Phantom Lancer

skyfoo SG

seen the previous topic about him, had tried him out several times, all i can say that he's the best ks-er, gd farmer, pusher and one of the best late game hero. here's my mini guide.

items to get:
PT
Y&S
Radiance
Hyper
*Butterfly
*Divine

*usually, game alr ended be4 u got these items.

skills:
ww lvl1
max lance
max jux
max ww
max stats
PE when available

early game, try to get RoH asap. dun buy those 'petty' items. go for RoH immediately. den slowly get ur PT and Y&S. note to take, be very very very caution in early game. nv go solo lane unless the lane only got 1 enemy and he's not very gd. always try to get the last hits. ks if possible

by mid game, u may still building for ur Y&S. DO NOT take part in any heads-on (ganging ppls is fine), unless the opp have pushed into your base. go and find a lane which is suitable for farming. take the creeps if no choice. by now, ur illusions shld be popping our freely.

late game, just do what u're supposed to do.

Simon Dean SG

Ring of regeneration?

He cannot spam many images in early game yet and VERY early game it is easy to tell who is real and who is not.

Rest in Peace SG

Lancer not very good against those heroes with AoE spells (Sniper's scattershot, Tauren's earthquake, Tiny's avalanche etc), because those spells will kill all your illusions almost instantly.

Lancer is a very team-mate dependant hero. If your team is good and the enemies are being pushed back, then you can farm freely. Or else, it's hard for the PL to get all the pro items that easily.

skyfoo SG

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skyfoo SG

lancer is dependant only in early and mid game, very dependant. u gotta have a team that can withstand the attack from opp so that u can go farm. but afterwhich, u can play your game

Rest in Peace SG

Ya, that's more or less what I meant.

Which means if your team isn't doing that great from the start, your PL is more or less screwed... Sad but true.

JennTS SG

i still think manta style is the best.

each fight can generate an average of 4 images.

1 x 36 + 4 x 36 + 2 x 36 = 248 mana burnt off (248 damage) per each whack.

RaTtY81 SG

my fav hero... Mr. Green
imagine 9 PLancer coming towards u, u duno which is real n gem also cant diffferentiate which is real Laughing

dark_snowboy SG

hard to farm but easy to run Laughing

RaTtY81 SG

damn cool to play, imagine 8 images pop up after 5 sec Laughing

coffeeortea SG

i feel that lancer does not have to be dependant at all, UNLESS, you want to get kills and etc. as long as you play defensive, you will become very strong in the later parts of the game. the most important for lancer is to gain levels ASAP and always have enough mana to dopplewalk. i cna say that the lancer is one of my fav heros, even though i may only get few hero kills in the game, i almost never die, on top of being the key factor of pushes, destroying towers and fooling enemies.

RaTtY81 SG

yea another thing is lancer mus get bot i feel, its running too slow Confused

dark_snowboy SG

just hope that you wun have to chase when you can trap the enemy in ur images Laughing

RaTtY81 SG

quite hard to trap them, still haven master the art. normally if ppl wanna escape, i doppel n catch up with them n wack, if they still run, i use spirit lance

stellazio SG

he needs void stone man or at least ring of basillus..

early game if he wana hunt down heroes,he's mana usage is too much for his pathetic mana pool..

dopple and his spirit lance izzit?and he machiam no mana left liao..

RaTtY81 SG

yea so mus find those low - mid life hp hero n cfm can get kill 1. n doppel create 1 more image which helps also

skyfoo SG

one mistake many pl made is only making the original pl to run while left the rest fighting. what a pro would do is using make the illusions to run in diff directions to confuse the opp. or u can get an illusion to run away, making enemies to think that is the real pl.