Strategy
Gameplay
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| Enchantress is a flexible intelligence hero that can be an effective jungle hero with focus in ganking and pushing in early stages of the game. Enchant allows her to control neutral creeps, gaining access to their abilities and auras. She can heal herself and allies with Nature's Attendants, as well as deal pure damage through attacks with Impetus. | |
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Offlane
- Maxing Untouchable allows Enchantress to survive in the offlane since it lowers attack speed of enemies. She then has the choice to invest in Nature's Attendant to heal or Enchant to slow. She can also grab a neutral creep from the nearby large camp to pressure her opponents with harass or threaten to take tower. Then, she may consider Hand of Midas to transition into a carry.
- Consider Nature's Attendants at level 1 against enemies with high magical damage like Jakiro and Crystal Maiden.
Jungle
- Maxing Enchant allows Enchantress to jungle faster with more creeps. She can then use them with Smoke of Deceit to gank other lanes, usually mid. Later on, she should help push with her army and aura items like Drum of Endurance.
Ability Builds
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Talents
| Hero Talents | ||
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| +20 Nature's Attendants Heal | 25 | +6.5% Impetus Damage |
| +30% Enchanted Creep Health/Damage | 20 | +65 Untouchable Attack Slow |
| +5 Nature's Attendants Wisps | 15 | +45 Damage |
| +30 Movespeed during Nature's Attendants | 10 | +10 Enchanted Creep Armor |
Notes:
- Grants bonus attack damage.
- Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.
Tips & Tactics
General
- Enchantress is effective at all stages of the game.
- Building Force Staff is a very good choice on Enchantress; as aside from the intelligence it gives her it can be used to put some distance between her and her enemy (thus empowering Impetus); or even if very well-timed to use it on Impetus's target while Impetus itself is mid-air; thus hugely increasing its damage. Note however that this will make escaping easier for the enemy if your powerful Impetus does not kill them.
- Enchant allows the Enchantress to micromanage just like Chen. Micromanaging is a crucial ability to master for heroes like Enchantress and Chen.
- Enchantress outranges towers with either Dragon Lance or Aghanim's Scepter.
Abilities
Impetus
- Buy mana regenerating items like Orchid Malevolence or Scythe of Vyse to fuel Impetus.
- Impetus calculates the damage with the distance between you and target when the projectile hit; so, after throwing Impetus, you can turn and run farther away from the target as an attempt to increase the distance and damage to finish off the low HP hero.
- Dragon Lance stacks with Aghanim's Scepter to increase attack range, boosting the damage output of Impetus.
- Toggle Impetus on as you push target away with Hurricane Pike for rapid and painful pure damage attacks.
- Impetus scales well into late game with attack speed since it deals pure damage.
- Impetus does not pierce spell immunity, though it still counters Unstoppable so do be careful when they run at you.
Enchant
- Use Enchant to slow an enemy and dispel their buffs during ganks. You can then have more time to use your creeps' abilities on the slowed target.
- Use Enchant on illusions of powerful enemy heroes late game, helping your team get rid of one nuisance.
- Use Enchant on neutral creeps to control them and take advantage of their abilities and auras.
- Wildwing Ripper has Tornado to farm large stacks without drawing aggro, or to harass lanes by making Tornado follow an enemy.
- Harpy Stormcrafter and Satyr Tormenter also have magical nukes to harass lanes.
- Dark Troll Summoner, Centaur Conqueror, Satyr Banisher, and Mud Golem help ganks with their disables.
- Alpha Wolf provides attack damage bonus aura that scales well into the late game.
- With level 20 talent, Enchantress can use Enchant on ancient creeps.
- Enchantress may use Enchant on her own creeps again to refresh the duration, instead of letting them die by expiration.
Nature's Attendants
- Nature's Attendants keeps creeps and allies healthy in pushes.
- Nature's Attendants helps in surviving ganks; use it before getting stunned and if she's the only target, as only heavy nukers are capable of killing her.
- More tips needed.
Untouchable
- Untouchable makes Enchantress nearly immune to physical attacks, which is especially useful against harassment during the late-game stage.
- However, be careful against magical nukes as she still has a low health pool.
- Untouchable will slow Roshan's attacks to a crawl, making Enchantress an ideal tank against him.
- Untouchable stops enemy creeps in their tracks, allowing Enchantress and her team to push buildings.
Sproink
- Aghanim's Scepter unlocks Sproink, a powerful kiting, mobility, and survival tool.
- Sproinking while an Impetus attack is in midair will effectively add 25/50/75/100 damage to that attack. Combine this with Hurricane Pike to deal massive damage.
- Remember that Enchantress can Sproink up and down cliffs for a quick getaway.
- Sproink can disjoint dangerous projectile-based disables with an extremely low cooldown and mana cost, mitigating the need for Linken's Sphere.
Items
Starting items:
- Tango heals every little wound that you get from jungling or gank attempts.
- Healing Salve recovers health from a greater clash, which could potentially happen while ganking or in the jungle when meeting a roaming hero.
- Clarity restores mana to keep using Enchant when jungle or gank.
- Iron Branch gives cost-effective attribute bonuses.
- Smoke of Deceit makes ganking easier with invisibility and movement speed boost.
Early game:
- Boots of Speed provides movement speed boost for Enchantress to gank early.
- Magic Stick refills health and mana in short bursts.
- Infused Raindrops gives mana regeneration and blocks some magical damage to go along with Untouchable that counters physical attacks.
- Wind Lace provides movement speed bonus for cheap; will build into Drum of Endurance.
Mid game:
- Phase Boots give movement speed boost for superb positioning.
- Magic Wand gives more attributes, as well as burst health and mana.
- Dragon Lance provides attack range bonus to increase damage of Impetus. The bonus strength and agility help Enchantress with some health and attack speed.
- Drum of Endurance gives attributes and movement speed boost for Enchantress to gank and push.
Late game:
- Aghanim's Scepter increases Enchantress's damage output and attack range, allowing her to stay farther away from the fray.
- Hurricane Pike, upgraded from Dragon Lance, enables Enchantress to deal tremendous damage over a short period of time while keeping herself in a safe distance.
- Bloodthorn helps to pick off a single target with silence and critical strike, as well as granting intelligence, mana regeneration, and attack speed, greatly increasing the rate of using Impetus.
Situational items:
- Orb of Venom, coupling with Enchant, slows enemy movement speed so Enchantress and her creeps can land more attacks.
- Urn of Shadows grants charges for slain enemies; use them to damage enemies or heal allies.
- Hand of Midas accelerates farm to help Enchantress transition to a damage dealer with her core items.
- Helm of the Dominator has aura that provides attack speed and health regeneration for Enchantress and her controlled creeps. Furthermore, it enables Enchantress to control another creep to increase the size of her army.
- Hood of Defiance protects Enchantress against magical damage, working well with Untouchable to increase survivability.
- Rod of Atos gives attributes and a root to keep target in place for Impetus.
- Black King Bar grants spell immunity to keep Enchantress alive and firing Impetus without enemy interruptions.
- Monkey King Bar pierces evasion for Enchantress to land Impetus.
- Shiva's Guard gives intelligence, survivability, and a slow, allowing Enchantress to keep in range of her targets.
- Scythe of Vyse provides good bonuses to attributes and a hex that allows Enchantress to keep using Impetus on a target.
- Moon Shard increases attack speed for faster Impetus, useful when you have the mana regeneration to sustain it.
- Assault Cuirass allows Enchantress to attack faster with Impetus, and survive for longer in fights with armor.
