Legion Commander

Legion Commander 26 + 2.6 18 + 1.7 20 + 2.2
	Grants the following bonuses per point of attribute:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration; +1 main attack damage
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration; +0.1% base magic resistance ;
L0	Base Hero Values
L1	⤷ + Base Attributes
L15	⤷ + Attribute Gain
L25	⤷ + 6 levels of Attribute Bonus
L30	⤷ + 7 levels of Attribute Bonus
	All values shown are without talent bonuses.
Attack Animation	0.46 + 0.64
Gib Type	Default
Internal	Not Provided

Tresdin the Legion Commander is a melee Strength hero fitting the role of carry. A highly mobile and predatory hero, her skillset and gameplay revolves mainly around successfully killing off targets with her ultimate, Duel. Accomplishing this grants Tresdin permanent bonus damage. Though she is extremely skilled in "fair" one-on-one fights, Tresdin suffers when outnumbered and must choose her engagements carefully. A successful midgame sees her roaming the map collecting kills and becoming a very dangerous carry, whilst in lategame she ideally will no longer rely on Duel to win her fights and simply destroy any enemies that come too close to her. Though potentially an extremely powerful hero, she must be played with premeditation and good decision-making to reach her full potential.

Bio

Tresdin, the Legion Commander

▶️ "If they want war, then we shall give it to them!"

Lore:

They came without warning. Within the city walls of Stonehall there came a rumble and a terrible sound, and from blackness unknown came a force of beasts numbering beyond count, wielding flame and foul sorcery, slaying and snatching mothers and sons to dark purpose. Of once-mighty Stonehall's military strength only the Bronze Legion, led by the indomitable Commander Tresdin, was near enough to answer the call of battle. They rode into their city, fighting through bloodstained alleyways and burning markets, cutting their way through the monstrous throng to the source of the sudden invasion: an ethereal rift within the city square, and at its precipice thundered their dreaded champion.

Enwrapped in a corrosive shimmer, the leader of the abyssal horde swung its massive blade, cleaving a legionnaire in two as his flesh began to spoil. Tresdin lifted her blood-stained sword and settled her sights on the beast. It turned, smiling at her through a maze of teeth. Heedless of the battle raging around them, they charged one another.

Deflecting blow after blow, the pair danced their deadly duel as the Bronze Legion met its end around them. Tresdin leapt forward as her foe swung its sword to meet her. The odds turned. The attack smashed into Tresdin suddenly, a brutal thrust from the side, but even as her balance slipped she rallied her strength for another stroke. Blade scraped on blade, beyond the hilt to the gnarled paw below, carving it in two in a fearsome spray of sparks and blood. The vile audience looked on in astonishment as she pressed the attack, driving her blade through her foe's flesh into the stampeding heart within. With a scream that split the clouds above, the beast erupted in a torrent of gore and anguish. The stygian portal wavered, the power sustaining the chasm beyond vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared. The remaining invaders fell quickly to Stonehall steel.

Though victorious, the survivors saw little to celebrate: the city lay in ruins, and survivors were few. Fires continued to spread. Unfurling her banners of war, Tresdin gathered what allies she could. Her anger smoldered as she pledged brutal vengeance upon the forces of the abyss, and damned be any who would dare stand in her way.

Voice:

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Gameplay

Abilities

Overwhelming Odds

▶️QW

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Turns the enemies' numbers against them, dealing damage and granting you bonus movement speed per unit or per hero. Deals bonus damage to illusions and summoned units as a percent of their current health.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 330

Base Damage: 40/80/120/160

Damage per Creep: 14/16/18/20

Damage per Hero: 20/35/50/65

Summoned Units Damage: 25% of Current Health

Move Speed Bonus per Creep: 3%

Move Speed Bonus per Hero: 9%

Speed Duration: 7

18

100

The archers of Stonehall are ready at Tresdin's command.

Summoned unit bonus damage is dealt before normal spell damage.

Invulnerable units, hidden units and siege creeps.

Lone Druid's Spirit Bear, Primal Split spirits and creeps dominated by Enchant, Holy Persuasion and Helm of the Dominator count as creeps and don't take the summoned units damage.

One part of the spell's sound effect plays during the cast animation.

Press the Attack

▶️WT

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Ability
N/A

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Removes debuffs and disables from the target friendly unit, and grants bonus attack speed and health regen for a short time.

Cast Animation: +

Cast range: 800

Health Regen Bonus: 30/40/50/60

Attack Speed Bonus: 60/80/100/120

Duration: 5

16/15/14/13

110

The rallying horn of the Bronze Legion is able to inspire any heart.

Applies a strong dispel on the target upon cast.

Restores health in form of health regeneration, so it regenerates 3/4/5/6 health in 0.1 second intervals.

Regenerates a total of 150/200/250/300 Health.

Moment of Courage

▶️EE

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

When attacked, Legion Commander has a chance to immediately attack again with bonus lifesteal.

Proc Chance: 25%

Lifesteal: 55%/65%/75%/85%

2.7/2.1/1.5/0.9

Tresdin knows that an enemy's most vulnerable moment often follows their fiercest stroke.

Moment of Courage triggers when an enemy unit starts performing an attack. This means it can proc on cancelled and missed attacks.

Fully stacks with all other sources of lifesteal.

Cannot lifesteal off of siege creeps, wards, buildings and allied units.

When this ability triggers while Legion Commander is currently performing an attack, an extra attack is instantly thrown in, without interrupting her current attack.
- This instant attack does not count as a regular attack. This means it does not proc Return, Reactive Armor and Counter Helix.
- However, it does proc every form of attack modifier.

When this ability triggers while not attacking, a buff will be placed on her, which gives her next attack maximum attack speed. The buff lasts for 1 second or until the next attack.

