Lane Creeps

Lane creeps are a type of creep that automatically moves down the three lanes towards the enemy faction's Ancient. Each and every 30 seconds a new group (the creep wave) spawns for each faction at each of their barracks, but the number in the group and their stats eventually change, as the game progresses. Lane creeps engage any hostile unit nearby, but when left unattended, the opposing creeps end up clashing each other in the lanes on their way towards the enemy base.

Like other creeps, lane creeps are vitally important to a hero's progress because they grant resources, allowing for an advantage over the enemy team. They give experience to nearby enemies when killed – as well as gold to heroes who deal the last hit they take. Allied creeps can also be denied by their team, preventing the enemy from getting their gold bounty, and stealing a part of the experience gain from them. To get as many last hits as possible, players often manipulate creep position in the lane by abusing their simple AI, gaining an advantage and disrupting the pace of the battle into their favor. Creep control techniques include disruptively pushing forward into towers, pulling neutral creeps for allied lane creeps to fight, or aggroing enemy melee creeps to change their target.

Lane creeps (while controlled by the AI) are the only units capable of disabling Backdoor Protection. However, once taken over by a player, a lane creep no longer disables the protection.

Types

There are three types of lane creeps: Melee, Ranged and Siege. Melee creeps spawn in larger numbers and have more health and less attack damage than ranged creeps. Ranged creeps have lower health, but deal more damage per attack to creeps, and are able to attack from a distance. However, their attack type causes them to deal less damage against heroes and buildings. Siege creeps spawn in every tenth wave. They have high health and, unlike other lane creeps, have high magic resistance. They have a long ranged attack which deals significantly more damage against buildings. They also prioritize buildings over other units when in range.

Destroying either of the enemy team's melee or ranged barracks causes the destroying team's respective lane to begin spawning super creeps instead of regular creeps. Super creeps are stronger versions of regular lane creeps that give less gold and experience to the enemy when killed. When all enemy barracks are destroyed, mega creeps begin to spawn from all lanes and siege creeps gain additional damage.

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Spawning

Lane creeps spawn locations — Spawn location of Radiant and Dire lane creeps, bot mid and top

Spawn timing

Lane creeps spawn the first time as the game timer reaches 00:00, right after the game horn sounds. After that, they spawn every 30 seconds. Unlike melee and ranged creeps, siege creeps start spawning on the eleventh wave, and then every tenth wave. This means siege creeps spawn every 5 minutes, with the first ones spawning at 5:00.

Initially, a creep wave consists of 3 melee creeps and 1 ranged creep (and 1 siege creep every 10th wave). As the game progresses, their quantity gets upgraded:

31st wave and onwards (15:00): All lanes get +1 melee creep. Total count of melee creeps is now 4 for all lanes.
61st wave and onwards (30:00): All lanes get +1 melee creep. Total count of melee creeps is now 5 for all lanes.
71st wave and onwards (35:00): All lanes get +1 siege creep. Total count of siege creeps is now 2 for all lanes.
81st wave and onwards (40:00): All lanes get +1 ranged creep. Total count of ranged creeps is now 2 for all lanes.
91st wave and onwards (45:00): All lanes get +1 melee creep. Total count of melee creeps is now 6 for all lanes.

After the 45th minute, a creep wave consists of 6 melee creeps and 2 ranged creeps (and 2 siege creeps every 10th wave), resulting in a total of 8 (10 with siege creeps) creeps per wave.

Spawn locations

Lane creeps spawn close to the lanes' barracks. There is however some minor adjustment for each lane, so that they meet at certain points of each lane if they are not interrupted or distracted.

Lane	Radiant side	Dire side
Top	Creeps spawn slightly behind the barracks, right at the center of the triangle formed by the barracks and the effigy building below.	Creeps spawn in front of the tier 3 tower, right at the edge of the ramp.
Middle	Creeps spawn between the melee and ranged barracks, on the circle between them.	Creeps spawn right in front of the tier 3 tower, slightly behind the edge of the ramp.
Bottom	Creeps spawn right in front of the tier 3 tower, right at the edge of the ramp.	Creeps spawn slightly behind the barracks, right at the center of the triangle formed by the barracks and the effigy building above.

The spawn locations do not change throughout the entire match. The creeps spawn so that the ranged creeps are always behind the melee creeps. However, the siege creeps spawn between the melee creeps.

