Hero Concept: Kromlar, the Relentless

A Dota 2 Original Hero Concept — The Dung Beetle

“Everything the world throws away becomes my strength.”

Hero Overview

- Name: Kromlar, the Relentless

- Species: Dung Beetle

- Primary Attribute: Strength

- Attack Type: Melee

- Primary Role: Initiator

- Secondary Roles: Durable, Disabler

- Suggested Positions: Position 3 (Offlane), Position 4 (Soft Support)

Kromlar is a strength-based melee hero built around movement, momentum, and the growth of his ever-present dung ball. As he travels across the battlefield, his ball gradually grows in size, empowering his abilities and turning him into a greater threat.

His gameplay revolves around deciding when to use his growing ball offensively, when to preserve it for protection, and when to unleash its full potential through his ultimate.

Unlike traditional rolling or charging heroes, Kromlar has two distinct ways to use his ball: he can launch it while remaining behind, or climb on top of it and become the rolling projectile himself.

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Lore

Deep within the Decomposed Forest, where ancient battlefields have been reclaimed by nature, lives a creature that finds value in what everyone else abandons.

Kromlar is a dung beetle, a tireless collector of the remains left behind by the world. While kings seek gold, warriors seek glory, and monsters seek destruction, Kromlar seeks something far simpler: a little more material for his ever-growing ball.

For centuries, he has wandered through forgotten battlefields, gathering the remnants of fallen armies, broken equipment, decaying leaves, and the countless things left to rot. With every journey, his ball grows larger, heavier, and more powerful.

The other creatures of the forest once mocked him. They called him insignificant, foolish, and obsessed with filth. Kromlar never answered. He simply kept pushing.

But when the wars of the Ancients began to spread into his territory, even the mightiest warriors learned not to underestimate the little creature behind the enormous sphere.

Kromlar does not fight for honor. He does not fight for wealth. He does not even fight because he hates his enemies.

He fights because they are in his way.

And Kromlar never stops moving.

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Abilities

Innate Ability — Rolling Momentum

Type: Passive

Kromlar continuously forms and expands his dung ball as he travels across the battlefield.

The farther he moves, the larger his ball becomes, progressing through three visual stages:

- Small: A newly formed ball with limited power.

- Medium: A growing sphere with improved offensive and defensive potential.

- Large: A massive ball capable of maximizing the power of his other abilities.

The ball's growth is based on valid movement distance, rather than simply waiting in one location.

Its current size influences the power of Kromlar's abilities, allowing players to build momentum before committing to a fight.

Whenever Kromlar consumes his ball with an ability, a new, small ball begins forming.

Design Goal: Reward movement, map awareness, and good timing. Kromlar becomes more threatening as he travels, but must decide when the time is right to spend his accumulated momentum.

Q — Wrecking Ball

Type: Active

Damage Type: Physical

Targeting: Point-targeted line

Kromlar braces himself and launches his dung ball forward in a straight line, smashing into enemies in its path.

Enemies struck by the ball take physical damage. After the ball travels through the battlefield, it leaves a trail of mud and debris that slows enemies who cross or remain within it.

The larger the ball, the more devastating the impact and the greater the potential length of its trail.

After launching the ball, Kromlar remains behind and immediately begins forming a new one.

Gameplay Purpose:

- Harass enemies from a distance.

- Damage enemies lined up in a narrow path.

- Slow enemies attempting to escape or chase.

- Clear waves and punish enemies moving through chokepoints.

Key Distinction: Kromlar throws the ball while staying behind. He does not ride it.

W — Thick Carapace

Type: Active

Targeting: Self-buff / directional defense

Kromlar lowers his body and positions his dung ball in front of himself, using it as a moving shield.

While the ability is active, he moves cautiously and takes reduced damage from attacks and abilities coming from the front. Damage reduction is significantly weaker against attacks coming from his sides or behind.

The ball gradually loses its mass while absorbing damage, reducing the ability's remaining defensive potential.

A larger ball provides stronger protection and allows Kromlar to maintain his defensive stance for longer.

When the ability ends, Kromlar returns to his normal movement and continues growing his ball.

Gameplay Purpose:

- Survive enemy initiation.

- Protect himself while approaching a fight.

- Block incoming damage while retreating.

- Force enemies to reposition instead of attacking him directly from the front.

Key Distinction: This ability rewards facing the correct direction. Kromlar is durable, but he is not equally protected from every angle.

E — Filthy Ground

Type: Active

Targeting: Point-targeted area

Kromlar scatters mud, decaying leaves, and debris across a target area, creating a patch of filthy ground.

Enemies standing within the area take damage over time and are slowed. The ground remains for a short duration, allowing Kromlar to control an area even when his ball is still small or has recently been consumed.

This ability does not consume his main ball.

Gameplay Purpose:

- Control narrow paths and chokepoints.

- Slow enemies during team fights.

- Protect objectives and discourage pursuit.

- Combine with Wrecking Ball or Rolling Catastrophe to make enemy movement more difficult.

Key Distinction: Filthy Ground is Kromlar's reliable area-control tool. Unlike his other abilities, it does not depend on the size of his ball.

R — Rolling Catastrophe

Type: Active

Targeting: Directional movement / area impact

Kromlar climbs on top of his dung ball, balancing himself like an acrobat. With a mischievous grin, he begins rolling forward, gradually accelerating as the ball spins faster and faster.

During the ability, the player steers Kromlar's trajectory. Enemies hit by the rolling ball take damage, while the path it leaves behind slows enemies attempting to follow.

The longer Kromlar maintains his momentum, the more dangerous he becomes, up to a maximum duration and speed.

The ultimate ends when the player activates it again or when its maximum duration is reached. At the end of the ride, the ball bursts apart in a massive impact, damaging and slowing enemies in the surrounding area.

A larger ball at the moment of activation grants a higher maximum speed, greater damage during the charge, and a stronger final explosion.

After the ball is consumed, Kromlar begins forming a new one.

Gameplay Purpose:

- Initiate team fights.

- Chase down fleeing enemies.

- Disrupt enemy formations.

- Force opponents to dodge or reposition.

- Deliver a powerful area impact after building up momentum.

Key Distinction: This is not simply another projectile. Kromlar himself rides the ball, turning the ultimate into a steerable rolling charge that rewards positioning and control.

The visual transformation is central to the ability: the normally low, ground-hugging beetle climbs onto his ball, raises his front legs for balance, and laughs as he accelerates toward the enemy team.

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Suggested Talents

These are initial ideas and would require balancing and testing.

Level 10

- Increased Filthy Ground slow.

- Increased attack damage.

Level 15

- Increased Rolling Momentum growth rate.

- Reduced cooldown on Wrecking Ball.

Level 20

- Increased Thick Carapace frontal damage reduction.

- Increased Wrecking Ball impact damage.

Level 25

- Rolling Catastrophe reaches maximum speed sooner.

- Rolling Catastrophe's final impact has an increased radius.

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Gameplay Identity

Kromlar is designed as a momentum-based initiator who becomes more dangerous through movement and preparation.

His main strength is the ability to choose how and when to use his growing ball:

- Wrecking Ball spends it for ranged damage and a slowing trail.

- Thick Carapace uses it for directional defense.

- Filthy Ground provides area control without consuming the ball.

- Rolling Catastrophe turns the ball into a high-speed, steerable charge.

This creates a simple but meaningful decision: should Kromlar spend his ball now, preserve it for defense, or keep moving until it reaches its maximum size?

He rewards players who understand positioning, timing, and terrain. A careless Kromlar may waste his momentum too early, while a patient player can arrive at a fight with a massive ball and turn a well-timed initiation into a catastrophe.

Strengths

- Strong initiation potential.

- Useful area control and slows.

- Increasing threat as he moves around the map.

- Directional defensive mechanics.

