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One lesson. Click to see what we found 07/24/2026 · Bounty Hunter · Position 4 Real lesson 4 / 4 homework 6 topics Expand the lesson ▼

Takeaways 6 Homework 4

1. Item build for a BH position 4, building for the setup

so items hit hardest in fights and cut down enemy cores

• Spirit Vessel vs Naix — a bad decision: Naix clears it with Rage. The better picks for this game would have been Drums, Solar Crest or Orchid.
• Orchid Malevolence — forces Naix to buy an early Manta.
• Pipe is useless in the late-game. For a position 4 BH, in the late-game it's better to go Scythe of Vyse (Hex) to control Naix and Lina before he uses BKB.
• Magic Stick and Magic Wand in the mid-game — a must-have in fights where spells are being used. They give you resources for a save.

RuleBuy Aghanim's Shard after minute 15: with the right talent it gives 30% damage reduction — a pocket Wind Waker for 1500 gold to save yourself or an ally.

• Courier logistics: don't keep gold. Set up auto-buy and courier delivery on cooldown.

2. Resource management and reducing walks back to base

so you don't lose lane exp and keep pressuring the map

MistakeWalking back to base over low mana at full HP instead of sending for Clarity by courier.

• Cost of the mistake: minus 100 gold for a TP back, lost mid exp, and a TP on cooldown. One Clarity costs pennies and pays for itself in 1.5 creeps.
• Burning mana on invis: don't press Shadow Walk just for the move speed when resources are low. You'll waste mana for nothing and approach the rune with no resources.

3. Warding, dewarding, and playing ‘king of the map’

so the team gets deep vision and you can farm the jungle safely

RuleOn Bounty Hunter you're ‘king of the map’ — buy and place Observer and Sentry Wards yourself on cooldown, don't wait on the team.

• Deep wards: ward the enemy jungle 3–4 minutes before you make a move, on enemy farm camps (the trio and the jungle near Lina).
• Smart warding — don't put Observer on the default high-ground spots, they are going to get dewarded easily. Ward the edges and the tight paths.
• Reading the dewarding: if the enemy walked through a zone (pushed a T1 or went into the trio), there's a 90% chance a ward's sitting there. Drop a Sentry — it pays for itself many times over (350 gold for 3 wards).

4. Controlling power runes and timing your rotations

so you can hit your team's power spikes and break the enemy mid's timings

• Power runes (min 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18): a BH with 400 MS has to be in mid for the rune, calling in a kill on Lina with Invoker or Veno.
• Team power spike (minute 15–20): night falling + Blink Dagger on Legion Commander + Diffusal/Orchid. This is the time to smoke and pressure the map.
• Don't sit on dead lanes: don't stand around as Slark on top with no kill potential. ‘Don't save a drowning man if you can't swim yourself’ — go control mid instead.

5. Pick-offs, calling, and playing off your strong hero

so you don't get dragged into messy 5v5s with a pick that isn't built for it

• Reading the draft: a setup with Invoker, BH, Legion Commander, and Slark is built for pick-offs (5v4, killing a lone Lina) — not for a straight 5v5 wall fight.
• Calling: ping your supports and cores. See Veno at mid — call him around behind Lina. See Legion Commander has Blink — use smoke for her duel.
• Target focus: easy target — Lina on her farm patterns. In a 5v5 teamfight, focus the backline (Hoodwink/Dark Willow), not the meaty frontline. ‘Go for the meat and you'll end up meat yourself.’

6. Managing smokes at the shop

so the team always has smoke for ultimate cooldowns

RuleBuy Smoke of Deceit on cooldown, so the shop never sits at the 3/3 cap and the smoke timer keeps ticking.

• Execution: don't use smoke blind or on a weak hero with no resources. Only smoke with a strong core, a ready ultimate, or a key item slot.

This is exactly what my student sees in their dashboard.

✓Send 1–2 Clarity and Sentry Ward by courier hotkey the moment you start spending resources on lane

✓Buy up Smoke of Deceit from the shop on cooldown, don't let it stack up to the 3/3 cap

✓Move to mid 15 seconds before power runes spawn (min 6, 8, 10, 12) to control it and gank the mid laner

✓Watch 2 pro replays (Shanks / Speed) on BH and write down 3 non-standard deep ward spots

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What to do on your position from the draft to the late game, and what every mistake costs you. I built it from my lessons with students — it is free, read it here or download the PDF.

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Draft and pick

pre-game

Look at the draft: who stands against you on the lane, who will gank you and what the enemy will catch you with in the mid-game. Think about who you can counter-pick: the enemy has Medusa — take Anti-Mage; you are against Enigma — take Gyrocopter.

