athelasloraiel

occulus is in secrecy one of the most powerful champions once you reach lvl 15.

since he is one of the later demigods that came out not a lot of people played him that much or know about his true power.

I could write pages about occulus, but i'ma try to keep it short and simple, because there are so many different play styles you can do with him.

The safest and easiest way is to play occulus on mana side. zap the creeps once  then go middle zap the creeps, and try to make the enemy miss his waves.

Favor item: Blood of the fallen. 800 hp free is just insanely good, especially on cataract with 15% increased hp flag. And so you can focus on getting mana items right of the bet

Items: monks, 550 mana helm, 1500 unbreakable boots, 1500 mana crown, 1500 chestplate, 1750 mana helm.

Late game bishops/high priests, if you can trust your teammates on locking portals get a 4000 orb of defiance and if you get focused a lot. If not 5500 mana helm crown and sell 550 mana helm.

more tips:

-your jump can do double damage if you sit right on top of your enemy, and it is aoe!

-try to always have xp flag captured when you zap the creeps on mana side

-in the early stages of the game be not too aggressive and always have enough mana to jump out!

-once you're lvl 15 you can kill anyone with your exploding balls, if already summoned always resummon them when they are right next to the enemies.

- having an early sigil and teleport keeps you always on the safe side, just don't ever use them unless you really have to, just play like you don't have them

skill tree:

max his zap and double jump

get one point in his minotaur skill for more mana with monks.

then max straigt balls till lvl 13

at lvl 15 you can max your balls and zap

now good luck and rape everyone

a pro occulus cannot lose the game to giants, that's what makes him so much more dangerous.

Zen and in1 my OC is completely different build. I am a mega agressor from the start! I think oc is awesomo but you really gotta have minion control as your minions are effectively pots if you're a king of minatour player. I am both BS and KOM

I have yet to find a rook player that I cannot tear to shreds with Oculus And I'm yet to find an Oculus who rips my rook to shreds hehehaha..... There's some QOT players out there that are really making me hurt tho.

I think if brainstorm actually worked as it should, it's an op skill.... tho without interrupts maybe that's the balance.

If you see nnnils in game try to get him to upload an Occ replay.  He's a baaad man with Occ.  The only good Occulus replays up right now I'd say are the ones from the 3 v 3 tournament last year, but they're focused on building around a UB, not taking over a game like nnnils does.  

found this line on wiki, can't get it out of my mind, very "thoughtfull"

lol

• Nature's Reckoning + Chain Lightning + Lightning Blast is just effing salty. Seriously, taste the rainbow.

my biggest problem with brainstorm and its upgrades (do you use full upgrade for it?) is the hardness to target myself in game.

I was surprised not to be able to target myself from my demigod orb?

also,

should I upgrade King of idols to max, or only 1st level?

chain is fantastic!!

potions > occulus   

Brain storm becomes a lot more effective with hungarlings.

Also, it's not a bad idea to run with scaled, vlemish & plenor at the same time until one of the higher level items are affordable (e.g. replace vlemish w/ hungarlings and scaled with Hauberk,  or replace scaled with journeymans depending on if you have to push for portals etc) 

My preferred purchase order:

1. Monks
2. Scaled helm + banded
3. Plenor (is only "ok" when paired with scaled helm but the extra mana helps)
4. Unbreakable boots
5. Vlemish
6. Bishops
7. Hungarlings
8. Hauberk

Of course sigils, TP's and the first level of minotaurs need to be added as well.

Im finding brainstorm not much of a benefit to MYSELF but its great for your rook to hold a lane give him mana, or teammate in the middle of a melee and needs that bit of mana to stun so you can jump in and ZAP away.

Use uberfix where it correctly removes debuffs,

Lukas you shud play with me more often....

Hi Pacov! Yes, I'd like to tourney but doubt I can commit with such huge real life commitments already.

