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Grimstroke #116 21 + 2.4 18 + 1.9 25 + 3.8
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 582 1308 2100 2408 +0.25 +2.35 +5.71 +9.31 +10.71 Mana 75 375 1011 1611 1863 +0 +1.25 +3.91 +6.41 +7.46 Armor 0 3 7.43 12.6 14.52 Magic Resist 25% 27.5% 32.82% 37.82% 39.92% Damage Block - Damage 21 25 46 50 99 103 149 153 170 174 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.69/s 0.85/s 1.03/s 1.1/s Attack Range 600 (800) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.35 + 0.85 Projectile Speed 900 Move Speed ▶️ 290 ( 320) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal npc_dota_hero_grimstroke

Disables enemies with a swipe of his brush.
The peoples of Ashkavor gave their lives for the newly Ascended, one unlike any Ascended before him. Grimstroke's lust for power had tainted the sacred ritual, and the corrupted ink consumed him — along with his kin. The defiled remnant of his former beloved remains at his side, agonizing those caught in this Phantom's Embrace. Shrouded by a shadowy Ink Swell, Grimstroke retaliates with lashing black tendrils, while a Stroke of Fate forms under his brush, darkening the land and painting a Dark Portrait of an unfortunate foe. Drawing on Ashkavorian rituals of protection, Grimstroke twists the ancient arts to Soulbind foes together, so that the sufferings and vexes of one will be felt equally by the other.
Roles:	Support Nuker Disabler Escape
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Flying, Undead, Nose Legs ( 0 )

Bio

Grimstroke

▶️ "I'll paint this world as I see fit."

Lore:

The people of Ashkavor crowded around the temple square, eager to witness the ascension of their new guardian -- to stand near the man as he bound their souls to his own. But as his final brush strokes fell against the runestone, and the bond of a new Ascended One was forged, everyone -- even those who'd stayed in their homes -- could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.

He knew the cause instantly. The droplets of ichor he'd procured to amplify the potency of his inkpots had instead contaminated them, and the power of the binding spell he'd cast now threatened to consume him. An inky corruption snaked upward from the runestone, along the handle of his brush, soon overtaking his hands. From there it spread quickly. Once it overcame his face and his mouth, he couldn't have screamed even if he'd wanted to.

All of his life he'd calculated on how to attain ever greater powers than the limits presented by his teachers would allow--going so far as to break the sacred prohibition against augmenting the inks. Indeed, with the Wellspring of the Ascended Bond open to him, he felt a measure of power coursing into his soul like he'd never imagined. His greatest triumph was upon him, if he could only survive it.

He drew deep from the power of the bond, pushing back against the corrupted ink flow. A great moan filled the air -- the collective cry of his people. Some swayed on their feet. The weakest collapsed. Many tried to run. And still deeper he pulled from their bloodline reservoir. But it wasn't enough to stop the ink tide.

It was only when the breath trapped in his lungs began to fail him, and the inkpool darkness fully encased him, that he saw his way out. The bond he'd made with the Ashkavoran people -- his people -- meant to be drawn upon only in service of their protection... It flowed two ways.

With a final surge of strength -- this time directed by more than just blind repulsion -- he pushed the ink torrent into the bond itself.

Slowly, he felt the tide retreat... and heard the awful wails of his people as the corruption in turn rolled over them. When at last the ink relented, his eyes opened upon a world changed. The Ashkavoran people as he knew them were gone. Every last soul was transformed into terrifying shades of their former selves -- comprised no longer of blood and bone, only viscid, tainted ink.

Alias:

GS

Voice:

Steven Blum (Responses)

Abilities

Stroke of Fate

▶️▶️▶️QF

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Grimstroke paints a path of ink with his brush, damaging and slowing enemies. The damage is increased with each enemy the ink hits.

Cast Animation: 0.6+0.5

Cast Range: 1400 ( 2400)

Wave Distance: 1400 ( 2400)

Start Radius: 120

End Radius: 160

Base Damage: 100/160/220/280 ( 175/280/385/490)

Damage Increment per Hit: 20/30/40/50 ( 35/52.5/70/87.5)

Move Speed Slow: 50%/60%/70%/80%

Slow Duration: 1.75

 11/9/7/5

 100/110/120/130

Modifiers [?]

modifier_projectile_vision

Undispellable

modifier_grimstroke_dark_artistry_slow

Any

The corruptive force of Grimstroke's ink, drawn from the reservoir of his fallen people, consumes any enemy caught in its path.

