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Nerds Core Bane

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Bane
Offlane Core
Updated: 3/9/23, 4:11 PMPatch 7.32e
Hero stats
1,169
53.29%
3
33.33%

Description

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Bane is intelligence utility hero with insanely good stats. He is good at dominating lanes and outliving opponents, while also providing strong setup for kills early on.

This build is based around his ability to dominate the lane and snowball from here. Bane has pretty strong overall stats and he's almost impossible to fight against early on. His skillset makes it harder to farm on lane and gives Bane a lot of sustain. Later on Core Offlane Bane can be build into strong utility fighter, holding auras and useful team oriented items, ending up as scary hybrid core.

This build is untraditional and situational. Use the hero on this position with this build on your own risk.

Starting Items

tango
branches
crown

Skill Build

Talents
+5s Fiend's Grip Duration
25
+200 Brain Sap Damage/Heal
+30 Movement Speed
20
-3s Nightmare Cooldown
+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain
15
-3s Brain Sap Cooldown
+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction
10
Nightmare Damage Heals Bane
Skill Build Timeline
bane_brain_sap
bane_nightmare
bane_brain_sap
bane_nightmare
bane_brain_sap
bane_fiends_grip
bane_brain_sap
bane_nightmare
bane_nightmare
talents_tree_full
bane_enfeeble
bane_fiends_grip
bane_enfeeble
bane_enfeeble
talents_tree_full
bane_enfeeble
bane_fiends_grip
talents_tree_full
talents_tree_full

Main Build

Early Items
magic_wand
crown
meteor_hammer
Core Items
boots
wind_lace
aether_lens
ultimate_scepter
blink
aghanims_shard
Lategame Items
octarine_core
black_king_bar
ethereal_blade
travel_boots
sheepstick
shivas_guard
moon_shard
Situational Early
ghost
phase_boots
force_staff
soul_ring
Situational
sphere
aeon_disk
kaya_and_sange
overwhelming_blink
Utility
solar_crest
guardian_greaves
heavens_halberd
pipe
lotus_orb
glimmer_cape
wraith_pact
Alternatives
There are no elements
Order swaps
There are no elements

Build Timeline

Early Items
magic_wand
crown
Item #1
meteor_hammer
Early Items
boots
wind_lace
Situation
soul_ring
Item #2
aether_lens
Situation
phase_boots
Item #3
ultimate_scepter
Situation
ghost
force_staff
Item #4
blink
Item #5
aghanims_shard
Item #6
octarine_core

Lategame Items

Lategame Main Route
octarine_core
black_king_bar
ethereal_blade
travel_boots
sheepstick
shivas_guard
moon_shard
All Lategame Items
octarine_core
overwhelming_blink
glimmer_cape
lotus_orb
pipe
heavens_halberd
guardian_greaves
solar_crest
kaya_and_sange
black_king_bar
aeon_disk
sphere
moon_shard
shivas_guard
sheepstick
travel_boots
ethereal_blade
wraith_pact

Neutral Items

Other significant items

assault
spirit_vessel
hand_of_midas
bloodstone

Tooltips

Spells Tooltips

Nightmare

You can use it to both harass opponents early on and setup kills. It can also be used for it's 1sec invulnerability after cast which can save you or your allies (or your enemies) from a projectile or a spell (like X-Mark)

Fiend's Grip

One of the strongest disables in the game. You can use it to setup kills with your team early on, but later into the game it may be better to either initiate with it or hold it off since you're most likely to play as a tanky frontlaner which increases your chances of being interrupted mid-ult

Items Tooltips
phase_boots

Additional movement speed and armor are pretty much all Bane needs seems he doesn't need attack speed and stats more than he already has

hand_of_midas

Good for cases when you won your lane early on, but can't finish the game early. Bane struggles with farming after laning stage, so it may be a helpful pickup

pipe

Against magic heavy lineups

sheepstick

Reliable disable and mana sustain

force_staff

Good thing to have against slows and similar stuff in its nature (X-Mark)

shivas_guard

For a hybrid core way when you need armor

sphere

Against strong single target disables (e.g. Doom)

soul_ring

Another mana solution, may replace Bracer, but it's more expensive as well

heavens_halberd

Against high attack damage cores

lotus_orb

Against silences and purgable slows

solar_crest

Natural upgrade to Medallion and useful buff for your team

guardian_greaves

Strong regen aura and useful item to have in general. Good pickup if you're playing more of an utility core and there's no better Greaves carrier on your team

octarine_core

Nice addition for a hybrid core (getting use of Mjolnir cooldown reduction, mjolnir procs and reduced cooldown on Q and E)

glimmer_cape

Good item to save allies (or yourself) from being focused

spirit_vessel

You don't really need it yourself, but it's usually a strong team oriented item. You may consider dropping Solar Crest in favor of Spirit Vessel