DotA Maiden

Early on stats are very important for more mana to blade fury and increase your health to withstand some early game punishment. You can replace the stat points with blade dance early on if you wish but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Maiden build orders are generally very similar but they are all very situational. If you are playing with friends you know are reliable and have good AOE damage / AOE disable heroes than I would suggest going for a blink dagger and black king bar(BKB). A more advanced version of that would be to have a friend go omniknight and repel you before you start your combo. Some other typical items for maiden are:

Aghanims - Gives good survivability with large HP and MP boost as well as a nice little buff to her ultimate.

Guinsoos - Adds another disable on top of frostbite, which is always welcome. The item progression up to the completed Guinsoo’s is very gold friendly (all pieces are of fairly lost cost) and all benefit maiden to some degree. If your team is lacking in disables then this may be a good item to have. Note that this will not help you survive in any way so it is recommended that you either couple this with a BKB or some other form of health boosting item (vitality booster, point booster, bracers etc.)

Dagon - Makes killing heroes early game a breeze. Frostbite, hit the hero and move closer between each attacks cooldown, frost nova, chase while they are slowed getting hits in when you can and finish it off with a dagon or another frostbite. Gives decent amount of mana but is not an item I recommend for maiden. If you do choose to buy this, do not upgrade it past level 1. The cost to damage ratio isn’t all that worth it if you ask me and it will gimp you later in the game if you waste money on it for long.

Linkens - Makes interrupting your freezing field harder to counter because it will require two direct stuns and / or disables to get through to you. This item is a bit harder to farm for than the rest in this list because of the 2300 ultimate orb but the benefits are very very nice.

Lothars - A bit more out of the ordinary for Maiden but it works well with freezing field. If you use lothar’s while channeling freezing field you will go invisible but you will not break the channeling of field. This makes it incredibly hard to break your channeling of the spell unless the other team has a necronomicon lvl 3, gem or happen to buy some sentry wards. They can always stun with AOE stuff but it’s still a wonderful item to get on her. It adds survivability too.

Boots of Travel - Really quite self explanatory. Maiden is a slow hero (285 if I’m not mistaken) so boots of travel are really a must for keeping up to fleeing heroes.

Ring of Basilius - Mana regeneration early game is your friend. This is can be used in place of level two brilliance aura so you can focus on maxing out frostbite and frost nova early on instead of wasting skill points on mana regeneration.

That about sums up the best item choices for maiden. Like I said before, these are all situational and should be picked based on who you are up against and what your team has at their disposal.

As for the skill build it’s always the same.

Frostbite
Nova
Frostbite
Nova
Nova
Frostbite
Nova
Frostbite
Stats
Freezing Field
Freezing Field
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Freezing Field

You can add points to brilliance aura in place of stats in that build but I find basilius is usually enough regeneration to sustain me for most of the game.

What I usually do is

Nova
Stat
Nova
Stat
Nova
Freezing field
Nova
Frost
Frost
Frost
Freezing field
Frost
stat
stat
stat
freezing field

Two nulls
Void
boot
point booster
blink dagger
eul
soul booster
guinsoo
scepter.

Work very nicely, especially with blink dagger whicn can be used for suprised blink ult