• The ink travels at a speed of 2000.

• With the travel distance and end radius, the ink takes 0.7 ( 1.2) seconds to reach max distance and can hit units up to 1560 ( 2560) range away.

• The ink trail starts 120 range towards Grimstroke's left side and travels towards the targeted point.
  • This means the ink's travel direction is not based on the caster's facing direction, but instead on the angle between the aforementioned points.
  • Portrait-casting automatically launches Stroke of Fate to the right of Grimstroke's facing direction.

• Stroke of Fate first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• The damage increment has no cap and counts any valid units hit by the ink.
  • Neither affects nor counts invulnerable or hidden units to the total damage.

• Plays an initial sound and particles upon start casting, visible and audible to everyone.

• The projectile provides ground vision within its effect radius around it as it travels. This vision does not last.
  • Provides a 2-second 250 radius flying vision at every hit enemy's location and at the end location of the projectile.

Phantom's Embrace

▶️▶️▶️▶️WE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Summons a phantom that moves quickly towards the target, latching to it when she arrives. Once latched, the phantom damages and silences. If she survives the full latch duration she rends her victim for heavy damage and refreshes Phantom's Embrace's cooldown.

Hero attacks against the phantom count as 3 attacks each.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Cast Range: 900

Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2/2/3/3 ( 3/3/4/4)

Creep Attacks to Destroy: 6/6/9/9 ( 9/9/12/12)

Damage per Second: 10/20/30/40 ( 75/85/95/105)

Rend Damage: 120/200/280/360

Latch Duration: 5

Cooldown Skip per Phantom Returned: 36/30/24/18

 36/30/24/18

 80/100/120/140

Debuff Immunity Notes:

Shared vision pierces debuff immunity.

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Blocked upon cast.

Ability Disjoint Notes:

Cannot be disjointed by enemies.

Can be disjointed by the caster while returning, resulting in the cooldown not being reset.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_grimstroke_ink_creature_spawning

Undispellable

modifier_grimstroke_ink_creature

Death

modifier_grimstroke_ink_creature_latched

Death

modifier_provide_vision

Death

modifier_grimstroke_ink_creature_debuff

Death

Grimstroke holds no sorrow for the downfall of his people. Only for Yaovhi, she who was most dear to him, does he feel even a semblance of longing.

Phantom
Attached
Health 100 +0 This unit has no mana. Level 2 Duration 5 Armor 0 Magic Resistance 0% Status Resistance 0 Turn Rate 1 Collision Size 18 Bound Radius 8 Vision Range (G) 200 Bounty 10 Experience 10 Notes Uncontrollable Phased

• The Phantom instantly spawns ≈150 distance in front of Grimstroke, and travels to the target at a speed of 1150 upon the next server tick.

• The Phantom is attackable as soon as it is spawned, so it can be killed before it reaches its target.
  • Phantoms are attached-type units, and have the highest priority for auto-attack behaviors.

• Heroes and creeps deal 50/50/33.33/33.33 ( 33.33/33.33/25/25) and 16.67/16.67/11.11/11.11 ( 11.11/11.11/8.33/8.33) damage respectively to the Phantom.
  • Treats attacks from clones and illusions as heroes, and attacks from creep-heroes as creeps.
  • Towers ignore the Phantom.

• The Phantom latches onto the target when it comes within 130 range of it. Once latched, it always stays 130 range in front of the target.

• The Phantom is instantly killed in the following conditions:
  • When its target dies while traveling.
  • When its target turns invisible, including while the Phantom is still traveling towards it.
  • When its target turns invulnerable or hidden, but not while traveling.
    • If the Phantom is in traveling, it will be killed when arriving at the invulnerable or hidden unit.

• The Phantom returns to Grimstroke at a speed of 1150 upon expiring, when its target dies, or after 10 damage instances.
  • Does not return when it is killed or instantly killed in the aforementioned conditions.
  • Chronosphere instantly causes already latched Phantoms to return to their caster, and freezes traveling Phantoms.

