Belerick — Tank / Roamer

Status: Player guide only. Base stats / skill numbers not yet pulled from in-client. Fill from screenshots on next ADB pull. Specialty: Reflect tank / Taunt

Player Guide — Hajun (300+ stars, ex-pro roamer)

Source: YouTube 93kpWzAgyJs (Hajun, "How to Win With Belerick in Solo Rank When Your Draft Is Bad"), ingested 2026-04-29.

Honest framing

"Belerick is one of the worst roamers for solo queue right now. Slow, easily killed, walking target."

You don't pick Belerick to "carry" — you pick him to fulfill a specific win condition: enable your marksman to shred a tanky enemy comp. Play him as a peeler + late-game taunt-engager, not as an early-game bully.

Build & Emblem

• Spell: Flicker (mandatory — Belerick's ult has tiny range, flicker is the only way to land it on mobile heroes).
• Emblem: Tank — Vitality → Tenacity → Concussive Blast.
• Boots: Tough Boots + Encourage (Encourage always, Belerick has no heal).

Item path

1. Tough Boots + Encourage.
2. Dominance Ice — Hajun: "One of the best early-game items for tanks — hybrid def + anti-heal." Mandatory.
3. Chastise Pauldron — vs phys-skill damage (Obsidia in this VOD).
4. Blade Armor — reflect + def vs marksmen.
5. Radiant Armor — vs Alice/Eudora-style sustained mage poke.
6. Immortality.

When to pick Belerick

Pick into enemy comps that are tanky + sustain-heavy (Alice, Uranus, Carmilla, Edith, Yu Zhong) — IF your team has a tank-shredder marksman (Karrie, Granger, Beatrix, Moskov). The combo: Belerick taunts/peels → tank-shredder bursts the front line.

Don't pick if your team has no tank-shredder. Belerick alone can't kill anyone, and a comp with no shredder loses to sustain.

Flicker-ult on mobile targets

Belerick's ult is short-range AoE taunt. Without flicker, fast targets (Eudora, Lancelot, Hayabusa) walk out before it lands. Always flicker INTO the cluster, then ult immediately. Don't ult first then flicker — you'll telegraph.

VOD example: Hajun flicker-ulted Eudora at point-blank range and the ult still missed because Eudora moved — in retrospect he should have aimed flicker at her predicted retreat path, not her current position.

Macro — gank when minions clash

"Always wait for minion waves to clash before ganking. If the minions are already cleared, the lane has no reason to stand around — they'll never overextend."

Concrete tells:

• Lane has minions colliding in mid-zone → enemy laner is committed to last-hitting → free gank.
• Lane is empty / cleared → enemy laner is recalling or rotating → no gank target available.

This rule is generalizable to every roamer, not just Belerick.

Engage rule — taunt for kill confirmation, not random spam

Belerick S1 is a taunt. Use it specifically:

• On a low-HP fleeing enemy to force them to walk back toward you.
• On a backline hero mid-engage (Eudora, Cyclops) so their team's frontline body-blocks their own damage.
• On a diver attacking your carry — taunt redirects their auto-attacks away.

Don't ult the enemy roamer unless they're alone — you've spent your only kill cooldown on the lowest-bounty target.

Late-game positioning

When ahead with Lord up, clear the lane OPPOSITE Lord to sync three-wave pushes. The shape you want: all three lanes simultaneously crashing into enemy towers — they can't defend three at once.

"In solo queue your teammates will always push mid no matter what. Lie down and take it. Just get a good ult set on Lord crash and end the game."

Trade calculus

If you die for kills onto enemy mage + roamer, always a winning trade. Mage and roamer both have shorter respawn windows in late-game and provide map control + DPS amplification. Belerick's tank stats mean your respawn time matters less than carrying the team-fight.

Mental rule

"As a roamer, when your teammates aren't near you, don't take back-shots for no reason. Tanking damage has to have a purpose."

This is the core Belerick mistake: standing in a lane "tanking minions" while your team is at base. Useless damage tanked = wasted recall time = lost wave farming for the roamer who relies on Encourage gold.