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This guide focuses on BKB (Black King Bear) because it is essential to any bear looking to stomp some noobs. Ursa is a strong mid game carry much like Templar Assassin that has the tools to make it out in the late game if required. Though he can't fight a Faceless Void 50 minutes in, he can destroy him when the game starts, 3 minutes later, again after he roshes, twice more after that, and then the game is over 35:00 minutes in and the Phantom lancer you were up against managed to farm a tranquils + diffusal and got to level 13.
Note: The first build is focused on staying in lane, the second one is mostly for jungling and focuses on getting tranquils first.
Why are you still reading this wall of giant text go read the actual guide already god dammit
Grab the items above (Get the Tango,
Stout Shield, and the
Healing Salve, when the match starts you will have 163 gold, the second it reaches 175 send your
Ring of Protection to you via courier (You may also wait until you have 475 and send the Vladmir's Recipe too), and take top or bottom (Bottom if radiant, Top if Dire), you can also jungle as Ursa. If you just want to get by, then you can lane with pretty much anyone. If you wanna go for first blood, go with someone like
Shadow Shaman who's Shackles can destroy the enemy and give you easy FB. I like to level Overpower first for that very reason. (If you know you won't be getting any FB's, level Fury Swipes first). The very first thing you want to do is start on vlads, build boots while you are in the middle of making vlads, and then finish vlads.
About your skill build:
Go for Overpower first (just one skill point) if you want first blood, and then start leveling up your passive
Max out Fury Swipes first
Do NOT get Enrage until at least level 11
Get Overpower to level 2-3, and then do not get level 4 until you have a level 3 Earthshock. This is because the mana cost gets higher each time, so you may even want to leave it at level 2 so the cost is only 55 mana, and you could level your slow earlier which helps you by giving your team an additional slow and 240 dmg nuke.
IMPORTANT NOTE: After hitting level 11, it's really your choice how you want to level the rest. You can either get your Overpower to level 4, or skip it til later (will have cheaper mana)and instead get level 2 Enrage at levels 12 and 13. At 14 you could then get Overpower. What I prefer to do, is to just get your Earthshock at 4, Overpower at 2, Fury Swipes at 4, and Enrage at 0. Then I decide what is most important. Usually I leave Overpower at 2 or 3.
If your team does not have any junglers, then this is a great idea. Start the game off with a Stout Shield, Ring of Protection, and skill Fury Swipes first. after this you should grab at least one tango. Wait until 0:30 and head to the small camp, and clear it. You want to get a Ring of Basilius asap, so you can spam Overpower in the jungle. Once you kill the camp, there should be about 5 seconds left until 1:00, leave and come back when it hits 1:00. Kill the camp again. Use your teams courier to send a Ring of Basilius and Ring of Regen to you. This is the order in which you want your items:
Ring of Protection > Ring of Basilius > Ring of Regen > Recipe: Vladmir's Offering > Morbid Mask
Because of your skill Fury Swipes, Morbid Mask is useless until built into Vladmir's. this is why it is better to send the recipe through your courier, and as soon as you hit 900 gold you can just go to the side shop to pick up the mask and finish your vlads. You also want to grab phase around this point, or at least have a boots of speed by now.
Here is a VERY useful image I found:
You are ready to solo roshan when:
1. Fury Swipes is level 3 or 4
2. Your support wards roshan, and you get smoke of deceit (If your support is being a dumbass then wards aren't mandatory, but smoke is a must if you are going against good players)
3. You have Vladmir's Offering
4. You are level 7 (really tough to do level 6, but can be done if you have vlads built, and you have level 3 Fury Swipes
Keep in mind that your ultimate, Enrage is a map-wide ultimate, like Pudge's
Dismember. Remember that one time you heard "AHAHAHA FRESH MEAT" and then your teammate fed pudge across the other side of the map? Yeah, well everyone can hear you when you activate your ultimate, and they'll be paying the Roshan pit a little visit.
