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Dark Seer 20 + 3.1 12 + 1.8 21 + 3.1
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 560 1506 2452 2826 +0 +2 +6.34 +10.64 +12.39 Mana 75 327 843 1359 1563 +0 +1.05 +3.22 +5.37 +6.25 Armor 3 5 9.2 14.2 16.03 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 33 39 54 60 97 103 140 146 157 163 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.66/s 0.81/s 0.98/s 1.05/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.59 + 0.58 Projectile Speed Instant Move Speed ▶️ 295 ( 325) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Ish'kafel the Dark Seer is a melee intelligence hero who relies on his abilities' potent utility and synergy. In lane he is sustained by high armor and enabled by his Ion Shell and Surge. Surge boosts his or an ally's speed, helping them to escape or pursue opponents. Ion Shell wraps a unit in a spiky shield that rapidly damages nearby enemies, enabling Ish'kafel to harass and gain last hits. These abilities also make him an efficient jungler and therefore a natural semi-carry, usually focused on building utility items.

Dark Seer's greatest damage is done during teamfights and comes from the combination of his final two abilities. Vacuum makes for powerful initiations. It sucks in nearby enemies, briefly disabling them and making them susceptible to area of effect spells—such as his Wall of Replica. The wall slows his foes and creates replicas of any enemy heroes that cross it, high-damage illusions that Dark Seer can control. A subtle hero, Ish'kafel's dark energies can be deadly in the right hands.

Bio

Ish'Kafel, the Dark Seer

▶️ "If your enemy is equal, prepare for him. If greater, elude him. If weaker, crush him."

Lore:

Fast when he needs to be, and a cunning strategist, Ish'Kafel the Dark Seer requires no edged weapons to vanquish his enemies, relying instead on the strength of his powerful mind. His talent lies in his ability to maneuver the fight to his advantage. Hailing from a place he calls 'The Land behind the wall,' Dark Seer remains an outsider here—a warrior from a realm beyond the veil of this reality. Once a great general among his people, and a valiant defender of the god-king Damathryx, Dark Seer’s army was wiped out by a much larger force in the final days of the Great Boundaries War. Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls. At the last moment, just before capture, he crossed over—then sealed the walls forever in an explosive release of dark energy. When the dust settled, he saw that he had saved his people but found himself blinking at the sun of a different world, with no way to return. Now he is committed to proving his worth as a military strategist, and vows to show that he’s the greatest tactician this strange new world has ever seen.

Voice:

John Patrick Lowrie (Responses)

Abilities

Vacuum

▶️QC

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Dark Seer creates a vacuum over the target area that sucks in enemy units, disrupting them and dealing damage.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.7

Cast Range: 450/500/550/600

Effect Radius: 400/450/500/550 ( 650/700/750/800)

Damage: 50/100/150/200

Pull Duration: 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6

 60/50/40/30 ( 12)

 100/130/160/190

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Reduces cooldown.

Modifiers [?]

Vacuum

Strong

Ish'Kafel modifies the center of gravity to a place of his choosing.

• The pull duration always takes 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6 seconds, no matter how far or close the units are from the center, so the speed varies.

• The damage is applied upon losing the debuff, so that dispelling it causes it to happen earlier.

• Affected units are fully disabled during the pull.

• Can pull units over impassable terrain.

• Fully affects invisible and invulnerable units (exept for units affected by Eul's Scepter of Divinity's Cyclone), but not hidden units.

• Does not affect ancient creeps and creep-heroes.

• Vacuum destroys trees within 275 radius at the targeted point upon cast, after placing the debuff on enemies.

Ion Shell

▶️WE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Surrounds the target unit with a bristling shield that damages enemy units in an area around it.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.7

Cast Range: 600

Damage Radius: 250

Damage per Second: 24/46/68/90 ( 74/96/118/140)

Duration: 25

 9

 100/110/120/130

Modifiers [?]

Ion Shell

Any

The Dark Seer slices holes into the 'Land Behind the Wall,' causing prismatic energy to seep forth.

• The shell can be put on enemy and allied units, damaging only enemy units. The unit with the shell itself is not damaged.

• Successive casts on the same unit do not stack, but refresh the duration and update the damage to the current level instead.
  • When two opposing heroes cast it on the same target, the modifier updates and starts damaging the enemies of the latest caster.
  • The modifier status, however, does not update. Whether it is treated as a buff or debuff is determined by the first cast, and not updated on refresh.

• Deals 2.4/4.6/6.8/9 ( 7.4/9.6/11.8/14) damage in 0.1 second intervals, starting 0.1 second after the cast, resulting in 250 damage instances.

• Can deal up to 600/1150/1700/2250 ( 1850/2400/2950/3500) damage to a single unit (before reductions), if it stays in range for the full duration.

• Affects invisible units that go close to the shell wearer, however, the visual effects do not appear.

• Cannot be cast on creep-heroes or couriers.

• Choosing the damage upgrading talent immediately upgrades all of Dark Seer's currently active Ion Shell modifiers.

Surge

▶️ER

Ability
Target Unit
( Target Area)

Affects
Allies

Charges a target friendly unit with power, giving it a brief burst of movement speed and removes unit collisions. Allows the unit to surpass the movement speed limit and cannot be slowed.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.57

Cast Range: 600

Radius: 0 ( 350)

Movement Speed Bonus: 25%/40%/55%/70%

Duration: 6

 16/14/12/10

 50

Modifiers [?]

Surge

Any

Ish'Kafel once used his speed of mind to navigate the maze between the walls.

• Applies a haste on the target, meaning it cannot be slowed while affected.

