Third Item – Thunderclaw


Requires

$500 – 1x Gloves of the Swift – B-E-Q
$1600 – 1x Warhammer – B-W-A
$900 – 1x Thunder Claw – B-X-E-E

Stats
+24 Damage
+15 Attack Speed
Chain Lightning Passive
- 20% Chance to cast Chain Lightning dealing 150 Magic damage to your attack target and two additional nearby enemies.

Now aside from this being an epic farming tool for you it will increase your damage dramatically and give you a good buff to your attack speed.
When your Chronofield is up this will add to your “aoe” damage so to speak, dropping the first hero and reducing the life of anyone else nearby will have the opposing team spamming ‘b’ ‘b’!
At this stage your almost ready to 1v1 anyone. (Obviously if you farmed well).

Fourth Item – Charged Hammer


Requires

$0 – Your Prior Thunderclaw
$2100 – 1x Warpcleft – “A” at secret shop
$400 – 1x Charged Hammer Recipe – B-X-F-E

Stats
+24 Damage
+70 Attack Speed
Chain Lightning Passive
- 20% Chance to cast Chain Lightning dealing 200 Magic damage to your attack target and two additional nearby enemies.
Charged Up Activation
- Target: Ally’s
Range: 600
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 45 seconds
Duration: 20 Seconds
Effect: Apply “Charged Up” to target for 20 seconds.
20% Chance to cast Electric Jolt, dealing 150 Magic damage to anybody who attacks you.

Total
$2500

An awesome upgrade choice. With this combined with Elder Parasite your attack speed will be crazy! You should be able to kill at least one hero in your Chrono extremely easy, whilst lowering anyone else s health inside the bubble.
You have the option to charge yourself with the item or your tank, this depends on the fight really. But don’t forget you have it!

Luxury/Situational Items

Staff of the Master


Requires

$1000 – 1x Mighty Blade – B-Q-C
$1000 – 1x Quickblade – B-Q-V
$1200 – 1x Glowstone – “X” at secret shop
$1100 – 1x Staff of the Master Recipe – B-Z-A-R

Stats
+10 Strength
+10 Agility
+10 Intelligence
+200 Hit Points
+150 Mana
Improves Ultimate

Total
$4300

This will be your main hp buff item, plus it comes with a nice little bonus for your ult to.
(Decreases cooldown from 120/110/100 to 75 seconds and adds one second to your ultimate on any level)
Keep in mind this combined with the restoration stone is a whole 12 seconds of free pounding!
But at the same time that’s 2 expensive items that do not contribute to your dps!
However i still highly recommend getting this staff at least!

Wingbow

Requires

$3300 – 1x Dancing Blade – “W” at secret shop
$900 – 1x Steamstaff – B-W-C
$1800 – 1x Snake Bracelet – B-E-Z

Stats
+30 Agility
+30 Damage
+30 Attack Speed
+30% Evasion

Total
$6000

Because this stacks with your passive dodge this can be a great item for tanking out and destroying other melee dps heros.
It also gives a nice attack speed an awesome 60+ damage buff.
Another highly recommend item.

Riftshards

Requires


$500- 1x Punchdagger – B-W-Q
$1200 – 1x Broadsword – B-W-W
$950 – 4x Riftshards Recipe – B-Z-W-E

Stats
+45/55/65/75 Damage
Critical Hit Passive

Total
$5300

A great item to finish off with when combined with a Wingbow and/or a Savage Mace. However because we use Charged Hammer (which adds very little damage) this is certainly not an item to get unless you have 1 or more heavy +damage items .

Runed Axe


Requires

$1200 – 1x Broadsword – B-W-W
$1400 – 1x Bastard Sword – B-W-E
$875 – 1x Lifetube – “S” at secret shop
$875 – 1x Manatube – “D” at secret shop

Stats
+65 Damage
+6 Hit Point Regeneration
+150% Mana Regeneration
Cleave Passive

Total
$4350

Quite a devastating item on Chronos in 5v5 matches. You do not need this item for farming as some might believe, a charged hammer will do you MUCH better.
But! If you find yourself trapping multiple heroes under your chronofield this is the perfect item. Like I stated before if you can take out one or more heroes and do quite a bit of damage to their teammates the fight will most likely be over!

