Jacky's Undead Necro Guide
Note:
1. This guide is more efficient in Solo games
2. Works well in Medium or Bigger sized maps
3. Works excellent versus Human and Night Elf, so-so against Undead, and a bit risky versus Orc.
Objective:
The goal of this strategy is to surprise your enemies with massive Necromancers and own the shit out of them.
It works especially well against players who (think they) are good at Micros and rely heavily on cheese strategies like Fast expand or Fast Tech.
This strategy may not work very well in rush situation, therefore not recommended for use in smaller maps.
Strategy:
Tier 1:
- Make normal Ghoul build, (Crypt, zig, altar, zig, shop) and choose Dread Lord ad your hero, select Sleep as first ability.
- Pump up to 6-7 ghouls before you go out and creep, raise one Cold tower for defense in case of hero harrass.
- Creep nearby creeps with DL and ghouls, use skeleton efficiently.
- Remember to save any and all ghouls possible, because wood is the most important resources, therefore, you must always have at least 3-4 ghouls at home chopping them trees.
- Once you have about 6 ghouls for creeping, leave 1 ghoul at home and Tech to tier 2.
- Keep pumping ghouls until you hit food cap 40, build one zig when you are about food cap 26
- During creeping you may meet enemy hero or army attempting to harass you, Sleep and Surround the hero to make them TP away.
- Use good judgment on creeps and try not to waste your sleeps, remember you have only 3 Sleeps in the beginning.
Tier 2:
- During creeping you will probably hit Tier 2, you should buy your DL a Boot of Speed then.
- If lucky, you will not meet your enemy at all, still you need to constantly send skeletons to scout to see what the enemy is up to. If you see the following situations, you are in good hands:
1. Teching
2. Expansion
- Tier 2 is the most dangerous period, you must be really careful and precise.
- As soon as you hit Tier 2, you should have enough Gold and Wood to build the following:
1. Build 1 Temple of the Doomed, place it inside your base so it's hard for enemy to see
2. Build 1 Slaughter house
3. Tech to Tier 3 right away
- On the way to teching to Tier 3, you should have about 40 food cap, build one more zig. You can build another hero but it is not recommended.
- Keep creeping and gaining experience and items for your DL so he can stand the fight later on.
- Avoid direct confrontation with enemy army because your army will not stand the fight, if you fight and lose, he will chase you and find out what you are up to, so try not to fight, unless you can make him TP.
- As soon as the Temple is done, research Necro abilities (both)
- Build a meat wagon once the Slaughter house is ready.
- This is very important, RESEARCH Corpse Generation thing from Slaughter house, so that you will have infinite corpse later.
- Once meat wagon is out, turn on the Collect Corpse and send it near your grave yard, it will automatically collect corpse for later use.
- Once the second Temple is done, start pumping Necro like there's no tomorrow.
Tier 3
- By tier 3, if you follow everything I've said and there weren't any fights occured, you should have:
1. A level 3 or 4 Dread Lord with 3-4 useful items.
2. About 8-10 ghouls
3. About 3-4 Necro with Tier 2 fully upgraded
4. 1 meat wagon with Corpse generation researched
- Now, you need to make one Statue so that it can regenerate your Necro for Mana
- Research all the advanced Necro upgrades, you need to make sure you have them all before you fight.
- Do not fight yet, unless enemy comes to harass you again.
- Make another meat wagon before you fight.
When will you be ready?
You are ready when you have the following:
1. Dread Lord, healthy and ready
2. Some ghouls to tank shortly
3. About 6-8 Necro fully master upgraded
4. 2 meat wagons with Corpse generation upgraded
5. 1 statue with Mana turned on
The OWNAGE BEGINS
Now you simply bring your entire army to the Main base of your enemy, NOT the expansion.
When you are near the enemy base, cast Raise Dead from your Necros, manually select all the skeletons and skeleton mages to RANDOMLY attack the enemy base, DO NOT TARGET ANYTHING.
Then, turn on Raise Dead on Autocast
Remember to keep ALL of your Necros near your meat wagons, as well as the statues, so that the Necros have sufficient corpses and mana to keep raising skeltons and mages for fight.
DO NOT MICRO YOUR SKELETONS, just let them attack whatever they see, just watch out your DL and Necro, make sure they don't get hurt too much; you may cast Unholy Frenzy on DL so he will be on his "on crack" mode and own.
THE ENEMY RETURNS HOME!
Here are some situations and reactions you should have when you fight against...
Human
- AM will cast Blizzard on your Necro, simply sleep him and move your Necros
- Angry MK coming yo way, simply Cripple his ass, cast Unholy Frenzy on DL and tell him who's the boss
- Enemy start pumping priests, if they come out, sleep them; if they don't, hit the Arcane building with your 2 wagons. Remember also, Wagons can kill priest within 2-3 hits.
- Fast Expanded Humans probably will have Gryphon Riders, CRIPPLE and SLEEP them.
- Knights? Sleep or CRIPPLE
- Breakers? They're good as dead.
- Sor? Hit them with wagons, good as dead
- Mass Motar, this is your headache because mass motar can kill all of your Necros within seconds, when you see
Motars, unholy frenzy your DL and some ghouls and quickly sleep some and kill some!
Night Elf
- Angry Panda or Warden or DH will come yo way, SLEEP THEM, if you don't have sleep, Cripple them!
- Angry wisps will also come your way, select a group of skeletons and just attack the wisps before they can reach your main skeleton sea.
- Dryads? Hit them with skeleton mages and wagons, good as dead.
- Bears? Cripple and sleep
- Chims? Cripple and sleep, counter with skeleton mages
- Fairy Dragon? Stop your statue, turn off ALL AUTO CAST, select your skeleton mages and kill the stupid fariy dragons.
- Moutain Giant? ignore them, good as dead.
Undead
- The key to defeat Undead is quite easy, KILL THE ITEM SHOP, so they can't make destroyers and therefore they can't do shit about your skeletons.
- Sleep Lich, cripple fiends and other stronger units.
- If destroyers are already out, if there are less than 4, you have a chance, just focus fire with all your skeleton mages on the destryoers, if problem persists, start pumping Gargs, while you're attacking.
I don't use this strat against Orc.
In all possible situations, enemy player will likely do the following and this is what you do to counter:
1. Tower up: who cares? Pump a few more wagons and rape them.
2. Mass air: Pump some gargs just in case, make sure your skeleton mages are hitting the air units
3. Mass expansion: while you're attacking, simply send an acolyte to expand, and during attacking, send 3 or 4 skeletons and have them tour around the map to see where they expanded, problem solved.
4. Your hero died: Use your judgment, if enemy is pretty much fucked, KEEP FIGHTING, if not, retreat, your call here.
Special Tip:
Once your DL hit level 5, you can type an early GG to piss your enemy off, because you will select level 3 Sleep, and it's the sweetest thing ever, it will cost you 10 mana only and you can literally sleep the entire army or keep an enemy hero sleeping to death.
Enjoy the game!
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