Leshrac is a powerful spellcaster usually played in the mid lane. His main strengths are the following:

• He can stun and damage enemies in a 225 radius area, using his Split Earth ability.
• He can deal great damage to both enemy units and structures in a 500 radius area around himself, using his Diabolic Edict ability.
• He can slow and damage up to 10 targets from afar, using his Lightning Storm ability.
• He can deal 180 damage per second in a 450 area around himself, using his Pulse Nova ability. The damage effect of this ability is 3 times greater than that of a Radiance, making the hero extremely strong against any illusion based opponents.
• He’s very mobile, having one of the highest base movement speeds in the game (325).

Leshrac Item build

When playing Leshrac in Dota 2 esports, your item build should be designed to improve your durability, mobility, survivability, mana pool, mana regeneration and magical damage output. Subsequently, these are some of the key items you should consider buying:

• Bottle: if you have good rune control or can often use the courier to Bottle crow, this item can give you good sustainability in the laning phase.
• Arcane Boots: they increase your mana pool and improve your ability to replenish it.
• Eul’s Scepter: it improves your mobility, mana pool and mana regeneration, and gives you the ability to escape from dangerous situations by using its active on yourself. You can also use it to stop enemies from teleporting, prevent them from running away or set up your Split Earth stun.
• Aether Lens: increases your mana pool (by 450), cast range (by 250), and mana regeneration (by 1.25).
• Veil of Discord: gives you great stats overall, health regeneration, armor, and the ability to decrease your enemies’ magic resistance by 25%.
• Blink Dagger: allows you to more easily engage and disengage your enemies.
• Bloodstone: greatly increases your health and mana pool, as well as your ability to regenerate them.
• Linken’s Sphere: gives you excellent stats, health and mana regeneration, as well as the ability to block a targeted spells every 13 seconds.
• Shiva’s Guard: this is a very strong defensive item against physical damage. It also gives you a lot of mana, damage and the ability to damage and slow enemy movement speed with its active.
• Black King Bar: this item is essential if the enemy team has a lot of disables and you don’t have good enough crowd control and initiation in your line-up to neutralize them.
• Scythe of Vyse: gives you good stats, a lot of mana and mana regeneration, as well as the ability to hex a target for 3.5 seconds.
• Boots of Travel: they give you very good mobility and the ability to be travel around the map more easily.
• Octarine Core: gives you a lot of HP and mana, decreases the cooldown of your items and abilities by 25% and allows you to lifesteal for 25% of your spell damage.

Leshrac Abilities Explained

Split Earth

Stuns units for 2 seconds in a 150/175/200/225 radius area and deals 120/180/240/300 damage to them.

Diabolic Edict

Creates a multitude of magical explosions around you. Each of them deals 9/18/27/36 physical damage to nearby units and structures. Buildings take 40% more damage than units. A total of 40 explosions are created over period of 10 seconds.

Lightning Storm

Summons a lightning storm that hits an initial target and then jumps from unit to unit for up to 4/6/8/10 times. Each unit can only be hit once and the jump distance is 475. Affected targets take 50/100/150/200 magical damage and are slowed by 75% for 0.7/0.8/0.9/1 seconds.

Pulse Nova

Deals 100/140/180 magical damage per second to all units in a 450 radius area around you. Costs 70/90/110 mana to activate and an additional 20/40/60 mana per second. Can be upgraded with an Aghanim’s Scepter, but the effect is not worth the item’s cost.

Best Leshrac Talents

• +5 armor / +250 mana – The mana bonus is almost always better.
• +15 strength / +40 movement speed – Against melee heroes and lineups that don’t have an easy way of getting close to you, the second talent will actually make you harder to kill than the first. But in most situations you’ll have to take the strength bonus.
• +25% evasion / +50 Pulse Nova damage – Only take the first option if you really need better survivability against physical damage. Otherwise take the second.
• +50 Diabolic Edict explosions / +3s Lightning Storm slow – Both of these talents are extremely powerful. Take the second one if you need to be able to kite your opponents more easily. Otherwise take the first.

Skill build

When playing Leshrac, you should start with a point in Split Earth, followed by a point in Lightning Storm and then another one in Split Earth. At level 7 your skill build should be 4-1-1-1. Afterwards you should maximize Lightning Storm and Diabolic Edict in any order you see fit, putting points in your ultimate ability and taking talents whenever you can. This build will help you push Dota 2 ranks faster.

When to pick the hero

Thanks to his AoE magical damage, Leshrac is very strong against illusion based heroes. He’s also good against lineups that have excellent mechanisms for dealing with physical damage, but are defenseless against magical damage. Example: Phantom Assassin, Troll Warlord.

Versatile Midlaner

Leshrac is a versatile midlaner, being capable of farming quickly, dealing a lot of damage to enemy heroes, destroying buildings with ease and fast pushing. He has great mobility, does well in the laning phase against most midlane heroes, and can be played in a variety of ways: ganker, split pusher etc.

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