Bane

Bane 23 + 2.6 23 + 2.6 23 + 2.6
	Grants the following bonuses per point of attribute:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration; +0.1% base magic resistance; +1 main attack damage ;
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 + 0.7
Gib Type	Ethereal
Internal	Not Provided

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Not to be confused with Banehallow.

Atropos, the Bane Elemental (or simply Bane), is a ranged intelligence hero whose dark and nightmarish abilities give him prowess as a disabler, ganker, and nuker. Mostly played as a support, his high starting stats make him a menace in lane. Bane possesses one passive spell and three potent single-target spells, which must be used well to make up for his lack of pushing power or area of effect presence. Bane's passive spell, Enfeeble, reduces the target's status resistance and magic resistance. Brain Sap deals hefty damage to the target and heals Atropos for the same amount. Nightmare puts a unit to sleep, completely disabling it for several seconds. The unit awakes when it is attacked or takes damage, though Bane can freely attack nightmared targets without waking them. Finally, Bane's Fiend's Grip is a channeled spell that completely disables the target, drains its mana and deals high damage over time. Bane's aptitude for incapacitating and debilitating enemies make him an invaluable support to allies—and a nightmare for enemies.

Bio

Atropos, the Bane

▶️ "I dreamt a field of war…and woke to find myself upon it."

Lore:

When the gods have nightmares, it is Bane Elemental who brings them. Also known as Atropos, Bane was born from the midnight terrors of the goddess Nyctasha. A force of terror too powerful to be contained by sleep, he surfaced from her slumbers, fed upon her immortality, and stole his vaporous form from her inky blood. He is the essence of fear. Mortals who hear his voice hear their darkest secrets whispered in their ear. He calls to the hidden fear in every Hero's heart. Wakefulness is no protection, for Bane's black blood, continuously dripping, is a tar that traps his enemies in nightmare. In the presence of Bane, every Hero remembers to fear the dark.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities

Nightmare

▶️QE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Allies

Puts the target enemy or friendly Hero to sleep. Sleeping units are awakened when damaged. If the target was directly attacked, the Nightmare passes to the attacking unit. Bane can attack nightmared targets freely.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 425/500/575/650 (

430/505/580/655)

Sleep Duration: 4/5/6/7

Invulnerability Duration: 1

22/19/16/13 (

19/16/13/10)

165

Modifiers []

Nightmare Invulnerable

Nightmare

Any

A stolen prowess from the goddess Nyctasha is to put his prey into forever sleep.

Applies a sleep on affected units, preventing them from acting.

Nightmare turns affected targets invulnerable for 1 second, preventing affected units from waking up.

Nightmare reduces affected enemy unit's vision to 200.

The target wakes up when a unit starts attacking it (including manual casting of active attack modifiers), or when the target takes damage.

The target does not wake up when taking damage from certain sources and under a few rare conditions:
- Damage dealt by Sleight of Fist, Side Gunner, or Stifling Dagger.
- Any damage from active attack modifiers, be it a debuff (e.g. Burning Spear), or direct damage (e.g. Tidebringer).
- Any damage from already launched ranged attacks if the projectiles hit after the invulnerability period.

When waking up with an attack, the Nightmare is transferred to the attacking unit at the start of an attack, not when the attack hits.

When Nightmare is transferred, its duration is refreshed, including the 1 second invulnerability.

The Nightmare cannot be transferred to spell immune units, or to wards and buildings. So their attacks only wake up nightmared units.

Bane and all illusions of Bane can attack nightmared units without waking the target up, and without the Nightmare transfering to them.

Nightmared units are never automatically attacked, regardless of settings. A forced attack order is required to attack them.
- This prevents enemies from accidentally afflicting themselves with Nightmare by auto-attacking a nightmared unit.
- This also means that nightmared units are never attacked by lane creeps, neutral creeps, towers and fountains.
- Units can force an attack on an allied nightmared unit to transfer the Nightmare to themselves.

As long as a unit is affected by Nightmare from Bane, Nightmare is replaced by a sub-ability which allows Bane to wake the unit up.

Nightmare's invulnerability status effect uses the default invulnerability icon, instead of its own ability icon.

Nightmare End

QE

Ability
Toggle

Ends all ongoing Nightmares.

Cast Animation: +

0

Replaces Nightmare until there is no Nightmare debuff from Bane active.

Can wake a unit up at any time during a Nightmare, even during the 1 second invulnerability.

Wakes up all units which were put asleep by Nightmare, no matter who put them asleep.

Can be used while stunned, cycloned, slept, taunted, hidden, or during Forced Movement.

Cannot be used while silenced, hexed or prevented from acting. Cannot be shift-queued.

Brain Sap

▶️WB

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Feasts on the vital energies of an enemy unit, healing Bane and dealing damage.

Cast Animation: + (

+)

Cast Range: 600 (

605)

Damage: 100/200/300/400 (

350/450/550/650)

14/13/12/11 (

1.5)

90/115/140/165

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Decreases cooldown, cast point, and makes Brain Sap pierce Spell Immunity.

Atropos finds no greater pleasure than to harvest the fear he creates.

Despite the visual effects, the heal happens instantly after the damage is dealt, there is no travel time.

The heal amount is based on how much damage the target took from Brain Sap.
- This means amplifying or reducing the damage affects the heal value.
- The heal value itself is still subject to heal manipulation.

