To be honest i have no clue what dazzle is as a "species" except he does like to shoot lasers and who doesn't like lasers?If you don't like lasers,GET OUT!no lasers,no Dazzle.Now i won't go into detail about his lore since it basically talks about him getting high and he is good at it and dazzle is like "I'M A SHADOW PRIEST"so yeah...thats that.Right so you can probobly tell that im not taking this build too seriously however the actual build itself is very serious and i thought a lot about this build and how to balance out everything about dazzle to the best i can possibly do it.Now the reaon i like to play dazzle is because he is a really nice teamate to have with you when you carry,with his ability to keep both of you or if your tri-laning all of you alive and well providing you have the mana to do so,his sustain is very good in all parts of the game if you have the items too like mek,urn and/or arcane boots.His mid and late game is very good at keeping his team alive while hopefully staying out of trouble,this is the reason i called this build anti-death when pairing "shallow grave" with "force staff" you can get them easily out of trouble as long as they face the opposite direction to the enemy,which makes this combo potentially game changing since it kills their focus while they get no profit out of it.

Starting items
Courier
Pretty self-explanatory, play support and no one else buys courier you go ahead and buy one.



Observer wards
Once again kinda self explained play support buy the wards.Always buy wards at the start of the game to prevent ganks happening,however i find this is quite an expensive build so getting them late game isn't always neccessary but it is nice to get them at all stages.
Gauntlet of strength
You get this on Dazzle just so you can have that bit more hp at the start and not get nuked down by some KOTL spewing out Q's every couple of seconds and if your going the agressive early game you can build it into an urn.
Clarity Potion X2
Definitly a handy item to keep on you at the start of the game since 2 E's and half your mana pool is gone and you are gonna be expected to heal a lot during the early game if your carry is gonna be agressive or just farming,so keep shooting dem lasers.Remember to take 2 of these too!
Iron Branch
Now after all these you just have 53 gold left,what can you get with 53 gold?Well you can always get an extra clarity but i find 2 gets me through the early game,so i get an iron branch!It's not game changing but its nice to just have that extra bit O' stats and it's 53 gold off your mekanism...price cuts whooh!

Early game-Defensive
Arcane Boots
I put arcane boots on the defensive early game because it just adds to dazzle's high sustain of you and your ally,Dazzle can heal your health but with these brand new slick shoes which were shipped in for arabia you can dazzle everyone with your new and improved MANA HEALS!
Soul Ring
A pretty handy-dandy item to get on Dazzle,it basically just gives him the ability to spam the hell out of his E, although i suggest going for the normal boots then soul ring and then get the energy booster and you can get this all from the side shop too!
Early game-Agressive
Phase Boots
Phase boots are not usually seen as good boots for a support(which they aren't)however it helps with denying,harrassing and when paired with urn it could help you pick up kills which will give you charges,so they have their purpose on dazzle.

Urn Of Shadows
Urn Of Shadows is a nice all-rounded item since it gives you a good boost of hp and mana regen which helps for your sustain in lane and when pairing this with your swagalishous phase boots you could get some early charges hopefully which will help you in the late game.

Core Items
Force Staff
Now this is one of the most important item within this build because it is a main component in what i call the "super ultra death defying wombo combo of justice" your probably wondering what the hell is this thing but that shall be later on in the build if future me remembers to implement this.But basically this items get your teamates out of so many sticky situations that you can even rush this item if you want,trust me it's a lifesaver...literally!
Mekanism
Next item is your mekanism, this is also a nice item to add in your "SUDDWCOJ" combo but that will be explained.You are the support so you are usually the one on your team to take this however if you have someone else who is better off with it like Dark Seer, let him take it so you can move onto another item of choice.
Pipe Of Insight
Pipe is a great item to get across all games and provides great teamfight potential,hitting your team with this and your ultimate will greatly increase your chances of winning.

Eul's Scepter Of Divinity
Right so this isn't a much needed item that's why i prefer to get it last however it plays the same way as sythe of vyse but only cheaper and could save lives too.If your getting a lot of money and you could spare some just go for a Sythe of vyse since its way better.
Situational Items
Medallion Of Courage
A nice item to get along with Agressive early game, even though it's cheap it is 1075 gold deducted from your force staff.I would only get this if your doing well on gold and are going over what you are supposed to get but that's rare.
Viel Of Discord
A very underated item i think but only get it if you have 2 or 3 magic damage dealers or someone who does high AoE magic damage which will benefit from it.Even though Dazzle shoots laser beams and spunks poisoness fumes in your general direction he does enirely physical damage which is wierd but i guess it makes him work with his ultimate more.
Aganim's Scepter
I rarely get this item since i think it isn't worth 4k worth of gold,you can go for much more with that amount of money,it just adds 6 seconds longer onto the ultimate which is as much as a medallion however the stats boost could be very handy for your survivability.
Sythe Of Vyse
A good alternative towards Eul's since it gives you a bit of everything in stats,a phat mana regen boost and a 3.5 second hex however its ridiculously expensive for a support but can be highly helpful.
Bloodstone
Dazzle is really squishy, like a moldy fruit however something like bloodstone should counter that and give you about 2500 max hp late game, also you will never run out of mana again since it gives you 400 mana and 200% mana regen which is ridiculous also the active of bloodstone goes through shallow grave so denying yourself couldn't be easier with this,however 5K gold is a lot and so farming when nothing is happening is efficient.
Boots Of Travel
Late game you should have enough mana sustain to keep you going without arcane boots or if you gone phase boots your teamates will be dealing the damage from now on so they will not be needed.You need these boots 100% gauranteed by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere, helps you run away from trouble and you get into lanes for defending or pushing easily,GG boots!

