[STR-NEUT]Vereticus, the Ruthless Predator

[Night Reaper]

• Hero Introduction
• Attributes
• Skills
• Synergy

• Hero Model
• Introduction
• Background Story

RUTHLESS PREDATOR VERETICUS

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Killing and destroying all in its path, the strong, cruel predator, named Vereticus exists only to kill. Vereticus's gluttonous love of killing draws him to wherever his prey runs. Armed with huge sharp claws, Verecitus can kill all of his enemy in one blow. This beast is not to be trifled with when angry -- and Vereticus is always angry.

• Statistics
• Advanced Statistics

Strength Agility Intelligence 25 + 3.1 17 + 1.2 17 + 1.9

Starting HP/MP: 625/221 Base Stats: 59 Stats Gain: 6.2 Primary Role: Hard Carry

Affiliation:	Neutral		Attack Animation:	0.55 / 0.55
Damage:	56-58		Casting Animation:	0.3 / 0.3
Armor:	2		Base Attack Time:	1.7
Movespeed:	300		Missile Speed:	Instant
Attack Range:	100		Sight Range:	1800 / 800

• Malignant Gash
• Hotblooded
• Enfeeble Scratch
• Guillotine Claws

Type: Active Targeting:Instant Hotkey: G

Predator swings his claw in a wide arc, dealing heavy damage to enemies and consuming their blood. Maims them for a short duration.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	10 sec	-	350	2 sec	Deals 60 damage to all enemies nearby and absorb 5% of their max hp. Maim the enemies by 15% for a short duration.
2	110	10 sec	-	350	2.5 sec	Deals 120 damage to all enemies nearby and absorb 6% of their max hp. Maim the enemies by 20% for a short duration.
3	120	10 sec	-	350	3 sec	Deals 180 damage to all enemies nearby and absorb 7% of their max hp. Maim the enemies by 25% for a short duration.
4	130	10 sec	-	350	3.5 sec	Deals 240 damage to all enemies nearby and absorb 8% of their max hp. Maim the enemies by 30% for a short duration.

• Damage type: Physical(for the initial damage), Pure(for the HP absorbtion).
• Maim: Movement and AS slow.

Type: Passive Targeting: None Hotkey: T

Predator gets more and more passion to kill when he keeps injuring his enemy. Every attack he lands will increase his movement speed for a short duration, letting him to chase them faster.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	-	-	-	-	-	1% increased movement speed per attack. Reduce the MS bonus by 3% every 4sec.
2	-	-	-	-	-	2% increased movement speed per attack. Reduce the MS bonus by 4% every 4sec.
3	-	-	-	-	-	3% increased movement speed per attack. Reduce the MS bonus by 5% every 4sec.
4	-	-	-	-	-	4% increased movement speed per attack. Reduce the MS bonus by 6% every 4sec.

• The movement speed will be increased by successive attacks, but not prolonged.
• Maximum of 32% increased movement speed.

Type: Passive Targeting: None Hotkey: R

Predator becomes increasingly proficient at gutting his enemies with his sharp claw, crushing the enemy's armor and makes them bleeding.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	-	-	-	-	3 sec	Reduce the target's armor by 2 and makes the target bleeding. Bleeding: deals 10 damage/sec.
2	-	-	-	-	3 sec	Reduce the target's armor by 4 and makes the target bleeding. Bleeding: deals 15 damage/sec.
3	-	-	-	-	3 sec	Reduce the target's armor by 6 and makes the target bleeding. Bleeding: deals 20 damage/sec.
4	-	-	-	-	3 sec	Reduce the target's armor by 8 and makes the target bleeding. Bleeding: deals 25 damage/sec.

• This is an orb effect.
• Bleeding damage type: Physical.

Type: Active Targeting: Instant Hotkey: C

Predator unleases a malicious energy in his claws, causing his attacks to silence foes, preventing them from using spells and abilities. The malicious energy in his claws also increase his base damage and making him to deal some bonus damage for each attack.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	45 sec	-	-	10 sec	Silence the target for 0.2 sec for every attack. Increase base ATK damage by 20% and deals (0.2x STR) bonus damage for every attack.
2	175	45 sec	-	-	10 sec	Silence the target for 0.4 sec for every attack. Increase base ATK damage by 40% and deals (0.4x STR) bonus damage for every attack.
3	250	45 sec	-	-	10 sec	Silence the target for 0.6 sec for every attack. Increase base ATK damage by 60% and deals (0.6x STR) bonus damage for every attack.

