[STR-Neutral] El'dritch, The Draconum Champion

[-IDenkaiI-]

• Hero Introduction
• Skills
• Synergy
• Changelog
• Testmap
• X

• Summary
• Introduction
• Background Story
• Soundset

When you think of Draconum, think of mystical Dragon People. Draconum are solitary, wandering warrior-monks seeking physical, magical and psychological evolution. Combat empowers the Draconum physically and spiritually, and they are driven by primal urges to battle in order to ready themselves for evolution.

From the day they are born until the day they are dispatched by an enemy, Draconum seek only two things: combat and evolution. As they wander the Land, Draconum look for opponents strong enough to challenge their brutally honed martial abilities with only one goal in mind: personal growth.

Born of the egg, Draconum spend the first months of their lives as wriggling hatchlings, filled only with the desire to eat and sleep and fight with their hatch-mates. These infant Draconum quickly grow into the loping, ferocious beasts called Whelps. These Whelps are frequently overseen by an adult Draconum and are often chained for their own protection and to teach them the value of freedom. Chaining a Draconum is one of the cruelest punishments possible, and many dragon-men still wear their broken chains as a reminder that they were created by the Dragon Gods to be forever free. In the modern age, some Whelps are even learning to channel their rage at an early age, embracing magic or the martial arts in order to control their predatory instincts.

With the beginning of the great war of the Ancients, the dragon's peace was abruptly broken as they were forced to fight to survive. Adapting to these harsh conditions, a new breed of dragons was born, The Draconums. A brave, young Draconum, El'dritch, fought valiantly to defend his lands and lineage. With a mighty leap, El'dritch slashes all foes who stand in his way. His ferocity is a key point on the battlefield. Enemies around him will be trapped in a prison of solid rock. El'dritch concentrates his ancestral knowledge to call for powerful mystic spirits of fallen dragon warriors to aid him in battle. The rise of Draconums has begun.

Keeper of the Grove:


You can download the soundset here. If the link is not available, right click on link, go to properties and copy-pasta the URL on your browser.

• Ancient Rush
• Terrify
• Hyper Stomp
• Draconum Spirits

• Skill
• Screenshot

• El'dritch flies at 800 movement speed.
• Is not invulnerable to attacks or spells.
• Also used as escape mechanism.

• Skill
• Screenshot

• Terrify stacks with other Ability/Item AS reduction auras.

• Skill
• Screenshot

• Damage Type: Magic.
• (*)Duration of the stun/(**)Duration of the crevasse.

• Skill
• Screenshot

• Damage Type: Magic.
• * Total AoE, ** spirits collision AoE, *** spirits explosion AoE.
• Spirit art model: Bronze Dragon. 15 spirits appear per second.

• Skill Build
• Skill Synergy
• Hero Synergy
• Item Synergy

• Defensive
• Offensive

SKILL BUILD JUSTIFICATION
You need to get as minimum one stun level to gank with your allies, some seconds of terrain block is always usefull on early game and why not, one level of Terrify too. Maximizing Ancient Rush ensures your survivality on early-mid game evading enemy ganks and chases.

SKILL BUILD JUSTIFICATION
Maximizing Ancient Rush and Hyper Stomp improves your initiation in teamfights and ganks. After have gotten the right items, Terrify in mid-late game can be a key point against dps/carry heroes. Getting Ultimate, boosts speed values and deals considerable amounts of magical damage.

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Your ganking/initiating basic combo. Ancient Rush will ensure the whole work of Hyper Stomp.

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The same moves, but for another purpose: Escaping. Keep your mana wisely when you are running from 2 or more enemy heroes. If you see that you cant face them, then, block them and get out of there.

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Your 1vs1 combo, reduce attack speed and traps the enemy.

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At last, your OMGWTFGGWP Ultimate skill combo. It will drive your team to victory in teamfights and countering ganks.

AoE Nukers:


This heroes will love you when enemies are trapped under the effect of Hyper Stomp, it will ensure the effectivity of their Ultimates.


AoE Disablers:


These guys can keep enemies for a considerable period. Then, don't hesitate to trapp enemies and cast Ultimate.


THE FAVOURITE ONES:


The long duration and effectivity of their disable spells will ensure a good battle initiation and viceversa.

Comming Soon.

