Discussion:
First, I will start by clarifying the skills. I believe I clarified them enough in the notes, but lets do it again, for those people *cough* fags *cough* that don't read the notes, shall we?
SKILLS & SYNERGIES Dual Shot - An auto-cast orb effect. She fires two arrows in one attack - that doesn't slow her attack animation, just fires two arrows close to eachother, maybe a 0.1 second between them. The second arrow is the one that deals less damage and has a chance of missing. Now, this skill is not powerful by its own, possibly even weak. But, in conjunction with other skills it really shines. I could even go as far to say that this is the core skill. Now lets see its synergies with the other skills.
Enchanted arrow - by firing two arrows at once, it helps you achieve the fourth arrows sooner, along with its slow and pure damage. Also you deal more damage cause of the armor penetration. Guided arrows - Removes the miss chance on your second arrow. When attacking the enemy marked with this, Dual shot effectively increases your DPS to 150% with lvl4 Dual Shot. Rain of Arrows - Makes you shoot one more arrow for a total of 5/6/7 arrows. That's quite a shitload of damage. Enchanted Arrow - This skill makes your attacks deadlier, by effectively ignoring most of the enemies evasion(if he posses it) and a nice deal of his armor. It also makes your every 7th/6th/5th/4th arrow slow and deal pure damage. It doesn't last for very long, only 4/6/8/10 seconds, but in lategame that can mean a lot. Also, synergises with the other skills to make it more deadly. Lets see the synergies. Dual Shot - More arrows, thus you reach the slow/pure damage arrow sooner. Guided Arrow - Makes you shoot faster at that enemy, dealing more damage to him, and reaching more slow/pure damage arrows. Also makes any effects that could reduce your damage or make you miss ineffective. Rain of Arrows - Since with this you shoot loads of arrows, there will be plenty slow/pure damage arrows. Also makes you shoot arrows faster, using the duration of Enchanted Arrow more effectively. Guided Arrow - This skill is made for targeting one enemy, singling him out of his teammates, or when attacking one lone hero. Blind and damage reduction is effectively useless on her when attacking the targeted enemy. But that is only one purpose of his skill - the second one being the AS/MS increase that helps your other skills. Also, the synergy with the ulti is devasting. Now, the synergies. Dual Shot - the second arrow cannot miss, which I already mentioned. The AS/MS increase is also quite good. Enchanted Arrow - helps you achieve the pure/slow arrow sooner, and generally helps you avoid the disables that would cause your second skill to be useless(blind, enfeeble) Rain of Arrows - This one is great - all arrows fired by the ultimate will hit the marked enemy instead of the area around him. At lvl16, with Guided Arrow and Dual shot you will be able to shoot 7 arrows at one enemy at once. Guided Arrow will effectively make you deal 160/210/250% of your original DPS. Neat, eh? Rain of Arrows - A skill that makes you into a real arrow machine - you will be able to damage not only the enemy, but those standing beside him - quite nice in a team battle - also there is the possiblity of multiple arrows hitting the enemy if he is running from you. The passive part of this skill is also quite neat, since it allows you to gain agi from just simple attacks, and each arrow is counted as 1 attack, thus allowing you to amass agi fast with the help of Double Shot and the ultimate itself. If you miss though, you lose some of it, but that can be avoided with the help of Enchanted Arrow and Guided Arrow. Ok, the synergies! Double Shot - Allows you to get more agi, because you shoot 2 arrows. Comes with the risk of losing some agi though, do to the miss chance of the second arrow. This skill can also be used while the ultimate is active to raise your total arrow count per attack to 5/6/7. Enchanted Arrow - Makes all your arrows penetrate armor, and bypass evasion. That's quite neat but there is more - the pure/slow arrow of this skill can also be achieved really quickly with the use of the ultimate, thus allowing you to deal massive damage to an enemy, with the help of other skills. Guided Arrow - As mentioned before, allows all the arrows you fire to hit the marked enemy, which in turn increases your total DPS to 160/210/250% of normal, while also making you impervious to miss/damage decrease effects that would hinder the power of your arrows. With the help of lvl4 Dual Shot the total damage with each shot can even increase as far as 210/260/300%. Add Enchanted Arrows armor penetration, evasion bypass and the pure damage arrow and you got yourself a truly unmatched DPS - the only problem being that activating all those skills would take some time, and mana. The skill build - There are a few ways to play her. One is going for survivability in early game, helping in ganks only when you have to, farming so you could pwn lategame. The other one is going for the ganks and plenty of early kills to get fed. Also, you could go for a certain mix of the two.
