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Version History

Version
Description
  • Talent Talents:
    • LVL 10
       
      +6% spell damage amplification  +75 Vendetta icon Vendetta damage.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
    • Increased damage reflected from 100% to 125%.
    • Rescaled cooldown from 25/20/15/10 to 26/20/14/8.
  • Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Reduced damage from 300/450/600 to 300/400/500.
    • Increased duration from 40/50/60 to 60 on each level.
  • Reduced Mind Flare icon Mind Flare damage dealt as bonus damage from 30% to 25%.
Old
Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
Destroys the target hero's mana equal to a multiplier of its Intelligence, and deals damage equal to the mana burned.
Cast point: 0.4
Cast range: 600
Intelligence as mana burned: 230%/320%/410%/500%
Mana burned as damage: 100%
Cooldown: 20/15/10/5
Mana cost: 70/80/90/100
New
Mind Flare icon Mind Flare
Deals damages to the enemy equal to a multiplier of its Intelligence. Additionally deals damage equal to a percentage of damage the target received from Nyx in the past 15s.
Cast point: 0.4
Cast range: 800
Intelligence as damage multiplier: 2/3/4/5
Damage received as bonus damage: 30%
Damage timer: 15
Cooldown: 13/10/7/4
Mana cost: 100
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Increased cast range from 700 to 750.
    • Increased max travel distance from 700 to 750.
  • Reduced Vendetta icon Vendetta cooldown from 90/75/60 to 80/70/60.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Increased spike radius from 125 to 140.
    • Reduced mana cost from 105/120/135/150 to 100/110/120/130.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale cooldown from 14 on each level to 17/16/15/14.
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Reduced Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence as mana burned from 350%/400%/450%/500% to 230%/320%/410%/500%.
    • Rescaled cooldown from 28/20/12/4 to 20/15/10/5.
    • Reduced mana cost from 100 on each level to 70/80/90/100.
  • Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
    • U
      Reduced Burrow icon Burrow incoming damage reduction from 50% to 40%.
  • Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
    • Vendetta icon Vendetta
      • Changed
        from reducing the affected target's magic resistance by 20% to amplifying the affected target's incoming spell damage by 17%.
      • This affects all damage types, as long as it is spell damage.
      • The debuff is now applied first before dealing its damage. [?]
  • Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • No longer applies a 4-second Break.
    • Increased cooldown from 90/70/50 to 90/75/60.
  • Rescaled Impale icon Impale mana cost from 95/115/135/155 to 105/120/135/150.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta mana cost from 140/200/260 to 160/220/280.
  • Increased base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence from 18 to 21.
  • Reduced Impale icon Impale cast time from 0.4 to 0.3.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta damage from 250/375/500 to 300/450/600.
  • Added
    Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin:
    • Vendetta icon Vendetta
      • Grants 40% self movement speed bonus and unlocks the max movement speed limit.
      • The attack out of Vendetta now applies a 4-second 20% magic resistance reduction on the affected target.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale damage from 80/140/200/260 to 100/160/220/280.
  • Reduced Impale icon Impale stun duration from 1.6/2/2.4/2.8 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.
  • Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Changed
      damage type from Physical to Pure.
    • Reduced damage from 250/400/550 to 250/375/500.
  • Talent Talents:
    • LVL 10
       
      +90 Gold Gold per minute  +0.3s Impale icon Impale stun duration.
  • Reduced base Strength attribute symbol strength from 19 to 18.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta cooldown from 70/60/50 to 90/70/50.
Level 15 left talent: +35 movement speed reduced to +30.
  • Reduced Vendetta icon Vendetta mana cost from 160/210/260 to 140/200/260.
  • Increased base health from 180 to 200.
  • Increased base health regeneration from 2.5 to 3.5.
  • Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
  • Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace now always blocks the first damage instance from each valid target, even when the damage source is unaffected. [?]
  • Increased base health from 150 to 180.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Increased stun duration from 1.27/1.77/2.27/2.77 to 1.6/2/2.4/2.8.
    • Reduced air time from 0.52 to 0.5.
  • Reduced Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace cooldown from 23/20/17/14 to 22/18/14/10.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta duration from 25/35/50 to 40/50/60.
  • Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
    • Burrow icon Burrow
      • Impale icon Impale
        • Increased cooldown reduction from 4 to 6.
        • Increased cast range bonus from 350 to 525.
        • Increased travel distance bonus from 350 to 525.
      • Increased Mana Burn icon Mana Burn cast range bonus from 300 to 450.
Burrow icon Burrow
While Burrowed, Nyx Assassin is invisible and unable to move/attack, but has 40% damage resistance, and regenerates 1.5% of his health and mana per second. Nyx Assassin's abilities also have improved properties while burrowed.
