Morphling

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Morphling 19 + 2.3 24 + 3.7 17 + 1.1
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 538 1242 2012 2298 +0 +1.9 +5.12 +8.62 +9.97 Mana 75 279 459 735 819 +0.01 +0.86 +1.63 +2.78 +3.16 Armor -2 2 10.63 18.8 22.22 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 9 18 33 42 84 93 133 142 154 163 Attack Rate 0.67/s 0.83/s 1.17/s 1.5/s 1.64/s Attack Range 350 (800) Attack Speed 100 (1.5s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5 + 0.5 Projectile Speed Move Speed 285 ( 315) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Morphling is a ranged agility hero that has many flexible abilities, item builds and is leveled as a very strong hard carry. He relies strongly on his attributes, and is an effective ganker. Unlike other agility carries that rely on physical attacks, he relies on his powerful abilities to initiate and shift into a state from which he can make a kill. Waveform lets him surge directly forward to a location, damaging enemies on his path, working both as a nuke or an escape. Adaptive Strike is an interesting scaling ability that blasts enemies with magical water while also stunning, knocking back, and dealing damage. Its power is based on either Agility or Strength. Morph allows him to edit his physical being, switching it from Agility or Strength, transforming him into a strong damage dealer or a tank. His ultimate, Replicate, creates a copy of either an ally or an enemy. At will, he can take on the place of that Replicate and instantly surprise enemies.

Bio

Morphling

▶️ "You only miss the water when the well runs dry."

Lore:

For dark eons the comet circled. Held in thrall to a distant sun, bound by gravity’s inexorable pull, the massive ball of ice careened through the blackness between worlds, made strange by its dark journey. On the eve of the ancient war of the Vloy, it punched down through the sky and lit a glowing trail across the night, a sign both armies took for an omen. The frozen ball melted in a flash of boiling heat, as below two forces enjoined in battle across the border of a narrow river. Thus freed from its icy stasis, the Morphling was born into conflict, an elemental power at one with the tides of the ocean, capricious and unconstrained. He entered the fight, instinctively taking the form of the first general who dared set foot across the water, and then struck him dead. As the motley warriors clashed, he shifted from form to form throughout the battle, instantly absorbing the ways of these strange creatures--now a footsoldier, now an archer, now the cavalryman--until, by the time the last soldier fell, Morphling had played every part. The battle's end was his beginning.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities

Waveform

▶️QW

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Morphling dissolves into liquid and surges forward, damaging enemy units in his path. Morphling is invulnerable during Waveform.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0

Cast Range: 1000 ( )

Max Travel Distance: 1000 ( )

Damage Radius: 200

Damage: 100/175/250/325

 11 ( )

 140/155/160/165

Modifiers [?]

Waveform

Undispellable

A torrential flood takes enemies by force.

• Surges with a speed of 1250 and disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• Morphling is invulnerable, and his model cannot be selected with the mouse during Waveform.
  • However, Morphling can be selected by clicking the hero icon with the mouse.

• Can hit units up to ( ) distance away (travel distance + radius).

• Morphling can turn, attack, cast abilities and use items during Waveform.

• Casting Morph Replicate or using Blink Dagger during Waveform cancels it.

• Does not travel the full distance, when targeting closer than the max distance.

Adaptive Strike

▶️WE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Launches a surge of water toward an enemy unit, stunning the target while dealing base damage plus additional damage based on Morphling's Agility times a multiplier. If Morphling's Agility is 50% higher than Strength, the maximum damage and the minimum stun is dealt. If his Strength is 50% higher than his Agility, the maximum stun and minimum damage are dealt.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0.67

Cast Range: 600/700/800/900

Base Damage: 100

Min Bonus Damage Agility Multiplier: 0.25

Max Bonus Damage Agility Multiplier: 0.5/1/1.5/2

Min Stun Duration: 0.25

Max Stun Duration: 1.25/2.25/3.25/4.25

 10 ( )

 80

Modifiers [?]

Adaptive Strike

Strong

Disable Aggro

Unknown

The Morphling calls upon his elements to crush his opponents with waves.

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1150 and can be disjointed.

• The multiplier and stun values are not fixed. They adapt linearly in smooth intervals depending on the difference between Morphling's agility and strength.

• The values change with each percent difference between agility and strength, even when it is just a minimal change.

• The multiplier and stun values also count bonus attributes, not only base attributes.