Now i put this section into the build just in case anyone get a bit confused with what i mean by Defensive/Agressive early game,if you already get what im talking about and what im trying to achieve with these two options just go ahead and scroll further down to more interesting topics if you wish.Ok so first off when i started to create my item build i did like the idea of harrassing and denying since that is what a support is supposed to do and i gave this a couple of games and over those games i got more early kills for me and my carry and anything it was aimed at doing, however i found my sustain wasn't great, i could heal every now and then but mana was troublesome.So i "Devised" (should we say) a new early game which was based on lane sustain of me and my carry but this time we didn't have enough damage or when attacking they survived on like 50 hp so this was annoying, so then i thought what if we have two?but you cant have both since that is expensive and having two pairs of boots is pointless so i came up with "Defensive/Agressive" early game which are both build around what you are facing,if facing harrassing or high damage enemies or maybe you just have a carry like faceless void who needs to farm but will be most likely be punished for doing so, you take the defensive early game.If you are facing more easy to kill enemies like crystal maiden or just need more damage over lane sustain i suggest going for agressive early game.

Although if new to Dota or just Dazzle himself i do recommend going Defensive instead of agressive since learning to balance ability use is vital on Dazzle's early game.

Right here is where i shall talk about what Dazzle's abilities do and what is good and what is not also i will give out tips on how to amplify ability use and efficiency.I do want to just remind you that this is a guide however you don't have any reason to follow all of what im saying, you can change and alter anything you like im just telling this is how i play Dazzle, if you want to play carry Dazzle go ahead i tried it once and your early game is surprisingly good but late game you suck, just saying...ANYWAY onto ze skills of destroying morale!

First off let's talk about Dazzle's abilities and how he rolls in da neighborhood:
Poison Touch
Poison Touch is wierd in how it levels, Level 1 of this ability is absolute ♥♥♥♥ don't use it for 100 mana it deals 62 damage over 8 seconds and has a 1 second slow,do not use it.Level 2 of this ability does 144 damage over 9 seconds with a 2 second slow, it's usable however shadow wave is just naturally better to use.Level 3 is great because it deals a total of 240 damage over 10 seconds with a 3 second slow which when the slow ends turns into a stun, which makes a great catchup tool and good ganking material when timed well.Level 4 is just basically a damage boost which deals a total of 320 damage over 10 seconds!

Overall Poison Touch is a great ability at level 3-4 that's why i get level 3 as early as i can and attempt to get kills with it.Remember it deals enitirely physical damage and so i recommend not using it on agility hero's unless they are low or your ganking.If you want to get the full damage or even more try casting it on someone after you use maybe medallion or mid-way through your ultimate in order to maximize damage and before you know it, kills will be poppin up under your name, 100% GUARANTEED OTHERWISE WE'LL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK!
Shallow Grave
Shallow Grave is just amazing hands down, if Dazzle didn't have this ability i would not like him, i believe he deserves to be top tier because of this ability, basically what it does is if placed on an ally they cannot fall below 1 hp for 5 seconds except axes ultimate..."OH HI IM AXE IF YOU TOUCH ME I HAVE A SEIZURE AND SPIN AROUND!"STUPID HERO!!!!Anyway each level of this ability reduces its cooldown by 15 seconds and 10 mana is taken off which is why you max it last, now this is kind of a bad ability unless it's matched with force staff, lets say you have kunkka with you and he is being destroyed by the one and only OP LIFESTEALER!So kunkka is about to die when you put shallow grave on him so he has 1 hp, now all lifestealer has to do is follow him until that 5 seconds are over and just one-shot him however with force staff you can push him the opposite direction and lifestealer is forced to back off saving kunkka and giving one less kill to that ♥♥♥♥ of a hero, Valve please nerf!
Shallow Grave is also a major part to the "super ultra death defying wombo combo of justice" which will be explained later, also it destroys the enemies ability to "Focus" someone down like a carry, which makes it really strong late game when the teamfights break out.
SHADOW WAAAAAAVE
2 words can describe this ability "GET.NUKED" the reason for that is it can deal up to 700 damage or maybe 1000 damage if they have negative armor. Just tell me who can do that in Dota?Oh wait yeah that's right lifestealer exists...Shadow wave is just a basic target ability which can heal/damage for 140 damage and can hit up to 5 allies (this is all at last rank). You can't target enemies with this however if allies crowd round an enemy the heal could damage them if close enough which makes Dazzle a really good teamate with anyone who can have multiple units like:Meepo,CK,Chen,Phantom Cancer ect. The scaling of this ability is really good at how Level 4 is a 6 second cooldown so SPAM AWAY!
Weave
Dazzle's ultimate is wierd because it's highly dependable on decision making and timing, what i mean by that is (you really only use it at teamfights although because of its 40 second cooldown you can use it on single targets), but when it comes to teamfights it's all about decision making since if you use it on your team too early the enemy could back off until it wears off which makes it pointless, however if you put it on the enemy again they could back off, but what i like to do is use it just as the fight started, it may not be useful during the fight but when people are running its more easier to catch/escape depending on how the fight went. You can use the other two decisions but communicating with your team will be crucial.

