Heroes of Newerth Slither

Slither is one of my most played heroes, he is a really versatile hero that can either support, gank, semi-carry or even become a little tanky early game if you fell like trolling a bit.

Slither as support -  well if you turn yourself into the 1st support character of you team, expect to die really often. Your goal in team fights will be to cast a good ultimate , cancel that mag/behemoth/tempest portal key and if you are lucky hit 2 or 3 heroes with spray.. the best slither you can play is when you help your "true" support with a few wards but still manage to get some survivability item at early/mid game.

Slither as ganker - your goal is to set up some ganks on your own lane, try to use a wise tp to get a kill on the other side lane.

Slither as semi carry - with enough farm at early game slither passive allied with spray can go massive damage, the fact that you take your opponents regen near to 0 allows you to take down most of the early carries, since the are almost all based on regen. Once you get those kills keep on farming and ganking, once you get that you are able  to semi-carry or even carry the game.

Slither as tanky - I have called this a trolling build but this it is a really good option if you intent on doing max DoT(Damage over Time) and take away the opponent team regen. They are better ways to play Slither but getting a Helm of the black Legion + Shaman headdress + Sol's Bulwark will make you pretty tanky.

Anyway i will leave you the the new spotlight so that you have more of an idea about the abilities synergy of all slither abilities.

 

Heroes of Newerth - f2p

Well HoN turned to a really free to play game, this rises some controversy an some dislike among the legacy accounts (guys that like me bought the game), but the truth is - we played the game for a long time on the p2p stage, we played the game during the free hero poll , will all heroes unlocked. So well we made a good use of the money already!

But that is not all. We will also get a free hero and a 2 silver bonus for every game we make. Is not much but well hon really needed this change, slowly HoN was losing people for LOL and will lose a lot more for DotA 2. Congrats S2 for the balls, but will it be enough?

Heroes of Newerth 2.6.10 Patch changes

The new patch is life since 13/07, the face of this patch is the new Swiftblade alt avatar "Bushi Swiftblade".
It is just awesome!As usual the price is set at 300 Gold coins or 3000 Silver coins. The other is a Berzerker Alt avatar "Demon Hunter Zerker" also with a pretty nice layout!

The general update is an update to the update system, avoiding windows administrator privileges to run the game and -repair and -update function.

As for what concerns to gameplay changes some heroes were reworked, the part that shows off is the serious nerf on Pebbles that damage reduction on Stalagmites... i really don't like it! The mana cost increase on Voodoo is another downcut.. the combo just gets really expensive,  level 2 Acid Cocktail(120 mana) + level 3 Cursed Ground (120mana) + Spirit Ward (200 mana), well a 420 combo at level 6 is a boomer..

Arachna:
- Spider Sting: Cooldown reduced from 80/50/30 to 70/50/30


Armadon
- Restless: Movement speed rescaled from 4/5/7% to 4/5/6%

Artesia
- Dance of Death: Cooldown rescaled from 25/22/18/16 to 25/22/19/16

Blood hunter
- Hemorrhage: Damage rescaled from 190/310/440 to 190/315/440

Chipper
- Rocket Barrage: Manacost rescaled from 50/60/70/85 to 45/60/70/85
- Rocket Barrage: Damage rescaled from 85/115/145/180 to 80/115/145/180

Corrupted Disciple
- Overload: Shoots a jolt every 0.85/0.75/0.65 to 0.8/0.7/0.6

Defiler
- Wave of Death: Manacost rescaled from 105/120/140/165 to 100/120/140/160

Devourer
- Devour: Manacost rescaled from 100/130/170 to 100/135/170

Electrician
- Energy Absorption: Damage rescaled from 85/165/225/300 to 85/150/215/280

Forsaken Archer
- Call of the Damned: Rescaled the damage of skeletons from 14-20/20-26/26-32/32-38 to a static 17/23/29/35

Geomancer
- Quicksand: Movement slow rescaled from 12/16/24/30% to 12/18/24/30%

Glacius
- Ice Imprisonment: Manacost rescaled from 115/125/140/150 mana to 120/130/140/150

Hammerstorm
- Galvanize: Armor bonus rescaled from 3/5/7/10 to 3/5/7/9

Jeraziah
- Sol's Blessing: Manacost rescaled from 125/175/250 to 150/200/250

Legionnaire
- Terrifying Charge: Movespeed buff rescaled from 100/150/200/500 to 100/200/300/400
- Decapitate: Damage rescaled from 300/450/625 to 300/450/600

Magmus
- Volcanic Touch: Damage rescaled from 90/130/170/220 to 90/130/170/210

Maliken
- Sword Throw: Range rescaled from 700/850/1000/1200 to 750/900/1050/1200
- Possession: Fear duration rescaled from 0.75/1.25/2 to 1/1.5/2

Pandamonium
- Face Smash: Bonus base damage rescaled from 30/70/120% to 30/75/120%

