None stand a chance against the Wraith King! He resurrects from his shattered bones and comes back with a vengeance! His vigor and lifesteal make him one of the most badass heroes in the game. Death and Wraith King are considered to be polar opposites!
If you’re fed up losing with WK in your pub games then you’re at the right place! We have compiled a list of the best 5 Wraith King builds that can rip enemies apart quite effortlessly.
5. K1 Build
K1 is known for various heroes, especially for his Wraith King, he is known to dominate the game whenever he plays it! His hyper-aggressive playstyle has found no match in the SA region. His impressive gameplay and builds are often seen emulated by thousands of players.
K1’s playstyle is looked up to by his peers and fans alike, all across the world. His Wraith King is unstoppable if let loose! He loves to build items like Blink Dagger, Desolator, Armlet of Mordiggian, and Black King Bar, these items provide him insane farming potential and stats! This build is guaranteed to land you kills and win you games.
Use This Build If:
- You want to be the initiator in the teamfights, while also having enough armor and magic immunity to sustain yourself. This build is primarily a teamfight-focused build.
- Skill Points
- Level 1: Wrathfire Blast - The standard level 1 ability, allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 2: Vampiric Spirit - This passive allows you to lifesteal from physical damage, along with making him able to summon skeletons based on the number of last hits.
- Level 3: Mortal Strike - Allows WK to deal critical damage
- Level 4: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 5: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 6: Reincarnation - Ultimate ability, allows WK to resurrect if he is killed and has sufficient mana to reincarnate.
- Level 7: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 8: Mortal Strike
- Level 9: Mortal Strike
- Level 10: Stats - Stats are skilled usually when putting points in skills is not feasible due to mana requirements.
- Level 11: Wrathfire Blast
- Level 12: Reincarnation
Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)
- Quelling Blade - Bought at the 1-minute mark. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for WK to last hit in the early game with low damage.
- Phase Boots - Bought at 5 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows him to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to escape or initiate fights without getting his body blocked.
- Armlet of Mordiggian - Bought at 11 minutes. Increased damage and HP, can toggle through enemy damage.
- Desolator - Bought at around 16 minutes. Desolator provides increased physical damage along with armor correction on physical attacks. The armor corruption makes WK extremely threatening in all stages of the game, allowing him to kill enemies quickly along with taking objectives faster as it affects towers as well.
- Black King Bar - Bought at 21 minutes. Provides magic immunity, making him invulnerable as he is initiating. It is essential in most matchups as he has no way of protecting himself from magic and generally has low magic resistance.
- Assault Cuirass - Bought at 27 minutes. Assault Cuirass grants increased armor and attack speed which makes WK extremely tanky. It also reduces enemy armor in an AoE, increasing its threat potential.
- Blink Dagger - Bought at 30 minutes. Blink Dagger is a core item as it allows you to initiate or escape. It is further upgraded into Overwhelming Blink at 34 minutes into the game.
4. Nikobaby Build
Nikobaby has been picking Wraith King even when it got nerfed, his gameplay and mechanical skills triumph the patch changes. Nikobaby is known to pick heroes that contribute to the overall synergy of the team, a hero with a stun is a great combination that he likes with Wraith King.
Nikobaby loves items that provide stats and provide him sustain in team fights. This build allows him to stand his ground and utilize Wraith King in his true potential. The items in this build include Radiance, Blink Dagger, Orchid of Maleovalence, Heaven’s Halberd, and much more. His high skilled plays explain his high rank on the EU leaderboard. This build is highly situational but Niko makes it work whenever he choses to play this build.
Use This Build If:
- You want to take the game slow into the late game, where your enemies may not have the upper hand anymore. This build is more farm-oriented, dragging the game longer until Wraith King has enough resources to sustain himself and destroy his enemies in the fights.
Skill Points
- Level 1: Vampiric Spirit - This passive allows you to lifesteal from physical damage, along with making him able to summon skeletons based on the number of last hits.
- Level 2: Mortal Strike - Allows WK to deal critical damage Wrathfire Blast - Allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 3: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 4: Wrathfire Blast - The standard level 1 ability, allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 5: Wrathfire Blast
- Level 6: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 7: Wrathfire Blast
- Level 8: Mortal Strike
- Level 9: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 10: Reincarnation - Ultimate ability, allows WK to resurrect if he is killed and has sufficient mana to reincarnate.
- Level 11: Mortal Strike
- Level 12: Reincarnation
Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)
- Quelling Blade - Bought at the 1-minute mark. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for WK to last hit in the early game with low damage.
- Phase Boots - Bought at 4 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows him to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to escape or initiate fights without getting his body blocked.
