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If you're a ranged hero, try to stand next to the creep you are attacking, so the projectile takes less time to land.

It helps to buy a waith band or null talisman for agility and intelligence heroes respectively. Strength cores get fucked, but blades of attack could be chosen as a starting item if you plan on buying an armlet.

>>4051

most strength heroes have higher base damage to make up for this fact

also i would not recommend standing right next to the creep you're trying to last hit as a ranged hero in general, it's not good practice.

the best way to improve, like most things, is to practice. make a lobby and buy your starting items and walk into lane and see how many you can get in 10 minutes.

graduate to the in-game "last hit practice" when you feel ready, though it tends to put you against heroes that have an advantage against you which can be frustrating

also, buy a quelling blade (on melee heroes mostly). it'll get you much farther than any wraith band

The SF challenge is usually the best way. If you don't know:

>Load a mid only lobby with no bots

>pick SF

>buy no items and don't spend levels

>try and get last hits, denies, and manage lane equilibrium

>>4100

He means the Axe challenge

buy a quelling blade

practice and buy stat/dmg items.

>>4100

>the sf challenge

nice meme

sf is one of the easier heroes to get last hits with

>>4100

I think you misunderstood someone. what you're thinking of is the shadow demon challenege, where you only last hit using shadow poison's initial contact damage

>>4156

I think you mean the Kobold challenge, where you have to get your last hits with nothing but a dominated Kobold.

>>4146

after you get souls yes, but he, invoker, and cm are all tied for having the second lowest base damage (35-41 after techies, who has 29-31)

>>4156

thats actually pointless

1) the initial damage is actually more than a number of hero base damages and the damage never changes

one key that people forget about last hitting is you're often laning against someone else who will be attempting to deny so you should change your timing to get the last hit as soon as you can as your damage increases (from just xp or otherwise)

2) it bears no resemblance to actually last hitting using any hero because you aren't using an attack

the end result here is that

>>4100

is the most correct if you desperately want to practice without playing real games but your best actual bet is to just play mid and try to improve