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DotA Hero Guide: The Magic of Lion

Hello Warcraft Defense of the Ancient (DotA) fans! The Ronin is here once again to write about DotA heroes and items guides, as well as some of the key points to consider in playing your favorite heroes.

But first, let me explain my absence. For the past two months, I’ve been searching for the best free-to-play MMORPGs out there, therefore I’ve been out of the DotA environment for quite a while. (My skills, though, are still intact, so just give me a PM if you want to test it.) But of course, my search for that MMORPG was not in vain, as I’ve found what I think is the best there is so far. If you want to check it out, please read this article I’ve written about it.

Anyway, back to DotA. So where were we? I see. Let’s pick up from where we’ve left. The last hero guide I’d written was about Mirana Nightshade (aka Priestess of the Moon, or POTM). Okay, we now come to the Demon Witch, which is also known as Lion.

The wizard Lion was sentenced to damnation by his council of wizards because he delved deep into the demonic arts (well, much like Harry Potter’s nemesis Lord Voldemort, who studied and mastered the dark arts—except that there were no councils of wizards who were able to defeat him). just like a common storyline, he “sold his soul to the devil” to escape death, and then he went back to those who condemned him. In this plot though, the devil is Archimonde; that is why Lion belongs to the Scourge faction.

Now that’s his story. What about his skills; what can he do anyway? Well, he is really one mean son-of-a-gun, and I consider him one of the best disabler, spammer, and killer heroes in DotA. In short, he is freakin’ deadly, and let me tell you why.

His Impale skill, apart from stunning enemy creeps (along a straight path of his line of vision) for as much as 2 seconds, gives damage (Level 4 damage is 260) to each affected enemy units. Apart from that, his dark magical powers can transform an enemy unit into a random critter, disabling him/her for at most 3.5 seconds (A second or two of a stun effect is already dangerous, what more 3.5 seconds of inability to do anything?).