What do I think of Venomancer's skills? Useless. Can pawn at begin, but they are destined to become useless later.
Shadow Strike:
Initial Damage: 50/70/70/100
Secondary Damage: 10/30/40/50
Slowed: 50/50/50/50%
Now, tell me, is this skill really useful later? In can be used if you have other slows like eye of skadi and so on, but in my opinion, this ability really becomes useless later, when you just reach near a hero and moments later your seeing (Name) just pawned (Name) for X extra gold!
Slow Poison
Poison Damage per second (7 seconds): 5/10/15/20
Sightly speed descreased (I belive its 10%)
This, is with no doubt, a useless skill. Specially against Strength Heroes. First of all, this type of poison can't even kill.
Plague Ward
I don't know how much damage does this deal, but I only know that it's SUPER MEGA HYPER STUPID!
ULTIMATE
Damage per second: 34/48/64
Or something like that. Another skill destined to become useless against Strength Heroes.
In fact, almost all damage spells become useless against Strength and Intelligence Heroes; Strength Heroes have uber HP, for example a Tauren Warchief without items, can easly become 2500 HP without items at lvl 25, and Intelligence Heroes always have a Soul Booster. If they don't have Soul Booster, they have some other crap like fast eye of skadi or something like that.
Summary: Let's feed the Strength Heroes!
-Rui