The draft decides 50% of the match. You took a hero into a draft it does not fit — you are playing with a weight on your back.

Laning

0–10 min

Dead lane? Go into the jungle, do not stand on the lane. Think about it: the creeps are under the enemy's tower, two enemies zone you out, your support cannot help — what are you getting out of this lane?

You stand on a dead lane — you feed and you lose net worth. If you cannot go into the jungle, try to pull the small camp or call your teammates (your mid or your position 4) for help, but do not count on them coming.

Mid-game

10–30 min

Lost the lane? Know where to farm next: wave → camp → wave, any free lane. Farm the jungle in the windows between waves — when farming the wave is dangerous or the wave is far away. Do not run around the map randomly.

You run around randomly — you lose gold and experience every minute, your net worth goes down.

Farm the free lanes, not only the jungle. The jungle is for when the lanes are dangerous or already pushed.

You went into the jungle while the lanes were free — you gave the zone up to the enemy, you play passively and you farm fewer creeps than you could. The enemy will place deep vision for that, then use a smoke on you and kill you. PUSH THE WAVE, then the JUNGLE.

Before you walk to the lane, check where the enemies are: look at the minimap, check where your vision is and which enemy has not shown up on the map for 30+ seconds. You do not see the dangerous heroes (Legion Commander, Skywrath Mage, Storm Spirit, Nyx Assassin…) — do not go for the wave, stay in your zone.

Dodging ganks is easy — you just need to know which hero on the map is dangerous and where that hero was seen last.

Do not go into a fight before your power spike: wait for the key item or the level, fight on your own timing. If a fight starts while you are still farming that spike, at least push the lanes deep, do not farm the jungle.

You went into a fight with no Black King Bar and no spike — you dealt no damage, you died, and you ruin the mid-game and the late-game.

Use Black King Bar at the right timing: not on the first spell thrown from far away, and not when you are already stunned. Think it through: if the enemy stuns or slows you, do they have enough damage to burst you down? If not — do not spend the Black King Bar. If yes — use it in advance.

Used it too early — it is on cooldown when the moment comes; too late — you are already dead.

Splitpush with your head: with vision, with a teleport scroll, knowing where the enemies are. You have not seen the dangerous ones for more than 30 seconds — do not splitpush: hide in the trees, stay in your own zone and wait for them to show up. They are either looking for you under a smoke or ganking your teammates.

Splitpush with no vision and no teleport scroll — you get ganked, your team fights 4 against 5, you let everyone down.

Hold your position in a fight: not too close, so you do not die first, and not too far, so you can deal damage. Ask yourself: do I HAVE TO TANK the enemy's damage, or does someone HAVE TO TANK IT FOR ME? You tank when you are tanky and you create position for your teammates. Your teammates tank for you when you are squishy and YOU need position to deal damage.

You position yourself wrong — your team fights without a carry.

Late-game

30+ min

Push into the enemy high ground only at the right timing: with your teammates, with the Aegis, with a siege creep, with the glyph or the Roshan banner, and with your own power spike or a power spike from a teammate.

You went in with no power spike and no numbers advantage — you died on the enemy high ground and you ruin the late-game.

You hit your power spike — capitalize on it: take the objectives, call the fights, do not farm AFK. Look for chances on the map, catch the enemy at the anchors (a rune or a creep wave), go deep into the enemy jungle, create position for your teammates so they can place wards.

You keep farming with your spike up — you lose tempo and let the enemy level up and kill your teammates.

Item build

Build for the game, not by a guide. How are you going to solve your mana problem? Which farming item are you taking? Do you need a Magic Stick on the lane, or are stats better? Early Boots of Speed to run away and to chase, or Gloves of Haste to speed up your farm? Do you need Infused Raindrops? The enemy has a Butterfly — do you need Black King Bar? Or is Manta Style better against Treant Protector's ultimate?

An item that does not fit the situation is money thrown away: in a fight you never use it.

Situations: if — then

Ifyou lost the lane→go into your farming pattern: wave → camp → wave, and wait for your timing. If the enemy dives under your tower on another lane, be ready to teleport, but make sure you have the resources and your ultimate: this is your chance to come back.

Ifthe lane is dead→pull the small camp, call your mid or your position 4 for help, go into the jungle. A gamble: try to teleport to mid or to the offlane to gank the enemy with more players. Do it at your own risk.

Ifyou hit your power spike→do not keep farming: take the objectives, force the fights, take the enemy zone.

Ifthe enemies disappeared from the map→do not walk into the far zone: farm safely, check who you cannot see and where they showed up last, and keep your finger on Black King Bar.

Ifyou want to splitpush→check first: do you have vision? do you have a teleport scroll? do you know where the enemies are?

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