[AGI-NEUTRAL] Morrigan, the Bird of Prey

[FallinDevast]

Bird of Prey
Morrigan
alt name
Aria Windsorrow



Etymology



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MoveStopHold PositionAttack
PatrolAttribute BonusDescendHero Abilities
SwoopSpot PreyGougeClearshot

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• Advance Statistics
• Synergy
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Morrigan revels on ambushing her prey with an array of abilities reminiscent to a bird of prey, hence her hero title. She finds it convenient when right next to her target ranged hero and has the necessary movespeed and skills to do so. Swoop allows her to snag a hero then carry it away and land along with it in melee range wherever she pleases. Spot Prey provides vision for intel and targeting convenience. Gouge serves as a setter and cuts the fighting capability of ranged dps heroes. Finally, Clearshot cuts like a guillotine blade sealing the fate of ranged enemies.


High above the barren cliffs of Stonetalon Mountains roosts a wind deity feared for her animosity and territorial aggression. Morrigan, as the locals call this savage, swoops down towards unwary prey to carry and isolate it in a region where no one can hear its screams as she delight herself in tearing the hapless victim apart. Scouted and unleashed by the Scourge, she graces the killing field and indulge herself at spotting sharpshooters who hunt her own kin for game to gouge out their eyes with her sharp projectile-like feathers. True to her namesake, she possesses keen vision for when pitted in close quarter combat her attacks become dead accurate. A master of ambush and predation, once Morrigan sets her sight over you there is no escaping the clutches of the Bird of Prey.

Synergy:


Spot Prey offers convenience to Swoop in a way that it boosts Morrigan's movespeed so your aim would not go awry, it also provides vision which remedies "blind aiming" and it gives you the edge through ambush.


Gouge is a good setter for Swoop by stunning the target and reducing its sight range so you can dive in without your target knowing where you'll be coming from. The displacement of your target brought by Swoop will almost always leave it completely blind due to Gouge and the 100% miss chance it suffers covers Morrigan's vulnerable moments right after landing next to her target.


To optimize Clearshot's damage potential, you have to be in melee range with your target and Swoop is a good initiator, the latter also reels the target in close range just in case your prey got away.


Spot Prey provides vision over your target right after Gouge-ing it, which is very useful in areas not covered by ally shared vision, the bonus movespeed also allows Morrigan to take advantage of the oppurtunity to close in towards the target while it is left stunned and blind. Both Spot Prey and Gouge discourage movement, this buys you time in capturing your prey.


The necessary movespeed bonus granted by Spot Prey makes chasing a breeze so you'll always be in constant melee contact with the target to land devastating Clearshots and the bonus attackspeed comes into play here, allowing you to rend your prey in fast succession using the ultimate.


A completely blind target is an easy meal for Morrigan, especially with Clearshot at her disposal. Gouge serves one, yet vital purpose, and that is to provide cover for Morrigan while she is close to her target. The 100% accuracy reduction serves its usefulness when the target has allies close by, rendering blind useless.

• Swoop
• Spot Prey
• Gouge
• Clearshot

Swoop - (Chase/Escape/Reeling Skill)



Subskill:
Descend - (Escape/Positioning)

Notes:

• Swoop speed is 625
• Breaks target channeling
• Disabling Morrigan ends Swoop
• Morrigan is vulnerable while swooping
• Morrigan is restricted from using dagger
• Damage is dealt only to the snagged enemy
• Destroys trees in a 200x200 block upon landing
• Swoop allows passing over various terrain and creeps
• Flight Path is not fixed similar to Rexxar's Wild Axes (Morrigan makes a sharp return at the cast point)

Spot Prey - (Self-Buff/Tracking)



Prey - (Debuff)

Notes:

• Bonuses do not stack
• Reveals 300/300 area around the prey
• Marked invisible heroes are revealed on the minimap should they move
• The "prey" are revealed on the first two seconds of the duration regardless of movement.

Gouge - (Negative Buff/Ganking)



Notes:

• Does not remove ally-shared vision
• Total blindness refers to zero vision
• Projectile speed is almost instant (no flight time) to conceal Morrigan's location

Clearshot - (Dps/True Strike)



Notes:

• Arrow-Orb Effect
• Calculates the target's unused attack range regardless if it is attacking or not
• Damage is calculated upon hitting the target, closing in towards the target improves the damage

Scenario:
Morrigan is attacking Mirana at melee range, so both heroes are at 100 attack range of each other. Morrigan's unused combat range is 375475 - 100 and Mirana has 500600 - 100, so at level 3 - Clearshot will deal a bonus damage of 217.5((375 + 500) x 0.18) + 60 to Mirana.