Stats

Every 7 minutes 30 seconds, melee and ranged creeps gain a permanent upgrade to their health and attack damage, as well as an increase to their bounties. The following bonuses are applied:

Melee creeps: +12 health, +1 attack damage, +1 gold bounty
Ranged creeps: +12 health, +2 attack damage, +6 gold bounty, +8 experience bounty
Super melee creeps: +19 health, +2 attack damage, +1.5 gold bounty
Super ranged creeps: +18 health, +3 attack damage, +6 gold bounty
Mega melee creeps: +1.5 gold bounty
Mega ranged creeps: +6 gold bounty

These health and damage upgrades are applied a maximum of 30 times, while the gold and experience bounty upgrades have no limit. This means their health and damage are fully upgraded at 225:00 in-game time, which is 3 hours and 45 minutes. The total values on each upgrade cycle can be seen in the following table.

Siege creeps only gain one upgrade, and that is +16 damage upon destroying their respective lane's ranged barracks.

Mega creeps do not grow stronger, but have their bounties increased over time.

Time	Wave	Upgrade number	HP melee	DMG melee	Gold melee	HP super melee	DMG super melee	Gold super/mega melee	HP ranged	DMG ranged	Gold ranged	EXP ranged	HP super ranged	DMG super ranged	Gold super/mega ranged
0:00	1	0	550	19‒23	34‒39	700	36‒44	20‒26	300	21‒26	43‒52	69	475	41‒46	19‒25
7:30	16	1	562	20‒24	35‒40	719	38‒46	21.5‒27.5	312	23‒28	49‒58	77	493	44‒49	25‒31
15:00	31	2	574	21‒25	36‒41	738	40‒48	23‒29	324	25‒30	55‒64	85	511	47‒52	31‒37
22:30	46	3	586	22‒26	37‒42	757	42‒50	24.5‒30.5	336	27‒32	61‒70	93	529	50‒55	37‒43
30:00	61	4	598	23‒27	38‒43	776	44‒52	26‒32	348	29‒34	67‒76	101	547	53‒58	43‒49
37:30	76	5	610	24‒28	39‒44	795	46‒54	27.5‒33.5	360	31‒36	73‒82	109	565	56‒61	49‒55
45:00	91	6	622	25‒29	40‒45	814	48‒56	29‒35	372	33‒38	79‒88	117	583	59‒64	55‒61
52:30	106	7	634	26‒30	41‒46	833	50‒58	30.5‒36.5	384	35‒40	85‒94	125	601	62‒67	61‒67
60:00	121	8	646	27‒31	42‒47	852	52‒60	32‒38	396	37‒42	91‒100	133	619	65‒70	67‒73
67:30	136	9	658	28‒32	43‒48	871	54‒62	33.5‒39.5	408	39‒44	97‒106	141	637	68‒73	73‒79
75:00	151	10	670	29‒33	44‒49	890	56‒64	35‒41	420	41‒46	103‒112	149	655	71‒76	79‒85
82:30	166	11	682	30‒34	45‒50	909	58‒66	36.5‒42.5	432	43‒48	109‒118	157	673	74‒79	85‒91
90:00	181	12	694	31‒35	46‒51	928	60‒68	38‒44	444	45‒50	115‒124	165	691	77‒82	91‒97
97:30	196	13	706	32‒36	47‒52	947	62‒70	39.5‒45.5	456	47‒52	121‒130	173	709	80‒85	97‒103
105:00	211	14	718	33‒37	48‒53	966	64‒72	41‒47	468	49‒54	127‒136	181	727	83‒88	103‒109
112:30	226	15	730	34‒38	49‒54	985	66‒74	42.5‒48.5	480	51‒56	133‒142	189	745	86‒91	109‒115
120:00	241	16	742	35‒39	50‒55	1004	68‒76	44‒50	492	53‒58	139‒148	197	763	89‒94	115‒121
127:30	256	17	754	36‒40	51‒56	1023	70‒78	45.5‒51.5	504	55‒60	145‒154	205	781	92‒97	121‒127
135:00	271	18	766	37‒41	52‒57	1042	72‒80	47‒53	516	57‒62	151‒160	213	799	95‒100	127‒133
142:30	286	19	778	38‒42	53‒58	1061	74‒82	48.5‒54.5	528	59‒64	157‒166	221	817	98‒103	133‒139
150:00	301	20	790	39‒43	54‒59	1080	76‒84	50‒56	540	61‒66	163‒172	229	835	101‒106	139‒145
157:30	316	21	802	40‒44	55‒60	1099	78‒86	51.5‒57.5	552	63‒68	169‒178	237	853	104‒109	145‒151
165:00	331	22	814	41‒45	56‒61	1118	80‒88	53‒59	564	65‒70	175‒184	245	871	107‒112	151‒157
172:30	346	23	826	42‒46	57‒62	1137	82‒90	54.5‒60.5	576	67‒72	181‒190	253	889	110‒115	157‒163
180:00	361	24	838	43‒47	58‒63	1156	84‒92	56‒62	588	69‒74	187‒196	261	907	113‒118	163‒169
187:30	376	25	850	44‒48	59‒64	1175	86‒94	57.5‒63.5	600	71‒76	193‒202	269	925	116‒121	169‒175
195:00	391	26	862	45‒49	60‒65	1194	88‒96	59‒65	612	73‒78	199‒208	277	943	119‒124	175‒181
202:30	406	27	874	46‒50	61‒66	1213	90‒98	60.5‒66.5	624	75‒80	205‒214	285	961	122‒127	181‒187
210:00	421	28	886	47‒51	62‒67	1232	92‒100	62‒68	636	77‒82	211‒220	293	979	125‒130	187‒193
217:30	436	29	898	48‒52	63‒68	1251	94‒102	63.5‒69.5	648	79‒84	217‒226	301	997	128‒133	193‒199
225:00	451	30	910	49‒53	64‒69	1270	96‒104	65‒71	660	81‒86	223‒232	309	1015	131‒136	199‒205

