Courier

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? Courier
File:Courier icon.png
Losing the courier is punishable by death.
Cost 100 Sell Value 50 Active Deploy Courier Charges 1 INIT Bonus ? Shareable Usage Alert ? Recipe [[‎|40px|link=Flying Courier| ]] Courier (100)

The Animal Courier is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Consumables.

Additional information

• Animal Courier is completely shareable.
• Animal Courier has a 2 minutes stock cooldown.
• Animal Courier can be upgraded to a Flying Courier.

Ability

Deploy Courier

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Deploys a creature to carry items to and from your team's base.

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• Interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast.

• The Animal Courier is not a valid target for most spells. A list of spells which affect the courier can be found below.

• It is possible to have multiple Animal Couriers. However, only the first created courier reacts on the courier button.

• All couriers are controllable by the entire team, no matter who buys and deploys the courier.

• When a courier dies, the opposing team's heroes get 150 gold each. If there already is a dead courier, no gold is granted.
  • However, an enemy making the killing blow on a courier always gets the 150 gold bounty.

• The Animal Courier is invulnerable when near its team's fountain.

• When an Animal Courier dies, it respawns in 120 seconds at the team's fountain. While dead, items in its inventory are unaccessable.

Courier inventory

Like a hero, the courier possesses an inventory with 6 slots. However, it has restrictions. Almost every item gets muted when in the courier's inventory, rendering all their stats and abilities disabled and unusable for the courier. Muted items are darkened out in its inventory. The following items are not muted:

• Animal Courier
• Bottle
• Cheese
• Dust of Appearance
• Gem of True Sight
• Observer and Sentry Wards
• Perseverance
• Ring of Health
• Ring of Regen
• Sage's Mask
• Smoke of Deceit
• Tango (Shared)
• Void Stone

However, only a few of them that can be actually used by the courier.

• The Animal Courier has no mana pool and mana regeneration. So Sage's Mask, Void Stone and the mana regen part of Perseverance are useless for it. This also means that it cannot use Dust of Appearance and Town Portal Scroll.

• The Animal Courier is not able to place or share Observer Wards and Sentry Wards. Trying to do so will give the "Item is not usable by Couriers" error message.

• The Bottle can be "used". Using it puts it on its short cooldown, but does not use up a charge and does not regenerate. This goes for using it on self or on allies with the CTRL key.

• Along with that, the Animal Courier can neither pick up runes, nor put them in the Bottle.

• Despite not being muted, Gem of True Sight does not provide True Sight when carried by the Animal Courier.

• When using Animal Courier from the courier's inventory, the new spawned courier will use the default donkey courier model.

• It is possible to buy a Divine Rapier with the Animal Courier and it can drop the Rapier. However, it cannot pick it back up again, as it cannot pick up Rapiers in general. It also cannot pick up the Aegis of the Immortal.

• Both Gem of True Sight and Divine Rapier are dropped when an Animal Courier carrying them is killed.

• The courier can use Tango (Shared) and Cheese and benefits from the health regeneration granted by Ring of Regen, Ring of Health and Perseverance. It also can activate Smoke of Deceit, but it does not affect the courier.

Courier abilities

Animal Courier
Ancient Courier
Health 75 +0.5 This unit has no mana. Level 0 Armor 0 Magic Resistance 0% Move Speed 380 (100) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 8 Vision Range (G) 350 Bounty + 125 125 / LVL Team Bounty Experience 0 Abilities Return to Base Go To Secret Shop Return Items Retrieve Items Transfer Items Spell Immunity Notes Has inventory & backpack. Spell Immune Phased

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Abilities affecting couriers

A couple of spells affect the courier the same ways as they do spell immune units. Positive auras with bonus health regeneration or armor work as well. Movement speed bonuses are ignored because the Animal Courier is set to fixed 350:

