I haven been here since December 2014. I made the Krul op thread once and will never do again, unless it is true. I have really not played VG for 3 months and was playing Dota2 til now. The only reason I am creating this is so people understand how to play this amazing assassin.

I am currently in T5, the hell of Se Asia server. I have achieved T6 silver, and I am planning to reach vainglorious.

I usually play Dota2 on the weekends. I also go on the Vainglory Forums a lot. If you have not been there that's where a lot of slat is dumped and people discuss.

His Description
Taka weaves through the battlefield, eliminating his chosen targets with his switchblades. He lives on the knife’s edge, compensating for fragile defenses with agility and stealth.

Taka is the only hero which is a true assassin. A squishy little hero easily countered by stuns, flares and scout traps. He is a jungler, who ganks the lane. He hides in the brush and then uses X-Retsu to come up to you, Kaiten and kaka to dissapear. However he is picky on which target to take. For example he would take mages instead or warriors. Why? Warriors have more health which makes it harder for Taka to take a warrior down.

Well some questions you will ask about my decisions.

Defence Early
Refer to SilntAssassnTaka's build guide on Taka, his explanation is very useful

Stormcrown/Tensionbow/Aftershock
Tensionbow gives 160damage per 6 seconds, 45 WP and 10% Armour Pierce

Stormcrown 192 damage per 6 second on heroes, 960 on objectives. More for roaming Taka.

Aftershock is that Cp burst. Very good ability and decent CP with Cd reduction. But the cd on the ability is annoying at times.

So what do I play?
Personally CP Taka. The burst is very high and is perfect for Taka's Low cd abilities. WP is for auto attacking. And really Taka shouldn't be auto attacking against warriors or tanks (which is inevitable). Cp also can go late game better than WP. Anyway it's your choice. Roam is really situational. Wanna experiment? Then play roaming Taka.

Contracts? Why would you get them?
Contracts are good 10 min and under. They can make the difference.
DragonBlood contract gives you 45+ CP damage on your next attack with an ability on nearly enemies. Protector contracts give 150 barrier health and may subistute a crucible for the early game only.
Irongaurd contracts are not that good now (Don't give gold share like it used to). Most useless of them all. Really I wouldn't get

Go jungle. If you are roam take the hit first and let your jungler take the farm. If you are the jungler with a roam, get the camps. If however you are with a jungler as a jungler, let the other jungler have the gold since you can not carry late game.

Farm after 1 rotation. Then flare the 2 enemy bushes. If you don't see any, scout trap the bush above the bush next to the enemy side's of the side shop. Then call your laner to gank the jungle. After that, 3 man the lane and possibly take out a turret.

Then start ganking. After each rotation of the jungle, check the lane. If your laner is struggling go help. Go to your side of the bottom lane brush and ambush the laner. If you succeed, invis, check the enemy bush and go back to the jungle.

When you go late game, you must take out the sniper or Mage. That's your job. If you don't have a late game carry you are screwed. Taka can't carry late. Taka is to squishy and invis Relieant. Taka will only be able to 1v1 squishies.

Try to get kraken. If not just try to end. If the match goes for 30 min Yu may be dead. Just end the match as fast as you can.

These are the stats from the Vgfire database of Taka.

Hero stats
HP:741 (+74)
HP REGEN:3.51 (+0.35)
ENERGY POINTS(EP):180 (+22)
EP(ENERGY) REGEN:1.33 (+0.16)
WEAPON DAMAGE:62 (+5.7)
ATTACK SPEED:1 (+0.033)
Armour:23 (+4.5)
SHIELD:20
(+4)ATTACK RANGE:2

Heroic Perk
House Kamhamu
Every 5 seconds, Taka's next basic attack is replaced with a Mortal Strike. Mortal Strikes deal 40 (+25% weapon ratio) bonus damage and grant Taka a burst of move speed. Whenever Taka Mortal Strikes or uses an ability, he gains a stack of Ki, which speeds up his Mortal Strike timer by 0.9 secs and grants 25% cooldown speed. (5 Ki stacks max.)

