DOTA: Pugna Strategy Guide

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Pugna Strategy: How to play Pugna in DOTA and WIN:

By MaxQ (maxq626@gmail.com)

Today we will discuss about another hero that gets underestimated, he is a freakish little guy with a huge head lol just look at him and watch as He walks across the map u just cant stop laughing about him, well this little guy named Pugna -

The Oblivion is actually a very powerful hero, in fact i will demonstrate it to all of you just about now. If you like to solo or you just like to attack with the team or either be a support hero this guy has got packed all up in its stash of spells, and i mean "very powerful spells he has" and if you know the right items you will win and lead your team to that all time wanted victory. Well, some would say that your primary spell will be Nether Blast with Decrepify on heroes so you increase the spell damage dealt and your ultimate of course.

Well they are all wrong my friends, your main and most powerful spell is: .......... Nether Ward, if you lvl this up early the enemy heroes will be very annoyed and will all the time focus on destroying your ward not paying attention to the game and the map, you can really distract them with this, but if you know the right place where to put it and then use your other spells they will just end up dead for sure, you can easily get multi kill with Nether Ward.

So let's seeNether Ward (W) it costs 80 mana to cast at lvl 4 and has 30 seconds cooldown, has 400hp (not important at all), it reduces the enemies mana regeneration by 600% (this means that they wont regenerate any mana soon), and the most important ability: Mana Flare that is cast automatically when any enemy hero cast a spell and it deals 1.5damage / mana spent. Let me explain. If the enemy hero cast a spell that needs 300mana he will receive 300x1.5 damage, you do the math. So this is your primary spell the others can wait.

You just have to find the right spot where to put this "rod", i personally like to put it in the woods or near the tower or behind the tower, it has 1600 AOE so you can put it pretty far so they cant see/find it. Try this out and you will be amazed by the power. Nether Blast (B) it costs 145 mana to cast at lvl 4 and deals an astonishing 325 damage to units and 100 to buildings, well you say that's not that much and your right but don't forget that it has just 5 seconds cooldown so you can cast one after the other, now that will stack up.

You can destroy the enemy creeps and building pretty fast and farm as good to. Some will use only this spell along the Decrepify only and maybe never use the Nether Ward. Decrepify (C) (100mana 7s cooldown) with this spell you can put your enemies in an ethereal plane for a few seconds (3,5s at lvl 4)rendering them unable to attack and making there movement speed less with 50%, but the important factor is that they will receive an extra 40% damage from spells, OMG. And finally Your Ultimate, Life Drain (D) mana cost 225 at lvl 4, only 20 second cooldown lol, and it drains 185 hp / second or 300 hp / second with Aghanim's Scepter.....well that's allot.

If you like this spell and want to use it the most important thing to know that this spell is channeling over 9seconds so if u get stun or something like that it will stop. SO you just have to buy Black King Bar this will give you 10seconds avatar so you wont get interrupted maybe with 1 or 2 exceptions. So if this is your primary spell then BKB is a must.

You can buy any items that you think will be good for him, but you probably will need hp/armor/spell reduction. So you just buy some items that add to these and you ll be just fine. I like Linken Sphere, the other you will find out. Just keep it up and play dota more often.