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Shadow Demon/Changelogs

• Disruption
  • Illusions created now have a 40/50/60/70 base attack damage bonus. [?]
  • Reduced illusion damage dealt from 30%/45%/60%/75% to 20%/30%/40%/50%.
• Increased Shadow Poison projectile speed from 1000 to 1200.

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Demonic Purge duration from 7 to 6.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Demonic Cleanse duration from 7 to 6.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +10% Disseminate shared damage increased to +15%.

• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced Disseminate cooldown from 30/26/22/18 to 30/25/20/15.
• Increased Demonic Purge damage from 300/400/500 to 300/450/600.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • U
    Reduced Demonic Purge charges from 3 to 2.
  • Reduced Demonic Cleanse charges from 3 to 2.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Demonic Cleanse heal from 300/400/500 to 300/450/600.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +200 Demonic Purge damage and Demonic Cleanse heal ➜ -1s Shadow Poison cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  -1.25s Shadow Poison cooldown ➜ +200 Demonic Purge damage and Demonic Cleanse heal.

• Increased Disseminate radius from 600 to 675.

• Reduced Disruption cooldown from 29/26/23/20 to 26/24/22/20.
• Disseminate now ignores damage block if the reflected damage type is physical.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +10 strength increased to +12.

• REPLACED
  Soul Catcher with Disseminate.

OLD

Soul Catcher

Captures the soul of enemy units in an area, causing them to lose a percentage of their current health. Shadow Demon temporarily gains Spell Amplification for each hero's soul captured. When the debuff is removed, the units gain half of the lost health back. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Soul Catcher.

Cast range: 700

Radius: 175/200/225/250

Current health removed: 20%/25%/30%/35%

Self spell damage amplification per hero: 5%/7%/9%/11%

Duration: 10

Cooldown: 26/24/22/20

Mana cost: 80/100/120/140

NEW

Disseminate

Whenever the target takes damage, all enemies, including the target itself if it is an enemy, within 600 range of the target also receive a portion of that damage. Can target enemy and allied units. The effect is paused if the enemy is hidden by Disruption.

Cast range: 700/800/900/1000

Shared damage: 20%/25%/30%/35%

Duration: 6

Cooldown: 30/26/22/18

Mana cost: 100

Notes: The affected enemy unit effectively takes 120%/125%/130%/135% incoming damage.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -6s Soul Catcher cooldown ➜ +10% Disseminate shared damage.

• Increased Shadow Poison initial damage from 26/34/42/50 to 30/40/50/60.

• REWORKED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • OLD
    Allows Demonic Purge to be cast on allies, continuously dispelling them, and healing them at the end of the duration, instead of damaging. Does not slow allies.
  • NEW
    Grants Shadow Demon the Demonic Cleanse ability.

Demonic Cleanse

Cleanses the target allied unit, removing negative buffs for the duration. At the end of the duration, the unit is healed.

Cast time: 0.3

Cast range: 800

Max heal: 300/400/500

Duration: 7

Mana cost: 150/175/200

Cooldown: 60

Notes: This ability is linked with Demonic Purge, leveling up one automatically levels both of them.

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Now also replaces Demonic Cleanse 60-second cooldown with 3 charges 60-second replenish time.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  U

   

  +200 Demonic Purge damage ➜ +200 Demonic Purge damage and Demonic Cleanse heal.

  LVL 25

   

  U

   

  -30s Demonic Purge cooldown ➜ -30s Demonic Purge and Demonic Cleanse cooldown. [?]

• Increased Disruption cooldown from 27/24/21/18 to 29/26/23/20.
• Rescaled Shadow Poison mana cost from 35/40/45/50 to 45 on each level.

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Increased Disruption cast range from 600 to 650.
• Soul Catcher now grants Shadow Demon 5%/7%/9%/11% spell damage amplification for each enemy hero hit upon cast, lasting 10 seconds.
• Rescaled Shadow Poison multiplied stack damage from 20/35/50/65 to 24/36/48/60.

• Increased Disruption illusion duration from 8/10/12/14 to 11/12/13/14.
• Reduced Demonic Purge mana cost from 200 on each level to 150/175/200.

• Increased base intelligence and gain from 21 + 3.3 to 22 + 3.6.
• ADDED
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +75 cast range ➜ +10 strength.

  LVL 10

   

  +15 intelligence ➜ +15% Shadow Poison damage.

  LVL 15

   

  +20% Shadow Poison ➜ +200 Demonic Purge damage. [?]

  LVL 15

   

  +20 movement speed increased to +25.

