Nevermore Shadow Fiend Item Skill Guide

Nevermore the Shadow Fiend, one of the demons of burning legion who eats cunning souls of the deep. Nevermore is one of the most powerful shadow fiend that consumes all helpless souls around him. Nevermore is not just an ordinary fiend for he can blast you with his powerful spiritual spells and decaying enchantments. Few have survived his doom, and those who come forth shall perish with his existance.
Nevermore has a normal starting stat like the other heroes.
movespeed: 300
atack range: 500
strenght: 15 ; +2.0/level
agility: 20 ; +2.4/level
intelligence: 18 ; +2.0/level
hit points: 435
mana points: 234
damage: 35-41
armor: 1.8
In game, Nevermore is one of the most picked hero in all other dota heroes. Nevermore has very strong nuke spell called Shadowraze, which has 3 kind of range, using C,X,Z. All other skills except for his ultimate Requiem of Souls are passive but not just passive they are freaking passive skills.
List of skills
Skill Build:
LvL 1: Necromastery
LvL 2: Shadowraze
LvL 3: Shadowraze
LvL 4: Necromastery
LvL 5: Shadowraze
LvL 6: Necromastery
LvL 7: Shadowraze
LvL 8: Necromastery
LvL 9: Requiem of Souls
LvL 10: Stats
LvL 11: Requiem of Souls
LvL 12-15: Stats
LvL 16: Requiem of Souls
LvL 17-20: Presence of the Dark Lord
LvL 21-25: Stats
You wonder why this is my skill build, no Requiem of Souls in level 6, coz you don’t really need it. All you need is Shadowraze max at level four also with Necromastery asap.
How to play Nevermore
Fresh start while having the first batch of creeps, go buy few tangos, 2 clarity potion and some woods. after minutes, buy magic bottle and a chicken which is a big help for life regen because you can travel your chicken from your position to your base (making it a crow is much more effective, specially if powerup is on). later on, go buy boots of travel and few bracers, ofcource don’t buy 2 boots because its not stackable even if nevermoe has no foot at all.
In Mid game, go buy Dagger of Escape or kelen’s dagger in dota 6.50, 6.50c. 6.51, this dagger is your escape item or best support item also. if you got all this stuff, go for more power items and distrupter items like Difuzal Blade, Black King Bar as a counter item or Ultimate Orbs for owning the game. You can also buy Hood of Defiance as a counter item for all skill nukers. Other power killing items for Nevermore is Sange and Yasha, Stygian Desolator. For 5v5, go to Lothar’s edge which you can sneak in then Requiem of Souls everyone which some oldschool players do.
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Shadowraze Gives the Shadow Fiend the power to desecrate regions in front of him at varying distances. Level 1 - 75 damage Cooldown: 10 seconds. Level 1: 75 mana, 10 sec cooldown. |
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Necromastery Whenever the Shadow Fiend kills a target, he stores the unfortunate soul inside of him. For each stored soul he gains 2 bonus damage until his own death releases half of them from bondage. Level 1 - 16 damage limit. Passive |
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Presence of the Dark Lord The presence of such a horrible creature terrifies nearby enemies, reducing their armor. Level 1 - 1 armor reduction. Passive |
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Requiem of Souls Summons evil spirits around you dealing damage to units in the area. Number of spirits is related to the number of souls stored and the movement/damage reduction is related to the distance from the Shadow Fiend. Lowers movement speed and damage of nearby units. The closer the units are the greater the effect. Cooldown: 120/110/100 seconds. Level 1: 150 mana, 120 sec cooldown. |
For late game items i’ll go for
Eye of Skady
Linken Sphere
Satanic or Heart
Monkey King Bar or Buriza or Butterfly
Also Add Cuirass if you can manage to buy them all, if you do you will rock the game killing your opponent even in their base.








Comments
uh..?? well? where is the how to play thingie? i think this guide needs further improvement. just think of it dude, most of us know how to use every hero, im expecting more guide other than this T.T
I think i did write how to play nevermore guide on it, but if you think i miss some spot maybe i just did. anyways more guides comin` up! rok on!
thanks much, guy
lol no :p you need necromastery skilled max first, farm ubergood and buy lothars as your first item, you should have it around 10/12 mins (4050g), just but butterfly or buriza after that and go cuirras, you should have 3 of these items in 30/40 mins.
i am gonna show this to my friend, dude
give me witch doctor skill play coz i don’t know how to use it ….
BEST EQUIPS:
Divine Rapier
Assault Cuirass
Stygian Desolator
Boots of Travel
Heart of Tarasque
Butterfly
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DAmn~! the best ITEMS fOR nevermore ArE MKB, butterfly,DesoLAtor,Treads oR BOT,Cuirass and a BURIZA!this IS tHE BEST!
the best BuiLd 4 nevermore, my fav0rite is: 1st if 1 on1, nd ur enemy is axe or any str, than buy: dessolat0r, then power treads or BOT, MKB, manta style, u can but manta in the beggining insted of a desso, but u need to minus his armor so that it each blow will be painful.. nd if u need HP, buy a vanguard. u can also buy cuirass and buriza. ull have a lot of g0ld by then bec. nevermore will kill everything in its sight. u can kill a tower in less than a minute.
we have our own strategy so respect ones strategy ^_^