[Agi/Neutral] Icarus, The Phoenix

[Maw2]

• Hero Introduction
• Attributes
• Skills
• Synergy
• Items
• Special Thanks
• Changelog

• Hero Model
• Introduction
• Background Story

The Phoenix Icarus

*Coming Soon*

As the Great War raged on, the Sentinel and Scourge tried to enlist the help of mythical creatures. One of these creatures was the mystical phoenix Icarus. However, the Scourge got to Icarus first, and tried to steal the egg away. As the Sentinel came to fight the Scourge for Icarus’s egg, little did they know Icarus was aware of what was going on. In a great explosion, Icarus released himself from his egg and flew up into the sky. A great flame emitted from his mouth, burning hundreds of undead and Sentinel forces alike. As Icarus flew off, both the Scourge and Sentinel heroes knew he’d never take sides.

• Statistics
• Advanced Statistics

Strength Agility Intelligence 19 + 2.0 24 + 2.6 18 + 1.7

Starting HP/MP: 511/234 Base Stats: 61 Stats Gain: 6.3 Primary Role: Carry

Affiliation:	Neutral		Attack Animation:	x / y
Damage:	43-51		Casting Animation:	x / y
Armor:	3		Base Attack Time:	1.7
Movespeed:	305		Missile Speed:	1200
Attack Range:	500		Sight Range:	1800 / 800

• Inferno
• Blast Wave
• Heart of the Phoenix
• Immortality

Type: Toggle Targeting:Instant Hotkey: E

A jet of flame fires from Icarus's mouth, dealing damage to all it hits. Repeated hits reduce armor. Armor reduction lasts 10 seconds.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	70 + 7 / sec	0	425 units	150	Until deactivated	Deals 25 DPS and reduces armor by 1.
2	80 + 8 / sec	0	475 units	150	Until deactivated	Deals 40 DPS and reduces armor by 2.
3	90 + 9 / sec	0	525 units	150	Until deactivated	Deals 60 DPS and reduces armor by 2.
4	100 + 10 / sec	0	575 units	150	Until deactivated	Deals 75 DPS and reduces armor by 3.

• Only the armor stacks on repeated hits of Inferno, and refreshes the duration
• Stacks a maximum of 3 times. Applies in 1 second intervals
• As Icarus turns, so does the flame, the fire will always be coming from Icarus's mouth.
• Damage Type: Magical
• Icarus cannot attack while Inferno is activated

Type:Active Targeting:Point Hotkey: W

Icarus sends a wave of blazing fire back at his enemies. Initially disables all units caught in the wave by .5 seconds, then they gain their speed back over 4 seconds.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	120	15 seconds	N/A	700	N/A	Deals 125 damage. Slows attack speed by 10% for 4 seconds
2	120	15 seconds	N/A	700	N/A	Deals 175 damage. Slows attack speed by 20% for 4 seconds
3	120	15 seconds	N/A	700	N/A	Deals 225 damage. Slows attack speed by 30% for 4 seconds
4	120	15 seconds	N/A	700	N/A	Deals 275 damage. Slows attack speed by 40% for 4 seconds

• This skill looks like a 35 degree arc jetting from Icarus's mouth. It's like a frontal arc, and it travels 700 units.
• This skill disables you for .5 seconds, then you regain 25% of your move speed per second.
• Damage Type: Magical

Type: Toggle Targeting: Instant Hotkey: T

Icarus channels the very essence of himself, causing his fires to burn hotter than ever before. Increases damage and attack speeds. Even the mighty phoenix Icarus needs some recovery time, thus his movement speed is slowed when the effect is over.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100 initial + 10 / sec	0	N/A	Self	Until deactivated	Increases AS by 45% and damage by 20.
2	115 initial + 13 / sec	0	N/A	Self	Until deactivated	Increases AS by 60% and damage by 40.
3	130 initial + 16 / sec	0	N/A	Self	Until deactivated	Increases AS by 75% and damage by 60.
4	145 initial + 20 / sec	0	N/A	Self	Until deactivated	Increases AS by 90% and damage by 80.

• Movement speed is slowed by 40% for 3 seconds on all levels when the skill is deactivated.

