Oh one more thing most people don't know about Slark: your corpse can gain permanent agility. If you die, and an enemy who is affected by essence shift dies within 300 radius of your corpse, you will gain permanent agility. This is a nice bonus for offlane or support Slark where you don't mind trading your life as much as a carry would.
yeah i played loads of offlane slark before so i know most of the laning matchups vs standard carries pretty well vs ursa the only levels where essence shift beats fury swipes with equal farm is 1 so having no items and rushing ring is bad. if you have like oov and 4 branches or something then lvl 1 come swining out the gates you can bully him badly get a lead and then hopefully you will be lvl 4 by the time ursa gets 3 then you might stand a chance
@@Green13Gaming yes at lvl 2+. at lvl 1 essence shift beats fury swipes (and jingu for that matter. it blows mk players brains when you just walk up to them at lvl 1 with oov and trade punches with them and win). like i said i played a lot of slark offlane for slark vs ursa you are playing to dominate at lvl 1-2 because at 3 ursa will have fury swipes 2 this naked ring rush would only work in a lane where you can hit a decent timing at like lvl 4-5 once you finish your vangaurd which makes no sense vs ursa as lvl 1-2 will determine if you will already have killed him 2x or been killed by him 2x by lvl 5
Wait a second Jenkins. You are telling me that when the enemy bans my Dark Seer, I can play an even better Dark Seer game by selecting the forbidden fish? This changes everything.
Not gonna lie, my main position is 3, and the heroes I play on the offlane are Pudge, Anti Mage, and Undying. All thanks to Jenkins' videos. Now I can add Slark to my hero pool as well.
Hi. Slark spammer with about 1000 games here. Definitely love me some offlane Slark, always felt it was potentially underrated. Thanks for giving me the the green light.
I remember one game where our team's slark would do anything for stacks that he would even die for them. He kept saying that he needs agility over and over again. Annoyed, I replied with "You don't need agility, you need intelligence" and everyone laughed (including him). One of the most memorable moments I've had of playing this shit game 😂
Already play a lot of slark 3. His base regen and essence shift make him a trade god. His aghs and shard are broken tier and literally provide enough utility on their own.
haven't played dota in 2 years. Decided to play because this build seemed funny. My team started flaming before game even started, my pos 5 and 2 ran down mid saying it was a waste of time. Ah yes, good ol' dota
I played a lot of offlane slark back in the day of safelane trilanes. Back then you mostly just needed to survive as the offlaner, so slark was great at just soaking XP until you reach 6. Then once you are 6 slark is great at taking up space on the map. He's kind of like bristle where he's just really fucking annoying but you need to rotate multiple heroes over to deal with him and even then he's likely to get away.
Before I quit doto years ago, Slark has been one of my offlane then transitions to carry if needed in late game. My build for him though at core was with dagger and diffusal blade, and yes he was one of my core heroes that I actively hunt with during transitional early-mid past the 8~10 min mark due to his ult ult passive that can definitely try to hunt or notify for wards/enemy visibility. Dagger was a core for me due to how dark pact has a delayed activation and a short cooldown, basically you'd activate dark pact prior to going dagger in so it'll already be a few secs in cooldown once you already blink in. Essentially, you'd dark pact > blink > pounce if enemy tries to escape to lock him > dark pact again. You'd be activating dark pact twice in a shorter duration which basically destroys squishy heroes and that's just Slark with a Dagger and no other item. Dagger is also insanely useful for jukes and escapes, due to Slark's passive you have insane high mobility that once you enter fog of war, with dagger on cool down you'd blink out. It's why shadowblade has never found a use for me with most of my Slark builds primarily because it's so easy to counter and even if you do get into fog of war, if they know your sense of direction, you'd be easily chased down. And considering his health regen and with a mana recovery/regen item, you basically have a hero who will most likely never go back to fountain to recover. Slark was one of my favorite heroes at the time, and people really never liked me playing offlane with him and using dagger due to a lot of people getting stuck on traditional builds back then. Dagger Slark has never been popular, and to this day I don't think it has.
i kind of thought i was hearing things with the background music. but no, it's actually Limbus OST. Thanks you Jenkins for not only showing the best builds, but acknowledging the best songs
all the examples you showed were melee carrys as opponent if u have range you will get 0 essenceshift 0 last hits and they will harrass the shit out of u
history truly repeats itself. When I started playing back in 6.75 or so, invisible offlane was somewhat popular, and heroes such as riki, clinkz and even slark with sb were really common, back when most people didn't know how to play and never had dust on em (of course this applies to pubs, pro scene was aware of such items lol)
As a professional slark auto picker this means a lot with my record of 411 slark games played i would like to address his ults nerf after nerf,mfing mana problems became his problem and turned me off on aghs build but as an offlane slark...
