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Dark Lady Starting Items

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As with every hero you need some health items and stat items. If you think you will be able to last hit get a hatchet, if you're expecting to be against a double range lane go for the Iron Shield instead. If you happen to have random gold, get both.
Hopefully someone on your team will get a monkey couier and wards, if they don't you don't need to get them as your early items can be mostly gotten at the side shop.

The Choice of Boots is entirely up to you, I have had success with both.
Steamboots are my preferred as you are a fairly squishy hero, the +10 strength from them is very useful for The Dark Lady. Ghost Marchers offer much better chasing power at the cost of survivability.

Runed Cleaver

This is The dark lady's single core item, as not only is great for farming, it works so very well with Charging Strikes. The idea is that every unit you hit with charging strikes splashes to units around, this makes for some devastating AoE damage.

Blood Chalice

This item is great for keeping your mana pool high, early game The Dark Lady can still do great damage using her buffs, the down side is that she has low health and this item costs health to use. If you get a manatube for only 240g more that should keep your mana high enough to use all your spells when needed.

Nullfire Blade

This item can be nice early on, however with a Runed Cleaver you have incredible farming abilities. This allows you to easily fill your inventory with many of the Luxury Items. If you can't farm so well this is a good alternative.

Shrunken Head

As with any carry, if the enemy team is high is disables or magic nukes this item becomes necessary, get this after the Runed Cleaver as once you have that farming becomes easy.

Null Stone

If the other team has lots of single target spells, or even just a couple strong ones, this item is a nice pick up. Excellent regeneration and some nice stats as well. Should really only get this item if you are going to be getting Harkon's blade later on.

Frostburn

This is my favourite luxury item for The Dark Lady, it offers a nice Strength and Agility boost, while also providing extra move speed and an on attack slow. This allows The Dark Lady to chase down enemy heroes who are going to be trying to run away from the amazing damage output you will have, while also giving a nice Health boost to keep you alive longer.

Savage Mace

One of the greatest damage items in the game, always a great pick up on The Dark Lady, mini stun is great for cancelling them heroes trying to TP away from you. True strike is the counter to any heroes that are building a Wingbow or are zehpyr.

Harkon's Blade

Only get this if you have both Runed Cleaver and Null Stone already as without them you will not be able to keep it activated very long due to the mana cost. This item makes you do close to true damage, extremely powerful if you have enough mana for it.

Frostwolf's Skull

Incredibly powerful slow effect while also giving excellent stats, a great item to pick up on The Dark Lady, the -20% attack speed will help greatly if you are against another carry that you need to out carry.

Wingbow

Wingbow is an amazing survival and damage item, 30% evasion will make you easily out DPS the other teams carry unless they are building a Savage mace, while the other stats grant excellent boosts that work well on The Dark Lady.

Runed Cleaver

A Second Runed Cleaver will stack the splash up doing even more AoE damage on the charge.

Symbol of Rage

Symbol of rage is an excellent final item, as the lifesteal and health boost is amazing, but you need some good damage first else it isn't going to be any use.

Shieldbreaker

Another good damaging item, not the best as it takes up your attack modifier slot. When you charge through a pack on enemies it will apply the debuff to every unit you hit. If the other team has armour buff heroes such as  and  you would be better off looking towards getting a harkon's blade to avoid the armour all together.

Riftshards

Nice damage boost from this item, if you get a couple Crit's during your charge it will do devastating damage to all units near by.

Geometer's Bane

This item is one of the best items for agility carries, but it simply does not work on The Dark Lady, the ideal time for you to use this is just after charging in so that the Illusions are in the pack and able to do damage. This is not the case for The Dark Lady, in the item description I've highlighted in red why, it dispels buffs. A huge amount of The Dark Lady's carry potential comes from the two buffs from Dark Blades and Charging Strikes, so this item is a no no.

Elder Parasite

Every time i've seen someone get this on The Dark Lady it hasn't turned out well, The Dark Lady already has a fairly low health pool, if you are playing against player with a brain they will all target you the second you activate this.

Brutalizer

This item offers very little in damage output, with The Dark Lady's farming abilities you will be able to get much more powerful items than this, the stun is close to useless.

Charged Hammer

While it can proc on every hit during the charging strikes, it just does not proc enough to work well, go into practice, spawn 10 creeps. Charge into them with this, then charge into them with Runed Cleaver, the results will be 1 or 2 dead creeps for the hammer, while Runed Cleaver will kill them all. Getting a second Runed Cleaver would be far better than getting this item.