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Jul 2 2009 08:56am
viper is arguably one of the best early game harassers there is... now even moreso that frenzy was replaced.

get boots asap. you want to be able to orbwalk, well you need movespeed to chase them.
usually i add a wraith or a bracer, depending on if i am getting nuked or if i can harass easily.

then i head for buriza. bfly on him is not a good 1st item. get raw damage first, aka buriza. then go whatever you like.

sometimes i get bkb but viper is NOT an initiator, meaning he should not just run in first... he is more like clinkz, pick off their main disabler/dmg dealer while your tank distracts the enemy team.

either way, my build looks like this

Boots -> BoT
Wraith/Bracer
Crix/Buriza
MkB or Bfly. usually MkB.

the rest is up to you. buriza is his only real core for me, because with his slow ability, you can really pound out some crits
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Jul 2 2009 11:23am
stack vanguards, you'll be unstoppable!!
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Jul 2 2009 12:08pm
Quote (kyny91 @ Thu, Jul 2 2009, 06:35am)
Personally i hate lothars, why would any hero get invis if they like?

Invis, in every game, will ruin it -- who is the noob who made it up -.-


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Quote (Sunglasses @ Thu, Jul 2 2009, 09:23am)
stack vanguards, you'll be unstoppable!!


Vouch this.
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Jul 2 2009 04:16pm
Just mess around.
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Jul 2 2009 08:06pm
Quote (Mistyrious @ Thu, Jul 2 2009, 07:02am)
no lothars?

personally i go for

BoT
Vanguard if heavy nukes
lothars
crystalis
butterfly
buriza upg


this

as long as you have something that makes you able to take dmg you can sub vanguard for BKB if they're nuke heavy
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Jul 2 2009 08:53pm
Quote (Mistyrious @ Thu, Jul 2 2009, 11:02am)
no lothars?

personally i go for

BoT
Vanguard if heavy nukes
lothars
crystalis
butterfly
buriza upg


Good build. If only they had some sort of an item that reduced spell damage or something... like 30% magic reduction and 8 hp /sec... that'd be cool
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Jul 3 2009 12:09am
Viper isn't a "carry" any more, don't build him like one. Viper has 2 GREAT things he can do now - laning and ganking. Dominate a lane, then gank like crazy so your team massively out-levels and out-farms the other team. The removal of Frenzy removed his slight ability to late game. Bottle and couple bracers, rack up massive kills, get BoT for better map control, continue to rack up kills. Bottle solves your mana problems to orb walk, the rest is cake. Games go much quicker in this version, even in bad pubs. You should easily dominate the 5 agi carries that the other pub team probably has. Before you know it, game's over and you did well. And if it doesn't, you can start getting some survivability/dps, I'd say heart first, survivability is what Viper lacks most. But regardless, your ganking dominance should put your team way ahead, and you can continue to gank the late gamers as they attempt to farm and push towers.
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