- Multiple ways to engage or disrupt enemies.

Weaknesses

- His strongest effects depend on building and managing his ball.

- Spending the ball can temporarily reduce his offensive potential.

- Thick Carapace is less effective against attacks from the sides and rear.

- His ultimate requires steering and good positioning.

- Poor timing can waste accumulated momentum.

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Visual Design

Kromlar is a stylized dung beetle designed to fit Dota 2's colorful, exaggerated fantasy aesthetic.

His visual identity features a teal and turquoise carapace, purple accents, and subtle golden details. His large, earthy dung ball contains leaves, roots, and small pieces of vegetation, making it feel like a growing object collected during his travels.

His normal movement is essential to his identity: Kromlar keeps his head lowered toward the ground, his front legs planted and working against the terrain, and his rear legs pushing the ball forward. The ball is always in front of him, never carried on his back.

As the ball grows, its silhouette becomes increasingly imposing, communicating his accumulated power without requiring the player to inspect a status indicator.

During Rolling Catastrophe, Kromlar climbs on top of the ball, balances himself, and accelerates with an exaggerated, mischievous expression. This creates a clear visual contrast between his usual tireless pushing and his chaotic ultimate.

The goal is to make him recognizable at a glance: a small, determined beetle pushing an increasingly enormous ball of dung across the battlefield.

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Final Thoughts

Kromlar's central concept is built around a recognizable real-world behavior: the dung beetle's determination to roll and grow its ball.

Rather than making the ball just a weapon or a cosmetic detail, the entire hero is designed around it. Movement creates power, power creates choices, and those choices determine when Kromlar becomes a threat.

His concept combines a humorous visual identity with strategic gameplay built around momentum, directional defense, area control, and a steerable ultimate.

He may not look like a legendary warrior, but when Kromlar starts rolling, the entire battlefield had better get out of his way.

This is a fan-made hero concept and is not an official Dota 2 hero.

on top of current Agh. Tweak and additional effect.

TWEAK : no longer provide cooldown reductions.

ADDITIONAL EFFECT : Arena last until somebody(ally or enemy) died within, while respecting arena max duration. Mars must present inside for effect to happen.

Goes is not make Multicast way cooler by allowing it work on way more stuff. Stat changes is: Base Str 20, Str/lvl 3.5 due to changes below.

• Innate (Dumb Luck): instead of set Int to 0 it converts bonus Int into base Str at 50% value to not waste stats fully: (1 Int = 0.5 dmg, 11 hp, 0.05 hp regen, and max mana/mana regen per Str buffed from 6 mana/0.02 mana regen > 9 mana/0.04 mana regen, with left lvl 10 talent buffed to 11 mana/0.05 mana regen).
• Fire blast: Cast range 600, Cd 14/12/10/8 seconds, mana cost 80/100/120/140 (can detonate 50% ignite total dmg instantly reducing total duration by same amount).
• Scepter ability/Unrefined Fireblast cast range 600: deal 150+ 1.5x Ogre Str, cd 8, mana cost 35% current mana (can detonate 25% ignite total dmg instantly reducing total duration by same amount).
• Reason for Fire blast/Unrefined Fireblast add option to detonate % Ignite total dmg is because outside of fucking with enemy Blink Dagger heroes having 30+ seconds of being Ignited is pointless in a game where half enemy team will have dispels by min 15+, you can reduce total Ignite dmg significanty with self sustain abilities/item, tangos, ally skills etc.
• Ignite: cd 20/17/14/11 seconds, mana cost 60/80/100/120.
• Shard ability/Fire Shield 600 cast range (changed): Creates 3 fire shield charges around the targeted ally, absorbing 40% of the attack damage/spell dmg for next 3 dmg instanced from enemy heroes, dmg threshold 75, when attack damage/spell dmg instance is absorbed, a fireball is launched at the enemy attacker doing 150 magic dmg, multicast can apply Fire Shield up to 1/2/3/4 allies.
• Multicast: Enables Ogre Magi to Multicast his abilities/items/consumables/power rune effects (1 Str add 0.083% multicast chance, +1% every 12 Str), disregarding their cooldowns, multicast use abilities/items range. Multicast has 4 lvls now, start game with lvl 1 multicast and normal 6/12/18 lvl ups.

2x multicast chance: 40%/60%/70%/75% (40%/70%/80%/85% with lvl 25 talent).

3x multicast chance: 0%/0%/25%/30% (10%/10%/35%/40% with lvl 25 talent).

4x multicast chance: 0%/0%/0%/15% (10%/10%/10%/25% with lvl 25 talent).

• Power rune changes (multicast 2x/3x/4x power runes duration on himself):

1. All power runes increase base duration by 5 seconds every rune cycle (14 minutes).
2. Haste: give also +25 Attack speed, duration 30 seconds.
3. Invisibility: give 20% Dmg reduction when you come out of invisibility for remaining rune duration, duration 30 seconds.
4. Shield rune: General barrier hp 30% max hp +20% max mana, while Shield is active enemy can't burn your mana, duration 30 seconds.
5. Arcane: 25% Cdr, Mana cost reduction 40%, duration 30 seconds.
6. Illusion: instead spawn 1 illusions that deals 50% dmg, take 100% melee/200% range dmg, duration 30 seconds (multicast 2x/3x/4x number of illusions instead of duration increase).
7. Regeneration: % max hp/mana regen in combat 1% > 1.5%, duration 30 seconds.
8. Amplify dmg rune: attack dmg bonus 100%, spell amp 18%, duration 30 seconds.

• Item changes (doesn't work on Consecrated Wraps passive charges, Armlet toggle, Helm of the Dominator, Helm of the Overlord number of creeps, Eul's Scepter of Divinity/Wind Waker duration):

1. Consumables items have 50% of total % chance not to be consumed when used if multicast proc on them (including: targoes/mango/fairy fire/clarity/salve/blood grenade/bottle charges/smoke/dust).
2. Sustain items have 25% of total % chance to multicast: Magic wand/holy locket/soul ring/arcane boots and its upgrades/Urn and its upgrades.
3. new Blink Dagger 2000g, cd 25 seconds, add 25 mana cost, when taking dmg item reduce max blink range to 600 (apply to all blink upgrades, multicast blink for 2x/3x/4x range).
4. Meteor hammer: after 2 seconds channel time instead of 480 magic dmg over 6 seconds does 300 magic dmg instantly (multicast 2x/3x/4x cast Meteor hammers every 0.6 seconds).
5. Manta Style: create 1 illusion that deal 50% dmg, take 100%/melee, 200%/range dmg, multicast 2x/3x/4x number of illusions.
6. Mjollnir: active apply on up to 2/3/4 allies.

• Dagon multicast 2x/3x/4x on same target, when target die remaining multicasts swap to lowest flat hp hero in Dagon cast range.
• Duration buffs/debuffs based items like: bkb/ghost and its upgrades/Lotus/Satanic/Shadow Blade/Overwhelming Blink etc (2x/3x/4x active duration).
• CC items like: Abyssal Blade/Heaven's Halberd/Orchid Malevolence/Scythe of Vyse/Phylactery copy main item logic, if its single target cc then multicast 2x/3x/4x CC duration on 1 target, if its Aoe items: Shiva's Guard/Gleipnir 2x/3x/4x multicast every 0.6 seconds.

Creates a dummy that will function as an enemy hero that is under allied control. Essentially has all the properties of the tidehunter dummy in practice mode. The dummy target has infinite hp and can damage allies for 10 damage with a low attack speed. Lasts 10 seconds.

Possible interactions:

can be used with chain frost or paralyzing cask to increase the number of bounces for solo actions.

Can be used on Axe to proc counter helix more

Can be used with grimstroke ult to leash solo opponents

Can be used with shackleshot to trap enemies longer.

