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Legion Commander 26 + 2.9 18 + 1.7 20 + 2.2
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 692 1572 2474 2848 +0 +2.6 +6.66 +10.76 +12.41 Mana 75 315 675 1083 1239 +0.01 +1.01 +2.55 +4.25 +4.9 Armor 0 3 6.97 11.8 13.55 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 35 39 61 65 101 105 142 146 159 163 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.69/s 0.83/s 1/s 1.07/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.46 + 0.64 Projectile Speed Instant Move Speed 320 ( 350) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Tresdin, the Legion Commander, is a melee strength hero fitting the role of carry. A highly mobile and predatory hero, her skillset and gameplay revolves mainly around successfully killing off targets with her ultimate, Duel. Accomplishing this grants Tresdin permanent bonus damage. Though she is extremely skilled in "fair" one-on-one fights, Tresdin suffers when outnumbered and must choose her engagements carefully. A successful midgame sees her roaming the map collecting kills and becoming a very dangerous carry, whilst in lategame she ideally will no longer rely on Duel to win her fights and simply destroy any enemies that come too close to her. Though potentially an extremely powerful hero, she must be played with premeditation and good decision-making to reach her full potential.

Bio

Tresdin, the Legion Commander

▶️ "If they want war, then we shall give it to them!"

Lore:

They came without warning. Within the city walls of Stonehall there came a rumble and a terrible sound, and from blackness unknown came a force of beasts numbering beyond count, wielding flame and foul sorcery, slaying and snatching mothers and sons to dark purpose. Of once-mighty Stonehall's military strength only the Bronze Legion, led by the indomitable Commander Tresdin, was near enough to answer the call of battle. They rode into their city, fighting through bloodstained alleyways and burning markets, cutting their way through the monstrous throng to the source of the sudden invasion: an ethereal rift within the city square, and at its precipice thundered their dreaded champion.

Enwrapped in a corrosive shimmer, the leader of the abyssal horde swung its massive blade, cleaving a legionnaire in two as his flesh began to spoil. Tresdin lifted her blood-stained sword and settled her sights on the beast. It turned, smiling at her through a maze of teeth. Heedless of the battle raging around them, they charged one another.

Deflecting blow after blow, the pair danced their deadly duel as the Bronze Legion met its end around them. Tresdin leapt forward as her foe swung its sword to meet her. The odds turned. The attack smashed into Tresdin suddenly, a brutal thrust from the side, but even as her balance slipped she rallied her strength for another stroke. Blade scraped on blade, beyond the hilt to the gnarled paw below, carving it in two in a fearsome spray of sparks and blood. The vile audience looked on in astonishment as she pressed the attack, driving her blade through her foe's flesh into the stampeding heart within. With a scream that split the clouds above, the beast erupted in a torrent of gore and anguish. The stygian portal wavered, the power sustaining the chasm beyond vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared. The remaining invaders fell quickly to Stonehall steel.

Though victorious, the survivors saw little to celebrate: the city lay in ruins, and survivors were few. Fires continued to spread. Unfurling her banners of war, Tresdin gathered what allies she could. Her anger smoldered as she pledged brutal vengeance upon the forces of the abyss, and damned be any who would dare stand in her way.

Voice:

Merle Dandridge (Responses)

Abilities

Overwhelming Odds

▶️QW

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Turns the enemies' numbers against them, dealing damage and granting you bonus movement speed per unit or per hero. Deals bonus damage to illusions and summoned units as a percent of their current health.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 330

Base Damage: 40/60/80/100

Damage per Creep: 14/16/18/20

Damage per Hero: 30/60/90/120

Current Health as Damage to Summons: 25%

Move Speed Bonus per Creep: 3%

Move Speed Bonus per Hero: 9%

Speed Duration: 7

 15

 100/110/120/130

Modifiers [?]

Overwhelming Odds

Any

The archers of Stonehall are ready at Tresdin's command.

• Summoned unit bonus damage is dealt before the base and bonus damage.

• Summoned units damage is only taken by units which were created by an ability.
  • This includes illusions, but excludes creep-heroes.

