Silhouette — HoN Hero Quick Guide

Silhouette

Silhouette is a ranged Agility ninja hero in Heroes of Newerth.

Abilities

Death Lotus

Silhouette passively creates 1/2/3/4 blades that orbit around her and deal 60 Magic Damage to enemy units they pass through. Blades can be shot outwards, dealing 100/160/220/280 Magic Damage to enemies they pass through.

Tree Grapple

Target a location to hook and create a chain to the first tree encountered. The chain lasts for 6 seconds or if it stretches to 1800 units. While Silhouette is chained to a tree, she gains 100 Movement Speed and Tree Grapple is replaced by two sub-abilities, Sky Dance and Log Bolas. Sky Dance and Log Bolas deal 50/100/150/200 Physical damage and a 1/1.5/2/2.5 second Stun.  Silhouette hooks onto a tree and pulls herself towards the tree or pulls the tree towards her.

Relentless Salvo

Passively causes attacks to apply Relentless Salvo on the target, which lasts 3 seconds and stacks up to 5 times. Attacks deal 6/9/12/15 bonus Physical Damage for each stack of Relentless Salvo on the target. After activating a skill, Silhouette gains 250/300/350/400 Attack Speed for 2 attacks or 4 seconds if the skill is off cooldown. Does not propagate to illusions.

Shadow

Activate to disjoint, dispel all states on self, and create a shadow. The shadow is an illusion that lasts for 30 seconds and takes 200% of normal damage and deals 33/66/100% of normal damage. Creates a sub-ability which allows Silhouette to swap locations with the shadow.

Recommended Skill Build

1. Relentless Salvo(1)
2. Death Lotus (1)
3. Relentless Salvo (2)
4. Tree Grapple (1)
5. Relentless Salvo (3)
6. Shadow (1)
7. Relentless Salvo (4)
8. Tree Grapple (2)
9. Tree Grapple (3)
10. Tree Grapple (4)
11. Shadow (2)
12. Death Lotus (2)
13. Death Lotus (3)
14. Death Lotus (4)
15. Stats
16. Shadow (3)
17. Stats -> Level 25

Discuss other skill orders in comments!

Recommended Item Build

• Steamboots or Ghost Marchers
• Frostburn
• Shrunken Head
• Convert Frostburn to Frostwolf’s Skull and Geometer’s Bane
• Lifesteal

Discuss other item builds in comments!

Tremble — HoN Hero Guide

Aluna — HoN Hero Guide

Aluna

Aluna is a ranged Intelligence hero in Heroes of Newerth based on the DotA hero Windrunner.  Aluna is a late game carry with a decent escape ability that makes her hard to kill early on.  This combined with a long ranged attack makes her a decent farmer.

Abilities

Emerald Lightning (q)

Aluna launches a bolt of lightning that bounces off her enemies, stealing their attack speed and leaving them stunned.

Magic damage. More levels increase damages and number of bounces and reduce cooldown.

Ultimate increases stun and attack speed bonus duration.

Power Throw (w)

Channeling her strength into a single throw, Aluna is able to throw her weapon with deadly speed and accuracy.

Channeling, magic damage.  More levels increase damage.

Ultimate gives it GLOBAL range (like Bombardier ult).

Deva Vu (e)

Aluna can see the past and future on the surface of moonlit water, and she can travel there under proper conditions.

This skill has 3 activation points:
Button 1: Gains 25/30/35/40% movespeed for 3/3.5/4/4.5 seconds.
Button 2: Sends a shadow back along the path you took from activation for 3/3.5/4/4.5 seconds.
Button 3: Teleport your hero to shadow’s location.

Ultimate adds on unitwalking and a slow to enemies you pass through.

Emerald Red (r) (ultimate)

Aluna’s emerald draws its power from the moon and increases the potency of her other abilities.

Builds up to 1, 2, 3 charges which are consumed one at a time to boost the next ability you use.  You have 10 seconds after activation use them.

Strategy

Recommended Skill Build

1. Emerald Lightning
2. Power Throw
3. Deja Vu
4. Power Throw
5. Power Throw
6. Emerald Red
7. Power Throw
8. Emerald Lightning
9. Emerald Lightning
10. Emerald Lightning
11. Emerald Red
12. Deja Vu
13. Deja Vu
14. Deja Vu
15. Stats
16. Emerald Red

Recommended Item Build

1. Steamboots
2. Shrunken Head
3. Hellflower
4. Charged Hammer
5. Savage Mace
6. Riftshards

Empath — HoN Hero Guide

Empath

Empath is a ranged Intelligence hero in Heroes of Newerth.  Empath is a dedicated support hero. While she is weak in one-on-one situations with enemy heroes, her ability to influence a battle in a supporting role is excellent. She can excel with only a few items, making her a good support hero for a team.

Abilities

Essence Link (q)

Creates a link between self and target enemy unit, stealing health per second.  This is just like Terrorblade’s lifesteal in DotA. except it also stuns when the link is broken, given it more versatility.

Illusory Veil (w)

Creates a wall that is impassable for enemies and radiates magic damage per second to nearby enemy units.  This is like Behemoth’s Fissure Block but easier to use since you and your allies can still walk thru it.

Synergy (passive)

Grants all allied heroes % of Max health in Health Regeneration.  This is like Glacius’s passive except for Health instead of Mana, and since it uses a % of their max health it scales well into late game; it’s like your teammates have a Behemoth’s Heart regenerating them.

As One (ultimate) (r)

Empath’s most unique ability, As One puts her inside another allied hero and invulnerable herself, buffing their attack damage and speed while still allowing her to cast spells and use items as normal.  Grants a sub-skill, “Faster!” which grants her host a considerable, but short duration, speed burst.

Empath Recommended Skill Build:

1. Essence Link
2. Illusory Veil
3. Synergy
4. Synergy
5. Synergy
6. As One
7. Synergy
8. Essence Link
9. Essence Link
10. Essence Link
11. As One
12. Illusory Veil
13. Illusory Veil
14. Illusory Veil
15. Stats
16. As One

Empath Recommended Items:

• Blood Chalice: Lets you spam Essence Link and get the health back anyway with, also you don’t care about your hp when you are As One.
• Stormspirit: Versatile choice for Empath as she can use it while bonded to an ally. If an enemy begins channeling on your host or if your host is stunned, you can just cyclone the appropriate target.
• Astrolabe: The auras and healing effect are effective on a support hero, as are the increased hit points.

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