Ursa is an agility hero that can be played as a safe or mid lane carry. His most important strengths are the following:

• He can damage and slow enemy units for 4 seconds in a 385 radius circle using his Earthshock ability.
• He can give himself +400 attack speed for his next 3/4/5/6 attacks using his Overpower ability.
• He can deal higher and higher damage on a target thanks to his Fury Swipes passive ability, which grants him bonus damage for each new attack by placing a debuff on his targets. This debuff lasts for 20 seconds and is refreshed with each new hit.
• He can get rid of debuffs and reduce all incoming damage by 80% for 4 seconds, using his Enrage ability. This ability also grants him a 1.5/1.75/2 multiplier for his Fury Swipes damage.
• With a lifesteal item such as Morbid Mask, he can easily kill Roshan on his own after level 6, thanks to his abilities.

Ursa Item build

Being a hero that relies exclusively on right click damage to farm, destroy buildings and kill enemies, Ursa depends on good items to have a significant impact on the game. Here are some of the most important items you should consider buying when you play him in Dota 2 esports:

• Stout Shield: gives you decent protection in the early stages of the game.
• Quelling Blade: this will improve your last hitting and your farming speed after the laning phase.
• Magic Wand: often provides the essential health and mana recharge you need to survive or get an important kill.
• Orb of Venom: allows you slow a target’s movement speed by 12% with your attacks.
• Phase Boots: the added speed from its active is excellent on any melee hero that needs to stay close to its targets, and the +24 bonus damage also synergizes well with Ursa’s abilities.
• Vladmir’s Offering: gives you mana and health regeneration, lifesteal, armor and damage.
• Blink Dagger: allows you to more easily engage and disengage your enemies.
• Basher: synergizes well with the attack speed bonus you get from Overpower, allowing you to stun targets and often kill them before they can react.
• Black King Bar: if you’re facing a team that has a lot of disables and magical damage, you should buy this item either before or just after the Basher.
• Desolator: this is an excelent damage item if you don’t have a good building hitter in your team.
• Manta Style: allows you to remove a lot of debuffs and confuse your enemies. It also gives a nice boost in multiple areas: movement speed, damage, attack speed and stats.
• Sange and Yasha: if you need the added movement speed and the ability to slow your enemies even further, this item can be very good against certain line-ups that excel in the mobility department.
• Linken’s Sphere: nice to have against long duration single target stuns and powerful ultimate abilities that pierce magic immunity: Duel, Rupture, Doom, Fiend’s Grip etc.
• Aghanim’s Scepter: reduces the cooldown of your ultimate by 12 seconds (at level 3) and allows you to cast it while being disabled.

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Ursa Abilities

Earthshock

Deals 90/140/190/240 magical damage and slows movement speed by 25%/35%/45%/55% for 4 seconds in a 385 radius circle around Ursa.

Overpower

Gives your next 3/4/5/6 attacks +400 attack speed. This effect lasts for 15 seconds or until you’ve landed the attacks.

Fury Swipes

Places a debuff on each target you attack, giving you 15/20/25/30 extra damage for every new hit you land on it. This debuff lasts for 20 seconds and is refreshed if the targets takes a hit from you before it expires.

Enrage

Reduces all incoming damage by 80% for 4 seconds and increases your bonus Fury Swipes damage by 50%/75%/100%.

Best Ursa Talents

• +1.75 mana regeneration / +8 strength – Ideally you should take the second option, but you’ll often have to choose the first one just to cover your mana needs.
• +16 agility / -1s Earthshock cooldown – You should always take the agility.
• +1 Enrage duration / +25s Fury Swipes debuff duration – Given that the Fury Swipes debuff duration is already 20 seconds, the second talent is quite pointless at this stage of the game
• +14 Fury Swipes damage / +600 AoE Earthshock – If you need better capabilities against single targets, take the first talent. If you need to deal with a lot of illusions or lineups that stay grouped up most of the time, take the second one.

Skill build

When playing Ursa, you should start with a point in Fury Swipes, followed by a point in Earthshock and then one in Overpower. Afterwards you maximize Fury Swipes, Overpower and Earthshock in this order, putting points in your ultimate and taking talents whenever you can.

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When to pick the hero

Ursa is a strong hero whenever you want to have excellent Roshan control and great pushing power in the early game. He’s also a good pick whenever you need to be able to land a lot of attacks in a short space of time (against heroes like Phoenix or Enchantress for example). Furthermore, Ursa is a difficult hero to lane against because of his Fury Swipes, so he can be a strong counter to highly survivable offlane heroes such as Faceless Void.

Kill Roshan Early

Ursa is a carry with great physical damage output and strong early game presence. He’s a counter to heroes that rely on reducing their opponents’ attack speed with their abilities, and is generally used in line-ups that want to kill Roshan, push early, and then snowball out of control.

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