  LVL 20

   

  -5s Soul Catcher cooldown increased to -6s.

  LVL 25

   

  +400 Demonic Purge damage ➜ -30s Demonic Purge cooldown. [?]

• Shadow Poison is no longer dispellable.
• Demonic Purge
  • The damage now starts at 0 and scales up to the given values over the duration.
  • Recasting Demonic Purge on the same target now removes the previous debuff, triggering its damage, and then places a new debuff.
• ADDED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Shadow Demon:
  • Demonic Purge can now be cast on allies, continuously dispelling them, and healing them at the end of the duration, instead of damaging them. Does not slow allies.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +12 intelligence increased to +15.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  Soul Catcher spawns illusion on death ➜ +12 intelligence.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +100 cast range reduced to +75.

  LVL 15

   

  +25% Shadow Poison damage reduced to +20%.

  LVL 15

   

  +25 movement speed reduced to +20.

  LVL 20

   

  -1.5s Shadow Poison cooldown reduced to -1.25s.

  LVL 20

   

  -6s Soul Catcher cooldown reduced to -5s.

  LVL 25

   

  +500 Demonic Purge damage reduced to +400.

• Increased Demonic Purge damage from 250/350/450 to 300/400/500.

• Increased Demonic Purge damage from 200/300/400 to 250/350/450.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20% experience gain ➜ +100 cast range.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30% experience gain reduced to +20%.

• Reduced Soul Catcher current health removal from 25%/30%/35%/40% to 20%/25%/30%/35%.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +30 movement speed reduced to +25.

• Increased Soul Catcher mana cost from 50/70/90/110 to 80/100/120/140.

• Increased intelligence gain from 3.1 to 3.3.

• Increased intelligence gain from 2.7 to 3.1.
• Reduced base movement speed from 295 to 290.
• Reduced Soul Catcher mana cost from 110 on each level to 50/70/90/110.
• Reduced Shadow Poison mana cost from 50 on each level to 35/40/45/50.

• Increased strength gain from 2.4 to 2.6.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Disruption
  • The current health of the spawned illusion is now determined upon cast, instead of upon end.
  • Increased duration from 2.5 to 2.75.
• REWORKED
  Soul Catcher.

OLD

Soul Catcher

Captures the soul of a random enemy in an area, amplifies all damage they take. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Soul Catcher.

Cast range: 600

Search radius: 450

Damage amplification: 20%/30%/40%/50%

Duration: 12

Mana cost: 50/60/70/80

Cooldown: 13/12/11/10

NEW

Soul Catcher

Captures the soul of enemy units in an area, causing them to lose a percentage of their current health. When the debuff is removed, the units gain half of the lost health back. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Soul Catcher.

Cast range: 700

Radius: 175/200/225/250

Current health removed: 25%/30%/35%/40%

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 110

Cooldown: 26/24/22/20

Notes: Manipulates health, without causing damage, so it bypasses and ignores any damage reducing, blocking or amplifying effects. Dispelling the debuff returns health as well. Does not affect ancient creeps.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +35 movement speed reduced to +30.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40 movement speed reduced to +35.

• Reduced base intelligence from 23 to 21.
• Increased base attack damage from 27‒31 to 29‒33.

• Increased strength gain from 2.2 to 2.4.

• Increased base strength from 21 to 23.

• Demonic Purge
  • Now continuously dispels the target over the entire duration, instead of only once upon cast.
  • No longer roots non-hero units for the initial 3 seconds.
  • Increased duration from 5 to 7.
  • Increased cooldown from 40 to 60. [?]
  • REWORKED
    the movement speed slow to decay more smoothly:

  OLD

  Level 1: 100% starting slow, 1.00s decay rate, 20.00% slow decay amount.

  Level 2: 100% starting slow, 1.67s decay rate, 33.33% slow decay amount.

  Level 3: 100% starting slow, 2.50s decay rate, 50.00% slow decay amount.

  NEW

  Now starts at 100% and smoothly decays down to 20% over its duration for all levels.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +25% experience gain increased to +30%.

  LVL 25

   

  +5s Disruption duration ➜ 2 Disruption charges.

• U
  Soul Catcher no longer creates an illusion of the target when it dies while debuffed.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +10 strength ➜  Soul Catcher spawns illusion on death. [?]

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Soul Catcher
  • Now randomly chooses a single enemy target again, instead of spreading its amplification evenly among all the enemies within the radius.
  • Now creates an illusion of the enemy when it dies, which lasts until it respawns or until killed.
  • The illusion deals 30%/45%/60%/75% damage and takes 200% damage.
• Increased Shadow Poison radius from 190 to 200.
• Demonic Purge can now target invulnerable units.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 movement speed ➜ +25% experience gain.