05/05/2010
• Added Icons.
06/05/2010
• Added some details on Background Story
• Improved title.
• Stats and Statgain modified.
• Added Skill Description and Values.
• Improved 4th skill name, description and values.
07/05/2010
• Improved Critical Sweep C. Range and added a visual explanation.
08/05/2010
• Re-scaled dmg reduction from Intimidation.
• Removed AS and MS reduction from Arcane Blast.
• Re-scaled Arcane Blast HPcost from 30/35/40% to a constant 30%
09/05/2010
• Added a visual explanation for Arcane Blast.
11/05/2010
• Added 3rd skill: Dragon Rush.
• Re-worked Arcane Blast values.
12/05/2010
• Increased Dragon Rush cooldown
• Improved C. range and removed side effects from Critical Sweep.
13/05/2010
• Added Skill, Hero and Items synergies.
14/05/2010
• Added Skill Built and Justification.
15/05/2010
• Re-scaled Dragon Rush values.
• Re-worked Arcane Blast mechanism.
• Added Credits.
18/05/2010
• Added improved Background Story.
• Improved base stats and statgain.
21/05/2010
• Re-scaled manacost from Arcane Blast.
01/06/2010
• Improved the visual explanation for Arcane Blast.
09/07/2010
• Added a new Introducction.
14/09/2010
• Applied a New Hero Template.
• Improved base stats and statgain.
• Changed Intimidation, Dragon Rush and Arcane Blast to Terrify, Hyper Stomp and Draconum Spirits.
17/09/2010
• Some details changed on Background Story.
• Increased Critical Sweep manacost at all levels.
• Changed Terrify from PASSIVE to ACTIVE, added manacost and cooldown.
• Added a new icon and description to Draconum Spirits (NEEDS BALANCE).
• Added a new model (JPG).
18/09/2010
• Added a new model created by Callahan, converted to GIF by Anura and posted by NoThInG/Averrios
16/11/2010
• Rescaled Terrify values.
• 1st skill remaked from Critical Sweep to Ancient Rush.
• Added Screenshots.
• Improved Terrify and Hyper Stomp icons.
18/11/2010
• Added Skill Synergy.
• Added Testmap.
19/11/2010
• Added Soundset.
• Added Main pic.
• Added Skill Build and Hero Synergy.
15/12/2010
• Decreased Hyper Stomp values.
27/12/2010
• Changed back to the previous model, Green Dragon Spawn, to keep less MSI on testmap.
• Tweaked base stats and statgain.
• Nerfed Hyper Stomp damage.
31/12/2010
• Added an armor buff on Ultimate and removed bonus speed values.
31/07/2011
• Tweaked Base Stats and Statgain.
• Rescaled Hyper Stomp damage and stun duration.
• Nerfed Draconum Spirits damage per level.
• Re-linked Soundset. It's available now.
• Testmap updated with recent changes and values.

You can download the Testmap HERE. If the link is not available, right click on link, go to Properties and copy-pasta the URL on your browser.
Last Update: 31/07/11

Note: All basic spells are alrdy finished, but I still want to implement some buffs, animations and fix some bugs.

CREDITS TO:

Icefrog (DotA's Developer)
SNOW37/LEM0NS/PEW_PEW
Callahan (Model's Creator)
-T-tHeOnE-_- (Background Story improvement)
67chrome (DragonFire icon)
The Lord God (Hero Template)
Pilu
chessfreak
brif
mobus

Author's Note:
I wanna thanks to everyone that helped me with the realization of this hero suggestion, specially to friends (that haven't a PD acc). Even if I didnt the enough feedback, Im pretty sure that the values are quite balanced.
I made this hero suggestion because I really love Dragons, and (besides DK) I would like to see a good one like this in DotA.

However, by now I'm still working on this hero. Any review or any suggestion for stats and balance will be appreciated.

[-IDenkaiI-]

Icons have been added.

[talkingmuffin]

Don't waste space on the front page.

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by talkingmuffin

Don't waste space on the front page.

Dude, this is a bump

[Pilu]

i don't like third skill, old centaur return. Need something which can give him more mobility.
rest is fine. even if 950 pure damage of ult is kinda imba :O

[Megas]

I don't think that the third skill will be accepted...

