Nymphora

Starting Attributes

Str – 17 + 1.7 per level

Agi – 18 + 1.6 per lvl

Int – 25 + 2.7 per lvl (Primary Attribute)

Damage – 45-52

Range – 550

Armor – 2.00

Movement Speed – 295

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Spells

Volatile Pod

Nymphora spawns a Volatile Pod at a target location. The pod bursts after a brief delay, damaging enemies and healing allies in the area.

Activation
After a 2.5 second delay, deals Magic damage to enemies and heals allies in radius for 90 / 180 / 270 / 360.

Cast Range – 750

Radius – 300

Mana Cost – 110/130/150/160

Cooldown – 15 seconds

Volatile Pod is Nymphora’s only nuke, however it also heals allies in the AOE so make sure you place it close to where a fight is happening, or close to where an ally is running.  It has a 2.5 second delay so it is best used after Nymphora’s Zeal, or another disablers stun in order to be most effective when ganking.

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Grace of the Nymph

Nymphora blesses an allied target with her grace, giving them back Mana.

Activation
Restores 75 / 150 / 225 / 300 Mana to the target

Cast Range – 900

Mana Cost – 40/55/70/85

Cooldown – 19/18/17/16 seconds

Not so great at early levels but once it’s level 3/4 when you are getting over 150 mana back in return is when it starts to pay off.  Remember that you do not only have to target yourself with this spell, if a hero nearby needs mana in order to cast a spell do not hesitate to replenish their mana, especially during later stages of the game when you have enough mana regen that you do not need to use this spell on yourself.

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Nymphora’s Zeal

Skill Build

Item Recommendations

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This is entirely based on your farming capabilities.  Marcher’s are useful if you know that you are not going to be farming that much and making your money off ganking.  If you are able to farm it however Post-Haste would give you two teleports, effectively allowing you to gank a lot more on different sides of the maps without having to walk to either side.

Totem of Kuldra is a great disable and allows your mana to regenerate enough that you will not need to case Grace of the Nymph on yourself, allowing you to help allies who do not necessarily have the mana regeneration to use their spells, or just on those who need it.  It also brings to the table another disable for your team to use on an enemy hero.

If you can micro well, Puzzlebox is a great addition to any team.  It allows you to mana-burn a unit, have extra damage via the minions and if you are lucky enough to have one die to a low health unit, it has the possibility of damaging that unit and potentially killing it

Frostfield Plate is also a good item on Nymph, it gives her much needed armor, as well as adds an aura that slows enemy attack speed.  It also has an active ability that shoots out an AOE around you that slows enemies when it hits them

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Early Game

If you are babysitting a carry make sure you use Volatile Pod on your creeps only, that way you ensure that your ally has an easier time harassing.  Make sure to harass enemy units that step up to harass your carry, or step up to CS.  If you are in a lane with a disabler it is best you use Volatile Pod before they disable, that way there is a better chance of the enemy being in Volatile Pod’s AOE.  If necessary you may have to initiate with Nymphora’s Zeal, however you should still be placing Volatile Pod down first.  Once you hit 6 start looking for potential ganks in the other lanes to help them out, even if they do not need it.  This is especially important if you are babysitting a carry, as they now get more XP with you gone.

Middle Game

By now you should be constantly ganking, in major team fights make sure you place Volatile Pod in a proper position, this means you may have to wait a few seconds before placing it in order to make sure it does the most damage, or heals the most.  If you have enough mana regeneration that you will not always be casting Grace of the Nymph on yourself make sure to replenish your allies mana, this way they can contribute more to ganks other then auto-attacking a unit.  Keep ganking and supporting your carry hero, the better they farm the better so if necessary buy Ward of Sights so they can see potential gankers heading their way, also allowing your team to counter gank effectively, as well as gank effectively.

Late Game

During the late game phase you should just be planting down all your spells as much as you can as fast as you can.  If you have a Totem of Kuldra make sure you disable the enemy hero which is most important to their team.  This does not always mean a carry hero, it could be a hero like Tempest, Behemoth, Magmus who have huge AOE potential.  Keep up the ganks and make sure to ward Kongor if it isn’t dead, a lot of games have been lost because of team fights at Kongor gone wrong.  If they put an emphasis on obtaining aegis but lose a major team fight in the process then you have a huge potential to push when your team wins that fight.  Keep ganking and supporting and by all means do NOT farm.  It has gotten to the point in the game where unless you are a very short gold amount to a huge item that will benefit your team, you are better off roaming with your team to gank the enemy heroes or pushing.

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