Puck
Hero
Puck
    17 + 2.4
22 + 2.2
23 + 3.5
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Puck, the Faerie Dragon, is a highly mobile ranged intelligence hero best known for being an extremely unpredictable and slippery target. Puck is commonly played as an initiator and ganker, with spells that are equally useful for super-aggressive maneuvers as well as daring escapes. Expert use of Puck's abilities will let you appear out of nowhere, suddenly leave your enemies crippled and disadvantaged, and get away in the blink of an eye - but mess up your timing or misjudge the situation, and there is little left to save this fragile Hero from death.
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Bio[edit]
Puck, the Faerie Dragon▶️ "I find myself strangely drawn to this odd configuration of activity."
Lore:
While Puck seems at first glance a mischievous, childish character, this quality masks an alien personality. The juvenile form of a Faerie Dragon, a creature that lives for eons, Puck spends countless millennia in its childish form. So while it is technically true that Puck is juvenile, it will continue to be so when the cities of the present age have sloughed away into dust. Its motives are therefore inscrutable, and what appears to be play may in fact indicate a darker purpose or just its endless fondness for mischief.
Voice:
Abilities[edit]
Illusory Orb
Puck launches a magic orb that floats in a straight path, damaging enemy units along the way. At any point, Puck may teleport to the orb's location using Ethereal Jaunt.
Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27
Cast Range: 3000 (
3200)
3200)Travel Distance: 1950 ( 2925)
2925)Damage Radius: 225
Damage: 70/140/210/280
13/
80/The playful Faerie Dragon delights in confusing others, vanishing and reappearing where unexpected.
Notes:
- The Illusory Orb travels at a speed of 651 ( 976.5).
- The orb takes 3 seconds to reach max distance and can hit units up to 2175 range away (travel distance + damage radius).
- It takes up to 3.3 seconds and can hit units up to 2375 range away when the general cast range increasing talent is chosen.
- It takes up to 3 seconds and can hit units up to 3150 range away when Illusory Orb's own range and speed increasing talent is chosen.
- It takes up to 3.2 seconds and can hit units up to 3350 range away when both talents are chosen.
- Only the distance increase from the level 20 talent is displayed. The level 10 talent can further increase the distance to 3125.
- The level 10 talent alone increases the distance to 2150.
- The orb starts emitting red pulses after having traveled for 2.5 seconds, indicating that it is about to reach its maximum travel range.
- The orb leaves behind a trail of flying vision, with a radius of 450. The vision lingers for 5 seconds.
Notes:
- This ability is automatically learned whenever Illusory Orb is learned.
- This ability stays inactive until Illusory Orb is cast and turns inactive again once the orb of that cast is gone.
- Ethereal Jaunt disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- When two orbs are cast in succession, this ability only stays active for the duration of the first cast orb.
- However, it always teleports the caster to their last created orb.
Waning Rift
Puck teleports to the target location and releases a burst of faerie dust that deals damage and silences enemy units nearby.
Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27
Cast Range: Global
Max Distance: 350
Radius: 400
Damage: 70/140/210/280
Duration: 2/2.5/3/3.5
16/ 7/6/5/4) 100/
Silence persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.
When cast while rooted, it always gets cast at the current location, no matter where it gets targeted.Modifiers
Silence: Dispellable with any dispel.With a mischievous grin, Puck spreads its enchanted powder which disrupts magical flow.
Phase Shift
Puck briefly shifts into another dimension where it is immune from harm.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Max Channel Time: 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.25
Instant Attack Range Bonus: 0 ( 200)
200) 6Modifiers
Phase Shift: Undispellable.With a quip and flash, Puck returns to the alien dimension from whence it came.
Notes:
- Phase Shift disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- Certain items which do not cancel channeling spells (e.g. Shadow Blade or Shiva's Guard) do cancel Phase Shift.
- Turns the caster invulnerable and hidden for its duration.
- Does not provide phased movement, so the caster can still block other units during Phase Shift.
- The buff lingers for one server tick once the channeling ends or is interrupted, which allows using items while still invulnerable and hidden.
