Dehaka Build Guide “Collect their Essence!”

These Talents focus on maximising Dehaka's ganking potential. Enhanced Agility will help you run down your prey. Getting kills and assists will reward you with increased sustain via Hero Stalker. Feeding Frenzy greatly reduces the cooldown of Drag. It has strong synergy with the bonus movement speed from Enhanced Agility, which enables you to get off an extra Basic Attack or two. Ferocious Stalker greatly increases your waveclear, damage, and crowd-control in team fights. You will be casting Drag quite often with this build; Paralyzing Enzymes is a strong choice that makes each cast much more impactful. Once you acquire Essence Claws, most enemy Heroes will no longer be able to escape you if they are caught alone.

This build works best on maps with many bushes or vents, where you can benefit from Enhanced Agility most often. Play near these map features when possible, as they provide you a significant advantage in most matchs. While you are soaking experience and Essence, be on the lookout for opportunities to gank enemies who are positioned aggressively in lanes.

This build focuses on team fight damage and sustain over crowd control. When your team is ready to fight, position yourself to apply Dark Swarm to multiple enemy Heroes. Use Dark Swarm constantly to deal damage. This will increase all damage affected enemies take, once you have Primal Swarm. Tunneling Claws allows you to continue applying Dark Swarm if you become rooted or slowed, and will also allow you to escape when needed. This is important, because it makes it much safer to position aggressively to get the most out of Dark Swarm. Use Adaptation and Essence Collection to keep yourself in the fight until the first takedown, at which point you will recieve additional Essence. If the enemy team consists mostly of Ability damage, Enduring Swarm is a great option at Level 1.