Wraith King. How to play the modern meta

Wraith King has always been in the meta due to the fact that playing it does not require huge skills, you just need to understand your peak strength and defend the lane well. Nevertheless, there are some points, knowing that you can increase your level of play on this character.

Pros and cons of the hero

pros

• A simple hero without the need to combine abilities
• Aura of vampirism Vampiric Aura, which will work absolutely on all allies in the area of effect.
• The ability to absorb a lot of damage and key ultimates

Minuses

• A rather slow and not mobile hero. There is no way to quickly close the distance to the enemy or quickly run away from danger.
• Strongly farm dependent
• Poorly returns to the game from a bad star

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Wraithfire blast

The hero scorches the target with ghostly fire, stunning and damaging the target. After being stunned, the target will take periodic damage and slow down.

• The stun and the slow are applied at the same time, so the slow will last 3.1/3.4/3.7/4
• The ability first deals damage, then applies debuffs.
• Casting Wraithfire Blast orders all of the Wraith King's skeletons to attack the target.

Vampiric spirit

Wraith King restores health to itself with each attack, depending on the damage dealt. Every two killed creatures give one charge, for which you can summon a skeleton. Skeletons have a Vampiric Spirit aura. Dead skeletons are revived once.

• Stacks with other sources of Vampirism.

• Lifesteal does not work when attacking wards, buildings and allied creatures.
• Skeletons spawn randomly within 300 radius of Wraith King.
• The skeletons are out of control. They automatically target to attack within 6500 range. If there are no creatures nearby, they move to the nearest lane and follow the path of the lane creeps.

Mortal strike

Allows you to deal additional damage with an attack.

Critical Damage: 150%/190%/230%/270%

• If two critical strike sources are triggered at the same time, the highest multiplier is used.
• Does not trigger when attacking wards, buildings and allies.
• Dodged or missed attacks do not trigger cooldowns.

Reincarnation

After death, the body of the hero is reassembled, and he is resurrected on the battlefield. Slows all enemies within a 900 radius.

Upgrades with Aghanim's Scepter:

If an allied hero dies nearby, he will turn into a ghost, postponing his death for 7 seconds. The Ghost Hero gains +75 Attack Speed and + 25% Movement Speed.

And also using a shard:

The ability does not cost mana. Its trigger summons three skeletons next to each nearby enemy hero.

• Reincarnation cannot be prevented by anything if Wraith King has enough mana and the ability itself is not on cooldown.
• Grants 1800/800 ground vision at the location of death during a delay.
  

Ability boost

The priority skill on the lane is the second, in order to increase the speed of the farm after the lane. A high stun level does not give a lot of damage, so it makes no sense to take it. When getting the sixth level, it is better to hold on to the skill point and not to download the ultimate and act according to the situation, if you see that you can easily be killed twice, then it is better not to start CD.

Talents

Items

Examples of possible assemblies

A classic armlet that has been perfect for this hero at all times. With its help, you can connect to fights and actively absorb damage in the first minutes. For its cost, it gives a lot to heroes, whose main characteristic is strength.

With the ability to upgrade the Blink Dagger, this artifact has become even more enjoyable and can be left until late.

Buying BKB is not very pleasant, but in some games where there is a lot of control against us, this is necessary.

If all is bad, then you can take Blade Mail and just go soak. More often than not, we are the first to enter the battle and take a lot of damage. This artifact will allow not only to increase the survivability of the hero, but due to the return of damage, will increase the overall combat potential of the hero.

The Desolator allows you to significantly increase the hero's damage due to a good bonus. It is especially good to use this artifact with Assault Cuirass or in combination with allied heroes who can reduce the armor of enemies using their skills.

If you want to play greedily and your opponent's pick allows you to farm longer, then there is an option to play through the radiance.

Gameplay

There is nothing difficult in the game for this character, during the battle VK acts very monotonously, just throws a stun and kills enemies with a regular auto attack. This simplicity does not mean that the hero is weak. If you did not lag behind the enemy in terms of farming, then due to the triggered crits, Leoric can give just huge damage and literally kill weak enemies at once. In some kind of duel battles, he kills a huge number of heroes without any problems. The hero is not the most mobile, so you need to choose the right position before starting a fight.

Picks and Counterpicks

Leoric's set of abilities does not give him any significant advantage against certain types of enemies. Nevertheless, it is easier for him to fight with heroes who, like him, specialize in killing enemies one by one. In this case, the victory will go to the one who farm better and bought the right artifacts. Also, the slowdown when the ult is triggered can give some advantage against some enemies that specialize mainly in auto attacks. If you manage to farm well in the first half of the game, then later you will be able to kill many heroes.

The hero does not work well against illusionists and heroes who constantly change their position in a fight.