Your Q is middling in terms of nukes in the game. It doesn't do excellent damage and is normally easily avoidable by alert opposition. It does a decent amount of burst damage if you skill BOOMerang and can be a potent CC tool with Crippling Hammer or Hammer Time. Most of the time though, it's used for Secret Weapon and can reliably give your next 4 (5 or 6 with Nexus Frenzy!) autoattacks an 80% increase in damage, which synergizes well with Seasoned Marksman. It has a long range that can be made irritating with Power Throw

It is much easier to land the first hit on an opponent already slowed or caught in a root/stun. Try to chain it near the end of the disable to land both hits and to slow the opponent down after the initial disable. It is easiest to hit melee opponents twice so don't be ashamed if you throw it in their direction rather than into a cluster far away.




W has a misleading tooltip. It has a pretty decent range for needing to be "close" to your opponents for lightning to fire. For an auto attack build, this skill just contributes to adding burst damage and helps to finish off opponents while you are chasing. A mage build gets many options out of this, including shields from Static Shield or extreme damage from Overdrive Charged Up Thunderstrikes. The combo can do an amazing +90% damage on the last strike of Lightning Rod and with an additional 25% bonus damage dealt to boot. The equivalent of doing ~1270% damage dealt on the tooltip of the skill for the subsequent strikes assuming you strike 6 times.




A generic escape tool. Use it to dive away (or into!) enemies. There is not much to say about this skill. It can be talented to have ludicrous range and give you a speed boost at the cost of losing damage for your other abilities.



An extremely potent ultimate. Be sure to pop Overdrive before you cast it at later levels. Ideally use it to snipe a retreating target (IN VISION, DO NOT WASTE IT ON BLIND SNIPES) or after a powerful CC spell like Earth Splitter (Don't fire it down the middle -_- )


But what about...
Don't take Mighty Gust.

If possible, you do not want to be left alone in a lane. Your strongest power is the ability to assist other lanes with ganks using Fly. For every gank you Fly to while soloing a lane your team loses a wave or two of exp. If you went bot to top then you might lose 3 if the fight is prolonged by a chase or retreat.

Ideally you want to Fly to a lane that is 1v1 so you can turn the fight immediately. Be wary of doing so in case are around as they are effectively Schrodinger's Heroes and may show up to blow you up. Also be wary of who can reach another hero to countergank or to waste your kill.

If you are forced to solo (because 2-2-1 matchmaking hurr hurr) use Fly to get back to lane asap after a hearthstone so you are not pushed out of lane. Do not move to gank. The XP lost is not worth one kill.

You should always aim to Fly to bushes so your landing place is not spotted and you do not land in the open for potentially 3 heroes. Be wary of flying too close into or when is around as you are likely to eat mines.

DO NOT FLY INTO EARLY OBJECTIVES WITH NO VISION! You are likely to encounter multiple heroes who can take you down.

Avoid taking damage if possible. Bring your damned A-game and dodge everything that isn't targetted. Moving 20% faster than your enemies is ludicrously strong in a teamfight and combined with Barrel Roll will most likely keep you alive in any teamfights.

Do not save Hinterland Blast for too long. If you have the opportunity to hit multiple heroes while your team is still alive just throw it. The extra damage might turn the fight. Do not use your R if your team is dead before you land from your flying. Even if you hit 5 heroes it's a tree falling in the forest with nobody around to hear it. No, it does not make a sound, and you won't have it for the real fight for when your team respawns.

Throw your Q straight into the biggest cluster of enemies or the melee hero chasing you and W the safest target that you can eliminate. It might be worth saving fly for flanking opponents so you can get to the squishies behind with your combo.

You are very good at taking coins with your fast attack speed and your W. You can also contest turn ins very safely with an inbuilt escape and the long range on Q (and Hinterland Blast, if things get desperate i.e their next turn in will ruin your core)

Be careful of flying. Enemies will move around a lot in this map and there are lots of hiding areas. You can almost always be certain that enemies will go after chests, so you might consider pushing with your potent AA damage instead and fly into fights later.



This map suits you very well. People like to continue farming XP while tributes are being contested in hopes of winning the next few with a level advantage. Team up with someone with a reliable CC and wreck that person's dreams by blowing them the hell up with a fly gank.

You can also delay your adventure to tributes and fly to a teamfight later once your teammates establish where the enemies are so you can land in a safe place.

If your team is pushed extremely far when a tribute spawns, volunteer to take the tribute with your superior movement capabilities.





Insist on mid lane. You want to assist either shrine that needs help. You are not the best Dragon Knight user but you have an escape to get out of trouble at least.





Not the best map for you. You can take out creeps very decently using Q and deal decent damage to a boss with your autoattacks and W. It is a lot harder to gank on this map and you lose a lot of early game potential.





As long as the two shrines that spawn are not the top and bottom ones, you can use Fly to effectively have a presence in both teamfights assuming you do not die. Join the more evenly matched one and fly to pick off/assist your teammates in contesting the other shrine. Turn the fight into a 6v5.





Your worst map. 2 lanes means heroes are more clustered and not having to leave lane for objectives means that ganking potentials are limited. Communicate with your teammates and fly to the lane that is more likely to get kills.





Your merc slaying ability is mediocre. Try to push someone out of lane before the mines open so that they are forced to go back to heal, or worse, wait to respawn. Consider soaking mid lane XP a little more before the mines open as you can fly straight to the entrance very quickly. Do not enter blindly without your team as you can be taken down.

Anything I should add? My first guide :D