How to use ice blast dota 2

Acid’s guide to Lich

Keeping it simple

DotA2 Hero: Lich

Purchase Order

starting items

early game items

Core Items

Luxury Items

Hero Skills

Frost Blast

Frost Shield

10

12

13

14

Sinister Gaze

Chain Frost

Talents

Acid’s guide to Lich

1.	Introduction
2.	Pros and Cons
3.	Skills
4.	items
5.	Strategy
6.	Conclusion

Introduction

Lich is a great support, good at controlling lanes, and is almost completely item independent. With his spammable nuke, auto deny that steals mana, chain ult and armor buff, all of this makes him a great addition to any team.

Pros and Cons

Pros:
Slowing spammable nuke
Chain ult great for team battles
Item Independent
great at harassing
has an auto deny
mana steal

Skills

Frost Blast :
This is lich’s single target spammable nuke, it does a burst of damage as well as slows enemies in and around the blast, combined with Sacrifice, it makes for a great harass early game while laning

Ice Armor:
This ability gives lich the ability to buff a friendly heros armor, and also gives the attacker of that hero a slow. The mana cost and cooldown are low so make sure you stay on top of this buff.

Sacrifice:
This is lich’s auto deny, while it does not actually count as a deny it does stop the other lane from farming that creep so it should be used often, this ability takes the strength from a friendly creep and converts it to mana, so it is wise to use this ability on the mele creeps

Chain Frost :
Chain Frost is Lichs ult. this skill has the ability to an amazing amount of damage. Chain frost is a frozen orb that bounces around from enemy to enemy up to 7 times. make sure that the enemies are all grouped together and it is also >

items

Starting Items:
Since Lich is a support you are going to want to start out getting either wards or a courier, after that you are going to want to get a salve and 4 branches

Early game:
In the early parts of the game you are going to want to get Headdress to start off mech, it is wise to get headdress first because it adds a 1+ healing aura which is great for survivability in the lane, it is also good to get a Bracer for that very same reason. After that you are going to want to get a Magic Wand for some mana and health early game, and Boots of Speed for a little bit of speed boost.

Core Items:
For Core one of the first things you are going to want to finish out is Mekansm , mekansm plays a vital role in team fights and can turn them around very easily so make sure you are eon top of popping it. you are also going to want to get the Drum of Endurance not only because it gives a 10 attack and movement speed on activation, but also because it does 5 passively. It is also wise to get Phase Boots for the movement speed, some people think that power treads are good for lich, but i disagrees, because he doesn’t need the strength, or mana at that point in the game.

luxury Items:
for luxury items lich’s ult benefits from Aghanim’s Sceptre so it would be wise to purchase one of these, Shiva’s Guard and Scythe of Vyse are great for the disables furthering lich’s usefulness as a support late game. Necronomicon is also a great item if you are looking to push late game with lich.

Strategy

Early Game:
In the early parts of the game stay in your lane and spam Frost Blast to harass as often as you can, using to Sacrifice to deny and get mana as much as possible, also if you are laning with a carry make sure to let them have all the farm.

Mid Game:
This is when ganking starts to happen, stay with your carry and make sure to keep denying and harassing, if your carry decides to gank go with him to help with the kill, but make sure not to last hit give the carry the xp, when team fights start to break out, keep up with the slows and your ult, just remember ult placement is key. if you have Ice Armor make sure to keep up with that and Meckansm too.

End Game:
Now that everyone is at a high level and your caries should be fed enough, make sure to keep on your mek and ice armor, if you do this combined with great ult placement your team should have no problem winning team fights.

Conclusion

Lich is a great damage dealing support, who can turn team fights quickly and is very item independent.

Thread: [Intended] AA’s Ice Blast’s Frostbite debuff doesn’t get removed by Manta/BKB

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[Intended] AA’s Ice Blast’s Frostbite debuff doesn’t get removed by Manta/BKB

Hi, as far as i know Frostbite debuff should be removed by Manta split or BKB activation, at least it did before. Now the debuff stays no matter what (with or without Aghanims).

Edit by Buny:
Purge should beable to remove the debuff but is not right now:
Diffusal Blade Purge
Neutral creep Purge
Unstable Current Purge
Doom Devoured Neutral creep Purge
Demonic Purge

Last edited by bu3ny; 01-23-2014 at 12:12 PM . Reason: Added list of spells

Can confirm, AA ult wasn’t removed by BKB, Manta or Dark Pact(normal rank 1 ult, no agh). It is removed in dota1 in the current version(again without agh didn’t bother to check with it).

Unless Icefrog changed how the spell works in DotA 1.

also, in dota 2 wiki, it says it can be purged. so diffusal blade and any other purges

Last edited by chunkyboy; 06-06-2013 at 08:34 AM .

AA’s ulti was changed to be purgeable in 6.66, basically right after AA was added in dota1. It’s been purgeable ever since afaik, and was in dota2 until recently(probably until this patch but haven’t played AA in forever). The only bug with it is that Slark/Tidehunter couldn’t remove it with their abilities, for some reason and in fact there’s a known bug report for that.

also add euls which should remove it but in fact doesnt

The thread I posted was accurate as of 6.74. I just posted it because it was the original reference for future posts on the matter. As far as I’m aware the DotA 1 behavior is:
– BKB blocks the magic damage, but does NOT purge the HP freeze/shatter debuff
– Purge, Cyclone, Dark Pact, Kraken Shell remove the buff and it stays off
– Manta removes the buff, but if you are not damaged within 0.5 seconds, the buff is triggered to reapply itself

I just want to make sure this is reported correctly. The buff being unpurge-able is a bug, but as far as I’m aware, the HP freeze/shatter are not removed by magic immunity.

Make sure to read the Forum Rules as well as the stickied Threads of the Forum Section you are posting in.

Ice Blast is definitely removed by: Diffusal Blade Purge, Satyr Trickster’s Purge, Unstable Current’s Purge, Doom Bringer’s Devoured Purge (this uses a different ability code), Cyclone from Eul’s Scepter, and Demonic Purge, and Fortune’s End.

It may also be removed by: Indeterminate. Things that can remove buffs based on BOac Command Aura Buff, I suppose.

Last edited by imxtrabored; 06-06-2013 at 02:15 PM .