SangeYashaand Kaya are three mid-tier items in Dota 2. They each cost 2000 gold and provide substantial benefits.
This guide analyzes their usefulness and overall impact on the game.
Sange
Sange is composed of three parts:
- Ogre Club
- Belt of Strength
- Recipe
The recipe is quite expensivecosting 550 gold. The other two items offer a total of 16 strengthwhich is the same amount the upgraded item gives you. So farno extra benefits. But here’s what else Sage gives you: +20% HP regen+16% status resistance+20% lifesteal amplification.
These are decent benefits but they still don’t justify the cost of the item because you could easily buy better items with the same amount of gold. HoweverSange can be upgraded into three possible items and all three of them are really good.
Heaven’s Halberd
This item is very powerful in Dota 2 patch 7.35c. It costs just 3500 gold and its recipe is only 200 gold. What it gives you is very useful: +20 strength+25% HP regen+25% evasion+16% status resistance+25% lifesteal amplificationDisarm.
The item’s active ability allows you to disarm a ranged target for 5s or a melee target for 3s from a distance of 650 units. The cooldown of this ability is just 18swhich means that you can use it multiple times per fight.
For 3500 goldthe benefits you get are really good. If you don’t intend to make this upgrade or at least one of the other two possible upgradesSange is not worth the cost.
Sange & Yasha
This is another great item for strength-based and agility-based heroes. It consists of one Sange and one Yasha and it gives you +16 strength+16 agility+25% HP regen+20 attack speed+25% status resistance+25% lifesteal amplificationand +12% movement speed. In other wordslots of stats. You’ll pay 4000 gold for it.
For many heroessome of these stats don’t make much sense unless you’re willing to combine the item with other items that give you HP regen and lifesteal. If you want to use your gold with maximum efficiencyalways take into consideration the synergies that exist between the items you buy.
Kaya & Sange
Another option when you upgrade your Sange is to go for the Kaya & Sange item. It costs 4000 gold and provides great benefits to intelligence-based heroessuch as +16 intelligence+50% mana regen+12% spell damageand +25% spell lifesteal. The other bonuses are similar to those offered by S&Y.
This is a good item to buy when you need a combination of tankiness and damage on your mage. Whether it’s a Leshrac or a Linathis item is often bought because of the overall benefits and not for something in particular. Ifon the other handyou value movement speed and attack speed a little more than status resistance and strengththen you should go for the Yasha & Kaya option.
Yasha
Yasha is composed of these items:
- Blade of Alacrity
- Band of Elvenskin
- Recipe
On its ownthe item provides three benefits: +16 agility+15 attack speedand +10% movement speed. These bonuses make Yasha a powerful item on its ownand many heroes can buy it without any problems in the early game without having to immediately upgrade it. Of courseif you choose to upgrade itit becomes a lot stronger. The price is 2000 gold.
Here are the two possible upgrades that have not been mentioned already:
Manta Style
Manta Style gives your hero +10 strength+26 agility+10 intelligence+15 attack speedand +10% movement speed. So you practically gain +10 to all attributes for 2600 gold but you also get two important things.
One of them is the ability to get rid of debuffs. The other one is the ability to create two illusions of yourself that will last for 20 seconds. These illusions deal 33% damage eachbased on your attack damage. This means that you can easily farm with them.
Yasha & Kaya
Yasha & Kaya is a good item for intelligence-based heroes that love to attack rather than defend themselves. Examples include Storm Spirit and Queen of Pain. These heroes don’t need that much defense. But they could greatly benefit from additional offensive capabilities.
The item costs 4000 gold and gives you +16 agility+16 intelligence+50% mana regen+20 attack speed+12% spell damage+25% spell lifestealand +12% movement speed.
Kaya
Kaya the first or second item you usually buy on heroes like Zeus and Storm Spirit because it only costs 2000 gold and gives you great benefitssuch as +16 intelligence+50% mana regen+10% spell damageand +20% spell lifesteal.
You can upgrade it to Kaya & SangeYasha & Kayaor Bloodstone.
Bloodstone
This item costs 4400 gold but gives you huge benefits: +500 HP+500 mana+3 mana regen+30% spell lifesteal+6% spell lifesteal vs. creeps+75 AoEBloodpact. Bloodpact can be activated to gain +250% spell lifesteal for 5 seconds. This is the equivalent of Satanic’s active ability.
Heroes suited for SangeYashaor Kaya
There are lots of heroes that can buy these items. Strength-based offlaners tend to buy Heaven’s Halberd against powerful carry heroes that need to be disarmed or else they destroy your entire lineup in seconds. But sometimesmid heroes like Kunkka will buy it as well.
You will rarely see Sange being bought as a standalone item because it’s not an efficient purchase. But you will regularly see it being bought with the goal of upgrading it to something else. Most of the timeif it’s not bought for Heaven’s Halberdit will not be bought as the first component of the item. That component will always be Yasha or Kaya.
Heroes like Morphling and Troll Warlord tend to enjoy buying Sange & Yasha because of the movement speed and the stats it provides. In Morphling’s casebecause of his ability to morph strength into agility and vice versasuch items give you great bonuses and you can be sure that nothing goes to waste.
Yasha is a key component of Manta Stylewhich is a great item for heroes like Anti-MagePhantom LancerTerrobladeNaga SirenChaos Knightand other illusion-based heroes. Spectre is also a great Manta buyer because of his overall abilities and stats.
Timings
When buying items like S&Yyou want to make sure that you have them before the mid game begins. These are not items that you start buying after the 30-minute mark because by then you need something else to succeed. By minute 20you should already have your S&Y if that’s the item you chose to build for your strategy.
When it comes to standalone items like Yasha or Kayathe timing is ever stricter. Consider the 12-15 minute mark as the reference point. The later you get your first important itemthe harder it is to take successful fights and start building an advantage.
In Dota 2you always need to know what you want to do and try to stay one step ahead of your opponent. Otherwiseyou will rarely win.
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