Nerds Visage
Description
Visage is summons-based universal hero. He is relying a lot on his summons (familliars) and experience, while also being able to deal a lot of physical damage, split push and destroy buildings really quickly.
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Grave Chill
Our main kill-potential spell. It's not only a slow, but also an attack speed buff for us and our familliars. It's also a good way to escape ganks.
Soul Assumption
Our another killing/finishing up spell. It's generally not a good idea to not skill this, but for a core Visage it won't be a problem to get a bunch of levels. Early on it won't be that useful with higher levels, so it's better to leave as level 1 skill until later point.
Summon Familiars
Visage is not actually a hero and without familliars he's almost completely useless. Don't be afraid to lose your bird if you will get something for it. More important is will you have resummon after you lose your familliars. And, ofc, avoid resummoning if you're close to aghs or lvl 12/18.
Gravekeeper's Cloak
Max Gravekeeper's Cloak as early as possible. This will allow our familliars to live longer in fights, which looks much more important.
Soul Assumption Hits 3 Targets
It's good when you're dominating and won't be able to get that much benefit from XP talent.
Gravekeeper's Cloak grants +10 Armor
Good in cases when you have aghs slot and play more like a tank than damage dealer.
+1 Familiar
Better in almost every case. 4 familliars with aghs or "free slot" to buy something instead of aghs. In both cases this talent helps much more than cloak upgrade.
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Another useful choice, mostly for cases when you need lockdown against BKB carrier or another disable for team.
With new lvl 25 talent it's not as required as it used to be, but it still very good item for both offensive (additional familliar as damage) and defensive (additional stun and stats) purposes
Our general tool (after medallion-aghs) to amplify tankiness, tower damage, help our team with aura and just kill things faster.
If you arenot going to pick up AC, it's probably another choice for you. Altho, while we want to get AC tight after aghs, shiva's will be our very last slot to get.
Offensive choice. No lockdown, but increases our -armor potential and damage vs towers. I pick it up mostly in cases when the game is already won.
Buff your summons with attack speed, additional mobility for yourself
Cheap alternative for Bloodthorn or Sheepstick. Pretty cheap, gives Visage additional lockdown and tankiness
Casual boots upgrade if you feel like you need additional mobility and regen
And another one glimmer cape alternative, but this one is more like team-oriented and used only for it's purging part.
Use it on summoned catapult or familliar while pushing to instantly melt towers.
Powerful aura and a lot of sustain. Usually you tend to not upgrade your boots as Visage for a long time, and Greaves work well with all this playstyle
Against Tidehunter, Bristleback, Antimage aghs or if you need some kind of repositioning item
Perfect offensive item: crit, silence, attackspeed. a lot of damage.
Often you will be focused, so you won't survive and graekeeper's cloak won't help you. Glimmer Cape is actually pretty good at saving teammates or yourself, so it can be pretty good choice sometimes.