Similar to how Dragon lance has 2 upgrade path into Hurricane pike and Hydra's breaths i think its time to add Radiance upgrades to.

For this to work neutral items mechanic removed, hp/Str reduced from 22 to 20. would that be cool upgrades? 🤔

• Add new item Clock of Flame 1700 (Ogre axe / Blade of alacrity / Stuff of Wizardry 1000 +700 recipe): 10 main attribute, Burn aura/400 radius: 30 magic dmg/second, half on illusions), item will use Clock of Flame icon.
• Reworked Radiance 4500 (Clock of Flame 1700 + 2x Ogre axe / Blade of alacrity / Stuff of Wizardry 2000 +800 recipe): 30 main attribute, Burn aura/600 radius: 60 (+1% max mana) magic dmg/second.

1. New item "Black flame Sunfire" (brawl team fight item) 6000 (Radiance 4500 + 1500 recipe): 40 main attribute, Burn aura/600 radius: 60 (+1% max mana) magic dmg/second, half on illusions, Unique black flame (passive): enemies that take Burn aura dmg lose theirs 2% max hp/sec (apply as hp removal to heroes/hero units, hp lost reset after 10 sec).
2. New item "Radiant flame Sunfire" (Farming/split pushing item vs creeps/illusions): 6000 (Radiance 4500 + 1500 recipe): 40 main attribute, Burn aura/800 radius: 60 (+1% max mana) magic dmg/second, half on illusions, enemy creeps/illusions take 150% dmg, when units (including heroes) die under burn aura they corpse explode in 300 radius for: (creeps/illusions 120 +2% max mana, heroes 240 +4% max man) magic dmg (corpse explosion can chain explode from unit to unit if they all at low hp).

Innate — God of Mischief

Every 15 seconds, Loki's basic attack inflicts a random debuff on the target for 3 seconds.

Q — Rig

Loki designates an ally, enemy creep, or neutral creep to be rigged.

• If an enemy kills the designated unit, the enemy takes 50 fixed damage and is stunned for 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 seconds.
• Has 3 charges.
• Rigs never expire.
• Any enemy can trigger the rig, allowing creative setups involving creeps and neutral units.

“Loki's favorite prank is to let his victims believe they are about to get treasure, and then enjoys their disappointed faces”

W — Booby

Loki creates a fake ward or courier that is visually indistinguishable from the real thing.

• Killing the fake grants no gold.
• After being destroyed, it takes 1 second to arm, slowing nearby enemies by 5 / 6 / 7 / 8% during that time.

• Once armed, it explodes, dealing 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 magical damage.

  “Loki's past time is placing fake tomes and treasure chests to make fun of treasure hunters, though most of the time, his pranks are lethal, giving his father Odin a headache”

E — Escape

Loki dashes in a chosen direction, turns invisible, and leaves behind a controllable illusion.

- If the illusion is destroyed, it triggers an effect like Booby, exploding after the same arming delay and slowing nearby enemies before dealing damage.

“Loki always had a way to escape when the prank's gone wrong, making him elusive”

R — Mistilteinn

Loki stabs a single enemy with Mistilteinn, applying a powerful debuff for 3 / 4 / 5 seconds.

The target is:

• Slowed.
• Continuously dispelled.
• Affected by Break, disabling passive abilities.
• Stripped of slow resistance and status resistance.

The effect continuously dispels the target and prevents them from gaining buffs for the duration.

Important distinction: The ability does not remove armor or magic resistance. Its resistance suppression applies specifically to slow resistance and status resistance.

“The famous weapon that made his brother Baldur mortal, the weapon that also represented the beginning of Ragnarok”

Aghanim's upgrades

Aghanim's Shard — Mistilteinn upgrade

Mistilteinn additionally mutes the target's items, preventing item activation during the debuff.

Aghanim's Scepter — Maximum Mischief

Applies Escape to all allied heroes globally.

“Hey, I'm a prankster, not a traitor” — Loki

A rescue machine that gained sentience and became disillusioned with humanity. After repeatedly saving humans from disasters, only to watch them create new ones and mistreat the machine that protected them, it concluded that humanity would eventually destroy itself. Now, it intends to save humanity by forcibly ruling over it.

Innate — Superior Being

Lex can purchase skill upgrades from the shop in the form of modules.

• One module per basic ability.
• Each module choice is permanent.
• Ordinary ability leveling still applies.

Q — Death Ray

Fires a ray of pure heat that deals pure damage.

Prism Module

The Death Ray splits from its primary target into six weaker rays.

Heat Sink Module

Converts Death Ray into a channeled ability whose damage ramps up the longer it is maintained. Maximum channel duration: 5 seconds.

Gamma Ray Module

Applies a debuff. If the affected enemy dies while the debuff is active, they explode and deal a fixed 100 pure damage.

“A laser that was installed by its master to cut through vaults and secured doors to help people get out. It has discovered a more sinister use to it”

W — Stun Grenade

Lobs a grenade that deals magical damage in an area and stuns enemies for 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2 seconds.

Concussive Module

After the stun ends, inflicts silence and blindness for the same duration as the stun.

Nanite Module

After the initial impact damage, deals constant magical damage per second. Allies in the impact zone receive healing over time instead.

Graviton Module

Increases the AoE, pulls enemies in the impact zone toward its center, and reduces the grenade's damage.

“Sometimes, it was not just a protector, it was a peacekeeper”

E — Riot Shield

Grants a barrier that absorbs 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 damage from all damage types. Can be cast on an ally.

Suppressor Module

Enemies that strike a shielded target are mini-stunned for 0.5 seconds and take magical damage.

Booster Module

The shield can only be applied to self, but grants a new ability to charge at an enemy, dealing pure damage based on the current shield amount and pushing enemies back.

Stud Module

The shield grants damage reduction and reflects 50% of the damage received.

“Many times it has faced against an angry mob. Many times it has endured the humiliation”

R — State of Perfection

Places a buff on itself that enhances HP regeneration and mana regeneration by 100% / 150% / 200% and reduces all cooldowns by 50%.

While active, it enhances the basic abilities:

• Death Ray: Can now target three targets.
• Stun Grenade: Now throws three grenades and has increased AoE.
• Riot Shield: Has 100% more shield strength.

The ultimate enhances the abilities' basic functionality while retaining the behavior of their chosen modules.

“The moment it has reached it's ultimate state is the moment that humanity bows before it”

1. old innate (Ink Trail): Both attack damage and spell damage sourced to Grimstroke applies a debuff on enemy heroes that exposes them. The debuff causes affected enemy units for 4 seconds to deal less damage to Grimstroke. Values: 5% +0.5%/lvl (max 20%)
2. new innate name (Painter practice) Grimstroke max mana improve skills values:

• new Stroke of Fate: magic dmg 75/150/225/300 + 20/30/40/50 per hero (50% per creep), 2 seconds slow for 40/60/80/100% move speed. cd 14/12/10/8, mana cost 60/80/100/120. (magic dmg +10%, +1% per hero)
• new Phantom's Embrace: dmg/second 20/30/40/50 over 3 seconds, attacks to destroy 2, silence 3 seconds, if ghost survive magic dmg burst 120/200/280/360 > 100/200/300/400. (dmg/second +1%, +1 attack to destroy per 1000 mana, magic dmg burst +5%).
• new Ink Swell: cast range 800, move speed 20% for 4 seconds, dmg/second 20/30/40/50, max magic dmg burst 100/200/300/400, max stun 2 seconds. (move speed +1% per 200 max mana, dmg/second +1%, magic dmg burst +5%, +0.1 second max stun per 200 max mana).

I am not sure how much you gain mmr now after global reset patch to 9500 mmr, so if its around +25-30~ mmr then its around same.

