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Butcher - Pudge Premium Build

Skill Build
Level 1 - Rot
Level 2-3 Meat Hook
Level 4 - Rot
Level 5 - Meat Hook
Level 6 - Dismember
Level 7 - Meat Hook
Level 8-9 Rot
Level 10 - Stats
Level 11 - Dismember
Level 12-15 Flesh Heap
Level 16 - Dismember
Level 17-25 Stats

Item Build

Starting Items
Ancient Tango of Essifation
Circlet of Nobility

Early Mid Game Items
Empty Bottle
Boots of Speed - Boots of Travel (for chasing heroes with Rot)
Bracer x2
Observer Wards (helps in Meat Hook)
Platemail

Late Game Items
Assault Cuirass
Heart of Tarrasque

Pros and Cons
Pros
1. Hero-killing combination of abilities
2. High strength
3. Abilities can help in team battles
4. Can be a tank and an assassin

Cons
1. Low agility and intelligence
2. Low armor
3. Low movement speed and attack rate
4. Melee hero
5. Becomes weak during late game

Playing Strategy

Early Game
- don't use Rot to last-hit creeps during early game. Use it to get first blood and kill heroes
- get Flesh Heap later when you start farming neutral creeps
- hug the tower
- use Hook and bring hero to tower and gank with your team
- use the bottle generously

Mid Game
- camp the cliffs on either side of your first mid tower and hook heroes from the river up to those cliffs, where you can Rot and Dismember for an easy kill.
- go around the map and kill late-game enemy heroes that are farming the neutrals

Late Game
- hopefully, you can now tank creeps and push with your allies for the win

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