- When the level 15 talent is chosen, the caster performs instant attacks on all enemies within attack range, plus 200.
- These attacks can proc any attack modifier and on hit effects normally.
- Every visible and attackable enemy nearby is attacked. This includes buildings, but not wards and Undying Zombies.
Dream Coil
Creates a coil of volatile magic that latches onto enemy Heroes, stunning them for 0.5 seconds, damaging and leashing them. If the enemy hero stretches the coil by moving too far away, it snaps, stunning and dealing additional damage.
Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27
Cast Range: 750 ( 950)
950)Coil Latch Radius: 375
Link Break Radius: 600
Rapid Fire Radius: 0 ( 775)
775)Initial Damage: 100/150/200
Link Break Damage: 300/400/500 (
400/550/700)
400/550/700)Rapid Fire Attack Interval: 0 ( 0.7)
0.7)Initial Stun Duration: 0.5
Link Break Stun Duration: 1.8/2.4/3 ( 1.8/3/4.5)
1.8/3/4.5)Coil Duration: 6 ( 8)
8) 70/ 100/
Increases damage from coil breaks, increases coil duration, coil break stun goes through spell immunity.
Does not latch on spell immune enemies. Turning spell immune dispels the leash.When upgraded, latches on spell immune enemies without stunning or damaging them. Turning spell immune does not dispel the leash. Leash break stun and damage spell immunity.
Modifiers
Coiled: Undispellable. Stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.The Faerie Dragon sows confusion by forcing its enemies to vividly dream about their own mortality.
Notes:
- Every enemy hero (including illusions, clones, and creep-heroes) within 375 range of the coil gets leashed upon cast, preventing them from casting certain mobility spells.
- Entering the area after cast has no effect. The coil does not leash enemies after cast.
- If a leashed enemy moves 600 range away from the coil, the leash snaps, stunning and damaging the enemy.
- It does not matter how far or how fast the enemy moves away, the stun and damage always hit it if possible.
- The leash snap first applies the damage, then the debuff.
- Dream Coil leashes invisible units and on units in the Fog of War as well, but it does not provide vision over them. The link visually draws to their last known location.
- Multiple instances of Dream Coil fully stack, with each cast placing its own separate leash.
- When the level 25 talent is chosen, the caster performs instant attacks on all leashed enemies, as long as Puck stays within 775 radius of the targeted area.
- These attacks can proc any attack modifier and on hit effects normally.
- The attacks are performed even while the caster is disabled, or hidden. This means the attacks happen even during Phase Shift.
- Since the rapid fire is bound to the leash, snapping it, or dispelling it with spell immunity causes the attacks to stop.
- Multiple instances of Dream Coil on enemies causes the caster to attack multiple times, for each instance, with the interval based on when the debuffs were received.
Talents[edit]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| Dream Coil Rapid Fire | 25 | +420 Gold/Min |
| +50% Illusory Orb Distance/Speed | 20 | -9s Waning Rift Cooldown |
| Phase Shift Attack | 15 | +15% Spell Amplification |
| +200 Cast Range | 10 | +30 Damage |
Notes:
- This attack damage talent is added as raw attack damage, so it does not benefit illusions, and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.
- Gold granted from the talent is unreliable gold.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Puck/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Reduced base attack damage from 30-41 to 28-39.
- Waning Rift no longer teleports Puck when used while rooted or leashed. [?]
- Level 10 right talent: Replaced Phase Shift instant attacks with +30 attack damage bonus.
- Level 15 left talent: Replaced +90 attack damage bonus with Phase Shift instant attacks.
- Level 15 left talent: The Phase Shift instant attacks no longer target Zombies.
- Reduced base armor from -1 to -3.
- Reduced Waning Rift damage from 100/160/220/280 to 70/140/210/280.
- Increased Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Dream Coil stun duration from 1.5/3/4.5 to 1.8/3/4.5.
- Fixed Ethereal Jaunt sometimes not registering cast orders.
- Waning Rift is now a ground-targeted ability with 350 cast range, first teleporting Puck there and then applying its effects. [?]
- Dream Coil now deals 100/150/200 damage upon cast.
