Omniknight

When to Pick Omniknight?

Tips & common mistakes

• Purification deals pure damage to enemies AND heals the target simultaneously, which means the correct use in the laning phase is casting it on YOURSELF when the enemy carry is adjacent to you, not on your ally at range. Walk into the enemy carry's face, pop Purification on yourself, take the pure damage hit on them while healing yourself fully, and walk away. Most Omniknight players use Purification reactively to heal allies from range and never use it offensively as a pure damage nuke. Both applications are correct — learn when to use which.
• Degen Aura now follows Omniknight permanently as an aura rather than requiring toggle management—which means any enemy within the aura radius is ALWAYS being slowed and having armor reduced. This changes how you should position yourself in fights dramatically. Stay close to the enemy carries at all times rather than standing at the back with your supports—your aura is only active within its radius, and an Omniknight who is standing next to his own supports instead of the enemy team is wasting one of his most impactful passive tools completely.
• Guardian Angel provides physical immunity to ALL nearby allies but does NOT protect against magic or pure damage—this is the single most important thing to understand about the ability and the single most common mistake at average MMR. Most Omniknight players activate Guardian Angel the moment an initiation lands, but if the enemy team deals primarily magic damage, the ability is completely useless. Only use Guardian Angel when the enemy team is actively right-clicking your heroes to death, not when Leshrac's Pulse Nova is the primary damage source.
• Heavenly Grace's dispel strength scales with the number of debuffs on the target—the more debuffs the target has, the more strength bonus Heavenly Grace provides. This means the correct cast target for Heavenly Grace in a teamfight is NOT the hero you most want to protect from disables—it is the hero who currently has the MOST debuffs on them, because they receive the maximum strength and HP regeneration bonus. Track debuff stacks during fights and prioritize accordingly.
• As a core Omniknight, Strength items are your primary damage AND tankiness items simultaneously because Purification's pure damage scales directly with Strength. Every point of strength you buy is increasing your HP pool, your purification nuke damage, and the amount purification heals simultaneously. Crimson Guard, Pipe of Insight, and Halberd are not just defensive purchases — they are aggressive purchases that make Purification hit significantly harder.
• Nullifier and Diffusal Blade completely dispel Guardian Angel on hit — and most average-MMR players do not warn their team when the enemy has bought these items. The moment you see a Nullifier or Diffusal Blade appear in the enemy inventory, communicate this to your team and never activate Guardian Angel preemptively when those heroes have their items ready. Save Guardian Angel for the moment AFTER those dispels have been used on other targets.
• Do not try to play Omniknight carry in a magic damage meta. This is worth repeating directly—if the enemy team has Leshrac, Invoker, Zeus, or any combination of high-magic-damage heroes as their primary damage dealers, Omniknight as a core is throwing the draft. Check the enemy's damage types before locking in, and if more than one major damage source is magical, pick a different hero.