Destroy and Survive with N'aix the Lifestealer, by Reaper666

great job, why isnt it on the newest strategies section yet?

first comment?
maybe anyway good and detailed guide.
not much to say, its better than the way i play him.

Very good guide, the screenies are awesome but something's wrong, the first one is good but the rest are way too small.

WOW. i can just imagine the effort you put on this guide. good screenshots, great item builds... complete naix guide definitely a 10

good guide, same skill build as mine, except i only take 2 levels of infest,

my problem lies with the item build
bashers is a fail, you wont have optimal speed to get a good bash running, trust me, i've been doing calculations and test and i found out MKB is wayyyy better. too good actually. SnY is what i believe an alternative so i wont mess with that one.

I dont get it, why butterfly?
first of all you dont need that agi, and lots of it goes into waste(cont)

at the cost of butter, you can get 3 hypers which works farrrrr better anyways, or just 2 hypers+plate mail.

buriza is an overkill, same reasoning as bashers, EoS is just like butter, and if you go satanic there will be no need for vlads+SnY, you're not meant to chase anyway

however ,i like this guide better than the last ones, 8/10

i'm the 3rd^^ not bad 9/10

and i lolooled at the enchantress kill, be honest, thats not human player right?

dont take this seriously, does not deviate from the guide

yay third comment

some screenies are small but otherwise it's ok

yah that enchan was a tard.

this is similar to the way i play her, but just some tips/facts. most people will be too fast/smart to kill until you have treads.

buuuut if most of you are killing tards all day thats just fine.

and dont forget to roshan.

Yeah Another Naix build!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you

again nobody mentioned about the imba healing power of open wounds+infest, which would heal full HP

One of the best guides I read so far , thanks !

Well I suggest to get 1 or 2 HoT on naix, the hp boost and hp regen could make him unkillable.

this is fantastic man. Heaps better than my old naix strat. Thanks a lot man this is one of the best ive read

well. full built centaurs and ursa might not be really scared, even though they have much hp for naix to lifesteal

centaur: when naix uses rage, centaur's hoof stomp will stun it for 3.75 and rage will have left for only 1 sec

ursa: ursa fighting naix is somewhat similar to fighting the boss-kael. if the ursa get a vlad he can life steal back in a split seond with overpower. Also, if naix uses rage and whacks ursa he could also get huge lifesteal. thus if the battle last longer, ursa(con)

Detailed guide but I find the Colored titles a bit...distracting. Anyway, exactly how I play him. Perhaps without bashers now. Depends on game.

Now the next few guides to be posted will be the top 3..

ursa would win the battle as his fury swipes stacks up, getting more damage and life steal.

correct me if i'm wrong. YES i'm a noob i knoe...

@CowOverTheMoon

Um...rage makes the stun unless, no?

useless*

Thank you for joining the contest, you did a great guide for naix. I didn't consider the basher for naix. I've seen some1 used Maelstrom on Naix and it went deadly.. But I've never tried it yet. The "mouse over" thing seems too small that I needed to right-click and "view image" it for larger view. Haven't tried armlet coz I want HoT vs armlet. Overall, great effort, your 4th place

if i anticipate correctly,,, my guide should be next

IDK

@CFX: Oh? And who do you anticipate are first and second?

wow... very long and detailed guide... GJ in this one.... though the errors on the image are the only problems.... but still a very effective guide... i wont wonder if this got 4th... nice 1..

@amp
i believe kakee got 1st or 2nd, i found a video of pitlord on youtube, then a series of replays that directs to a conclusion

about the 2nd guy, i dont know

Get a skadi and a heart on naix and its done deal. Old naix was rape and so is this naix if used right. He doesnt need vlads, there is just no point to it, you should get a satanic in those builds. Screw the maim you alrdy got a stopping skill. I get radiance, skadi, heart, buriza, threads, assult cuirass.

great guide, 10/10

the animated pictures are not working for me, otherwise the guide is great!

10/10!! :)

Nice guide,, gonna try to play with him^^!!

But the little screenies are annoying u need to fix them;)!

10/10!

the guide itself seems ok, but you should clean up the text >,

Very indepth guide... Gives me a reason to want to rethink playing N'aix again 9/10. Would be a perfect score if it weren't for the tiny screenshots

ahahahahaha melee dance! i like that.. love this strat its exactly like how i use naix! other strats on naix arent up to this standard! overall excellent job, funny, informative and every detail included, 10 out of 10!

ahahahahaha melee dance! i like that.. love this strat its exactly like how i use naix! other strats on naix arent up to this standard! overall excellent job, funny, informative and every detail included, 10 out of 10!

great strat, you explain everything, good screen shots (although some appear really small, not sure what to do about that), a few typos but those don't matter, possibly add some infor about creep blocking last hitting

10/10 (higher if I could rate that high)

IMO ... naix with infest in level 6 is great... for farming purpose.. mana is not a big deal with me.

good guide it helped me alot!