I shift my boots from agility to int before when using skills. And that vanguard, lmao that was the build that prehistoric players been using when slark was first released. Until meta changes, then here we go again? Ayayay.
As a slark main, the main reason he’s the best carry is infinite scaling with essence shift. Same goes with other heroes with similar features, pudge, legion commander, axe and silencer (though it depends on how much intelligence is left on the enemy).
oh i like where this is going i main offlane and play weird shit offlane (one example off lane spectre with the same ring of health strat) and i used to main slark carry oh boy its all coming together
Slark is very bad at carry as well as a offlane. The most squishy carry hero. It doesnt scale well in late game as it gets nuked down v hard. The only games i've stomped with slark are games where i have io with me as support and there's a braindead bb pick for free stacks.
Same thing with Slark Off, i think people don't know about the existence of Outworld Devourer 5 Why i think this is a good support 5? - Infinite Mana - Astral Prision can save a teammate (even from Legion), catch an enemy for your team to kill, Transform 2v2 situations into 2v1 -Ult. is a perfect nuke to help on important team fights or to secure a kill on the carry -Build the "Green" boots, and you will hace both infite mana and infinte health regen - Meteor Hammer, for Astral combo and destroying a tower (+ push) -Can transition into a carry + OD Shard makes the Astral even better for saving you'r team, since it allows allies to walk away while they are imprisoned I hope you can try this I love your videos ❤️
HAHA JUST FINISHED A GAME WHERE THE OPPONENT PICKED SLARK AND I KEEP TELLING HIM. KEEP WATCHING JENKINS DOTA LIL BOI. HAHAH THEY GOT REKT IN 17 MINUTES.
Just tried it, it worked surprisingly well. Completely shat on the safelane Antimage and Oracle. After Vanguard, Echo/Harpoon, then later Aghs, I felt I had plenty of health to be confident during teamfights, unlike with the usual carry build. Jumping in as an initiator as Slark felt great.
Another Red idea from Jenkins to ruin low-ranked games? will watch than on edit gonna review this "illegal" build. Edit: on paper, it looks good but you need to think about some problems: 1st you gonna get reported into oblivion, 2nd it may work on low mmr where people just hit creeps and not pressure early, 3rd if you are facing 2 range heroes on a lain with zero items as starting pack, you are f, even with ring of health
Dude just did this. In my last game. Did nothing and had the lowest networth of the team. The 5 and 4 had 2x his networth. Why did you make a video. For something like 80% of ppl. Aren't going to do correctly? Stop promoting greifing.
Oh one more thing most people don't know about Slark: your corpse can gain permanent agility. If you die, and an enemy who is affected by essence shift dies within 300 radius of your corpse, you will gain permanent agility. This is a nice bonus for offlane or support Slark where you don't mind trading your life as much as a carry would.
It's only stealing 1 Agility, it's really has no bearing on whether or not its worth trading a kill. Basically just a "worth got stacks"
@@SeisoYabai its important in pubs to have something to type when you die like an idiot
@@alex7435 You're 100% correct, I retract my statement. It truly is a game-changer.
support slark ?
i want this on silencer
After following this build, I've climbed from rank 10k to top 100.
But instead of immortal, it's behaviour score. Thanks Jenkins!
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@@lifestealer4699naix is a good oral machine
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Today a guy picked offlane slark who followed your guide. He fed their carry ursa and we got stomped really hard.
Thanks Jenkins😇🥰
yeah i played loads of offlane slark before so i know most of the laning matchups vs standard carries pretty well
vs ursa the only levels where essence shift beats fury swipes with equal farm is 1 so having no items and rushing ring is bad. if you have like oov and 4 branches or something then lvl 1 come swining out the gates you can bully him badly get a lead and then hopefully you will be lvl 4 by the time ursa gets 3 then you might stand a chance
I’d assume it because Ursa would be an awful matchup since he hits slark harder with fury swipes than slark does with essence shift
The day when Rizpol and Jenkins upload at the same time will be the day we say goodbye to our MMRs.