[Jaik]

pretty cool concept there!. and a harpy hero is awesome.

Swoop: Syncs well with Gouge. fine for me.
Windshear : its a fine spell but the duration is, well far long. rescale its duration
Gouge: the icon doesnt look as they say "unwarcraf-ish". but rather than that, its a good skill. but dont you think that -12 armor is imba?
CLose Combat: so you need to move closer to the enemy to gain the "lose range thing"? if thats the case it syncs well with windsheer.

final thought: its a good hero! still T-null. you need more opinions

[NinoDoko]

wow. finally a harpy hero. And pretty good one too.

1st skill. I... i can't describe how awed i was when i read this skill. It's just awesome. And for some reason, noone thought of it before! Awesome ability, i have nothing else to add. Oh, just one thing, i'd remove the AS part of it and add damage, but it doesn't really matter, it's too awesome


2nd skill. I don't know if it's codeable, but if it is, it's good. Don't have much more to say here.

3rd skill. People suggested sight reducing abilities before, but this one just fits the theme too much. So, it's great.

Ultimate. Really, really dislike this one. I just plain hate abilities that have a % chance to happen, and i think this is one too. But, seeing as how the rest of the hero is awesome... meeh i can live with that.


All in all, a great hero. Would like to see it in dota. T-up.

[FallinDevast]

Thanks for the comments

Windshear : its a fine spell but the duration is, well far long. rescale its duration

numbers really are not much of a concern, but I rescaled em anyways

Gouge: the icon doesnt look as they say "unwarcraf-ish". but rather than that, its a good skill. but dont you think that -12 armor is imba?

Hm, I took the icon from the wc3 icon vault but if others propose a change I'll gladly comply

CLose Combat: so you need to move closer to the enemy to gain the "lose range thing"? if thats the case it syncs well with windsheer.

basically yes, you get to dish more damage when fighting melee against ranged heroes

1st skill. I... i can't describe how awed i was when i read this skill. It's just awesome. And for some reason, noone thought of it before! Awesome ability, i have nothing else to add. Oh, just one thing, i'd remove the AS part of it and add damage, but it doesn't really matter, it's too awesome

the skill was actually implemented in the game before, remember Storm's Lightning grapple? it was a shame that Icefrog removed the skill. She needs the as buff to sync with her ulti.

2nd skill. I don't know if it's codeable, but if it is, it's good. Don't have much more to say here.

ya, I'm also afraid that this one ain't codable but its the perfect skill for her atm, I'll wait for more comments on this skill

Ultimate. Really, really dislike this one. I just plain hate abilities that have a % chance to happen, and i think this is one too. But, seeing as how the rest of the hero is awesome... meeh i can live with that.

well it's your taste but making it an arrow effect will be imba since shes an agi hero, only the likes of OD and Auishta can have godly arrows.

[Jaik]

there from -12 now to -8. its much better now

[Zlow]

Nince concept! I love the Harpy model
Pretty good spells too.
T-up

[FallinDevast]

Bump! anyone care to leave a comment or review?

[kanzakill]

Originally Posted by FallinDevast

Bump! anyone care to leave a comment or review?

Yes I can.

1st skill: Does it break channeling? Because it should.

2nd skill: "Untargettable" is a very vague word. For some cases, you can auto-attack a unit even if you can't target it

3rd skill: No comment

Ultimate skill: Why is the chance of 1st level so low?
Instead of the chance increase each level, I'd rather make the chance constant (or even remove the chance) and increase the portion of damage every level.

[carlvic]

@Gouge skill
you should change tooltip..
coz if u gouge someone's eye out..
he'll never gain vision ever again.

[FallinDevast]

Yes I can.

Thank you for the time, I'll review a hero of yours in return. Just PM me which hero you'd like me to bump.

1st skill: Does it break channeling? Because it should.

Ah, I forgot it. It's there now in the notes section

2nd skill: "Untargettable" is a very vague word. For some cases, you can auto-attack a unit even if you can't target it

The target of this buff simply becomes invulnerable from ranged attacks and single target spells launched from a distance beyond the specified range limit. I'm afraid it is not codable, I wanna hear a coder's feedback about this skill's effect.

Ultimate skill: Why is the chance of 1st level so low?
Instead of the chance increase each level, I'd rather make the chance constant (or even remove the chance) and increase the portion of damage every level.

