Centaur dota 2 setup

Bradwarden – How to play Centaur off-lane like a PRO (6.81 updated)

Off-lane

DotA2 Hero: Centaur Warrunner

Purchase Order

Starting items

Core items m > Tranquil Boots

Late game items

Situational items for m > Assault Cuirass

Hero Skills

Hoof Stomp

Double Edge

Retaliate

2

12

13

14

Stampede

Talents

Bradwarden – How to play Centaur off-lane like a PRO (6.81 updated)

1.	Introduction to this Centaur Warrunner guide
2.	The lore
3.	Summary
4.	Quick recap and Tips & Tricks with Centaur
5.	Abilities
6.	Early game – level 1-7
7.	Mid game – level 7-13
8.	Late game (level 14-25) and item choices
9.	Friends and foes
10.	How to play like a pro!

Introduction to this Centaur Warrunner guide

Hello there! I’m happy to see that your eyes are reading the words I’m writing at this very moment. This is my first guide, but do not let the inexperience on dotafire. com fool you, for I am an experienced player who has played DotA for about 9 years today. Even back then, Centaur Warrunner (former Centaur Warchief) was one of my favourite heroes!

If you are reading this, you probably just randomed Centaur for the first time, or you wish to learn how to play him as in competetive games. If not, you might just wanna learn more about this fantastic Dota hero. This guide will focus on how to play Bradwarden on the Off-lane because I think the team benefits from his arsenal of skills the most if he gets leveled up fast.

I hope you’ll enjoy this guide and please use the comment section to criticize this guide, or if you feel that I’ve forgotten something.

The lore

Old lore from DotA

“Gifted with a tremendous body and an ever-growing fortitude, Bradwarden’s courage is only matched by the size of his heart. Prophesied as a savior by the oracles of his tribe, Bradwarden is the living token of the allegiance of the centaurs to the Sentinel. He swings his axe with massive force, sometimes even hurting himself when doing so. The ground trembles every time he slams his hoof and his reflexes are impossible to surpass; allowing him to retaliate just after being attacked. Bradwarden is decided to fulfill his destiny, and he knows that the upcoming battle will become his ultimate challenge.”

It’s said that a centaur’s road is paved with the corpses of the fallen. For the one called Warrunner, it has been a long road indeed. To outsiders, the four-legged clans of Druud are often mistaken for simple, brutish creatures. Their language has no written form; their culture lacks pictographic traditions, structured music, formalized religion. For centaurs, combat is the perfect articulation of thought, the highest expression of self. If killing is an art among centaurs, then Bradwarden the Warrunner is their greatest artist. He rose to dominance on the proving grounds of Omexe, an ancient arena where centaur clans have for millennia gathered to perform their gladiatorial rites. As his fame spread, spectators came from far and wide to see the great centaur in action. Always the first to step into the arena, and the last to leave, he composes a masterpiece in each guttering spray, each thrust of blood-slickened blade-length. It is the poetry of blood on steel, flung in complex patterns across the pale sands of the killing floor.

Warrunner defeated warrior after warrior, until the arena boomed with the cheering of his name, and he found himself alone, the uncontested champion of his kind. The great belt of Omexe was bestowed, wrapped around his broad torso, but in his victory, the death-artist found only emptiness. For what is a warrior without a challenge? The great centaur galloped out of Omexe that day with a new goal. To his people, Warrunner is the greatest warrior to ever step into the arena. Centaur dota 2 setup Now he has set out to prove he is the greatest fighter who has ever lived.

Summary

Why do people pick Centaur to their teams? Bradwarden is a great tanky initiator with one of the longest AoE stuns in the game and a massive 400 dmg cleaving nuke with a very low cooldown. His ultimate give himself and his team a massive speedboost and deals damage as well.

Pros:
+ Great initiator (either with Stampede or with Blink)
+ A great AoE stun (2.75 seconds at lvl 4)
+ Annoying for enemies to harass due to Return
+ Insane 400 dmg nuke with 8 second cooldown (the negative part is that you take 400 dmg yourself)
+ Stampede allows anyone in your team to become an initiator

Cons:
– If the enemies are fast, they can outrun Hoof stomp
– Heavily relies on a blink dagger
– Susceptible to massive nukes early and mid-game
– Since you are on the off-lane, you will probably face a tri-lane with stuns and such, which will make your early game hard

Quick recap and Tips & Tricks with Centaur

This video shows the essentials of Centaur Warrunner in case you are in a hurry and don’t have time to read the whole guide!

Abilities

Now that you know why (or why not) you should play Centaur, lets look at his arsenal of skills and how YOU should use them.