Dota 2 - Faceless Void Build Guide

BIO
Darkterror the Faceless Void is a visitor from Claszureme, a realm outside of time. It remains a mystery why this being from another dimension believes the struggle for the Nemesis Stones is worth entering our physical plane, but apparently an upset in the balance of power in this world has repercussions in adjacent dimensions. Time means nothing to Darkterror, except as a way to thwart his foes and aid his allies. His long-view of the cosmos has given him a remote, disconnected quality, although in battle he is quite capable of making it personal.

INTRODUCTION
Faceless void is a carry hero that have some specialties. He have a game-breaking ultimate that will lock-down everything in the AoE (including allies and towers) so he can move freely and attacking in his ultimate. He also a decent carry with his damage and a long jump. Be careful in early game, and farming patiently, and conquer in late game.

PROS	CONS
Game breaking ultimate. Lock-down everything.	Slow attack speed on early game
Have a very long jump	Can trap his friend in his ultimate
Have a chance to auto block a spell	If he got disabled/killed in his ultimate, it's very shame
Can lock-down enemy with each attack

ROLE

Melee - Carry - Initiator - Disabler - Escape

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	587	1,013	1,697	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	195	468	923	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	58-64	95-101	142-148	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	4	9	16

ABILITIES
1. Time Walk

Rushes to a target location while slowing the movement and attack speed of all enemies along its path for 3 seconds.

MANA COST: 120/120/120/120	COOLDOWN: 19/17/15/13
ABILITY: POINT TARGET	SLOW: 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%
RANGE: 700 / 900 / 1100 / 1300

Darkterror tears a hole in time, passing through Claszureme, and appearing back in an instant.
This is the longest jump in DotA. 1300 Rang in level 4 is a decent jump for escaping and initiating. The cooldown is relatively long, so don't use it too often, watch out for ganks, only use for very important situation,
1. For avoid being killed,
2. To initiate and then using Chronosphere,
3. Or if it is a sure safe, you can use it for faster walking for faster farming.

2. Backtrack

Faceless Void dodges damage by jumping backward in time, eluding both physical and magical attacks.

ABILITY: PASSIVE

DODGE CHANCE: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%

Darkterror sees what has yet to be seen.
Have a chance to dodge an attack or a spell. You can be very lucky if by any chance you can dodge a mighty nuke like Laguna Blade or Finger of Death. Try to give portion to luck in your life.

3. Time Lock

Adds the chance for an attack to lock an enemy unit in time, stunning it and dealing bonus damage. The duration is twice as long against creeps.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
DURATION: 1	CHANCE: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
BONUS DAMAGE: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70

The strike of the Faceless Void lands with dimension shifting force.
A very nice skill for a carry. Add a decent damage to your attack and also gives a chance to lock down enemy in his place for 1 second. Just good for killing the enemy.

4. Chronosphere

Creates a blister in spacetime, trapping all units caught in its sphere of influence. Only Faceless Void and any units he controls are unaffected. Invisible units in the sphere will be revealed. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 150/175/200	COOLDOWN: 120/110/100
ABILITY: POINT TARGET	RADIUS: 400 / 400 / 400
DURATION: 4 / 4.5 / 5	SCEPTER DURATION: 4 / 5 / 6
SCEPTER COOLDOWN: 60 / 60 / 60

When a rift opens to Claszureme, all poor souls caught within will likely never return.
A very good skills that lock-down everything in the AoE of this skill (including allies and towers) except yourself so you can attack the enemy freely. Use your time efficiently in the Chrono, focus on a single target until he dies. This skill is a guarantee a kill if you have a high attack speed and damage.
Be careful not to lock down your own friends. You will give a high benefit to ranged heroes outside the Chrono, wjether they are friends or foe, so make sure they are your friends, or you will be killed folly in your own ultimate.
Aghanim Scepter will increase the skills duration, you can be considering to buy that if you want.
Battlefury will be very useful inside your Chrono, splash attack gives damage to area that will damaging many enemies inside the Chrono.
Also don't forget some attack speed and damage items like Mask of Madness or Daedlus that will guarantee some kills for you.


SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Time Walk
Level 2: Time Lock
Level 3: Time Lock
Level 4: Backtrack
Level 5: Time Lock
Level 6: Chronosphere
Level 7: Time Lock
Level 8: Time Walk
Level 9 : Time Walk
Level 10: Time Walk
Level 11: Chronosphere
Level 12: Backtrack
Level 13: Backtrack
Level 14: Backtrack
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Chronosphere
Level 17-25: Stats

Why take Time Walk for level 1? You need Time Walk to escape if enemy wants to get firstblood by killing you.

Why maxed Time Lock first? You need this to farm, for easier last hitting and faster farming. You also need this if you want to gank someone. This skill really boost your damage.

Why maxed Time Walk before Backtrack? You need the low cooldown and long-range jump of Backtrack to increase your mobility for early-mid game. Pro player does this. Mobility is important for fast escape and also fast farming.

Backtrack will be useful for mid-late game where you will need a good defense mechanism because there will be many teamfights happening.

STRATEGY
Early Game
Since the earliest of the game, try to last hits everything. You need golds. Gold is the most important thing for you. You need many items, many quality items. You should farming everywhere, from lane to jungle. Sweep out all the creeps! You can also increase your farming quality using Hand of Midas that will boost your gold and experience.

Mid Game
Into the mid game, you should continue your farming. No more important activitie for you than farming. Farming quickly so you can earn some good items and deal lots of damages in teamfights in mid-late game. Jungle is a nice option, in jungle there are many creeps that will benefits you. Lots of golds are awaiting in the jungle. Time Lock does really helps you in farming phase, it will gives a decent damage to creeps so does lock down enemies once in a while.
If there is a teamfight situation near you, you can help your team using Chronospere and attacking the enemy. Be careful not to lock-down your friends or they will be mad at you.
Quickly farm nice items like Mask of Madness or Battlefury will helps you to damaging enemies in your Chrono.

Late Game
This is your time to shine. Show your true self. Here you should already have a very high damage to killing the enemies. Just need to jump inside the enemy crwods, use your Chrono, and the right click enemies one-by-one. Use your damage and attack speed as efficient as possible, focus on a single target and change target if he already dead. Battlefury will helps you a lot in your Chrono because it gives Cleave Ability for your attack.
You are the main source of damage for your team, make your team proud to have you.

ITEM BUILD
1. Quelling Blade
Cost: 225

Active: Destroy Tree - Destroy a target tree. Passive: Quell - Gives bonus attack damage against non-hero units, depending on the type of hero you are.   MELEE BONUS: 32%     RANGED BONUS: 12%      Cooldown: 5

Why Quelling Blade? Makes you easier to lasthit every creeps.

2.  Hand of Midas
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste + Recipe

Active: Transmute - Kills a non-hero target for 190 gold and 2.5x experience. Cannot be used on Ancients. + 30 Attack Speed Cooldown   100

Why Hand of Midas? It will boost your golds and exp so you can be the richest in the maps. Will makes you  can wipe out jungle quickly.

3.  Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin

Active: Switch Attribute - Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed + 8 Selected Attribute   + 30 Attack Speed

Why Power Threads? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and damages. Power threads is laso a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
STR for Survivability, AGI for damage and attack speed, and INT for mana.

4. Mask of Madness
Total Cost: 1900
Recipe: Morbid Mask/Mask of Death(Dota1) +Recipe

Active: Berserk - Gives 100 attack speed and 30% movement speed but causes you to take extra 30% damage. Lasts 12 seconds. Passive: Lifesteal - Grants lifesteal on attacks. Mask of Madness is a Unique Attack Modifier, and does not stack with other Unique Attack Modifiers. LIFESTEAL: 17%     Cooldown:25     Manacost: 25

Why Mask of Madness? It will gives you + Attack Speed to destroys enemies quickly. This is what you need as a carry, attack speed. This will also gives you movement speed and lifesteal.

5. Battle Fury
Total Cost: 225
Recipe: Broadsword, Claymore, Preserverance

Passive: Cleave - Deals a percent of attack damage in a 225 AoE around the target. Does not work on ranged heroes. Cleave damage on non-primary targets is not reduced by armor values. + 65 Damage + 6 HP Regeneration     + 150% Mana Regeneration      CLEAVE DAMAGE: 35%

Why Battlefury? Makes you faster in farming creeps. Makes your gold flow faster. Your job is to farms, this item will really help.

The most important is, you will need the Cleave inside your Chrono. It will makes you have a splashed attack to demolish all enemies inside your Chrono.