Melee creeps

When fully upgraded, regular melee creeps have almost as much health as super melee creeps with 11 upgrades.
When fully upgraded, regular melee creeps have almost as much attack damage as super melee creeps with 6 upgrades.
After 30 upgrades, super melee creeps' gold bounty exceeds that of regular melee creeps with the same amount of upgrades.

Ranged creeps

When fully upgraded, regular ranged creeps have a bit more health than super ranged creeps with 10 upgrades.
When fully upgraded, regular ranged creeps have as much attack damage as super ranged creeps with 13 upgrades.
After 30 upgrades, super ranged creeps have about the same gold bounty as regular ranged creeps with 26 upgrades.

When fully upgraded, super creeps are as exactly as strong as mega creeps, but this does not automatically make them mega creeps. All barracks must be destroyed to get mega creeps. But at this point, the only difference between super and mega creeps is their visual appearance.

Bounties

When a lane creep gets denied by one of its allies, it grants 40% of its experience value to enemies, and 20% of the creep's gold bounty to the denying player. Enemies may only get full experience when the creep dies to them, or when a neutral creep kills it. Gold bounties are only granted to the enemy player who gets the last hit on the creep.

Behavior

Lane creeps have a set path from which they do not deviate normally. The creeps walk down the lane aggressively, means they attack any enemy which comes within their acquisition range, similar to how player-controlled units act when giving them an attack-ground order. If a lane creep gets aggroed and the aggroing unit stays within the creep's acquisition range, it chases the aggroing unit until it is dead, or until it lost track of it, or until another enemy gets within range and draws the aggro off. If the aggroing enemy entered the fog of war, the lane creep walks up to the last spot it saw the enemy. If it then does not see the enemy again, it returns to the point at which it left the lane it belongs to. If the aggroing unit is outside of the lane creep's acquisition range, it chases the enemy for up to 2.3 seconds before returning to its lane. A creep which no longer is aggroed does not join other lanes even if they are closer. It returns to its own lane, even if it is the furthest away.

Drawing aggro

Aggroed lane creeps follow regular auto-attack rules, meaning they prioritize the closest enemies. So if a unit draws aggro and another unit is closer to them, the closer unit gets attacked, and not the unit which actually aggroed them. If multiple heroes are about equally close, the one which attacks them get prioritized, while the one which does not attack, or attacks an enemy from the opposing faction has second priority, and the one who attacks its own allies has least priority. For the creeps, it does not matter whether the attack actually happens or not, and it also does not matter how far away the target of the attack order is. The attack order alone is enough to aggro or de-aggro them, as long as the creeps are within acquisition range of the aggroing hero. This means issuing an attack command on allied heroes de-aggroes them, while issuing an attack command on enemy heroes aggroes them. However, this behavior has a cooldown of 3 seconds, means they can only be aggroed and de-aggroed this way every 3 seconds. Multiple non-hero units within about equal range have all the same priority, regardless of what they do. The creeps ignore units which attack them from further away, despite them being a bigger threat. They always prioritize closer units. Siege creeps always have a lower priority than heroes and other units, regardless of what they do. Buildings have a lower priority than siege creeps and wards have a lower priority than buildings, also regardless of what they do. If a lane creep attacks one of those 3 unit types, and another creep or hero gets within attack range, the lane creep switches to attack that enemy. Only enemy units within the lane creep's acquisition range is considered by this aggro system, which is 500 range for melee creeps, 600 range for ranged creeps and 800 range for siege creeps. It is possible to attack enemies without drawing aggro of nearby enemy lane creeps. This is doable by manually casting active attack modifier on enemies, referred to as orb walking, or by attacking the enemy while not within the creeps' acquisition range.

Siege creeps follow the same aggro system, except that buildings are their highest priority, and enemy siege creeps their second highest. This means if an enemy building is within the siege creep's attack range, the creep immediately switches away from its current target and starts attacking the building. The siege creep prioritizes attacking buildings over other buildings, so a tower is more likely to get attacked than, for example, an effigy building if both are within range.