- Radiance - Bought at 12 minutes. Radiance provides AoE damage along with evasion which assists WK in farming fast and push lanes.
- Blink Dagger - Bought at 17 minutes. Blink Dagger is a core item as it allows you to initiate or escape. It is further upgraded into Overwhelming Blink at 30 minutes into the game.
- Heaven’s Halberd - Bought at 20 minutes. Disarms the targetted enemy, making them unable to deal any physical damage.
- Orchid of Maleovalnce - Bought at 22 minutes. On usage, Orchid silences the targetted enemy and makes them take a percentage of the damage at the end of the duration. It is later upgraded into Bloodthorn 25 minutes into the game.
3. Lifesteal/ Rapier Build
Lifesteal is an essential component when it comes to being able to sustain yourself as a carry hero. Lifesteal items can be bought but the Wraith King has an in-built lifesteal spell which makes it easy for him and his allies to lifesteal in a team fight.
Putting more skill points in Vampire Aura is essential right from the early game as it allows you to sustain yourself in the laning phase. Not all heroes are blessed with lifesteal, unlike the almighty King. The item build is quite standard, building items like Armlet, Desolator, and Blink Dagger, which allow him to initiate as well as deal insane amounts of damage in the early to mid-game, having an edge over his carry counterpart with the help of lifesteal.
Use This Build If:
- You want a strong early game. Wraith King usually has a decent early game if he goes the max lifesteal route. This allows him to both fight in the early game and farm the jungle without worrying about his HP.
Skill Points
- Level 1: Wrathfire Blast - The standard level 1 ability, allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 2: Vampiric Spirit - This passive allows you to lifesteal from physical damage, along with making him able to summon skeletons based on the number of last hits.
- Level 3: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 4: Mortal Strike - Allows WK to deal critical damage
- Level 5: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 6: Reincarnation - Ultimate ability, allows WK to resurrect if he is killed and has sufficient mana to reincarnate.
- Level 7: Mortal Strike
- Level 8: Mortal Strike
- Level 9: Mortal Strike
- Level 10: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 11: Wrathfire Blast
- Level 12: Reincarnation
Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)
- Quelling Blade - Bought at the 1-minute mark. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for WK to last hit in the early game with low damage.
- Phase Boots - Bought at 4 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows him to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to escape or initiate fights without getting his body blocked.
- Armlet of Mordiggian - Bought at 6 minutes. Increased damage and HP, can toggle through enemy damage.
- Desolator - Bought at around 16 minutes. Desolator provides increased physical damage along with armor correction on physical attacks. The armor corruption makes WK extremely threatening in all stages of the game, allowing him to kill enemies quickly along with taking objectives faster as it affects towers as well.
- Blink Dagger - Bought at 19 minutes. Blink Dagger is a core item as it allows you to initiate or escape. It is further upgraded into Overwhelming Blink at 60 minutes into the game.
- Black King Bar - Bought at 23 minutes. Provides magic immunity, making him invulnerable as he is initiating. It is essential in most matchups as he has no way of protecting himself from magic and generally has low magic resistance.
- Assault Cuirass - Bought at 34 minutes. Assault Cuirass grants increased armor and attack speed which makes WK extremely tanky. It also reduces enemy armor in an AoE, increasing its threat potential.
- Divine Rapier - Bought at 41 minutes into the game. Rapier has slowly become one of the most common items on WK, in most builds people do not wait for the late game to purchase this item, as he is a safety net with his ultimate which ensures he does not drop Rapier. WK benefits heavily from the Rapier as it provides extra 300 physical damage. It is an extremely powerful yet risky purchase as you drop it when you die, and handing it over to the enemies can just mean game over.
- Refresher’s Orb - Bought at 50 minutes. Refresher is seen in the late game, it allows Mars to use his abilities and items twice, increasing his threat potential by a huge margin.
- Abyssal Blade - Bought at 75 minutes. Abyssal allows WK to lock down the targetted enemy, even when they appear to be magic immune. This is an exceptional late game item, and it supplements the Rapier.
- 2. Overwhelming Blink Build
Initiation is a crucial aspect when it comes to teamfights. If you are the team that is initiating then it is quite possible that you have caught your enemies off-guard. There are various heroes that are known to be great initiators but they often lack survivability, this is where the initiator build on Wraith King comes in.
Wraith King is a carry hero as we all know, but his carry potential is amplified when he can also initiate and pick out foes by himself. Blink Dagger allows him to follow up with Wraithfire Blast on his enemies. This makes it easy for him to lock down and neutralize the target. Later he can purchase Black King Bar which allows him to initiate without getting caught, along with upgrading his Blink into Overwhelming Blink which offers insane strength along with AoE damage whenever he blinks in.