• While attached, the Phantom silences its target and deals damage to it.
  • The damage per second and rend damage component on the affected target is sourced to Grimstroke, not the Phantom.
  • Therefore, the damage is affected by outgoing damage manipulation and spell lifesteal.
  • Deals 5/10/15/20 ( 37.5/42.5/47.5/52.5) damage in 0.5-second intervals, starting immediately upon reaching the target, resulting in 10 instances.
  • Can deal up to 170/300/430/560 ( 495/625/755/885) damage to each latched enemy, including the final rend damage (before reductions).

• Successive casts on the target fully stack and share one debuff.
  • The damage per second is increased for each stack. All Phantom instances on the same target share the same damage interval and are summed up into one instance per interval.

• The Phantom resets the cooldown of the Phantom's Embrace upon having fully returned to Grimstroke.
  • With multiple Phantoms, each fully returned Phantom resets the cooldown of the ability independently.

• The ability itself provides no vision, but the Phantom provides 200 shared vision and ground vision over the target while flying towards it, and while latched.
  • The granted vision instantly stops once the Phantom unlatches itself from the target and while traveling back to the caster.

• The Phantom is untargetable and uncontrollable while it returns to the caster.
• SOULBIND
  Only the Phantom returned from the primary target refreshes the ability's cooldown.

Ink Swell

▶️▶️▶️EW

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Allies / Enemies

Damage
Magical

Grimstroke shrouds an allied unit in ink, increasing its movement speed. Enemies in range of the allied unit are damaged with inky tendrils over time. After 5 seconds it triggers, applying damage and stun in an area around the unit in proportion to how long ink tendril was near any hero.

Cast Animation: 0.15+0.73/0.86

Cast Range: 500/600/700/800

Radius: 375 ( 525)

Move Speed Bonus: 20% ( 32%)

Tendrils Damage per Second: 25/40/55/70 ( 32.5/52/71.5/91)

Expire Max Damage: 90/180/270/360 ( 117/234/351/468)

Max Stun Duration: 1.3/1.8/2.3/2.8

Max Power Duration: 2.5

Buff Duration: 5

 Tendrils Heal Per Second: 9.75/15.6/21.45/27.3

 Expire Max Heal: 35.1/70.2/105.3/140.4

 Creep Spell Lifesteal Multiplier: 0.8

 27/24/21/18 ( 23/20/17/14)

 120/130/140/150

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Causes Ink Swell to deal 30% more damage and heal the target for 30% of the damage Ink Swell deals. Upon expiration, the target will receive a strong dispel.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_grimstroke_spirit_walk_buff

Any

modifier_stunned

Strong

Now that the rise of the ink tide no longer threatens to overwhelm Grimstroke, its tendrils of power are never far from his hand.

• Grimstroke has a different ability animation and longer cast backswing of 0.86 when self-casting.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• Ink Swell first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• The tendrils deal 5/8/11/14 ( 6.5/10.4/14.3/18.2) damage in 0.2-second intervals, starting immediately as the buff is placed, resulting in up to 25 instances.
  • Can damage up to 125/200/275/350 ( 162.5/260/357.5/455) damage to a single unit (before reductions).
  • SHARD
    Ink Swell also heals the affected ally based on the same damage intervals.

• The ability values are based on the number of damage instances the tendrils applied per enemy hero within the radius upon losing the buff or when the Ink Explosion sub-ability is used, regardless of how much damage the target(s) actually receive.
  • This means to reach the max power, at least one enemy hero must be damaged throughout the whole duration of Ink Swell.
  • Treats clones as heroes, illusions and creep-heroes as creep.
  • The ability values reaches max power after 13 instances.

• Each damage instance increases the max power as follows:
  • Increases the stun duration by 0.1/0.14/0.18/0.22 seconds per damage instance applied.
  • Increases the expire damage by 7.2/14.4/21.6/28.8 ( 9.36/18.72/28.08/37.44) per instance applied.

• Dispelling the debuff prematurely or casting the Ink Explosion sub-ability still applies the expire damage and stun within 375 ( 525) radius, centered on the affected unit, based on the damage instances applied up to that point.
  • However, if the affected unit dies, Ink Swell does not apply the expire damage and stun within the radius.

