Drow Ranger
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Traxex the Drow Ranger is a ranged agility hero whose greatest assets are her incredible damage and ability to keep threats at bay. Traxex is a carry who, though lacking survivability, provides a worthwhile contribution through her damage alone. The Drow Ranger can be extremely powerful at any given point in the game.
As an agility hero, Traxex's damage is based largely off her auto attacks and is among the greatest largely due to the massive amounts of agility she gains from her passive ultimate, Marksmanship. The Drow Ranger also adds ranged damage to teammates with her global Precision Aura. Despite her lack of escape spells, Drow Ranger can keep herself relatively safe from enemy spellcasters and melee heroes using her Gust and her Frost Arrows, respectively. Frost Arrows infuses her attacks with ice, greatly slowing down her enemies. Since it can be manually cast, Frost Arrows can be used to harass her foes in the early game without drawing the creeps' attention. Gust is a great counter to enemy spellcasters as well as melee heroes as Gust pushes heroes away from Drow and prevents them from casting spells, who might threaten her life in battles. Position is of utmost importance as Traxex is quite vulnerable in close combat and the agility bonus from Marksmanship is removed when enemies come near her. This means she struggles against melee heroes with high mobility, such as Anti-Mage and Faceless Void.
Bio
Traxex, the Drow Ranger▶️ "I walk alone, but the shadows are company enough."
Lore:
Drow Ranger's given name is Traxex—a name well suited to the short, trollish, rather repulsive Drow people. But Traxex herself is not a Drow. Her parents were travelers in a caravan set upon by bandits, whose noisy slaughter of innocents roused the ire of the quiet Drow people. After the battle settled, the Drow discovered a small girl-child hiding in the ruined wagons, and agreed she could not be abandoned. Even as child, Traxex showed herself naturally adept at the arts they prized: Stealth, silence, subtlety. In spirit, if not in physique, she might have been a Drow changeling, returned to her proper home. But as she grew, she towered above her family and came to think of herself as ugly. After all, her features were smooth and symmetrical, entirely devoid of warts and coarse whiskers. Estranged from her adopted tribe, she withdrew to live alone in the woods. Lost travelers who find their way from the forest sometimes speak of an impossibly beautiful Ranger who peered at them from deep among the trees, then vanished like a dream before they could approach. Lithe and stealthy, icy hot, she moves like mist in silence. That whispering you hear is her frozen arrows finding an enemy's heart.
Voice:
[[Voice actors#|]] (Responses)
Abilities
Frost Arrows
Ability
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N/A
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Adds a freezing effect to Drow's attacks, slowing enemy movement. Lasts 1.5 seconds on Heroes, and 7 seconds on creeps.
Cast Range: 625
Move Speed Slow: 15%/30%/45%/60%
Hero Slow Duration: 1.5
Non-Hero Slow Duration: 7
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Ice-encased arrows pierce the silence, chilling their victims to the core.
- Frost Arrows can be disjointed.
- The slow from successive casts don't stack, only the duration gets refreshed.
- Can be cast on siege creeps.
Gust
Ability
N/A
N/A
Affects
Enemy Units
Enemy Units
Releases a wave that silences and knocks back enemy units. Knockback distance is relative to how close they are to you.
Cast Range: 900
Travel Distance: 900
Effect Radius: 250
Knockback duration: 0.6/0.7/0.8/0.9
Silence Duration: 3/4/5/6
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Traxex is rather fond of the tranquility of physical combat, calling on her Drow heritage to end the incantations of opposing magi.
- Applies a Silence.
- The wave travels at a speed of 2000.
- Reaches up to 1150 range away (900 travel distance + 250 radius).
- The knockback distance is inversely proportional to the target's distance, 350 at closest, 0 at 900.
- Units are not disabled during the knockback. They can still turn, attack and use items. Channeling items are not interrupted.
Precision Aura
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ETAbility
N/A
N/A
Affects
Allies
Allies
Adds bonus damage to the physical attack of allied, ranged Hero units on the map based on a percentage of Drow's agility. Affects creeps for 30 seconds when cast.
Radius: Global
Ranged Attack Damage Bonus: 18%/24%/30%/36%
Active Duration: 30
120
Traxex' time spent alone in the forests of her Drow home has allowed her to teach other archers how to improve their bow skills.
- Has an instant cast time, but interrupts channeling.
- Only affects ranged units.
- Checks Drow Ranger's agility periodically and adapts the bonus damage instantly.
- Activating Precision Aura does not place a buff on lane creeps and summons, it instead makes the aura affect them aswell.
- This means that creeps summoned or spawned after the activation will still get the bonus for the remaining duration.
- Active aura persist through Drow Ranger's death, however it does not provide the bonus during her death.
