Troll Warlord

Troll Warlord 17 + 2.2 21 + 2.75 13 + 1
	Grants the following bonuses per point of attribute:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed; +1 main attack damage
	+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	0.3 + 0.3
Gib Type	Default
Internal	Not Provided

Jah'rakal the Troll Warlord is a ranged Agility hero able to output mighty damage competitively at range and in melee. His Berserker's Rage gives him the unique ability to change his attack position from ranged to melee and back at will as the situation prefers. When in close combat, his stats are increased accordingly: he gains bonus damage, armor, movement speed, health, reduced base attack time, and the ability to Bash. Not only does this greatly improve the Troll Warlord, but allows him to overpower most other carries, as well as permabash a target for extended amounts of time. The Troll Warlord is an axe specialist, using them in his unique Whirling Axes. Whirling Axes has two variations: the first is available to his ranged form wherein he throws five axes in a cone formation to damage and slow enemies down. The second is available to his melee form, unleashing axes around himself in a small radius to damage and blind nearby enemies. In keeping with his savage nature, Fervor builds up the Warlord's momentum. With each consecutive hit on the same target, he gains increased attack speed, up to a maximum of 4 stacks. His Ultimate, Battle Trance, increases the attack speed of all of his allies globally, making it useful both for teamfights and to shred towers down quickly. Notorious for his superbly fast attack speed that can be matched by few, Jah'rakal is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Bio

Jah'rakal, the Troll Warlord

▶️ "The strong shall eat the weak."

Lore:

It's an easy thing to offend a troll. A prickly and contentious race, trolls thrive on argument and strife, missing no excuse to raise their voices in dispute. Males grow to maturity in subterranean chambers beneath their matriarch's domicile, feeding and amusing themselves while contributing nothing. Often they stay for years beyond the age of maturity, while the matriarch provides them with sustenance. When young trolls are finally pushed from their sub-chamber, they gather with others of their kind, forming roving gangs of malcontents who complain loudly about all manner of vexation. As much as trolls love to argue, imagine how rare it is for a troll to be driven from his own kind for being too difficult to get along with. Such was Jah'rakal's fate, a monger troll from deep in the Hoven. So deluded was he, so bitter and abrasive, that even other trolls found his company intolerable. After one particularly vitriolic outburst in which he claimed the lion's share of loot from their latest raid, his cohorts finally snapped. They turned on him, beat him with clubs, and drove him from the encampment. Enraged at his banishment, he returned the next day, armed with steel, and slew them all, one by one. He then swore a blood oath: he would ever after be a fighting force unto himself. Now he roams the world as the Troll Warlord, bitter and angry, the Imperial high commander of an army of one.

Voice:

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Gameplay

Abilities

Berserker's Rage

▶️QG

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

Damage
Magical

Allows the Warlord to use his throwing axes as melee weapons, gaining attack speed, movement speed, hitpoints, armor, and a chance to bash targets on attack. Berserker's Rage also changes the functionality of Whirling Axes.

Cast Animation: +

Health Bonus: 100

Armor Bonus: 3

Move Speed Bonus: 10/20/30/40

Base Attack Time: 1.55

Bash Chance: 10%

Bash Damage: 20/30/40/50

Bash Duration: 0.8/1.2/1.6/2

Like his anger, Troll Warlord's supply of axes is infinite.

Berserker's Rage does not interrupt Troll Warlord's channeling spells upon cast.

When toggling on, the ability's icon changes to File:Berserker's Rage Active icon.png.

When toggling on, exchanges Whirling Axes (Ranged) with Whirling Axes (Melee).

When toggling off, all changes are reverted and he's a ranged unit again.

Turns Troll Warlord into a melee unit with 128 attack range, so items will treat him as such (e.g. Battle Fury, Stout Shield).

When toggling on while a ranged projectile is flying, it will be treated as a melee attack by Battle Fury and Vladmir's Offering.

This means that the attack will cleave in an area infront of Troll Warlord and the projectile will lifesteal.

Berserker's Rage persist through Troll Warlord's death. If Berserker's Rage was active upon death, he respawns with it activated.

The bash does not stack with other bashes. The bash from Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade is completly disabled for Troll Warlord.

The chance to bash is determined by pseudo-random distribution.

Troll Warlord can lifesteal off the damage dealt by his bash. However, it cannot crit or cleave.

The damage can be reduced by e.g. Enfeeble or Static Link. However it cannot be amplified by e.g. Empower or the Double Damage rune.

