Harass and Push with the Light

W00t!First comment.Ezealor is a great farmer and pusher as you say.This quide is really good for new players so 10/10

Well, it's a decent guide, if you've seen Ezalor played before... This is one of the only heroes who I'd think require screenshots to explain how to use Illuminate better... There are TONS of possibilities, including Neutral farming, which is not there (a tip: try to get two neutral camps in one illuminate)
Also, you underestimate your opponent's skill... Most opponents will simply move out of Illuminate range and proceed to pound you... Especially Magina, whom you so underestimate...
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He'd simply blink right next to you, making Illuminate useless and pound you, and don't tell me Mana Leak will help you there...
Also, about the usage of the skills, you make really vague references on how to use them, his skills can be used in MANY different ways, and you just state one or two...
And your items are outdated, Blink Dagger is not useful anymore for escaping as you say, nor will Eul's become Guinsoo...
Overall, needs a lot of work imo 4/10

just wondering, how do you deal with mirana in your lane (assuming shes bought a few wards to fend your illuminate off).. when you start illuminating, youre an easy kil for her (arrow)..

Not bad, but i don't like ezalor at all.

Yeah,
Id love to see some Screen shots of Were to play Illuminate. Itd be a great help, other than that, your not doing to bad, You should think about a refesher, when late game your to weak to go into a lane, Id remove the Assualt, And put a refesher, 4 Orbs do spawn alot, and can push towers with ease.

Yeah,
Id love to see some Screen shots of Were to play Illuminate. Itd be a great help, other than that, your not doing to bad, You should think about a refesher, when late game your to weak to go into a lane, Id remove the Assualt, And put a refesher, 4 Orbs do spawn alot, and can push towers with ease.

Yeah,
Id love to see some Screen shots of Were to play Illuminate. Itd be a great help, other than that, your not doing to bad, You should think about a refesher, when late game your to weak to go into a lane, Id remove the Assualt, And put a refesher, 4 Orbs do spawn alot, and can push towers with ease.

Aghanim's is close to being a waste of money. You don't get what you pay for tbh. If you want to protect yourself just get linkens.

Go for EoS. --> possible due to your high farming abilities.

Blink dagger: In 3seconds if you fail to escape you can't use dagger so it's a waste of money.

Can't see meka which would make you can imba support hero. You have the mana to use it anyway and it's a free +250hp.

Eul's is a good idea. Another escape mechanism

well i quiet like this guide as ezalor isn't an easy hero to play. There are some thngs that needed to be updated though. overall 7/10

well this hero needs some screenshots especially for illuminate. Also u didnt say many about his ulti which u can use in a lot of combinations. Also i played ezalor quite a time. U pretend that illuminate cannot be countered. Well pro players just will walk out of it because it needs 5sec channel for decent damage. Ok it is spammable but u don't have anything about spells then. Dagger is outdated. Guide needs a lot of refreshment if u ask me.

Also you should add mekansm to his built. One of his core items actually. Unlimited lane staying ability thx to chakra.

One more thing. You should have told that illuminate can't get up to hills. Very important detail!

good strat but late game i find that KotL is very weak and needs skadi to be competitive.
refresher is also nice when you have you and your allies pushing one lane and 6 Ignis Fatuus pushing another.
or 3 in each other lane.

Not bad, with good explanation of skills and a solid build.

I prefer Skadi rush, because it solves the HP problem KotL has most of early-mid game. Skadi is also a great item in general for him.

Reading this guide reminds me of the Pit Lord - the temptation is to Illuminate/Firestorm everything, but the real skill comes in last hitting and using Illuminate to harass effectively.

Lastly, I'd replace Blink with Linkens. Blink gives no survivability in most situations now.

@ Raxxar - Read: The Euls is included as a lonestanding item, not to build Guinsoo

On to the guide, very nice ans as you say: You can't make people better by telling them how to play, they have to play for themselves.

I like to go for a early meka with Ezalor it helpes you survive now that Blink Dagger is useless (T_T)

I also would like everyone to add a place called "Tips & Tricks" in their guides...
For example: 2 neutral camps with illuminate, astral prison on self to avoid waveform etc.

Anyways... Good guide I'll give you a 9 =)

uhh... Have you updated your dota version recently? In v6.51 blink dagger can't be used to escape if you're attacked in the last 3 seconds. So... save your money and go get a eul's or guinsoos. I prefer eul's actually. Since it's a alot cheaper and don't forget, you're a support hero. The thing I don't get is why you don't build on RoB and mekansm. You're wrong to think of ezalor as a hero killer. e's nothing more than a early game harrasser. Not a late game hero killer.

for the length, i'd say this is nice. mek should be a must, ezalor doesnt have to worry about mana much, and you did say he was a pusher. i dont think cuirass is necessary, golds from cuirass an be used to rush skadi/aghanim or later, make a shiva if you do need armor. i'm gonna rate this 9, even though this was made before 6.50. this is quite good read

I agree that this seriously needs some screenshots, despite your reasoning that we should go learn by playing (which I completely agree with by the way).
But the tactics in here are really valuable. I generally don't consider Mana Leak like you have.
And I agree again with other posts that Blink Dagger is not a good idea for escaping anymore, my only logical explanation is that you started working on this before that 'update'. I have actually gotten Lothars for him lately.
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And yes you have gone full-blown support KotL rather than DPS, and given good reasons for it. So... I would give this an 8 or 9 right now, maybe expand on late game and throw in some screenies for a 10. Potentially, awesome guide.