- This means when she dies and reincarnates with Aegis of the Immortal, or uses Buyback, the bonus will be applied again for its remaining duration.
- The buff lingers for 0.5 seconds. This goes for both, the passive aura for heroes and the active aura for creeps.
- Visage's Familliars and Storm from Primal Split passively benefit from the aura when they are within 900 range of Drow Ranger. They benefit globally from it when activated.
Marksmanship RM
RMAbility
N/A
N/A
Affects
Self
Self
Drow's experience in battle improves her accuracy and effectiveness in combat, providing a passive bouns to Agility. Grants no bonus when there are enemy heroes within 400 range.
Enemy Hero Search Radius: 400
Agility Bonus: 40/60/80
The Drow Ranger is the epitome of archery prowess.
- An icy particle effect is visible on Drow Ranger while Marksmanship is active.
- Checks for enemy heroes in range in 0.1 second intervals and adapts the bonus accordingly.
- Invulnerable and hidden heroes also deactivate the bonus when they are in range. Illusions do not deactivate it.
- Effectively gives Drow Ranger 40/60/80 attack speed, 40/60/80 damage and 5.6/8.4/11.2 armor.
- This is how much damage Precision Aura grants in conjunction with Marksmanship's agility bonus:
- Marksmanship Level 1: 7.2 / 9.6 / 12.0 / 14.4
- Marksmanship Level 2: 10.8 / 14.4 / 18.0 / 21.6
- Marksmanship Level 3: 14.4 / 19.2 / 24.0 / 28.8
Recommended items
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Equipment
Drow Ranger/equipment
Tips
- Manually casting Frost Arrows (known as orbwalking) will prevent Traxex from drawing creep/tower aggro. Traxex can also use this to kite and escape from enemies when caught out.
- An early level of Gust can be crucial to defend against spellcasters.
- Due to the mechanics of Marksmanship, positioning is the key for Traxex. Traxex needs to be at least 400 units away from enemies to enable Marksmanship, or else it won't be active and won't give Traxex the ever needed bonus agility.
- Marksmanship will have a noticeable particle effect that emanates from Traxex's body. If Traxex is too close to an enemy hero, the particle effect will disappear, meaning Traxex will not receive the bonus Agility. This also occurs when invisible units are nearby.
- If during a team fight the enemy heroes get close to each other, using Gust in many or even all of them can simply turn the battle aside. This can make Traxex not just a great carry, but also a powerful disabler/initiator too.
- When in possession of Shadow Blade, Traxex can effectively gank by taking a shot to break the invisibility and immediately using Gust, leaving the target: slowed, damaged, silenced, and being completely unable to react (apart from using items).
- Because of the removal of the bonus agility when there is an enemy hero near Traxex, it is advised to avoid picking her when the enemy carries are especially mobile (Antimage, Faceless Void) or otherwise employ powerful slows that can match Frost Arrow (Viper, Phantom Assassin).
Trivia
- Traxex's original design was slightly different from the one now; aside from the same hood, her white hair wasn't present, and her eyes were completely white. Her outfit was also slightly more revealing.
- Traxex's Ultimate, Marksmanship, originally granted a chance to one-hit kill creeps; however, it was changed in later updates to the passive agility buff she now has.
- Traxex was briefly featured in the Dota 2 comic Are We Heroes Yet?.
- In DotA, Precision Aura is called True-shot Aura.
Update history
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Balance changelog
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Replaced Abilities
Precision Aura (Old)
ET
Ability
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N/A
Affects
Allies
Allies
Adds bonus damage to the physical attack of allied ranged units in the area.
Radius: 900
Damage Bonus: 8%/16%/24%/32%
Traxex' time spent alone in the forests of her Drow home has allowed her to teach other archers how to improve their bow skills.
- Aura bonuses consider only unit base damage + primary attribute increases (not raw damage items).
Marksmanship (Old)
RM
Ability
N/A
N/A
Affects
Self
Self
Drow's experiences in battle improve her accuracy and effectiveness in combat, providing a passive bonus to Agility.
Agility Bonus: 15/30/60
The Drow Ranger is the epitome of archery prowess.
Silence WE
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Ability
N/A
N/A
Affects
Enemy Units
Enemy Units
Stops all enemy units in a target area from casting spells.
Range: 900
Radius: 300
Duration: 3/4/5/6
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Traxex is rather fond of the tranquility of physical combat, calling on her Drow heritage to end the incantations of opposing magi.
- Doesn't stop usage of items.
- As with most silences, it will not stop Wraith King's Reincarnation
- Disables Permanent Invisibility.
Gallery
- Drowrangerdota2.jpg
Drow Ranger's original artwork
Old face textures, with tattoos
See also
- Drow Ranger responses
- Drow Ranger sounds
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