Merciless Pursuit - this is your main ability. Use it for damage, use it to gank, use it to peel enemies and save your teammates, use it to run away like a little girl if you have to.
Stormguard - this ability makes you a tank, if used correctly. Any damage over a certain threshold is reflected back at nearby enemies. However, any damage BELOW the threshold will not reflect the damage, but will still reduce the duration of the shield. This means taking small amounts of damage very quickly from multiple sources (i.e. getting attacked by Petal munions, standing next to an enemy Catherine who also has her shield up) can potentially remove your shield in no time, without reflecting any damage. Luckily the cooldown is very low (4 seconds when maxed out), so even if it gets burned out quickly, you can have it up again in no time. Blast Tremor in most situations.
Blast Tremor - this ability can make or break team fights, especially in the mid / late game. Silencing an enemy prevents them from using abilities AND items. This means supports cannot pop
Fountain of Renewal or
Atlas Pauldron or
Crucible to save their team from huge damage, and nobody can run away using
Journey Boots. See "How to Team Fight" below for more details on using this ability effectively in team fights. Stormguard by comparison.
Ironguard Contract, 1
Halcyon Potion, and either 1
Flare Gun or a 2nd
Halcyon Potion. The flare is a must if there's an enemy
Taka, and is generally useful to use on their shop bush / tri-bush if you want to go for some harass damage or attempt to push their jungle.
Sprint Boots and a
Scout Trap. If you cleared jungle fast enough, you may have to wait a few seconds to get enough money for the trap.
Catherine /
Glaive), it may not be a good idea to invade. If they have heroes that require heavy farm, such as a
Krul, and you have dual stuns, it would be very wise to push into their jungle. Halcyon Potion early if you do get into a fight. The earlier you do, the more effective HP you'll have over the fight's duration. Merciless Pursuit. Worst case scenario, they get away, but you got some harass damage and an armor/shield charge from stunning them.
Fountain of Renewal as your first item, buying
Scout Traps in between the components as needed.
Minion Candy as often as possible. 1.10 will cut the duration of the candy buff on jungle creeps by half (60 seconds down -> 30 seconds), but otherwise they continue to output the same insane amounts of damage, so it's still very much worth it to keep the gold miner candied whenever there is even a slight possibility of the enemy team going for it. Keep that ***** buffed.
Contraption as your second major item. I see a lot of guides suggest Warhorn rather than Contraption, but I much prefer team coordination and vision to some run speed. Vision wins games.
Travel Boots.
Krul,
SAW,
Ringo), build an
Atlas Pauldron.
Joule,
Ardan,
Celeste), build
Crucible. Activating it gives your entire team a
Reflex Block buff, preventing them from getting stunned and absorbing a bunch of damage.
Metal Jacket or
Aegis.
Merciless Pursuit. STICK TO HIM LIKE AN OVERLY ATTACHED GIRLFRIEND. Merciless Pursuit and, if you have
Atlas Pauldron, immediately activate it; Atlas has a brief delay after activation before it actually goes off, and your stun will prevent them from running away before the Atlas effect hits them.
Fountain of Renewal. Don't use it too early, or they won't get much of a heal out of it. Don't use it too late either, or they could die before getting much out of the heal. I generally use it when they are below 1/2 but above 1/3 HP.
Blast Tremor effectively can make or break a team fight. There is a delay once you activate it (think of it as a cast time) before the silence goes off, during which time you can be stunned. If that happens, your silence won't go off, but the ability will be on cooldown. I generally try to use it from the bushes to start a team fight. Otherwise, if you are unable to start the cast from a hidden position in a bush and you have a
Reflex Block or
Crucible, it is often a good idea to use that at the same time as you activate your ultimate to ensure it goes off uninterrupted.
Shiversteel. This also makes it easier to stay on top of any enemy you're chasing to add the extra damage over time when your
Stormguard is activated. The extra HP also makes you even more of a beefcake.
Bonesaw to shred their armor and increase your team's damage.
Aftershock. It gives you some cooldown reduction, and does heavy damage + lifesteal every time you go for that stun.
Clockwork. Faster cooldowns = more stuns, which is always good.
Breaking Point will turn you into an auto-attacking monster.
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