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i'm new to the game... do you think illidan is hard to play? im thinking on spending starting gold on him.

Well, his abilities are not hard to use per say, but he's very fragile, so playing him does take some finesse. I don't believe he's beyond new players, but if you are new to MOBAs, heroes like Arthas, Muradin, Sonya, could prove easier to play, since they are more durable.

It really depends on you as a player. I would wait for him to come onto free week (won't take more than a couple weeks).

I find him pretty easy to play, although some stuff takes some learning since he does have a high skill cap.

The thing with Illidan is taking the right build and knowing your limits, I think this is more stressed on Illidan than potentially any other Hero. Ide say after 3-4 games you'll start thinking "ohhhhhhhhhh okay" and getting a few good games in and it just gets better and more fun from there in.

The only problem when playing Illidan well is, on a loosing team you wont get much opportunity to do anything. An Illidan jumping into a loosing teamfight is a dead Illidan for sure. He doesn't have massive cc to pull off some crazy switcherooo and neither does he have amazing escape to get out of there after getting 1 kill.

So you'll be chilling back like "****, I cant do jack" and your team will be like "Ilidan bro, youve done jack all game" and meh

well, i think i wait some week to see if appears on free rotation, thank you all!

When first approaching this guy, I would highly recommend taking all of the talents that sound like they enhance your survival. Then as you get better and better with him, start switching some out for the dps talents (if memory serves every single teir including ultimate teirs has both dps and survivability talents)

Personally, I have around 100 games logged as him, and even I do not go full damage unless my team claims a huge lead early on.

Dont expect to be the highest damage on your team, Illidan is an opportunist, that makes people regret being alone or not having stopped at that fountain recently. As such, you do NOT engage everytime you see someone, because like previous people have mentioned, hes made of friggin glass. The difference is between talent build goals, you can be a windsheild or a microscope slide (Ie surprisingly strong glass or sneeze and its broken glass)

Other things of use would be to find a friend who will play with your illidan as a tassadar. Those sheilds add incredible survivability to illidan. Especially if he gets the lifesteal sheilds itll take only a few seconds to top your HP off from surprisingly low.


Well, thats just my input though, grain of salt etc...

Only thing needs to remember if this is your first time to play him, trying to keep alive at end of each battle. Don't rush into it.

buy him some weeks ago, too awesome :)

He's powerful in the right hands as he's a bit like a glass cannon, I dread seeing Id when I'm playing Sgt Hammer as its damn hard to hit with mines or pushback, however it is very noticeable when a new player/low skill person is playing - skills are spammed, turn around and kill poor Id.

YOu have to know other heroes as well to use illadin. By this I mean knowing high value targts because those are going to be your targets in team fights. I like to wait in the back lines for squishy targets to take damage, then dive to finish them then disengage. You are going to be the teams chase down artist not the bruiser so just keep that in mind. He dies way faster than I origanally expected