Type: Active Targeting: Instant Hotkey: R

When the Phoenix's life is about to end, it burns up in a puff of fire and regenerates in an egg. This lasts 5 seconds. Upon leaving the egg, the built-up energy is released, dealing damage and knocking back all enemy units.

	Mana	Cooldown	Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	75 seconds	N/A	500	5 seconds	Gains +5 armor and +2%HP (+3% HP/MP) regeneration per sec. Deals 225 damage.
2	150	75 seconds	N/A	500	5 seconds	Gains +10 armor and +3%HP (+4% HP/MP) regeneration per sec. Deals 300 damage.
3	200	75 seconds	N/A	500	5 seconds	Gains +15 armor and +4%HP (+5% HP/MP) regeneration per sec. Deals 375 damage.

• Icarus cannot attack or move while in the egg. Items do not work in the egg. The egg has the same HP/MP/Armor as Phoenix, and if the egg dies, Icarus dies.
• Scepter values are in parenthesis
• The eruption knocks back 175 units.
• The egg has magic immunity.
• Effectively a model change, the egg assumes current HP/MP of Icarus before when he casts this spell.
• Damage Type: Magical

• Skill Synergy
• Hero Synergy

The slow from Blast Wave will make hitting targets with Inferno easy.


The -armor will greatly help Icarus's physical DPS while he is using Heart of the Phoenix.

Either trying to kill someone getting away or in a carry v carry fight, this will help give you an edge.

The Ultimate Combo
Use Immortality to recover HP (and possibly mana if you have Scepter). Once the egg explodes knocking units back you can then Blast Wave to slow them down. Since they are at least 150 units away and slowed you can burn their butts with Inferno. If they still remain (and you still have mana) Icarus can finish them off with Heart of the Phoenix.

The possibilities are endless. Blast Wave can make sure Cold Feet will stun, which sets up Inferno. Ice Vortex will improve Inferno's and Blast Wave's damage. Plus Heart of the Phoenix can negate the -AS from Chilling Touch so Icarus can deal some serious damage.


Gyro starts by sending Homing Missile at the enemy hero, Icarus slows him down with Blast Wave, making sure the missile will hit. Then Icarus and Gyro can combo their Inferno and Rockets to deal massive damage. If Gyro feels it's necessary, he can also use Call Down to finish.


With lo giving movespeed bonuses and attackspeed bonuses, he is the carry hero's dream support. Also with relocate, he can help Icarus go on ganks with his AoE damage and get out, or help survive ganks, by transporting to the fountain, getting fully restored, and coming back to fight.


Basically any hero that can keep the target in place so Icarus can get his Inferno stacks up and finish off the target with Heart of the Phoenix.



-Armor strats anyone? A plethora of physical damage dealers are greatly beneficial with Icarus, due to the nature of being able to weaken armor himself, and being a physical DPS'er.

Linkens gives Icarus everything he needs. HP, Mana, and Mana regen. The spell block, however, will help not only to protect Icarus from ganks, but to also help him in teamfights, to help allow him to do damage. This is also justified if a Perseverance is made during the laning phase.

Gives Icarus more damage, HP, and survavibility through Avatar. The only downside is that Icarus is very mana intensive, BKB will likely come after something to improve his mana pool/mana regen.

Scepter has everything Icarus needs: HP and mana, and in good amounts too considering it's cost. Also, the Scepter effect of giving Icarus MP regen in addition to HP regen makes it worthwhile to consider.

A great end-game item for fighting enemy carries, not much else to say. Especially good if Helm of the Dominator is gotten early.


Effectively turns Icarus into a glass cannon. Orchids will give Icarus the mana and mana regen he needs, and Soul Burn will make any hero affected just cry when you go to kill them. However, it's damage at the cost of survivability.


For the same reasons as Pugna's Decrepify, using this in combination with Icarus's other nukes can put out some serious burst damage. Also offers 190 HP and 150 MP as a bonus.

• To kitchen for his helpful advice and pushing me to think of new abilities when my old ones weren't creative enough.
• To LEM0NS for answering my seemingly never-ending questions about coding.
• To chadpiety123 for a lot of good, honest feedback on my old phoenix.
• To ike_ike, bigapple90, aki15, and Elfsilver Lord of the hive workshop for making these nice icons
• To IceFrog for making this all possible.

