Where's the point about starting a battle with Foul Grasp? Its does nearly no damage, cost a lot of mana and it prevents you from using it during 15 looong seconds. Maybe expecting to interrupt the first abilty opponent will use? But that would just be luck. No, you should only use Foul Grasp as interrupt or when a friendly DG is nearby.

If there were an ultimate build for each DG, everybody would know it. The point is that, even is some are better than others, every build has got strongs and weaknesses.

Derp UB's build sounds good, I should give a try at it but, piece of advice, I would always buy Slayer's Wraps when playing UB.

That's not exactly the best mindset when it comes to strategy games.

I'm with pacov on this one.

kokujin's build skips speed for more hp/armor and diseased claws/inner beast so you can get spit/ooze II at 4 and spit ooze III at 7, which are simply far superior to 3% speed/run and 5% slow.

Speed doesn't matter, because a good player wont engage if he doesn't believe he can win, so he usually doesn't have to run or a team mate will assist him. And with a level more of ooze/spit more hp and armor, they will win in a 1v1 confrontation, which is what counts!

It's possible that you can run more easily from a 2v1 gank with this build, but getting into those is already a big mistake.

There is no one best build in this game for any demigod. Skills can vary from 1 point and its a different build. Just saying.

Pacov, I'm surprised you don't at least get BotS. It allows you to Spit out the wazoo. This is pretty much just an Ooze build that every once in a while will spit. I usually throw in a Nature's Reckoning for the mana (and damage).

Damn Poly, you must have missed this post then:

F34r the 4w350mn355

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/360346

Not my build (see OP).  My base build and the logic tied to it fit Kokujin's build (http://forums.demigodthegame.com/360152/#2371610) and strat.  I vary on favor item based on the opposition/team, play style, and map.  Might use BotF, BotS, but one of my favorite favors with this build is poisoned dagger... though I typically can't justify getting it.

Regarding SocialistRyan's build, for what he's out to accomplish, IMO its very solid.  One thing I'd throw into the mix would be getting scalemail on your first trip back to base if possible for the added armor.  So, on trip one, have 1900 if possible and get scalemail + unbreakable.  I think I'll give your specific build a shot and see how I do. 

first off thank you very much for not only reading my build but taking time to write out an explaination of flaws with it . secondly i dont get why you would ever start with grasp, it lets the other demigod get away and they can just port out after you do that the second the fight starts to go south.

while kokujin's build is better for 2v2 and 1v1. you got me there, this build is for snareing someone who may or may not have been able to beat me 1v1 to allow for allied demigods to come assist (which good teamates will do). also unlike kokujin's build this is fast enough to out kite anything meaning even if things go south for you, 9 times out of 10 you can simplely retreat and come back a few seconds later with a port.

in 3v3 having more speed and snares means you can assist your allies in their 1v1 fights and make sure you can push kills through. this build can't 1v1 some builds however thats not the point. your job is to make it so they can't run long enough to be ganked or to do enough dmg to force them to retreat to base while you out kite them ect.

b/c you can never have enough snares, and the dmg boost helps too.

true you dont have money for natures but the build is set up for only 3k which is easily doable. also you dont have to get all the cit upgrades yourself. honestly if you get priests/cur your teammates should be able to make up the difference.

what i've noticed about ub is that people generally run when they see you coming and b/c your a melee character you need to be fast enough to close the cap before they escape into towers. while poisoned dag is nice after about 2 kills the other team generally just avoids you.

i've never thought about getting scalemail. i'll have to try that out.

[quote who="[ShakeNBake]" reply="7" id="2371408"]dont you want blood of the fallen with an ooze build?

UB + wand of speed and nothing should get away from you anyway, so you are free to  stack the **** out of hp.

I personally dislike getting ooze so early due to the hp drain, but I don't play UB much so meh (I usually get it lvl 9,11,12,13 or similar).
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the hp drain is nothing honestly. you can turn it off at any second and its only...10ish per second which you only really need when fighting other demigods.

botf is a nice item its just not my play style.

his build skips speed meaning you can't catch people who just avoid you on a 2v1 and you can't out run people on a 1v2.

snares help other allies gank which is the entire point of the build. also your right they wont engange unless they THINK they can win. however even if they can win 1v1 you can always out run them and if an allie comes to help they are fucked b/c of claws. 1v1 is nice but were talking about a 3v3 game where good players come to assist allies who are in a 1v1 fight.

damage items are really underpowered in this game compared to hp.

i always like to compare them to banded armor i.e. how many hits you need to do to take off 500hp.

banded armor is more cost effective than almost any dps weapon imo.

although the obvious reason for taking wyrmskin is not the dmg, but the snare.

I tried different builds on UB all have favors and lacks.

For a hybrid damage output is pretty awesome, u can stack HP with Botf and hold a lane very easy on a one/one. I just find that its pretty easy to gang a hybrid because normaly its not realy fast.

My favorite Build for the momenet goes like this

Favor BotF and Boots right from the start

Level    Skill

1 Ooze

2 Inner Beast

3 Stats

4 Ooze

5 Grasp

6 Inner Beast

7 Ooze

8 Inner Beast

9 Stats

10 Ooze

11 Stats

12 Stats

13 Stats

14 Save

15 Stats / Inner Beast

16- 20 Up to u

Early Items

Boots of Speed

Banded Armor

Unbreakable Boots

Mid Items

Boots of Speed

Banded Armor

Unbreakable Boots

Nimoth Chest Guard

Hauberk of life

Wand of Speed

Final Items

Journeymans Treads

Slayer Wraps

Duelist Cuirass

Nimoth Chest

NArmoths Ring

Wand of Speed

I like the idea of being fast, have much hp , superior melee damage and not needing any mana items. With this build its pretty easy to chase down a enemy and flee from combat. The 2 crit items provide very good damage, with level 15 u have about 7000 Hp and with journeymans u r incredible fast (about 12.0 when progging). This build is just a bit shitty until level 7, at the first levels a hybrid beast eats me for breakfest and u have to think of joining a combat or just stay off. When u got the first Items its becoming better and better.  So far up from level 10 its very very decent just because of the speed/hp/damage.

slayers adds very little dmg for ub. (only 240ish every 10 hits) if you really want more dmg then run natures reck. which does 250 every 1.5/10 hits.

yeah i've done that a few times and if i stacked mana i should be using grasp like that for pew pew dmg. though if your team doesn't have another interupt your still screwed.

about them running away. your right and if they run when they see you they will lose and you've already won. (i'm just kill motivated)

Yeah, I've been very successful with it too, so far.