Oculus Love, hellyeah! I had a game today where my experienced team DGmcafrica and another I can't remember, were worried when I used no lightning balls. Even at 15. I said no worries,  King of minatour > balls. It is. I stomped the living everything out of the other (experienced) team. I bought fs1, cur1,cur2, and all creeps except giants. 

  All my gear was simply such (each bought not swapped out):

Scaled helm, Vlemish helm, Unbreakable boots, Duelists curass (I skipped nimoth's due to a quick double smite - 1 zap, 2 killed), and banded armour. 

I buy only monks at start. When I have about 1200 I get FS1 and banded armour. IMPORTANT!: I watch the warscore and when it gets to around 1400 (level 3 is 1600) I head back to citadel immediately. No matter what. I purchase cur1 the absolute second it ticks over to 3. Then cash permitting I get scaled helm and 350 minatours at this time also. (if more cash some scalemail or a teleport, if not enough cash just helmet and back to farming creeps). 

If I am in a 3v3 (not a 2v2) I will watch the warscore and get cur2 right on 5. ESPECIALLY if we are ahead of the enemy team in warscore. I have won every single game I have done this.

As I play on I will swap out my monks for bishops and get the seige demolishers too. Tho after I get Unbreakable boots, duelists curass, and vlemish helm (and of course a tele and a sigil in the process). Swapping minatours I for minatours IV is my last purchase. I never get anything else except sigils, locks and teleports. (sometimes a pot maybe) all gold after this saves for creeps.

As for skills, it's all Zap,blast off, king, and brainstorm. I'm a freak for regenerating from very low health with no minions. Then head into safe territory - enemy thinks I go for citadel regen. 350 mana = summon bishops (heal happens and mana boost form KOM). Then brainstorm myself = mana boost. Then summon minators for 500 health boost. Then out from fog I come with some 2000 health extra and enough mana for a zap or jump, plus as I engage the bishops cooldown and the brainstorm cooldown is up again and I get another mana and health boost. as good as a robust rejuv pot.

Biggest thing to avoid as OC is a QOT ground spikes or rook hammer. They wipe out your minions, there goes your health and mana = you are dying.

Oh, and always share your monk with ub or rook, But be skilled on your monk micro or find your mana disappear at the least convenient time when your monk on other side of map gets killed.

I played 2 games as QOT yesterday and found her AWESOME. Stomped the buggeree out of some unsuspecting doubters. I never played QOT before and love the shambler usefulness. Shamblers + ground spikes + minion build - ooze beast health stack was absolutely no match.

minion oak is not minion qot.  Same thing with any other general and minions.  The strength/cheapness factor of minion oak is in taking out structures from a substantial distance - on top of that, his spirits can fly around defenses to focus on your target... eg destroying the citadel in 8-10 minutes.  The cheese is in being able to pull this off even if you only have half a brain... any time after 8 minutes or so. Just to be clear, the cheese is not in working over structures - its in making an early rush on the enemy citadel which is not possible or viable with any other character.

Personally, I don't really care if someone uses minion oak as long as they just aren't going for the cheese win. Anyway, that said, I trust you might be able to see a slight difference between a minion oak and qot.  One can cheaply take out your citadel; the other cannot.  Both can be annoying to fight against, to be sure, but the oak is certainly more powerful with 3 level's of shield + a minion spec than a qot.... far more powerful.  Try running up as a minion qot 8 minutes into the game and take out the citadel and let me know how that goes. Remember, the big plus to a minion qot is that you can use ground spike to substantially increase the real damage done - and you have to be near your creeps to do that.

If people just whine when they see a minion oak, though - I agree.  Pretty lame and silly. I'm sure that happens from time to time and I think its a bit ridiculous to start whining in a game just because someone went minion oak.  That said, if people get annoyed and don't want to play with or against a minion oak after he ends a game 10 minutes in, well, that's happened as well.  Anyway, if I go minion oak, I just play him like I would any other minion build, but I don't spam the citadel.  I've never had a problem with that and I wager any experienced, half way decent player would not either.