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Puck
17 + 2.4 22 + 1.7 23 + 3.5
Level Base 1 15 25 Health 200 540 1200 1680 Health regen 0.5 2.2 5.56 7.96 Magic res. 25% 26.02% 28.04% 29.48% Mana 75 351 939 1359 Mana regen 0 1.15 3.6 5.35 Spell dmg 0% 1.61% 5.04% 7.49% Armor -1 2.52 6.33 9.05 Att/sec 0.59 0.72 0.86 0.96 Move sp amp. 0% 1.1% 2.29% 3.14% Damage 30‒41 53‒64 102‒113 137‒148
Movement speed 290 Attack speed 100 Turn rate 0.5 Vision range 1800/800 Attack range 550 Projectile speed 900 Attack animation 0.5+0.8 Base attack time 1.7 Collision size 24 Legs 2  Gib type Default

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.

Bio

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:

Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Illusory Orb

▶️

Q

R

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

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 ( 3150)

Travel Distance: 1950 ( 2730)

Damage Radius: 225

Damage: 70/140/210/280

13/12/11/10

80/100/120/140

The playful Faerie Dragon delights in confusing others, vanishing and reappearing where unexpected.

Notes:

• The Illusory Orb travels at a speed of 651 ( 911.4).

• 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 3.23 seconds and can hit units up to 2325 range away when the general cast range increasing talent is chosen.
  • It takes up to 3 seconds and can hit units up to 2955 range away when Illusory Orb's own range and speed increasing talent is chosen.
  • It takes up to 3.16 seconds and can hit units up to 3105 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 2880.
  • The level 10 talent alone increases the distance to 2100.

• 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.

Ethereal Jaunt

▶️

D

E

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Teleports Puck to a flying Illusory Orb.

Cast Animation: 0+0.53

0

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

▶️

W

W

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Puck releases a burst of faerie dust that deals damage and silences enemy units nearby.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27

Radius: 400

Damage: 100/160/220/280

Duration: 2/2.5/3/3.5

16/15/14/13 ( 8/7/6/5)

100/110/120/130

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

Modifiers

Silence: Dispellable with any dispel.

With a mischievous grin, Puck spreads its enchanted powder which disrupts magical flow.

Notes:

• Despite the visual effects, the silence and damage are applied instantly in the entire radius.

• Waning Rift first applies the damage, then the debuff.

Phase Shift

▶️

E

F

Ability
No Target / Channeled

Affects
Self

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

6

Modifiers

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.

Dream Coil

▶️

R

C

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Damage
Magical

Creates a coil of volatile magic that latches onto enemy Heroes, stunning them for 0.5 seconds and damaging 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 ( 900)

Coil Latch Radius: 375

Link Break Radius: 600

Rapid Fire Radius: 0 ( 775)

Link Break Damage: 300/400/500 ( 400/550/700)

Rapid Fire Attack Interval: 0 ( 0.7)

Initial Stun Duration: 0.5

Link Break Stun Duration: 1.8/2.4/3 ( 1.5/3/4.5)

Coil Duration: 6 ( 8)

70/65/60

100/150/200

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 them, and turning spell immune does not dispel the leash. Leash break stun pierces spell immunity when upgraded.

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, hidden or even while dead. 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

Hero Talents
Dream Coil Rapid Fire	25	+420 Gold/Min
+40% Illusory Orb Distance/Speed	20	-8s Waning Rift Cooldown
+90 Damage	15	+15% Spell Amplification
+150 Cast Range	10	+6 All Stats

Notes:

• The all stats talent effectively grants Puck 120 health, 0.6 health regen, 0.48% magic resistance, 0.96 armor, 6 attack speed, 0.3% movement speed, 72 mana, 0.3 mana regen, 0.42% spell damage and 6 attack damage.

• 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.

Recommended items

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

Roles:	Initiator Disabler Escape Nuker
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.

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Equipment

Puck Equipment (expand sets) Sets Curious Coldspell Essence of the Trickster Eternal Nymph Ethereal Monarch Mischievous Dragon Mystic Coils Reminiscence of Dreams Head Mischievous Fruits Tail Merry Wanderer's Brush Wings Aether-Wings Ethereal Wings Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Ambience of Reminiscence Kinetic: Dreamcoil of Reminiscence Kinetic: Orb of Reminiscence Kinetic: Rift of Reminiscence

Trivia

• 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).

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  Old model and icons

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  The International 2014 artwork

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  Puck T-shirt design