Abilities[]
Smoke Screen
Ability
Target Area
Target Area
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Throws down a smoke bomb, silencing enemies, causing them to miss attacks, and slowing their movement.
Solid fog: Also slows enemies' turn rate, and reduces their vision range. Vision reduction is stronger on the center of the cloud.
Solid fog: Also slows enemies' turn rate, and reduces their vision range. Vision reduction is stronger on the center of the cloud.
Cast Range: 550
Effect Radius: 250/275/300/325/325/325/325 (
450/475/500/525/525/525/525)
450/475/500/525/525/525/525)Move Speed Slow: 10%/15%/20%/25%/28%/31%/34%
Miss Chance: 40%/50%/60%/70%/75%/80%/85%
Turn Rate Slow: 15%
Vision Reduction: 100
Duration: 6
11 (
7)
7)
90
Modifiers
Smoke Screen
Death
Since his escape during the night of his betrayal, Riki has valued the use of a simple smoke screen to confuse his opponents.
Blink Strike
Teleports behind the target unit, striking it with bonus damage.
Shadowstruck: If the target is an enemy, its turn rate is reduced for 2.5 seconds.
Through the Ball Room: If the target is out of reach, attempts to use units on the way as platforms to jump off of in order to reach it.
Shadowstruck: If the target is an enemy, its turn rate is reduced for 2.5 seconds.
Through the Ball Room: If the target is out of reach, attempts to use units on the way as platforms to jump off of in order to reach it.
Cast Range: 800 ( 800.3)
800.3)Damage: 55/70/85/100/150/200/250
Turn Rate Reduction Duration: 2.5 ( 4)
4)Turn Rate Slow: 60%
Jump Range: 700
Maximum Jumps: 1/2/3/4/4/4/4 ( 2/3/4/5/5/5/5)
2/3/4/5/5/5/5) 16/
50
Modifiers
Blinkstrike
Death
The Stealth Assassin's agile movement makes him impossible to escape.
- The bonus damage is independent from Riki's attack damage and is instantly dealt to the target.
- Always teleports Riki behind the target.
- Will always try to find the shortest path possible.
- During the Strike Phase the caster is invulnerable
- When targeting an enemy, Riki receives the Blinkstrike buff.
- This buff makes his next attack apply an ensured backstab hit with Cloak and Dagger, regardless of angle.
- This means when the target manages to turn around before Riki's attack hits, it still applies the backstab.
- The buff lasts for 1 attack, or for up to 1 second, whichever happens first.
- The buff is used up upon starting an attack, not upon landing it, so canceling or missing the attack wastes it.
- The 1 second duration allows Riki to use the ensured backstab against other units than the Blink Strike target if quick enough.
- Riki is ordered to attack the target if it is an enemy.
- Can be cast on allies without damaging them.
Cloak and Dagger
Riki fades into the shadows, becoming invisible. Every time he strikes an enemy from behind, he deals bonus damage based on his agility. Becomes visible after attacking.
Sucker punch: breaking invisibility with an attack will increase the bonus damage by 2 for that attack.
Facestab: enemies inside Riki's Smoke Screen can be backstabbed from any angle, although at a lower damage bonus.
Sucker punch: breaking invisibility with an attack will increase the bonus damage by 2 for that attack.
Facestab: enemies inside Riki's Smoke Screen can be backstabbed from any angle, although at a lower damage bonus.
Fade Delay: 6/5/4/3/3/3/3 ( 4/3/2/1/1/1/1)
4/3/2/1/1/1/1)Backstab Damage per Agility: 0.5/0.75/1/1.25/1.3/1.35/1.4 ( 0.9/1.15/1.4/1.65/1.7/1.75/1.8)
0.9/1.15/1.4/1.65/1.7/1.75/1.8)Backstab Angle: 105
Smoke Bonus Damage per Agility: 0.25/0.4/0.65/0.8/0.85/0.9/0.95
Invisibilty Break Bonus Damage per Agility: 2
Modifiers
Invisible
Death
Riki comes for you.
- Riki does not auto attack enemies while invisible.
- Riki turns instantly invisible after respawning, causing him not to be visible right after using Aegis of the Immortal.
- Casting spells or using items does not break the invisibility.
- Only breaking the invisibility provided by Cloak and Dagger will provide an increased damage bonus. Other sources of invisibility do not provide this effect.
- Attacking from the back inside smoke cloud will still apply the full damage bonus.
- The ability icon shows a cooldown whenever the invisibility is broken. However, this has only informative purposes.