Savage Mace

Requires

$1500 – 2x Halberd – B-W-R
$2400 – 1x Slayer – “R” at secret shop

Stats
+80 Damage
+15 Attack Speed
True Strike

Total
$5400

Personally i really only go for this item before wing-bow, when i need the True Shot Effect. The damage output is really nice along with the 15+ attack speed is good to. Combined this with Riftshards and you will be hitting like a train.

Restoration Stone

Requires

$550 1x Great Arcana – B-S-A
$875 – 1x Lifetube – “S” at secret shop
$875 – 1x Manatube – “D” at secret shop
$1875 1x Restoration Stone Recipe. – B–D-V-E

Stats
+40 Damage
+5 Hit Point Regenration
+200% Mana Regeneration
Refresh Cooldowns Active

Total
$5300

For the restoration stone i would call it a 6th throw your money at item. 12 Seconds of aoe disable (even more than Vindicators global silence + restoration stone) can be totally invaluable whether your attacking your enemy or holding/separating a group back. It can also cut through buffs (eg Shrunken Heads that have been used).
12 Seconds of free attacks will allow you to take out 2 support heroes. I much prefer a 3v5 don’t you?
HOWEVER, that’s one less damage item you can use, so really only get this if your confident in your Chronofielding and NEED the disable.

Symbol of Rage

Requires


$3200 – 1x Axe of the Malphai - (Shortcut coming)
$950 – 1x Helm of the Victim – “S” at secret shop
$900 – 1x Hungry Spirit – “D” at secret shop
$1100 – 1x Symbol of Rage Recipe. – (Shortcut coming)

Stats
+20 Damage
+5 Armor
+25 Strength
+20% Lifesteal

Applies Symbol of Rage for 3.5 Seconds
+150% Lifesteal

Total
$6150

Great for tanking out other carry heroes and an amazing survival tool!

5) Your Role

Chronos is a “Carry/Dps” hero that can also fall under a “Disable” and late game even possibly a “Tank”.

Farm:
When playing Chronos your primary role is to carry so you can take out any nasty hero towards the end of mid game and late game. It is not your job to roam and gank for at least the first 15-20 minutes, this is serious farming time. If your lucky during this time you may get a kill or two in your lane by dropping a Chronofield on someone running into tower range, or a team mate coming down to gank. But only leave your lane to neutral or move to another lane.

Stay Alive:
Whilst dead you are wasting precious farming time (at least $250 per 30 seconds dead), you will lose gold on death and you will be wasting time (and a possible $135 on a homecoming stone) to get back to your farm. So your looking at least $500 gold per death. Just flee early and save the hassle.

Don’t think “Because i’ve just bought i can die” that’s not how it works. Don’t risk dieing, its better to retreat then get the kill.

Team Fights
In a team fight your chronofield placement is crucial. Make sure you disable as many opposing heroes as possible, or disable their real threats.
Inside this bubble you must get at least 1 kill. Make sure you take out their teams biggest threats, whether this be stunners or a carry. But make sure you get the kill.
5v4 is much better than 5v5.

Solo Fights:
If you see a stray hero that you can kill… Do it!
However before you jump in make sure
a) You know you can kill him,
b) Check your minimap to see if your being baited,
c) That if you need to use your chronofield that your not going to need it again before your cooldown is over.



6) Laning

Generally two ranged opponents are pretty bad for your farming, but its worth sticking through it. However are rare occasions that you MUST call for help in your lane (Id suggest not moving lane unless you can teleport as its much to time consuming).
This is when you have either:

Pollywog Priest – his hold and sheep can easily make you one dead little Chronos.
Witch Slayer- with his stun, his sheep and his mana-drain to remove your jump, it cant get any worse.
Electrician – again with his mana-burn and hold on you you become an easy kill.
Nymph – This dirty little mana and healing battery will allow any ally to keep harassing you without a problem.

These heroes can almost create a guaranteed death. If your feeling gutsy and want to risk it, I strongly suggest buying those 3x Crushing claws!
Yes you may be able to avoid these ganks but it will strongly effect your creep kills.

