Underlord Dota 2 Guide – How to be a Tanky Frontliner in Patch 7.07d

Underlord is an offlane hero, being a tanky frontliner and initiator and having natural farming capabilities. Here are his main strengths:

• He can easily kill creep waves and deal great damage to enemy heroes in 400 radius area, using his Firestorm ability.
• He can root units multiple times in a 375 radius area, using his Pit of Malice ability.
• He can decrease enemy attack damage by up to 40% and gain bonus attack damage for up to one minute whenever a nearby unit is killed, thanks to his Atrophy Aura.
• Using his Dark Rift ability, he can teleport himself and all nearby friendly heroes to his Fountain or to a friendly unit anywhere on the map.

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What Items to build on Underlord

Underlord’s item build should generally be designed to improve his mana pool, sustainability, durability, and capacity to help his teammates. Here are some of the most efficient items for this hero:

• Arcane Boots: they greatly improve your mana pool and your ability to regenerate it.
• Mekansm: gives you HP regeneration, armor, stats, and the ability to heal yourself and your teammates in key moments. Can and should be upgraded into Guardian Greaves.
• Blink Dagger: gives you excellent mobility and a way to easily initiate fights with your Pit of Malice.
• Force Staff: further improves your mobility, mana pool and health regeneration.
• Crimson Guard: gives you armor, HP regeneration, stats and the ability to grant your teammates +2 armor and 60 physical damage block per hit for 12 seconds.
• Pipe of Insight: this item gives you high HP regeneration, great survivability against magical damage and the ability to make your allies more survivable as well.
• Blade Mail: gives you armor, damage, mana, and the ability to return all incoming damage to your attackers for 4.5 seconds.
• Shiva’s Guard: gives you 15 armor, 30 intelligence, and slows your enemies’ attack speed by 45. You can also use its active to deal 200 AoE magical damage and slow their movement speed by 40% for 4 seconds.
• Heaven’s Halberd: gives you 400 HP, 25 attack damage, 25% evasion and the ability to disarm enemy heroes.

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Underlord Abilities Explained

Firestorm

Calls down 6 waves of fire at 1 second intervals that damage all enemy units in a 400 radius area. Each wave deals 25/40/55/70 magical damage plus 1%/2%/3%/4% of the target’s maximum health. The burn duration is 2 seconds.

Pit of Malice

Creates a deadly pit that lasts for 12 seconds and covers a 375 radius area. Enemy units trapped inside are rooted for 0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8 seconds every 3.6 seconds.

Atrophy Aura

Reduces enemy attack damage by 7%/18%/29%/40% and offers you bonus damage every time an enemy unit dies nearby (900 radius). The attack bonus is 30/35/40/45 for each hero death and 5 for each non-hero death. The duration of the bonus is 30/40/50/60 seconds.

Dark Rift

After a 6/5/4 seconds delay, teleports you and all nearby allied heroes (600 radius) to your own Fountain (if you double tap the ability) or to a friendly unit on the map. If you die or if the target unit dies, the teleportation is canceled. You can also cancel it yourself whenever you want. You can really save your team in some clutch situations during your Dota 2 esports games.

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What Talents to Choose on Underlord

• +30 movement speed / +18 Firestorm wave damage – The second option is always better.
• +15 Atrophy attack damage bonus from hero deaths / +100 cast range – The cast range is much more valuable than the Atrophy damage bonus.
• +20 HP regeneration / +70 attack speed – Your HP regeneration will be excellent at this point of the game, but if you want to tank as much damage as possible during fights, you should still take the first talent. However, if your item build is more damage oriented, definitely take the attack speed bonus.
• 25% Firestorm building damage / +0.8s Pit of Malice root – The second talent is almost always better.

Skill build order

When playing Underlord, you generally start with a point in Atrophy Aura followed by two points in Firestorm and then one in Pit of Malice. At level 9 your skill build should be 4-1-4-0. You skill your ultimate only at level 11 on this hero, focusing on your other spells and taking talents whenever they are available.

When to pick the hero

Underlord is a great pick whenever you need to limit the enemy lineup’s physical damage and put a lot of pressure on their safe lane during the laning stage. The Pit of Malice root is also extremely good when fighting against heroes with too much or too little mobility.

Tanky Offlaner for Any Team Comp

Underlord is a tanky hero that can farm really fast and spend his gold on items that help his entire team. These reasons combined with the ones already mentioned above make him an excellent choice for the offlane role.

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