Dazzle

Dazzle's lane identity centers on trading and sustain: use Poison Touch (your nuke) and Shallow Grave (your heal) to win small exchanges while protecting your carry. Prioritize map vision through ward placement and rotations to the midlane—winning Dazzle players tend to avoid committing all mana to early teamfights, instead rotating to create pick-off opportunities. Blink is not yet purchased (avg 21 min), so mobility is limited; position defensively and let the enemy overextend into your range.

Blink (21 min avg) and Holy Locket (23 min avg) form Dazzle's first spike, marking the transition from reactive play to proactive gank setup. Once Blink is complete, winning Dazzle players tend to initiate smoke ganks (ambushing enemies with a smoke of deceit) on isolated targets and follow up with Grave to secure kills—the 53.9% win rate in the 15–20 min window shows early rotations pay off. Guardian Greaves (24 min avg) enables sustained teamfighting; prioritize securing these timings and rotating to secure pickoffs before the enemy hard carry scales.

Dazzle's late-game win condition is positioning at the edge of teamfights to land Grave on critical targets and amplify armor swings with Weave (your ultimate). The data shows win rate drops sharply after 40 minutes (49.7% at 40–45 min, declining further), meaning Dazzle teams need to close before the enemy carry becomes unkillable—winning Dazzle players tend to group for objective-driven fights (Roshan, push) rather than prolonged sieges, using Grave as a reset tool to edge out chaotic teamfights.