Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 What Slark Does - In a Nutshell 04:05 Checklist for Success With Slark 04:44 Core Concepts 05:45 Abilities - An Overview 05:59 Dark Pact 07:00 Hero Match-ups 12:35 Dark Pact (cont'd) 14:52 Pounce 17:26 How to Use Dark Pact & Pounce Effectively 18:25 Essence Shift - My Favorite Ability in All of Dota 23:13 Shadow Dance (Ultimate) 24:48 Hero Match-ups (cont'd) 25:24 Shadow Dance (cont'd) 25:57 How to Control the Map as Slark 27:43 Dewarding with Slark and Why It's So Important 29:34 Superior Night Vision 31:02 How To Never Be Ganged - Keep An Eye on your Status/Buff bar 33:12 How to Control the Map as Slark (in Summary) 33:44 Skill Build 37:17 Hero Match-ups (cont'd) 40:26 Scaling into the Late Game vs. Ultra Carries 40:58 Slark's Role in Your Team & His Supporting Cast 43:35 Talents 44:32 Itemization 51:39 Did I Mention You're Supposed To Hit Them on Slark? 51:54 Aghanim's Scepter 52:10 Bonus Mechanic Tidbits 55:20 Conclusion

30:10 BSJ start to yell when the tips says "Remain calm. Remember, it's only a game". That is some nice timing !

1. directional move to use pounce. D move to a point and then click pounce. 2. dont go silver edge first item. echo sabre or get diffusal to slow them down before pounce. diffusal slark is inferior to illusion heroes with diffusal. get many WB if you have to trade a lot in laning stage. 3. slark has 1800 night vision, use this like a moving ward and to deward. deward when you see that your buff of ulti is missing. 4. slark has low stat gain, so does not scale well, end early if facing someone like antimage. 5. slark is very vulnerable to mana burn, beware of AM and illusion heroes. 6. use dark pact when you see projectiles, gives 2.5 second window where you can purge. you can dark pact sometimes as soon as you see your ulti buff disappearing. 7. do not take fights where your enemy has vision, engaging and disengaging is critical with slark. 8. slark can 1v1 many heroes including ursa, troll. 9. practice tread switching with slark. before you use any spell change to int and then change back to agility. 10. dont pounce unless absolutely required for lockdown, save it for escape. 11. carry sentries to your fights and deward. deward common ward spots while farming.

My favorite part is when BSJ keeps explaining, emphasizing his point while slowly fading away from the camera. The dream is that one day he sits up from his chair, exists his room, keeps talking through the hallway, after which he leaves the house, as we faintly hear BSJ angry rant screaming from the top of his lungs.

How to Play Slark: 1. Hit enemy heroes till they die 2. Press R to not die 3. Mash the Q button during clashes 4. Pounce??? 5.??? 6. Profit

yes best fun hero guide is here. I really enjoyed the morphling guide since i never knew how the hero worked and was looking forward to this slark video

I love BSJ's How to play X hero, video, good format, keep it up you're the best.

This is very VERY well made bsj. Thank you, I don’t know any other guides that have this kuch depth as well as maintaining this crucial structure as not to overwhelm the player. Thanks brother!

man im such a bad slark, but after i saw this video i had such a slark vibe so i jumped in a turbo to try it, the result was 10-0-10 mvp edit: 10-2-15 in ranked, i'll call you sensei

Really appreciate you doing these guides for free, BSJ. Slark is a hero i hate playing AGAINST, and i usually dont pick heroes i think are mega cancer, but the few times I've played Slark it has beena pretty fun hero actually, ENORMOUS skill ceiling. Keep up the good work, you are very much appreciated in this community :)

Getting good dark pact off in a crucial time is so satisfying I remember playing vs pudge and bane the amount of times I got to dispel their ults and they got tilted so bad

Thanks for the timestamps, and thanks for the video. Crazy too cause I've been wanting to better up my slark gameplay, video came clutch.

