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Brewmaster
23 + 3.2 22 + 1.95 14 + 1.25
Level Base 1 15 25 Health 200 717.5 1707.5 2427.5 H. regen amp 0% 15.81% 46.61% 68.61% Magic res. 25% 26.05% 27.36% 28.3% Mana 75 243 447 603 M. regen amp 0% 25.2% 56.7% 79.2% Spell dmg 0% 1% 2.25% 3.14% Armor -2 1.52 5.89 9.01 Att/sec 0.59 0.72 0.88 0.99 Move sp amp. 0% 1.1% 2.47% 3.44% Damage 29‒36 52‒59 96‒103 128‒135
Base health regen 2 Base mana regen 0.9 Movement speed 295 Turn rate 0.6 Vision range 1800/800 Attack range 150 Projectile speed Instant Attack animation 0.35+0.65 Base attack time 1.7 Magic resistance 25% Collision size 24 Legs 2  Gib type Default

Mangix the Brewmaster is a melee strength hero that can fill almost any role, though he is primarily seen as a carry, ganker, tank or initiator. He fits well into any lane, but is very experience dependent, which means he is often seen on the offlane or the midlane. His core abilities make him a respectable physical damage dealer and an especially good duelist since he has abilities that involve negating opposing auto-attacks while strengthening his own. However, his true power lies in his ultimate, Primal Split, which, if used properly, can by itself turn the tide of a team fight. Each of the three aspects of the Brewmaster are exceptionally powerful, with exceptional disables, survivability against magic and physical attacks, and damage; they are also able to charge recklessly into the enemy since the damage they take is not permanent, and very rarely will all three die before Primal Split ends. For this reason, Brewmaster is almost always built to fully maximize the potential of this ultimate, getting items such as Blink Dagger so that he can combo into his ultimate without risk of being initiated on, Heart of Tarrasque to ensure he can survive the first wave of stuns and burst in order to cast his ultimate, and of course Aghanim's Scepter to give his spirits his abilities, Thunder Clap to Earth, Drunken Haze to Storm, and Drunken Brawler to Fire, all independent of the original Brewmaster's cooldowns for his abilities.

Bio

Mangix, the Brewmaster

Play "Shall we call this off and have a friendly round?"

Lore:

Deep in the Wailing Mountains, in a valley beneath the Ruined City, the ancient Order of the Oyo has for centuries practiced its rites of holy reverie, communing with the spirit realm in grand festivals of drink. Born to a mother's flesh by a Celestial father, the youth known as Mangix was the first to grow up with the talents of both lineages. He trained with the greatest aesthetes of the Order, eventually earning, through diligent drunkenness, the right to challenge for the title of Brewmaster, that appellation most honored among the contemplative malt-brewing sect. As much drinking competition as mortal combat, Mangix for nine days drank and fought the elder master. For nine nights they stumbled and whirled, chugged and struck, until at last the elder warrior collapsed into a drunken stupor, and a new Brewmaster was named. Now the new, young Brewmaster calls upon the strength of his Oyo forebears to speed his staff. When using magic, it is to his spirit ancestors that he turns. Like all Brewmasters before him, he was sent out from his people with a single mission. He wanders the land, striving toward enlightenment through drink, searching for the answer to the ancient spiritual schism. Hoping to think the single thought that will unite the spirit and physical planes again.

Voice:

Nolan North (Responses)

Abilities

Thunder Clap

Play

Q

C

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Slams the ground, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed and attack rate of nearby enemy land units.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.4

Radius: 400

Damage: 100/175/250/300

Move Speed Slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%

Attack Speed Slow: 25/35/45/55

Hero Slow Duration: 4 ( 7)

Creep Slow Duration: 8 ( 11)

13

90/105/130/150

Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

Thunder Clap: Dispellable with any dispel.

A slam of Mangix' mighty keg starts the festivities.

Notes:

• Treats creep-heroes as creeps.

• The clap first applies the debuff, then the damage.

Drunken Haze

Play

W

D

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Drenches a target in alcohol, causing their movement speed to be reduced, and causing their attacks to have a chance to miss.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.6

Cast Range: 850

Move Speed Slow: 10%/20%/30%/40%

Miss Chance: 70%

Duration: 4.5

11/9/7/5

25

Slow and blind persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Blocked upon projectile impact.

