How To Tilt Your Enemies With Bounty Hunter

In this video we talk about how great Bounty Hunter is right now, and how to best use him to tilt your enemies. Some things we go over include sniping enemy couriers, skill builds, item builds, and how to play teamfights.

Warding video:

[Colopty]

One additional note on the shard: Once you have your level 15 talent, Friendly Shadow grants your teammate the 30% damage reduction as well, making it a good save tool even if the enemy has detection.

[peachlaugh]

15 talent works with shard, can make teammate tanky af if they stay invis. The annoying part of shard is that it cancels the auto-attack of your ally, and if they are not aware that they're invi they can afk for 1-2 secs XD

[raflyarafat]

I've been spamming BH to low Divine. I'm gonna say this is the most fun pos 4 i've had.

First and foremost
1. BH support is the ultimate +1 hero. You don't really do anything big on your own (aside from hunting couriers). You can have a noticeable impact early, but your best play will always be +1 for your cores. It can be ganks, scouting supps, or even providing the correct support items.
2. Your primary strength you are annoying af to deal with early, and source of extra gold for your team (track bonus for cores or earlier/better support items).
3. The fact you don't have big spells, your entire gameplay relies on how good your macro game sense is. Scouting, dodging sentries, proper items, positioning. It really sharpens game sense, which is why i really like BH supp.

some personal tips:
1. pregame scouting and courier sniping is the best thing you can do early game
2. pregame scout > keep in mind your team's overall fb power. Don't bait your team for unwinnable fb encounters
3. Personally, i always leave lane at minute 5 (moreso if it's a losing lane). Abuse the night time and go for ganks at mid or safelane. Every minute from 5 to 10 there's objectives to contest for (bounties, runes, wisdoms, or even kills)
4. start with a stick if you expect heavy trading, or wind lace for extra ms. I only start with venom if i know my partner could abuse the extra slow, otherwise your enemy will just dodge you and you don't get to benefit fully from venom.
5. Recognize the state of every lane. Maybe your mid needs a little help to start snowballing. Maybe you offlane is just losing and need to recover from solo xp/stack. Maybe you need to relieve early pressure at safelane.
6. Using track is counterintuitive. If you are actually ganking, you want to hold Track until the last second. If you know you won't engage further, just spam it.
7. NEVER SHOW UP IN LANE. Stay hidden from vision and you will always appear at your opponents head. The only acceptable time to show up in lane is either post ganking, resetting lane / wave clearing, or actually baiting the enemy.
8. Always get the Through and Through facet, and always mind where you throw shuriken to bounce. It has the potential to turnaround early fights.

For item builds, i pretty much agree with adrian. Aside from boots, there are no fixed builds.
A. tranquil into bearing boots (most common cases)
B. arcane into greaves (i rarely buy these bcs they falloff hard)
C. brown boots into orchid/nulli (extra aggresive against certain heroes)
- Vessel is always a nice item and bh has great synergy with it. Personally, it's either a "vessel 1st item" game or no vessel at all.
- Aghanim is bait. The only time i get it is when its already a total stomp or just meme build. Your enemy will dodge you if you are ahead and if they're ahead, you need more support items anyway.
-consider getting BKB or become aura carrier. Sometimes you have to be in the center of fights instead of sidelines.

Lastly, your goal is to end the game early while your team is ahead of gold. In a super late game, your track bonus won't be pronounced as much and supports/cores with better skills with out scale you.

[Harbs]

i usually go for the ZOOMING MOVEMENT SPEED BUILD cause it maximizes BH annoyingness and therefore increasing the chance of the enemy tilting

[FunBox.]

I'm a Master Tier Bounty Hunter and he is my most played hero so things I like to do with him are:

