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Prelude
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Background Story

Interesting Facts

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I Introduction
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II Hero Description
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Stats

Skills

Blade Fury

This is Yurnero's most versatile skill. It provides you with: a nuke, both for hero killing and harassment, an escape mechanism and a farming tool.

Hotkey is F

Causes a bladestorm of destructive force around Yurnero, rendering him immune to magic and dealing damage to nearby enemy units.

Deals 80/100/120/140 damage per second
Manacost is 110 at all levels
Cooldown is 30 at all levels
AOE is 250 at all levels

Notes and tips:
- Damage type is magical
- This skill won't affect mechanical units.
- You can use items during Blade Fury.
- Ethereal units aren't affected by this skill.
- If a unit is not being affected by Blade Fury, Yurnero can perform normal attacks against this unit.
- Orbs will still have their effect if you click-attack the enemy during blade fury.
- Dispels runes, however you may activate a bottled rune during blade fury without losing the effect of the rune. Not true for DD.
- Dispels most buffs.
- Slow from Shadow Strike, Frost Nova and the like will NOT be dispelled.

Healing Ward

This skill is usually used for lategame pushing. May be used as a saving mechanism.

Hotkey is G

Summons a Healing Ward that heals all nearby allied units' life.

Heals 1/2/3/4% of max hp per second
Manacost is 140 at all levels
Cooldown is 60 at all levels
AOE is 500 at all levels

Notes and tips:
- The Ward is mobile (movespeed 150).
- If a unit is affected by two Healing Wards only one will work.
- Won't heal mechanical units.
- May be destroyed.

Blade Dance

Provides the second highest dps boost among other criticals, being inferior only to Mortred's lvl 3 Coup de Grace.

Hotkey is C

Yurnero's cunning blade gives him a chance to deal double damage on each attack.

Chance to proc is 10/18/26/36%

Notes and tips:
- Provides a total of 10/18/26/36% linear dps increase.

Omnislash

Yurnero's signature move. Enormous burst damage, invulnerability and a really nice animation. Aghanim-ready since 6.60.

Hotkey is E

Yurnero moves around the battlefield, slashing many enemies. Yurnero becomes invulnerable while Omnislashing. The search area is 450.

Performs 3/5/8 (+2 with Aghanim's) jumps
Manacost is 200/275/350
Cooldown is 130/120/110 (-20 with Aghanim's)

Notes and tips:
- Damage type is physical
- Interrupts channeling skills of the primary target.
- Each slash deals 150 - 250 damage, with an interval of 0.4 seconds.
- With enough attack speed, Yurnero can use his normal attack, with these attacks Yurnero can place buffs, trigger chance effects and benefit from splash.
- The slashes can't be avoided by evasion. The normal attacks, however, can.
- You can use items while using Omnislash.
- As you are becoming invulnerable, the focus of towers/creeps will be shifted towards something else. Good for low-hp tower-diving.
- May be interrupted by Tiny's Toss, Pudge's Hook. NOT interrupted by Void's chronosphere though.
- Always remember, that you can jump on any unit in range, be it a sent/scourge creep, or a neutral. Omnislash, however, is unusable on ancients, mechanical units and buildings.
-The time between slashes is 0.4, while your BAT is 1.7. Hence, you need a total of about 336% increase in AS to push the amount of normal attacks to the maximum.

Quick Summary:

The Blade Fury - Omnislash combo at lvl 6 deals approximately 1k dmg, what makes Yurnero one of the most potent burst damagers. A lvl 3 Blade Fury Can kill a whole creepwave, which is a decent amount of farm. Healing Ward can save the day for your team, healing you to a decent amount of hp, even after really damaging aoe nukes, in no time.

III Skill and Item Builds
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Skill Build

Item Build

Essentials

The best choice for Yurnero on lvl 1 is:

Boots of Speed and

Healing Salve, or

Tango

The main idea behind this is to get a fast first blood, which will be much easier with boots. Boots are upgraded to

Power Threads.
Why Power Threads? They boost your AS, hence your ultimate. And they give you a decent HP bonus.

Your next choice will be

Mask of Madness.
Why MoM? It's buff is not canceled by Blade Fury, so you will have 438 MS and magic immunity, which is usually enough to escape any gank, or to catch up with a fleeing target. Omnislash is AS dependent, and MoM is the cheapest way too boost your AS, and as you are either Magic Immune, or Invulnerable during your combo, you aren't likely to get hit a lot, so amplified damage is not that much of a problem.