Almost any ranged hero would be a good Laner with Chonos as it will help his last hits alot, but these are his best ‘baby sitters”.

Nymph – This dirty little mana and healing battery will be able to keep you alive no problems so your free to last hit.
Puppet Master – With his excellent harrassing skills and disables you should be able to get a kill partnered with this guy pretty easily.
Pollywog Priest – his disables can keep you alive and should be able to get you a kill.

If you want to solo!

Ok, this totally depends on the skill and concentration of the Chronos player, the level of competition and the heroes that have been selected against you.

(Note this section is designed for pubs, I’m yet to play a serious competitive game and try solo with Chrono’s, yet i believe it would still be fine as generally you would have a solo opponent as one should be neutraling)

* If you are a well experienced player and know how to pull creeps then you should be able to solo fine.
* With the right baiting and jumps you could turn a gank into a kill using the towers and forest.
* Try and convince a team mate to get a courier just in case your lane opponent(s) gets carried away with harassing.
* Save timeleap to escape or dodge hard hitting abilities.
* With his rewind you have a chance to totally ignore a nuke and with the shield you take very little harass damage (if tower hugging properly). Make sure you do not make the mistake of believing rewind = 25% extra hp either as i’ve seen posted. This is far from true. As it can proc alot, not proc at all and most importantly can block crazy nukes such as Witch Slayer’s or Pyromancer’s ults.

Tips on how to solo with the master of time itself!
1) Try and always stay within this the radius of the tower. This will discourage harassment alot and you should be able to last hit with the tower hurting them.
If they go outside the radius pull them back in.
2) Don’t stand around closely behind the creeps, you want to play hit and run style. Run in, last hit, go back towards your tower.
3) If your creeps are being pushed up the lane, drag the neutrals down into your lane. This should make your opponents creeps move closer to your tower and will give you some easy neutral gold/exp.

4) Defensive Wards and miss calls are dire! Again this part relies on your team. Very handy if you have a scout on your team.

These two ward positions should keep your from any surprise gank. You should have site through from the middle lane right to the bottom to see any sneak attack from the forest.

7) Farming - More info coming

You will be right to farm with just a Hungry Spirit, but farming will be a total breeze when you have Elder Parasite! I recommend farming the neutrals when your lanes are pushed past the river or when you cant get a lane to yourself.
Also don’t forget to kill the ancients when you walk past them, your hp should stay about the same at low levels, but you will walk out with much more gold.

With this build You have an axe… USE IT! Whether this be for juking, farming or cutting down Keeper of the Forests eyes. It has the ability to cut trees for a reason!
You can find a few excellent guides on general jungling around the forums but these trees are excellent short cuts around the map, can cut farming time and allows you to fight less mobs at a time.

Timeline - More info coming

Just quickly jotting down the basics, will update this later.

Farm in bottom lane until boots are completed.
Farm bottom lane preferably but you can start to forest for Elder Parasite.
Farm any empty lane thats been pushed near a tower but try and stay towards bottom or at least mid as you can still easily access the neutrals.
When you have your hammer you should be right to start picknig off enemys and you are getting useful for team fights.
When thunderhammer is complete neutralling and farming is a breeze and you should be able to kill pretty easily in a one on one. It’s time to start helping the team at this stage.


9) Timeleaping And Chronofielding

One of my absolute favorite abilities in the game. Timeleap allows you to travel an enormous distance, over or onto obstacles, it has a 40% slow on landing and your invulnerable whilst you are ‘leaping’.

Here’s a basic image for you so you can calculate how far your jumps will be. (Note the comparison to the neutral camp above)

When chasing or engaging make sure you leap slightly in-front of the target.

As I said above Timeleap allows you to leap onto/into obstacles giving you a big advantage over your enemies.
Best of all in HoN there is no -unstuck feature like there is in dota. So when the time is right you can freely walk out of these spots.

Here are two extremely useful examples.
On the left we see Chrono’s on high-ground right near the bottom rune. When getting chased leaping onto here will completely remove your enemies vision of you and they will be unable to attack or target you. (Unless they use aoe moves). A great spot to jump onto and portal from if needed. On the otherhand this is a great ambush point as you can just walk down the cliff and start hacking away on the unsuspecting opponent saving your Timeleap for chasing or escaping.
This is not the only useful high-ground spot so keep your eyes peeled.

