this is great man, fortress is one of the heroes i really loved from the beginning and playing this game again after sometime; boy things are really quite different. Thanks for the tips here and hopefully i'd get to do them right. I hope you could make one too for Varya! kudos

Wow you guide got popular man. Nice job on all of this! (I like the guide but im still reluctant to use fortress because of bad past experiences XD)

Congrats on editor! I don't see the pros/cons on Truth of the Tooth over Law of the Claw yet though although that may just be because I'm like oblivious to the obvious lol

Skaarf is very weak in the meta as of now.
Skaarf has no Crowd Control, a very situational and easily dodgable slow, difficult lane farm, slow Jungle Clear, and very weak scaling of defensive Items.
Skaarf cannot be played as a strong Jungler, Roamer, or Laner due to these.
Skaarf dies to every single Crowd Control Gank, and his only form of escape is in Boots.
Skaarf's Ultimate can be countered with Crucible, as Fortress has nothing that needs to be blocked, unlike if the roamer was Catherine or Ardan, as their ultimates are very dangerous and need to be blocked.

However in the case of Fortress as a roamer, Skaarf gains quite some power in team fights.
This is due to Fortress's Truth of the Tooth ability, which pairs very nicely with Skaarf's Fan the Flames.
A Vainglorious Gold level Comp is as follows:
Wp Glaive
Cp Skaarf
Roam Fortress.
The idea is that Fortress relies on Glaive's tankiness to absorb some of the damage, and in turn deals more damage himself by building a semi-carry build by including things like Poisoned Shiv and Aftershock, and sometimes even Bonesaw.
Also, this Comp holds a very bursty Combo that can be repeated several times in a fight.


Fortress marks an enemy with Truth of the Tooth. Glaive uses the speed boost from Truth of the Tooth and Afterburn to land a fast stun that knocks a squishy enemy into your team. Fortress Law of the Claws him, and Skaarf Spitfire and Goops him. Then, Fortress and Skaarf continue to land basic attacks, all of which will be empowered by Law of the Claw and Skaarf's Fan the Flames. This causes a HUGE burst of damage which usually removes one enemy from the fight.

Its also interesting to try out Grumpjaw in the place of Glaive, as Grumpjaw is tankier, and he can just Eat the enemy Vox and run off xD

I suggest including this Comp in your Guide, as it is viable in the current Metagame, where you see many Catherine's due to her Buff, and less Lances due to his nerf. This makes consistent Damage Characters like Skaarf and Fortress viable.

congrats

What if he's hard? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

All jokes aside, I think this is a little too much cooldown speed. Three cooldown items makes it a lot less valuable, because cooldown stacks, but everytime it stacks on an item, its efficiency is reduced. I suggest cutting the Clockwork, and including a more counterplay offensive item. For example, against a Krul or a Reim, you may consider picking up a Poisoned Shiv to hinder their healing.

However, absolutely do not build Poisoned Shiv against Adagio, because I don't want you wrecking people who use my build ;-;

When do you think Truth of the Tooth should be overdriven before Law of the Claw? Most people say that Fortress is an aggressive early game hero and get Truth of the Tooth first to be able to catch up to enemies and try to go for the high risk high reward strategy. Thoughts?

Sometimes, I like to put scout traps in the enemy's bush- the one next to the first treeant as they come out of base. It helps to provide a little extra vision to see when they are farming, and when they rotate up to lane. Also, plant mines where the turrets are. This helps you with lane vision. Against flicker, put scout traps in the bushes on the top too, in case they try to backdoor.

Ahh fellow Fortress lover... I have one question for you though. Most Fortress players agree that taking the final point of the ult is better than taking the overdrive on A. I find it interesting that you recommend in your guide to overdrive A instead. May I know your reasoning behind that?

teach me to make a guide like this...its well done

Nice build and guide man. Really helped me out a lot with my fortress performance. He is still my least favorite though, no hard feelings XD. NJ.

You should add shiversteak since his jump ability acount as a auto attack making it easy to proc shiversteal. Also protector contract is not a bad last item(gives a bigger sheild then cruicble)

Just so you know, the brackets don't work in the threats section so we don't actually see the icon. Great guide overall though, but I feel like you need contraption by around mid game for the dominance over the enemy team, if you get it too late, you won't have the mid game vision advantage and it becomes riskier to lay scout traps and whatnot. Also, even if you do have Contraption, I tend to use it for flares mostly but I also buy scout traps and flares (you can never have too little flares unless that's the only thing you buy) with my gold since the cooldown is so long.