• When the current agility is 50% higher than the strength, the damage multiplier stops increasing and the stun duration stops decreasing.

• When the current strength is 50% higher than the agility, the damage multiplier stops decreasing and the stun duration stops increasing.

• The knock back uses the same rules as the stun, it stops decreasing when agility is 50% higher than strength, and stops increasing when strength is 50% higher.

• Knock back distance ranges from 100 to 300 units, knock back speed is 1000.

• Checks Morphling's stats upon projectile impact.

• Targeted neutral creeps do not draw aggro from lane creeps and towers and are ignored by auto-attacks and attack-move orders for 6 seconds.

The custom HUD element for Morph, showing the current agility-strength ratio.

{{#subobject:Morph | title = Morph | type = hero | image = File:Morph icon.png }}

Morph (Agility Gain)

▶️ED

File:Morph (Agility Gain) icon.png

Ability
Toggle

Affects
Self

Morphling shifts its form, pulling points from Strength and pouring them into Agility. The process is reversible. Additional points in Morph increase the rate of stat change. Passively grants bonus Agility.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Shift Rate: 0.5/0.25/0.125/0.0625

Points per Shift: 1

Bonus Agility: 3/4/5/6

Mana Cost per Second: 30

 0

Modifiers [?]

Morph Agi

Undispellable

Shifting water makes it difficult to discern the nature of Morphling.

• Morph (Agility Gain) and Morph (Strength Gain) are linked abilities; leveling up one automatically levels up the other as well.

• Morph does not interrupt Morphling's channeling spells upon toggling.

• Morph cannot be shift-queued, and unlike any other toggle spell in the game, can be toggled during the cast time of other spells.

• Converts attribute points per second, resulting in the following changes per second:
  • Agility: Morphling gains/loses armor, attack speed and attack damage.
  • Strength: Morphling gains/loses maximum health and health regeneration
  • Gaining or losing strength through Morph increases/reduces current health by {{#show:Attributes|?bonus health#}} per point as well, instead of only maximum health.
  • This means he effectively gets healed when morphing strength, or his health drained when morphing agility. The health loss is not lethal.
  • Drains mana on every shift, resulting in {{#show:#Morph (Agility Gain)|?value4#}} mana per second.

• Morph continues to convert attributes even if Morphling is disabled.
  • Can be toggled on and off while stunned, cycloned, slept, taunted, hidden, or during Forced Movement.
  • Cannot be toggled on or off while silenced, hexed or prevented from acting.
  • Toggling one Morph ability on automatically toggles the other off.
  • If Morph cannot convert anymore due to lack of mana or attribute points, it stays toggled, but the process is paused until it can continue.

• Can only convert Morphling's base agility and strength. Bonus attributes cannot be converted.
  • The passively added strength and agility are not added to the base attributes, and can therefore not be converted either.

• Morphed attributes are permanent and not reverted on death.

• The passive agility effectively increases Morphling's armor by and attack speed as well as attack damage by {{#show:#Morph (Agility Gain)|?value3#}}.

• The passive strength effectively increases Morphling's health by and health regeneration by .

Morph (Strength Gain)

▶️DF

File:Morph (Strength Gain) icon.png

Ability
Toggle

Affects
Self

Morphling shifts its form, pulling points from Agility and pouring them into Strength. The process is reversible. Additional points in Morph increase the rate of stat change. Passively grants bonus Strength.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Shift Rate: 0.5/0.25/0.125/0.0625

Points per Shift: 1

Bonus Strength: 3/4/5/6

Mana Cost per Second: 30

 0

Modifiers [?]

Morph Str

Undispellable

Shifting water makes it difficult to discern the nature of Morphling.

• Same notes as for apply.

Replicate

▶️RR

Ability
Target Unit

Morphling replicates any hero, friend or foe, dealing {{#show:#Replicate|?value2#}} of the original Hero's outgoing damage while taking {{#show:#Replicate|?value3#}} of any incoming damage. At any time, Morphling can instantly take the position of the Replicate for {{#show:#Morph Replicate|?mana cost#}} mana. If Morphling dies, the Replicate will expire.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0.33

Cast Range: 700/1100/1500

Illusion Damage Dealt: 80% ( %)

Illusion Damage Taken: 100%

Illusion Duration: 30/45/60

 80 ( )

 25

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Grants the Hybrid ability.

Modifiers [?]

Replicate Timer

Undispellable

Staring into Morphling produces a reflection that mimics the beholder.