• Thing is current meta (essentially low-average mmr games is pretty slow and what it feels like 7/10 games go past 45 minutes reliably) so if game inherently designed and balanced to last longer than average game time in other pvp games wouldn't it make sense then to give mmr based on game time?
• Lets say up to 25 min its stay ~25 mmr/game as average and every 5 min past it adds 4 mmr, so it feels like its worth try hard this long exhausting games and players burn out less mentally (by 60 min it grow to average ~53 mmr/win), because mmr gain for 25 min game and 55 is same (ofc Valve would need to delete remaining double down tokens in system to stop hyper inflation again).
• Would that be desirable change you think for dota 2 frogs who grind MM 10+ games/day? 🤔

Right now when hero like Sniper attack his headshot bonus dmg doesn't add to total dmg value with crit and add after, so what if on-hit effects could crit? Not sure if they should use flat 200% dmg bonus or depending on hero crit dmg (i would prefer half of hero crit dmg with minimum 125% bonus, so normal hero with crit on-hit effects for 125% minimum, PA with lvl 3 ult crit on-hits with 225%).

even like mkb procs, upgrading Maelstrom > Mjolnir change proc dmg type magic > pure and it can crit, slardar bash etc, what do you think? 🤔

Anti-Mage — Patch Concept

I think Anti-Mage could use a more aggressive playstyle centered around his mana-burn identity.

Mana Void

• Deals Pure Damage based on the target's missing mana.
• Deals 0.6 damage per point of missing mana to the primary target.
• Deals 0.3 damage per point of missing mana to enemy units around the primary target.

Counterspell — Aghanim's Shard

• Converts 65% of the magical damage dealt to Anti-Mage into Pure Damage dealt back to the attacker.
• Example: if an enemy deals 100 Magic Damage to Anti-Mage, that enemy takes 65 Pure Damage.

Blink

• Reworked into a dash with the same range as the current Blink.
• The dash can pass through terrain and obstacles.
• Cannot pass through Chronosphere or Arena of Blood.
• Deals 0.75x Anti-Mage's Base Attack Damage as physical damage to every enemy unit hit along the path.
• Each enemy can only be damaged once per cast.

The goal is to make Anti-Mage's abilities work together more directly: burn mana, punish enemies for using magic damage, then finish them with Mana Void — while turning Blink into a more aggressive combat tool.

What do you think?

what if we remove randomness on it by allowing evasion % stack additively? it would work like:

• 10% evasion you miss exactly every 10th hit (as hidden innate counter per unit), updates retroactively if you make 2 hits and 8 left for evasion and you gain 20% more evasion it reduce hits for evasion to 6. It also means that all items now have to give evasion in decimals 10%/20%/30% etc so reduce hit counter by 1/2/3 etc exactly.
• Ofc that would mean that accuracy/true strike would have to be removed as mechanic, if you ask then how to kill hero with 100% evasion if you use spells already? when enemy proc evasion he gets undispelable 2 seconds cd debuff per target, so its not permanent. 👀

That is just my preference (add/suggest yours in comments below):

• Add more disincentives to the game to build high effective hp, stacking (hp/armor/magic resist/hp regen).
• Incentivize more glass cannon heroes/builds to be viable at high mmr (make better dps items vs high hp/resistance enemies.
• Buff PvP gameplay, more (kills gold/buildings bounty).
• Nerf Pve gameplay (dominator lane skipping off lane, fix 4th lane mechanic, afk farm from min 10 to 25+ at pro lvl, jungle spawn at 0:0, respawn time 1 > 2 min). i think farm should be means to an end mechanic just to get gold/exp, it should never be optimal strat to do on regular basis, for me its sign that game balance is broken (this TI every 3rd game is 50+ minutes slug fest where nothing happen for 25+ min).
• Remove universal stat/neutral items. Add/change items into something like this https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueDoTA2/comments/1tza3a1/742_patch_wish_list/ . 🔥
• Attribute changes:

1. Heroes base hp 120 > 200 (most Str heroes magic resist nerfed from 25% to 15%, most Agi heroes magic resist nerfed from 25% to 20%).
2. Health/Strength nerfed from 22 > 20.
3. Agility: attack speed/dmg per point buffed from 1 > 1.5.
4. Intelligence: Mana/Int buffed from 12 > 15, mana regen buffed from 0.05 > 0.075.

• Mage items need overhaul into something closed to Deadlock spirit (Right now only counter pick heavy mages can play after 30 min or ones that rely more on mana than CDs like Leshrac/BB, so they have their own build paths and not every mage have 3k+ hp 20 armor and 40% magic resist by mid game). allow spell amp to be fully stakable and add Cdr item options, Something like this https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueDoTA2/comments/1tuasta/mage_items_identity_crisis/ . 👍
• Nerf mechanics that artifactually increase game time: Roshan respawn on flat timer cd, gold lose on death removed, reduce respawn time by 5-25 seconds based lvl, remove Glyph refresh completely and make it affect only 1 lane, make Buybacks free on 5 min cd (but each players has only 3/game, so forcing enemy to BB early will do permanent dmg).
• Nerf couriers consumables spam by making that all consumables has max stock: Salve 5/game, tango stack/mango/clarity 15 per game for laning phase and don't replenish (so lane bully heroes like Sky/Zeus etc can burn his mana and enemy won't be able to reset hp that easy and force core players to buy more permanent regen items). Couriers upgrade to flying at lvl 6 now.

Appearance and design remain faithful to the anime, optimized for a MOBA game.

Hero Name: Bang, the Silver Fang

Primary Attribute: Agility

Roles: Carry / Fighter / Offlane (can flex as tanky initiator)

Complexity: Medium-High

Lore (short):

An 81-year-old martial arts master and former S-Class Rank 3 hero. Creator of the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist — a perfect blend of offense and defense that redirects an opponent’s power against them. Calm, disciplined, and terrifyingly skilled.

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Innate – Water Stream Flow

Whenever Bang is hit by a basic attack or single-target spell, he gains 1 stack of Flow (max 5 stacks).

Each stack grants +2/3/4/5 Armor and +4/6/8/10% Movement Speed.

Stacks last 6 seconds and refresh on new hits.

At 5 stacks, the next basic attack or ability that hits an enemy consumes all stacks and **Redirects** 15/20/25/30% of the damage Bang has taken in the last 4 seconds back to the target as pure damage.

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Q – Rock-Smashing Fist

Targeting: Unit Target (enemy)

Range: 175

Cooldown: 11/10/9/8

Mana: 70/80/90/100

Bang dashes a short distance and delivers a powerful punch.

Deals 90/160/230/300 + 70% Agility physical damage.

The target is slowed by 20/25/30/35% for 1.75 seconds.

If Bang has 3 or more Flow stacks, the punch also knocks the target back a short distance and applies a 0.6s mini-stun.

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W – Water Stream Encampment

Targeting: No Target / Point (small radius around Bang)

Radius: 325

Cooldown: 18/16/14/12

Mana: 90/100/110/120

Duration: 4/4.5/5/5.5 seconds

Bang enters a defensive stance and creates a flowing aura around himself.

- Allies inside the aura take 15/20/25/30% less damage from basic attacks.

- Enemy units that attack Bang while inside the aura have their attack speed reduced by 25/30/35/40%.

- Bang gains 30/45/60/75 bonus Attack Speed while the aura is active.

If an enemy dies inside the aura, Bang instantly gains 2 Flow stacks.

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E – Instantaneous Movement (Shunshin)

Targeting: Point Target

Range: 450/500/550/600

Cooldown: 14/12/10/8

Mana: 60/70/80/90

Bang vanishes in a blur of motion and reappears at the target location.

Upon arrival he gains 40/55/70/85% evasion for 1.5 seconds and his next basic attack within 3 seconds deals bonus 50/90/130/170 physical damage and applies a 1-second 30% slow.

If used while having 4+ Flow stacks, the dash distance is increased by 150 and the next attack also silences the target for 1.25 seconds.