We need more guides like this BSJ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Nice video, thanks BSJ. Slark is one of my favourite heroes too, I appreciate you taking the time to lay all this out for us!

i guess I'll see slark in my pubs a lot the next week or so. 🙂

I`m a slark player and i really didn`t know that naga ult reveals you, i actually tried now in a lobby and it really does, but since you are untargetable and cannot be attacked the only thing that affects u is that you no longer regen....and i think that was the whole idea behind it.

I maimed Slark mid/off lane solo between 2015-2017 and he’s still my favorite hero by far

Very comprehensive. Thank you VERY much for this BSJ!!!

Omg THE DIRECTIONAL MOVE GUIDE REALLY REALLY HELPS!!! ITS THE MOST IMPORTANT HOTKEY ON SLARK!! VERY USEFUL! THANK YOU BSJ YOURE MY IDOL

Thank you bro just won 4 slark rank games in a row your guide has enchanced my play

I've just started playing slark and lo BSJ comes with a slark guide. BSJ you're the saviour 😄.

You blow my mind with The directional move thing, ty man.

Slark is a fish, Naga is basically a fish. what would you do as a dominant male fish when you see a female fish singing?? you reveal your self! (sometimes you can resolve things by stupidity to maximum! DOTA is a complex game! but it is still a game!) :)

A very nice vid, bro. Respect.

I remember in dota 1 days when slark used to steal 1of every attribute per hit instead of converting it to 3 agility.

First video I’ve seen and I just love the way you break shit down 12/10

Played Slark vs both AA and Void one game. Think I ended the match with 5k hero damage... and a few reports. Unplayable

49:34 literally changed a week later

This qas the best hero specific guid i've ever seen in my life TNX very very nice Thank you so much ❤

TY for the guide BSJ your very good explaining things!

lvl 3 on esence is good vs heroes that wanna stay in lane and its all about wining - matchup such as timbersaw can be example of that, with use of many salves. => so if they cant put hero vs you and you need to be stronger then him for eficiency to not need to use more salve => (like you woudltn be able to kil jungle camp anyways so you rather take the lane farm and in case he contests which he should, you can sitl farm junglecamps with esence shifts you gained.). And if its all about last fight, you can go 1s for ult.

That subtle reference to far cry 3 insanity quote. "Did I mention to you about hitting on slark". 👍 51:49

My friend challenged me on an LOD(dota 1 map) match I picked Mirana as hero because of her stats and attk animation. I got essence shift, SB bash, drow passive(dmg based on agi) and WR ult. The most one sided game ever haha.

thanks for demystifying TALENT choices! and DIFFUSAL VS ECHO SABRE. as well as Shadow blade vs S&Y

Yeah, I like essence shift on heroes like Medusa, Troll, Drow, Gyro. One skill is enough to win the game. I mean ability draft obviously.

thanks bsj i have like 400 games on slark but still i learned a lot about him.

I have been waiting for this one Thanks Coach B

First! Thank you for this slark guide!!

I'm going to consider this my birthday gift. Thanks BSJ! I wanted this.

The Best Guide on the KZfaq

Will you be making any updated carry guide with slark? I love this hero, but since I have been playing him, i have drastically lost games.

mage slayer is the current tanky follow up after diffusal. if an enemy deals magic damage their spells will deal 36.6% of full damage, instead of the normal 75%, in other words it over doubles your EHP against magic casters.

re watching this guide in 7.32b now that they buffed pounce with essence shift stacks and Ags giving him a second charge, and shard with the clouds

BSJ how to deal with 5 man pushing as a solo player? other than solo killing, creep cutting and split pushing

Thx, learn a lot, specially the night vision range.

so would you consider going skady + abysal or always only one of them ?