Pebbles
- Stalagmites: Damage rescaled from 100/180/260/300 to 100/160/220/280

Pestilence
- Impalement: Manacost rescaled from 80/95/105/115 to 85/95/105/115

Pollywog
- Voodoo Wards: Damage rescaled from 39-43/54-58/69-73 to a static 40/55/70

Sand Wraith
- Desert's Curse: Bonus movement speed buff rescaled from 5/9/14/18% to 6/10/14/18%

Scout
- Marksman Shot: Manacost rescaled from 125/175/250 to 125/175/225

Slither
- Poison Spray: Range rescaled from 600/725/850/1000 to 625/750/875/1000
- Poison Spray: Manacost rescaled from 90/105/120/130 to 85/100/115/130
- Toxin Wards: Wards damage rescaled from 9-11/17-21/26-32/34-42 to a static 10/19/28/37

Soul Reaper
- Demonic Execution: Manacost rescaled from 175/340/500 to 175/300/450

Succubus
- Succubus' Hold: Damage rescaled from 100/155/215 to 100/160/220

Swiftblade
- Way of the Sword: Crit chance rescaled from 10/18/26/36% to 12/20/28/36%

Thunderbringer
- Chain Lightning: Number of bounces rescaled from 5/7/9/15 to 6/9/12/15
- Lightning Storm: Manacost rescaled from 225/325/450 to 225/325/425

Tundra
- Call of Winter: Coeurl's damage rescaled from 23-29/43-49 to a static 26/46

Valkyrie
- Courageous Leap: Range rescaled from 630/720/780/870 to 630/710/790/870

Voodoo Jester
- Spirit Ward: Manacost rescaled from 200/200/300 to 150/225/300

Top 10 plays of the week

Awesome plays this week. That top 2 is move is just awesome! And is always nice to see a solo behemoth annihilation on the top 10.

Game Hon Giveaway

Heroes of Newerth is starting the biggest Giveaway ever!

From July 6th until July 13th S2 will be featuring the Game Hon event.

It is pretty easy to get the avatars and icons that are been given away.Play:

• 10 Games: Unlock the new Doll Master Alt Avatar     
• 10 Games with Friends: Unlock the Team Player Bundle     
• 25 Games: Unlock the Mega Store Bundle

 Team Player Bundle:

  

Alt Avatars

Clown Devourer 

Snow Zephyr 

Quadropod Tremble 

Ninja Bubbles 

Nightmare Madman 

Queen Arachna 

Mutant Parasite 

Queen Bee Monarch 

Geojuice 

Frostrider  

Account Icons 

Legion 

Hellbourne 

You're Mine 

Grenade 

The Soul  

Symbols 

Game HoN 

Team Player 

Club 10  

Chicken Courier 

Original Taunt

Mega Store Bundle

Alt Avatars 

Kangamonium
Infernal Behemoth
Logger Legionnaire
El Guantelete
Raven Soulstealer
Nomaddin
Pollywog Chieftain
Winston Charmadon
Demented Witch
Cyber Valk

Account Icons
I Heart HoN
Thumbs Up
Nunchucks
8Bit Scout
Legion vs Hellbourne
Custom Account Icon

Symbols
Game HoN
Gamer
Club 25

Rat Courier
Gore Taunt

In addition there are also some silver coins Bonus:

Consecutive Play Bonus*

Day 1 Bonus - 6 Silver Coins
Day 2 Bonus - 8 Silver Coins
Day 3 Bonus - 10 Silver Coins
Day 4 Bonus - 12 Silver Coins
Day 5+ Bonus - 14 Silver Coins

Social Play Bonus*

Play with 1-3 friends - 4 extra silver coins per game
Play with 4 friends - 10 extra silver coins per game

Have fun ;)

Prophet HoN Spotlight

As usual this will be a short introduction to the hero, with a small explanation on Prophet's abilities and item build.
On the 6th July Prophet will be released on Heroes of Newerth, and you will be able the buy the early access to this ranged intelligence hero.

This is my kind or hero. But lets take a close look at his skills.

His 1st ability - debilitate is a single target damage that increase damage taken for some seconds, its easy to understand that this should be wisely in fights taking advantage on major nukes. Invigorate Prophet's second ability is a small heal that also buffs the target ally with attack speed for the next few attacks, the colldown on this ability is is very small so you can use it often during fights, Persecution Prophet's 3rd ability is a small damage single target spell that also stuns the target for 0.5 second, and debufing the target making it get a mini-stun for each attack next to the cast, the number of mini-stuns are related to the skill level (4 at max level)1. Prophet's ultimate Shared fate, casts a large ring slowing the enemies and making every spell and auto-attack made by Prophet to propagate to every target inside the circle, his second ability also propagates to every ally inside the circle. You know can see how devastating a well targeted ultimate can be on a 5v5 situation.

For more visual information check the spotlight bellow ;)