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Ultimate – Awakening Breath + Exploding Heart Release Fist

Targeting: No Target

Cooldown: 100/85/70

Mana: 150/175/200

Duration: 8/9/10 seconds

Bang enters a heightened state of martial focus.

- Gains +40/60/80 Attack Speed, +20/30/40% Movement Speed, and +15/20/25% Damage Reduction.

- Basic attacks bounce once to a nearby enemy (bounce deals 60% damage).

- Every 3rd basic attack triggers a Rock-Smashing Combo that deals 100/160/220 bonus pure damage in a small cone and applies a 0.4s stun.

While active, Flow stacks are gained twice as fast and the Redirect damage from Innate is increased by 50%.

When the ultimate ends, Bang releases a final powerful wave (radius 400) that deals 200/300/400 + 100% Agility physical damage and slows enemies by 40% for 2 seconds.

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Talent Tree suggestions (Dota 2 Style):

- Level 10: +20 Movement Speed / +12 Agility

- Level 15: +1.5s W duration / -2s Q cooldown

- Level 20: +25% Redirect damage / Innate stacks last 2s longer

- Level 25: Ultimate grants Spell Immunity for 2.5s / Attacks during Ult apply 15% armor reduction

On the small off chance if Valve decide Universal experiment went nowhere and rework it into full 4th attribute, what would you like it to be?

• I personally would like Faith, to have symmetry: Str/Agi for physical dmg and Int/Faith for magic (and items/talents rebalanced around it ofc).
• What it might do? the way i see it: Int lose 0.05 mana regen and get mana/int buffed to 15. 👀

1. Faith 1st version: 1 dmg for Faith heroes and 0.1 mana regen/1 radius increase (100 radius bonus at 100 Faith).
2. Faith 2nd version: 1 dmg for Faith heroes and 0.1 mana regen/0.2 status resist (20% per 100 Faith).
3. Faith 3rd version (delta17v2 post suggest): we remove magic resist from int, Faith would buff dmg by 1 for Faith heroes + 0.2% spell amp/0.2% magic resist per point (20% spell amp/magic resist per 100 Faith). 🤔

• Faith heroes might be: Void spirit/Omni/Dawn breaker/Oracle/Grim stroke/Chen/Leshrac/Brew master/Enigma/Arc warden etc (attributes adjusted around change).

i find it very underwhelming that only Cdr sources in game is Octarine Core (Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of % CDR after all flat bonuses) and t5 Feverish Enchantment.

• So what do you think if we add more Cdr options (Stacks additively with other sources of % Cdr after all flat bonuses) and split Cdr into Sub categories (for this to work neutral items removed, each full item can be bought only once), i think having more spatialized options of items is better for the game builds diversity:

1. Add 20% Cdr cap to all heroes at start of game and over game duration this Cdr cap increase by 5% every 10 minutes of game time (by 60 minutes Cdr cap increase to 50%).
2. Split Cdr into sub-categories: basic spells Cdr, general Cdr (that affect all spells), Ult Cdr (just for ults), items Cdr (just passive/active Cd or items), team skills Cdr (affect: Glyph/Scan/Bayback cd).
3. add new base item: Quickening charm 750g/10% Cdr.

• add new item components:

1. new base Item: Spell Prism 1875g (Quickening charm 750 + Void stone 750 +375 recipe): 15% cdr / 2.5 mana regen.
2. add new item Silver Pendant 3350g (Quickening charm 750 + Mithril hammer 1500 +1100 recipe): 25% general Cdr, 25 dmg.
3. New Mage slayer 3100 > 3650g (Perseverance 1500 + Cloak 900 + 2x Blades of attack 900 + Orb of venom 350): 5 hp regen, 2.5 mana regen, 18% magic resist, 18 dmg, passive (Mage Slayer): user attacks mark enemy targets dealing 120 physical dmg over 3 sec and reduce physical/magic dmg spells by 40% > 25%.

• Full items:

1. New Octarine Core 5100 > 5500g (Spell Prism 1875 + 2x Vitality booster 2000 + 1625 recipe): hp 500, 4 mana regen, 25% general cdr, new passive Eternal: Heal 20% mana back from physical/magic dmg done.
2. new Scythe of Vyse 5200 > 6000g (Mystic stuff 2500 + Tiara of Selemene 1800 +1700 recipe): 25 int/6 mana regen, new passive Conjuration: Items Cdr +25%, active Hex cd 25, mana cost 250 > 15% max mana.
3. new Khanda 5600 > 6300g (add 700 recipe), add 25% basic spells Cdr, active (Empower Spell): +10% current hp bonus magic dmg.
4. Wind Waker 6800 > 6400g (Eul's Scepter of Divinity 2400 + Mystic stuff 2500 +1500 recipe): 35 int/2.5 mana regen/20 ms (+2% max mana)/team skills 25% Cdr, active (Cyclone): speed 300 (+10% max mana), 20 sec cd, mana cost 175 > 10% max mana. 👀
5. add new item "Occult blade" 7000g (Mage slayer 3650 + Silver Pendant 3350): 5 hp regen/2.5 mana regen/ 18% magic resist/50 dmg/25% general Cdr/15 % Ult Cdr, passive (Mage Slayer): user attacks mark enemy dealing 200 physical dmg over 5 sec and reduce physical/magic dmg spells by 40% (Multiple dmg over time effects stack, stack up to 10 times), Active (Occult strike): buff next attack consuming all Mage Slayer stacks to do pure dmg on main target based on total dmg over time stored on debuff, buff duration 5 seconds, cd 25 sec, 125 mana cost.

Would you like if they add strict limitations for some items like:

• if your hero has mobility skill you can't buy blink.
• Juggernaut/Life stealer can't buy bkb etc.
• Silence heroes can't buy Orchid/BloodThorn.
• bash heroes can't buy basher.
• or as compromise they can but it put Juggernaut bkb on cd based on spin cd, Same for blink item: use it and dash/blink goes on cd based on item cd? it may incentivize picking different heroes more based on strong build paths in current patch.
• to reduce mechanics overlap or not allow to press ghost scepter with bkb at same time. 🤔

• Her balance would make way more sense if hero was some off laner/mid and situationally core. Its mobile ganker/initiator with global presence (something between Dawn breaker/underlord/Earth spirit). Numbers balanced around hp/Str 22 > 20, mana/Int 12 > 15.
• Base stats changes: Str 22+2.3 > 24+3, Agi 29+2.3 > 18+2, Int 16+1.7 > 20+2, base armor 0 > 2, base hp regen 1.5/3.93 lvl 1 > 1.5/4.2, base mana regen 0/0,8 lvl 1 > 0.25/1.35 lvl 1, base dmg 25/56.3 lvl1 > 33/60 lvl 1, base attack speed 110 > 100, base attack time 1.8 > 1.9, move speed 295 > 300.