Thousand of Returns remakes changed it... Why u want to put it again ?

Change the skill 3 and the ultimate, so he can have more synergy...

Skill 1 and 2 are perfect! The inverse of Bristle \o

[IplayRandom]

Where did you find the head icon of a dragonkin ? I'd really love to use one too for my own hero.

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by Pilu

i don't like third skill, old centaur return. Need something which can give him more mobility.
rest is fine. even if 950 pure damage of ult is kinda imba :O

I agree

Originally Posted by Megasrdc

I don't think that the third skill will be accepted...

Thousand of Returns remakes changed it... Why u want to put it again ?

Change the skill 3 and the ultimate, so he can have more synergy...

Skill 1 and 2 are perfect! The inverse of Bristle \o

OK, ill change 3rd skill. I like the idea of a beam, ill try to modify and balance it, if i have no success, ill change the ultimate u.u

Tnx. I dunno if the 1st skill icon is good as design, or should i change it for critical strike icon?

Originally Posted by IplayRandom

Where did you find the head icon of a dragonkin ? I'd really love to use one too for my own hero.

If u r refering to the 2nd skill, i made it with a pencil draw from a dragon poster that i have in my room, i made a photo and after i modified it with Pain.NET . If u want, i can cr8 an icon for ur hero, sure...if is possible to my imagination

[chessfreak]

1st skill: a good solid skill, maybe a little blah but it serves its job well, some problems with the skill though: 1 you have to be facing the target, 2 you have to be at melee range for your target to be affected, which sums it up to: you have to be facing your target at melee range to cast this, this would be ok if your hero had a mobility spell like blink or (more appropriate to this model) magnataurs skewer. Aside from this a very nice skill for initiating, farming, or just slowing a lot of heroes.
2nd skill and 3rd skill: This skills I didn't really like, why?; because they didn't add anything new to the game, 2nd skill is like bristlebacks 3rd skill, only from the front and no quill spikes, 3rd skill is centaurs return. Maybe you could swap out one of this skills for a mobility skill, or maybe combine them into one passive, like this:
Rough Hide
Because of El'drith's draconum blood, he has a very tough skin that reduces the damage that he takes and give some back to his opponent:
Level 1: Reduces damage taken from enemy units attack by 5% from all sides, and deals 15 damage to them. Half damage for ranged attacks.
Level 2:Reduces damage taken from enemy units attack by 10% from all sides, and deals 30 damage to them. Half damage for ranged attacks.
Level 3:Reduces damage taken from enemy units attack by 15% from all sides, and deals 45 damage to them. Half damage for ranged attacks.
Level 4:Reduces damage taken from enemy units attack by 20% from all sides, and deals 60damage to them. Half damage for ranged attacks.
(I used the values from your skills in this example, if you would follow my suggestion, change the numbers, especially from damage reductions.)
4th skill: I love this skill, LOL hyper beam, reminded me of pokemon (btw did you really mean for this skill to be an actual hyper beam?), anyway the mechanics of the skill is cool some little problems though: 1 casting range is 1000, this is the most imba part actually a 1000 cast range, 950 damage aoe nuke is just imba ( even though it's just 200 units wide), the solution: nerf it down to 600 to 700, it will still be long but at least your opponents can see you while your casting it. 2 NO to pure damage, this skill is imba enough as is, make it magical damage to be more fair. 3 although i like the idea of a hyper beam in dota, some people won't take this seriously enough when they see a classic move from pokemon as this heros ulti, so i suggest that you change the name, description and animation of the skill, if i might make another suggestion:
Arcane Blast
An ancient move of the draconum people, wherein the user uses his life force to stoke the fires within him to scorching temperatures, and then releases it in a single burst of white hot flame.
(basically the mechanics of the spells are the same, i just changed the name and description. Animation for this would be a straight line of fire.)
overall: nice hero idea, but the skills need some work and it doesn't really provide anything unique except for ulti. Simple to use and seems fun to play. keep up the good work.

[IplayRandom]

I meant the head icon - . Except my hero uses the blue model.

[Pilu]

Skill 3 could be: Change of Skin: Creates a copy of the hero at a target spot (illusion takes 200% damage and deal 30% damage) 600/700/800/900 casting range lasts 7/8/9/10 sec. the illusion is un-controllable and cannot move. When the illusion dies, it explodes dealing 80/100/120/140 damage in a 305 AoE and reduce enemies move speed by 20%. You are istantly teleported to the illusion spot when it dies.