• Bonus damage type: Physical.
• Only increases base damage and that given by the primary attribute. Raw bonus damage is not increased.
• The bonus damage can't miss.
• Can only be removed by Purge (from Diffusal, Stone Gaze, Unstable Current or the Satyr Trickster)

Thanks for reading, comment please.

[Night Reaper]

No comment? That's cruel.

[SanTa ClaWs]

am... so the Maligant Clash deals 240 damage + 8% of max health or does it deal 240 damage and your hero just heals himself for 8% of max hp?
i also don't understand how does his ultimate work. 0.6 seconds silence for each attack?0.6xSTR for each attack? EACH ATTACK?! What do you mean? That if you had hit the enemy 10 times without changing your target, when you activate the spell you will silence him for 6 seconds and deal him 6xSTR as damage?! Explain it better.

Check out my ideas as well in the signature below.

[Night Reaper]

Originally Posted by Elmo1191

am... so the Maligant Clash deals 240 damage + 8% of max health or does it deal 240 damage and your hero just heals himself for 8% of max hp?
i also don't understand how does his ultimate work. 0.6 seconds silence for each attack?0.6xSTR for each attack? EACH ATTACK?! What do you mean? That if you had hit the enemy 10 times without changing your target, when you activate the spell you will silence him for 6 seconds and deal him 6xSTR as damage?! Explain it better.

Check out my ideas as well in the signature below.

Oh, sorry for my bad english, I fixed it. Thanks.

For the Malignant Gash, it deal 240+8% of enemy max hp and heal Vereticus. It just like multiple Na'ix feast.

[Padsoldier]

I like it. It would synergise well with other armor reducting heroes like Dazzle or Slardar. T-up.

[kings.empire]

HRT Time!

Skill 1: So he only heals the 8% max hp of each enemy unit correct? So if there are 5 units with 1000 hp, he would heal 80(5)=400 hitpoints right and deal 240 to them right? Pretty cool though I suggest maybe lowering cd to 5 seconds and dealing 60/80/100/120 damage instead as this skill would replace the lifesteal item known as helm of dominator or mask of madness.

Then make maim last about 1.5 second and the maim would be huge like 30%/40%/50%/60%. I mean he already has the 2nd passive which increases his MS every time he attacks so this change shouldn't be too problematic.

Skill 2: Does this affect regular creeps as well? Would prove to be interesting to get the MS boost to in attacking a regular creep in order to move in and strike with his first skill.

Other than that, it's a bit boring, but works nonetheless.

Skill 3: Desolator orb effect ftw! I guess it's okay.

Ultimate: At level 25 including bonus stats, he gets about 119.4 str so roughly about 72 bonus pure damage. Base Damage will be 130.4-132.4 (w/o bonus stats) roughly giving him about +78 bonus damage giving him a MINIMUM total damage per hit of 150 damage. Compared to other ults, this is actually okay but ya know, gotta do some math to figure out how powerful this thing really is (since he's a hard carry and lacks farming tools [then again he does have a skill that -armor passively and a 1st skill that deals a relatively good amount of damage], damage can get to extremely high points potentially making this skill way too powerful). Dunno how broken or OP silencing one unit is, but it shouldn't be too bad as the skill has a duration and isn't a passive or auto-cast.

Overall: A hard-carry for sure though maybe not as all (or most of them) his skills scale relatively well throughout the game.

[NoThlnG]

Skill 1 : For me, it sounds like combination of several skills. Draining max hp is an unique concept but combining it with dmg and maim has made it felt like less unique. Oh wait. This is AoE. No problem now.

Skill 2 : Fervor inspired I suppose. Anyway, nice. Great chasing skill.

Skill 3 : Not really unique. Both armor reduction and DoT is used in DotA (Deso and Orbs). You need STR for ulti but no skill increase it. IMO, you should place STR related skill here.

Skill 4 : Duration should be shorter than 0.5 even on lv 3 or it'll make this hero to have perma-silence. Others are ok IMO

[Shadow Fury]

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Skill 4 : Duration should be shorter than 0.5 even on lv 3 or it'll make this hero to have perma-silence.

I love that idea, actually. If he keeps knocking on a single target, or stands and fight 1v1, his enemy is perma silenced. So they have to keep running [to increase attack gap] or get helped by teamies.