• The bonus damage counts creep-heroes and illusions as creeps.

• Ignores couriers, invulnerable and hidden units.

• The initial part of the spell's sound effect plays during the cast animation and is audible to everyone.

• The buff from multiple casts of Overwhelming Odds does not stack but gets refreshed instead.
  • The speed bonus gets updated on each cast based on how many targets were hit.

Press the Attack

▶️WT

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Allies

Removes debuffs and disables from the target friendly unit, and grants bonus attack speed and health regen for a short time.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.93

Cast Range: 700

Health Regen Bonus: 30/40/50/60

Attack Speed Bonus: 65/90/115/140

Duration: 5

 16/15/14/13 ( )

 110

Modifiers [?]

Press The Attack

Any

The rallying horn of the Bronze Legion is able to inspire any heart.

• Applies a strong dispel on the target upon cast.

• Restores health in the form of health regeneration, so it regenerates health in 0.1 second intervals.

• Regenerates a total of health.

Moment of Courage

▶️EE

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

When attacked, Legion Commander has a chance to immediately counterattack with bonus lifesteal.

Proc Chance: 25% ( %)

Lifesteal: 55%/65%/75%/85%

 2.3/1.8/1.3/0.8

Modifiers [?]

Moment Of Courage Lifesteal

Any

Tresdin knows that an enemy's most vulnerable moment often follows their fiercest stroke.

• Only procs when a unit starts an attack against Legion Commander, regardless of distance.
  • This means canceled or missed attacks can proc it as well.

• Can proc on attacks from any unit, regardless of team or unit type (including wards and buildings).

• Upon proccing, Legion Commander receives a buff, which grants her 1000 attack speed and lifesteal.
  • This buff lasts for 1 second, or until she lands an attack, whichever is shorter. Missed attacks do not count.

• If the ability procs while Tresdin is already attacking, she performs an instant attack on the current attack target.
  • This instant attack does not interfere with the ongoing attack and uses no animation.
  • The instant attack can proc any attack modifier or any on-hit effect like a regular attack.
  • This means the instant attack also uses up the 1000 attack speed and lifesteal buff immediately.
  • If Legion Commander is blinded, the instant attack can miss, unless she has True Strike. It can also miss to evasion.

• Cannot lifesteal off of wards, buildings and allied units.

• Moment of Courage uses pseudo-random distribution.

Duel

▶️RD

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemy Heroes / Self

Legion Commander and the target enemy hero are forced to attack each other for a short duration. Neither hero can use items nor abilities. If either hero dies during the duration, the hero winning the Duel gains permanent bonus damage.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 150

Winner Attack Damage Bonus: 10/14/18 ( )

Duel Duration: 4/4.75/5.5 ( 6/7/8)

 50

 75

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Increases Duel duration, makes Legion Commander Spell Immune in Duel, and makes Legion Commander and her opponent only take damage from each other.

Modifiers [?]

Duel Damage Boost

Undispellable

Duel

Undispellable

To face a soldier of Stonehall in single combat is a challenge few can resist.

• Duel ends immediately when the distance between the duelists gets greater than 2000 at any point during it.

• The loser of the duel is the hero that dies while under the buff. There is no victor if both heroes are alive at the end of the duration.

• The dueling units do not have to do the last hit to win the Duel. Allies and enemies may interfere.

• It does not matter how a duelist dies during the Duel, be it to enemies, allies or neutrals, the victor gets the damage in most cases.
  • The victor gets damage if the loser is denied, for example, by Nightmare.
  • When Legion Commander dies to the shatter of Ice Blast, the dueled enemy does not get bonus damage. However, when the Duel target dies to the shatter instead, Legion Commander does get the damage.
  • Meepo and his clones grant Duel damage as long as the dueled unit is the same as the initially killed one. Otherwise no damage is granted.

• Silences and mutes both Legion Commander and the target.

• Duel always has the highest priority over all taunts.
  • Berserker's Call and Winter's Curse both apply a debuff on the duelist which, however, only takes effect as soon as the duel ends.
  • Savage Roar also has no effect on dueling units at all, not applying the debuff on them.