@@Green13Gamingexactly
@@Green13Gaming yes at lvl 2+. at lvl 1 essence shift beats fury swipes (and jingu for that matter. it blows mk players brains when you just walk up to them at lvl 1 with oov and trade punches with them and win). like i said i played a lot of slark offlane
for slark vs ursa you are playing to dominate at lvl 1-2 because at 3 ursa will have fury swipes 2
this naked ring rush would only work in a lane where you can hit a decent timing at like lvl 4-5 once you finish your vangaurd which makes no sense vs ursa as lvl 1-2 will determine if you will already have killed him 2x or been killed by him 2x by lvl 5
Did this in my crusader bracket and stacked up 7 reports in 1 hour. Perfect
lmaoooooooooo
Thanks Jenkins
Rookie numbers
Good
Report? Why? It’s not against any rules
Its a dark day seeing more slark in this game
One of my favorite heroes back when I was playing Dota 1. Along with Nightstalker and Huskar.
Just a normal day in dark reed
I had a slark off lane in my team was happy but then he built pos 1 items and we lost 😂
Slark is hot
haven't played dota in 3 years, decided to play because this build seemed funny, stomped really hard; thank you jenkins
be careful. dota addiction is a slipery slope
Just wait until you experience the average mental health decline among dota players. You'll uninstall pretty fast after that.
@@woodandwandco You just need to keep playing. I've grown out of my rage quit + uninstall phase like 7 years ago, 1 year after I started playing Dota.
Was thinking the exact same thing. But I enjoy sunshine and not staying inside all day.
matchmaking favors you after hiatus. play more and soon you get teammates that made you quit the game in the first place.
I thought my Limbus are playing by itself when I watch this video wtf.
truly a limbus sweep momento
I rly didn't expect it lmao
Limbillion
limbillons must feed
I used to run vanguard on Slark back in 2015.
People said I was stupid.
Turns out I was just way way way ahead of my time.
lol. Ur still better than me. around that time I use slark ulti to initiate. LMAO
Vanguard slark was meta in dota allstars xd
Wait a second Jenkins. You are telling me that when the enemy bans my Dark Seer, I can play an even better Dark Seer game by selecting the forbidden fish? This changes everything.
you forgot to note to mute everyone at the start of the game
Not gonna lie, my main position is 3, and the heroes I play on the offlane are Pudge, Anti Mage, and Undying. All thanks to Jenkins' videos. Now I can add Slark to my hero pool as well.
rot
3k mmr
@@robertkrista5551 Actually I have 3 accounts. One is 4k, other is 2k, and my favorite account is 600mmr.
@@robertkrista5551 so what? we all start somewhere don't we?
@@hirankalindu322 so the sum is about 6.6k. I see this as an absolute win!! 😃
Hi. Slark spammer with about 1000 games here. Definitely love me some offlane Slark, always felt it was potentially underrated. Thanks for giving me the the green light.
Funny enough I see this video minted after having off slark on my team, needless to say the enemy jugg absolutely dominated the game
Thanks Jenkins!
What was missing from the build?
Me: Divine rapier?
Ans: Aghanim Shard.
Me: Close enough
This is awesome. I've always carried sentries as slark but I feel useless as a carry. Definitely swapping to off-lane for him now!
lol ur bad
@@JGYsoFly roooood
Good video. The Limbus music gave me whiplash
I remember one game where our team's slark would do anything for stacks that he would even die for them. He kept saying that he needs agility over and over again.
Annoyed, I replied with "You don't need agility, you need intelligence" and everyone laughed (including him). One of the most memorable moments I've had of playing this shit game 😂
Be honest you were the slark
@@ConfusedGeriatric Nope, I was the Lich that was cursed with supporting that guy in lane 🤣
Already play a lot of slark 3. His base regen and essence shift make him a trade god. His aghs and shard are broken tier and literally provide enough utility on their own.
LIMBUSS COMPANEEEEE
Library of ruina is most big brain thing in this video
haven't played dota in 2 years. Decided to play because this build seemed funny. My team started flaming before game even started, my pos 5 and 2 ran down mid saying it was a waste of time.
Ah yes, good ol' dota
I was caught off guard by the limbus company music
I’m gonna be real your offlane anti already rewired my brain to make me pick Slark offlane.
Also, nice! Limbus company ost.
I knew it! I thought I was the only one picking up with the music being familiar, after hearing it every day.
I watched your video and i now play in low priority! Thanks jenkins!
4:05 I was just here for funny fish build, but I didn't expect to get hit with the canto 1 bop
LIMBUS SWEEPPPPPZZ
Just a minor problem I see. At 0:46 my teammates give up and I get mass reported to a 24H ban.
Anti-mage first, now Slark. PA offlane when?