Enfeeble

▶️ET

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Bane's abilities enfeeble his targets, lowering the affected unit's magic and status resistances.

Status Resistance Reduction: 15%/20%/25%/30%

Magic Resistance Reduction: 4%/8%/12%/16%

Duration: 8

Modifiers []

Enfeeble Effect

Any

Each tendril of fear that Atropos weaves increases the vulnerability of his victims to arcane and unknown arts.

Enfeeble does not trigger upon using items. Triggers only on single-targeted hero abilities (compatible with Ability Draft).

Enfeeble's debuff is placed before the triggering ability applies any of its effects.
- This means it fully affects the spell triggering it as well, and not only following spells.

Successive spell casts on the same target do not stack the debuff, only the duration and level get updated.
- Due to the status resistance reduction effect, refreshing the debuff will result in a longer duration of the debuff than usual.

Reduces most heroes' total magic resistance to 22%/19%/16%/13%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.

Fiend's Grip

▶️RF

Ability
Target Unit / Channeled

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Grips an enemy unit, disabling it and causing heavy damage over time, while stealing mana every 0.5 second based on the unit's maximum mana.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 625 (

630)

Max Channel Time: 6 (

9)

Damage per Second: 100/155/215

Max Mana Drain per Second: 5%

120/110/100

200/300/400

Modifiers []

Fiends Grip

Strong

Victims of Atropos are frequently torn apart by vivid conjurations of their own nightmares.

Fiend's Grip fully disables the target as long as it is channeled.

Provides True Sight over the target until the channeling ends.

If the target turns invulnerable or hidden, the channeling stops instantly.

Deals 50/77.5/107.5 damage and drains 2.5% mana in 0.5 second intervals, starting immediately as the channeling begins, resulting in up to 12 ( 18) instances.

Can deal up to 600/930/1290 ( 900/1395/1935) damage (before reductions).

Can drain up to 30% ( 45%) of the target's maximum mana.

Applies the damage first on each tick, and then the mana loss.

Choosing the duration increasing talent does not affect Bane's currently active Fiend's Grip instance.

Unlike other targeted spells, the caster vision of Fiend's Grip lasts for the entire channel duration (even if it gets canceled), instead of just 2 seconds.

Talents

Hero Talents
+3s Fiend's Grip Duration	25	+250 Brain Sap Damage/Heal
+30 Movement Speed	20	-3s Nightmare Cooldown
+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain	15	+13 Enfeeble Damage Per Second
+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction	10	-3s Brain Sap Cooldown

Recent Changes

Main Article: Bane/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35

Brain Sap
- Increased damage from 75/150/225/300 to 90/160/230/300.
- Rescaled mana cost from 100/120/140/160 to 120/130/140/150.
Increased Nightmare cast range from 425/500/575/650 to 500/550/600/650.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Now also reduces Brain Sap cooldown by 3.

7.34c

Increased base attack damage from (-3)‒3 to (-1)‒5.
Reduced Enfeeble mana cost from 120/135/150/165 to 120 on each level.

7.34

Brain Sap now pierces debuff immunity.
Nightmare
- Affected units are now not awakened by any incoming damage and damage instance from Bane.
- Now grants 15/25/35/45 self attack speed bonus against affected units.
Fiend's Grip now removes Nightmare debuff from the targeted enemy.

Talents:

LVL 10

-2s Brain Sap cooldown to -3s.
LVL 25

+200 Brain Sap damage/heal increased to +250.

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Formed from the ichor of Nyctasha, Atropos is the vaporous embodiment of pure fear. Sheer terror Enfeebles his enemies, diminishing their attacks. The Bane Elemental puts heroes to sleep, sending them into a restless Nightmare as he feeds on their vital energies through Brain Sap. Some will never wake. Caught in the Fiend's Grip, Bane's victims can only swing at imagined phantoms as fear chokes the life from their bodies.

Roles:	Support Disabler Nuker Durable
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Adjectives:	Legs `( 2 )`

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The origin of the name "Atropos" comes from Greek mythology. One of the Moirai Sisters (commonly referred to as the Sisters of Fate), Atropos was the sister in charge of cutting the "Life Thread" of those who were going to die. Her name literally means 'the no-Turning One' (> α 'no, without' + τρέπειν 'to turn'), referring to the irreversible and inevitable destiny of death.
Bane's rival line towards Tinker ▶️ "Do Tinkers dream of electric sheepsticks?" is a reference to the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. "Sheepstick" is also a commonly used name for the Scythe of Vyse.
The theme and abilities of Bane are based on the game Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis. In this game, there is a Bane "element" which provides spells that are named Enfeeble, Brain Sap, Nightmare and Fiend's Grip, with a similar theme of Bane in Dota 2.
Bane's move line ▶️ "Sleep no more!" is a reference to Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in particular, his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Hamlet reasons over whether to take his own life or carry on: "To die, to sleep-. No more-and by a sleep we say to end..."
Fiend's Grip sound effect makes use of one of Bane's lines ("▶️ The bane of your existence").
Bane's Last hit Response "▶️ The wages of fear" is a reference to the film of the same name.
Bane is the only hero in Dota that has both the same base value as well as the same growth value on all 3 attributes. Even when general attribute value adjustments have been made on other heroes through different versions, Bane has still kept this peculiarity in every version, intentionally.