1. If your team needs help staying alive - specifically your carry - the level 15 talent works with the shard shadow walk, so you can make them more tanky.
2. Building small items first to consistently gain tiny power spikes that will help harass heroes going for bigger items - Orb of Corrosion, Tranquil Boots, Falcon Blade, Magic Wand, Urn of Shadows.
3. If you are trying to be annoying but find that the enemy team has loaded on dusts and sentries and are sticking together to pick you off, don't try to force anything because your presence is already doing enough. If they need to invest that much and have to sacrifice space to feel safe against you, don't give them a kill on you because then it'll be justified. If your teammates are pinging and flaming you to go scout when you know you'll get caught, mute and ignore.
4. If you had a great laning stage - offlaner is ahead and can pressure - then it's time for the "piss the enemy off" build. After small items like Orb of Corrosion and Falcon Blade so you can still do your job, it's time to rush Aghanim's Scepter with Track Kills being your main source for gold. Then move on to Aether Lens, and finally Octarine Core. You will never have to be in danger during team fights, you can track and steal gold further away from enemies, and the level 10 talent of +30 Jinada Damage is now applied to Shuriken Toss. If you have more time and gold you can build Khanda and have the most fun you've ever had in Dota 2. Spamming Shuriken Tosses and constantly hearing *ching* *ching* *ching* while the enemy team can do nothing about it because you're so far away is hilarious. If you can get a neutral item like Eye of the Vizier, Psychic Headband, or Telescope it's just got even more fun. That's when you start spamming voice lines as well: "They'll tell tales of this!" "Stings, don't it?" This build literally transforms you from a pos 4 support to a hard carry with highest damage in the game and the enemy team will be so tilted they will invest into literally dispelling Track or breaking Shuriken Toss.
5. For standard games that don't involve snowballing, targetable support items is the way to go. Lotus Orb, Linkens Sphere, Force Staff, Glimmer Cape, Heaven's Halberd, Eul's Scepter - these items allow to hover around the fight and stay alive so you can apply Track to any and all targets - you are not a damage dealer on your own like Witch Doctor or Snapfire, your contribution is mainly from Track, so you need to make sure that you apply it as much as possible and ensure your teammates can capitalize on it using your SUPPORT items.
6. I find a lot of people forget that Lotus Orb is a Basic Dispel and thus can get rid of Dust of Appearance. It's a great item to not only have for your team but to allow you to scout, be annoying, and stay alive if/when you get caught.
7. Always pick the Through and Through facet - Cutpurse if for noobs.
8. Bounty Hunter excels at harassing melee carries in lane once you hit Level 6. Track the carry when they are trying to get lane creeps, Shuriken Toss a creep near them so they get hit twice, and watch as their health melts away and suddenly they don't feel safe anymore. Bounty Hunter can be a brutal pos 4 to deal with when the opposing hard carry just wants to farm alone.

[gabrieloliveira-dy]

bro i watch your videos from brazil, they are insane!!!

[tryxtal]

You earned yourself a new subscriber! Great content!

[abilitydraftadict]

Speaking of innates being confusing, I had no idea why I could see Roshans spawn status/timer until seeing TA's innate

[real]

Been using this strategy for so long (hours on BH support), however you can indeed spend all game to annoy/tilt your enemies (very fun) but you'll be flamed in exchange for being useless and a walking ward (scout). I also want to point out that Track don't just give vision but also gives gold (if the enemy dies) or just pick the innate idk and because of that you may have the potential to transition into a damage dealer with items to pick off supports at the back and potentially go toe on toe with their cores, which basically makes BH special as a support hero that lacks any stuns or disables.
This hero is ultimately up there with Techies and Nyx as viable troll (annoying) heroes in rank.

[danielxkyoto]

Since you mention it at the end of the video, it would be interesting to know how the gold distribution mechanics work according to the loaded gold.

[_dIIJAY]

Okay, as promised a long time ago, I tried io. And it wasn’t my jam since my low mmr wasn’t ready for a no stun support and for all the benefits of tethering. But I still appreciate your channel and content for many tips I can apply on my games. I would like to see 101 on positions in teamfights for all positions since I see a lack of quality content regarding this topic. Beside that please feel free to enjoy my appreciation with this subscription to your channel.

[Niiiiiichhuuutee]

Great video. A small eq on your mic taking down the mids by a few dB and boosting the bass would help it sound a lot better.

[mody_]

When gondar's ult used to give him crit he was a great 2nd hand carry and noone expects it since everyone plays him supp and u reach ur item peak in 28-35m in that time u usually is the strongest but now bh is forced supp😞

[TankorSmash]

The courier respawn message must be a leftover from where there was only 1 courier per team, so it was a huge deal to get it back

[frederickmueller]

I spamed a lot of bounty recently and found out some of the things he mentioned. Like going greenboots, drums, vlads etc. Im not sure the other facet is as bad as the pickrate suggests. The psychological effect of the gold steal sound during lane for every shuriken can be funny and later on you actually steal more gold with the bouncing shurikens.

[emperio]

Agh's shard also reduces shadow walk cooldown by 5 seconds, or 33% at max level, which is pretty huge, but the devs forgot to mention it in the text in typical dota2 fashion

[alfonsosierra]

This is a great video… just got to work and now I have to wait to play dota 😩

[Artichoke]

Heroes with invisibility are really fun to play

[pcxxy]

Just started spamming BH, he's so fun to play, more gonna implement your tips in my games to improve my finesse of the hero

[guimaacarvalho]

This is my favorite hero of all time and people always subestimate his power of tilting enemies.