Uses Pseudo-random distribution.

Duel

▶️RD

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Legion Commander and the target enemy hero are forced to attack each other for a short duration. Neither hero can use items or abilities. If either hero dies during the duration, the hero winning the Duel gains permanent bonus damage.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 150

Winner Attack Damage Bonus: 10/14/18

Duel Duration: 4/4.75/5.5 (

Permanent)

50

75

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Duel lasts until either Legion Commander or the Duel target die. Ends if duelists are ever more than 2,000 range apart.

To face a soldier of Stonehall in single combat is a challenge few can resist.

The loser of the duel is the hero that dies while under the buff. There is no victor if both heroes are alive at the end of the duration, and no damage bonus is granted.

The dueling units do not have to do the last hit to win the Duel. Allies may interfere.

Silences and mutes both Legion Commander and the target.

Dueling units fully ignore disarm.
- If a dueling unit becomes ethereal, it still attacks the Duel target, and can still be attacked by the Duel target (though still won't be damaged by the physical attacks).
- If a dueling unit gets hexed or disarmed by Frostbite or Overgrowth, it stops attacking for its duration.
  However, if Duel is cast on an already hexed unit or a unit disarmed by Frostbite or Overgrowth, it attacks.
- Forces Batrider and Timbersaw (and Rubick) to attack even while having Flaming Lasso or Chakram active.

When a unit is affected by Berserker's Call or Winter's Curse and Duel, Duel will always have priority.

Casting Force Staff or Geomagnetic Grip on a dueling unit will have no effect, wasting the mana and cooldown.

When a dueling unit is defeated and has Aegis of the Immortal or Reincarnation, the victor still gets the bonus damage.

When Legion Commander dies to the shatter of Ice Blast, the dueled enemy will not get bonus damage. If the Duel target dies to it instead, Tresdin will get the damage.

Duel can be cast on illusions. However, defeating them grants no bonus damage. But if the illusion is victorious, it gets the bonus damage, which is useless for the illusion.

Recommended items

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Equipment

Legion Commander/equipment

Tips

When using Duel, be sure to cast it on an enemy Hero who is relatively weaker than you, or has a fairly low amount of health remaining in order to ensure that the bonus attack damage will be given to you.
Legion Commander works well with gankers, especially Bloodseeker, who is able to detect low-health Heroes in the map.
If teamed up with Pudge try to keep close with him. Pudge can make enemy heroes come to you, when enemies know full well not to get caught in your ultimate. Let him do his combos first to soften up the caught foe, before casting Duel to ensure a kill. You'll both benefit this way, Pudge gets his bonus strength and you get the bonus attack damage.
Even if an ally dealt the killing blow on the Hero that you are dueling, the attack damage is still applied to Legion Commander.
Always go with your team. Although Legion Commander is a carry, she is better off with her team, ganking and getting kills through Duel rather than farming too much.
Always try to get into fights, just be mindful and select the fights you know you can win. During early to mid-game, try targeting the softer casters or supports e.g. heroes like Crystal Maiden and Shadow Shaman. This way if you were to lose a Duel and they gain the bonus attack damage, it won't affect your team in the late-game as these heroes rely more on their spells than their attacks.
Any items that can give Legion Commander both health and attack speed is a good pick for her, as she needs the health to be tanky in a Duel, and the attack speed to finish off the enemy before Duel expires. Her attack damage increases through kills from Duel, so items that only give attack damage aren't best bought first.
Armor reducing items are particularly good on Legion Commander once you have won a few Duels because she gets attack speed from Press the Attack and attack damage from winning Duels.
Before casting Duel on someone, try casting Press the Attack first to give you needed bonus attack speed.
Due to the double edged nature of Duel, attempting to use it liberally on targets in teamfights can sometimes give bad results for you and your team, and initiating with it is not always the best choice as duels should ideally not last long in order to avoid being stunned and denied of your success. For this reason, she is best treated as a simple hard ganker in the early portions of the game until she has obtained enough duel victories to reach her carry status, and works best in co-ordinated teams that can effectively soften up the target you wish to engage, and most importantly keep them in place for a good while to prevent from getting out of range.
Items like Skull Basher, Daedalus, Monkey King Bar or even Sange and Yasha help you defeat your Duel targets, and ensure that your damage will be boosted. However, other items like Blink Dagger, Black King Bar, Silver Edge and Blade Mail will help you fight better inside your ultimate for a lower price and set up good positioning, whether dueling or not. Farm these items first as they will help you scale better into late game, when more expensive items can be purchased.

Trivia

The transition of content from DotA to Dota 2 involved a change in gender for Legion Commander, despite the character and ability names remaining unchanged. She still makes references to her old characterization in a collection of lines when engaging certain heroes:
- When engaging heroes with mounts, she will often express her jealousy or interest for them (▶️ "I like your mount."). Her hero model in DotA rode a mount.
- She also comments on facial hair when dueling or killing certain heroes (▶️ "Nice mustache."). Her DotA hero model had a mustache.
- In DotA, her counterpart often expressed his distrust for anything which was not human. This is heavily expanded in Dota 2, where Legion Commander will instead express her distrust for numerous roles or states of being, instead of a single racial entity, in a bulk of her rival hero taunts.
Tresdin's response, ▶️ "War. War always changes." is a reference to the signature Template:W quote, "War. War never changes."
Her response, ▶️ "You won't win the war by dying for your Ancient. You'll win by making the other dumb, unfed bastard die for theirs!" is a reference to the popular George S. Patton quote: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
The horn sound effect when deploying ▶️ Press the Attack utilizes the same ▶️ sound the Concheror item uses in Team Fortress 2, another title from Valve.
Her voice actress, Template:W, is also well known for providing the voice of Alyx Vance, a character in the game Half Life 2, another title by Valve.