• Casting Force Staff, Hurricane Pike or Geomagnetic Grip on a dueling unit has no effect, wasting the mana and cooldown.

• When a dueling unit is defeated and has Aegis of the Immortal or Reincarnation, the victor still gets the bonus damage.

• When casting Assimilate or Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Supernova on a dueling unit or a dueling unit is affected by Shadow Dance, the duel instantly ends with no victor.

• Can be cast on illusions. However, defeating them grants no bonus damage. But if the illusion is victorious, it gets the bonus damage.
  • The same applies to Tempest Double, with the only difference being that the double can benefit from the bonus damage (for its remaining duration).

• When Aghanim's Scepter upgraded, the dueling heroes gain 100% incoming damage reduction.
  • Legion Commander also gains spell immunity and gets dispelled with a basic dispel.

Talents

Hero Talents
-8s Press the Attack Cooldown	25	+40 Duel Damage Bonus
+10% Moment Proc Chance	20	+7 Armor
+20 Movement Speed	15	+30 Damage
+20% XP Gain	10	+7 Strength

Notes:

• The armor and attack damage are added as bonus armor and bonus attack damage, and therefore do not benefit illusions.

• Grants bonus attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

• The armor talent does not benefit illusions.

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Legion Commander Equipment (expand sets) Sets Arms of the Onyx Crucible Bird of Prey Blazing Empire Commander of the Dragon Guard Set Compendium Arms of the Onyx Crucible Crimsonwing Slayer Daemonfell Flame Desolate Conquest Equine Emissary Errant Soldier Flight of the Valkyrie Honored Servant of the Empire Immortals Pride Judge of the Battlefield Lineage Desolate Conquest Radiant Conqueror Sharpstar Armor Siege of the Arctic Hall Stonehall Royal Guard Set The Gifts of Zhuzhou Weapon Blades of Voth Domosh Duelist's Greatsword Legionnaire Ray Sword Vanguard Fireblade Head Baneful Devotion Equine Battlehelm Banners Banners of Battle Fortune Legacy of the Fallen Legion Taunt Taunt: Fearless Cadence

Trivia

• The transition of content from DotA to Dota 2 involved a change in gender for Legion Commander, despite the character and ability names remaining unchanged. She still makes references to her old characterization in a collection of lines when engaging certain heroes:
  • When engaging heroes with mounts, she will often express her jealousy or interest for them (▶️ "I like your mount."). Her hero model in DotA rode a mount.
  • She also comments on facial hair when dueling or killing certain heroes (▶️ "Nice mustache."). Her DotA hero model had a mustache.
  • In DotA, her counterpart often expressed his distrust for anything which was not human. This is heavily expanded in Dota 2, where Legion Commander will instead express her distrust for numerous roles or states of being, instead of a single racial entity, in a bulk of her rival hero taunts.
• Tresdin's response, ▶️ "War. War always changes." is a reference to the signature Fallout quote, "War. War never changes."
• Her response, ▶️ "You won't win the war by dying for your Ancient. You'll win by making the other dumb, unfed bastard die for theirs!" is a reference to the popular George S. Patton quote: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
• The horn sound effect when deploying ▶️ Press the Attack utilizes the same ▶️ sound the Concheror item uses in Team Fortress 2, another title from Valve.
• Her voice actress, Merle Dandridge, is also well known for providing the voice of Alyx Vance, a character in the game Half Life 2, another title by Valve.
• When dueling Zeus, There is a chance of Legion Commander yelling Thunderdome! ▶️ which a reference to the Thunderdome of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome!
• When dueling Ogre Magi, Legion Commander has only 1% to say "Multi-ogre Battle Arena!". This is a reference to the game genre Dota 2 is, MOBA - Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.
• In The Lab, a VR game by Valve, there are some Bendie soldiers who wield Legion Commander's sword in the minigame Longshot, along with other Dota 2 weapons like Axe's war axe, Huskar's spear and Stout Shield.

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