The creeps of the very first creep wave spawn on both side lanes cannot be aggroed by players, until they meet the opposing creep wave. The creeps of the first wave in the mid lane can be aggroed normally.

Disarming

If a lane creep is disarmed, it stops moving and stands still until the disarm expires. It completely ignores everything in this state. This prevents the creep from walking past towers if disarmed while at a tower.

Death

Upon dying to a player-controlled unit, lane creeps are knocked up to 200 range away from the damage source, in an arc with up to 50 range upwards. The distance and height get higher, based on the damage instance that killed them (capped at 500), but are still randomised, so that equal damage instances do not result in always the same distances. The knockback duration ranges between 0.4 and 0.6 seconds. Damage below 100 does not cause a knockback. The knockback itself is mainly for aesthetic purposes, but might also affect some abilities. For example, Thunder Strike and Leech Seed follow the corpse of the unit with their effects.

Despite what the death animation of siege creep suggests, siege creeps are knocked back as well. This is because their death animation stays where the unit initially died, and does not follow the unit's actual location.

The knockback does not happen when the creeps are killed by units not controlled by any player.

Wave stats

The table only considers regular lane creeps, ignoring super creeps and mega creeps. Expand the list by clicking on the expand button at the very right.

Time	Wave	Melee	Ranged	Siege	Total creeps	Average gold	Average gold accumulated	Passive gold accumulated	Experience	Total experience accumulated
0:00	1	3	1	0	4	~157	~157	0	240	240
0:30	2	3	1	0	8	~157	~314	45	240	480
1:00	3	3	1	0	12	~157	~471	91	240	720
1:30	4	3	1	0	16	~157	~628	136	240	960
2:00	5	3	1	0	20	~157	~785	182	240	1200
2:30	6	3	1	0	24	~157	~942	227	240	1440
3:00	7	3	1	0	28	~157	~1099	273	240	1680
3:30	8	3	1	0	32	~157	~1256	318	240	1920
4:00	9	3	1	0	36	~157	~1413	364	240	2160
4:30	10	3	1	0	40	~157	~1570	409	240	2400
5:00	11	3	1	1	45	~222.5	~1792.5	455	328	2728
5:30	12	3	1	0	49	~157	~1949.5	500	240	2968
6:00	13	3	1	0	53	~157	~2106.5	546	240	3208
6:30	14	3	1	0	57	~157	~2263.5	591	240	3448
7:00	15	3	1	0	61	~157	~2420.5	637	240	3688
7:30	16	3	1	0	65	~157	~2577.5	682	240	3928
8:00	17	3	1	0	69	~157	~2734.5	728	240	4168
8:30	18	3	1	0	73	~157	~2891.5	773	240	4408
9:00	19	3	1	0	77	~157	~3048.5	819	240	4648
9:30	20	3	1	0	81	~157	~3205.5	864	240	4888
10:00	21	3	1	1	86	~222.5	~3428	910	328	5216
10:30	22	3	1	0	90	~157	~3585	955	240	5456
11:00	23	3	1	0	94	~157	~3742	1001	240	5696
11:30	24	3	1	0	98	~157	~3899	1046	240	5936
12:00	25	3	1	0	102	~157	~4056	1092	240	6176
12:30	26	3	1	0	106	~157	~4213	1137	240	6416
13:00	27	3	1	0	110	~157	~4370	1183	240	6656
13:30	28	3	1	0	114	~157	~4527	1228	240	6896
14:00	29	3	1	0	118	~157	~4684	1274	240	7136
14:30	30	3	1	0	122	~157	~4841	1319	240	7376
15:00	31	4	1	1	128	~259	~5100	1365	385	7761
15:30	32	4	1	0	133	~193.5	~5293.5	1410	297	8058
16:00	33	4	1	0	138	~193.5	~5487	1456	297	8355
16:30	34	4	1	0	143	~193.5	~5680.5	1501	297	8652
17:00	35	4	1	0	148	~193.5	~5874	1547	297	8949
17:30	36	4	1	0	153	~193.5	~6067.5	1592	297	9246
18:00	37	4	1	0	158	~193.5	~6261	1638	297	9543
18:30	38	4	1	0	163	~193.5	~6454.5	1683	297	9840
19:00	39	4	1	0	168	~193.5	~6648	1729	297	10137
19:30	40	4	1	0	173	~193.5	~6841.5	1774	297	10434
20:00	41	4	1	1	179	~259	~7100.5	1820	385	10819
20:30	42	4	1	0	184	~193.5	~7294	1865	297	11116
21:00	43	4	1	0	189	~193.5	~7487.5	1911	297	11413
21:30	44	4	1	0	194	~193.5	~7681	1956	297	11710
22:00	45	4	1	0	199	~193.5	~7874.5	2002	297	12007