Cast time: 1
Max health/mana as health/mana regeneration: 1.5%
Incoming damage reduction: 40%
Impale cast/travel range increase: 350
Impale cooldown reduction: 4
Mana Burn cast range increase: 300
Spiked Carapace radius: 300
Mana cost: 0
Cooldown: 0
Notes: Spiked Carapace instantly stuns any enemy units within a 300 radius without requiring them to hurt him first. Casting Vendetta causes Burrow to end.
Unburrow icon Unburrow
Emerge from the burrow.
Cooldown: 0
Notes: Use Unburrow icon Unburrow sub-ability to end Burrow icon Burrow.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale cast range from 500 to 700. [?]
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Removed
      Unit Target functionality. Can only be ground-targeted now.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace now affects the damage source directly instead of affecting the owner of the damage source. [?]
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Reduced Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence as mana burned from 500% on each level to 350%/400%/450%/500%.
    • Reduced mana cost from 130/120/110/100 to 100 on each level.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
    • Reduced duration from 2.75 to 2.25.
    • Increased cooldown from 14 on each level to 23/20/17/14.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta damage from 225/375/525 to 250/400/550.
  • Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 2.5.
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Increased Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence as mana burned from 400% to 500%.
    • Rescaled mana cost from 90/110/130/150 to 130/120/110/100.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
    • Can now reflect one damage instance from each player during its duration, instead of only from the first player to damage him.
    • Reduced carapace duration from 4.5 to 2.75.
    • Reduced mana cost from 50 to 40.
    • Increased cooldown from 10 to 14.
  • Increased Vendetta icon Vendetta self movement speed bonus from 10%/15%/20% to 16%/18%/20%.
Old
Unknown icon Urna Swarm
Raises a Scarab from a corpse. Scarabs have the Infestation ability, which silences enemies within a small radius and applies a damage over time, but also killing the scarab. They also can burrow into the ground, turning invisible to enemies, but also immobile.
Corpse search radius: 600
Max number of Scarabs: 2/4/6/8
Mana cost: 10
Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
New
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
Temporarily enhances the Assassin's chitinous armor with organic barbs, causing him to prevent and reflect the next player based damage instance and stuns the target. Lasts 4.5 seconds.
Damage reflected: 100%
Duration: 4.5
Stun duration: 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4
Mana cost: 50
Cooldown: 10
Note: Only triggers on player-based damage, on any damage type. Does not prevent status debuffs. Spikes visually grow out of the hero when he is in this state.
  • Reduced Mana Burn icon Mana Burn cooldown from 35/25/15/5 to 28/20/12/4.
  • Reduced Vendetta icon Vendetta cooldown from 90/75/60 to 70/60/50.
  • Unknown icon Urna Swarm
    • Reduced maximum allowed Scarabs from 2/4/6/8 to 2/3/4/5.
    • Increased mana cost from 10 on each level to 40/30/20/10.
    • Increased cooldown from 14/11/8/5 to 26/19/12/5.
    • Unknown icon Infestation
      • Increased damage per second from 20 to 40.
      • Increased radius from 275 to 300.
  • Added
    new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
    • Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
    • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
Old
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
The Nerubian Assassin forms barbed layers of chitinous armor that increases its defense and returns damage to enemy melee attackers.
Bonus Armor: 2/4/6/8.
Damage Returned: 10%/20%/30%/40%
New
Unknown icon Urna Swarm
Raises a Scarab from a corpse. Scarabs have the Infestation ability, which silences enemies within a small radius and applies a damage over time, but also killing the scarab. They also can burrow into the ground, turning invisible to enemies, but also immobile.
Corpse search radius: 600
Max number of Scarabs: 2/4/6/8
Mana cost: 10
Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
Notes: Raises 1 scarab per cast. Unknown Unit icon Scarab can't attack, are spell immune and lasts until killed.
Unknown Unit icon Scarab stats:
Health: 200
Armor: 6
Movement speed: 4500
Vision: 1400
Unknown icon Infestation
Kills the Scarab to silence and damage nearby enemies.
Radius: 275
Damage per second: 20
Duration: 3
Notes: Has no cast time. The scarab dies upon cast.
Burrow icon Burrow
The Scarab digs into the ground, becoming invisible and immobile.
Vision reduction: 1000
Notes: Has an instant cast time. While burrowed, the Scarab cannot move or use Infestation. Lasts until toggled Off.
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Can no longer target non-hero units, since it no longer affects them.
    • Fixed ability interactions with Spell Block sources (e.g. Linken's Sphere icon Spellblock).
Old
Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
Burns a fixed amount of mana and deals damage equal to that amount.
Cast range: 500/575/650/725
Mana burned: 70/120/185/260
Mana burned as damage: 100%
Mana cost: 65/85/100/115
Cooldown: 7
Notes: Effects are delayed by 0.25 seconds.