  LVL 15

   

  +10% spell damage amplification ➜ +25% Shadow Poison damage.

  LVL 15

   

  +100 cast range ➜ +40 movement speed.

  LVL 20

   

  +15% magic resistance ➜ -6s Soul Catcher cooldown.

  LVL 25

   

  +5s Disruption duration ➜ -6s Soul Catcher cooldow.

  LVL 25

   

  +400 Demonic Purge damage increased to +500.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +8% spell damage amplification increased to +10%.

  LVL 15

   

  +75 cast range increased to +100.

• Increased base strength from 19 to 21.
• Reduced Demonic Purge cooldown from 50 to 40.

• Increased base strength from 17 to 19.

• Reduced Shadow Poison cast time from 0.3 to 0.25.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +10 movement speed increased to +20..

  LVL 10

   

  +6 strength increased to +8.

  LVL 15

   

  +6% spell damage amplification increased to +8%.

  LVL 20

   

  +10% magic resistance increased to +15%.

• Increased strength gain from 1.9 to 2.2.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
• Reduced Shadow Poison mana cost from 55 to 50.
• Soul Catcher now spreads its amplification evenly among all the enemies within the radius, instead of randomly choosing a single enemy.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -25s respawn time ➜ -1.5s Shadow Poison cooldown.

• Increased Disruption illusion damage taken from 200% to 300%.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  -1s Shadow Poison cooldown ➜ -6s Soul Catcher cooldown.

• REMOVED
  Attribute Bonus.

• ADDED
    Talents:
• +10 movement speed

    

  +6 strength

  +6% spell damage amplification

    

  +75 cast range

  -25s respawn time

    

  +10% magic resistance

  -1s Shadow Poison cooldown

    

  +400 Demonic Purge damage

• Increased Shadow Poison mana cost from 40 to 55.

• Reduced Shadow Poison initial damage from 50 on each level to 26/34/42/50.

• Increased Disruption cooldown from 25/22/19/16 to 27/24/21/18.

• Increased Disruption illusion damage taken from 150% to 200%.

• Increased Disruption illusion duration from 6/8/10/12 to 8/10/12/14.

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased Disruption illusion damage dealt from 30%/40%/50%/60% to 30%/45%/60%/75%.
• Reduced Soul Catcher cooldown from 13 on each level to 13/12/11/10.

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Increased Disruption illusion duration from 5/6/7/8 to 6/8/10/12.

• Reduced Shadow Poison cooldown from 2.75 to 2.5.

• Hero kills by Shadow Demon's illusions now provide Experience_XP credit to the hero.
• Shadow Poison
  • No longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
  • Reduced mana cost from 50 to 40.
• Demonic Purge no longer treats ancient creepss and Roshan as heroes.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Demonic Purge now applies Break on the targets.

• Soul Catcher now directly amplifies damage by 20%/30%/40%/50% instead of attempting to re-deal 20%/30%/40%/50% of the damage as Pure damage.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Demonic Purge number of charges from 2 to 3.

• ADDED
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Shadow Demon:
  • Replaces Demonic Purge 50-second cooldown with 2 charges that have a 40-second replenish time.

• Increased Shadow Poison max effective stacks from 4 to 5.

• Increased Shadow Poison radius from 180 to 190.

• U
  Reduced base intelligence from 26 to 23.

• Shadow Poison no longer grants vision over hit enemy units for the debuff duration.

• Reduced Shadow Poison cooldown from 3 to 2.75.

• Updated hero model.
• Increased Soul Catcher mana cost from 50 on each level to 50/60/70/80.
• Increased Shadow Poison radius from 150 to 180.

• Reduced Disruption cast range from 700 to 600.

• Updated hero attack projectile.

• ADDED
  to Captain's Mode.
• Updated hero model.
• Disruption
  • Increased mana cost from 75 to 120.
  • Increased cooldown from 16 on each level to 25/22/19/16.
  • Rescaled illusion duration from 6 on each level to 5/6/7/8.
  • Fixed ability interactions between Hidden sources and the Courier delivering items to the hidden hero.

• Disruption
  • ADDED
    ☐ Disabled Help support.
  • Fixed the following abilities' interactions:
    • Soul Catcher
    • Shadow Poison
    • Demonic Purge

• ADDED
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Shadow Demon has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

• CREATED