Chimaeras are MONSTERS in Direct Strike! - WC3 

I feel like PotM first could be good if you focus on searing arrows and trying to rush for Starfall. Starfall late game would be devistating.

DH/Potm/Beastmaster heroes with strong ulti or blood/arch mage/dreadlord for q spam are best imo

​@@juliankanzuki2013potm is a great 2nd hero.

some actually correct info: 1. your starting units should depend on what roll your opponent has. for new players its good to completely skip building any units first wave(first waves are too small to stack and die to tower anyways before the wave of next player arrives so winning first clash is not that important). if your opponent got grunts t1 and you didn't, dont bother with building any early game units and rush straight to t3 knights/aboms/taurens etc. Grunts are the most OP early game unit and only specific strategies can beat them(which require quite a bit of experience). 2. Aura heroes can absolutely be strong as 1st heroes, you simply don't max your aura first on them. For example, Dreadlord with sleep lvl 1 and carrion swarm lvl 2 almost guarantees early game domination. Another thing is, DK and TC are absolute monsters with auras even in early game, it's because bonus movespeed allows your wave to start stacking 2/3 sends fastes than your opponent which is great advantage. Generally TC and DK are so OP that you should pick them every time you get your hands on them in mixed because there is no guarantee that you will get them as 2nd or 3rd hero. TC with aura lvl 1 is also absolutely OP with grunt rush and can even beat DH with gems of health if played correctly. 3. Siege units are also very good vs spellcaster/dryad spam 4. don't buy hero items at all unless it's one of the below scenarios: a) you rolled DH, in that case you should buy 1 gem of health asap and after that get another one every 2/3/4 waves b) it's super late game(35+ minutes into the game) you already have 3 heroes summoned and 3/3 base upgs and all of the tech for your units. In that case it's good to start buying items with those auras that you or your allies didn't get from heroes.

@@krzysztofputerko1943 these are simple tips for very new players under 30 ish games to get their bearings. they are not ready to build and counter as they don't know what they are doing yet. obviously there is no 1 build suits every situation, but these will give you a good base to start learning the game while avoiding noob trap strategies that cause you to lose all 3 of your teams lanes. also t3 melee rush because someone rolled grunts is insane lol. there's many ways to beat early grunts: banshees, sorc, talons, shaman to name a few. and t3 melee rush is probably the weakest strategy in the game. yeah dl can be a solid first hero - this is the only thing you said that I agree with, but dk is a very weak first hero and tc is quite weak as well. they give almost no value until level 3, and even then level 3 dk is barely useful. - if you get stuck playing from behind in this situation very likely youve just lost your team the game

yeah, I remember Castle Fight too :D

It could be a bug but it's true that DH with gems of HP is quite powerfull even when not bugged. Only build with which I ever managed to beat him early game was Grunts spam with TC aura lvl 1 but it was in classic. a bit later some riders to take care of his dryads

its like Castlefight back in the day but better

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