ageol bug: How I Played Minion Erebus

[:1]Most of this is common knowledge now, but for the few people who still don't know, this is exactly how I did it:

Initial Items:

Gladiator Gloves

Totem of Revelation

Horn of Battle

That's right, I'd run around naked. In fact I'd usually say in all chat "here comes nekkid Erebus!"

Skill Progression:

Level 1: None

Level 2: Coven + Conversion Aura

Level 3: Morale

Level 4: None

Level 5: Coven + Conversion Aura

Level 6: Morale

Level 7: None

Level 8: Coven + Conversion Aura

Level 9+: Morale

That's right, no Bite, no Batswarm, no Mass Charm or Mist. None of those skills that people used to whine about.

Since I'm naked I almost never fight with my Demigod until later on or when it's obviously safe. I normally just run as soon as someone approaches, I don't even let Beast get in spit range. Remember you don't have to kill the creep for it to spawn a Nightcrawler, you just need to be near it when it dies.

Lately, against better teams I would get Scale Mail and Banded Armor as starting items to give our team a little bit more early game push.

If a Torchy is giving you a hard time with AoE spells, you can increase the durability of your minions with Hauberk of Life and Sigil of Vitality. The Hauberk is usually money well spent because it gives you staying power and the sigil is cheap enough to be worth it, especially once you have a full minion loadout.

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Get to level 2 by capping a flag and hiding behind a tower while a creep or two dies.

By level 3 you can begin to push a single Demigod out of your lane with just Nightcrawlers using Horn of Battle and the occasional whack from your sceptre. Watch your minion's health and as it gets low just hit the horn. By level 5 you can push people out of the lane and continue on to rape their towers.

Use the 'H' key to select your hero only, the 'I' key to select only your Demigod-specific minions (i.e., your rollies), use 'M' to select all your minions and 'N' to select yourself and your minions. You don't need to EVER press 1, 2, 3 or 4, so you can position your hand down further on the keyboard with your ring finger resting on the 'H' key.

Around level 5 you should have enough warscore to get currency. Make sure someone gets it at 1620. Don't wait.

You should reach 2700 gold very quickly. Unless you are specifically harassing a tower rook, get Bishops first. They have the highest DPS.

As soon as you can afford Siege Demolishers, go back and buy them.

Your next item to save for is Gloves of Fell Dakur and finally Minotaur Kings. After getting those you will have an easy 600+ DPS from just your minions by the time you hit level 8. No, I'm not exaggerating.

Against noobs you can suicide your minion swarm over and over against towers, spamming the horn. You should be able to take down at least three towers before having to re-summon or gather more minions. If you are going to do this you may need a Scaled Helm so you can re-summon several times without going back to base.

Against good, coordinated teams you will need to hold your minions with you to maintain control of a lane. Do not suicide your minions against a building unless someone on the opposing team is dead.

Speed items affect your minions, too. Use Boots of Speed if all that your opponents are doing is running away. With boots all of your melee minions score hits while they are chasing. Yeah it's nasty.

Department of Lulz

Against people who still don't know, most games end in 15 minutes without even buying priests from the Citadel. You simply tear down every building on the map in between you and their Citadel, then you tear it down.

Yes, the Horn, in its current buggy state, completely breaks Fortress mode.

Leviathan

My favorite strategy is to run out completely, utterly butt naked and wait for an opponent to capture one of the side portal flags. Then I'll position my Demigod right underneath the portal, just far enough away so that the flag won't capture. As soon as enemy creeps come out they immediately start attacking me. I don't care. In fact I don't even click, I just let my Erebus auto attack them and the subsequent Nightcrawlers finish them off.

I'll usually AFK at this point, go warm up some pizza or get a drink. If someone actually tries to chase me away I'll just go hide right behind my tower and AFK.

At level 8, I'll go back to base, purchase all three minion idols, summon everything, get all 10 rollies and simply right-click the Citadel. That's right, I ignore everything on the way there. I'll usually hit the Horn of Battle just as the minions are passing by the interior tower just before the Citadel.

If the other team does not respond, the Citadel WILL die from the first wave in about a minute and a half. If they do respond, just repeat. Even more fun with TWO minion builds.

Crucible

Use Oak instead. Fly his spirits around the gap, kill the three archer towers around the Citadel and then position the spirits at the back so the enemy creeps do not engage them. The Citadel will die rather quickly without intervention.

Prison

This map is broken by minion Erebus with the current Horn. Just try it.

Hiding your minions INSIDE the Citadel

If you really want to be an ***, wait until your minions are crowded around the Citadel, then give them a move order to the opposite side. Notice how your minions walk RIGHT THROUGH? Guess what? Tell them to attack while they are right in the middle of it. All of your minions will bunch up inside so that no human players can manually target them :)

In fact, I've won several games by hiding about three or four nightcrawlers inside the Citadel, hitting the horn every time it's ready and waiting for a few minutes. People hear "the Citadel is under attack!" but don't see anything hitting it and start ignoring the warning. You usually don't see the "OH ****" scramble until it has about 8k health left.

BTW, this only works against people who are clueless. You can see the minions by turning on life bars. You can still stand next to the Citadel if your desire is truly to autoattack the minions. But no decent player autoattacks minions when he has AoE, which CAN be targeted on top of the Citadel.

Caveats

You need to win before the average level reaches 15 otherwise you start falling way behind on the power scaling curve. Minion Erebus peaks in power vs. other builds at around level nine, starts running into some trouble by level 12 and is entirely outclassed by several builds by level 15. Such as most Beast builds, for instance, even crappy ones.

P.S. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, you can kill Oak's Spirit Wards with minions. I'll let you use your imagination with that one.

Questions?|||How much favour is the horn of battle? What does it do and how is it bugged?|||DeadMG|||Demigod doesn't interest me enough to push me to make scripts for it.|||RMDShadow|||Thanks Shadow!

Already made my own build... a little less exploity than yours tbh. Also, I take way more hp items(although they seem bugged sometimes..?); hauberk and sigil of vitality. Batswarm I is taken too, since I dont play the whole attack from the other side of the field... :lol:

Also, why no rank I idols?for 1800 gold you get 6 minions, which includes priests. Also, no sigil?

What are your plans if the range is reduced and the bug fixed? WIll you still use it?

Anyway, props for designing the strat, although you exploit for mad(seriously, nightcrawlers in the cit :O) its highly creative and very fun to play as.

P.S. did you won the dev cup btw?