6. You can increase your DPS more. Choose your own DPS items.As a carry, damage is your priority.

	DAEDLUS	MKB	ABYSSAL	DIVINE RAPIER
DAMAGE	81	88	100	300
ABILITY	CRITICAL 2.4	100% HITS	STUN	NONE
CHANCE	25%	MINIBASH 35% DAMAGE: 100	MELEE: 25 % RANGE: 10%	NONE
OTHER	NONE	+15 ATK SPEED	+10 STRENGTH 2 SEC STUN	NONE

DAEDLUS: Daedlus will provide you with a powerful Critical Strike.

MKB: 100% HITRATE will helps you to fight some evasion heroes like Mortred or Rikimaru.

ABYSSAL: A decent +100 damage and makes you become a Stunner

RAPIER: Be careful if you choose to hold this. 1 hit kill is a sure. 2-3 hits is the worst. Need protection from your support. Must come if the situation is clear safe for you to come inside the teamfight. Need some disabler friends.

7. Butterfly
Total cost:: 6000
Recipe: Talisman of Evasion, Eaglesong, Quarterstaff

+ 30 Agility            + 30 Damage + 35% Evasion      + 30 Attack Speed

Why Butterfly?
It gives you more damage and more attack speed that makes you become much more powerful. It also gives evasion to helps you survive in teamfight. Battlefury is always a good item for a carry.

Item that Considered Good for You
8. Refresher Orb
Total cost: 5300
Recipe: Obilivion Staff + Preserverance + Recipe

Active: Reset Cooldowns - Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. + 5 HP Regeneration + 200% Mana Regeneration + 40 Damage + 6 Intelligence Manacost: 375   Cooldown: 160

Why Refresher? 2 Times Ultimate, your teamfights will be able to Chrono for  2 times. That means it will gives you the ability to lock-down majority enemies for about 10 seconds. Almost guarantee a victory for the game if you can land your Chrono perfectly.

GOOD ALLIES
1. Ranged-Carries
(Example: Clinkz, Drow Ranger, Sniper, Nevermore, Weaver)

They are all have a high damage ranged attacks that will be very comfortable to attack enemies that is trapped inside your Chrono from outside the Chrono.

2. Good Ultimate/Skills from outside the Chrono

They have some nice skills that needs a good positioning to deal the maximum damage.

(Example: Lich, Destroyer, QoP, Invoker, Ezalor)

Lich: His ChainFrost needs enemy to be near with each other. Your Chrono provide  a perfect setup for ChainFrost because it will stop enemies and cannot move away from each other. That's why Lich ultimate will bouncing perfectly inside the Chronosphere
Obsidian Destroyer: He have a nice AoE ultimate that need enemy to be near with each other. Chronosphere is a perfect set up for his skill.
QoP: He have Sonic Wave that need enemy to be near with each other. Chronosphere is a perfect set up for his skill.
Invoker: Have Meteor that need enemy to be near with each other. Chronosphere is a perfect set up for his skill. Attention! For Invoker: Don't use Tornado inside the Chronosphere, it makes Void can't attack the enemy
Ezalor: Have Illuminate  that need enemy to be near with each other. Chronosphere is a perfect set up for his skill.

3. Supportive Heroes
(Example: Shadow Shaman, Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit)

Supportive heroes have disables and nice skill to helps carries and makes a teamfight easier for the team.

Shadow shaman: Have hex, shackles, and wards to helps you disables enemy

Crystal Maiden: Have 1 lockdown, 1 slower, and have +mana regeneration

Vengeful Spirit: Have stun, swap, and +damage aura

BAD ENEMIES
1. Ranged-Carries
(Example: Clinkz, Drow Ranger, Sniper, Nevermore, Weaver)

They are all have a high damage ranged attacks that will be very comfortable to attack their target that are trapped inside your Chrono from outsidee Chrono.
But the problem is, if they are not your friends, they will conveniently attacks you while you are inside the Chrono.

2. Pudge

Beware if your friend are in his Rot, Chrono makes your friend cant escape from Pudge.

VIDEO SECTION
1. Advanced Mechanics of Faceless Void.

Know more about Faceless Void by watching this video.

  2. Pyrion Flax Guide about Void

A Cool Guide about Faceless Void

  FANART