The ganking build
1 Dual Shot
2 Enchanted Arrow
3 Dual Shot
4 Enchanted Arrow
5 Dual Shot
6 Enchanted Arrow
7 Dual Shot
8 Enchanted Arrow
9 Guided Arrows
10 Rain of Arrows
11 Rain of Arrows
12 Guided Arrows
13 Guided Arrows
14 Guided Arrows
15 Stats
16 Rain of Arrows
17-25 Stats Farmer/lategame build 1 Stats
2 Enchanted Arrow
3 Enchanted Arrow
4 Stats
5 Enchanted Arrow
6 Stats
7 Enchanted Arrow
8 Guided Arrows
9 Guided Arrows
10 Rain of Arrows
11 Rain of Arrows
12 Guided Arrows
13 Guided Arrows
14 Dual Shot
15 Dual Shot
16 Rain of Arrows
17 Dual Shot
18 Dual Shot
19-25 Stats Recommended items -Each player makes his own build. Recommended ones are considered generally the best, but they are not the best for each player. These are just items I consider would work best on her.   Possible core item(s) - with her attackspeed and multiple shots with Dual Shot and Rain of Arrows + Guided Arrows she will get plenty of crits for sure, easily dealing massive loads of damage to her enemies. Offers no survivability though.
 A core item - with Maria's attackspeed, and the bunch of attacks she can deliver, MKB is bound to proc often. Also, it would effectivly remove the miss chance on Dual Shot at any time, withouth the need to activate Guided Arrows. With the combo of Guided Arrows, Rain of Arrows and Dual Shot, this can be incredibly deadly. Just like Buriza, this offers no survivability.
 Optional item for survivability. I myself am not a fan of vanguard, but it can be usefull in certain situations.  Optional survivability item. Preservance early would offer you some much neede mana and health regen - later upgrading it to this offers some stats to go with that.  Slow, stats,mana, health...nice item for most agi heroes. Its orb effect will not be an orb considering Maria is ranged, and will stack with the slow of her second skill, so I might even dare say this could be a core item.
 A fairly good item, but not a great on. I myself don't like SnY that much, but it can benefit this hero nonetheless.  Since the remake, Manta is the wet dream of most DPS heroes, especialy the agi ones - attackspeed, movespeed, stats and illusions. What more could you want? Maria could increase her already insane DPS output even more with this, as well as getting some survivability. A likely core item.  Boosts her ultimate, and gives stats. Can be used as a core in certain situations. Not a bad optional item also.
 An optional rush item. Can help you gank, survive when the enemies gank you, or just help you run away. The AS and Dmg from it are not wasted on Maria aswell.
 All agi heroes like butterfly, its evasion helps you survive enemy DPS heroes, while the AS and Dmg let you pwn. Same with Maria.
 Lots of attackspeed and loads of armor for lategame survivability. The armor reduction synergises with Enchanted Arrow.  It gives you attack speed, some damage + mana and mana regen. And to be fair, you need mana. The silence can only be a bonus.  An optional item that can help in some situations.
 or  Its all up to you and your personal preferences. Both can work fine.
 Optional Farming item.
 Extremly optional - the bash is bound to proc lots though, but still, MKB may be a better choice.  An item that gives plenty of attackspeed and damage as well as a survivability spell, but is not recomended because of its orb effect that will not stac kwith Dual Shot. Still can be useful on her. If yo uuse the ulti, only the main arrow can proc the lightning.
   Lifesteal items - if you choose not to use dual shot, this can be a viable option. When you use Rain of Arrows, only the primary arrow can lifeasteal though. ALLIES & ENEMIES Basicly everyone who can disable your enemies or buff your damage/health/armor/attackspeed, or heal you is your ally, while your worst enemies are disablers and silencers, as well as heavy tankers/magic imune hereos and nukers. ALLIES                                     ENEMIES                   CLOSING WORD I think that covers everything, or most of it. If anyone has any questions about anything, please ask. I'm intending on posting this hero on the PlayDota forums in hopes of it getting incorporated into DotA(however unlikely that might be)
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