V tvoem sluchae v turbo cherez 15 minutes
@@cringebury blyat' nenado ya je poshutil
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@@Boroda4Gaming btw, zabil pro sf'a offlane
I played a lot of offlane slark back in the day of safelane trilanes. Back then you mostly just needed to survive as the offlaner, so slark was great at just soaking XP until you reach 6. Then once you are 6 slark is great at taking up space on the map. He's kind of like bristle where he's just really fucking annoying but you need to rotate multiple heroes over to deal with him and even then he's likely to get away.
Limbus music jumpscare
I thought my game doubled up on its music istg
Before I quit doto years ago, Slark has been one of my offlane then transitions to carry if needed in late game. My build for him though at core was with dagger and diffusal blade, and yes he was one of my core heroes that I actively hunt with during transitional early-mid past the 8~10 min mark due to his ult ult passive that can definitely try to hunt or notify for wards/enemy visibility. Dagger was a core for me due to how dark pact has a delayed activation and a short cooldown, basically you'd activate dark pact prior to going dagger in so it'll already be a few secs in cooldown once you already blink in. Essentially, you'd dark pact > blink > pounce if enemy tries to escape to lock him > dark pact again. You'd be activating dark pact twice in a shorter duration which basically destroys squishy heroes and that's just Slark with a Dagger and no other item. Dagger is also insanely useful for jukes and escapes, due to Slark's passive you have insane high mobility that once you enter fog of war, with dagger on cool down you'd blink out. It's why shadowblade has never found a use for me with most of my Slark builds primarily because it's so easy to counter and even if you do get into fog of war, if they know your sense of direction, you'd be easily chased down. And considering his health regen and with a mana recovery/regen item, you basically have a hero who will most likely never go back to fountain to recover.
Slark was one of my favorite heroes at the time, and people really never liked me playing offlane with him and using dagger due to a lot of people getting stuck on traditional builds back then. Dagger Slark has never been popular, and to this day I don't think it has.
I always buy blink for slark, but depend on the situation, blink/aghanim
i kind of thought i was hearing things with the background music.
but no, it's actually Limbus OST. Thanks you Jenkins for not only showing the best builds, but acknowledging the best songs
all the examples you showed were melee carrys as opponent if u have range you will get 0 essenceshift 0 last hits and they will harrass the shit out of u
history truly repeats itself. When I started playing back in 6.75 or so, invisible offlane was somewhat popular, and heroes such as riki, clinkz and even slark with sb were really common, back when most people didn't know how to play and never had dust on em (of course this applies to pubs, pro scene was aware of such items lol)
The amount of Limbus music you used in this video... I love it.
Ammar supremacy
Jenkins totally using limbus company bgm entire video, mean, he play limbus?
As a professional slark auto picker this means a lot with my record of 411 slark games played i would like to address his ults nerf after nerf,mfing mana problems became his problem and turned me off on aghs build but as an offlane slark...
Oh dude, my friend has been playing offlane slark since last year.
Huh didnt know Jenkins was a limbus company player (or atleast someone who likes their themes).
PM has good music, can't blame him
Ive gone from 9500 conduct when I watched my first jenkins video, to 2500. Thanks Jenkins!
When you travel to the 8th level of hell, you will meet Jenkins.
I played your offlane antimage build religiously for a while and now I have a new hero to be stupid with
I will be auditing your build. Thank you.
Am i crazy or did I heard limbus soundtrack somewhere after fourth minute?
There is alot of limbussing in this video
damn, of course the video was a treat, but also these musics, Limbus, Disco Elysium, LoR, what a man of taste !
editor playing limbus music to summon unnamed pmoon fans
I shift my boots from agility to int before when using skills. And that vanguard, lmao that was the build that prehistoric players been using when slark was first released. Until meta changes, then here we go again? Ayayay.
absolutely love the music going louder for the moment 5:16 ahahahahaha
Literally never played dota in my life but ur entertaining. + my form empties soundtrack
They need to nerf slark and morph, my Dota instincts have been saying this for ages.
Btw, did I just hear Limbus Company music from 6m30 onwards? The Budha abnormality theme and then main menu theme
I lived to see Jenkins use Dwarf Fortress music
So blessed 1:41
Vanguard slark existed long time and many people try, even with the added shard is still not good enough for mid game which is when he fall offs.
6:46 That Aum music was dope.
3:44
"If you weren't Slark doing this to them, they would be Slark doing this to you."
Such beautiful words to live by...
Isn't it 11 pure damage and not 22? You steal 3 agi and reduce 1 str.
Bro each str is 22 health.