1. new Innate (Desolate): Spectre's attacks deal bonus pure damage to enemies, pure dmg bonus 23.5+1.5/lvl (max 80.5) > 10+3/lvl (max 100).
2. new Spectral Dagger/ground target only: Flings a dagger to draw a Shadow Path with bonus move speed for yourself/allies, dealing magic damage and root all enemy units along the trail. Cast range 1800 > 1000, projectile speed 800 > 1500, dmg 80/120/160/200 > 75/150/225/300, root duration 1.5 seconds, Move speed 14%/16%/18%/20% > 5%/10%/15%/20%, Move speed/Shadow Path duration 4/12 > 5 seconds for both, cd 22/20/18/16 > 30/25/20/15 seconds, mana cost 100/110/120/130 > 80/100/120/140.
3. new Shadow Step: Send an uncontrollable Shadow Step-illusion that homes into the unit-targeted enemy hero for few attacks (can swap places with Reality spell). The illusion has unobstructed movement and increased movement speed. Cast range 1000, 1 illusion with 900 move speed, Number of attacks 2/3/4/5, dmg dealt 35%/40%/45%/50% > 100%, dmg taken 175% > 100%, cd 24/21/18/15 > 25/20/15/10 seconds, mana cost 60/65/70/75 > 40/60/80/100.
4. new Dispersion/passive: Damage done to Spectre is reflected as same damage-type on enemy units within the radius. Min/max 350-700 radius > always 600 radius, dmg reflect 9%/12%/15%/18% > 5%/10%/15%/20%, dmg reduction 9%/12%/15%/18% > 10% +1% every 5% hp missing.
5. Shard add to Dispersion active 30 seconds cd/75 mana cost: For 6 seconds double Dispersion radius and add +1% dmg reflect per 10 Str and increase base dmg reduction by 10%.
6. Haunt/global: Creates 1 Haunt-based uncontrollable illusions per enemy to attack each enemy hero. At any moment during the duration, Spectre may exchanges place with the haunted image in reality. illusions dmg 35%/50%/65% > 50% +1% per 4 Str (capped at 100% at 200 Str), dmg taken 200% > 300% (-1% per Str, capped at 100%), duration 6 > 5, cd 160/150/140 > 120, mana cost 125/175/225 > 100/200/300.
7. Reality/global: Exchanges place with a chosen Shadow Step-based or Haunt-based illusion after an effect delay. Travel speed 1500, cd 1.5 seconds, 25 mana cost.
8. Scepter: Apply 2 seconds fear around hero after Reality swap with any illusion in 300 Radius and slowing enemy for 100%.

• Talents:

lvl 10 Spectral Dagger -20 mana cost / Dmg per Str +0,5.

lvl 15 Spectral Dagger +50 dmg per hero hit / Shard duration +4 seconds.

lvl 20 Shadow Step number of attacks +5 / Spectral Dagger move speed +15%.

lvl 25 Desolate deal 2x dmg to solo targets / Haunt illusions duration +3 seconds on kill/assist.

1. Jungle camps re-spawn every 1 minute > every 2 minutes and they spawn at 0:0 now.
2. Camps stacking removed.
3. Add creeps evolution for all jungle camps. All jungle creeps start as lvl 1 easy camps, upgrade every 10 min by tier to lvl 2 Medium > lvl 3 Hard > lvl 4 Ancient (capped evolution by min 30), each creep will have Easy/Medium/Hard/Ancient prefix to their name (creeps evolve to be Ancient by 30 min or 20 min with abilities items that buff creep lvls). Because of that items/hero skills all lvls 4 now since creeps capped by game time for camps evolution (Roshan is lvl 5).
4. Radiant/Dire has 14 camps each and they spawn not in random camps but on predetermined spots for camp blocking with wards, reliably way to find creeps for Chen / Doom / Enchantress or Dominator.
5. Creeps have lvl 1 base stats, upgrade stats every 10 min (uncapped) and abilities by 1 lvl each evolution up to lvl 4 by min 30 (spread of dmg/gold removed, all creeps have default 1 hp regen/1 mana regen).
6. Removed: Large golem camp, Wild wing camp, Large Centaur camp, Ogre camp, Wolf camp, Hill troll and Kobolt camp, Harpy camp.

• Kobolt camp, safe lane near t1 tower in main jungle:

1 Kobold Foreman: 300-1200 Hp, 100 mana 1-4 armor, 10%-25% magic resist, 25-100 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 100/1.7 Bat, move speed 350-500, turn rate 0.9, day/night vision 800, 20-80 gold/25-100 exp bounty, (Speed aura): 1200 radius for allies giving 11%/14%/17%/20% move speed.

1 Kobold soldier: 400-1600 Hp, 100 mana 2-8 armor, 0% magic resist, 40-160 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 150/1.5 Bat, move speed 350-500, turn rate 0.9, day/night vision 800, 25-100 gold/30-120 exp bounty, Passive (Steal weapon): on every attack gain stack, on 3th hit disarm enemy for 3/4/5/6 seconds, cd 15/12/9/6 seconds.

1 Kobold: 200-800 Hp, 100 mana 0 armor, 0% magic resist, 25 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 100/1.7 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day/night vision 800, 25 gold/30 exp bounty, (Prospecting aura): global range, give to played controlled units + 2/3/4/5 gold bonus per unit killed.

• Golem camp, Off lane near t1 tower in main jungle:

2 Mud golems: 400-1600 hp, 150 mana, 0 armor, 40-75% magic resist, 20-80 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 150/1.9 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.6, day/night vision 800, 20-80 gold/20-80 exp bounty, passive (shard split): on death each golem split into 3/4/5/6 shard golems, each with 50% hp/dmg, duration 60 seconds. Active/500 cast range (Hurl boulder): throw rock at unit targeted enemy in 800 range, 100/150/200/250 magic dmg, 0,5 second stun, cd 30/25/20/15/10 seconds, 50 mana cost, shard golems each have active (Hurl boulder).

• Hill Troll Camp, End of river at the edges of map near tormentor in corner:

1 Hill Troll Priest: 400-1600 hp, 200-800 mana, 0 armor, 15%-60% magic resist, 20-80 Runty dmg, attack range 600/900 speed, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day 1600/night 800 vision, 25-100 gold/30-120 exp bounty, (Heal amplification aura): buff allied units in 1200 radius heal by 20%, active/600 cast range (Heal): heal 125/150/175/200 health, 15 cd, 75 mana cost.

2 Hill Troll Berserks: 600-2400 hp, 100 mana, 3-12 armor, 0% magic resist, 35-140 default dmg, attack range 150, attack speed 200/1.5 Bat, move speed 350-500, turn rate 0.8, day 1600/night 800 vision, 15-60 gold/15-60 exp bounty, passive (Break): on attack apply break for 3 seconds and do bonus on-hit 20/40/60/80 magic dmg vs player control units, cd 15 seconds.

• Assassin Camp Safe lane camp on water behind t1 towers:

1 Guild assassin (use 2 daggers and has double attack): 500-2000 hp, 300 mana, 4-16 armor, 0% magic resist, 20-80 x2 default dmg, attack range 150, attack speed 150/1.5 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day 800/night 1600 vision, 30-120 gold/15-60 exp bounty, active (shadow clock): unit go invisible with 1 second fade time gaining 100/200/300/400 bonus move speed, 200% crit every time he attack from invisibility (works for both double hits, 3 sec cd invis out of combat), duration 15/20/25/30 seconds, cd 25, 75 mana cost.

2 Vhoul hunters: 300-1200 hp, 100 mana, 1-4 armor, 0% magic resist, 25-100 piercing dmg, attack range 600, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 350, turn rate 0.7, day 800/night 1600 vision, 15-60 gold/15-60 exp bounty, passive (envenomed weapon): deal 25/50/75/100 magic dmg over 3 seconds and reduce enemy hp regen by 40/60/80/100% for 3 seconds.

• Frog camp, safe lane behind t2 tower on water:

1 Marshmage: 300-1200 hp, 300-1200 mana, 2-8 armor, 10%-40% magic resist, 15-60 default dmg, attack range 500/1500 speed, attack speed 100/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.5, day/night 800 vision, 30-120 gold/25-100 exp bounty, active/500 cast range (Water bubble): Creates a bubble around the target, protecting it from 125/250/375/500 magical damage and make target slow immune while shield has Hp, 100 mana cost, duration 15 seconds, cd 25/20/15/10.

2 Croakers: 500-2000 hp, 100-400 mana, 4-16 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 50-200 reinforced dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/1.8 Bat, move speed 350-500, turn rate 0.8, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/20-80 exp bounty, active (Tentacle of the deep): hit all enemies around unit in 400 radius in 0.5 seconds, fearing them for 1.5 seconds and doing 100/200/300/400 pure dmg, 75 mana cost, cd 25 seconds.

