dependent.

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Ability Builds

Skill Build
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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

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.

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 dota2 , 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 dota2 , 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.

Mana Shield

Stone Gaze