- Level 10 left talent: Increasead cast range bonus from 150 to 200.
- Level 10 right talent: Replaced +6 all attributes bonus with Phase Shift performs instant attacks on all enemies within attack range + 200.
Recommended items[edit]
Starting items:
- Healing Salve helps keep Puck in lane. You can also use healing salve into phase shift to allow Puck to heal HP even while in combat.
- Clarity allows Puck to use Illusory Orb more often in lane.
- Null Talisman and its components gives Puck a decent early game attributes boost.
- Faerie Fire supplies an instant heal and attack damage, which may give Puck an edge in trading hits and killing creeps.
Early game:
- Magic Wand helps Puck sustain mana and health to keep active in the mid lane.
- Null Talisman because two null talismans have a ton of potential because of the magic amplification. Puck relies on fast bursts to get kills.
- Bottle helps Puck manages rune from the mid lane, as well as replenishing mana for its early game nukes.
- Boots of Speed increase movement speed to help Puck get to runes.
- Town Portal Scroll helps Puck rotate to different lanes and help out allies.
Mid game:
- Power Treads help Puck in the early to mid game, as they supplement both Puck's small health pool, as well as its mana pool.
- Arcane Boots, an alternative to Power Treads, help Puck use its magical nukes more often in the early to mid game.
- Blink Dagger provides great synergy with Puck's abilities and further augments its evasive nature.
- Eul's Scepter of Divinity offers another disable, as well as keeping Puck safe for a few extra seconds until its other escape abilities come off cooldown.
Late game:
- Dagon increases Puck's damage output with magical burst and intelligence.
- Linken's Sphere makes Puck even harder to pin down, and provides great attributes and regeneration.
- Scythe of Vyse provides mana and mana regeneration, helping Puck use its expensive abilities. It also provides hex for Puck to disable the enemies.
- Aghanim's Scepter grants attributes and increases duration of Dream Coil to better control the enemies. It also prolongs the stun duration and pierces spell immunity, great if allies can force the stun. Combined with the Level 25 Rapid Fire modifier, Puck will have more time to fire extra attacks.
Situational items:
- Veil of Discord helps increase your team's magical damage output in the mid game.
- Force Staff gives Puck extra mobility. Puck can also use it to break Dream Coil and trigger a stun.
- Shiva's Guard increases mana pool and armor to resist physical damage. It also provides an area nuke and slow.
Gameplay[edit]
| Roles: | Initiator Disabler Escape Nuker |
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| Complexity: | ★★☆ |
| Playstyle: | Hatched on the frond of the Undertree, Puck's youthful mischievousness belied inscrutable motives. Tricky and elusive, the neotenous Faerie Dragon launches a bright Illusory Orb, then reappears at any point along its path. It disrupts magecraft with a sprinkle of faerie dust, then Phase Shifts out of existence to avoid swords and spells alike. Equally adept at fighting and play, Puck binds foes to a single point with Dream Coil, forcing them to break their restraints and be stunned, or stay and face Puck's advancing allies. |
Audio[edit]
History[edit]
Equipment[edit]
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Trivia[edit]
- Puck's alternate name was Kupu-Kupu, which means "moth" or "butterfly" in the Malay and Indonesian languages.
- Puck was introduced in Version 6.48 as a result of a hero creation contest held on the DotA-Allstars forum, in which players designed a new hero to suit the faerie dragon model from Warcraft III. This makes Puck the first and only hero created by the community.
- Puck pays homage to a character of the same name from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Aside from Puck's playful attitude, its line "A midsummer nightmare" is also an allusion to the play.
- Since Puck pays homage to a Shakespeare character, most of its lines are delivered in phrasing similar to iambic pentameter.
- The Version 6.87 Illusory Orb speed change was a developer's joke based on this reddit thread.
- This line ▶️ "One Puck, two Puck, three Puck more!" is a reference to Eminem's final rap battle in 8 Mile movie (2002).
- This line ▶️ "One and one and one is three!" is a reference to The Beatles' song "Come Together" (1969).
Gallery[edit]
Old model and icons
The International 2014 artwork
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Puck T-shirt design