The bash adds an average 2/3/4/5 damage to every attack.

Bash works on allied units when attacking them.

Whirling Axes (Ranged)

▶️WE

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Troll hurls a fistful of five axes in a cone shape over 900 range, slowing and damaging enemy units.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 900

Axes Travel Distance: 945

Axes radius: 100

Axes Spread End Radius: 206.17

Damage: 75

Move Speed Slow: 30%

Slow duration: 3/3.75/4.5/5.25

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Only axes fueled by hate whirl with such a deadly spin.

Whirling Axes (Ranged) is only available when Berserker's Rage is toggled off.

The axes travel at a speed of 1500.

Spawns 5 axes which spread up to 25° degrees and affect units within 100 radius around them.

Has no starting radius, the axes spawn on one point infront of Troll Warlord. So the total area is shaped like a cone.

Can hit units up to 1045 range away (945 travel distance + 100 axes radius).

Ranged Whirling Axes do not affect Roshan.

Whirling Axes (Melee)

▶️WE

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Troll hurls two axes around him in a close range area of effect, damaging enemy units and causing them to miss some attacks

Cast Animation: +

Spin Radius: 350

Axes Radius: 100

Damage: 75/125/175/225

Miss chance: 60%

Miss Duration: 4/5/6/7

Whirl Duration: 3

12

50

Keep your enemies close.

Whirling Axes (Melee) is only available when Berserker's Rage is toggled on.

Interrupts Troll Warlord's channeling spells upon cast.

If Troll Warlord dies, the the spell ends and the axes disappear.

The axes always spawn towards east and west at Troll Warlord's position and rotate clock-wise.

The axes travel at a speed of 1250 and move out at a speed of 233.33 until reaching the max distance in 1.5 seconds and then move back to Troll Warlord at the same speed.

Only units within 100 range of an axe get damaged and blinded.

Can hit units up to 450 range away (350 max spin radius + 100 axes radius)

The visual effects of this spell are offset and don't reflect the actual currently affected area.

Melee Whirling Axes do not affect Roshan.

Fervor

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

With each continuous blow on the same target, Troll gains increased attack speed. If Troll changes targets, the stacks drop to zero.

Max Stacks: 4

Attack Speed Bonus per Stack: 16/22/28/34

If at first you don't succeed, strike, strike again.

Troll Warlord gains or loses stacks as soon as he reaches his attack point.

This means that missed or disjointed attacks will still count and that it doesn't matter what he attacks, be it enemies, buildings, wards or allies.

With maximum stacks, Fervor increases attack speed by 64/88/112/136.

Battle Trance

▶️RR

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Allied Heroes

Troll's presence on the battlefield increases the attack speed of himself and all allied heroes.

Cast Animation: +

Radius: Global

Attack Speed Bonus: 60/120/180

30

75

An adrenaline rush of pure hatred quickens your blades.

Battle Trance interrupts Troll Warlord's channeling spells upon cast.

The sound effect is global for allies and local for enemies. Enemies can't hear it when having no vision over Troll Warlord.