22:30	46	4	1	0	204	~193.5	~8068	2047	297	12304
23:00	47	4	1	0	209	~193.5	~8261.5	2093	297	12601
23:30	48	4	1	0	214	~193.5	~8455	2138	297	12898
24:00	49	4	1	0	219	~193.5	~8648.5	2184	297	13195
24:30	50	4	1	0	224	~193.5	~8842	2229	297	13492
25:00	51	4	1	1	230	~259	~9101	2275	385	13877
25:30	52	4	1	0	235	~193.5	~9294.5	2320	297	14174
26:00	53	4	1	0	240	~193.5	~9488	2366	297	14471
26:30	54	4	1	0	245	~193.5	~9681.5	2411	297	14768
27:00	55	4	1	0	250	~193.5	~9875	2457	297	15065
27:30	56	4	1	0	255	~193.5	~10068.5	2502	297	15362
28:00	57	4	1	0	260	~193.5	~10262	2548	297	15659
28:30	58	4	1	0	265	~193.5	~10455.5	2593	297	15956
29:00	59	4	1	0	270	~193.5	~10649	2639	297	16253
29:30	60	4	1	0	275	~193.5	~10842.5	2684	297	16550
30:00	61	5	1	2	283	~361	~11203.5	2730	530	17080
30:30	62	5	1	0	289	~230	~11433.5	2775	354	17434
31:00	63	5	1	0	295	~230	~11663.5	2821	354	17788
31:30	64	5	1	0	301	~230	~11893.5	2866	354	18142
32:00	65	5	1	0	307	~230	~12123.5	2912	354	18496
32:30	66	5	1	0	313	~230	~12353.5	2957	354	18850
33:00	67	5	1	0	319	~230	~12583.5	3003	354	19204
33:30	68	5	1	0	325	~230	~12813.5	3048	354	19558
34:00	69	5	1	0	331	~230	~13043.5	3094	354	19912
34:30	70	5	1	0	337	~230	~13273.5	3139	354	20266
35:00	71	5	1	2	345	~361	~13634.5	3185	530	20796
35:30	72	5	1	0	351	~230	~13864.5	3230	354	21150
36:00	73	5	1	0	357	~230	~14094.5	3276	354	21504
36:30	74	5	1	0	363	~230	~14324.5	3321	354	21858
37:00	75	5	1	0	369	~230	~14554.5	3367	354	22212
37:30	76	5	1	0	375	~230	~14784.5	3412	354	22566
38:00	77	5	1	0	381	~230	~15014.5	3458	354	22920
38:30	78	5	1	0	387	~230	~15244.5	3503	354	23274
39:00	79	5	1	0	393	~230	~15474.5	3549	354	23628
39:30	80	5	1	0	399	~230	~15704.5	3594	354	23982
40:00	81	5	2	2	408	~408.5	~16113	3640	599	24581
40:30	82	5	2	0	415	~277.5	~16390.5	3685	423	25004
41:00	83	5	2	0	422	~277.5	~16668	3731	423	25427
41:30	84	5	2	0	429	~277.5	~16945.5	3776	423	25850
42:00	85	5	2	0	436	~277.5	~17223	3822	423	26273
42:30	86	5	2	0	443	~277.5	~17500.5	3867	423	26696
43:00	87	5	2	0	450	~277.5	~17778	3913	423	27119
43:30	88	5	2	0	457	~277.5	~18055.5	3958	423	27542
44:00	89	5	2	0	464	~277.5	~18333	4004	423	27965
44:30	90	5	2	0	471	~277.5	~18610.5	4049	423	28388
45:00	91	6	2	2	481	~445	~19055.5	4095	656	29044
45:30	92	6	2	0	489	~314	~19369.5	4140	480	29524
46:00	93	6	2	0	497	~314	~19683.5	4186	480	30004
46:30	94	6	2	0	505	~314	~19997.5	4231	480	30484
47:00	95	6	2	0	513	~314	~20311.5	4277	480	30964
47:30	96	6	2	0	521	~314	~20625.5	4322	480	31444
48:00	97	6	2	0	529	~314	~20939.5	4368	480	31924
48:30	98	6	2	0	537	~314	~21253.5	4413	480	32404
49:00	99	6	2	0	545	~314	~21567.5	4459	480	32884
49:30	100	6	2	0	553	~314	~21881.5	4504	480	33364
50:00	101	6	2	2	563	~445	~22326.5	4550	656	34020
50:30	102	6	2	0	571	~314	~22640.5	4595	480	34500
51:00	103	6	2	0	579	~314	~22954.5	4641	480	34980
51:30	104	6	2	0	587	~314	~23268.5	4686	480	35460
52:00	105	6	2	0	595	~314	~23582.5	4732	480	35940
52:30	106	6	2	0	603	~314	~23896.5	4777	480	36420
53:00	107	6	2	0	611	~314	~24210.5	4823	480	36900
53:30	108	6	2	0	619	~314	~24524.5	4868	480	37380
54:00	109	6	2	0	627	~314	~24838.5	4914	480	37860
54:30	110	6	2	0	635	~314	~25152.5	4959	480	38340
55:00	111	6	2	2	645	~445	~25597.5	5005	656	38996
55:30	112	6	2	0	653	~314	~25911.5	5050	480	39476
56:00	113	6	2	0	661	~314	~26225.5	5096	480	39956
56:30	114	6	2	0	669	~314	~26539.5	5141	480	40436
57:00	115	6	2	0	677	~314	~26853.5	5187	480	40916
57:30	116	6	2	0	685	~314	~27167.5	5232	480	41396
58:00	117	6	2	0	693	~314	~27481.5	5278	480	41876
58:30	118	6	2	0	701	~314	~27795.5	5323	480	42356
59:00	119	6	2	0	709	~314	~28109.5	5369	480	42836
59:30	120	6	2	0	717	~314	~28423.5	5414	480	43316
60:00	121	6	2	2	727	~445	~28868.5	5460	656	43972

