Hellbringer

Skill Build
1 – Life Void
2 – Death Boil
3 – Death Boil
4 – Unholy Shackles
5 – Death Boil
6 – Summon Malphas
7 – Death Boil
8 – Life Void
9 – Life Void
10 – Life Void
11 – Summon Malphas
12 – Unholy Shackles
13 – Unholy Shackles
14 – Unholy Shackles
15 – Stats
16 – Summon Malphas
17 – Stats+
Justification / Modifications:
Usually one level of Life Void is enough for the start. With a well placed Death Boil and auto attacks it heals you quite a bit. Leave Shackles at 1 as 30% slow is quite enough.

Lane Starting Items:
3x Mana Potion, 3x Mark of the Novice

Core:
Great Arcana >> Marchers >> 1-2x Talisman of Exile

The Arcana will help you with early Manareg and later build into Restoration Stone. The Talisman are needed to support the Mana for 2x Malphas.

After Core:
Steam Boots >> Restoration Stone

Steam Boots can be set to Int once you get the Stone so you have enough mana. If no one on the team has Plated Greaves yet you can also consider getting those.

Alternative Items:
– Puzzle Box: As on most Int heroes a solid choice.

Information:
Roles: Babysitter, Nuker, Semi-Initiator
Prefered Lane: Any (Good 1vs2 soloer)
Difficulty: 4 – Hard
Farming capabilities: 2 – Weak
Item dependancy: 3 – Medium
Power:
– Early Game / Lane Control: 4 – Strong (Very Good Staying Power)
– Mid Game / Ganks: 4 – Strong (Decent Ganker, powerful ult)
– Late Game / Team Fights: 3 – Medium (Reduced to his ult and some utility)

30-Seconds-Guide:
– Life Void got nerfed but is still very powerful especially early game. If you are low HP and need to regen cast it as soon as the enemy creeps are in your tower range, add Death Boil on top of it and auto attack.
– Malphas is optimally not used as an initiation. Let other initiators like Behemoth, Pharao, Kraken, etc. do their job first! Get as many heroes as possible with your life void and then after a couple seconds unleash Malphas.
– If you lack any form of initiation, Summon Malphas can serve this purpose and should be used that way.
– If ganking, try following this pattern: Life Void > Death Boil > Summon Malphas > Unholy Shackles > Malphas’ Fire Breath.

Counters:
– Electrician can purge all of Hellbringer’s Debuffs as well as deal significant damage to Malphas.
– Nullfire Blade’s purge instantly kills Malphas! You get the full 100-150 Gold Bounty! Get a Nullfire if you play an agi hero.
– Nullfire Blade’s purge can also remove all his other debuffs on one person.
– Shrunken Head / Magic Armor is the obvious counter to his spells but you should not be worried about them too much. His ulti is mostly for initiation purposes and not for the damage it does.