Varian's Parry ability is listed as 1% instead of 100% in the wikibase and talent calculator; perhaps they read from the same data source.

With unending-hatred Illidan's job is to kill 200 minions, 20 heroes or a combination of these. Seems like the short-bus, hero-specific, nerfable version of seasoned-marksman. Otherwise, why not just add that to his T1 talents instead of making this new talent which gives a cap of 3 less damage for the same number of kills? Why make the +10 damage some sort of prize instead of a simple .15 per minion and 1.5 per hero? Can't hurt to check it out but it seems like the only synergistic...

Did you choose immolation over unending-hatred for its immediate benefit and damage scaling? Well, that plus does unending-hatred only apply to basic attacks? Oh, btw, thanks for posting this updated guide. I was getting ready to crunch the numbers from the latest HOTs spreadsheet.

Does it matter which player or team placed the tumor for heroes/minions to benefit from it if they can? Of course, AOE attacks will destroy enemy creep but it's not obvious whether or not my hero benefits from creep put down by the other team's Zagra. Mainly I just want to make sure I'm not inviting defeat with poor Creep placement. Thanks for any help.

Have to agree @Halfie.. it's easier to blame others than improve your own game-play, so it's easy to have team members giving you more grief than the 'enemy' team. Judging from your screenshot though, your play may be haphazard, overly aggressive and lack team synergy. Hammer only has the appearance of a tank and not the HP/armor (or even the machine guns & grenade launchers) of mil-spec tanks. In any case, blame is very likely shared in varying degrees. The death of Hammer is harsh...

This is a nicely written guide. The qualified justifications for your talent picks make it much more helpful than a template-like guide. Knowing the underlying synergy(s) helps to know when an alt talent can be used for situational mitigation without 'breaking' the build. Played Li for the first time yesterday trying my own build strategies 'til level 4. Frustrated, I found your guide and suddenly she was nearly as fun as Lunara to play. Thanks for taking the time to write (and update) this...

Was Lunara omitted from your builds or am I just not seeing her?

Ditto.. Thanks for sharing your insights; havin' fun with it. Have to agree with Halfie though and pick Mercenary Lord @ level 4 depending on the map. While mad casting might burn up your mana in the first few levels, this is one of the few heroes that may never need to hearth to regen (Kharazim is another). Thanks again.

You gain 'stacks' (up to 50) for killing minions, mercs or heroes. It takes 15 stacks per mercenary recruitment, so you're limited to 3 recruits at any given times which will be displayed below the left-end of your mana bar. To consume the stacks, go to any non-boss mercenary camp and use it like most other targeted 'active' talents. Get close enough to the mercs so they're inside the talent's range (shown in yellow once talent is activated), then activate the skill on each merc; best to do...

This would be good info to include in the guide. It may also be worth noting that your 'recruitment' stack survives death and can help push-back minion groups/preserve tower ammo upon rez. Thanks for taking the time to share this.