Duelist/Guide

Hello everyone. Were you missing me? =) It’s time for action. I really enjoy heroes who may both fight and survive. Playing like murderer secretly is not for us. Only fight like men!! Warlord was good, now it’s time for Duelist.

Duelist is quite difficult hero for beginners. Very weak in the early game he may be an unstoppable machine of death in the end.

Talents
Fair Game: The hero carries a magical substance, which he can throw at an opponent to stun him for a 1,5 seconds. On Native Terrain, this ability also inflicts damage based on your character’s Intellect. After learning the Explosive Concoction talent, the Duelist can use it to blind all enemies within a small radius for 4 seconds. Stun is good but blinding is better. In team fight throw it in the enemy who is strong auto attacker like Archer, Immortal, and Jaeger. He won’t able to make damage if he is blind. In Jungle don’t throw it often as it costs a lot of Energy. Best way – only on Gold Packs.

Pummel The hero can increase his Attack Speed 8 seconds. By learning Bold Rush, the hero can further increase his Speed by 60%. Also on Native Land we heal yourself for 6-65 Health per second (depends on Intellect). This talent makes us fastest hero in the game. We may easily clean enemy’s jungle and always run away from a problem. Enemy with low Health won’t be able to run away from us. Intellectual Prince doesn’t lose more than half of Health in jungle. In the ending our buff for Agility becomes large, we will be able to make almost 1,5-2 attacks per second. Don’t forget to activate this talent during team fight, good Prince always is under his buff during fight. In jungle don’t spend this talent for killing the Touched, use it to run from pack to pack in order to save time. Important: use it before ultimate in order to increase your penetration and make more damage.

Trick Blade When performing a normal attack, the hero has a 40 % chance of dealing a amount of magic damage to all enemies within melee distance. The damage dealt depends on the hero’s Intellect. If our Trick Blade has worked the time of cooldown for talent Ace in the Hole decreases by 2 seconds Intellectual Prince will have more damage from this talen than from auto attack. Also, more Agility you have, more chance of making mass damage. That’s why if you prefer Intellect, add Agility in it. If you prefer Strength, add Cunning.

Ace In The Hole Blocks incoming damage in case it exceeds the available Health points by a 25 percent. Very useful against Murderers (Eraser, Shadow, Dragonfly, Faceless). Attack them, they will instinctively use their ultimate on you. And guess what? Right you won’t receive any damage at all. Zero.

Razor Sharp Blade The Prince’s attacks inflict 15 % more damage. Enough said. Always learn this talent at 9th level. No exception.

Cruel Shot Our ultimate which makes magical damage, stuns enemy for 1 second and decreases his speed by 30% for 3 seconds. Meet up, most useless ultimate in Prime. Why? Large cooldown (120 seconds), costs too much Energy. And guess what? Its on a 4th line. 4th f…ing line. However. Prince in Intellect may deal pretty much damage for it. If you are in Strength its only for control, no more.

What do we have to survive

 * 1. Our acceleration.
 * 2. Our aura
 * 3. Our talent that may blind enemies

What do we have to kill

 * 1. Damage in 1 target (if we are Prince in Strength)
 * 2. Mass damage (if we are Prince in Intellect)
 * 3. Control from Fair Game and our Ultimate

What talents are good for us
As you understand there are 2 ways of making Duelist:

1) Intellect. Other necessary stats: Agility, Health, Energy regeneration

2) Strength. Other necessary stats: Cunning, Health, Health regeneration, Energy Regeneration.

What should we do during battle
I strongly recommend to be a jungler. Playing Duelist on a line is a very bad idea.
 * 1. Wards, especially near glyphs. In the mid game you may also put them in enemy’s jungle near gold packs. Also in the end there should be a ward near dragon. Wards live for 6 minutes, remember to refresh them.
 * 2. Ganks. Always look for a gank. Ask your teammates. They should be ready to support you. Even if its not possible to gank you may help to put your flag, for some heroes its vialing.
 * 3. Counter jungle. Our speed let us steal enemy’s packs and run away.
 * 4. Use teleport to save your teammates. Don’t miss it, always be ready to come if they need you. Always have 1 scroll for teleport (it can be bought in shops)
 * 5. Don’t sleep!! You may kill the Touched and use camera to look at all lines, at mini-map, at chat. Cleaning jungle doesn’t ask much for your attention.
 * 6. Timing. Always be near packs when they will reborn. Gold packs reborn in 4 minutes, grey packs – in 3 minutes. First grey packs apeear at 01:12, gold – at 01:20.

I hope you will love this charismatic hero. He is really cool. Still, he is not imbalanced and has weak points. But learn to play for him, be patient and you will find out that Prince is able to win match almost at 1.

Guide created by: Clockwork Bird.