can someone give me some tips on playing maliken carry.

be it item builds or gameplay tips.

i like playing him and i have a general idea how he works, but i want to know if i am wrong on anything

my build is:

steamboots
bkb
demonic
riftshards

but i never have the gpm to get all the way up there, i'm bad at lasthitting early game and everyone i play with steals my double stacks

yea. in return 2.5fg



thanks.

step 1. get good at last hitting
step 2. play with someone who knows how to support

Lifesteal is a must as maliken. I suggest you get a whispering helm quickly and the rest of your build is fine. For last hitting all I can say is keep practicing.

focus on getting a whispering helm early and start stacking ancient
if you're not strong enough to take them alone try ask someone for help example a magmus/myrm/behe or anyone with an aoe
also screw riftshard i'd say a savage mace is better
and lasthitting aint rly that hard i mean on level 5 you get +20 damage from your passive which will make it piece of cake

try play your hero quite passive and far back, sit and farm carry a tp, because it's quite hard to outfarm a decent maliken since you will be able to clear out your tristack ancient like once every 4 min not to mention maliken is quite a hard carry, the only harder carries i can think of straight up in my head is madman, doctor, puppet

but yeah mainly focus on getting farm and once it comes to team fight be kind of the followup not the main initiator ( unless you got the chance to pretty much ulti ontop of 4 or 5 persons ) while you got your SH, else i'd say play carefully

what about insantarius -> whispering helm -> symbol or whispering -> insan -> SOR

there is no set item build, yes this would be ideal to do you get great farm in lane then go jungle

but rushing whispering helm allows you to gain creeps to
A) stack ancients if your support are not
you can jugnle with them while you farm lane

insanitatious sucks dick

get whisp helm asap to get a creep to stack camps for you, you want dominate as many creeps as you can before the game ends

you might even want to get whisp helm before you finish steam boots if your team will allow you to rice the jungle

ok thanks for the tips guys. appreciate it

- Play w/ someone who supports [preferably a stunner for support].
- Let him harass/deny, stack/pull neutral camps.
- Starting Items: [Depending on the lane you guess you'll be against] Hatchet, Shield, 1x Runes of blight -or- Hatchet, 1x Health pot, 1x Runes of blight, 3x Minor Totems.
- Skill build: Max 1 and 2 before pointing 3 then the obvious.
- Items: Steam boots, Alch Bones [If you can have by 6-8 minutes], Whispering Helm, Shrunken Head [Varies depending on team], Rift Shards 4, Symbolic Rage [Varies depending on team], Deamonic Breastplate -or- Behemoths Heart [Varies Depending on team].

Once you get Whispering Helm dominate a creep and send it to your ancients and every :50 seconds pull/stack them and kill them.
At low levels, use your Ult to kill the ancient stacks faster.

You can setup ganks at level 3ish w/ your dmg/slow from sword w/ a followed up stun or vice versa for easy kills to get you that earlier farm from kills to give you a lead in lane.

Ancient stack killing ontop of Alch bones that'll give you 300+ GPM in no time & easy carry mode w/ a decently supportive team.

What i usually do in this order:
Red Boots, Alch Bones, Finish Steams, Finish Whispering Helm, Finish Shrunken Head, Finish Riftshards 4, Finish Deamonic Breastplate & GG.
But then again it really is all situational - with a good/decent support and no feeding in your lane it's fairly simple to do this.

This post was edited by BloopX on May 23 2011 11:04pm

hatchet and alchbones on maliken are crutches for people who suck penis