Consider getting urn, before drums or anything more expensive. This allows slardar to use his hp to fight long enough to get a kill or dive in far enough to get it...as I'm sure you often do. But then you are low....with urn its no problem. You can heal back up to 800 hp very quickly.
treads, drums, SB is fine probably....blink is better especially for initiating on hero hiding at a tower or if the enemy is good enough to use true sight correctly.
I would not get helm unless you plan to actually use it to take a creep and use the creep. Things like BkB, AC, or heart will be a lot better than HotD into Satanic. Slar does not live by lifestealing. He just kills enemies very fast and heals later.
2 things
1 have luck with rng
2 dont buy armlet on slardar
+ he doesnt need much dmg due to armor reduction you just have to hit fast : O
+ i believe his q needs buff /rework
i havent played him that much but i have 90% in 10 games and usually go: bracer(later upgrade to drums),treads,armlet,Helm of dominator(or MoM if you are snowballing that usually happens when you do well with him) ,bkb,AC,HoT (or desol if you got satanic)
but i never play him as initiator. you can shit on every hard carry early/mid and can solo rosh when you get your lifesteal. slardar is more valuable alive.
I like armlet with dominator. Treads and urn are really good to start, then armlet and dominator is pretty cheap for a lot more damage and the lifesteal will let you keep armlet on. Then bkb depending on enemy team, then ac or heart.
Try to remember that slardar is not a hard carry, imo anyway. He's like a semi carry like spirit breaker, his debuff is amazing damage boost for the whole team, but he's not going to 1v1 most enemy carries unless he gets a ton of lucky bashes or has out farmed them. I will pick him to counter invis heroes or if my team has a couple supports and a hard carry.
Also remember all of his spells are physical so they go through bkb (I don't think the crush stun goes through but the dmg does) and can be used on ancients and rosh. Amplify dmg on rosh makes him pretty easy to kill.
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So how should i play slardar ? I really like this hero but its pretty hard to win with him for me. If i play him like a tank/initiator what usually happens is that i lack damage in mid game ( only 200 physical damage from the stun ) and if i try to play him as a carry ( with armlet, etc ) i get bursted down too quickly in mid game and late game i get outcarried.
My problem with slardar and armlet is that i dont have any kind of regen with this build .... so usually i drop to 400 or 500 hp in the middle of the fight and i cant really help.
I was thinking of tread, drums, shadow blade ( always viable in pubs :P ) or treads, drums, blink , armlet, helm of the dominator.
So yeah how do you play him or what do you guys usually build on him ?
Edit: I played slardar 2 times on mid and it worked, he is a really good ganker. But this only worked because the enemy team mid was pretty bad so yeah .....