April 2016

Slark the Nightcrawler is a meele agility hero that utilises his abilities to spring onto enemy heroes and slip out unhindered. He is a very mobile ganker, but remains attribute-wise below most other carries unless he is able to steal away attributes with his abilities. Once he does, though, only a few heroes can hope to be as fearsome as the Nightcrawler – extremely mobile to the point of ever-presence; his strikes only hitting harder and faster.

Starting items:

This items will get their jobs done.

Core items:

Power Treads gives Slark attack speed and a boost to attributes that can be switched to survive teamfights or give him enough mana to use one of his abilities.

Shadow Blade provides a good source of attack speed and additional invisibility to improve your ability to gank and escape. It also synergizes very well with the passive part of Shadow Dance giving him the hp-regeneration and movement speed buffs.

Echo Sabre provides slark a good fighting potencial because of the double attack slark can quickly steals the enemy attributes because of this.

Eye of Skadi grants Slark both incredible survivability and killing power. Its wealth of attributes provide Slark with HP, mana, armor, damage, and attack speed – all superb boosts to Slark’s lackluster base attributes.

Situational Items:

Silver Edge is a natural extension of Shadow Blade and can improve Slark’s ganking capability even further with the passive disabler and damage reduction.

Black King Bar’s spell imunity offers proctection from magic damage in team fights.It can make him almost invulnerable while under the effect of Shadow Dance.

Butterfly offers bonus attack speed, armor, damage, and Agility, and its evasion gives him more survivability against right-click damage. It can be activated to provide a movement speed boost that makes chasing or escaping easier.

Abyssal Blade is an extremely useful item on Slark that combines very well with Slark’s high agility and attack speed, which can constantly proc bashes. It also provides him with extra attack damage and a strong active ability.

Moon Shard hugely increases Slark’s attack speed, allowing him to steal large amounts of attributes in a short amount of time. As the game progresses, it can be consumed to free a itemslot and provide a permanent attack speed bonus.