Overview
Alucard is a melee fighter/assassin who dominates close range-dueling and is the former lifesteal king.
Strengths
Alucard is a high-sustain melee fighter with strong 1v1 dueling, excellent lifesteal, and good mobility. He can snowball early kills, clear waves quickly, and split-push effectively, making him deadly in skirmishes and scaling well into late game, but he is vulnerable to heavy crowd control and anti-heal effects.
Weaknesses
Alucard is vulnerable to heavy crowd control, kiting, and anti-heal items. He struggles in early team fights without farm and items, and can be shut down by poke damage or coordinated CC before he engages.
Clash
This build helps with early damage, survival and combos all necessary for clash.
Jungle
This emblem set helps Alucard with early burst damage, increases physical attacks gained from equipments and skills and helps with cooldowns so Alucard can do more frequent combos.
Battle Spell
Retribution is ideal for Alucard because it speeds up jungle farming, helps secure objectives, and allows him to reach his core items faster to snowball early.
Mid Game
Alucard's dominant phase is mid game, where he reaches level 4-12. This phase is Alucard's peak where he can farm efficiently, target isolated opponents, squishy enemies behind teamfights and split-push safely while leveraging his mobility and lifesteal.
Best With Mathilda
Mathilda is an excellent ally for Alucard because her mobility and shield let him engage or escape safely, and her follow-up burst amplifies his dueling and snowball potential, making it easier for him to dive squishy targets and survive skirmishes.
Watch Out For Joy
Alucard counters almost any mobility heroes with the help of his short skill cooldowns and his passive where he can chase and catch up to enemies almost endlessly.