Nerds Leshrac
Description
Leshrac is an intelligence hero who can be played at every position and transition into powerful core at the end of the game. The hero farms extremely fast, has lockdown and the only things he needs are mana regen and surviveability, so he can deal more damage and outlive opponents. His Diabolic Edict ability allowes him to become a powerful core hero and essentially be able to almost singlehandedly end the game at later stages.
This build is focused around Core Leshrac on Middle lane. There aren't much differences between Mid and Safelane in that regards, and overall gameplay for a hero remains the same for all positions, but there are some key differences in itemisation and items reasoning between Core, Offlane and Support Leshrac.
Other builds
Starting Items
Skill Build
Skill Priority
Talents
Skill Build Timeline
Main Build
Build Timeline
Lategame Items
Neutral Items
Tooltips
Spells Tooltips
Pulse Nova
Strong farming and teamfight spell, but it's too expensive until the point when you get bloodstone.
Split Earth
Level 1 ability may be tough to choose. Split Earth may give you a kill potential during early skirmishes, as well as higher damage potential to harass opponent.
Diabolic Edict
Your main push potential. This skill essentially turns you into proper carry who can end the game by himself, as well as pickoff potential. Natural combo: Storm - Eul - Split Earth - Edict and chase enemy down until he's dead
Lightning Storm
Altho, You want to max Lightning Storm first to win your lane and secure Split Earth hits.
+25 Diabolic Edict Explosions
More than two times longer edict which means more than two times more damage. More edict damage means better push, which is exactly what we want.
Lightning Storm Can Bounce Twice On Units
You can get this talent instead, if you have enough damage to push on your team, but need additional slow.
+35 Pulse Nova Damage
Even while you'd like to double down on surviveability, Pulse Nova damage talent significantly improves your damage output for the same manacost.
Items Tooltips
May work as initiation/mobilty item. Replaces boots slot later on, Euls or any of lategame items
Additional mobiliity and map control. After disassembling Arcane boots early on you will have brown boots anyway, why not upgrade them to BoTs?
Better early game stat item for a mana dependant int hero. If you want to play more agressively, you can get 2nd one.
Emergency situation save item. Just in case you need to run away from slows or ground-changing lockdowns.
You need it almost every game relatively early, so it may be considered a core item, can be replaced with an early Bloodstone
Huge manapool (and damage) increase, while also adding up surviveabilty and increasing lockdown power.
Good if you need some kind of purge ability and armor. Replaces Shiva's Guard or Aeon Disk
Playing cheeky or playing against tanky cores with strong passives (Bristleback, Spectre)