Recommended items

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Equipment

Tips

Trollst — Berserker's Rage bash average stats

Trolldv — Berserker's Rage Bash average defense value

At level 25 without items and with 4 stacks of fervor and his ultimate Troll Warlord reaches 403/500 attack speed.
Troll Warlord is faster in melee mode, making it easier to chase or escape from enemies. It also increases your health and armor, so switching to melee form whenever damage is received reduces the overall damage you take. On the other side, being in ranged form makes healing effects more effective, since the current health percentage stays the same when switching between melee and ranged.
The melee and ranged versions of whirling Axes have separate cooldowns. Keep this in mind when in battle, so that you can output more damage with them.
When your target enemy is starting to become harder to chase in melee form, keep in mind that you still have a Ranged form. Ranged Whirling Axes can aid in crippling them, so that you can revert back to melee form to finish them off.
Augment Troll Warlord's power with damage-boosting items, since his power lies in his excellent attack speed.
- Ally buffs such as Magnus's Empower can also be a good source of boosting damage.
Because of its scaling boost to attack speed Fervor is usually leveled up last with 1 point at level 4 for tower pushing/roshan/beating on a single hero. Having your movespeed and bash duration higher will greatly benefit your survivability and chase, since Fervor is extremely good with even only 1 skill point. But keep in mind that since a recent update the first stack is always active.
It's better to focus on one target rather than switching from one to another, since Fervor makes him more dangerous the more he attacks the same target with each blow.
Attack speed items such as Gloves of Haste and Hyperstone allow you to build up Fervor more quickly, but do not scale well if you opt to max it early on.
- If you're 6-slotted, sell any attack speed items for higher damage items. With all skills levelled, Troll Warlord easily achieves his maximum attack speed, so items like Mjollnir are much less useful.
Drum of Endurance and Sange and Yasha are strong items coupled with the bonuses from Berserker's Rage, giving you even greater mobility to prevent kiting.
Maelstrom, Mjollnir, Orb of Venom and Eye of Skadi are the only few Unique Attack Modifiers that stack with the commonly opted HotD.
- Maelstrom is an excellent source of early-game and mid-game damage, but upgrading to a Mjollnir is discouraged as Troll Warlord hardly benefits from the 80 attack speed it provides. Instead of upgrading your Maelstrom, sell it for higher damage items such as Daedalus, Butterfly or Monkey King Bar, or utility items such as Eye of Skadi, Black King Bar or Heaven's Halberd.
Heroes who mainly auto-attack benefit greatly from Battle Trance. Try to draft at least one more hard hitting carry for your team to get the most out of it. If your team insists on picking four carries, Battle Trance can often be the saving grace for a horribly gold starved team as it equates to more than a free seven second Hyperstone for everyone at its first level. Contently look at the map and use Battle Trance at any engagement of allies to give them an advantage. Check at the map at use your ultimate everytime someone is fighting or pushing. Communicate with your team to know when exactly you need to activate your ultimate. Be sure to always have enough mana, buy a Ring of Basilius to get more mana regen.
- Battle Trance can be used to help allies in many ways even if you are not there, as the effects are global, that is why Troll is often played mid to reach level 6 quickly (and do a fast Roshan at the same time). Whether you have someone pushing a tower such as Nature's Prophet or Lycan, if Faceless Void has used Chronosphere, Legion Commander Duel or if Ursa is Roshing, heroes with high base damage but low attack speed like Tiny, be sure to help your friends by using your Ultimate!
- Battle Trance does not buff Illusions, but it does work on Meepo and his clones allowing to reach the highest DPS of the game. Because Meepo is excellent at pouncing on enemies, he can generally obliterate anyone instantly once he blink/poofs in under the effects of Battle Trance. He can use Troll's ultimate to destroy buildings in backdoor.
With the bonus attack speed when Troll Warlord is picked, some heroes can focuses on damages Daedalus or Monkey King Bar instead of attack speed.

Trivia

Jah'rakal's lore and certain dialogue lines make several references to Internet trolls, a type of identity or role assumed by certain Internet users.
Troll Warlord, along with Phantom Assassin, has the lowest intelligence growth in the game (+1 per level).
Troll Warlord's alternate name in DotA was Cory Clark a nod to the famous internet troll.
His skill set was completely changed by the time DotA went into version 6.60 and above. His abilities were either modified, or replaced. Some of these changes are as follows:
- Berserker's Rage used to cost mana.
- Blind was arguably his trademark ability, and the very reason why he was called the Blinding Axe in the lore of DotA. An intense light blinds his enemy, causing some of their attacks to miss.
- Fervor used to be Beastmaster's recent Inner Beast, where it was an attack speed-enhancing aura.
- Rampage, his old ultimate, is where he goes into animalistic berserk state, increasing his movement speed and boosting his attack speed to an ultimate level for a long period of time. This ability is able to give him instant blinding speed and the potential to wipe out five heroes separately, thus, it was the inspiration of the name of a five hero kill from a single hero "Rampage".
Battle Trance's ▶️ sound effect is based on ▶️ this and ▶️ this line combined.

Update history

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Balance changelog

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Replaced abilities

Blind

WD

Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

A searing light blinds the vision of a target enemy unit, making it miss on some attacks.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 700

Miss chance: 20%/28%/36%/44%

Duration: 15

15/12/9/6

20

This ability was replaced by Whirling Axes in the 6.72 gameplay patch.

Applies blind on the target.

Can be set on Auto-Cast
- When set on Auto-Cast, Troll Warlord will automatically cast this spell on the closest enemy unit which does not have the Blind debuff on already
- Only casts it on enemies which attack Troll Warlord or his allies. Does cast it on neutral creeps when they are not aggroed.
- Auto-Cast cannot interrupt Troll Warlord's current order and cannot occur while channeling a spell.

Fervor (pre 6.60)