New
Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
Burns a amount of mana based on the target's intelligence and deals damage equal to that amount.
Cast range: 600
Intelligence as mana burned: 400%
Mana burned as damage: 100%
Mana cost: 90/110/130/150
Cooldown: 35/25/15/5
Notes: Effects are applied instantly.
  • Changed
    Impale icon Impale ability operations:
    • No longer turns hit enemies invulnerable during the air time.
    • No longer requires channeling in order for the spikes to reach max distance.
    • No longer causes hit enemy units to instantly face towards Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin.
    • No longer fails to stun and damage enemies when the targeted point was a cliff.
    • No longer conflicts with the following abilities:
  • Increased Mana Burn icon Mana Burn cast range from 500 on each level to 500/575/650/725.
  • Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Increased self movement speed bonus from 10% on each level to 10%/15%/20%.
    • Increased duration from 20 on each level to 20/35/50.
    • Reduced cooldown from 90 on each level to 90/75/60.
  • Increased base armor from 0 to 1.
  • Fixed a bug with Impale icon Impale which caused it to deal extra damage sometimes.
  • Reduced Impale icon Impale cast range from 600 to 500.
Old
Unknown icon Shrink
Causes this unit to shift out of existence whenever it takes damage, temporarily avoiding any further damage.
Channel time: 0.5
Mana cost: 30/20/10/0
Cooldown: 10/8/6/4
Notes: Turns the caster invulnerable and hidden while channeling.
New
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
The Nerubian Assassin forms barbed layers of chitinous armor that increases its defense and returns damage to enemy melee attackers.
Armor bonus: 2/4/6/8.
Damage returned: 10%/20%/30%/40%
  • Reduced Vendetta icon Vendetta cooldown from 120 to 90.
Old
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
The Nerubian Assassin forms barbed layers of chitinous armor that increases its defense and returns damage to enemy melee attackers.
Bonus armor: 2/4/6/8
Damage returned: 10%/20%/30%/40%
New
Unknown icon Shrink
Causes this unit to shift out of existence whenever it takes damage, temporarily avoiding any further damage.
Channel time: 0.5
Mana cost: 30/20/10/0
Cooldown: 10/8/6/4
Notes: Turns the caster invulnerable and hidden while channeling.
  • Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Now grants 10% self movement speed bonus.
    • Reduced damage from 300/450/600 to 225/375/525.
    • Increased mana cost from 150/190/230 to 160/210/260.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Increased cast range from 400 to 500.
    • Increased spikes travel distance from 500 to 600.
    • Increased damage from 60/130/200/260 to 80/160/230/300.
    • Increased stun duration from 0.5/1.0/1.5/2 to 0.75/1.25/1.75/2.25.
    • Reduced mana cost from 100/120/145/170 to 95/115/135/155.
    • Reduced cooldown from 12 to 11.
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Moved
      from the third to the second ability slot.
    • Increased mana burned from 65/130/195/260 to 70/120/185/260.
  • Reworked
    Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace.
    • Moved
      from the second to the third ability slot.
Old
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
The Nerubian Assassin forms barbed layers of chitinous armor that increases its defenses and returns damage to enemy meele attackers.
Armor bonus: 5/10/15
Damage returned: 15%/30%/45%
New
Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
The Nerubian Assassin forms barbed layers of chitinous armor that increases its defense and returns damage to enemy melee attackers.
Bonus Armor: 2/4/6/8.
Damage Returned: 10%/20%/30%/40%
Old
Vendetta icon Wind Walk
Turn invisible for a period of time, increasing movement speed.
Fade time: 1/0.75/0.5/0.5
Move speed bonus: 10%/20%/30%/40%
Mana cost: 75
Cooldown: 20
New
Vendetta icon Vendetta
The Nerubian Assassin turns invisible for a short period of time, and can break his invisibility with an incredibly damaging attack.
Damage: 300/450/600
Fade time: 0.6
Duration: 20
Mana cost: 150/190/230
Cooldown: 120
  • Reduced base Strength attribute symbol strength from 18 to 17.
  • Increased base Agility attribute symbol agility from 20 to 21.
  • Rescaled base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence and gain from 16 + 1.75 to 21 + 1.5.
  • Changed
    primary attribute from Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence to Agility attribute symbol agility.
  • Increased base Agility attribute symbol agility and gain from 16 + 1.75 to 20 + 2.5.
  • Reduced base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence and gain from 20 + 2.5 to 16 + 1.75.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Reduced cast range from 500 to 400.
    • Increased spikes travel distance from 400 to 500.
    • Reduced damage from 80/150/220/290 to 60/130/200/260.
  • Increased Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence gain from 2.75 to 2.8.
  • Increased base health from 100 to 150.
