Ok people when you play rook. Lets make one thing clear. He is a support hero. I hate seeing people who use him as a front liner, unless combined with a Sedna or a Qot use your rook like a ranged hero. He is simply far more effective, you may not get all the kills ( unless the other team is stupid) but you are simply much more valuable to your team if you run him as a support hero.
Lane dominance is better then getting kills . Period.
But anyways I consider myself a good rook, one of my best heroes other then Erubus. And hers the build.
Favor item - Amulat of Teleportation. - rook is fucking slow. and extremely gankable. This item is immensely powerful the playstyle i exploit for both ganking, defencive manuvers, and avoiding a gank. I use it countless times a game.
lvl 1 - tower
2- shoulder 1
3 save
4 tower
5 boulder throw shoulder 2
6 god strength
7 tower
8 shoulder 3
9 save
10. tower + boulddr throw 2
11 god strength
12 stats
13 save
14 save
15 poison arrows + god strength + boulder throw
16 stats
17 stats
18 stats
19stats
20 stats
Items - starting - scaled helm + banded armor
vlemish helm 1750
mana crown 1500
Whichever you can afford when you go back, but you need all 3 - orb defiance , narmoth ring, 5200 warplate.
If the game is not going as planned or you cant afford these yet. Start with unbreakable boots and hauberk of life. Then upgrade to the above.
boots of speed as needed.
Sell scaled helm once you get both mana helms. And replace banded armor as you get narmoth and warplate.
I try to keep a full rack of cap locks and atleast one health potion or sigil at all times and spend the rest on cit upgrades.
If you want to get an artifact I prefer cloak of elvenkind with this build since rook is a typical target for ganks.
Once again to last to explain play style. Thats my build. I win with it. It works.
If your going up against no aoE stack towers on top of one another to hide the amount there. Walk towers to places you want to go. Your useless without them unless your team is there and your teleganking or defending or something.
Camp pivotal points on the map ex. opponent gold flag. I literally start planting towers right buy it, stand right outside of range of the 2 towers and seige them with my shoulders they die very fast. if gank comes i cap lock and run .or tele.
Hammer bash is a fucking terrible skill in a pro game. Its going to be avoided or interupted by any good player. With full god strenth and shoulders you will nearly out dps a hammer bash with your auto attack anyway and its far more reliable. Even if your boulder throw hammer bashing you cant pull that off till endgame. and by then i will nearly out dps your hammer still with auto attack.
The only use I can see for hammer bash is endgame creep control. In the instance that my team is losing. I may get hammer bash in order to defend vs giants. Instead f the stats. Or if you need to counter a minion erub or something, since minions tend to counter towers well. Other then that stick with stats. But those are the only situations in which you must adapt this build to employ hammer bash.