Ok so here is how i level Dazzle and his abilities!By the time this build is released i should of published my guide in the Dota builds when you enter in-game if i remember to do so.I first off get Shadow wave at level 1 since poison touch is crap at level 1 and you wont want shallow grave cus who ganks at level 1?Oh stupid me,Lifestealer of course because well Lifestealer can do anything!
I then go on to get early points in Poison Touch and get level 3 of it at level 6, don't get your ultimate at level 6 you can mke more use of a level 3 poison touch.I then max shadow wave by level 8 and finish poison touch by level 9, you then get your ultimate at level 10 which is then followed up by level 2 ultimate at level 11.After that you max shallow grave by level 14 and your ultimate by level 16,after that STATS ALL THE WAY!

Now i would like to remind you again that you do not,i repeat DO NOT have to follow this skill build completely,i do suggest a bit though however i find i work better with something im comfortable with, if you wanna max shallow grave you go ahead and do it!Although don't expect great results...

This section isn't very serious and if you are a serious Dota player or just don't have the time, you might wanna move on...
I have been waiting to write this section of the build for a while now because everythings been...serious,Dota is serious and getting a break from that can be relieving.Ok so lets get started on this, i would say that this has been one of the best inventions created in history it's probably up there with the "invention of Penicillin" and "The Wheel" because this is gonna blow your socks off!

Ok so to explain this im gonna have to put English GCSE skills to the test and lets "Set the Scene".
So this brings us to the side of the river which seperates top lane and middle lane 2 characters are chatting away down there,one of them a purple abomonation who shoots laserbeams most likely formed by a childs imagination with mental issues called Dazzle.The other large man who smelled like a rotten asscrack with bingo-wings the size of a B52 Bomber plane called John Presc-I mean Pudge.They were just talking about how pudge was a necropheliac,WHEN SUDDENLY a trio of nukers apeared!Lina,Lion and Tinker lasered him to pieces and dazzle tryed to use his own lasers to combat this,it was like Star Wars all over again except Dazzle was Babo fet cus he's cool unlike gay Han solo, who wants to be crappy han solo?Anyway back to the fight and ♥♥♥♥♥ hit the fan...When suddenly Dazzle comes in to save the day and zaps pudge with glowing sensation of SHALLOW GRAVE!The duration a his powers are about to run out and you hear lion murmur in trucker accent "YEAH WERE GONNA EAT TONIGHT,RANDY GET MAH SHOTGUN!" when Dazzle pulls out a force staff from his 6 pockets of juicy goodness and pushes pudge away from danger healing him with his shadow wave,mek and his urn of OP heals and pudge walks away danger free and doesn't even say thank you because...PUB GAMES!!!!
And so the super ultra death defying wombo combo of justice was born and from that day Dazzle has saved over 1000 lives with no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thank you from ANYONE!

If you have no idea what i was on about basically you let them tank up the damage, just as they're about to die you shallow grave them, force staff them and make sure you get them into the range of your heals which 98% of the time should save them, unless your against lifestealer, if that happens take the leaver penalty and run!RUN TO THE HILLS BEFORE YOU SLIT YOUR WRISTS AND DIE OF DEPRESSION!

I would like to thank you for viewing my guide!This guide at parts havn't been very serious but i play Dota itself quite seriously however my view on things arn't what i would call "Sane" But this is in fact my first ever guide i have created and it hs been fun making this guide for everyone and i hope this encourages more people to play Dazzle because i think he is highly underated, you don't even have to use this guide just play Dazzle cus he's down with the kids, not in the perverted way a cool way, he ain't no willie fiddler.Again sorry if this wall of text was a lot to read, try writing it it's like an essay!
Also i can easily take constructive critisism and not "LIFESTEALER IS NOT OP, YOUR A NOOB."
But again i thank you for viewing my build and goodluck with Dazzlin'!

P.S. I just want to say thank you to GDC Bakker and Lord Mitch for just being good teamates to play Dota with so shoutouts to them!