Allied unit and item abilities affecting couriers

• Dazzle – Shadow Wave
• Juggernaut – Healing Ward
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Lich - Ice Armor".
• Luna – Eclipse
• Necrophos – Death Pulse
• Ogre Magi – Bloodlust
• Pugna – Life Drain
• Riki – Blink Strike
• Treant Protector – Living Armor
• Warlock – Shadow Word
• Witch Doctor – Voodoo Restoration
• Ancient Black Dragon – Dragonhide Aura
• Hill Troll Priest – Heal
• Satyr Tormenter – Unholy Aura
• Wildwing Ripper – Toughness Aura
• Assault Cuirass – Assault Aura
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Buckler - Armor Bonus".
• Guardian Greaves – Guardian Aura
• Guardian Greaves – Mend
• Headdress – Regeneration Aura
• Medallion of Courage – Valor
• Mekansm – Mekansm Aura
• Mekansm – Restore
• Mjollnir – Static Charge
• Pipe of Insight – Insight Aura
• Ring of Aquila – Aquila Aura
• Ring of Basilius – Basilius Aura
• Solar Crest – Shine
• Vladmir's Offering – Vladmir's Aura

Enemy unit and item abilities that affect the courier:

Enemy unit and item abilities affecting couriers

• Abaddon – Curse of Avernus
• Anti-Mage – Mana Void
• Axe – Counter Helix
• Axe – Culling Blade²
• Bane – Fiend's Grip
• Batrider – Flaming Lasso ¹
• Beastmaster – Primal Roar
• Boar – Poison
• Bounty Hunter – Jinada
• Bounty Hunter – Shadow Walk
• Brewmaster – Drunken Brawler
• Chaos Knight – Chaos Strike
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Clinkz - Searing Arrows".
• Death Prophet – Spirit Siphon
• Dragon Knight – Elder Dragon Form (Splash & Frost Breath)
• Drow Ranger – Marksmanship (Scepter Upgrade)¹
• Earthshaker – Enchant Totem
• Earthshaker – Echo Slam
• Enigma – Black Hole
• Faceless Void – Time Lock
• Gyrocopter – Flak Cannon¹
• Juggernaut – Blade Dance
• Lich – Chain Frost¹
• Lifestealer – Feast
• Lina – Laguna Blade (Scepter Upgrade)
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Luna - Moon Glaive".
• Lycan – Shapeshift (Critical Strike)
• Magnus – Reverse Polarity
• Medusa – Split Shot
• Naga Siren – Ensnare
• Nyx Assassin – Vendetta
• Omniknight – Repel
• Phantom Assassin – Coup de Grace
• Pudge – Dismember
• Queen of Pain – Sonic Wave
• Riki – Cloak and Dagger
• Sand King – Epicenter
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Purge
• Shadow Fiend – Presence of the Dark Lord
• Shadow Shaman – Mass Serpent Ward
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Slardar - Bash".
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Slardar - Amplify Damage".
• Sniper – Assassinate
• Spiderling – Poison Sting
• Spirit Breaker – Greater Bash
• Spirit Breaker – Nether Strike
• Sven – Warcry
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Techies - Land Mines".
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Techies - Suicide Squad, Attack!".
• Templar Assassin – Refraction
• Templar Assassin – Meld
• Troll Warlord – Berserker's Rage
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Tusk - Frozen Sigil".
• Tusk – Walrus PUNCH!
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Ursa - Fury Swipes".
• Venomancer – Poison Sting
• Viper – Nethertoxin
• Viper – Viper Strike
• Warlock – Chaotic Offering
• Lua error: Found no Cargo data for "Warlock's Golem - Flaming Fists".
• Weaver – Geminate Attack
• Windranger – Focus Fire
• Wraith King – Mortal Strike
• Abyssal Blade – Bash
• Abyssal Blade – Overwhelm
• Assault Cuirass – Assault Aura
• Crystalys – Critical Strike
• Daedalus – Critical Strike
• Desolator – Corruption
• Eye of Skadi – Cold Attack
• Orb of Venom – Poison Attack
• Shadow Blade – Shadow Walk
• Silver Edge – Shadow Walk
• Skull Basher – Bash

¹ Has an effect when primary target, but the courier is never a valid secondary target ( Flaming Lasso when upgraded).

² Couriers are always under the health threshold, and thus are always instantly killed, giving the move speed bonus. However, Culling Blade's cooldown is NOT reset.

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See also

• Custom Courier

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