Hmm, a very in depth and comprehensive guide, other than the item builds being a bit out of my capability. 10/10 you deserved it.
P.S, I wonder if anyone made an Invoker guide?

good guide, GG!

x_x great guide just one question though you said riki with manta hits you then you use rage and it negates feedback?

Hmmm i think thats wrong IMO im pretty sure feedback does work on Raged Naix or does it xD LOL please confirm.....

10/10 guide

as far as i know it wont work in BKB

really lots of lota of info. good images too. but you've got problems on the sizes of your images that we need to view it another way. anyway, excellent guide on na'ix. congrats for getting #4!

awesome guide. I'm just wondering where you got your UI? it looks good

nice guide and nice team play section. I didnt know the right item. Thanks to u now I will piss my enemies with this hero.10/10

Good guide, congrats on 4th place, I was very pleased with this one. The sole problem is that a few of those mouse-over things don't quite work (well they work, insofar as a 5% sized screenshot is considered working). As said, very detailed and explained well.

9/10, 10/10 if you fix those few mouse-over things.
Oh and I hate playing N'aix right now because of Infest lol. Oh well.

"And in an amazing twist of fate, 1st 2nd and 3rd place belongs to the mods."

Those mouseover things are the only things that keep this guide from 10/10.

cool guide! you're a naix master I guess?? hehe.. This is pretty nice I believe.

@cfx

I bet you're the winner. My guide is not that good like the rest. I envy all my fellow contestants bcoz you're all so great guide maker. I think I didn't qualify guh!

great guide dude!
i like the way you build naix with GREAT items!

nice one..

i like it... 10/10

@kakee

unfortunately my guide isnt newb friendly, loads of text and ratio of text to screens is about 200:1

basher... uuuuuh :-s

Wicked!!!! well i really use astanic beacause as the battle goes on naix become weaker... and S and Y??? not a great end game item huuuuhhhhhh

Love it nice guide..
I love naix become permabasher
and also more lifesteal!!

Your mouse over pics have some problems. You can't see the full size. Alot of effort went into this guide. A job very well done. It clearly deserves it's 4th place. This has gotta mean 1,2,3 has gotta be damn good. I dont know about basher, but mkb seems better due to the attack speed and the INCREDIBLE amount of mini stuns you dish out. Sad to say it's more expensive... And to be honest, terrorblade really has nothing on you. You kill him even if he uses his ulti

Very useful guide, now i can partner with Skeleton King to pawn!!! XD Thanks.

document.write("Why S&Y while he already has Rage?")

great guide.
very close to the build i use for niax.
but heaps of people stil think the old niax is beta. especially mi friend that used old niax. hes wos a tank in every game with old niax. now he wont even hover the mouse over him in the tavern..lol

I really like the guide.. decent job..

10/10 from me

great work....beast guide .....better then i play with lifesteeler

great strat but i think ursa can still beat naix easily.

although both arent item dependant ursa can instantly kill naix.dont u think that ursa's stack up dmg and ulti would beat anyone especially when he has vlads.9/10 keep it up.

very nice strat i love the picture thing with the mouse thing. perfect. some of the pictures were a bit odd for me as they were a bit small. but the 1's that worked fine perfect. Nice items build maybe some bracers for some stats but nvm. Nice item discriptions nice so this stops questions about them nice job stay active in the forums. XD.

You should also consider buying radiance. Anyway nice guide. 9/10

so shud i buy offering or satanic = = u kinda confuse me

I don't agree with your builds but I do agree with your tactics.

Bashers are silly and SnY is totally unnecessary. You already have the slow from Open Wounds, which adds additional lifesteal. BKB is nice but you have Rage which also provides 80% IAS. Satanic is much better than SnY and Vladimir's combined. HotD early game provides 5 Armor, +20 Damage (more than Vlad's early on), and 15% Lifesteal (3% more than Vlad's). Satanic is much better than SnY and Vladimir's combination.

Also, I would get some Vanguards if needed. Vanguards add survivability with an additional 250 hp and blocking ability. Armlet is nice, but I would get it later on in the game.

8/10.

nice guide and i agree with what Shim said. Make the "mouse-over" screenies bigger and you've got yourself a 10/10

good guide and mostly how i play Naix if i ever random him

so so lar..
bud i think it will be better if the item:
- power thread
- SnY
- Cranium
- butterfly
- MKB
- Buriza

No need BKB.. waste of money u know..
NOOB lha

great guide

excellent guide for noobs who does not appreciate the skills of the new and improved, more cunning LifeStealer

any one tried 2 bashers on naix? its inxane XD

nice guide man 10/10
i was total noob and i decided to try out this guide...i got my first dominating spree...so happy...