• The expire damage and stun only apply when there is at least one enemy hero within 375 ( 525) radius.

• SHARD
  Ink Swell now heals the affected ally based on the tendril instances per enemy hero hit, and also when the buff expires following the ability notes above.
  • Both components always heal for the full amount per instance, regardless of how much damage the enemy target(s) actually takes.
  • Can heal up to 48.75/78/107.25/136.5 of the affected ally's health per damaged enemy over its full duration.

• The tendrils' healing value on the affected ally can still be subjected to heal manipulation.
  • However, the heal per enemy at the end of the stun accumulation time utilizes spell lifesteal.
  • Stacks additively with other sources of spell lifesteal on the affected ally, and can still be subjected to spell lifesteal manipulation sourced to Grimstroke.

• SHARD
  Ink Swell first applies the tendrils heal instance per enemy hero hit, the spell lifesteal as expire max heal, then the strong dispel.
  • The strong dispel at the end is applied no matter how the buff is removed.

Ink Explosion

WE

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Trigger an existing Ink Swell.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0

Max Duration: 5

 1

 0

Sub-ability of Ink Swell.

• Replaces Ink Swell until the sub-ability is used or the debuff disappears.

• Despite being a sub-ability, Ink Explosion procs all on-cast effects like a regular ability.
• SPELL STEAL
  Grants Ink Swell if this sub-ability is the last cast ability.

Dark Portrait

▶️DD

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Creates an ink illusion of a target enemy hero. Illusion is spell immune, and has bonus movement speed and attack damage.

Cast Animation: 0+0.54

Cast Range: 1200

Number of Illusions: 1

Dark Portrait Illusion

Damage Dealt: 150%

Damage Taken: 350%

Move Speed Bonus: 30%

Magic Resistance Bonus: 95%

Duration: 25

 35

 200

Modifiers [?]

modifier_grimstroke_scepter_buff

Death

modifier_illusion

Death

modifier_invulnerable

Death

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting both Grimstroke and Soulbind to be unlocked.

No dark creation is beyond the skill of the master's hand.

Dark Portrait illusion as they appear to allies and enemies.

• Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

• The Dark Portrait illusion is a strong illusion, meaning it cannot be instantly killed by abilities that normally kill illusions instantly.

• The created illusion is visually distinguishable from the real hero for allies and enemies.
  • The illusion spawns 58 range away randomly on the north, south, east, and west from the target, regardless of the target's collision size.
  • The illusion gains its debuff immunity and movement speed bonus through a buff, so it is possible for enemies to check the buff and ‼ Ping the remaining duration of the illusion.
  • The illusion has a
    expr
    2 × IllusionLVL bounty.

• Successive casts do not replace existing Dark Portrait illusions.

• Treats illusions and clones as heroes, and the Spirit Bear as creeps.

• Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
  • The illusion will have a base magic resistance to 96.25% and every 10 points of intelligence the illusion have further increases the total magic resistance by 0.05%. [?]

Soulbind

▶️▶️RB

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Binds a targeted enemy hero to its nearest allied hero within the bind radius, preventing both from moving away from each other. Any unit-targeted ability that either bound hero receives also gets cast on the other hero. If the bind is broken before the duration expires, the initial target will be bound to its nearest allied hero in the radius.

Cast Animation: 0.15+0.5

Cast Range: 700/800/900

Max Bound Units: 2

Latch Radius: 600

Break Distance: 700

Duration: 6/7/8

 Bound Spell Damage Amp: 25%

 70/65/60

 150/200/250

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Dark Portrait ability.

Debuff Immunity Notes:

Does not connect to secondary debuff immune units. If the primary target is debuff immune, does not connect to other units at all. Shared vision, exposure and spell copying fully pierces debuff immunity.

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Blocked fully only when primary target.

Cannot be reflected.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_grimstroke_soul_chain_channel_check

Death

modifier_grimstroke_soul_chain

Death

The Ascended were chosen sons of Ashkavor, granted immense power by the bonds forged between their own souls and those they were charged with protecting. In the years that followed the ruination of his kin, Grimstroke discovered much more sinister applications for the binding rituals…

• A list of unique interactions with Soulbind can be found here.

