Leoric - Skeleton king - Gameplay Strategy

Gameplay Strategy: Early, Mid and Late Game
Early Game
Leoric, Skeleton King



Levels 1-5

Grab your starting items, head to a lane with an ally ganker, preferably a stunner. Your two-second stun is a great skill to combo with another ally for an easy first blood, either at level 1 or 3. You're not a very strong harasser either, so an allied nuker is recommended. Harass with Bolt when you get your Bottle, and remember to buy obs. wards to watch the runes, and at level 5-ish you can start ganking, but I would recommend waiting until level 7.
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Strong melee ally that can make use of your Vamp Aura, and can combo LVL Death and Storm Bolt spam with you. A quick Doom, and you can both run up and bash on the enemy hero without fear of disables.


Strong ally for the extra stun, strong nuke, and chasing abilities. Your two stuns together are immensely powerful, and you can lead with your stun, she can stun from a distance, and then leap in and Starfall, and then you both beat on the enemy if it's still alive (doubtful).


A strong melee that can make use of your Vamp Aura that is also a survival powerhouse and tank. You two together are a pretty unstoppable force, as both your ultimates are second chances, and you both have decent nukes. His Frostmourne slow is also powerful because you don't have a slow skill of your own for fast enemy heroes, so you both get more whacks in with Frostmourne.
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Remember to just play fairly safely and farm up early. You're gonna need your Bottle before you start ganking. I suggest reading

Levels 6-9

Start ganking now. Bottle is awesome for mana regen and health regen in between ganks, and remember to keep your obs. wards up to watch the runes, and whore them up. Gank with allies, like the one listed in the previous section, as they're pretty ownage when coupled with you. Any stunner is actually pretty godlike with you, so find a stunner and gank. If you're having troubles ganking, just farm up. Not much to really say. When ganking, just storm bolt, run up, whack on them a few times, and chase them, storm-bolting when the cooldown is off.


Mid Game



Levels 10-12

Hopefully by this time you'll have Hyperstone, but if not, that's fine. Keep ganking/farming, but try to get your Hyperstone soon if you don't have it. It's pretty useful. Once you get it, you can blow through creep waves and neutrals fairly quickly, so farming up your Cuirass shouldn't take too long. Support your team in pushes as well.

Levels 13-16

By now you should have at least BoT, and hopefully AC. From here, you need to make choice between tanking and straight damage dealing while being a semi-tank. If you're going tank, get Heart, Hood if you want it, and then maybe Manta. If you're going DPS, go MKB or Stygian.

Late Game



At this point you're a strong damage dealer and a good tank, and this is the part of the game where you should make use of this. Push hard, help gank with the enemy team, solo Roshan (you're extremely good at it with your high HP, fast attack, and Vamp Aura), and remember to keep your Obs. Wards up and watch the runes. DD runes are MASSIVELY amazing on this hero late-game, as he can have a two-second stun (longer if you're with teammates that have stuns/disables) to hit the enemy with 2.75 crits and heal 25% of all damage he deals. It's amazing. Haste and Invisibility are also strong runes with this hero.

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