Silencer

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Silencer 17 + 2.5 22 + 3 27 + 2.5
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 494 1264 2078 2386 +0 +1.7 +5.2 +8.9 +10.35 Mana 75 399 819 1263 1431 +0.01 +1.36 +3.11 +4.96 +5.69 Armor -1 2.67 9.67 16.67 19.5 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 16 30 43 57 78 92 115 129 129 143 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.72/s 0.96/s 1.21/s 1.31/s Attack Range 600 (800) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5 + 0.5 Projectile Speed Move Speed 295 ( 325) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Nortrom, the Silencer, is a ranged intelligence hero who can be played as a support, carry, or initiator. He is one of the few intelligence heroes that truly benefit from intelligence items and is effective against heroes that rely mostly on spells, as he can silence them while stealing their intelligence and adding it to his own. He is a notorious anti-caster hero who can disrupt the magical abilities of his enemies and cripple spellcasters throughout the game. Arcane Curse slows and causes enemies to lose health for a set duration, but increases with each spell the enemy casts, forcing them to either wait and cast no spell until it expires, or cast spells and prolong the debuff and thus take more damage. Last Word places a curse on Nortrom's target that damages and silences for a long duration if the target casts a spell. If the target does not cast a spell before the curse duration ends the effects are the same. Glaives of Wisdom is an active attack modifier that deals a percentage of Nortrom's intelligence as pure damage. Nortrom's ultimate, Global Silence, silences all enemy units on the map for a few seconds. A well-timed Global Silence can be used to save yourself or an ally, initiate a teamfight, or ruin the enemy's initiation.

Silencer has the unique innate ability, Intelligence Steal, which permanently steals the intelligence of enemy heroes that die near him or are directly killed by him and adds it to his own. This rewards his presence in teamfights, also making his glaives ever stronger as the battle goes on.

Bio

Nortrom, the Silencer

▶️ "Enemies should be seen and not heard."

Lore:

Part of the seventh and final generation of a carefully designed pedigree, Nortrom was bred by the ancient order of the Aeol Drias to be the greatest magic user the world had ever seen. He was the prophesied one, the culmination of two-hundred years of careful pairings, a war-mage who would bring glory to the order, and destruction to their sworn enemies, The Knights of the Fold. Raised with other young mages in a hidden cantonment among the hills of the Hazhadal barrens, the order's preceptors waited for Nortrom’s abilities to manifest. While the other students honed their talents with fire, or ice, or incantatory spells, Nortrom sat silent and talentless, unable to cast so much as a hex. As the day of final testing approached, he still hadn’t found his magic. In disgust, the preceptors berated him, while the children laughed. “You are no mage,” the head of the order declared. Still, Nortrom did not slink away. He entered the day of testing and faced down the young mages who had mocked him. And then his preceptors learned a valuable lesson: a lack of magic can be the greatest magic of all. Nortrom silenced the young mages one by one and defeated them in single combat, until he alone stood as champion of the Aeol Drias, in fulfillment of the prophecy.

Voice:

Michael Gregory (Responses)

Abilities

Intelligence Steal

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemy Heroes / Self

Silencer will permanently steal {{#show:#Intelligence Steal|?value2#}} intelligence from any enemy hero that dies within {{#show:#Intelligence Steal|?value1#}} range or is killed by the Silencer.

Steal Radius: 925

Stolen Intelligence: 2

Modifiers [?]

Int Steal

Undispellable

• This is an innate ability and does not need to be skilled. It is not bound to any ability, but to Silencer himself.

• Stolen intelligence is directly removed from the enemy's base intelligence and added to Silencer's base intelligence.

• Can only steal from base intelligence + intelligence gained from levels. Bonus intelligence cannot be stolen.

• It does not matter how an enemy hero within the radius dies, Silencer always steals its intelligence.

• Silencer also always steals intelligence when he deals the killing blow on an enemy hero, regardless of distance.
  • However, Silencer needs to be alive as the kill happens to steal the intelligence.

• Cannot steal intelligence from illusions or hero clones.
  • When Silencer kills a Meepo clone however, he does steal intelligence, since killing a Meepo clone also kills the main Meepo.

• Cannot reduce enemy base intelligence below 1. Silencer also does not gain intelligence from heroes that are at 1 intelligence.
  • The status buff, however, increases by 2 on every kill or nearby death.

• Each stack effectively changes Silencer's and the enemy's mana by , mana regeneration by and spell damage by %.
  • Silencer also gains {{#show:#Intelligence Steal|?value2#}} attack damage per stack, while the enemy loses the same amount if it is an intelligence hero.

Arcane Curse

▶️QC

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Curses the target area, causing enemy heroes to take damage and slowing their movement speed. Anytime affected enemies cast a spell, the duration is increased.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.37

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 425

Damage per Second: 14/22/30/38

Move Speed Slow: 9%/12%/15%/18% ( 34%/37%/40%/43%)

Base Duration: 6

Penalty Duration: 4

 20/18/16/14

 75/95/115/135

Modifiers [?]

Curse Of The Silent

Any

Nortrom's lack of incantations is less of a problem for him than it is for his adversaries.

• Whenever an affected unit casts a spell, the duration is increased by {{#show:#Arcane Curse|?value6#}}. This effect has no stack limit.

• Fully ignores toggle abilities, active attack modifiers and the abilities listed here.

• If an affected unit gets silenced, the duration and the damage are paused until the silence expires.
  • However, the slow is not paused while silenced and still slows affected enemies.

• Successive casts of Arcane Curse fully stack, always placing an independent debuff.