On the right we see Chronos in a low-ground spot. This is no where near as useful as high-ground as you lose vision of your enemies and they can still see you. But it can be extremely useful if you are begin attacked by a melee character. You can jump inside and they wont be able to touch you. Then your free to portal.
Remember to hit (h) when you land so Chronos doesn’t walk off!

Now your Chronofields can literally ‘make or break’ a fight. This would be so to speak a perfect chronofield because both opponents are stuck inside the chronofield with my ally outside.
Because pestilence is right on the edge, Accursed can help drop Pestilence. The fight then turns to 2v1.
Dropping Chronofields become ALOT more difficult in a 5v5 environment and take patience and timing. You will almost never get to lock down the entire team so make sure you get the important people.
Now inside your chronofield spells cast from outside still work. Two deadly examples of this are Magmus’s Eruption (When blinked into the center of the chronofield does insane damage) and Plague Riders Plague Carrier ability which when bouncing round inside the Chronofield can also do insane damage. If any of these types of characters are on your team great! If not you MUST make sure they are dead or disabled because this can destroy your team.

Do I drop my chronofield in a 1v1?
Well hopefully you can avoid having to use it, but if you must:
*Preferably you would like to walk up to your target and save your timewalk but this rarely happens.
***Wait until there is a leak in your bashing, if you cant timewalk onto them as they flee or their not still slowed from a prior timewalk chase and try and get one more hit. Because you will both be moving off at about the same time when the stunlock breaks you should chase for the next hit. On the next hit void has to stop whilst his opponent gets to keep running. If you get a bash here go back to the ***, if you don’t, drop your Chrono on so they don’t get away!

10) Chronos Changelog

Version 0.1.50
- Attack impact time set to 0.5 seconds (from 0.6)

Version 0.1.47
- Bash damage can proc while the stun is on cooldown

Version 0.1.46
- Time Freeze cooldown reduced to 1.5

Version 0.1.42
- Fixed Chronofield not stopping Invulnerable units or Towers
- Chronofield is now boosted by Staff of the Master
- Time Freeze will now go through Magic Immunity
- Time Freeze now deals magic damage, not physical

Version 0.1.34
- Base strength increased from 17 to 23
- Removed visual cool down from Rewind. The effects on rewind will not play if the source of the damage is a DOT

11) Replays

See Replay http://replays.heroesofnewerth.com/m…p?mid=13799438.

Welcome anyone Else’s replay’s demonstrating my guide in AP, credit will be given =)

12) To Do List
Lots =(,

*Ancient Stacking !+!+!
*Add Hellbourne Wards
*Finish Item Explanations
*Possibly add heart – Still in testing.
*Which heroes are you strong/weak against.
*Add crit passive to riftshards
*Add shortcuts to changed items
*Possibly add Power Supply?
*Add items to get if team doesnt have courier
*Possibly Change Skill Description into graphs

13) Guide Changelog

20/12/09
- Changed item preference from Slash to Elder Parasite due to the change of Slash.
- Added Satanic as a luxury item.
- Removed Abyssal as a luxury Item.

14) Credits
[TeT]Javu- Champion helping me fix ‘the look’ of the guide and fixing all my typo’s. Also great tips and advice whilst helping me write it. Thanks mate.
Trysaeder – For answering my questions on mechanics.

5) Its not end of the world if you lose the tower, bottom for legion or top for hellbourne are your least important towers. Any opponents pushing around that area will leave themselves open to a nice gank. It also allows you more creeping room. But avoid it if possible of course.
6) Soloing Bottom with Legion and Top with Hellbourne gives you easy neutral creep access. If there are 3 enemies in your lane versing just you, do the smart thing and stay right back and wait for assistance.
7) As a legion solo your a bit better off because of the ‘U Shaped’ walkway in the trees beneath your tower. If you are against to lane partners and one disappear, it might be best to play it safe and hide in those trees. If they follow you they will be in tower range, and with your axe and jump it is quite easy to lose your opponent in there.