@ Skadi posts = I should try this soon methinks...

Quite good, the AGs scepter seems to work very well with pushing, for me personally I wouldn't get blink dagger. Alot to save up for an you don't usually need it late game. But I guess this is situational. Good work anyway. 9/10

Multiple lane pushing hurts your team alot more than it helps. Doing multiple lane pushes will simply steal gold from your allies thus leaving your team poorly farmed. Ezalor should not focus too much on farming since he can finish creep waves in one go, he should spend most of his extra time ganking. I personally rush dagon 5 and TP around lane to lane to Zap my opponents. Dagon is bad on Ezalor since he can rush it like no other and it's very effective to prevent escapes.

I'm also shocked why you didn't place necromicon, it allows the normally defenseless Ezalor to defend himself and gives your team a bunch of helpful auras plus true sight.

BTW Skadi or Assault is horrible on a support hero, get Shiva's instead. Ezalor has to spend 90% of his time casting spells and has no time to attack.

Necromicon is the best haress item u can get for him?
Dagon since u got almost never used up Chakra Magic in mid game?
And about
Ancient Tango of Essifation (80)
is 90
zzzzzz

" If you opted for Diffusal blade, then you must have Manta Style now which basically just adds to your push and the effectiveness of your Mana leak due to the Mana burn."

Lolwut. Mana Burn only works on melee heros and images of Exalor would be bad.
Manta=waste of money.

@fwii~ Dagon 5 = More money than Divine. It would be better if you got a skadi or a guisnoos as it helps you better support your team.

you should put ignus on lvel 6...

dats the best way to push....

too fast...

mana burn dont work for ranged image so what? furion owns ass with it

necro is great but i rarely get it on ezalor since i play pool

dagon 5>divine because it wont drop when you die. but still it's bad

and AC is horrible, good thing someone agrees. but i think EoS do suit him due to low hp/armor

..great idea...

@iNsaNe[N0oB]
just wondering, how do you deal with mirana in your lane (assuming shes bought a few wards to fend your illuminate off).. when you start illuminating, youre an easy kil for her (arrow)..

>>Well one way is for you to charge beside your range creep (making it a rather hard time for her to aim for you) its usually what I do. And, you can choose not to target Mirana) IMO, early game for ezalor should be farm and less kill since he can get up to 3K as early as lvl 5.

lack of information, lack of builds, not mentioning the heros that own KotL, wat heros benifet from kotL, omg i can keep going but seriously alot of work is needed
in this strategy of yours, alot of important detail is missing. srry 1/10

One of my favorites.However:1)dagger is no longer useful for escaping-euls will suffice for protection 2)mekansm is a must for him (at least after u get euls) 3) aghanims really looks nice on him.I'm not very high the classic instructions for early-mid game(after all we've seen them 100 times already) but your guide is really too short. 6/10.

Your item build stinks... don't need ac or scepter, skadi or shiva is better and mechanism with necro 3

a few minor problems. mainly, since blink dagger fails, due to new changes, you might have to rethink your guide a bit.


its also a bit short, and nonspecific. the trick for writing guides and such is to imagine you are writing them for total retards. soo say...Example

Early Game

'go mid, and check your minimap to see when creeps should be coming, when they are about here (insert random screenie with creeps between 2 towers) start charging illuminate, and in those 3 secs the creeps will come.

Good skill build but disagree with item combinations.
blink dagger is not as useful anymore so replace it lothar's edge.
Guinsoo and aghanim's scepter are fine.
Boots of travel.
EoS
Assault Cuirass/ Shiva's Guard

i think u should've added a pumping section in this strat as he can pump his team with all his money !!! lol yes farmin is great. but there are better pushers than him lol. just make sure u can last hit well

Good work kababayan. I also own once with this hero but i get BOT first before the dagger. Why? because when you are pushing one lane that's when your enemies appear in another lane. One way to surprise them is through BOT.
Overall, nice guide.

,thanks!

Sick guide!

I'm a bit of a noob, but thanks to your guide, I've been able to dominate a few games with Ezalor. I do disagree with your late-game items, however. AC isn't so good, I prefer Shiva's.

Illuminate is crippling early-mid game, but I haven't gotten the hang of using mana leak yet. Except against Crystal Maiden. Take that, frostbite/freezing field combo!