After watching this guide i ve now manage to escape the Ancient trench now im legend

Thank you Coach B

I satisfied even listening. He talks about my dreams

Viper strike

Thank you BSJ 🙏

Totally agree slark is the best hero :) I was 1,6 k mmr back in the day and 17 straight wins with slark got me out of there :)

Nicest guide for slark ever

the good thing about slark now is that he isn't selfish anymore because of agh shard

Nice editing 👍

Man , that directional move trick is the most astonishing part of this video . New tip learnt . One thing I wanted to mention is that lion/ shaman hex cannot be dispelled So that makes them kinda a counter to dark pact ??

Learned a lot!

I dont quite understand the Dark Pact dispell and when it begins. Is it as soon as you press Q that the dispell is active or when it goes off after 1.5 seconds?

Bruh, Slark is not the only hero with 1800 night vision... you forgot about my boi Nightstalker???

wraith band + treads + magic stick to ? (drums) when do you go drums? i get that if you wanna participate in most fights early.. when is rushing to yasha or echo sabre different?

Ok then we have something in common I guess. We both like slark the most...

BSJ i love ur content.ty for helping the dota community.❤️ From india

More of this Sir BSJ!!! Aka Coach B

Regarding wards, when I deward as a carry, in the killfeed it says I get the gold, but I actually don't. I assume the support gets it instead but I am not sure

my favorite carry hero is bad this patch, "okay" at best i guess

great video!

Brilliant video.

nice guide dude

bsj should i aim the tanky dk that has a ton of disable and halbred or some zues standing super far away from front line

Thank you sensei

did not know the mechanic of the directional move thenk bsj

every BSJ videos, *hed gestures*

Dear BSJ, my rank is heral 2 and i have 230 MMR. I try to play rank all the time with my best efforts but team mates not working out. They even random pick heroes, afk and no response to a ganks even. If i win 5 games i loose 7 games. how can I come up from herald with these kind of team mates. Advise Bro! Dont say quit DOTA though 😁

great guide, thanks.

Idk i get what ur point but every bracket is different i am legend and i have 20 streak in slark idk maybe this patch hese too strong but i always built silver edge and linken for example i go at start orb then some stats stick ofc then echo then silver then it depends linken bkb skaydi satanic ( i only go sange and yasha when they have like imba stuns or magnus or beast...) but i guess if i get like 2 rank up divine or immortal i may loose all time but for this bracket slark if you played him like 20 games like practice then i think you cant loose (( sick hero

Alt-a doesn't work for me, anyone else had the same issue?

Love slark

"TAKE A GANDER AT HIS FUCKING STAT GAINS!" *proceeds to press the stats tab instead of about* 🤣🤣🤣

Dude thank you. Finally now I know how to pounce like the pros. I always wondered how the fuck people did that

i love when i have 35 stacks and the enemy just keeps running at me one by one but hey pub. btw i end up with 70 stacks after they all died then slark hit pretty hard

Can anyone help me out with slark’s pounce. Isn’t there some setting where you can pounce properly. Like if np sprouts himself and we try to pounce it will miss and land on the side of the sprouts. Pls can someone tell me from what setting i can get a better pounce.

bsj pls update this with the new itemization

You didn't mention Bloodseeker is the worst matchup for Slark since Thirst will literally disable Slark's passive when low HP

Does moon shard increases slark night vision or 1800 is the max night vision?

Ima see a lot of slarks for now on

very nice

love you coach.

Hope you do support heroes too

Vision is in a circle, you squared the vision. It should be 10173600 for 1800 Vs 2009600 total units. Pretty significant. Almost 5 times.

Nightstalker has 1800 night vision too

Hye bananabananaslamjamma, can you share or explain when to buy diffusal blade when in game ?

thankyou

ty

saw an offlane undying rekking the hell out of an rank 50 slark yesterday.

2 days ago but late gameplay? Silveredge still ult orb?

'shit, shit, run away' card 🤣 😂 🤣

Great guide xD l

my friend keeps ganking with slark after getting one item and does not farm, i have tried this but i fall back on farm and items. i normally gank farm push gank , something like this what is ur opinion

Finally

What does it mean dark pact does 50% of the dmg????