  • Increased base attack damage from 28‒35 to 30‒39.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Increased cast range from 400 to 500.
    • Increased damage from 60/110/170/230 to 80/150/220/90.
    • Reduced stun duration from 1.25/2.50/3.75/5.00 to 0.5/1.0/1.5/2.0 (air time unchanged).
  • Removed
    Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin.
    • No longer increases Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace armor bonus to 6/12/18 and damage returned to 20/40/60.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Reduced cast range from 600 to 400.
    • Reduced spikes travel distance from 600 to 400.
    • Reduced spikes radius from 250 to 200.
  • Vendetta icon Wind Walk
    • No longer deals 25/50/75/100 damage.
    • Reduced movement speed bonus from 25%/50%/75%/100% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale mana cost from 90/110/130/150 to 100/120/145/170.
  • Reduced Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace bonus armor from 8/16/24 to 5/10/15.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale mana cost from 90/105/130/140 to 90/110/130/150.
  • Increased Agility attribute symbol agility gain from 2.5 to 3.15.
  • Increased base attack damage from 27‒31 to 32‒39.
  • Reduced base armor from 2 to 0.
  • Rescaled Impale icon Impale mana cost from 120 on each level to 90/105/130/140.
  • Reduced Mana Burn icon Mana Burn mana cost from 65/85/85/85 to 65/85/85/95.
  • Added
    a 4th level to all basic abilities.
  • Impale icon Impale
    • Rescaled damage from 75/150/225 to 60/110/170/230.
    • Rescaled stun duration from 2/3/4 to 1.25/2.5/3.75/5. [?]
    • Increased mana cost from 100 to 120.
    • Reduced cooldown from 13 to 12.
  • Mana Burn icon Mana Burn
    • Rescaled mana burned from 75/150/225 to 65/130/195/260.
    • Reduced cast range from 600 to 500.
    • Rescaled mana cost from 75 to 65/85/85/85.
    • Increased cooldown from 7/6/5 to 7.
  • Vendetta icon Wind Walk
    • Rescaled duration from 20/25/30 to 20/25/30/30.
    • Increased damage from 25/50/75 to 25/50/75/100.
    • Increased movement speed bonus from 25%/50%/75% to 25%/50%/75%/100%.
    • Rescaled fade time from 1/0.75/0.5 to 1/0.75/0.5/0.5.
    • Reduced cooldown from 22 to 20.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale cooldown from 12 to 13.
  • Added
    Vendetta icon Wind Walk.
    • Reduced duration from 20/40/60 to 20/25/30.
    • Reduced damage from 40/70/100 to 25/50/75.
    • Increased movement speed bonus from 10%/40%/70% to 25%/50%/75%.
    • Increased mana cost from 75/65/55 to 75.
    • Increased cooldown from 5 to 22.
  • Changed
    attack range type from Ranged Ranged to Melee Melee.
  • Rescaled base attack damage from 26‒26 to 24‒28.
  • Reduced attack range from 500 to 100.
  • Increased Impale icon Impale cooldown from 9 to 12.
  • Increased base health from 25 to 100.
  • Increased base attack damage from 16‒16 to 26‒26.
  • Reduced base attack time from 2.5 to 1.65.
  • Increased base movement speed from 270 to 300.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
    • Increased number of ability levels from 2 to 3.
    • Rescaled bonus armor from 10/20 to 8/16/24.
    • Rescaled Melee melee damage returned from 25%/50% to 15%/30%/45%.
  • Reduced base Strength attribute symbol strength from 20 to 18.
  • Increased base Agility attribute symbol agility from 20 to 22.
  • Increased base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence and gain from 14 + 1.6 to 16 + 1.8.
  • Created

Patch History

Patch
Description
  • Increased versus scale from 0.89 to 0.98.
  • Added
    new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Updated Vendetta icon Vendetta ability backend strings.
  • Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Updated ability tooltips.
    • Updated ability modifiers.
  • Updated Vendetta icon Vendetta ability backend strings.
  • Fixed ability interactions between Pulverize icon Pulverize and upward-movement-based damaging abilities (e.g. Impale icon Impale).
  • Upgradable by Aghanim's Shard. Vendetta icon Vendetta
    • Updated ability descriptions.
    • Updated ability modifiers.
  • Increased max polygon counts.
  • Added Russian voiceover lines.
  • Fixed not playing the splash animation effects when casting Burrow icon Burrow and Unburrow icon Unburrow in the water.
  • Fixed Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace charge not getting used when hurt by an invulnerable source.
  • Fixed Impale icon Impale range traveling too far.
  • Spiked Carapace icon Spiked Carapace
    • Reduced duration from 2.75 to 2.25.
    • Increased cooldown from 14 on each level to 23/20/17/14.
  • Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.
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