Hero of the Week 1

Hurray!
Our first hero of the week is Bloodseeker =)

Bloodseeker is a pretty cool hero, with a good attack animation, high base damage, high armour and great dps hero in general. Lets look at what cool gimmicks he can do:

1. Solo lanes
A melee solo? Seriously?
Well not too unheard of, we do have Beastmaster, Broodmother and Stone Giant solos pretty often, but Bloodseeker in a solo lane is pretty insane. With no one to compete with for last hits and denies, with only a Poor Man's Shield and Quelling Blade he can rack up creepstats like crazy. He has high armour, so naturally resistant to pokes, and coupled with Poor Man's Shield's damage block (20 from heroes, yay), pokes aren't going to hurt you much. Further, Blood Bath + high base damage + Quelling Blade + good attack animaion = free health everywhere o.O
So all you need is a few salves to get back to good shape when your health is red ^^

2. Lvl 1 NC
WTF?! Bloodseeker Lvl 1 NC?
Why not =/ Almost every hero can do this, even off 5v5 starting gold -.-
The point with Bloodseeker is that with chokepoint jungling and Blood Bath, you get back health pretty fast and is not worse than Nai'x's Feast skill =) NCing is a great way to farm, but come on, on a hero that can solo, why NC? Still a cool gimmick.

3. Dagon
Zaaaaaaaap!
This is pretty cool, but not done as much. Dagon = extra damage. How this would help is a) get some kills you might not reach due to disablers coming your way b) zap people into the red or yellow zone, where you get ur speed bonus from Strygwyr's Thirst, after which you can chase them down (Rupture unavailable). Further, you can instantly kill a ranged creep with any dagon level, and kill a melee creep with dagon 3 ++ (depends on time), so can be used to heal up on health. Pretty neat.

4. Force Staff
Vrooooooom!
Rupture = deals damage if they move. Force Staff = make them move. Easy right?
In addition, you can use this to chase, force over a disabler to help, and whatnot. Very useful item in general.

5. Hand of Midas
Click... Click... Ka-ching!
Hand of Midas is a farming item. Its great on a hero for farming ^^ What makes it better (other than bonus exp, extra gold, 30% attack speed) is that you get health of creeps u kill (hurray). So this is essentially a long cd Mekasm that works only on yourself but costs really little mana and heals for alot (if you use on a high level NC such as Furbolgs) Also usable in the lane, when you're duking it out with some enemy hero, and you suddenly transmute a creep for extra HP =) Not only does this speed up your farming towards some high level items (provided you get midas early enough, which if I remeber correctly, 14 minutes).

6. Ethereal Blade
Whoooosh!
Ehter Blast + Rupture + Dagon + Force Staff = lol
Magic DPS Bloodseeker, anyone? =P

In conclusion, Bloodseeker is a very fun hero to play, with so many gimmicky options available. Further, whats more is his powerful laning ability with that animation, damage and Blood Bath. Against a weak opponent in the lane, he's bound to farm up to high level items quickly.

My favourite build for Bloodseeker is centered around the Blood Bath ability.
How Blood Bath works is it gives you health back for every unit you kill, regardless of how you did it (radiance immolation aura, hand of midas transmute, dagon zap, ether blast, shiva's blast, other whatnot). So this is what I do:
1. Get a solo lane =) Mid or Adv land are both fine.
2. Start with quelling blade and stout shield, buy poor man's shield either with crow or from side shop
3. Start farming like a boss. Kill people whenever you have mana.
4. Treads by 8 minutes. (probably way earlier if you are lucky)
5. Midas by 14, if you can. Often I will skip this and go straight to Maelstrom, my core item.
I skip Midas both when I'm too far behind and when I'm doing too well, since when I'm doing very well I want to get Maelstrom quickly, a better farming item and allows more DPS in ganks and whatnot.
6. Mjollnir
7. Radiance
8. Heart of Terrasque <-- record time for the above is 30 minutes
How this Bloodseeker would work is: Extreme physical tankiness. You have so much health and so much armour, that most physical attackers wont hurt you too much. Sadly you dont do all that much back to them (your DPS isn't exactly too high, but not shabby either :P)
However, you do have Radiance immolation aura, Mjollnir's Chain Lightning orb, Mjollnir's Static Charge buff (well not really a buff, but we'll count it in -.-), and this helps by allowing you to kill creeps as you attack enemy heroes, healing yourself up without the need of lifesteal. Nice.
9. (everything here is extra) The Butterfly
10. Monkey King Bar
11. Buriza do-Kyanon
12. Manta Style (not so great now that you no longer get Blood Bath hp off illusion kills =/)
13. Battle Fury
14. Assault Cuirass

Proceed to solo teams o.O

I've tried this build on Bloodseeker, it works very nicely =)
Hope anyone else using this build would do as well ^^