• Damages in 1 second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied, resulting in {{#show:#Arcane Curse|?value5#}} (+{{#show:#Arcane Curse|?value6#}} per penalty) instances.

• Can deal up to (+ per penalty) damage to a single unit (before reductions).

• The sound effect played on every damage instance is only audible to the affected unit's player.

Glaives of Wisdom

▶️WW

Ability
Target Unit / Autocast

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Pure

Silencer enchants his glaives with his wisdom, dealing additional damage based on his Intelligence.

Cast Range: 600 ( 800)

Intelligence as Damage: 35%/50%/65%/80%

Intelligence as Damage against Silenced: 35%/50%/65%/80% ( 70%/100%/130%/160%)

 0

 15

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes Glaives to pierce Spell Immunity and deal 100% more damage against silenced units.

Although lacking in traditional incantations, Nortrom's pedigree of the Aeol Drias gives him uncanny wisdom, which he applies to physical combat.

• Glaives of Wisdom can be disjointed.

• Glaives of Wisdom deal their damage in a separate damage instance. So they are unaffected by any attack modifying effect.

• Glaives of Wisdom deal their damage before the attack damage is applied, but still depend on the attack hitting the target.

• Checks Silencer's intelligence as the projectile hits. Gaining/losing intelligence while the projectile is travelling does affect its damage.

Last Word

▶️ET

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Enchants a target, causing them to be damaged and silenced if they cast a spell or if the enchantment timer expires.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.47

Cast Range: 900

Initial Debuff Duration: 4

Damage: 150/200/250/300

Silence Duration: 3/4/5/6

 30/24/18/12

 115

Modifiers [?]

Last Word

Any

Last Word Disarm

Any

Silence

Any

Nortrom ensures that spells uttered by his opponents will be their last.

• When the target casts a spell during the initial debuff, it gets damaged, then silenced and slowed and then the cast spell goes off.
  • Since the spell counts as cast, the silence does not prevent it from happening. Although the silence happens first, the spell's effects are already queued up.
  • However death does stop the spell, meaning when the damage from Last Word is enough to kill the target, the cast spell does not go off.
  • This also means that damage negating spells like Refraction and spells that provide spell immunity do not block its damage.

• Does not trigger on toggle abilities, active attack modifiers and the abilities listed here.
  • Triggers on channeling spells, but waits for the channeling to stop first.
  • Last Word does trigger on Phase Shift. However, it only applies its effects when Phase Shift is canceled manually.
  • When Recall is cast while having the debuff on, it freezes and does not trigger until another spell is cast.

• When the initial debuff expires, it still damages and silences the target.

• Grants shared vision as long as the {{#show:#Last Word|?value2#}} second initial debuff is on.

• The Last Word Disarm debuff, although no longer serving a purpose, is still applied and visible in the HUD.

Global Silence

▶️RE

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Silencer stops all sound, preventing enemy heroes and units on the map from casting spells.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.37

Radius: Global

Duration: 4/5/6

 130

 250/375/500

Modifiers [?]

Global Silence

Any

With a shock to the ground, all magic and sound pauses, and Nortrom fulfills his prophecy.

• The silence affects spell immune, invisible and invulnerable creeps, summons and heroes. Does not affect hidden units.

• The sound effect of Global Silence which plays on each enemy's hero has the highest sound priority in the game.
  • This means it heavily tones down other game sounds for enemies, making it basically the only sound they can hear during the silence.

Talents

Hero Talents
+25% Arcane Curse Slow	25	+200 Attack Range
+12% Magic Resistance	20	+30 Attack Speed
+60 Gold/Min	15	+200 Health
+7 Intelligence	10	+4 Armor

Notes:

• The armor is added as bonus armor, and therefore does not benefit illusions.
• Gold granted from the talent is unreliable gold.
• Upgrading health increases maximum health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.
• The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
• The attack range talent also affects the cast range of Glaives of Wisdom.

Gameplay

Strategy & Tips

Counters &
Matchups

Audio

Responses

Sounds

History

Lore

Old Abilities

Changelogs

Equipment

Silencer Equipment (expand sets) Sets Grand Suppressor Guardian of Silence Set Hazhadal Magebreaker Heirlooms of Aeol Drias Hush of Eternal Night Order of the Silvered Talon Silent Champion Silent Edict Silent Slayer The Hidden Talent Set Tools of the Final Utterance Whisper of the Tribunal Weapon Fan of Piercing Silence Glaive of Oscilla Moon Whirl Star of Silence Whirling Mind Slicer Shield Aspect of Oscilla Shield of Stillness Head Dam'arakan Muzzle Dam'arakan Muzzle of the Crimson Witness

Trivia

• Unlike most heroes, Silencer's attack projectiles actually use the model of his equipped cosmetic weapon.
• Like Death Prophet, Omniknight and Io, Silencer received a color palette change, changing his model and icons, having his former red armor replaced with violet.
  • Before his palette change, newer players would occasionally mistake Silencer for Dragon Knight, and he would sometimes be referred to as "The other Dragon Knight". Even after the palette swap, some older players may refer to him as "Purple Dragon Knight".
• Silencer's spell sound effects are based on some of his voice lines. Arcane Curse debuff sounds is based on "▶️ Curse you!", Last Word is based on one of his laughing lines and Global Silence is based on ▶️ this.
• Chen is a member of the Knights of the Fold which would make him an enemy to Silencer based on Silencer's background. Despite this, there is no dialogue between the two heroes.

Gallery

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  Hero icon progress

References

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