How to play Black Lantern properly?

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FannyShaver
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How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by FannyShaver » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:03 pm

Well, I am trying to figure out how to use ultimate passive. I always use taint on one unit, hit once, spread those conditions, and while ulti is on, those units lose no extra hp, and were supposed to. Doing something wrong?

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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by Oxygen » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:24 pm

If you were to be hitting a single target dummy, the fight would go as follow:

-Taint to inflict an initial cripple
-Which will allow you close up
-Activate ultimate
-Alternate attacking and using taint whenever it's off cooldown

Against multiple targets, it would be more or less the same;

-Taint to inflict an intial cripple
-Close up
-Activate ultimate
-Attack
-Epidemic the crippled/maimed target to spread
-Chose a target, and alternate attacking and taining, cooldown allowing

Of course, those are the basic against-a-dummy moves. With any half competent players, you'll have to dodge spells, make sure creeps aren't going to give you a beating, etc, etc.
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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by Rising_Dusk » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:24 pm

Yes. It only deals the damage when you APPLY the condition, not when it's already on them. So you want to get the ultimate's effect on the enemy, THEN taint them and epidemic.
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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by FannyShaver » Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:37 pm

Err... Is ulti making them lose hp every second?

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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by Rising_Dusk » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:02 pm

No, only when a condition is applied.
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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by assassingao » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:07 am

Rising_Dusk wrote:No, only when a condition is applied.
To add, it only deals damage once, not once every second after taking a condition.

(Just in case he misreads.)

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Re: How to play Black Lantern properly?

Post by Rising_Dusk » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:54 am

A condition is only applied at its beginning, not every second. There was no ambiguity.
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