^^^Here is a map of where wards are commonly placed, used smoke to get by undetected!!!^^^
Make sure there are wards (Have your support place some), anytime your enemy sees an Ursa on the enemy team they know that bear is gonna try to kill roshan again. (The second you see someone going near roshan RUN AWAY, if you kill roshan or are very close to kill him and grab the Aegis FAST, as long as they don't get it it's a success, don't forget your team gets +200 gold each).
Once you emerge victorious from the dark cave of despair clenching the Aegis in your right paw, get Phase Boots finished and then save up for Blink Dagger. (Get Shadow Blade if there are no invis heros on your team, or if the enemy team consists of a bunch of drow ranger and sniper noobs, they either wont buy gem of true sight, or if there are no invis heros on your team they wont think to buy wards and gem so Shadow Blade may help) That being said I myself like to use BD.
After you have done this, whenever you want to farm go jungle like crazy. You want to get a Blink Dagger and BKB asap.
Black King Bar will SAVE your ***, this item is a must for Ursa. Help your team in fights, and farm a BKB fast. This will help you not get focused down with chainstuns and slows and whatnot. *****es cant touch yo *** with Black King Bar watching your back. The 10 strength that you get also gives you more health, which makes your ultimate do more damage. This is also about the time when you should pick up a Void Stone to help you with mana, and then complete it with a Ring of Health to make Perseverance which means even more dmg, and 125% mana regen. You need that stuff to spam your Overpower and Earthshock.
Kill roshan again, collect your Aegis.
Take out towers with Overpower
Make sure you have said items
If you are getting wiped out fast, you either don't have a BKB, or you lied and still didn't buy BKB. (Or Beastmaster/Bane is on the enemy team, sometimes you might want to skip BKB and just try to tank all the damage if they have too many magic immunity piercing skills like Dismember and Black Hole)
Our favorite Bear's power starts to fall off late game, so it's important to realize that Ursa is not a late game carry, and does most of his destruction early/mid. Ursa is still very strong late game, but don't expect him to take on a Faceless Void or an Anti Mage...
Kill roshan again and get your delicious cheese. If you are running low on space, just take the aegis, and leave the cheese to one of your teammates that could benefit most from it. (Sometimes I deny aegis, sometimes I have a teammate pick it up, most of the time a teammate grabs it but I always try to keep one spot open for ursa, you shouldn't be six slotted until late game anyways, once you've got all 6 item slots taken up, just give em to your teammates)
If you are playing as Ursa, you can easily kill roshan at LEVEL ONE when paired as a duo with one of these heros:
Skeleton King
Wisp
Lich
You CAN get it done with other heros but it is more difficult. I myself have only done it with Skeleton King, but when I get the opportunity I will most definitely attempt with a Wisp or Lich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgQPxC7kgE
This is a very good video that explains how to get it done. You basically take turns swapping back and forth taking the damage. Flip the skill sequence so that you level Fury Swipes first, and THEN Overpower. Since you have already killed roshan, you can afford to level Earthshock earlier as well. If this is done right, you and your partner will both start the game off level 3-4 while the enemy stares in disbelief with their pathetic level 1 heros.
Have fun tearing your enemies apart mercilessly! Also thank you for reading this was my first guide on Dotafire.com.
Questions/Complaints/I'm a noob and you're going to track me down and murder me because you don't like my build? PLEASE comment below I want to know what's wrong how I can make this guide better, thanks!
REMINDER: URSA + WISP > CK + WISP
Here are some dotabuff games I'll post in case you wanted to see my builds, and whatnot, enjoy.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/134133834
^ here is one where I build Monkey King Bar because of the Phantom Assassin on the other team, I also tried out Armlet, and it is surprisingly good.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/79783984
^ here is an ideal build, great for people that aren't used to using Armlet or just want to try Ursa without messing anything up, this is my "stock" build or basic one. Basically if I have no idea what to buy I just buy these, they're my "recommended items"
http://dotabuff.com/matches/57219950
^ *shudders* here is one of my old games when I was new, for some reason our Lycan built vlads even though I was on the team, and I rushed shadow blade... yuck I ended up getting carried by some ***** that shoots wooden arrows which is pretty embarrassing for a young cub like myself
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