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You can play her as a right-clicking semi-carry, although she'll never perform quite as well as an actual carry hero would with equivalent farm. If you want to play a farming Windranger, she's usually better off as solo mid or offlane farmer (solo or dual) rather than being your team's main carry.

There's stats called strength, intelligence, and agility for each hero. These stats determine other things about the hero (their attack damage, attack speed, hit points, armor, etc.)
The ultimate of Outworld Devourer looks at the total intelligence of the hero casting it (Outworld Devourer himself) and then does the following for each hero in the AOE:
If the other hero's intelligence is higher than Outworld Devourer's, it does nothing.

The problem with them is that you can counter-pick all you want, but strategies can mitigate weaknesses. As long as the other team can force you into a situation where your counter doesn't work, then it won't matter.

Like, let's say you pick up Razor to go against Outworld Devourer, typically favorable for Razor. However, they put Outworld Devourer safe lane solo and now your Razor is not able to counter him because you selected Clockwerk to offlane early on and he cannot rotate mid to face off against Queen of Pain since he will get dominated.

Get Aghanim's Scepter on heroes whose only real utility is from their ultimate. Faceless Void is a bad candidate because his biggest contribution is right-click damage and bashes, so getting +damage and +attack speed items is better than an Aghanim's Scepter for him. Other heroes like this are Luna and Gyrocopter. Their ults are nice, but are not the most important aspect of the hero (Edit: For a hard carry role). Tiny is an exception to this.

General Rules of Thumb

At Mid

• Bottle in < 2 minutes ==> need it by rune time
• TIP: general "Bottle Rush" build is Tangos + 3x Iron Branches, which puts you half way to Bottle with remaining gold (this won't make sense for every matchup and hero though)

Support

• Upgrade Flying Courier in < 2 minutes ==> for mid Bottle delivery / avoid courier sniping
• Town Portal Scroll  in < 4 minutes ==> this is one of my personal rules of thumb, basically just to help out against early roams

Carry

Farming Items

• Hand of Midas: (a) at most in < 8 min or so (for games that will be more late-game oriented / less early pressure), (b) ideally in 4-6 mins
• Battle Fury: (a) at most in < 15 min, (b) ideally in < 12 min or so

Note: @12 mins would put you around 360 GPM most likely

Death Prophet

With Death Prophet, a lot of the issues reside in the way her ult works:

It's good for pushing, but not so great for team fights

• DPS isn't necessarily great or focused

You only get the benefit of the heal after the spell ends

• A lot of players are calling for an ability to recall her ult and get the heal

How someone can pick heroes accordingly to mitigate the threat that he is. The majority of Faceless Void’s threat comes from his gamebreakingly low cooldown ultimate Chronosphere. This is why Mask of Madness is such a popular item on the guy in the first place. Anyone caught in a Chronosphere is immediately bursted down with his double damage bashes, while he can’t be touched. In my opinion, heroes that can react once Chronosphere is dropped are safer picks than silencers like Skywrath Mage who might be jumped upon in the first place.

Lycanthrope isn't as strong as jungler as he once was. He was buffed recently which made it more viable again, but he's still not what I'd consider to be a strong jungler early on.

Well this answer depends alot on specific situations, as well as team composition and exactly what hero/role you play. Overall to maximize xp gain and gold income you just have to make sure you are always doing something, as a carry this is quite easy to understand, since all you do is rotate from lane to lane to jungle farming away

Early on in lane, a Stout Shield can be a great way to reduce incoming damage on a melee carry. I know that wasn't directly your question, but I think it's worth pointing out since taking lane harass is one of the bigger difficulties melee heroes face.

The biggest reason to jungle rather than lane is to increase the total experience available to your team

Your team will need a solid solo laner who can survive a 2/3 vs 1 lane. If you intend to jungle let your team know ahead of time and hopefully someone will pick a good solo laner.

You're not meant to go late with Chen. If you're picking Chen you want early ganks (preferably kills) and then transition into pushes. Your 3 main ganking creeps are the Centaur with the stun, Troll with the snare, and Hellbear with the slow. If you cant gank then farming is fine, but with a hero like Chen you really want ganks to be effective. Eventually you'll start pushing towers. For that purpose, the Wildwing and big crit wolf are both great. Wildwing gives armor to all your allies, and the big crit wolf gives 30% dmg to all allies.