Modifiers

Drunken Haze: Dispellable with any dispel.

The Order of the Oyo's solution to all problems - another round!

Notes:

• Drunken Haze's projectile travels at a speed of 1600.

Icon statuses:
None ready, crit ready, evasion ready and both ready.

Drunken Brawler

Play

E

B

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self / Enemies

Gives a chance to avoid attacks and to deal critical damage. Drunken Brawler will always trigger if you have not attacked, or have not been attacked, in the last several seconds.

Evasion: 10%/15%/20%/25% ( 25%/30%/35%/40%)

Critical Chance: 10%/15%/20%/25% ( 25%/30%/35%/40%)

Critical Damage: 230%

Certain Trigger Timer: 13/12/11/10

Illusions also have the guaranteed crit and evasion. Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

When Mangix won his title as the Brewmaster of the Order of Oyo, he also claimed his place in the mastery of inebriation.

Notes:

• Increases attack damage by an average of 13%/19.5%/26%/32.5% ( ) and survivability versus attacks by 11%/18%/25%/33% ( ), excluding the guaranteed crit/dodge.

• The proc chances of multiple crit sources stack.
  • If two sources of critical strike proc at the same time, the higher multiplier has priority.

• Drunken Brawler's evasion stacks multiplicatively with other sources of evasion.

• Drunken Brawler's crit and evasion use pseudo-random distribution.

• The guaranteed critical strike and guaranteed dodge chance use separate trigger timers, not actual ability cooldowns.
  • This means that using Refresher Orb does not refresh them.
  • This also means they are not affected by the Cooldown Reduction of Octarine Core and Arcane Rune.

• While either of them is not ready, Brewmaster can still passively evade attacks and perform critical strikes.

• When the guaranteed critical strike is ready, Brewmaster's upper body emits particles, while a red streak is visible on the icon ().

• When the guaranteed dodge is ready, Brewmaster's lower body emits particles, while the icon's yellow background turns orange ().

• When both the guaranteed critical strike and dodge are ready, both of these visual indicators are visible and shown on the icon ().

• The guaranteed critical strike is only used up if the attack actually lands. Missed attacks do not reset its certain trigger timer.

• The guaranteed evasion is only used up if an attack actually misses. Attacks with True Strike do not reset its certain trigger timer.

• The sound and particles of the critical strike play upon start of the attack, not when the attack lands.

Primal Split

Play

R

R

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Damage
Physical

Splits Brewmaster into elements, forming 3 specialized warriors, adept at survival. If any of them survive until the end of their summoned timer, the Brewmaster is reborn.

Cast Animation: 0.65+0

Split Time: 0.6

Duration: 16/18/20

140/120/100 ( 75/55/35)

125/150/175

Earth gains Thunder Clap, Storm gains Drunken Haze and Fire gains Drunken Brawler.

Modifiers

Primal Split Delay: Undispellable.

Primal Split: Undispellable.

It isn't clear whether Mangix is consciously aware of his potent bond with nature, as it often occurs in the midst of a drunken stupor.

Notes:

• Brewmaster is invulnerable and hidden during the split time and duration. Does not apply any form of dispel upon cast.

• During Primal Split, Brewmaster is periodically moved to Earth's position. If Earth dies, to Storm's and if Storm dies, to Fire's. This affects multiple things such as:
  • When Primal Split ends, Brewmaster appears at Earth's location. If Earth is dead, at Storm's and if Storm is dead, at Fire's location.
  • Every aura Brewmaster has (including Gem of True Sight and Radiance) affects units around Earth, if Earth is dead, around Storm and if Storm is dead, around Fire.
  • Effects which react on heroes' presence ( Smoke of Deceit, Marksmanship, Blur) react on Earth's presence, if Earth is dead, on Storm's and if Storm is dead, on Fire's.
  • Teleporting effects like Holy Persuasion or Relocate cause the periodic moving of Brewmaster to get canceled, so that the 3 notes above do not apply anymore.

• The spirits spawn always in the same formation, forming an equilateral triangle which fits within a 100 radius circle.
  • The earth spirit is always spawned 100 range in front on Brewmaster's cast location.
  • The storm spirit is always spawned 50 range behind and 86.603 range to the left of Brewmaster's cast location.
  • The fire spirit is always spawned 50 range behind and 86.603 range to the right of Brewmaster's cast location.
  • Their facing angle equals Brewmaster's facing angle on cast.