Juggernaut is a low-mp ganker, so consider getting a

Bottle.

Alternative Boots

Boots of Travel
Go for them, if you need mobility, or if your opponents are fast like hell. You will most likely have to upgrade to them late game, because mobility is usually more important than dps and hp.

Phase Boots
24 dmg is hell of a bonus. And the phase ability helps while bladefurying.

Alternative Orbs

Stygian Desolator
If your enemies are low-armored, the easiest way too boost your damage output is to get this thing, combined with an Assault Cuirass. Don't forget to hit your opponent before you use you Omnislash

Maelstrom -> Mjollnir
Good for farming. Consider this if you have Axe in your team, or if you don't feel like getting lifesteal. Note that Chain lightning won't proc with an activated MKB.

Diffusal Blade
Really helpful for bladefurying. Just purge and spin. And don't forget, that attacking during Blade Fury WILL trigger the Feedback. A rare item on Jugger though.

Situational Mid-Game Items

Lothar's Edge
Ninja Style. Useful for ganking if your opponents have wards all over the map. Also gives you a decent escape mechanism. Don't forget to use it during your ultimate, if the cooldown is off. 125 bonus dmg is never bad.

Kelen's Dagger
Blink and spin to kill. Or spin and blink to survive. Or blink between parted enemies during your Omnislash. Good for positioning Blade Fury, may be used as a good counter to blinkers. Like cures like, in other words.

Vladmir's Offering
Allows you to have an orb and still have a lifesteal. Not bad, but there are better items out there. Good for jungle farming. Leave this to pushers, if any.

Helm of the Dominator
Again, good for jungle farming. Also, dominated neutrals can be used for rune control, neutral camp stacking and disabling/slowing/healing/harassing. Finally, it is upgradeable to

Satanic.
MoM is still more preferable though.

Dagon
Further boost your burst damage output. You may get it, if your opponents are ugly enough to use a Ghost Scepter.

Midgame DPS Boost

Now, it's time for some dps boost. As your raw damage is rather low your best choice is to get an item, which will boost it. There are two rather obvious choices. And they are game-dependent. If you continue ganking single enemies, your best choice will be

MKB.
It boosts your AS a bit, gives a lot of raw damage, as well as a ministun, so you won't have to use your ultimate to kill tp'ing enemies. If, on the other hand, there are lots of team battles, you may consider getting a

Battle Fury.
It is especially nice if you have a Magnus, Enigma or someone similar to them in your team. And, of course, it provides you with a decent farm.

Luxuries

The Butterfly
Enormous AS and phys EHP boost and a decent damage boost. Most usually your first luxury.

Manta Style
Boosts your ms up to 481 with MoM activated. Apart from that, gives 41 AS, boosts survivability and dps with illusions. Very effective against DoT damagers like Venomancer.

Divine Rapier
HOLY SHMOLY!

Aghanim's Scepter
Boosts your survivability, mana pool, and your Ultimate.

Possible Luxuries

Assault Cuirass
High AS boost, armor reduction. No damage boost though. Good when combined with Stygian Desolator. That's an alternative build-up.

Heart of Tarrasque
That's 1060 bonus hp and a 6% hp regen with your ward when out of battle. May appear handy sometimes.

Orchid Malevolence
45 dmg, 30 as and a damage amplifying silence, what more could you wish? Consider this, if there are invis/blink characters.

For-Fun Items

Refresher Orb
Get it instead of Aghanim's if you want some fun. Or get both.

Buriza-Do-Kyanon
Boost your crit chance up to almost 50%.

Rare occasion items

Cranium Basher
Well, you have decent AS. Why not? It's an easy way too keep sprinters standing. Though this is not a preferable choice.

Linken's Sphere
Helps against Rooftrellen, makes Zeus shit bricks. Still, a rare thing.

Do not get this

Vanguard
Seriously, why do you people tend to buy this thing for every possible character? I even saw Techies with it.

SnY
Bah. There's Manta for ya.

Radiance
This reminds me of Donkey from Shrek: "Pick me, pick me". You'll be doing the same if you get this. You are not a tank. Your purpose is to omnislash, land a few hits and bladefury the fuck out of there. That's it.

IV Friends and Enemies
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Friends

Enemies