• The targeting reticule must be centered over an enemy unit.

• Only binds the primary target to heroes, clones and creep-heroes, excluding illusions. However, the primary target can be an illusion or the Spirit Bear.
  • Does not bind to nearby invisible or invulnerable heroes.

• Leashes the target and the ally it is bound to, preventing them from casting certain mobility abilities.
  • Does not leash the target if it is not bound to an ally.
  • Exposes and provides shared vision and True Sight over both targets.

• The more the chain gets stretched, the slower the affected heroes can walk away from each other, eventually coming to a full stop. It directly affects their movement speed.
  • The chain is considered fully stretched at 600 range, but can be stretched up to 700 range before it breaks.
  • In order to stretch it further than 600, forced movement sources or abilities with teleporting effects must be used.
  • This means most forced movement sources can break the leash, except for the following abilities:
    • Skewer, Leap, Pounce, Tree Dance, Primal Spring, Toggle Movement, Force Staff and Hurricane Pike.
    • However, Force and Hurricane Thrust (Ally) can break the chain if the target hasn't moved after being bound.

• If either enemy manages to break the binding link, the debuff stays active on the primary target and immediately leashes the next valid enemy target within the latch radius to them.

• The ability animations are based on and are affected by status resistance. This affects the following things on both the primary and the secondary target:
  • expr
    StatusResistance1 > StatusResistance2
    • The chain disappears, and the primary target is no longer affected by Soulbind.
    • However, the secondary target is still fully affected by Soulbind's effects.
  • expr
    StatusResistance2 > StatusResistance1
    • The chain disappears, and the secondary target is no longer affected by Soulbind.
    • The primary target will still be fully affected by Soulbind, and leashes the next valid enemy target following the ability notes above.

• A valid unit may only be affected by one Soulbind at a time.
  • Successive casts on the same primary target, or on the secondary target refreshes the duration on both targets.
  • Successive casts on a third target within the range of the already linked two do not link the third valid target to any other two until the previous Soulbind expires.

• The following conditions do not duplicate the unit-targeted ability onto the secondary target:
  • Abilities and item casts by creeps, including neutral creeps and Dominated units, and creep-heroes.
  • Abilities that cannot be reflected by Spell Reflection.
  • When an illusion is the primary target.
  • When the primary target is affected by any other Spell Reflection sources.
    • Soulbind has the lowest priority in the group of Spell Refection sources.

• The duplicated ability cast also ignores all sources of Spell Reflection on the secondary target, this means the duplicated cast cannot be reflected again.
  • Most ability effects are first applied to the secondary target, then the primary target.
  • Charge-based abilities only consume a single charge when the ability is also cast on the secondary target.

• The duplicated ability interacts with spell immunity as follows:
  • Abilities that pierce debuff immunity when reflected are duplicated on the secondary target, which is stated in the ability's notes respectively.
  • Certain abilities that do not pierce debuff immunity will still be cast on the bound debuff immune target, applying other of its ability effects, despite not affecting them.

• TALENT
  The spell damage amplification talent applies generic incoming damage amplification on affected bound units. Stacks additively with other sources of generic incoming damage manipulation.
  • Affects only spell damage the affected targets receive. Does not amplify the following damage sources:
    • Damage flagged as HP removal.
    • Despite utilizing incoming damage amplification, it does not affect the damage sources that ignore outgoing amplification (e.g. Cleave sources, Damage Return and Moon Glaives).

Talents

Hero Talents
+75% Stroke of Fate Damage	25	+150 Ink Swell Radius
+3 Hits to Kill Phantom	20	+1000 Stroke of Fate Cast Range
+12% Ink Swell Movement Speed	15	+25% Soulbind Spell Damage
-4s Ink Swell Cooldown	10	+65 Phantom's Embrace DPS

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.35

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Ink Swell
    • Reduced tendrils damage per second bonus from 40% to 30%.
    • Reduced expire max damage bonus from 40% to 30%.
    • Reduced damage as spell lifesteal from 40% to 30%.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +14% Ink Swell movement speed bonus reduced to +12%.

  LVL 25

   

  +60% Stroke of Fate damage increased to +75%.

