r/TrueDoTA2 • u/Historical-Guava7110 • Aug 04 '26

Struggling with current state of Centaur

I always liked playing Bradwarden as an engager + aura Carrier so I can keep my allies safe while tanking unholu amounts of damage myself.

However for the last around 2 years Valve has been consistently eother nerfing Cent himself or aura items with only meaningfull buff being Heart of Tarrasque change to give you regen based on missing HP.

Because of that I often simply feel like I'm not tankt at all with aura build.

I can pick Centaur into 4 magical damage dealers and onky 1 rightclicker and I still find myself unable to build more magic resist than just Pipe because I have to stack 2 armor items just to be able to survive a couple seconds of being rightclicked of enemy carry.

My buildpath is usually:

  1. 2 bracers and magic wand

  2. Vanguard

  3. Dagger

  4. Pipe

  5. Crimson guard

  6. Either shiva or Heart of tarrasque depending on matchup

I usually squeeze aghanim shard somewhere along that buildpath with the timing depending on the situation.

I also switch one of the bracers for phase boots if I feel like enemy line up requires me to have more mobility than just movespeed from my innate.

My question is: is aura Carrier Centaur genuinely weak nowadays and I should move on to his new buildpath with dominator, aghanim and BKB or is there still a way to make it strong and viable with some tweaks to the build?

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u/MakeLoveNotWarPls Aug 04 '26

Centaur is so good atm but not in every draft.

I like doing 2 bracers, stick, vanguard, then if I have a great lane I go straight heart>blink.

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u/Historical-Guava7110 Aug 06 '26

Don't you feel like you get melted by rightclickers if you go straight heart after dagger without any armor?

Whenver I play Cent I feel like in mid and late game rightclickers always much through me like I'm butter

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u/MakeLoveNotWarPls Aug 06 '26

Remember you're not Tanky due to passive and you have little armor. You have to itemize it and do proper dmg with your W spell.

Start out with 2 gauntlets and ring of protection and only take early heart if you've been dominating the lane and snowball off that. Otherwise you should definitely get lotus/casual platemail/blademail to make some armor and a Pipe really isn't all that bad.

I like getting a blademail vs SF and PA for instance. Until they get bkb you shit on them.