- This means that using Refresher Orb does not refresh it.
- This also means it is not affected by the Cooldown Reduction of Octarine Core and Arcane Rune.
- Time Dilation and Chakra Magic affect the cooldown visually, but do not affect the fade delay in any way.
- Backstab damage is applied when attacking and denying allies.
- A unit's back is considered to be within 105 degrees from the back.
- The damage can be reduced with e.g. Enfeeble or Static Link.
- However, it cannot be amplified with e.g. Empower or the Double Damage Rune.
- The sound effect plays at the start of the attack, but the damage is applied on hit.
Tricks of the Trade
Affects
Self / Enemy Heroes
Self / Enemy Heroes
Phase out of this world to attack all enemies around you every 1/1/1/0.95/0.9/0.85 seconds.
Martyr Strikes: also strikes extra random units inside the area, based on your attack speed.
Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Martyr Strikes: also strikes extra random units inside the area, based on your attack speed.
Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.
Max Channel Time: 5 ( 7/8/9)
7/8/9)Radius: 500
Attack Interval: 1/1/1/0.95/0.9/0.85 ( 0.7/0.7/0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55) ( 8/9/10)
0.7/0.7/0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55) ( 8/9/10)Cast Range: 0 ( 1000)
1000) 40/
75
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Increases duration and allows you to target an allied hero, hiding inside them for the duration.
Modifiers
Tricks Of The Trade Phase
Death
What the eye doesn't see, the heart is pierced by.
- Tricks of the Trade disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- Certain items which do not cancel channeling spells (e.g. Shadow Blade or Shiva's Guard) do cancel Tricks of the Trade.
- Riki is invulnerable and hidden during Tricks of the Trade, turning him to an invalid target for every spell.
- Riki is phased during Tricks of the Trade, so that other units can pass through.
- Causes Riki to perform instant attacks on all enemy heroes within range once per second, starting immediately on cast.
- The instant attacks can proc any attack modifier or any on-hit effect like regular attacks.
- If Riki is blinded, the attacks can miss, unless he has True Strike. They can also miss to evasion.
- The instant attacks completely ignore disarms, so Riki still attacks normally during Tricks of the Trade.
- The instant attacks do not break Cloak and Dagger's invisibility, although it visually goes on cooldown.
- If Echo Sabre is off cooldown, the instant attacks place the two slow procs on two randomly selected heroes in the radius. If there is only one hero in the radius, they will be slowed by the first proc. The second proc will then be applied on a randomly selected hero in the radius during the next round of attacks.
- The instant attacks always trigger a backstab from Cloak and Dagger, based on its current level.
- Only affects enemy heroes, excluding illusions. Creep-heroes are treated as creeps.
- Does not affect invisible units, but does affect units inside the Fog of War.
- The visual effects indicating Tricks of the Trade's attack radius are visible to both allies and enemies.
- The radius is always centered on Riki and follows him even when he gets moved (e.g. Glimpse).
- However, the radius indicating visual effects on the ground do not follow Riki, and stay at the cast location.
- When upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter, Riki can target an allied hero with Tricks of the Trade.
- Riki and all of the spell's effects then follow the allied hero. He still remains hidden.
- If the target dies, Tricks of the Trade is centered around its death location for the remaining duration, unless the target resurrects before the channeling ends (e.g. by using Buyback).
- Cannot target creep-heroes. Can target illusions.
Talents[]
| Hero Talents | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.3 sec Tricks of the Trade attack interval | 40 | Riki gains a 20% chance on attack to instantly teleport behind an enemy, backstabbing it. | ||||
| +40 Agility | -25 Respawn Timer | +30 All Stats | 35 | +80 Movement Speed | +90 Attack Speed | +33% Magic Resistance |
| -4 sec Smoke Screen cooldown | 30 | -2 sec invisibility fade time | ||||
| +30 Agility | -20 Respawn Timer | +20 All Stats | 25 | +60 Movement Speed | +65 Attack Speed | +27% Magic Resistance |
| +1 Blink Strike jumps | 20 | +0.4 Backstab agility multiplier | ||||
| +20 Agility | -15 Respawn Timer | +12 All Stats | 15 | +40 Movement Speed | +45 Attack Speed | +21% Magic Resistance |
| +200 Smoke Screen radius | 10 | +1.5 sec Blink Strike debuff duration | ||||
| +12 Agility | -10 Respawn Timer | +7 All Stats | 5 | +25 Movement Speed | +25 Attack Speed | +15% Magic Resistance |