• Replicate cannot be cast on the caster themselves or any illusions under their control.
  • However, any illusion under allied or enemy control can be targeted, including illusions of Morphling under their control.

• When the illusion is created, this ability is temporarily replaced by Morph Replicate until the illusion disappears.

• Both, the illusion and Morphling have a timer above them, showing how many seconds are left for the illusion to expire. This timer is only visible to Morphling.

• When replicating an ally, the illusion carries the ally's name, instead of Morphling's, so enemies cannot tell if it is just a replicate, or the real hero.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the target 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.

• Faceless Void replicates are able to walk inside any Chronosphere. A replicate created from an allied Faceless Void is even granted the phased movement and haste inside it.
  • This also goes for replicates from an allied Rubick and his stolen Chronosphere.

• Once purchased, Morphling cannot drop or sell his Aghanim's Scepter.

Morph Replicate

▶️RR

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Morphling switches into his replication, instantly taking its position.

Cast Animation: 0.35+0.23

 0

 150

• Replaces Replicate until the illusion expires or this ability is cast.

• Despite being a sub-spell, Morph Replicate does proc all on-cast effects like a regular spell.

• Disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• The illusion disappears when Morphling uses this ability.

• Can be cast successfully even while the replicate is invulnerable or hidden.

• When the illusion's ownership changes, Morph Replicate still fully works.

Hybrid

▶️FT

Ability
Target Unit

Morphling creates a hybrid replication of a target allied hero, which can cast all of that hero's current, non-ultimate abilities. Enemies are able to see which unit is a Hybrid.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0.43

Cast Range: 600

Illusion Damage Dealt: 50%

Illusion Damage Taken: 100%

Illusion Duration: 20

 60 ( )

 200

• Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

• Can only be cast on allied heroes, including their illusions. Cannot be cast on any illusion of Morphling.

• The Hybrid illusion can use any ability of its source, except for ultimates and abilities granted by Aghanim's Scepter.

• The abilities follow the same rules as Rubick's Spell Steal. The rules can be viewed here.

• It cannot level up any abilities. Their levels are equal to what the original hero had them on as the Hybrid was created.

• The Hybrid can fully use any passive ability of the hero, if they can affect illusions. This includes passive ultimates.

• If a buff gets carried over to illusions upon creation (like most transformation spells), the Hybrid illusion gets it as well. This includes buffs from ultimates.

• If the targeted ally has Aghanim's Scepter, the Hybrid gets its spells upgraded as well.

• The illusion's attributes mirror Morphling's base attributes. They are set upon cast and do not adapt dynamically. Attributes gained from Morphling's items do not affect the illusion.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the target 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.

• The illusion has a timer above it, showing how many seconds are left for the illusion to expire. This timer is only visible to Morphling.

• Unlike most other illusions, illusions created by Hybrid have no bounty.

Talents

Hero Talents
+50% Replicate Damage	25	+400 Waveform Range
+40 Damage	20	+25 Movement Speed
12% Cooldown Reduction	15	+25 Attack Speed
+200 Mana	10	+8 Agility

Notes:

• Upgrading mana increases maximum mana capacity and keeps the current mana percentage.

• The agility bonus cannot be morphed to strength with Morph.

• Cooldown reduction affects abilities and items. Stacks multiplicatively with Octarine Core and additively with Arcane Rune.

• The attack damage is added as bonus attack damage, and therefore does not benefit illusions.

• The mana talent increases the max mana capacity and keeps the current mana percentage.

• Multiple percentage-based cooldown reduction sources do not stack. The highest value takes priority.

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

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Equipment

Morphling Equipment (expand sets) Sets Ancient Armor Set Bindings of Frost Set Birot's Bindings Set Darktrench Stalker Direstone Bindings Set Gift of the Sea Set Luminary of the Dreadful Abyss Set Radiant Crystal Bindings Set Shard of the Lost Star Shards of Polymorphia Set Shards of the Falling Comet Set Splendor of the Protean Emperor Stellar Jade The Roiling Surge Head Crown of Tears Crown of the Comet's Tail Shoulder Shoulders of the Comet's Tail Arms Blade of Tears Taunt Taunt: Sawed-off Watergun

Trivia

• In DotA, Morphling was the only hero without a hero name, being named "Morphling the Morphling".
• The attack response ▶️ "Wave of mutilation!" is a direct reference to a Pixies song of the same name.

Gallery

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  Morphling's original artwork

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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