Flint Beastwood Hero Guide - HON -Heroes of Newerth Tutorial

If you played DotA and remember Sniper, you should have an idea how to play Flint Beastwood in HoN. Flint Beastwood is a pretty easy hero to play if you can last hit and maintain distance. This Flint Beastwood tutorial should give you the basics of how to play this hero.

 Flint Beastwood is a natural Damage Dealler with a amazing ulti(nuke), so if you manage to keep your distance and buy the right items, Flint Beastwood will just play with your enemies life with is amazing damage/attack speed and ministuns.

Skills:

Flare:

Deals 75/150/225/300 Magic damage to units and 25/50/75/100 Magic damage to towers on impact, leaving a burning flare for 4 seconds.

Activation
Target Position
Type: Magic
Range: 800
Radius: 300
Mana cost: 120
Cooldown: 14 seconds
The burning flare gives vision and applies Flared to all enemies in the radius.
Flared Effects
14/20/26/32% Movement Slow

Hollowpoint Shells:

On Attack Impact
25/30/35/40% chance that a bullet will explode, dealing 20/30/40/50 bonus Physical damage and stunning for .05/.1/.2/.2 seconds.

Dead Eye:

 

Increases attack range by 60/120/180/240.

Outrange:
Levels 3 and 4 allow Flint to outrange towers.

Money Shot:

After a 1.7s cast time, fires a shot at the target. Deals 355/505/655 Magic damage and stuns for .2 seconds.
Activation
Target Unit
Enemy Organic Units
Type: Superior Magic
Range: 1500/2000/2500
Channeling Time: 1.7 seconds
Mana Cost: 175/275/375
Cooldown: 20/15/10 seconds

Yes 10 sec cooldown on a 655 magic damage attack, but don't get too happy, is mana cost 375 and you low mana pool will cut your wings :).

Flint Beastwood Skill build:


Some players claim that you should do:


1 Dead Eye (1)
2 Hollowpoint Shells (1)
3 Hollowpoint Shells (2)
4 Dead Eye (2)
5 Dead Eye (3)
6 Money Shot (1)
7 Hollowpoint Shells (3)
8 Hollowpoint Shells (4)
9 Explosive Flare (1)
10 Explosive Flare (2)
11 Money Shot (2)
12 Explosive Flare (3)
13 Explosive Flare (4)
14 Dead Eye (4)
15 Stats
16 Money Shot (3)
17-25 Stats



Because of your low mana pool.
Well I think this is just stupid. You should max Flare. It is just a high damage AOE that damages towers, reveals stealth units and gives Movement slow.

My advise for skill build is:

1 Dead Eye (1)
2 Explosive Flare (1)
3 Hollowpoint Shells (1)
4 Explosive Flare (2)
5 Explosive Flare (3)
6 Money Shot (1)
7 Dead Eye (2)
8 Explosive Flare (4)
9 Dead Eye (3)
10 Hollowpoint Shells (2)
11 Money Shot (2)
12 Hollowpoint Shells (3)
13 Hollowpoint Shells (4)
14 Dead Eye (4)
15 Stats
16 Money Shot (3)
17-25 Stats

This "just" maxes your nuke ability, your probability to get towers, your lane farm, gank and "running". Maxing your Hollowpoint Shells  at start isn't a great thing to do, since your attack speed isn't that high at start. Getting lvl 1 gives you a 25% change to deal a mini-stun that is enough and can come to be of great use to cancel a channeling enemy skill ;).

Item build:

Starting Items:

x2for extra health and to make into a Fortified Cracelet
x2 for health regen
quick health regen

At this point you need to last hit and harras .

From the side shop/courier and get agi/strenght Steamboots
x2 More health


Midle Game Items:

Geometer's Bane. This is just the best item you can buy for Flint Beastwood. Allying Flint's DPS, range and ministuns from  Hollowpoint Shells to 2 more"Flint's" is just half way to kill an enemy hero.
At this point you shall also stat getting your Charged Hammer, in case there are dangerous nukers on the other team getting a Null Stone may be a thing to do.

Late Game:

Charged Hammer

Frostwolf Skull - This will be your attack modifier, you can get Shield Breaker or FrostBurn instead. But personally i like Frostwolf better since it gives you a significant bust on your hp and damage. If you are fighting fast enemies or have trouble positioning your self in time for batle FrostBurn can be a good choice.


Optional Items:

Null Stone - This item can fill some Flint Wood lacks, mana regeneration, hp, and it gives you protection from targeting spells if it isn't in cooldown. If you get this you can consider getting Shield Breaker as your attack modifier.

Assassin's Shroud - This item will provide you with an easy escape , giving you the possibility to farm and push lanes(but be careful, your enemy's will probably buy Revelation Wards and Dust).

Riftshards - This item will improve your damage making your attacks really lethal! 



Just remember. Your job is to deal damage, you can't do that if you are dead, so stay away from the center of the battle(3 or 4 hits from a carry and you are dead), use your range to deal damage from the fog or trees and take down low life running enemies with Money Shot.

Hope this guide was of help, for improvements to this guide just leave the tips on comment bellow ;)