Lol. Not bad. A good way to use this hero. This few days i always kana this hero on -random or -ar so.. this mite help a lot thks!

strategy is jelek sekali dan sangat tidak bagus
sudah dicoba dan hasilnya sama sekali 0 = alias kacau balau kk
bisa kasi strategy yang lebih bagus kaga
soalnya ni strategy masi terlalu sederhana jelek dan super ga guna

orang indonesia saperti kamu sememangnya memalukan negara dan kaum kamu sendiri. cobalah buat sendiri andai kamu tidak puas hati

whatever you just said CFX, i take it you just owned him in fillipino. nice work.

@War_Wrecker:

Actually, CFX just typed in malayu. I believe he's a malaysian~

i am a Malaysian, but that was Indonesian i typed

no need to know what 42 wrote, typical type losers

wwwwooowwwwwww wat the very good guide

man! this guide is very useful
ya i agreed that ezalor is a good pusher and also supporter.at the same time he also can owned! but how do you deal with nortrom?

hex

I think the best lane companion for Ezalor is Omniknight. Ezalor gives the mana then Omniknight gives the hp

You have revealed my secret identity! I must kill you now!

PS. Anyone noticed the lack of screenshots(not to mention updates) in MY one and only guide(after being a mod for 2 years)? Yeah, we're BOTH lazy.

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Thank you for commenting and rating my guide! Its a big help really and since this is my first guide, I will edit it to high standards especially on item builds, pictures, more details and my 6.51 modification. I'll do some playtesting then update it asap!

And to the tiniest of detail which no one above has ever mentioned. He needs a RoB for helping his little spirits and Ignis Fatuus.
I know it's obvious but it's not mentioned in the guide or the comment.

@guide maker
good to know ^^
not many people knows the fun of supporting

@orochi
lolwut

Everybody is a threat to Ezalor because he is one of the weakest of all heroes. You need to add ALOT of more heroes as threats: like Rikimaru who just go behind and stab while Ezalot is channeling or any perma bashing hero or passive slow. There is no way that a Ezalor can escape from a Rampaging Troll or a Chronosphere Void. The best way to play him is to push one lane fast then help at the others and gank using Dagon and stuff.

no pic boring

MoM + EoS =

hey cant you replace gem witha necro book so you get both summons and true sight and the assurance you wont lose the gem

i have recently become a fan of skadi,mkb, bruiza on kotl.
it provides some pretty interesting results.

I must say, for a first guide, you picked one hellova hard hero to write it on. KotL is usually fodder after a strong early game, and most players just throw him out of the window.

Can i have the item listings for Ezalor?
Last game i played All Random and i got Ezalor, i don.t like this hero but i try it, i try to get Stygian Desolator and Shiva Guard and i got a Double Kill in a lane, i got Monster Kill streak but not Beyond GODLIke because the game is over >_~ nice strategy arrr....

Can i have the item listings for Ezalor?
Last game i played All Random and i got Ezalor, i don.t like this hero but i try it, i try to get Stygian Desolator and Shiva Guard and i got a Double Kill in a lane, i got Monster Kill streak but not Beyond GODLIke because the game is over >_~ nice strategy arrr....

this guide is incomplete u didnt even manage to put his item builds 7/10 nice guide though

Ezalor sucks. Whoever uses him is either a homo or gay

werent you the loser who posted , useless stuff same in my guide? get lost loser

wtf .....

Nice guide. You should really add some pictures and tell wat items to get through the pictures. 8/10

hi! just one qustion, HWERE IS THE ITEM BUILD NOOB

Where is theitem build nob

where is your eye noob?

Is bloodstone also good for Ezalor??

I rather to use shiva's guard than cuirass

... I thought I remembered seeing an itembuild here. Where'd it go!? Put it back and get some screenies...

@ all = stop calling people noobs please it hurts my eyes.

@ Creator

Also don't forget to stay active here in your own strategy guide.

hey! where's the items?

its good. but no screenies or item build and its kinda bland. great content though 7/10. Spice it up!

Good guide. Nice+funny FAQ.

My item build would be:

- BoT (first item for map control)
- EoS (HP boost)
- Shiva (escape+armor)
- Meka (supporter role)
- Aghanims (just gr8 for eza)
- HoT (optional hp-boost)
--> lothars or dagger are optional depending on opponents.

Possible improvements for this guide:
- add some pics (yes, i read your FAQ).
- add more infos on allies and opponents
- improve item build (early, mid, late)
- list up spots for casting illu

Still 7/10

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Hey!I like how you explain Ezalor as pusher and killer,but i suggest that you have to be aware on how Magina can do to you... ,and a total of 8/10

hmmmm...he's good in push..but in team..actualy weak in defence...and also he is the first target of the stealths..no much...even if he has a support character besides him.,dagger now a days is useless...and u underestimated other heroes... i think 5/10??? many questioned can formed...