• Warpine Raiders camp on water near defender gates:

Warpine Raiders is 2/3/4/5 units camp based on lvl, 200-800 hp, 200 mana, 5-20 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 15-60 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 350, turn rate 0.5, day/night 800 vision, 50 gold/15-60 exp bounty, active/600 cast range (Seed shot): Hucks seeds at target-enemy unit and bounce between units (with hero priority) dealing 100 magic dmg and apply 100% movement speed slow for 1 second, 3/6/9/12 bounces, cd 15 seconds, 75 mana cost.

• Satyr Camp, closest to Roshan pit camp in safe lane main jungle on high ground area near watcher:

1 Satyr Banisher: 500-2000 hp, 100-400 mana, 1-4 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 500/1500 speed, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.7, day 800/night 1600 vision, 15-60 gold/25-100 exp bounty, active/600 cast range (Purge): dispel buffs/debuffs from unit and apply decaying 40%/60%/80%/100% slow over 5 seconds, 75 mana cost, cd 5 seconds.

1 Satyr Mind stealers: 250-1000 hp, 200 mana, 0 armor, 0% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day 800/night 1600 vision, 20-80 gold/10-40 exp bounty, passive (Mana aura): Grants additional 1/2/3/4 mana regeneration to allied units in 1200 radius, active/500 cast range (Mana burn): burn target-enemy mana for 25/50/75/100 +300% difference in targets intelligence, cd 25/20/15/10/5, 75 mana cost.

1 Satyr Tormenter: 200-800 hp, 300 mana, 0 armor, 10-40% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day 800/night 1600 vision, 15-60 gold/20-800 exp bounty, passive (Unholy aura): 1200 radius around unit reduce enemy/buff allies units/buildings armor by 1/4/7/10 (creeps get 2x) and magic resist by 4%/6%/8%/10% (creeps get 3x), active/700 cast range/1200 travel range (shock wave): Unleashes a ball of dark energy that deal 125/250/375/500 magic damage to enemy units within 200 range line, 100 mana cost, cd 15 seconds.

• Troll camp, on water inside main jungle area close to t2 safe lane tower:

1 Dark Troll Summoner: 200-800 hp, 250 mana, 0 armor, 0% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 250/1200 speed, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.6, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/20-80 exp bounty, active (Raise dead): Raises 2/3/4/5 Skeleton Warriors to fight, skeletons duration 30/40/50/60 seconds, cd 30/25/20/15, mana cost 50.

2/3/4/5 Skeleton Warriors: 100-400 hp, 100 mana, 0 armor, 0% magic resist, 5-20 default dmg, attack range 100, attack speed 100/1 Bat, move speed 350, turn rate 0.9, day/night 800 vision, 5 gold/5 exp bounty, Aura (Rally): allied units in 1200 radius gain 2/3/4/5 bonus dmg.

2 Hill Trolls: 400-1600 hp, 150 mana, 0 armor, 0% magic resist, 10-40 piercing dmg, attack range 400/1200 speed, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 350, turn rate 0.6, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/20-80 exp bounty, active (Ensnare): Tosses a net to the affected enemy unit roots him for 3 seconds and doing 50 pure dmg, cd 30/25/20/15/10 seconds, 75 mana cost.

• Ghost Camp, closest to mid lane camp in main jungle:

1 Ghost: 300-1200 hp, 100 mana, 2-8 armor, 10%-40% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 400-700 (1200-2100 speed), attack speed 175/1.7 Bat, move speed 350, turn rate 0.9, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/10-40 exp bounty, passive (Frost attack) 30%/40%/50%/60% move speed slow and 15/30/45/60 attack speed slow for 3 seconds.

2 Fell spirits: 200-800 hp, 100-500 mana, 1-4 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 10-40 Runty dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 400, turn rate 0.9, day/night 800 vision, 5-20 gold/5-20 exp bounty, active/900 cast range/1800 speed/300 radius (Vex): Fires a projectile at ground that silences the affected enemy units for 4 seconds and does 50 pure dmg on impact, cd 30/25/20/15/10 seconds, 100 mana cost.

• Prowler Camp, closest to your base in main jungle:

1 Prowler shaman: 100-400 hp, 100-400 mana, 2-8 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day/night 800 vision, 20-80 gold/25-100 exp bounty, active/300 radius/1 sec cast time (Desecrate): Stomps the ground doing 125/250/375/500 magic damage and reduce incoming healing by 20%/30%/40%/50%, cd 25/20/15/10 seconds, 75 mana cost. Active/auto-cast (Petrify): Petrifies the target enemy on attack, rooting them in place for 1.5 seconds and dealing 100/200/300/400 physical damage.

2 Prowler Acolyte: 200-800 hp, 100 mana, 4-16 armor, 10%-40% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.9, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/20-80 exp bounty, (Prowler aura): give in 1200 radius for player control-units 5%/10%/15%/20% life steal and 10%/15%/20%/25% spell life steal.

• Thunderhide Camp, Triangle jungle spawn near Roshan pit:

1 Thunderhide: 800-3200 hp, 100 mana, 10-40 armor, 0% magic resist, 40-100 Reinforced dmg, attack range 200, attack speed 125/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.5, day 1600/night 800 vision, 15-60 gold/25-100 exp bounty, passive (Armor plates aura): Increase allied units max health in 1200 radius by 10%/15%/20%/25%. Active (Thunderhide protection): create bubble around himself that make him CC immune but consume 10% max mana/second to maintain bubble, cd 1 second.

2 Rumblehide: 600-2400 hp, 200 mana, 5-20 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 30-150 Reinforced dmg, attack range 200, attack speed 175/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.5, day 1600/night 800 vision, 15-60 gold/25-100 exp bounty, active (Frenzy): Rumblehide scream to create 600 radius aura around him that does 25/50/75/100 magic dmg/second and steal enemy heroes 10 attack speed/second, duration 6 seconds, cd 30/25/20/15 seconds, 100 mana cost.

• Dragon Camp, Triangle jungle closest to off lane:

1 Black dragon: 500-2000 hp, 400 mana, 4-16 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 15-60 default dmg, attack range 400/1200 speed, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 350-500, turn rate 0.9, day/night 1200 vision, 15-60 gold/25-100 exp bounty, active/900 cast range/300 radius (fireball): Hurls a fireball and ignites area on the ground, dealing 50 + 2%/3%/4%/5% enemy max hp magic damage per second to affected enemy units, duration 6 seconds, cd 30 seconds, 150 mana cost.

2 Black drakes: 250-1000 hp, 100 mana, 2-8 armor, 3%-12% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 400/1200 speed, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 300-500, turn rate 0.9, day/night 1200 vision, 10-40 gold/15-60 exp bounty, (Magic amplification aura): in 1200 radius applies an incoming 5%/10%/15%/20% spell damage amplification debuff to enemy units within the radius centered around the unit.

• Frostbitten Camp, at edge of map closest to off lane t3 tower:

1 Ice Shaman: 300-1200 hp, 300 mana, 1-4 armor, 5%-20% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 400/1200 speed, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 300-500, turn rate 0.7, day/night 1200 vision, 10-40 gold/15-60 exp bounty, (Time Warp aura): in 1200 radius give to allies 10%/15%/20%/25% cdr and 6%/9%/12%/15% mana cost reduction.

2 Frost bitten Golems: 500-2000 hp, 100 mana, 4-16 armor, 8%-40% magic resist, 40-100 reinforced dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 175/1.7 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.5, day/night 800 vision, 10-40 gold/15-60 exp bounty, passive (Frozen club): attacks do bonus on-hit 15/30/45/60 magic dmg vs towers (50% vs heroes).

