The only Idols YOU MUST have are priests.

Believe it or not Minion Builds are WORSE late game than the siege platform Maxed thorns builds for late game duels.

You should be buying enough attack items to make your auto attack beefy and enough armor to absorb a lot of damage.

Mana items too for more mana.. its a tough balancing act..

I usually skill shamblers+mulching and ground spikes (which i do not use until skill lvl4).

The shamblers+mulching part usually wins me every fight in early game and when the enemy buys catapults I can kill one lane with one nicely placed mulched shambler and kill the other lane with ground spikes.

Versus high damage Demigods I always stay inside and constantly recast shield and mulch. This does not work against a skilled oak (yet), but when they fix the Sludge Slinger trinket and nerf the Heart of Life, he will be easier to defeat.

This strategy demands a lot of micro-managment, but I'm rather successful with it. I'm at the 4th place in the international 1vs1 ESL and have not been beaten yet. I do not use the Heart of Life and I do not sell Idols.

Ive never seen a QoT do much late game.  I guess I'd say that your lategame strategy should be to try and die as little as possible and kill creeps.

Then again, I usually play an AA Reg, which is probably about the worst late game matchup for QoT, so maybe its not as quite as bad a late game DG as I think.

QoT can AA like a boss end game. Go for +weapon dmg and ground spike people and watch em fall.

WHat? I love QoT at level 15, she is indestructible and can slow anyone to their doom.

Goddess of thorns + Spike Wave + Wyrmskin gloves = /Khan quote "No, you can't get away!"

Mwhhaaaaa

Not in my imagination.

The armor reduction is insane on gound spikes, I just tried a build similar to one that horseradish posted in another thread. Your minions will shred towers in seconds, and provide tanks so that the towers dont wail on you. The armor reduction is also HUGE in group fights, if you have anyone like reg or ub on your team who can pump out damage, you will make them much more effective. Not to mention that ground spikes owns creeps.

On another note, wtf is with Foreshadowed, buddy just goes around saying lol "blank" until someone gets in an arguement with him or what? Funny stuff

Have you even tried using minions dude? I SUCK at QoT and still found them to be much better than i expected.

Lol foreshadowed

Yup!  She can easily single-handedly decimate entire waves of creeps, even with giants.  One Groundspike will kill everything but Giants, but it hurts them bad enough and tags them for towers to take out easily.  This can be alternated with Spikewave if necessary.  If the enemy allows this for too long, then soon she will level and be shopping like a high-priced whore.

A Spikewave/Groundspike combo is pretty good for an assist on a DG kill, but 1v1, prepare to be owned by an Assassin - within seconds!  Often an assassin will follow a wave of creeps in, only to get double spiked, find out they got speed and armor nerfed, all their creeps are gone, all our creeps and a DG or two are there, and they die.

With her area effect, she can defend lanes against creeps like no other.  Usually the first one to Gaints will win, but if they all come down the same lane, a team with a Queen has a chance for a miraculous comeback.  It works by the same argument that you don't buy priests right away as they just feed the enemy.

But avoidance and speed are the key.  TP around, capture flags, uproot towers in the lane, don't stand still for too long.

necromanced by synnworld.

Spike wave is most affective when used in unison with minions and idols.

Attacking in creep waves are harder then it seems, late game dem,\igods can drop creep waves in a matter of seconds. Only dg that can't seem to do it is sedna and da.

Reg?