Nerds Core Bane
Description
Bane is intelligence utility hero with insanely good stats. He is good at dominating lanes and outliving opponents, while also providing strong setup for kills early on.
This build is based around his ability to dominate the lane and snowball from here. Bane has pretty strong overall stats and he's almost impossible to fight against early on. His skillset makes it harder to farm on lane and gives Bane a lot of sustain. Later on Core Offlane Bane can be build into strong utility fighter, holding auras and useful team oriented items, ending up as scary hybrid core.
This build is untraditional and situational. Use the hero on this position with this build on your own risk.
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Nightmare
You can use it to both harass opponents early on and setup kills. It can also be used for it's 1sec invulnerability after cast which can save you or your allies (or your enemies) from a projectile or a spell (like X-Mark)
Fiend's Grip
One of the strongest disables in the game. You can use it to setup kills with your team early on, but later into the game it may be better to either initiate with it or hold it off since you're most likely to play as a tanky frontlaner which increases your chances of being interrupted mid-ult
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Good for cases when you won your lane early on, but can't finish the game early. Bane struggles with farming after laning stage, so it may be a helpful pickup
Against magic heavy lineups
Reliable disable and mana sustain
Good thing to have against slows and similar stuff in its nature (X-Mark)
For a hybrid core way when you need armor
Against strong single target disables (e.g. Doom)
Against high attack damage cores
Against silences and purgable slows
Natural upgrade to Medallion and useful buff for your team
Strong regen aura and useful item to have in general. Good pickup if you're playing more of an utility core and there's no better Greaves carrier on your team
Good item to save allies (or yourself) from being focused
You don't really need it yourself, but it's usually a strong team oriented item. You may consider dropping Solar Crest in favor of Spirit Vessel