Undying Dota 2 Guide – How to Harass Enemy Carries in Patch 7.07d

Dota 2
April 11, 2023
Denis Alihodzic

Undying is an offlane hero that excels at damaging and slowing enemy heroes, as well as keeping teammates alive. His main strengths are the following:

  • He can deal 20/60/100/140 damage and steal 4 strength for 45 seconds from each enemy hero in a 325 radius area, using his Decay ability.
  • He can heal an ally or damage an enemy by ripping health away from all nearby units.
  • He can summon a tombstone at a static location, which in turn spawns zombies next to enemy units. These zombies attack and slow the movement speed of the units they spawn next to.
  • Using his ultimate, he can turn himself into a flesh golem that possesses a Plague Aura. This aura slows enemy units and causes them to take increased damage. It also heals Undying every time an enemy nearby unit dies.
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Undying Item build

When playing Undying in Dota 2 esports, your item build should improve your sustainability, durability and ability to help teammates. Subsequently, these are some of the key items you should consider buying:

  • Arcane Boots: they greatly improve your mana pool and your ability to regenerate it.
  • Magic Wand: this is a good early game item on any hero.
  • Infused Raindrop: gives you good mana regeneration and protection against magical damage.
  • Urn of Shadows: gives you good mana regeneration and the ability to heal your allies for great amounts. Every charge is the equivalent of a Healing Salve.
  • Vanguard: gives you 250 HP and 5.5 HP regeneration per second. Makes you a lot tankier in the early game and can be upgraded into a Crimson Guard.
  • 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.
  • Hood of Defiance: gives you 25% magic resistance and 8 HP regeneration per second. Its active ability protects you from 325 magical damage for 12 seconds. Can and should be upgraded into a Pipe of Insight.
  • 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.
  • Solar Crest: gives you 10 armor, 75% mana regeneration and 20% evasion. You can also use its active on enemy units to decrease their armor by 10.
  • Heaven’s Halberd: gives you 400 HP, 45 attack damage, 25% evasion and the ability to disarm enemy heroes.
  • Lotus Orb: this item is a good choice if your opponents have ways to silence and prevent your teammates from using their spells during fights. Furthermore, the armor, mana and regeneration you get from the item are all valuable.
  • Aghanim’s Scepter: greatly improves your Decay ability, allowing you to steal 10 strength from enemy heroes instead of 4.

Undying Abilities Explained

Decay

Deals 20/50/80/110 magical damage in a 325 radius area and steals 4 strength from each hero it affects. The strength is stolen for 45 seconds. Use this to prevent the best Dota 2 players on the enemy team from farming.

Soul Rip

Allows you to rip health away from nearby units and use it to heal an ally or damage an enemy. The search radius is 1300. The HP ripped from each unit is 18/22/26/30. The maximum number of affected units is 10/12/14/16.

This ability can also be used to heal your own tombstone.

Tombstone

Summons a tombstone that spawns zombies next to every enemy unit in a 1200 radius area. These zombies attack and slow the units they spawn next to. The spawn interval is 4.5/4/3.5/3 seconds. Zombies are killed with 1 hero attack or 2 non-hero attacks. The tombstone requires 4/5/6/8 hero attacks or 8/10/12/16 non-hero attacks to be destroyed.

Flesh Golem

Transforms you into a flesh golem that possesses a Plague Aura. This aura causes nearby enemy units (750 radius) to be slowed down and take amplified damage. The closer a unit is to you, the greater the slow and amplified damage effect. The maximum move speed slow effect is 20% and the maximum damage amplification effect is 20%/25%/30%.

The Plague Aura also allows you to heal each time an enemy unit dies nearby. You heal for 2% of your maximum HP every time a non-hero unit dies, and for 10% of your maximum HP every time a hero dies.

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Best Undying Talents

  • +100 cast range / +8 health regeneration – If you already have health renegeneration items, take the first option. Otherwise take the second one.
  • Tombstone on death / +20s Decay duration – Unless you are building an Aghanim’s Scepter, take the first option.
  • +30 Tombstone zombie damage / +3 Tombstone attacks – If keeping the Tombstone alive is a problem given the enemy lineup, take the second option. Otherwise take the first.
  • You gain Reincarnation every 200 seconds / -2s Decay cooldown – The right choice here really depends on your item build and the role you have within your team. If you own an Aghanim’s Scepter at this point, take the second option. Otherwise take the first.

Skill build

When playing Undying, you should start with a point in Decay followed 2 points in Tombstone. At level 7 your skill build should be 1-1-4-1. Afterwards you maximize Decay and Soul Rip in this order, putting points in your ultimate and taking talents whenever you can.

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When to pick the hero

Undying is a good pick whenever you play against a lineup with limited mobility that can be forced to fight at a static location. The hero is also good if you need better sustainability and team fight potential.

Harass Enemy Carries

Undying is an offlaner that becomes very strong early into the game. Thanks to his skills, he gives safe lane carries a hard time in the laning phase, and offers a big advantage to his team during the early stages of the game.

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