Cooldown: 11 all levels -- Mana cost: 100/110/120/130

Sub-Skill: Intrude: makes your illusion explode. 50 mana

Synergies should be obvious. The illusion is created facing you. Enemies between you and your illusion will have a double debuff from intimidation aura.

[SpiderPig]

nice , a combination of lion cent and sven , nice T-UP

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by chessfreak

1st skill: a good solid skill, maybe a little blah but it serves its job well, some problems with the skill though: 1 you have to be facing the target, 2 you have to be at melee range for your target to be affected, which sums it up to: you have to be facing your target at melee range to cast this, this would be ok if your hero had a mobility spell like blink or (more appropriate to this model) magnataurs skewer. Aside from this a very nice skill for initiating, farming, or just slowing a lot of heroes.

About these observations:

Not rly, just see the notes, u can cast this on a tergeted point (knew as ground point too), for example (skill at level 4), u cast this spell normally on a ground point (always 100 c. range) and if the enemy hero/unit or units are inside of the AOE of the spell, they will recive the minor % of maim, but, if there's is a hero/unit that has a late escape reaction, is at the c. range of the spell and u select it, this hero/unit becomes the main target and is slowed by 25%, the nearby enemy units (that are inside of spell AOE) are slowed by the minor value, so, 20%.

Mb u didnt understood this effect because i know that my english is a bit poor, and my explanation could be incomplete.

If somebody has understand the main idea of my explanation for the 1st skill, pls re-write it here, so i can modify and evitate cofusions!

[Megas]

Explanation: If you target a hero/unit, it will be your main target, receiving 25% slow, and others inside AoE will take 20% slow. If you target ground, all units in the AoE will be counted as secundary units!

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by Megasrdc

Explanation: If you target a hero/unit, it will be your main target, receiving 25% slow, and others inside AoE will take 20% slow. If you target ground, all units in the AoE will be counted as secundary units!

ROFLMAO, tnx

[chessfreak]

Originally Posted by -IDenkaiI-

About these observations:

Not rly, just see the notes, u can cast this on a tergeted point (knew as ground point too), for example (skill at level 4), u cast this spell normally on a ground point (always 100 c. range) and if the enemy hero/unit or units are inside of the AOE of the spell, they will recive the minor % of maim, but, if there's is a hero/unit that has a late escape reaction, is at the c. range of the spell and u select it, this hero/unit becomes the main target and is slowed by 25%, the nearby enemy units (that are inside of spell AOE) are slowed by the minor value, so, 20%.

Mb u didnt understood this effect because i know that my english is a bit poor, and my explanation could be incomplete.

If somebody has understand the main idea of my explanation for the 1st skill, pls re-write it here, so i can modify and evitate cofusions!

The only thing i don't like about this spell is the melee range, without good mobility this skill will be hard to pull of perfectly( but i guess the play style of this hero will be like a tanky initiator so i guess you could take the damage from trying to close in). The rest of the spell is fine with me and i got how it works the first time.
btw your english is not that bad, trust me i've heard worst.

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by chessfreak

The only thing i don't like about this spell is the melee range, without good mobility this skill will be hard to pull of perfectly( but i guess the play style of this hero will be like a tanky initiator so i guess you could take the damage from trying to close in). The rest of the spell is fine with me and i got how it works the first time.
btw your english is not that bad, trust me i've heard worst.

Finally i got ur concept about the casting range, the idea is just like that. this spell would be hard to perform just a bit. This problem would be solved by Dagger (and would be also a item synergy ) but i agree with you, i could modify it, mb I could increase the casting range of 125 to 150.

[chessfreak]

giving this hero a mobility skill won't hurt to

[Pilu]

have you read my suggestion for the 3rd skill? it gives mobility and is kinda unique.

[-IDenkaiI-]

Originally Posted by Pilu

have you read my suggestion for the 3rd skill? it gives mobility and is kinda unique.

LOL i didnt see it before.

The sugg is nice, a strategic combination of replicate without movement, and illusory orb, but if intimidation is stacked...dont u think that it would be very imba? i mean 41% dmg reduction.