Version history

Version

Description

7.22

Ranged creeps' experience bounty now increases by 8 on every upgrade cycle. [?]
Increased siege creep +1 quantity upgrade timing from 30:00 to 35:00.
Increased siege creep base attack time from 2.7 to 3.
Siege creeps can no longer be taken over with Holy Persuasion, Enchant, and Dominate.
Increased deny experience for the denied team from 35% to 40%.

7.21c

Increased deny experience for the denied team from 30% to 35%.

7.21b

Increased deny experience for the denied team from 25% to 30%.

7.21

Reduced melee creep gold bounty from 35-41 to 32-38.
Increased ranged creep gold bounty upgrade per cycle from 3 to 6.

7.20

Top and bot lane creeps no longer walk faster/slower for the first 7 and half minute of the game. [?]
The denying team no longer gets 25% of the denied creep's experience. [?]
The denying player now gets 20% of the denied creep's gold bounty.

7.15

Reduced melee creep gold bounty from 37-43 to 35-41.
Reduced super and mega melee creep gold bounties from 19-27 to 18-26.
Reduced ranged creep gold bounty from 48-60 to 48-58.
Reduced super and mega ranged creep gold bounties from 21-29 to 21-28.
Increased ranged creep gold bounty upgrade per cycle from 1 to 3.
Ranged creeps now always spawn behind melee creeps.

7.14

Lane creeps of the very first creep wave spawn in the side lanes can no longer be aggroed by player units, until meeting the opposing side's creeps. [?]

7.13

Reduced ranged creep gold bounty from 54-60 to 48-60.

7.10

Reduced melee creep gold bounty from 38-44 to 37-43.

7.09

Reduced ranged creep attack acquisition range from 800 to 600.

7.07

The mid lane no longer starts with 4 melee creeps for the first 15 minutes, and starts with 3 again. [?]
Fixed the extra lane creeps spawning a minute too late. [?]
Regular and super creeps can no longer grow stronger than mega creeps. [?]
Creeps now meet closer to each team's respective safelanes.
Lane creeps no longer count as denied when dying to neutral creeps. [?]
Reduced deny experience for the denied team from 70% to 25%. [?]
Reduced deny experience for the denying team from 30% to 25% [?]
Melee creeps
- Increased base gold bounty from 34-38 to 38-44.
- Increased experience bounty from 40 to 57.
Increased Super and Mega melee creeps base gold bounty from 16-24 to 19-27.
Ranged creeps
- Increased base gold bounty from 42-48 to 54-60.
- Reduced experience bounty from 90 to 69.
Super and Mega ranged creeps
- Increased base gold bounty from 18-26 to 21-29.
- Reduced experience bounty from 25 to 22.
Reduced siege creep +1 quantity upgrade timing from 40:00 to 30:00.
Increased siege creep health from 825 to 875.