• The spirits are creep-heroes and ancient creeps, making them interact differently with several spells. For detailed interactions follow the two links.

Earth

Earth
Ancient Creep-Hero
Level 7/8/8 Duration 16/18/20 Health 1500/2200/3000 ( 3000/3700/4500) Health regeneration 1/2/2 Mana 400/500/600 Mana regeneration 2 Armor 3 Magic resistance 0% Attack damage 25/55/85‒35/65/95 Acquisition range 600 Attack range 150 Base attack time 1.25 Attack animation 0.3+0.3 Movement speed 325 Follow range 100 Turn rate 0.5 Collision size 8 Vision range 1800 • 800 (G) Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model scale 0.85/0.9/0.95 Notes Abilities: Hurl Boulder Spell Immunity Demolish Thunder Clap () Minimap icon (unused)

Hurl Boulder

Play

Q

D

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Throws a boulder at a unit, doing damage and stunning it.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0.8

Cast Range: 800

Damage: 50/100/150

Stun Duration: 2

5

Blocked upon impact.

Modifiers

Stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.

Notes:

• The boulder travels at a speed of 800.

• The boulder first applies the debuff, then the damage.

Spell Immunity

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

Immune to spells.

Magic Resistance Bonus: 100%

Modifiers

Earth Spell Immunity: Undispellable.

Demolish

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Deals bonus damage to buildings.

Building Attack Damage Bonus: 90/180/270

Notes:

• The damage is directly added to Earth's attack damage. But since it is conditional, it is not visible in the HUD.

Thunder Clap

Play

R

C

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Slams the ground, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed and attack rate of nearby enemy land units.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.53

Radius: 400

Damage: 100/175/250/300

Move Speed Slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%

Attack Speed Slow: 25/35/45/55

Hero Slow Duration: 4 ( 7)

Creep Slow Duration: 8 ( 11)

13

90/105/130/150

Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

Thunder Clap: Dispellable with any dispel.

A slam of Mangix' mighty keg starts the festivities.

Notes:

• Given to Earth when holding Aghanim's Scepter, at the same level as the original Brewmaster.

• Same notes as for Brewmaster's Thunder Clap apply.

Storm

Storm
Ancient Creep-Hero
Level 7/8/8 Duration 16/18/20 Health 1000/1500/1900 ( 2500/3000/3400) Health regeneration 1/2/2 Mana 500/750/750 Mana regeneration 1.5 Armor 2 Magic resistance 0% Attack damage 15/35/55‒25/45/65 Acquisition range 600 Attack range 600 Base attack time 1.5 Attack animation 0.4+0.77 Projectile speed 1200 Movement speed 350 Follow range 100 Turn rate 0.5 Collision size 8 Vision range 1800 • 800 (G) Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model scale 0.85/0.9/0.95 Notes Abilities: Dispel Magic () Minimap icon (unused)

Dispel Magic

Play

Q

D

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies / Allies

Damage
Magical

Damages summoned units in an area and purges most buffs or debuffs.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.93

Cast Range: 500

Radius: 600

Damage to Summons: 1000

4

75

Affects spell immune allies.
Does not affect spell immune enemies.

Notes:

• Applies a basic dispel on all units within the area.

• Always dispels off of units within the area, regardless of alliances.
  • Besides this, follows the default dispel rules, dispelling debuffs off of allies, and buffs off of enemies.

• The damage is applied to units which were created by an ability.
  • This includes illusions, but excludes creep-heroes.

• Affects invulnerable, but not hidden units.

Cyclone

Play

W

C

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Encloses a unit in a tornado, removing it from the battlefield.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.67

Cast Range: 600

Hero Duration: 6

Creep Duration: 20

8

150

Modifiers

Storm Cyclone: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

• Applies a cyclone effect on the target upon cast, so it turns it invulnerable and fully disables it.

• However, unlike other cyclones, this one does not dispel the target.

• While in the air, other units may pass below the cycloned unit.

• Can be cast on Roshan, but has no effect, since Roshan is immune to forced movement. He only gets interrupted.

Wind Walk

Play

E

W

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self / Enemies

Damage
Physical

Provides temporary invisibility, bonus movement speed and attack damage when invisible.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Fade Time: 0.6

Move Speed Bonus: 50%

Damage: 100/160/220

Duration: 20

5

75

Modifiers

Storm Wind Walk: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Does not interrupt Storm's channeling spells upon cast.