Fucking great job dude !

Love the guide , my only 2 cents is i get raped by armlet of mordigian it hurts me faster than i can get hp.

which dota version is this for?
I've moved some months ago, leaving me with no money, so no internet.

So I play Dota offline, you know, against bots :)
And I'm playing Dota v. 6.43

Great Job dude!!!

Nice Strat!!!

d(@_@)b

.. open wound is an activated skill?!
.. @#(!@! so that's why the aren't slowing the &^@! down!!

..tnx dude!!

smart

not bad

I love this hero, but I never build like this. I never use Infest (and I know it's a tactical spell than a killing spell)

I prefer Radiance to chasing nearly dead hero. And it also have 8% miss to enemies. But he need Lifesteal item to increase lifesteal from damage to maximazing damage and lifesteal.

I don't know if is a bug, but Pit Lord is one of his worse enemies. His Pit of Malice can stun him even in Rage. Can not do anything in 3 second is something for Naix.

And I suggest Open Wound for chasing, not for early damaging. But Open Wound timing are varies for different heroes, and it is include timing of Rage, don't use Rage early if they have disabler skill for run away.

Useless Basher and S@Y. Fail.

I strongly disagree about ur views on Desolator. Lifesteal is affected by armor and since almost half of your damage source is from feast, which deals physical damage, why not Desolator?
It gives great damage too, which synergize with ur rage.

nice but

great guide man. read it and used the tactics in a regular pub game of apem. Im pretty noob by the way. Got 11-0. Best score ive ever got. I still have a lot of trouble using naix early game when they have nukers like zeus for example. Items i had at the end of that game were

Sny
Treads
Vlads
Butterfly
Heart

mmm... cooolz i've totally rip'd em apart

very good strategy,helped me alot,i owned :) i had the satanic over sny,thinks it helps more with that extra lifesteal,anyway,great job

Nice Guide

i agree with the skeleton king part it works really well!!

love it

nice.......!!!

cool 93th AND 94th comment

btw ur awesome

great guide m8 i give you 10/10.

me 2

i agree with rambol

really nice...

With the right allies infest is great. lvl 6 you can jump in ally summons. This means lycans wolves, rexxars eagle and my favorite weavers watchers. Have a watcher set to follow you and you can jump in it when a fight gets rough to have a an invis ride with max movespeed. Your enemies will wait for creeps to die and have no idea where u went. Lycans wolves get max movespeed when he ults so u can chase enemies with him. plus theyre invis too. and the eagle is invis and flies. NINJA NAIX FTW

awsome build never played naix before this and got 28/6! i went for the battlefury assukt curiass build cause the whole enemy team was sticking together. still managed 2 kills in a 5v1 with a death ward next to me :p

boring pag walng pics hayzzz

Haha this really helped!

I was playing 2 on 1

I was the 1

I won them 26 kill 2 death haha

and 2 death r not killed by heroes

Haha thx for this guide!

hey the screenies are too small

EXCELENT guide. The best Dotastrategy's guide ever.

Congrats.

Wicked! I have to say it's really great!

Veru nice guide!
Thank you for sharing it with all =D

hmm got any tips when Naix is facing Void, Anti-Mage or when facing the best 1 on 1 character which is Troll. Pls. reply

10 - Very very good. Items are very realistic. you really know what your talking about.

Naix can actualy beat ursa.maybe not so early in the game but around lvl 9.but you have to have feast and rage maxed out.First dont back down and dont be scared of earthshock.Attack him normally first and let him use his overpower and let him hit around 3 times.This will make your life go down a bit.At that moment,use Rage and you should drain his life out.What usually happens is you get back to full health while ursa's health will be red.If you got 1 level of open wounds,use to chase.

Naix vs Troll?
naix relies a lot on hitting the enemy. missing 40% of the time due to Blind takes a huge toll.
I think troll would win. wel unless naix kills him a lot early game to prevent troll from getting a HelmOfDomi and Basher.Naix could also get a butterfly, but so will troll. So I think the blind skill will settle the fight in trolls favor.

you did a really nice job, good guide!
i love armlet on him and on leroic

vlads pt good items too start with i like the start of ur strategy and the whole about it but you should get stygian -armour =more "real dm" =more lifesteal, then you get assult or if its a bad game u get hyper stone then move on to build critts you will critt about 500 with crsystalis only and the enemy will have -11 armour most enemys have around 15 mid/late game if they dont have ap that means about 30% extra real dmg and 6-10 more stolen life=)

ur skill build is brilliant btw 10/10 to skill build items 7/10