I honestly dont think there is a way of defeating Erebus 1 vs 1 mid to late game unless your actually playing Erebus yourself.

And if the Erebus is itemized to hell and beyond, forget about it!.

You could probably gank up on a Erebus with your team, but iv seen a lvl 16 Erebus take on two DG befor and still come out with 50% health.

Thats just my expirence with the Erebus's out there.

Im sure someone will pop by here and give a fully detailed way to kill him!. Tho atm i just dont see how (maby UB can?) =/

As oak you can sheild at the right moment and cancel out his bite, that hurts him quite a bit. Any ability or item that steals mana is good too.

Rank 3 mines, and mark of betrayer work decently ( make sure your faster then him though)

High hp regen sedna.. ect

The invuln for 5 second thing.. though i dont think its worth the money

I think you're somewhat screwed as Rook in 1v1.  Rook is really vulnerable until he reaches level 4 and can make a proper tower farm, and while he's slowly lumber around he's easy prey to a fast hero like Erebus which can snag flags and whittle away his health.  In 1v1, I always play with a general. The assassins just don't seem well suited to controlling the entire battlefield like a general can, which is what you need in 1v1.

The only problem Darvin is that I don't play custom games where I can switch my hero before the game starts. I play Skirmish matches so you don't know who your facing till your in the game.

Umm...90% of erebus's damage comes from bite.  He hardly does any melee damage.

    erebus is a tank and one of the best demigod "assassins".    I was lvl 20 with 2 artifacts and good gear on Regulus and Erebus 2vs1ed me and another demigod easily next to all my towers with a full mob of giants and monsters helping. 

   Which got me to researching what makes erebus so strong. 

O btw its possible that in a 1vs1 duel  on prison map you may always lose I dont know.

   Anyways Erebus has very health regen.  If you couple this with armor you exponentially increase its power.  Which is probably what he was doing.  Next he hits very hard, is able to destroy your movement speed and armor, can escape situations fast with teleport, and life drains. 

      So yes 1vs1 he can be impossible. 

I also know that spells ignore armor, there are certain items that negate health regen and that he has no skill that effeciently and effectively lets him kill multiple monsters at once.    As such if you stay very cautious arround him early on you can kill monsters faster than him and thus level up faster.

Jesus Christ! Can we make like a pinned post or something on how to kill Erebus? I must've posted in like at least 5 different threads last week on ways to deal with Erebus, especially those players who are Rook.

I'm trying to be constructive in saying that your thread really doesn't help either.

Some things I've read the past week.....

"He keeps biting me! How do I stop that?!?!"

No shit he is biting you, every single Erebus player will. Only thing I can say is control the Celerity flag so it's every 7 seconds instead of every 5.

"I was slow, I couldn't get away from him"

Get +speed gear. enough said.

"He just ignores my towers!"

No shit. Why spend 15 wacks on a tower when I could get a lot more accomplished by chasing you down and trying to kill you.

It's gotta be more detailed or more specific. Otherwise too much can be left to assumption. Maybe he was just a better player. Maybe you suck. Maybe he was spending his gold on artifacts while you were spending on citadel or potions or something. Maybe he had more favor points, who knows.

A better post would be something like:

"Every time I try to get a tower farm started, Erebus comes up and harasses me. I have troubling outlasting him even with my towers there, so I run away. But he's faster than me, so I can't get away! Any ideas on how I can get a good tower farm started against him and how to deal with him once he comes up and starts harassing me?"

Otherwise, it starts to sound like:

"Hey, this player played well and beat me! What gives?! How do I beat him?"

As rook, I go something along the lines of:

raise tower, arrows, save the point, save the point, boulder roll, light shoulder tower, god strength, then mostly maxing stats and light tower, taking trebuchet and any/all levels of god strength asap.

If it goes that long, at 16 or so you want to get some pts into that massive hammer you got. His regen will be ridiculous and so you'll want to be able to put a hurting on him in a big way. boulder roll -> smack that bloodsucker.