7.06

Lane creeps now give 70% experience when killed by neutral creeps or when denied by allies, instead of 50%.
Denying lane creeps now grants the denying team 30% of the experience bounty.
The mid lane now starts with 4 melee creeps for the first 15 minutes, instead of 3. [?]
Creeps now meet a bit closer to the offlane towers again.
Reduced aggro duration from 2.5 to 2.3.
Increased aggro cooldown from 2.5 to 3.
Reduced all lane creeps' vision range from 850/800 to 750.
Reduced ranged and siege creep +1 quantity upgrade timing from 45:00 to 40:00.
Melee creeps
- Reduced experience bounty from 45 to 40.
- Reduced gold bounty upgrade per cycle from 3 to 1.
Siege creeps
- Increased spawn interval from every 7th wave to every 10th wave.
- Increased health from 550 to 825.
Fixed various pathing issues with the bottom Dire creeps between Tier 1 and Tier 2

7.03

Melee creeps
- Reduced base gold bounty from 36-40 to 34-38. [?]
- Increased gold bounty upgrade per cycle from 2 to 3.
Reduced ranged creeps gold bounty upgrade per cycle from 2 to 1.

7.00

Lane creeps now give 50% experience when killed by neutral creeps, instead of 35%. [?]

6.88c

Lane creeps now give 35% experience when killed by neutral creeps, instead of 20%. [?]

6.88b

Lane creeps now give 20% experience when killed by neutral creeps, instead of 0%. [?]

6.87

7:30 upgrade cycle:
- Increased health upgrade from 10 to 12.
- Increased gold bounty upgrade from 1 to 2.
All lane creeps:
- Increased aggro duration from 2 to 2.5.
- Increased aggro cooldown from 2 to 2.5.
Melee creep:
- Reduced gold bounty from 38-48 to 36-40.
- Reduced experience bounty from 62 to 45.
Increased ranged creep experience bounty from 41 to 90.

6.86

Lane creep bounty now increases by 1 gold per normal upgrade cycle.
Top lane creeps now meet slightly closer to Dire's tower and bottom lane creeps meet closer to Radiant's tower.

6.85

Siege Creeps:
- Now behave like other lane creeps for spell targeting rules. [?]
- Now have 80% Magic Resistance.

6.84

Reduced melee creep +1 quantity upgrade timings from 17:30/34:00/50:30 to 15:00/30:00/45:00. [?]
Reduced ranged and siege creep +1 quantity upgrade timing from 45:30 to 45:00.
Reduced ranged creep gold bounty from 43-53 to 42-48.
Top lane creeps now meet slightly closer to Dire's tier 1 tower.

6.82

Bottom and top lane creeps now meet slightly closer to Dire's tier 1 towers.

6.79

Bottom lane creeps now meet closer to Dire's tower and top lane creeps closer to Radiant's tower.

6.78

Increased siege creep health from 500 to 550 [?]
Fixed Radiant's top siege creeps upgrading when Dire's bottom ranged barrack gets destroyed, instead of top ranged barracks.

6.74

Increased ranged creep mana pool from 300 to 500.

6.73

Increased Dire melee creep attack point from 0.44 to 0.467. [?]
Increased Radiant siege creep attack point from 0.1 to 0.7. [?]

6.72

Fixed the creep quantity upgrade timer starting to count upon entering the game mode (and therefore counting the picking phase), instead of upon the game timer reaching 0:00.

6.70

Reduced day vision of all lane creeps from 1100 to 850.

6.68

Reduced day vision of all lane creeps from 1400 to 1100.

6.67

Fixed some occurances where Dire creeps on the bottom lane would skip the first waypoint.

6.66

Added a new test command to toggle creeps spawn off and on -spawnoff/-spawnon (-disablecreepspawn/-enablecreepspawn in Dota 2).

6.65

Super and mega melee creep:
- Reduced gold bounty from 21-41 to 18-26.
- Reduced experience bounty from 41 to 25.
Reduced super and mega ranged creeps gold bounty from 21-41 to 18-26.

6.60

Fixed the creep upgrade timer starting to count upon entering the game mode (and therefore counting the picking phase), instead of upon the game timer reaching 0:00.

6.57

Fixed some issues with the creep pathing on the bottom Radiant wave.

6.55

Rewrote game timer:
- All game modes now have a certain amount of time reserved for the picking/preparation phase, instead of the pick phase counting towards game time.
- The game timer now counts down towards 0. Lane creeps and runes spawn when the timer reaches 0 (00:30 for neutral creeps), instead of being different for each game mode.
- First wave of each game mode spawned at:
  Default: 1:30
  
  All Pick: 2:00
  
  All Random: 1:30
  
  League Mode: 3:00
  
  Random Draft: 3:00
  
  Extended League: 3:00
  
  Single Draft: 1:30
  
  Mirror Match: 1:30
  
  Team Random: 1:30
- Example, All Pick mode
  Previously: Game timer starts counting immediately. First creep wave spawns when the timer reaches 2:00, leaving the players 2 minutes to pick and organise.
  
  New: Initially, After game mode is chosen (-ap in this case), timer starts counting down from 2:00 to 0. This is the picking phase. Creeps spawn when the timer reaches 0:00.
Rescaled melee creep gold bounty from 33-53 to 38-48.
Increased ranged creep gold bounty from 33-53 to 43-53.
Increased siege creep gold bounty from 56-80 to 66-80.

