The post is Legionnaire Item Build for RTS Game "HoN"
Legionnaire Item Build
Starting Items
2x Iron Buckler + Runes of the Blight or Iron Buckler + Runes of the Blight + Monkey Courier + Minor Totem
You'll require damage reduction right from the start to make use of Whirling Blade straight away from level 1 no matter what. Putting 1-2 Iron Bucklers on Legionnaire is the most cost-efficient method for protection early in the game. 1 set of Runes of the Blight is taken for potential double creep-stacking (more info on that later) and provides you with a little bit of HP regeneration.
If your support teammates are too stingy/selfish to purchase a Courier for the team, purchase one yourself (follow the second option for starting items) - you will need that Courier.
Legionnaire Items During the Jungling Phase
Healing Potion (100)
Normally you'll consume ~2 healing potions until you acquire your Lifetube, so have the Courier fetch you those when you're low on HP (or before you get low on HP). Take as many as you need (2-3 is enough for most games).
Iron Buckler (250)
Just make sure you have 2 of these in your inventory at some point between levels 1-6.
Lifetube (875)
The item that will immensely help you stay in the jungle. If you're tackling some intensely stacked camps though (4 times or more), Healing Potions will be better, though you'll need this for your Helm of the Black Legion later.
Marchers (500)
Gives Legionnaire more mobility to move from camp to camp faster.
Wards of Sight (100)
If the enemies gank you in the jungle, invest in a of Ward of Sight to avoid them (and to gain vision of bottom rune). Only do this if your support teammates are too stingy to buy some for you.
Legionnaire Core Items
Helm of the Black Legion (2225)
After acquiring Lifetube, you'll have a lot of flexibility to get your core items. I'll discuss each item individually with respect to the type of Legionnaire you are playing.
Helm of the Black Legion: This doesn't have to be fully completed right away but rather when you feel you need the defensive boost of HP/block.
Bottle/Power Supply: If you want to have a secure source of mana regeneration, buy a Bottle. This also helps your mid hero if he is having trouble getting runes; Bottle is also good if your mid hero can spare you a useful rune to gank (Invis/Haste) or to aid your jungling even further (DD/Regen/Illusion). Power Supply is also an amazing alternative pickup. It gives less reliable mana regeneration but it's better for teamfights as you'll be in the middle of combat most of the time.
Ghost Marchers vs. Plated Greaves:
Ghost Marchers offer an amazing positioning tool in 3 cheap pieces of 500 gold - if you play the early ganking Legionnaire and max Terrifying Charge, your mobility and positioning needs are fulfilled by Ghost Marchers and Terrifying Charge until much later on, hence eliminating the urgent need for Portal Key.
On the other hand, if you are rushing for an early Portal Key, then Plated Greaves will give you some much needed armor for increasing your EHP against enemy physical attacks.
Portal Key: This item should be obtained quite early if you are doing a pure jungling build. You can afford to delay this quite a bit until you got Ghost Marchers/HotBL/Bottle if you are doing the early ganking build though. Regardless, this item is still core at some point of the game no matter what type of build you use on Legionnaire.
Optional Items
Shaman's Headdress (2050)
Get Shaman's Headdress if there are a lot of nukes flying around (especially AoE ones). Replace Helm of the Black Legion with this if you feel that physical attacks won't be a problem for a decent portion of the game.
Plate Mail (1400)
Get Plate Mail if you're against a lot of hard physical hitters to tank longer, and if you're comfortable with the amount of HP you have to withstand nukes.
Legionnaire Luxury Items
Behemoth's Heart (5500)
Acquire your luxury items depending on the situation: Behemoth's Heart is great for practically all situations, so you can't really go wrong with that.
Frostfield Plate (4700)
If the enemy has lots of physical DPS (or if you need an AoE snare), upgrade that Plate Mail from before into Frostfield Plate.
Mock of Brilliance (5150)
If you're confident in your tanking abilities at this point, aim for a Mock of Brilliance to have more presence in team battles.
Barrier Idol (3653)
Get this as an upgrade to Shaman's Headdress, especially if there are lots of enemy AoE nukes.
Snake Bracelet (1800)
Get Snake Bracelet after getting sufficient HP to increase your EHP dramatically.
Barbed Armor (2700)
It's true that the armor boost from Taunt and your total Magic Armor makes this reflect less damage, but late game this can be viable against hard-hitting carries that are a bit squishy (Chronos and Madman for instance). It's also relatively cheap and boosts your armor for a low cost.
Legionnaire Items to Avoid
Whispering Helm
Legionnaire does pitiful physical DPS, thus not making use of the lifesteal. Don't even think about upgrading this to Symbol of Rage; Legionnaire gains way more benefits from Behemoth's Heart than from Symbol of Rage.
Pure DPS items (Riftshards, Runed Axe, Savage Mace, etc.)
Once again, Legionnaire doesn't carry by stacking damage.
Geometer's Bane
Having 3 spinning heroes can be fun, but this item won't do you much good in the end because it doesn't synergize with you very well. Legionnaire doesn't rely on physical attacks to do damage and his images will die pretty fast anyway.
Charged Hammer
This item gives you very little benefits. Have one of your agility carry allies buy it and use it on you if you want to have the static charge buff that badly.
Other Morph Attack items (Brutalizer, Shield Breaker, Frostwolf's Skull, Elder Parasite, etc.)
Legionnaire has no need for any attack modifiers. He doesn't deal his damage to enemies by physically attacking them - leave that to the carries.