7.34e

• U
  Increased Soulbind cooldown from 70/60/50 to 70/65/60.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Ink Swell creep spell lifesteal multiplier from 1 to 0.8.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  U

   

  -5s Ink Swell cooldown reduced to -4s.

7.34d

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +16% Ink Swell movement speed bonus reduced to +14%.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango helps Grimstroke stay in lane.

• Healing Salve keeps Grimstroke alive in the early game.

• Enchanted Mango helps Grimstroke use his nukes more often.

• Clarity regenerates mana throughout the game to fuel Stroke of Fate.

• Iron Branch gives attributes for little cost, and can either be combined with Tango for more health regeneration or built into a Magic Wand.

Early game:

• Boots of Speed increase movement speed to get Grimstroke in position.

• Magic Stick restores health and mana for a low price.

Mid game:

• Arcane Boots makes up for Grimstroke's high mana usage. It can also be diassembled into Aether Lens or Aeon Disk.

• Magic Wand gives attributes, as well as more health and mana restoration.

• Glimmer Cape allows Grimstroke to escape bad situations, and sneak up on enemies for a stun with Ink Swell (cast either on himself or his ally). Since Grimstroke is commonly played as a support, the item is highly cost-effective for him.

Late game:

• Scythe of Vyse can hex two enemies at once when used with Soulbind. It also prevents opponents from killing the phantom, thus forcing them to take full damage.

• Aether Lens increases Grimstroke's already long cast ranges, and gives him extra mana regeneration. The cast range bonus is significant for Grimstroke as winning teamfights rely on casting all spell combos successfully. The range keeps him safely in the backlines.

• Aeon Disk helps Grimstroke survive with strong dispel and damage reduction so that he can keep using abilities in fights.

Situational items:

• Force Staff helps Grimstroke's chase down enemies after they have been slowed. It also serves as a good escape for him in a pinch.

• Dagon adds burst magical damage and can be cast on two targets at once when combined with Soulbind.

• Ethereal Blade works with Soulbind to amplify magical damage dealt to two enemies at once as well as to disarm them so that they cannot attack the phantom.

• Orchid Malevolence Can be considered as a tool to silence up to 3 enemies.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics	Voice Lines
Three Hero Stroke of Fate Hits Three Hero Ink Swells Max Stun Ink Swells Phantom's Embrace Soulbind Combos Full Duration Phantom's Embraces Slow Duration Stuns Leading to Kills Silences Leading to Kills Dominating Kill Streaks Dusts Leading to Kills Enemy Wards Kills Wards Placed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Huuuh huh huh ha ha ha ha ha ha hahh. ▶️ Oh, that is too good.
	Silver	▶️ You die, yet your failure lives on. ▶️ You should have known better...
	Gold	▶️ These wretched fools have no idea. ▶️ Know your place.
	Platinum	▶️ You've a mind like a child.
	Master	▶️ Watch the master at work.
	Grandmaster	▶️ Aaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, my masterpiece!

Equipment

Grimstroke Equipment (expand sets) Sets Fury of the Damned Herald of the Ember Eye Paean of the Ink Dragon The Chained Scribe Weapon Fortune of the Five Houses Head Remnants of Ascension Taunt Taunt: Harsh Critique

Trivia

• Grimstroke's abilities have different names in the game files:
  • Stroke of Fate: "Dark Artistry"
  • Phantom's Embrace: "Ink Creature"
  • Ink Swell: "Spirit Walk"
  • Soulbind: "Soul Chain"

• ▶️ "More art than science." is a reference to the common phrase "More of an art than a science", when referring to an activity or field that is not bound by clearly-defined rules and is open to subjective interpretation.

• ▶️ "At least you died with a smile on your face." is a reference to album of the label "Bella Union".

• ▶️ "Welcome to the real void." perhaps a reference to the film "Matrix" - "Welcome to the real world".

• After killing Lich he says ▶️ "Another self-styled king meets his end." perhaps a reference to the Lich-King in the fantasy world "Warcraft".

• ▶️ "Brush beats scythe." is a reference to game "Rock, paper, scissors".

Gallery

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  In-game model

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  In-game model

External links

• Official Trailer
• Introducing Grimstroke
• Blog post