Abilities
Kaiten Kaiten
Description:Cooldown:15/15/15/15/15 Energy Cost:55/55/55/55/0
Taka flips over his target, cutting it with his switchblade. Taka is invulnerable to damage & debuffs while in mid-air. Overdrive:This ability will not cost any mana.
DETAILS:
Damage: 100/165/230/295/360 (80% Crystal Ratio)


Kaku Kaku
Description: Cooldown:25/24/23/22/21|Energy Cost:50/65/80/95/110
Taka throws a smoke bomb at his feet, vanishing from enemy sight and gaining move speed. This illusion ends early if he strikes a target or he takes direct damage. Turrets and Flare Guns can still see Taka. This ability heals Taka while he is invisible.
DETAILS:
Speed Boost: 1.25/1.25/1.25/1.25/1.25
Duration: 3.0/3.2/3.4/3.6/4.0
Heal/sec: 25/40/55/70/100/ (25% Crystal Ratio)
Tip:Use to heal up in the jungle if needed

X-Retsu X-Retsu
Description:Cooldown:20/20/20 Energy Cost:85/115/145
Taka bursts through his target, carving an X with his switchblades for lethal damage. The target suffers a mortal wound, reducing its healing by 50% and taking damage per second over the next 3 seconds. The wound's duration is refreshed whenever Taka mortal strikes this target. Grants bonus Ki stacks upon use based on number of ability points in X-Retsu.
DETAILS:
Damage: 250/390/530 (170% Crystal Ratio)
Damage/sec: 40/52/64 (70% Crystal Ratio)

Tip:Use to chase down the enemy hero while also dealing a huge amount of damage

Weapon
Tensionbow
160 damage every 6 seconds. 10% armour pierce.+45 Weapon. This is useful since you are dealing 160 damage every 6 seconds, dealing +45 WP and that sweet armour pierce. However this item is really not as useful as mid game and early game.

Sorrowblade
The must for Taka. Get this and you have a lot of WP damage. Then you can fight the sniper/Mage.

Tyrant's Monocle
Crits are cool. Do I need to explain this?

Tornado Trigger
This will help Taka with auto attacking

Boots
Sprint boots are just for the bonus speed
Travel boots are for the sprint and the speed. Also gives hp
Journey boots give hp, easy activate sprint and good speed (+0.6 and +1 apeed out of combat)

Serpent Mask
Lifesteal is nice. Also that WP damage is very good.

2 tyrant monocles and sorrowblades?
Tyrant Monocle crit damage and chance stack. Same as Sorrowblade. Anyway I didn't know what to get lol.

Crystal

Broken Myth Vs Shatterglass.
Ok let me do the explanation.
If the ability has next to no crystal damage, get Shatterglass
If the ability has a lot of crystal damage, get broken myth

Aftershock
The inevitable is that you will face roams, which are tanks. Aftershock's ability deals 15% of their total health as crystal damage with 7.5% of their health as yours when you use a basic attack against an enemy after using an aboility (So you can use Kaku and deal 15% hp of their damage). However this does not stack and has a cooldown of 1.5 seconds. Also gives -25% cooldown all for 2400 gold. Wow, that's cheap if you think about it now.

Clockwork.
Gives mana, cooldown reduction and 10% crystal damage amplification. Sweet for Taka (Cooldown reduction stacks to -80% I think). Really an all around item.

Alternating Current
Just in case you need to auto attack and kill

Utility Items

Stormcrown
160 damage on non heroes. PER SECOND. Deals 20% damage on heroes. So this is good for pushing and supports. Anyway it deals 192 damage PER 6 SECONDS. Actually good for roams.

Contraption
Just nice to use your remaining gold for a team item

Taka actually has a lot of skill required. You need to time the X Retsu and Kaiten to avoid stuns and nukes. All Taka's should have knowledge of where scout traps are and should also treat invis as a luxury. Otherwise Taka will be food for the enemy.

Taka also needs to know items. Build guides help with item selections. However some of them are terrible. You just need to know which items to pick up.

You may not be Taka material. Maybe you just aren't ready for Taka or your Teamates suck very badly. Otherwise you were counter picked hard (usual case). So don't have shame with loss. The best lesson is loss after all.

V1 7/11
-Added 6 Taka Builds
-Added Some tips about Taka's abilities
-Added short autobiography

V1.1 8/11
-Grammar Mistakes Fixed

V2 8/11
-Added suicide nuke builds
-Added stats and abilities of Taka with tips
-Added item explanation
-Added hero description