6.53

Observers and replays now see a symbol ($) above a dying creep when a player gets gold for killing a unit.

6.52b

Siege creeps now get +16 attack damage when the respective lane's range barracks is destroyed.

6.50

Improved Radiant creep pathing at the top lane.

6.48b

Fixed Dire melee creeps being able to attack trees.

6.47

Increased ranged creep mana pool from 200 to 300.
Increased Dire ranged creep mana regeneration from 0.65 to 0.75. [?]

6.44

Melee creeps quantity no longer increases at 62:30. [?]

6.43

Reduced melee creep collision size from 20 to 16.
Reduced ranged creep collision size from 16 to 8.
Increased Radiant ranged creep health regeneration from 0.4 to 2. [?]

6.42

Added a sound for when lane creeps spawn for the first time.
Changed melee creep +1 quantity upgrade timings from 20:00/40:00/60:00 to 17:00/33:30/50:00/62:30 [?].
Reduced ranged creep +1 quantity upgrade timing from 60:00 to 45:00 [?].
Siege creep quantity is now also upgraded by +1 at 45:00.
Siege creeps are now properly counted to creep stats.

6.40

Reduced siege creep armor from 2 to 0.

6.39

Fixed creep blocking issues on Radiant's top lane.
Dire super and mega creeps now have a bigger model, similar to Radiant's creeps.
Siege creeps:
- Now prioritize attacking buildings over other units, instead of following the same priorities as other lane creeps.
- Now spawn every 7th wave, instead of 6th.

6.38

Added a new creep to the lane creep waves:

Siege Creep:

Spawns on each lane on every 6th wave. Does not get upgraded over time like other lane creeps. No super or mega version.

Has siege as attack damage type and structure as armor type.

Health: 500

Health regeneration: 0

Armor: 2

Attack damage: 35-46

Base attack time: 2.7

Attack range: 690

Movement speed: 325

Bounties: 66-80 gold, 88 experience

6.34

Ranged creeps now start with full mana, instead of 75/200.

6.28

Added -cs chat command (creep stats), which displays the amount of last hits made.

6.17

Improved creep pathing at the bottom lane.
Fixed Dire's mid ranged creep being in front of the melee creeps, instead of behind like in other lanes.

6.14

Fixed some lags caused by creeps spawning.

6.10

Fixed memory leak issues with the creep spawn system.

6.07

Fixed Radiant and Dire creeps not having the same attack damage values.
Regular creeps:
- Rescaled Radiant's melee creep attack damage from 17-25 to 19-23.
- Dire melee creep remains at 19-23.
- Increased Radiant ranged creep attack damage from 20-25 to 21-26.
- Increased Dire ranged creep attack damage from 21-25 to 21-26.
Super creeps:
- Radiant melee super creep remains at 36-44.
- Rescaled Dire melee super creep attack damage from 38-42 to 36-44.
- Increased Radiant ranged super creep attack damage from 40-45 to 41-46.
- Increased Dire ranged super creep attack damage from 41-45 to 41-46.
Mega creeps:
- Radiant melee mega creep remains at 96-104.
- Rescaled Dire melee mega creep attack damage from 98-102 to 96-104.
- Increased Radiant ranged mega creep attack damage from 130-135 to 131-136.
- Increased Dire ranged mega creep attack damage from 131-135 to 131-136.

6.06

Bottom lane creeps now meet a bit higher up in the lane, a bit further away from Radiant's tower.
Melee mega creeps:
- Increased health from 1175/1080 to 1270.
- Increased attack damage from 86-94/78-82 to 96-104/98-102.
Ranged mega creeps:
- Increased health from 925 to 1015.
- Increased attack damage from 115-120/116-120 to 130-135/131-135.

6.03b

Added global message for when a team receives mega creeps.

6.03

Destroying all enemy barracks now spawns mega creeps again.

6.02

Fixed invulnerable creep bug.

6.01

Destroying towers no longer grants damage/health to lane creeps. [?]

Patch history

Patch

Description

15 Feb 2018

Lane creeps now have a minor knockback based on the amount of hero damage in the killing blow.
- Creeps are knocked up to 200 range back and 100 range up, traveling in a small arc. The knockback lasts between 0.4 and 0.6 seconds.
- The distance and height are randomised, but the amount of damage dealt is factored in as well. Ignores damage below 100, and is capped at 500.

13 Sep 2016

Fixed a bug where lane and neutral creeps would spawn slightly later than expected in longer matches.

01 Mar 2012

Updated Radiant siege creep's model.

Gallery

Beta model of Radiant's siege creep