Pls delete... this is my dota1 build lmao
wow, after i see no starting item, herald replay affects your gameplay style
Is the background music from Limbus Company? (In some parts of the vid)
ayo this man's got the limbus jams on let's GOOO
thank you for ruining all my pubs
Offlane slark is my EGO now
As a slark main, the main reason he’s the best carry is infinite scaling with essence shift. Same goes with other heroes with similar features, pudge, legion commander, axe and silencer (though it depends on how much intelligence is left on the enemy).
Yea infinite scaling is cool until your base falls on 20
What? Axe had infinite scaling now?
@@MangaGamified yeah it can get infinite armor for every culling kill, but I guess it technically gets to around 99% armor
cant tell if Jenkins is a project moon enjoyer
also thank you for the offlaner slarks
Na, slark offlane is never going to be a real thing. It's just a meme pick that quest will do in order to block pick counters to medusa.
oh i like where this is going
i main offlane and play weird shit offlane (one example off lane spectre with the same ring of health strat) and i used to main slark carry
oh boy its all coming together
Limbus battle and lobby music maybe jenkins is cultured afterall
Limbus company on bg? Reputation +++
Rep+
Every 3k player with over 10000 games: Yea man,I used to play slark offlane a lot.Its really great.Thanks for showing this Jenkins
Currently on a WS with the basic fish in offlane. I'll try the best fish tomorrow 🐟
ngl, didnt expect jenkins to use Limbus ost
Funny how the slark video ended up being about pudge being the best hero in the game
Finally Slark and AM hardlane becomes a thing, always felt it would happen) The memes will save the world. Nice tips btw.
It just happened in pro scene lol
It feels like every carry becomes an offlaner once people understand them enough.
its also nice to know your enjoying limbus company jenkins
Idk what's it worth but I used to experiment with ursa and skeleton offlane
Ursa basically a counterpick to some carries like anything strength, juggernaut (rly popular) and skeleton as a splitpusher with tp boots
Thanks for your guide, im down from ancient to legend with this strat
"no hero can kill you if you got vanguard" yeah my slark just got obliterated by a brood
match id: 7228848196
0:12 love that "death is my bitch" video reference
Follow this plebs so us booster can do our thing
Not only i will got crippling depression, also know if fish has night vission, thank you jenkins
Gebura strumming in the background..
Slark is very bad at carry as well as a offlane.
The most squishy carry hero.
It doesnt scale well in late game as it gets nuked down v hard.
The only games i've stomped with slark are games where i have io with me as support and there's a braindead bb pick for free stacks.
Ive never needed directional move, the loss in efficiency is just so small Ive never noticed.
Jenkin plays limbus confirmed?
Nice touch putting Octopath themesong there.
oh no
Se viene my slark off mrd
Same thing with Slark Off, i think people don't know about the existence of Outworld Devourer 5
Why i think this is a good support 5?
- Infinite Mana
- Astral Prision can save a teammate (even from Legion), catch an enemy for your team to kill, Transform 2v2 situations into 2v1
-Ult. is a perfect nuke to help on important team fights or to secure a kill on the carry
-Build the "Green" boots, and you will hace both infite mana and infinte health regen
- Meteor Hammer, for Astral combo and destroying a tower (+ push)
-Can transition into a carry
+ OD Shard makes the Astral even better for saving you'r team, since it allows allies to walk away while they are imprisoned
I hope you can try this
I love your videos ❤️
HAHA JUST FINISHED A GAME WHERE THE OPPONENT PICKED SLARK AND I KEEP TELLING HIM. KEEP WATCHING JENKINS DOTA LIL BOI. HAHAH THEY GOT REKT IN 17 MINUTES.
That's a lot of limbus music as a BGM
Bro I'm playing slark mid in 4.5k rank and have 60%+ winrate with it this patch. It's insane
You need to max e first and rush harpoon
LoR/Limbus music feelsgoodman
That's why I saw those Slarks in my games. "Thank you"
Just tried it, it worked surprisingly well. Completely shat on the safelane Antimage and Oracle. After Vanguard, Echo/Harpoon, then later Aghs, I felt I had plenty of health to be confident during teamfights, unlike with the usual carry build. Jumping in as an initiator as Slark felt great.
Another Red idea from Jenkins to ruin low-ranked games? will watch than on edit gonna review this "illegal" build.
Edit: on paper, it looks good but you need to think about some problems: 1st you gonna get reported into oblivion, 2nd it may work on low mmr where people just hit creeps and not pressure early, 3rd if you are facing 2 range heroes on a lain with zero items as starting pack, you are f, even with ring of health
Dude just did this. In my last game. Did nothing and had the lowest networth of the team. The 5 and 4 had 2x his networth. Why did you make a video. For something like 80% of ppl. Aren't going to do correctly? Stop promoting greifing.