Somehow, 2 people already commented on this so I'll make it into an arrow orb for the meantime.

@Gouge skill
you should change tooltip..
coz if u gouge someone's eye out..
he'll never gain vision ever again.

Uhm, well I guess since some skills already present in DotA have pretty mortifying names/effects, Gouge may be forgivable.

[dixing]

Quite a cool concept indeed, but as you point out in your ultimate, it can come to as much as 140 damage! maybe it should be a toggled attack with some cooldown or smth.
Also about the second skill, why would it decrease MS? you dont need to slow down runners, you got a chasing skill (swoop). And you certainly dont want to slow yourself down since it might let your opponents run away.
Also the whole concept of the second skill is weird, if you use the third skill to minimaze their sight range, you dont need to worry from them targeting you from afar.
Aside from that I love the hero, good job

[halfDemon]

T-UP AWESOME! great copncpet

[kanzakill]

Instead of "Gouge", how about "Optic Mark"

[FallinDevast]

Bump! Changed her 2nd Skill, need more reviews. =)

Instead of "Gouge", how about "Optic Mark"

Hm, the name you suggested doesn't fit her theme.

but as you point out in your ultimate, it can come to as much as 140 damage! maybe it should be a toggled attack with some cooldown or smth.

I reworked his ultimate now, thanks for the feedback.

[kanzakill]

Originally Posted by FallinDevast

Hm, the name you suggested doesn't fit her theme.

Then how does "Gouge" fit? I'm sorry but I can't see her plucking anything.

Morrigan shoots a volley of piercing feathers

"Optic Mark" => aiming those piercing feathers at the eyes.

Just bumping.

[NinoDoko]

well, the new 2nd skill is ok... and even though i don't like separating ranged heroes from melee ones, it is still ok considering the amount of items separating said heroes.

And yeah, i forgot old storm's ultimate. But still, this is kinda original as well :P

[eb308ed]

1st skill -T-UP For it's name is Swoop!
2nd skill -Reminds me of the KFC hero in HoN....
3rd skill -T up the Icon looks so awesome
Ulti - the word "Close Combat" reminds me of someone getting Badly Batered..T-Up

anyways concept is good T-Up

[FallinDevast]

Then how does "Gouge" fit? I'm sorry but I can't see her plucking anything.

you have a point there my friend, I'll cook up a new name.

Just bumping.

thanks. =)

well, the new 2nd skill is ok... and even though i don't like separating ranged heroes from melee ones, it is still ok considering the amount of items separating said heroes.

yep a couple items are specialized for melee/ranged and I dont see any problem designing a skill which does the same.

And yeah, i forgot old storm's ultimate. But still, this is kinda original as well :P

hm, the new magnus has a similar skill from the new version

1st skill -T-UP For it's name is Swoop!
2nd skill -Reminds me of the KFC hero in HoN....
3rd skill -T up the Icon looks so awesome
Ulti - the word "Close Combat" reminds me of someone getting Badly Batered..T-Up

anyways concept is good T-Up

I checked out this HoN hero (the owl), some similarities here and there but I was completely unaware of its existence (and HoN for that matter) on the process of creating this hero.

maybe I should also rename her ultimate, any good name suggestions?

[KyonoRocks]

This hero is awesome! Really hard to give a proper review because I pretty much like everything about it.

Swoop is a great skill, I love that you can carry allies also. Push ranged targets into a crowd or bring melee allies into the fray. Great skill (and it synergizes well with my hero concept haha).

Vortex's dual role, as both a shield and a slow, is really cool. I love skills with more than one role and the previous 2 do exactly that.

Gouge is a standard ranged ministun but the sight range addition makes it really fun to play with. Imagine hitting an enemy with level 4 and then flying out of no-where to swoop them. A bit of fear on the battlefield for ranged heroes!

Ultimate. I agree with some other comments that the name is a bit meh. I can imagine Morrigan being this extremely annoying flappy nuisance in your face. Torment is a cool word, maybe something using that.

Overall I think this hero is great, as I've said countless times. She will really tear apart any ranged heroes without disables and her ability to ambush foes then disable them in close range would make ganking extremely fun (especially over trees). I can imagine her a bit like Puck to that extent, using Swoop (Illusory Orb) over trees and then activating your AoE spells and ripping a target to shreds.

Great job!

[amount]

Absolutely loved the concept and skills. Although some of the skills could use a small amount of balancing, I still support it.

Thumbs up.