Focus on speed items and mana/health regen. Tower farm and only run far enough to leave him on the 'wrong side (the side where he has to run back through them' of your towers before you roll a boulder at him. If you can get the timing down, you can boulder him when it is not such a great time for him as he'll be wanting to bite you.

Alot of it is just figuring out the dance you have to do with him before you crush his bloodsucking face. You want to wear him down and deny him the chance to bite you if possible. He *will* bite you. Just make sure whenever he does that he is already desperately needing it and not just topping off from half to full.

"Reasons We Bite"

A list in order of importance of reasons for biting someone

By A Vampire

1. First, we bite to keep ourselves alive! Everytime we bite, we get back some health! We need health to survive!

2. We bite because it hurts. Everytime we bite, our victim takes lot's of damage. Sometimes when we bite our victim they get scared and runs away, or even die!

3. Sometimes we bite you in the ankle to slow you down so you can't run away from us. We need you nearby so we can bite you again!

4. And lastly, sometimes we bite you on the chinstrap so your helmet falls off and you don't have many armors. Without armors, club hurts more when I hit you on the head with it, along with everyone else's club too.

Eh... that's what minions are for

Anyway, one on one, Rook has a pretty bad matchup against Erebus, as Erebus should be able to wipe him out very easily early game to the point where his advantage in levels and money is too much for Rook to handle. Rook really needs some support so he can get started, and once he hits mid game, then he becomes a huge threat to Erebus. My only recommendation for this setup is either stop playing 1 on 1, or start playing a new character. Rook just isn't meant to start head on, and guys like UB and Erebus will just beat the hell out of him for that.

Hey Lord I wouldn't consider my self suckish considering currently in 2nd ranked place as far as Rook players go. And I have tried practicaly every combination against Erebus and the only ones that had even a chance was a high-armor/health Rook with yes Bolder Roll and Hammer Slam and I still got towers. But even then I was nearly dead and had no mana by the time me and my partner beat Erebus, and we still ended up losing. Look at my matches, most of my games I lost are from Erebus, and only Erebus.

I have tried a speed build, but the best I could do is the Anklet for a favor item plus boots of speed, and Erebus still managed to be faster because lets face it the Rook is just slow unless you spend ALL of your money making him fast. And no It wasn't just ONE player that has beatin me with Erebus, its practically anyone with Erebus with a average intelligence level. Im pretty sure I could do the same thing but I like the Rook so meh.

One Player against me with Erebus was telling me not to use towers and just use high-armor and health and use as I said earlier the Bolder Roll and Hammer Slam but usually Erebus can get out of the way of Hammer Slam in time because the stun on Bolder Roll doesn't last long enough. You usually only hit him with the AOE not with the raw slam damage. Then of course if you stop the bite BEFORE the stun he will just bite you after the stun negating most damage I already did to him.

Well, all in all it could just be a bad match up, it happens rock-paper-scissors style sometimes. I wasn't trying to say you suck (notice all the Maybes?) that was mostly pent up rage from other posts. Sorry.

Most of Rook's direct damage comes from towers which have limited range and no manuverability, or from hammer slam, which is something that can be avoided by moving.

Also, as kokos said, Erebus has two tricks up his sleeve to avoid hammer slam or towers, which are bat swarm (teleport) and mist (go immune to damage, but can't move or attack). Since Hammer Slam has a charge up and is easily identifiable beforehand, it;s easiest just hit "2" on my keyboard and go invincible making you waste mana and do no damage to me.

Combined with the fact that you are an already slow character, bite reduces your speed, which makes it harder for you to get away. Also, you have high armor, but bite also reduces that amount as well.

So, after factoring all that in, essentially we have:

Rook, who has normal armor (when bitten) and super slow speed (when bitten) fighting Lord Erebus who he can't do any nuke damage to (Hammer Slam missing) and Rook can't run away because he's slowed from bite and Lord Erebus has a teleport that damages to boot.

Just a bad, bad matchup perhaps. Lord Erebus engages you, and essentially takes away your ability to drop hammer slam, ability to run away, drains your health to him, and lowers your armor.

Only thing I guess I can really suggest is play 1v1 against a friend trying different build or items till you find something that works.