No offence, but you seem to have a gameplan up to about level 10 that is it.

Most games with rook seem to start turning his way when you can 2000 slam/roll, swipe trhough all the wvaes of creeps, and damage towers for 400+dps.

I would suggest swapping your teleport for +15% boots or staff of renewell, and using that extra slot for some more mana/slams or more hp/tanking.

Other then that, apart from choosing god strength over the later two tower of the power choices, that'd be my skill progression too.

@replay:

10:00 you almost died to spit, very lucky with 15 hp left.
11:00 nice fake
13:00 nice Boulder right when RWAR wanted to run
15;00 RWAR stuns your Hammer and then chases you to death (but you are revenged)
16:40 Good choice to cancel that teleport
17:37 Obvious death at a locked enemy flag: you asked for this gank
19:00 Good choice to take down their towers while they focus on hp flag side
20:54 Triple lock.
22:50 Should have ran after Boulder
24:30 You lock their baseflag, they fail to lock yours. Erebus is a good defender.
25:50 Hammered RWAR at their side flag.
27:30 GG, theres no way you get that flag back.

The rook only works if you have a responsive team, that knows when and where to aid the rook. You still died 3 times, atleast 2 of which could have been avoided.

Since towers get weaker late game and you never really had more then 4, you might want to consider only going to tower II and getting something else instead.

Otherwise this setup is good, you might wanna run a bit more early if you face an opponent with more health/dps like UB, Erebus.

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Stats SUCK SUCK SUCK.

Also, dont get amulet, it shares cd with normal scrolls, better get bof. more hp is ALWAYS good.

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actually a rook gets splash damage without god strength too, you get it around lvl 6-8, dont remember exactly but I've seen it when playing rook, I didn't have god strength but still killed a full creep wave in 1 or 2 hits

I'm pretty sure, read this in another rook build thread and wanted to try it out.

Someone should double-check though

Nice guide! As the creator of the first hybrid Rook guide, I can say that this build is fully playable with the amulet of teleportation.

The teleport amulet is friggin amazing on Rook. I use it as a "rejuvenation potion" to teleport back to my crystal. This solves most of my early game mana issues. It halves your shopping time and allows you to easily gank. Sure, BotF will give you more lane control, but with the teleport ammy I can run my HP into the ground and then teleport back to heal. Also, there are several DGs that are excellent counters to Rook, such as Reg. If Reg is in my lane, I'll just teleport to the other side where I can maintain an advantage.

If I may make a suggestion, I would recommend adding the Orb of Defiance to your build. You don't need to conserve consumable slots since you have the tele ammy, and it hilarious using it inside your tower farm as you're about to die. With the low amount of health in this build, it helps your HP and armor quite a bit. I've had games where I will activate it when I'm at low HP, and my entire team will teleport over to my tower for a gank. I would substitute it for Narmoth's Ring.

Also, I'd suggest perhaps switching Trebuchet for Tower III. The trade-off is 6 towers at level 7 instead of 6 towers at level 13. I sort of think they are more scary at level 7, personally. Also, it allows you to throw up 3 towers on each side of the map, instead of 2.

I'm partial to God Strength, but usually I will only get it after level 10 (see my guide for more info).

EDIT: Combat mana potions only cost 200????? WTF? Thx for the info.

BotS is the friggin worst favor item for Rook. If you want a mana favor item, use CoPM (on Leviathan) or EoM. EoM gives Rook freaky levels of mana early game.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. 

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I'd probably go 3 points of God Strength late late game rather than stats.  150 damage a swing is noticeable, and I feel like late game the Rook will probably be meleeing a lot more as opponent demigods build stronger resistance to his towers through armor.  A lot of "to the death" battles are fought at key flags such as portal flags, and after a boulder and slam, it's gonna turn into a melee fest.  The stat bonuses are kind of trivial that late in the game, the extra damage will be more useful at demigod focus fire.  The Rook is also usually a target of focus fire so he should have something to swing at.

Also he gets some snares late game like poison arrows and dizzying force which makes him meleeing things more viable.

That having been said Playground's Rook is really good.  I stopped playing Rook with him because his is just too leet and I don't like being second best.