• The bonus damage is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well.
  • It can be lifestealed off of, and is considered by crit or cleave.
  • It is not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions, but can be reduced with flat reductions.

• During the fade time, Storm can cast spells and perform attacks without breaking the invisibility.
  • Those attacks do apply the 100/160/220 damage to the target.

• The bonus damage is not applied when attacking buildings out of the invisibility, but is applied against wards.

• The invisibility is lost upon reaching the cast point of spells, or upon launching an attack.
  • This means when the attack misses, the invisibility is still lost.

• Allows Storm to pass through other units, including wards, but not through buildings.

Drunken Haze

Play

R

T

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Drenches a target in alcohol, causing their movement speed to be reduced, and causing their attacks to have a chance to miss.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.67

Cast Range: 850

Move Speed Slow: 10%/20%/30%/40%

Miss Chance: 70%

Duration: 4.5

11/9/7/5

25

Slow and blind persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Blocked upon projectile impact.

Modifiers

Drunken Haze: Dispellable with any dispel.

The Order of the Oyo's solution to all problems - another round!

Notes:

• Given to Storm when holding Aghanim's Scepter, at the same level as the original Brewmaster.

• Same notes as for Brewmaster's Drunken Haze apply.

Fire

Fire
Ancient Creep-Hero
Level 7/8/8 Duration 16/18/20 Health 1300 ( 2800) Health regeneration 2/4/4 Armor 0/3/6 Magic resistance 0% Attack damage 75/115/155‒85/125/165 Acquisition range 600 Attack range 150 Base attack time 1.35 Attack animation 0.3+0.3 Movement speed 550 Follow range 100 Turn rate 0.5 Collision size 8 Vision range 1800 • 800 (G) Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model scale 0.85/0.9/0.95 Notes Phased Abilities: Permanent Immolation Drunken Brawler () Minimap icon (unused)

Permanent Immolation

Ability
Aura

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Burns nearby enemy units.

Radius: 220

Damage per Second: 15/30/45

Attempts to damage if debuff was placed before spell immunity.

Modifiers

Fire Permanent Immolation: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Permanent Immolation is an aura. Its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Deals damage in 1 second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is placed.

• Can deal up to 240/540/900 damage to a single unit (before reductions) if it stays within range for its whole duration.

Drunken Brawler

Play

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self / Enemies

Gives a chance to avoid attacks and to deal critical damage. Drunken Brawler will always trigger if you have not attacked, or have not been attacked, in the last several seconds.

Evasion: 10%/15%/20%/25%

Critical Chance: 10%/15%/20%/25%

Critical Damage: 230%

Certain Trigger Timer: 13/12/11/10

Illusions also have the guaranteed crit and evasion. Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

When Mangix won his title as the Brewmaster of the Order of Oyo, he also claimed his place in the mastery of inebriation.

Notes:

• Given to Fire when holding Aghanim's Scepter, at the same level as the original Brewmaster.

• Same notes as for Brewmaster's Drunken Brawler apply.

Talents

Hero Talents
+15% Drunken Brawler Chance	25	-65s Primal Split Cooldown
+100 Attack Speed	20	+1500 Health to Primal Split Units
+20% Magic Resistance	15	+3s Thunder Clap Slow
+200 Health	10	+30 Damage

Notes:

• The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

• The attack damage talent does not benefit illusions.

• The magic resistance talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.

• The magic resistance talent increases Brewmaster's magic resistance to 40%.

Recommended items

Starting items:

• Tango helps Brewmaster stay in lane by sustaining his health.
• Healing Salve restores large amount of health early on.
• Stout Shield protects against lane harassment.
• Iron Branch gives cheap attributes and can upgrade to Magic Wand later.

Early game:

• Boots of Speed give movement speed.
• Magic Stick provides burst health and mana, can upgrade to Magic Wand later.
• Soul Ring sustains Brewmaster with strength and health regeneration; the active grants mana to him on demand.

Mid game:

• Phase Boots aid his movement speed, and multiplies nicely with his critical damage. The Phase ability will help him chase enemy heroes and position his Thunder Clap better.
• Magic Wand gives him bonus attributes and a good source of healing.
• Blink Dagger allows Brewmaster to initiate, as well as improves his low mobility.
• Black King Bar increases survivability with strength and spell immunity so Brewmaster can actually attack enemies and slow them down prior to activating Primal Split.