• August 24, 2010: Posted
• August 25, 2010: Changed Blast Wave from Shiva's Blast-ish to frontal arc, reverse-Poison Touch
• August 26, 2010: Lowered the mana cost of Heart of the Phoenix by 15. Clarified explanation of skills in skills tab

[kitchen]

Just gonna give some quick thoughts, I'll have a lot more later (I have to go get my braces taken off, don't have a lot of time atm)

1st skill should probably be active w/ a duration. It's a pretty flashy effect, and it shouldn't be on to often if only because it'd be annoying.

The 2nd skill could use a lot of work, considering it's just Shiva's blast.

3rd skill gives asstons of dps, that's for sure. The slow afterward is pretty original but I think it would just be annoying to the phoenix play more than anything, although it does add some strategy.

Just a couple of questions about the egg. If the egg is killed does the phoenix die? How much life does the egg begin with? Does this occur when the phoenix unit actually dies, or is about to die, or what?

Anyway I'll come back with more later, g2g right now.

[Maw2]

Originally Posted by kitchen

Just gonna give some quick thoughts, I'll have a lot more later (I have to go get my braces taken off, don't have a lot of time atm)

1st skill should probably be active w/ a duration. It's a pretty flashy effect, and it shouldn't be on to often if only because it'd be annoying.

Well this is why I decided to make it a toggle. Icarus can't attack while it's active, which means you have to think when you use it. And plus the armor stacks only 3 times, if it lasted 3 seconds, it'd be too easy to just stun Icarus and waste the effect, and if it was longer than 3 seconds, it'd be too easy to waste half of the skill's effect.

Originally Posted by kitchen

The 2nd skill could use a lot of work, considering it's just Shiva's blast.

Yeah, it's meant to be a set-up skill. AoE slow with damage. Will see what I can think up for it.

Originally Posted by kitchen

3rd skill gives asstons of dps, that's for sure. The slow afterward is pretty original but I think it would just be annoying to the phoenix play more than anything, although it does add some strategy.

Well let's use WD's heal as an example. Whenever you have enough mana to cast it you can use it, for no negative consequences, which I think takes 90% of the thinking out of the skill. That is why the slow is there. It's enough that it will not make you use it blindly, however, it's lasts only 3 seconds, it won't make much of a difference if you were farming in the woods for example.

Originally Posted by kitchen

Just a couple of questions about the egg. If the egg is killed does the phoenix die? How much life does the egg begin with? Does this occur when the phoenix unit actually dies, or is about to die, or what?

Yes, if the egg dies, the phoenix dies. It's effectively a just a model change, the egg will have the same HP/MP/Armor as Icarus, however, while in the egg, he cannot attack, move, and all items are silenced (like Doom). The egg is an activated skill, it's not a passive "When X happens you turn into an egg". For instance you can use it to dodge AoE combos, SF,SK,WL etc., you can use it to heal, for whatever you think is necessary.

[Maw2]

Skill 2 has been reworked.

No other opinions?

[Nizaris]

Funny, there is another phoenix named Icarus...

Skill 3 like Old Lina...reconstructed, i think.

I don't understand skill 4...imagine, if he turn into an egg, he will die eventually...well, when someone duel with him, his HP become low, then he just become an egg, that someone will continue to crack the egg...he should can run away even in low HP, but because of he become an egg...., that is not immortality...

[Punj,Love Hater]

What happened to ur actual phoneix suggestion that u r posting another phoneix. That sugg. Was really incredible.

[Maw2]

Originally Posted by Nizaris

Funny, there is another phoenix named Icarus...

Skill 3 like Old Lina...reconstructed, i think.

I don't understand skill 4...imagine, if he turn into an egg, he will die eventually...well, when someone duel with him, his HP become low, then he just become an egg, that someone will continue to crack the egg...he should can run away even in low HP, but because of he become an egg...., that is not immortality...

Well I doubt he can be killed in the egg, he'll have high armor, and some really nice regen. For instance if you have Ring of Basilius, he'll have +8 armor at level 6 (in the egg), not to mention the armor he gets from being agility. If people are just going to surround him, they'll have to deal with damage coming out of the egg.

