Night Hound

Skill Build

1 – Smoke Bomb
2 – Pounce
3 – Pounce
4 – Backstab
5 – Pounce
6 – Invisibility
7 – Pounce
8 – Backstab
9 – Backstab
10 – Backstab
11 – Invisibility
12 – Smoke Bomb
13 – Smoke Bomb
14 – Smoke Bomb
15 – Stats
16 – Invisibility
17 – Stats+

Justification / Modifications:
Pounce for Last Hitting (don’t use it to harass). Make sure to pounce-kill all siege engines. Smoke Bomb level 1 is enough for early game ganks/escapes.

Starting Items:
Runes of the Blight, Healing Potion, Logger’s Hatchet, 3x Minor Totem

Item Build:
Power Supply >> Iron Shield >> Steam Boots >> Nullfire Blade >> Geometers Bane >> Wingbow

Nullfire in combination with Geometer’s works nicely on Night Hound as they provide a lot of agility and good synergy (Manaburning images).

Information:
Roles: Carry, (Support)
Prefered Lane: Short
Difficulty: 2 – Easy
Farming capabilities: 2 – Weak
Item dependancy: 4 – Heavy
Power:
– Early Game / Lane Control: 1 – Very Weak (Some harass possible with pounce, but it is better used for last hitting)
– Mid Game / Ganks: 3 – Medium (Smoke Bomb brings a lot to teamfights, but he needs farm as most carries do)
– Late Game / Team Fights: 4 – Strong (Very Strong if not countered by Anti-Invis)

30-Seconds-Guide:
– Nullfire Blade’s Purge and Geometer’s Bane can both remove debuffs from you. Especially Dust and Swarm (Pestilence’ Ult)!
– Cut down Eyes in the Forest with your Logger’s Hatchet.
– Periodically check your opponents’ gear for Bound Eye, Wards of Revelation or Dust so you don’t get caught by surprise.
– Use Purge on your enemies under the Smoke Bomb; this will increase the time they are silenced and trying to run turning their back to you.

Counters:
– The obvious counter to Night Hound are Invisibility revealing items: Dust, Wards of Revelation and Bound Eye. Dust is the best choice until later in the game when you can safely buy an eye and push.
– He has high physical damage so Armor and especially Barbed Armor will work very good.