Late game:

• Aghanim's Scepter gives huge boost to health and mana. It also gives Primal Split spirits one of each of Brewmaster's abilities.
• Radiance gives him even more damage and aura that works even during Primal Split duration.
• Assault Cuirass makes Brewmaster even tankier with armor, allowing him to survive longer engagements and getting off Primal Split without needing to retreat. The aura also remains on each unit during Primal Split, boosting attack speed and armor to teammates as well; take note that the armor reduction half of the aura remains on the elemental units even though the aura icon does not appear on the enemy UI.
• Shiva's Guard gives him an additional movement speed slow aside from Thunder Clap, as well as more armor for survivability; take note that the aura remains on the elemental units even though the aura icon does not appear on the enemy UI.

Situational items:

• Bottle helps mid Brewmaster manage runes, as well as restore health and mana.
• Hand of Midas allows Brewmaster to quickly accumulate gold and level, working toward perfecting Primal Split.
• Arcane Boots can restore mana to Brewmaster and his allies, a great item choice for Brewmaster who prefers to use abilities rather than physical attacks.
• Drum of Endurance is a good midgame item that grants you a decent amount of health and gives you a nice boost in movement speed.
• Vladmir's Offering gives him a small boost in regeneration and armor, as well as lifesteal upon every attack, which works well together with his critical damage, helping out his survivability; the aura remains active during Primal Split.
• Heaven's Halberd gives some strength and evasion, along with the ability to disarm enemy attackers.
• Aeon Disk increases his survivability with status resistance, dispel, and damage resistance, almost guaranteeing Primal Split going off.
• Echo Sabre boosts attributes, damage output, and mana regeneration. Echo Strike allows Brewmaster more chance to land critical damage, as well as slows down target's movement speed.
• Lotus Orb provides mana, armor, and regeneration to sustain Brewmaster during fights. Echo Shell dispels debuffs from him so he can use Primal Split.
• Linken's Sphere grants some attributes and regeneration, as well as blocking one key single target disable that hinders the activation of Primal Split.
• Boots of Travel allows Brewmaster to jump in and initiate from across the map.

Gameplay

Roles:	Carry Initiator Durable Disabler Nuker
Complexity:	★★★
Playstyle:	For nine days Mangix fought the master of his order, both warriors swilling and striking in equal measure, until at last the elder collapsed into a drunken stupor. Having claimed the title of Brewmaster, Mangix now wanders the land as a Drunken Brawler, swinging and evading with unpredictable finesse. Under one arm he holds a great keg, and not merely for storing booze. Mangix drenches enemies in alcohol, disorienting them before slamming the barrel down with a Thunder Clap. Rumor around taverns is that the Brewmaster is actually composed of three elementals, and should one catch him sufficiently intoxicated, one may just witness this Primal Split in action.

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Audio

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Sounds

History

Lore

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Changelogs

Equipment

Brewmaster Equipment (expand sets)

Sets

Icebrew Angler

Red Dragon

Rumrunner's Carronade

The Drunken Warlord Set

Tipsy Brawler

Triumph of the Four Corners

Weapon

Aghanim's Basher

Flail of the Drunken Cask

Flail of the Great Elder

Spade of the Gluttonous

Barrel

Elixir of Dragon's Breath

Spiritual Spirits

Traveler's Jug

Vice of the West

Taunt

Taunt: Barrelmeister

Trivia

• Brewmaster, like Storm Spirit, Ember Spirit and Earth Spirit, was a Pandaren in DotA. However, he was re-skinned due to copyright issues with Blizzard Entertainment. His design is similar to that of a red panda, rather than the giant panda that the Pandaren in DotA were based on.
• Most of Brewmaster's abilities were derived from the Warcraft III neutral hero of the same name, with Thunder Clap borrowed from the hero Mountain King being the only new ability.
• Primal Split's Play sound effect upon spawning the 3 spirits is based on this Play laughter response line of Brewmaster.

Gallery

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  Brewmaster's ability icon progress

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  Earth's ability icon progress

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  Storm's ability icon progress

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  Fire's ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Drunken Brawler none ready

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  Drunken Brawler crit ready

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  Drunken Brawler evasion ready

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  Drunken Brawler both ready