Oh one more thing most people don't know about Slark: your corpse can gain permanent agility. If you die, and an enemy who is affected by essence shift dies within 300 radius of your corpse, you will gain permanent agility. This is a nice bonus for offlane or support Slark where you don't mind trading your life as much as a carry would.

After following this build, I've climbed from rank 10k to top 100. But instead of immortal, it's behaviour score. Thanks Jenkins!

Today a guy picked offlane slark who followed your guide. He fed their carry ursa and we got stomped really hard. Thanks Jenkins😇🥰

Did this in my crusader bracket and stacked up 7 reports in 1 hour. Perfect

Its a dark day seeing more slark in this game

haven't played dota in 3 years, decided to play because this build seemed funny, stomped really hard; thank you jenkins

truly a limbus sweep momento

Good video. The Limbus music gave me whiplash

6:46 That Aum music was dope.

I was caught off guard by the limbus company music

Not gonna lie, my main position is 3, and the heroes I play on the offlane are Pudge, Anti Mage, and Undying. All thanks to Jenkins' videos. Now I can add Slark to my hero pool as well.

I used to run vanguard on Slark back in 2015. People said I was stupid. Turns out I was just way way way ahead of my time.

Funny enough I see this video minted after having off slark on my team, needless to say the enemy jugg absolutely dominated the game Thanks Jenkins!

The amount of Limbus music you used in this video... I love it.

i kind of thought i was hearing things with the background music. but no, it's actually Limbus OST. Thanks you Jenkins for not only showing the best builds, but acknowledging the best songs

Wait a second Jenkins. You are telling me that when the enemy bans my Dark Seer, I can play an even better Dark Seer game by selecting the forbidden fish? This changes everything.

Hi. Slark spammer with about 1000 games here. Definitely love me some offlane Slark, always felt it was potentially underrated. Thanks for giving me the the green light.

absolutely love the music going louder for the moment 5:16 ahahahahaha

I lived to see Jenkins use Dwarf Fortress music So blessed 1:41

Library of ruina is most big brain thing in this video

4:05 I was just here for funny fish build, but I didn't expect to get hit with the canto 1 bop

history truly repeats itself. When I started playing back in 6.75 or so, invisible offlane was somewhat popular, and heroes such as riki, clinkz and even slark with sb were really common, back when most people didn't know how to play and never had dust on em (of course this applies to pubs, pro scene was aware of such items lol)

This is awesome. I've always carried sentries as slark but I feel useless as a carry. Definitely swapping to off-lane for him now!

I thought my Limbus are playing by itself when I watch this video wtf.

Already play a lot of slark 3. His base regen and essence shift make him a trade god. His aghs and shard are broken tier and literally provide enough utility on their own.

Dude I just LOVE your choice of background music, especially one from Disco Elisium for the murder walk part

Before I quit doto years ago, Slark has been one of my offlane then transitions to carry if needed in late game. My build for him though at core was with dagger and diffusal blade, and yes he was one of my core heroes that I actively hunt with during transitional early-mid past the 8~10 min mark due to his ult ult passive that can definitely try to hunt or notify for wards/enemy visibility. Dagger was a core for me due to how dark pact has a delayed activation and a short cooldown, basically you'd activate dark pact prior to going dagger in so it'll already be a few secs in cooldown once you already blink in. Essentially, you'd dark pact > blink > pounce if enemy tries to escape to lock him > dark pact again. You'd be activating dark pact twice in a shorter duration which basically destroys squishy heroes and that's just Slark with a Dagger and no other item. Dagger is also insanely useful for jukes and escapes, due to Slark's passive you have insane high mobility that once you enter fog of war, with dagger on cool down you'd blink out. It's why shadowblade has never found a use for me with most of my Slark builds primarily because it's so easy to counter and even if you do get into fog of war, if they know your sense of direction, you'd be easily chased down. And considering his health regen and with a mana recovery/regen item, you basically have a hero who will most likely never go back to fountain to recover. Slark was one of my favorite heroes at the time, and people really never liked me playing offlane with him and using dagger due to a lot of people getting stuck on traditional builds back then. Dagger Slark has never been popular, and to this day I don't think it has.

0:12 love that "death is my bitch" video reference

Thanks for your guide, im down from ancient to legend with this strat

Limbus music jumpscare I thought my game doubled up on its music istg

Ive gone from 9500 conduct when I watched my first jenkins video, to 2500. Thanks Jenkins!

I watched your video and i now play in low priority! Thanks jenkins!

love the octopath ost at 9:07 good to see a fellow an octopath fan!

bro using the dwarf fortress soundtrack for BGM like i wouldnt notice. A+ video

When you travel to the 8th level of hell, you will meet Jenkins.

yo that chrono trigger sound byte at 1:00 i will never forget. also this is how ive been building almost all heroes since they lowered cost of ring of health. NAKED ROH my friends are always slow to accept my genius

Earlier there was so many stuns with writing - can be dispelled : no. But in a last patch everything dispelable with strong dispel, it is a patch of slark and dark willow

4:07 Holy shit, Limbus Company OST in a Jenkins video. You are, without a doubt, a man of culture.

