Dota 2 Doom Hero Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Play Doom Successfully

Doom, a very robust strength hero in Dota 2, is famous for his skills which include the ability to silence, disable as well as cause destruction to enemies. His toolkit allows him to outlane his opponents, neutralize important heroes and make an impact during team fights. This guide will look into the skills Doom has, recommended item builds as well as the talents that can allow better husbandry of the hero to help your team secure a victory.

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Doom is Strong Against

Doom's tremendous potential in perfecting silencers makes him a terrific option to pair against spell-casting, tumbling, as well as regenerative reliant heroes. This is because he can inflict purposed damage while also blinding abilities from any target. His ultimate, Doom, afflicts upon enemies pure damage and makes them unable to use any specific ability for about a minute, hence rendering them ineffective during crucial times.

How to Counter Doom

Doom offlane is particularly vulnerable to heroes with crowd control, mobility or any way to counter a silence. Additional spells that deal burst damage or that can exert area dominance can also be useful against Doom in clashes. In terms of what to draft against Doom, carrying heroes who can avoid or kill him before he jumps in are better options.

Doom’s Item Build

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Itemization on Doom goes towards making him even more tanky while still being able to deal damage and disable. Focusing on those stats encourages the fact that he's tanky, he's an initiating hero, and has a great teamfight presence.

Starting Items

• Quelling Blade — Boosts farming efficiency.

• Tango and Iron Branch — Increases sustainability in the lane.

• Observer Ward — Early vision to control the laning phase.

Early Game Items

• Bracer — Adds survivability and mana regen.

• Phase Boots — Mobility for chasing down enemies.

• Hand of Midas — Speeds up farming and XP gain.

Mid Game Items

• Shiva's Guard — Provides armor and slows enemies in AoE.

• Black King Bar — Grants spell immunity for safety while casting abilities.

• Blink Dagger — Essential for initiating with Doom.

Late Game Items

• Octarine Core — Reduces cooldowns, boosting ability uptime.

• Refresher Orb — Enables casting Doom twice in one fight for maximum control.

• Aghanim's Shard — Enhances Infernal Blade with a valuable stun.

Situational Items

• Lotus Orb — Reflects spells, giving Doom survivability against disables.

• Heaven's Halberd — Disables physical damage dealers.

• Pipe of Insight — Essential against teams with high magic damage.

Doom’s Aspects

Doom’s unique characteristics give him decent diversity which increases his survival as well as opens up different strategies that can be used against varying enemy heroes. Some major aspects are described below:

• Gluttony: This aspect allows Doom to devour multiple creeps through the two charges that Kindly gives Doom, in turn allowing him to select the most fitting abilities to deal with his opponents.

• Devil's Bargain: Doom has the capability of putting up items for sale at 90% of their original price, a feature that makes it easier for him to change his item build, but comes at the price of increasing his buyback cost by 20%.

• Impending Doom: With this ability, the effect of Doom multiplies every 6.66 minutes providing a boost to his late game effectiveness.

Doom’s Ability Build

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The primary goal of Doom’s ability build should be targeting the enhancement of his area damage and disable ability to the max. For that, here is a potential skill build:

• For The Scorched Earth - Enables mobility and assists in controlling large regions."

• For The Devour - Improves farming and boosts powers."

• Posts For The Infernal Blade - Provides control and extra damage."

• Doom — "Ultimate Walking"- Get at level 6, 12 and 18 in order to unleash full disable capacity at the peak of his power.

Recommended Skill Build Order:

• 1 — Scorched Earth

• 2 — Devour

• 3 — Scorched Earth

• 4 — Infernal Blade

• 5 — Scorched Earth

• 6 — Doom

• 7 — Scorched Earth

• 8–10 — Devour

• 11 — Doom applies Break

• 12 — Doom

• 13–14 — Infernal Blade

• 15 — Devour Can Target Ancients

• 16 — Infernal Blade

Doom’s Talent Build

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The Doom talents allow him to lower Cooldown of his control skills and boost his control while leveling up towards 25, while increasing his threat level at the same propulsion. Recommended talent build:

• Level 10: +10 Scorched Earth Damage

• Level 15: Devour can target Ancients, expanding his creep options.

• Level 20: +2.5% Infernal Blade Damage for more burst potential.

• Level 25: Doom applies Break, countering heroes with powerful passive abilities.

Conclusion

Doom is a great fighter who is pliable constructed and possesses an exceptional equipment set that makes it possible for him to be such a enable opponents and take control of the battlefield. Once the appropriate item builds, aspects and skill tree are chosen, Doom is capable of completely neutralizing vital heroes and winning the battle. Loosening Doom from strength restraints and achieving thorough understanding across all of his counters makes him a warhead in Dota 2, who is able to shift the orders of war to prevalence in the favor of his team.

Be sure to check out our other in-depth Dota 2 hero guides. Whether you’re looking to master another offlaner or fine-tune your carry skills, our comprehensive guides cover everything you need to succeed on the battlefield.