I would really appreciate it if someone could give me a guide for N'aix/Lifestealer on DoTa,

or

If you know of good sites that offer good guides.

Niax is fairly simple. You lane/farm with him, rushing armlet if possible, using your ultimate to escape from ganks. After you farm armlet, treads are your next item. After that it depends on the circumstance. Normally you'll get deso or BKB, probably deso. After that, get a heart/Cuirass or the other item (Deso or BkB), and if the game goes longer than that, you've probably won already. Dagger can be farmed anytime after armlet, if you're doing well. It's nice if you find positioning to be an issue.

As a carry, it's essentially your job to destroy the other team mid/late game.

Skill builds don't vary much. If you're going to be jungling or expect trouble, feast at level 1, if not open wounds. Level two on is as follows, Feast or Open wounds (depending on what you picked up at lvl 1), rage, feast, rage, ulti, rage, rage, feast, feast, ulti, open, open, open, etc. You can swap feast for open if at levels 9-10 if you find yourself ganking a lot.

Just run in or pop out at the enemy, open wounds, rage and destroy. Rice most of the game and gank those who are near your lane.

He's pretty straight forward, but if you aren't familiar with proper carrying strategies or have questions about specific in depth Naix strategies, let me know.

Edit: Forgot to mention quelling blade. It can be very nice.

This post was edited by deathbypepsi on Jul 22 2009 12:43am

Thanks.

lold at this terribad build

This post was edited by hurt_knee on Jul 22 2009 12:39am

this, cept I do like a cuirass on naix

nothing wrong with that

That's pretty much the standard build...you won't see much variation from that, unless you're pubing or utilizing a very specific strategy.

This post was edited by deathbypepsi on Jul 22 2009 01:16am

armlet
treads
stygian/sange (depending on circumstances)
a/c
heart

no its not garths build is standard other the the replacement of armlet for a vanguard and a mkb in there somewere u dont need a bkb on naix nor a blink please pub

Armlet is core for most STR carries, with a few exceptions, Niax not being one of them.

Vanguard doesn't provide anything Niax needs, except for overpriced HPs. MKB doesn't synergies at all with Niax, doesn't give enough of what he needs, and he can get more damage for a lot cheaper.

BKB is situational. Dagger is actually quite useful, but it is a sort of luxury item.

You don't have to believe me on this; You can find relatively recent competitive replays of the build in action. As I said before, it's essentially the standard build, and it's very efficient.

This post was edited by deathbypepsi on Jul 22 2009 04:26am