• Also grants the target phased movement, and removes the movement speed limit while affected.

• The talent turns Surge into an area-targeted spell, so that it cannot directly target units anymore.
  • Self-casting the ability still targets Dark Seer, centering the AoE around him.

Wall of Replica

▶️RW

Ability
Target Point / Vector Targeting

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Raises a wall of warping light that slows and creates replicas of any enemy hero who crosses it. Enemy replicas serve at the Dark Seer's will. Replicas last until they are destroyed, or until the wall's duration ends.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.73

Cast Range: 1300

Number of Walls: 1 ( 3)

Wall Length: 1300 ( 2600)

Wall Width: 50

Parallel Wall Distance: 600

Movement Speed Slow: 50%/60%/70%

Illusion Damage Dealt: 70%/85%/100%

Illusion Damage Taken: 200%

Duration: 45

Slow Duration: 0.75

 100

 125/250/375

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Increases Wall length.

Modifiers [?]

Wall Slow

Any

The Dark Seer, while unable to return to his natural realm, can channel part of the prismatic wall with powerful strength of mind, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks.

• The values of the wall are set upon creation, and do not update upon leveling the spell further up after having placed the wall.
  • However, Aghanim's Scepter's bonus is applied to the wall immediately. Illusions created while having Scepter get the increased damage.

• A wall can only create one illusion per player. There cannot be more than one illusion per player per wall.
  • This means when there are multiple walls up (with the talent, or with multiple casts), each wall can create an illusion for each enemy.
  • This also means that when an enemy has multiple heroes ( Divided We Stand and Tempest Double clones), they are still limited to one illusion per wall.
  • Even if the illusion gets Enchanted, the wall can still not create a new ilusion.

• Only creates illusions of real heroes. Does not create illusions of illusions pathing through the wall.
  • Can create illusions of Divided We Stand and Tempest Double clones as well, but not of Wukong's Command clones.
  • Can create the illusions of invulnerable enemies, but not hidden ones. The slow, however, is not placed on invulnerable units.

• Upon spawning, the illusions are automatically ordered to attack the heroes they are based on.

• When the illusion dies, the wall can create a new illusion of that hero as soon as it comes in range.

• Illusions created by Wall of Replica have a static 5 gold and experience bounty which does not scale with levels.

• The illusions's duration is based on the remaining duration of the wall from which they originate.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the hero if the hero has a collision size of 24, and 72 if the collision size is 8. It appears either north, east, south or west from the target.

• Wall of Replica illusions are visually distinguishable for the enemies.

• The slow is applied constantly within the wall's area. When walls overlap with each, their slows do not stack.

• When choosing the parallel wall talent, a second wall is placed 600 range behind the cast location of first wall, parallel to it.

Talents

Hero Talents
350 AoE Surge	25	2 Ion Shell Charges
+50 Ion Shell Damage	20	-40s Wall of Replica Cooldown
Ion Shell Provides +250 Max Health	15	+100 Vacuum AoE
+50 Ion Shell Radius	10	+20% Wall of Replica Illusion Damage

Recent Changes

Main Article: Dark Seer/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35

• Reduced Ion Shell mana cost from 110/120/130/140 to 100/110/120/130.
• Wall of Replica now deals 25/40/55 magical damage per enemy illusion created.

7.34c

• Reduced Vacuum damage from 100/150/200/250 to 70/130/190/250.
• Increased Surge cooldown from 21/17/13/9 to 24/19/14/9.

7.34

• Reduced Vacuum effect radius from 400/450/500/550 to 325/400/475/550.
• Increased Surge mana cost from 35/40/45/50 to 50 on each level.
• U
  Wall of Replica now fully affects an enemy Spirit Bear.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Normal Punch
    • U
      Now fully affects an enemy Spirit Bear.
    • Increased distance required for max values from 900 to 1100.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Surge
    • ADDED
      Alt-cast functionality. [?]
    • Right Click on ability toggles and swaps the functionality of the ability with Surge (Aghanim's Shard), creating a trail behind affected units.

Gameplay

In a final, calculated move, Ish'Kafel led his outnumbered army into a new world, sealing the path behind with a burst of dark energy. A cunning tactician, the Dark Seer manipulates gravity to pull foes into a Vacuum, drawing them into the prismatic thorns of his Ion Shell. Armed only with his intellect, he Surges across the land to survey every point of conflict. At strategic locations Ish'Kafel places a Wall of Replica, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks as an army of duplicates emerge to do battle against their own likenesses.
Roles:	Initiator Jungler Escape Disabler
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Adjectives:	Legs ( 2 )

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Dark Seer Equipment (expand sets) Sets Aqwanderer Set Forgotten Tactician Gombangdae Dosa Imperial Relics Insights of the Sapphire Shroud Keeper of Oloxicam's Glass Mentor of the Artif Convert Opus of the Vizier Exile Psionic Sage The Seers Command Set Head Craniomancer Insight of Forlorn Precipice Shoulder Dark General's Mantle Arms Bracers of Forlorn Precipice Golden Bracers of Forlorn Precipice Taunt Taunt: More Than Mental Mass

Trivia

• Dark Seer's response, "Speed is the heart of battle." is an indirect quote of Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, who said "Quickness is the essence of war."
• Dark Seer's response, ▶️ "No, I will not calm my beard." is a response to Beastmaster's and Clockwerk's rival hero taunts, both voiced by Sam A. Mowry.
• Dark Seer's Vacuum's lore is based on the military term, center of gravity, which is a concept developed by Carl Von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, in his work On War.

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