DOTA TIME - Who's this Sven???!!!

SVEN OWNAGE


Sven - The Rogue Knight...My favorite sentinel hero in dota...the reason? simple, he owns any map, any hero...lol...that must raise a few eyebrows no doubt...I've heard people say "My Viper will wipe out Sven" and "Sven is no match for my Necrolyte"...Possibly true, but i say, unlikely...Know how to build your character and how to play with Sven, you'll soon start loving him...I got addicted to him from the FIRST time i played him...

I used to play Lina Inverse, a decent girl but not hero-killing material...Eventually, after a couple of matches, I was tired of getting pwned by easy bots...A moment i let my concentration waver, boom, "Lina Inverse the Sorceress has fallen", it says in a melodramatic voice (with a touch of melancholy to rub it in)...Soon, I found myself browsing online strategy guides, on the lookout for a good hero...It was then that I found this battle tank...

Built for being a killing machine, Sven was recommended by most players as one of the most powerful characters in the game...I didn't find his skills very enterprising, but thought it was worth a try...After reading the entire guide, I started a game of dota...1 vs 1...I chose Sven, the Scourge Bane Elemental Atropos was my nemesis...Five minutes into the game, I was happy with Sven, he was killing creeps at a reasonably good rate...Seven minutes, Sven drew first blood with a well timed Storm Bolt to slay the fleeing Atropos...By then, I was level 4...To think, with Lina, my first hero kill would be around level 13 or so...Sven, with his armor boosted by the Toughness Aura was practically playing around with creeps by level 10...the splash damage of the Great Cleave adding agony to the already demoralized creeps...I didn't know that the actual party hadn't begun yet...I hadn't seen the power of God's Strength...It was only at level 16 when I had it maximized, that I decided to try it out...And when I did, instinctively, my reaction was "What the -"...I mean, I had a decent inventory with Satanic, Vladimir's Offering, Power Treads and an Assault Cuirass...Well, these are good, but when I took out Atropos in about four hits, I actually did a double take...By then, I had decided Sven was my man...On a sudden impulse, I decided to take on Roshan...In a few minutes, I discovered that he was totally useless against me...I killed him without a sweat, the lifesteal of my Satanic compensating for any damage he managed to give me...When the game ended at last, I was level 21 and my score was 29-1, the one death owing to a lapse in concentration (or over confidence maybe) when I chased Atropos right into his fountain *chuckles* ...Apart from that, it was a totally satisfying game, and to this day, Sven's my hero...