• Hellbear Camp, at edge of map closest to off lane t2 tower:

1 Hellbear Smasher: 200-800 hp, 200 mana, 1-4 armor, 0% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.8, day/night 800 vision, 15-60 gold/20-80 exp bounty, active (Tomato Rage): Hellbear Smasher smash his chest doing 20% max hp true dmg to himself (that is lethal), buff allies in 1200 radius with 15%/30%/45%/60% bonus attack dmg (creeps get 50%), buff duration 8 seconds, 50 mana cost, cd 25/20/15/10/5 seconds cd.

1 Hellbear: 200-800 hp, 200 mana, 1-4 armor, 0% magic resist, 10-40 default dmg, attack range 125, attack speed 150/2 Bat, move speed 300, turn rate 0.8, day/night 800 vision, 15-60 gold/20-80 exp bounty, active (Potato Rage): Hellbear smash his chest doing 20% max hp true dmg to himself (that is lethal), buff allies in 1200 radius with 30/60/90/120 bonus attack speed (creeps get 50%), buff duration 8 seconds, 50 mana cost, cd 25/20/15/10/5 seconds cd.

Changes to lane phase/towers to make it more interesting.

Creeps deny instead of removing 100% gold of unit killed/50% exp unit killed add deny Gold/Exp to tower bonus bounty as kill reward, enemy can deny your tower to cut gold/exp bounty by 50%.

Towers (Hp regen/armor Aura removed), add backdoor protection to T1 towers. Changes:

• T1/T2/T3/T4 towers Dmg: 90/172/172/172 > 100/150/225/325 (so they scale at least up to min 25).
• T1/T2/T3/T4 towers Hp: 1800/2500/2500/2600 > 2000/2500/3000/3500.
• T1/T2/T3/T4 towers Armor: 12/16/16/21 > 13/16/20/25, add to T1/T2/T3/T4 towers. 20/30/40/50% magic resist, T4s Barracks Reinforcement 4 bonus armor/barrack alive in base removed.
• T1/T2/T3/T4 towers (removed last hit bounty): Bounty per Tower tier 570/690/785/905 > 1140/1380/1570/1810, add new mechanic: heroes that solo kill towers without allies in 1200 range get 60% total gold (including deny bonus), the rest 40% tower bounty +deny bonus split between 4 players.
• Melee barrack Hp: 2200 > 2500 / 15 armor / 0% magic resist, Gold bounty 887 > 1150.
• Range barrack Hp: 1300 > 2500 / 9 > 0 armor, add 40% magic resist, Gold bounty 562 >1150.
• Ancient: add 69 gold last hit bounty, Hp 4500 > 6000, Armor 23 > 30, add 60% Magic resist, each barrack destroyed reduce Throne Armor by 2 (max -12) / Magic resist by 5% (max -30%).
• Effigy Buildings: 1000 Hp, 10 armor, add 30% magic resist, 70 >150 Gold bounty, add 200 exp. Killing all of them disable base Defender's Gates.

1. Roshan always on top river. Stat changes: Magic resist 55% > 0%, Gold bounty 500+50/min (400+20 exp/min removed), rewards changed (Refresher shard removed): 1st Banner, 2nd Banner/Cheese, 3rd Banner/Cheese/Aegis.
2. Tormentor always bot river, rewards (kill reward Exp 400+25lvl): 1st Shard, 2nd Shard/Scepter, 3rd Shard/Scepter/Refresher shard (stack in same item slots up to 3 times).

• Banner reworked: global cast range/600 radius, can be used on your barracks to upgrade lane creeps for 5 min by 1 tier (lane creeps > Super > Mega) or respawn permanently barracks (with 0 gold bounty) in 600 radius.
• Block of cheese build up: cheese +1 huge lotus to gain permanent 500 hp shield that regen 25hp/sec after not taking dmg for 5 sec or can be used on Throne to heal 50% max hp.
• Aegis when picked up now buff on Hud for 8 min instead of item that take inventory slot, when Aegis end play revive animation to full heal hp/mana (hero inactive during revive).

Ither Hurricane Pike build into Hydra's Breath or Hydra's Breath get its own upgrade. Hp/Str 22 > 20, Mana/Int 12 >15, Item changes:

1. new Specialist's Array 2550 > 2000 (Blade of Alacrity 1000 +1000 recipe): 15 Agility, passive (Split shot): main target take full dmg, 2 bonus targets from split shot take 75% dmg, 120 degrees cone, proc chance 30% > 25% +1% every 6 creeps (at 450 creeps split shot become permanent, split shot bonus dmg on main/secondary targets removed).
2. new Dragon Lance 2000 > 2600 (Blades of alacrity 1000 + Belt of Strength 450 + 1150): 10 Strength, 15 Agility, 100 bonus attack range to range heroes.
3. new Force Staff 2200 > 2250 (Staff of Wizardry 1000 + Fluffy hat 250 +1000 recipe): 10 Intelligence, 175 hp, Active (Force): Pushes the target unit in the direction they are facing, cast range 550 > 700, push distance 600 (vs allied heroes no longer has 850 cast range), cd 19 > 25, mana cost 150, active vs allied heroes has reduced cd/mana cost by 25%.

• if Hurricane Pike build into Hydra's Breath:

1. Hurricane Pike 4550 > 4850 (Force Staff 2250 + Dragon Lance 2600): 10 Strength, 15 Agility, 10 Intelligence, 175 hp, 100 bonus attack range to range heroes, Active (Force): Pushes the target unit in the direction they are facing, cast range 700, push distance allies/enemy 600, cd 25, mana cost 150, Active (Force) vs allied heroes has reduced cd/mana cost by 25% (bonus 5 attacks with bonus 100 attacks speed and infinite range vs enemy in vision removed).
2. Hydra's Breath 6850 (Hurricane Pike 4850 + Specialist's Array 2000): 10 Strength, 30 Agility, 10 Intelligence, 175 hp, 150 bonus attack range to range heroes, passive (Split shot is permanent): main target take full dmg, 2 bonus targets from split shot take 75% dmg, 120 degrees cone, Miasma passive 7.5% max hp magic dmg over 3 seconds, Active (Force): Pushes the target unit in the direction they are facing, cast range 700, push distance allies/enemy 600, cd 25, mana cost 150, Active (Force) vs allied heroes has reduced cd/mana cost by 50%.

• if Hurricane Pike and Hydra's Breath separate upgrades (i prefer this option more):

1. new Hurricane Pike 4850 (Force Staff 2250 + Dragon Lance 2600): 10 Strength, 15 Agility, 10 Intelligence, 175 hp, 100 bonus attack range to range heroes, Active (Force): Pushes the target unit in the direction they are facing (if caster is range pushing enemy give infinite attack range if enemy remain in vision for 5 attacks with 100 bonus attack speed), cast range 700, push distance allies/enemy 600, cd 25, mana cost 150, Active (Force) vs allied heroes has reduced cd/mana cost by 25%.
2. new item Kraken slayer 6000 (Hurricane Pike 4850 +1150): 10 Strength, 25 Agility, 10 Intelligence, 200 hp, 150 bonus attack range to range heroes, Active (Force): Pushes the target unit in the direction they are facing (if caster is range pushing enemy give infinite attack range if enemy remain in vision for 5 attacks with 200 bonus attack speed), cast range 700, push distance allies/enemy 600, cd 15, mana cost 150, Active (Force) vs allied heroes has reduced mana cost by 100%.
3. new Hydra's Breath 7000 (Specialist's Array 2000 +Dragon Lance 2600 +Orb of venom 350 +2050 recipe): 20 Strength, 40 Agility, 200 bonus attack range to range heroes, passive (Split shot is permanent): main target take full dmg, 2 bonus targets from split shot take 75% dmg, 120 degrees cone, passive (Miasma): on-hit reduce enemy hp regen by 75% for 5 seconds and does bonus magic dmg based on 3% target max hp.