Use This Build If:
- You want a standard team fight build. This build is optimal for most matchups, it is tried and tested by professional players as well. Overwhelming Blink is the selling point of this build, as it allows him to initiate fearlessly and deal damage while his team follows up.
Skill Points
- Level 1: Wrathfire Blast - The standard level 1 ability, allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 2: Vampiric Spirit - This passive allows you to lifesteal from physical damage, along with making him able to summon skeletons based on the number of last hits.
- Level 3: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 4: Mortal Strike - Allows WK to deal critical damage
- Level 5: Mortal Strike
- Level 6: Vampiric Spirit.
- Level 7: Reincarnation - Ultimate ability, allows WK to resurrect if he is killed and has sufficient mana to reincarnate
- Level 8: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 9: Mortal Strike
- Level 10: Mortal Strike
- Level 11: Stats - Stats are skilled usually when putting points in skills is not feasible due to mana requirements.
- Level 12: Reincarnation
Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)
- Quelling Blade - Bought at the 1-minute mark. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for WK to last hit in the early game with low damage.
- Phase Boots - Bought at 5 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows him to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to escape or initiate fights without getting his body blocked.
- Armlet of Mordiggian - Bought at 11 minutes. Increased damage and HP, can toggle through enemy damage.
- Desolator - Bought at around 17 minutes. Desolator provides increased physical damage along with armor correction on physical attacks. The armor corruption makes WK extremely threatening in all stages of the game, allowing him to kill enemies quickly along with taking objectives faster as it affects towers as well.
- Blink Dagger - Bought at 20 minutes. Blink Dagger is a core item as it allows you to initiate or escape. It is further upgraded into Overwhelming Blink at 30 minutes into the game.
- Black King Bar - Bought at 26 minutes. Provides magic immunity, making him invulnerable as he is initiating. It is essential in most matchups as he has no way of protecting himself from magic and generally has low magic resistance.
1. Ame Build
Ame is undoubtedly the best carry player in the current meta, this is due to his high mechanical skills and impressive understanding of the game. He is known to be versatile, but Wraith King remains his specialty. High tempo and fast pace are the names of the game for our superstar. He remains one of the fan favorites to win the International.
Ame loves building items that provide him insane sustain potentials, such as the Battlefury or even a Maelstorm! He then follows it up with insane stat items like Echo Sabre, combining it with items like Assault Cuirass. These items elevate his gameplay and ensure his enemies do not return alive!
Use This Build If:
- You want to end the game early. Items like Armlet and Desolator allow WK to deal high damage in the early game and also provide him with armor corruption, which is also effective on buildings. Purchasing an Assault Cuirass further can help him in pushing or even ratting in the later stages of the game, a job which he is already good at due to his skeletons.
Skill Points
- Level 1: Wrathfire Blast - Allows you to stun and harass enemies from a distance
- Level 2: Vampiric Spirit - This passive allows you to lifesteal from physical damage, along with making him able to summon skeletons based on the number of last hits.
- Level 3: Mortal Strike - Allows WK to deal critical damage
- Level 4: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 5: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 6: Mortal Strike
- Level 7: Mortal Strike
- Level 8: Mortal Strike
- Level 9: Vampiric Spirit
- Level 10: Stats - Stats are skilled usually when putting points in skills is not feasible due to mana requirements
- Level 11: Reincarnation - Ultimate ability, allows WK to resurrect if he is killed and has sufficient mana to reincarnate.
- Level 12: Reincarnation
Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)
- Quelling Blade - Bought at the 1-minute mark. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for WK to last hit in the early game with low damage.
- Armlet of Mordiggian - Bought at 7 minutes. Increased damage and HP, can toggle through enemy damage.
- Phase Boots - Bought at 10 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows him to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to escape or initiate fights without getting his body blocked.
- Soul Ring - Bought at around 12 minutes. This item provides mana for the cost of a small percentage of your max HP. This can solve all the mana problems that WK has in the early game. This also allows him to get more stuns off in fights.
- Desolator - Bought at around 16 minutes. Desolator provides increased physical damage along with armor correction on physical attacks. The armor corruption makes WK extremely threatening in all stages of the game, allowing him to kill enemies quickly along with taking objectives faster as it affects towers as well.
- Blink Dagger - Bought at 18 minutes. Blink Dagger is a core item as it allows you to initiate or escape.
- Black King Bar - Bought at 22 minutes. Provides magic immunity, making him invulnerable as he is initiating. It is essential in most matchups as he has no way of protecting himself from magic and generally has low magic resistance.
- Assault Cuirass - Bought at 28 minutes. Assault Cuirass grants increased armor and attack speed which makes WK extremely tanky. It also reduces enemy armor in an AoE, increasing its threat potential.
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