Love the Crypt of The Necrodancer background music

I played your offlane antimage build religiously for a while and now I have a new hero to be stupid with

0:11 a wild Mav appears

Limbus battle and lobby music maybe jenkins is cultured afterall

That music from limbus company just messed with me so hard. I litteraly was like "wtf i didn't even open steam"

editor playing limbus music to summon unnamed pmoon fans

LIMBUSS COMPANEEEEE

haven't played dota in 2 years. Decided to play because this build seemed funny. My team started flaming before game even started, my pos 5 and 2 ran down mid saying it was a waste of time. Ah yes, good ol' dota

ah yes master sings manguard strat Also love the bit with the octopath music

1:45 OST from Crypt of the Mecrodancer - Mausoleum Mash

damn, of course the video was a treat, but also these musics, Limbus, Disco Elysium, LoR, what a man of taste !

THANK YOU DHL FOR SPONSORING THIS VIDEO did you know that Slark actually uses DHL agents over the map to utilize his passive skill vision-vise

Btw, did I just hear Limbus Company music from 6m30 onwards? The Budha abnormality theme and then main menu theme

That's why I saw those Slarks in my games. "Thank you"

was literally crunching into some chips when that clip of eating a bag of chips popped up lmao

4:02 that rage bb LMFAO

Literally never played dota in my life but ur entertaining. + my form empties soundtrack

Just a minor problem I see. At 0:46 my teammates give up and I get mass reported to a 24H ban.

I remember one game where our team's slark would do anything for stacks that he would even die for them. He kept saying that he needs agility over and over again. Annoyed, I replied with "You don't need agility, you need intelligence" and everyone laughed (including him). One of the most memorable moments I've had of playing this shit game 😂

I used to play him offlane a bit. Just because of the dewarding ability and the fact that you can dark pact so many stuff. Gonna try it again.

3:29 eeeeeyyyy Rogue Galaxy theme, someone has an amazing taste in music

Nice touch putting Octopath themesong there.

I played a lot of offlane slark back in the day of safelane trilanes. Back then you mostly just needed to survive as the offlaner, so slark was great at just soaking XP until you reach 6. Then once you are 6 slark is great at taking up space on the map. He's kind of like bristle where he's just really fucking annoying but you need to rotate multiple heroes over to deal with him and even then he's likely to get away.

Limbus Company ost POG!

Your music during the three braindead rules tho. Keep it up jenkins. Youre gonna get me playing again...

Please make more of this

love the crypt of the necrodancer music

I've been playing Ability Drafts nowadays, but this Slark offlane video makes me wanna play the normal game.

I just learned about that shard. Gonna spam slark after this

Hey, for some reason this guide reminds me of Erick wright's contents the dude with astronaut avatar. great vid BTW

I will be auditing your build. Thank you.

its also nice to know your enjoying limbus company jenkins

3:44 "If you weren't Slark doing this to them, they would be Slark doing this to you." Such beautiful words to live by...

octopath traveler BG music really fits.

was that disco elysium music from meeting Measurehead at the beginning of "the passive" section of the video?

As a slark main, the main reason he’s the best carry is infinite scaling with essence shift. Same goes with other heroes with similar features, pudge, legion commander, axe and silencer (though it depends on how much intelligence is left on the enemy).

Not only i will got crippling depression, also know if fish has night vission, thank you jenkins

Never would I expect to hear a Dwarf Fortress OST track in Dota 2 video...

thanks! didnt know about the range thing thought its 900 like silencer

ngl, didnt expect jenkins to use Limbus ost

ayo this man's got the limbus jams on let's GOOO

Is the background music from Limbus Company? (In some parts of the vid)

Limbus bg sound 👌

I saw the potential in vanguard slark quite a while ago but this noob had little success unfortunately. Have you tried phase boots and echo saber instead of defusal? Also I feel soul ring might also be viable if you have no use for the energy booster

I was playing limbus company with the sound off while playing this video and I thought I was tripping when I heard the music lol

omg the passive trick is something else

Did it in a 5 stack and got to say my favorite line after popping off: “Look at me, look at me; I’m the carry now.”

going to a lane agains sky and drow with slark with no Itens, this channel is genius

Really appreciate some music from Crypt of the Necrodancer 🎉

That throwback to trymike4instsance omg. The slark u wot m9

LoR/Limbus music feelsgoodman

@Jenkins Secretly a Dwarf Fortress lover I hear in the background

Every 3k player with over 10000 games: Yea man,I used to play slark offlane a lot.Its really great.Thanks for showing this Jenkins

Makes sense you'd use MeasureHeads theme when talking about offlane Slark

1:03 Jenkins, your culture is showing. I know Dwarf Fortress music when I hear it.

The force movement tip is game breaking!

I cant believe you used Octopath Traveler music for the video xD hahah

Is this the DoS 2 theme in the video? Woah man

Limbus bgm, thank you jenkins

5:51 wtf are you doing, almost had a stroke from the music :D

Slark offlane is ATF's build. Give props to the man dawg