Originally Posted by Punj,Love Hater

What happened to ur actual phoneix suggestion that u r posting another phoneix. That sugg. Was really incredible.

What? My other phoenix? He's still there I'll link him in my signature, but I was told be quite a few people that some of his skills weren't good enough. I based a lot of Icarus off my old Phoenix

[SpiderPig]

it`s Icarus , not Icraus

[Maw2]

Originally Posted by Prince Kassad

it`s Icarus , not Icraus

Yes, I know, it's a typo. Any comment on the hero itself though?

[NoThlnG]

Name changed as requested. For the review, well, honestly speaking, the only unique skill in your hero it your ultimate.

1st skill is just dps + armor reduction. Stacking + mana cost increasement is just minor addition.

2nd skill is just boring

3rd skill, well this one is pretty ok but the concept is pretty much taken from other hero (AS bonus with the cost of mana => Old Raijin / Io, MS reduction after skill is too much like Electric Vortex). Also, the initial mana cost is too big.

[Maw2]

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Name changed as requested. For the review, well, honestly speaking, the only unique skill in your hero it your ultimate.

1st skill is just dps + armor reduction. Stacking + mana cost increasement is just minor addition.

It's a toggle ability for starters. Every armor reduction in the game is static, this one stacks. Plus it has the unique effect of always being in front of the hero, thus being a little harder to aim then just clicking on a hero.

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

2nd skill is just boring

Elaborate?

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

3rd skill, well this one is pretty ok but the concept is pretty much taken from other hero (AS bonus with the cost of mana => Old Raijin / Io, MS reduction after skill is too much like Electric Vortex). Also, the initial mana cost is too big.

lo's ability costs HP and MP for starters, and both Raijin and lo only give AS, my 3rd skill gives damage too. This skill isn't meant to be used blindy for whenever you have mana, that is why the slow is there. High rewards, high risk. And the slow off of electric vortex is nonexistent during game play.

[Tomarzig]

Need test map.

[NoThlnG]

Originally Posted by Maw2

It's a toggle ability for starters. Every armor reduction in the game is static, this one stacks. Plus it has the unique effect of always being in front of the hero, thus being a little harder to aim then just clicking on a hero.

Ok, what do you exactly mean by in front? The angle?

Originally Posted by Maw2

Elaborate?

Simple damage with mini stun and slow....

Originally Posted by Maw2

lo's ability costs HP and MP for starters, and both Raijin and lo only give AS, my 3rd skill gives damage too.

Damage bonus is just a minor addition. If I make Jah'rakal's ulti weaker a bit and gives bonus damage will you say it original?

Originally Posted by Maw2

This skill isn't meant to be used blindy for whenever you have mana, that is why the slow is there. High rewards, high risk. And the slow off of electric vortex is nonexistent during game play.

Non-existent =/= doesn't exist. It exists there. And I don't see why we should take the similar concept from existing skill

[Maw2]

Originally Posted by Tomarzig

Need test map.

Working on it.

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Ok, what do you exactly mean by in front? The angle?

Think of it as a flamethrower.

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Simple damage with mini stun and slow....

So Warlock's Upheaval is just a simple AoE slow? Dazzle's Poison Touch is just a simple slow? Skill 2 is a slow, with a twist.

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Damage bonus is just a minor addition. If I make Jah'rakal's ulti weaker a bit and gives bonus damage will you say it original?

Neither of those abilities are toggles. I don't remember Storm's old skill but Troll's ultimate is just another low cooldown activated ability. You're meant to think about when to use Skill 3.

Originally Posted by NoThlnG

Non-existent =/= doesn't exist. It exists there. And I don't see why we should take the similar concept from existing skill

You aren't understand my argument. When you use electric vortex, it's as if the slow doesn't even exist. Players never think "Well, I'm going to be slowed by 50% for the duration, I better not use it". That is what my 3rd skill is meant to be, it rewards players for making good decisions. Now, if Electric Vortex would slow you by 50% AFTER the duration ended, it would be more like my skill, because now, it's not just a simple cast, you actually have to think about when to use it.