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Akasha the Queen of Pain is a ranged intelligence hero who uses her abilities to close in and deal huge area damage to the enemy. She is typically played in the middle lane as a ganker and semi-carry, with her ability to appear in battle and deal damage in quick succession, as well as hunt down fleeing heroes with ease. Her Blink ability is the lynchpin of her skill set, allowing her to enter and leave fights at her whim. Once in position to attack, Akasha can unleash her Scream of Pain and Sonic Wave, able to devastate an entire team at once. Chasing down straggling prey is another of her fortes, with Shadow Strike crippling their ability to escape. Akasha is very adept at getting kills early in the game, and transitions very well into a semi-carry if she acquires the proper items.
Bio
Abilities
- The dagger travels at a speed of 900.
- The slow decreases in 1 second intervals. This is how much Shadow Strike slows on each level at each second:
- Level 1: 20.0% / 16.3% / 13.1% / 10.3% / 8.1% / 6.2% / 4.7% / 3.5% / 2.5% / 1.8% / 1.3% / 0.9% / 0.6% / 0.4% / 0.3%
- Level 2: 30.0% / 24.5% / 19.6% / 15.5% / 12.1% / 9.3% / 7.0% / 5.2% / 3.8% / 2.8% / 2.0% / 1.4% / 1.0% / 0.6% / 0.4%
- Level 3: 40.0% / 32.6% / 26.2% / 20.7% / 16.1% / 12.4% / 9.3% / 7.0% / 5.1% / 3.7% / 2.6% / 1.8% / 1.3% / 0.9% / 0.6%
- Level 4: 50.0% / 40.8% / 32.7% / 25.9% / 20.1% / 15.5% / 11.7% / 8.7% / 6.4% / 4.6% / 3.3% / 2.3% / 1.6% / 1.1% / 0.7%
- A unit with less than 25% of its maximum health can be denied when it has the Shadow Strike debuff on.
- Deals the initial damage upon impact and the damage over time in Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". second intervals, resulting in overall Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". damage instances.
- Can deal up to Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Shadow Strike|?value3#}}+{{#show:#Shadow Strike|?value5#}}*{{#show:#Shadow Strike|?value4#}}". damage to the target (before reductions).
- Successive casts on the same target remove the debuff from the previous cast and place a new one.
- This means the initial damage is dealt again, and the slow value and tick interval are effectively reset.
- The level 20 talent adds a {{#show:#Shadow Strike|?value2 tal#}} radius to this spell. The targeting reticule must be centered over an enemy unit.
- Upon cast, Queen of Pain sends daggers towards every enemy within the radius.
- These behave just like a regular cast, and can be disjointed normally.
- Also targets units inside the fog of war and invisible units. However, invisible targets instantly disjoint it.
Target Point
Self
- Scream of Pain interrupts Queen of Pain's channeling spells upon cast.
- The projectiles travel at a speed of 900.
- Affects invisible units and units in the Fog of War.
- Does not affect invulnerable or hidden units.
- The talent adds fear to Scream of Pain, forcing them to run towards their team's fountain, while preventing them from acting.
- When hitting neutral creeps, they retreat to their camps instead.
- The scream first applies the damage, then the debuff.
- Sonic Wave travels at a speed of 900, taking Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". second to travel the full distance.
- Can hit units up to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". range away (travel distance + end radius).
- The complete area is shaped like a cone.
- Fully affects couriers.
- Does not block spells cast by allies.
- Does not block Urn of Shadows, Spirit Vessel, Medallion of Courage, and Solar Crest.
- For a list of blocked spells, see Spell Block.
- Fully stacks with the Spell Block of Linken's Sphere, with the one acquired first also proccing first.
- Cooldown reductions fully affect the cooldown, but cooldown resets do not.
Talents
Hero Talents | ||
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15s Spell Block | 25 | Scream of Pain 1.5s Fear |
650 AoE Shadow Strike | 20 | 30% Spell Lifesteal |
+40 Attack Speed | 15 | 12% Cooldown Reduction |
+10 Strength | 10 | +25 Damage |
- Grants bonus attack damage.
- Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.
- Multiple sources of percentage-based cooldown reductions do not stack. The highest value takes priority.
- Stacks additively with other spell lifesteal sources.
- Heals for 6% from non-hero units. Treats creep-heroes as creeps and does not heal off of illusions.
Recommended items
Gameplay
Summoned in secret to fulfill a forbidden desire, Akasha performed the most exquisite torments—until her client was thrown to his death for neglecting his royal duties. Released from her contract, the Queen of Pain was now free to bring agony to whomever she pleased. She Shadow Strikes, hurling a poisoned dagger that draws out the suffering over time. Running is futile. Akasha Blinks past defenses, wracking her victims with Scream of Pain. There is only one release from such torture. The Queen flexes her membranous wings, then delivers an earpiercing Sonic Wave that will put an end to all misery. | |
Roles: | Carry Nuker Escape |
Complexity: | |
Adjectives: | Legs ( 2 )
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Audio
History
Equipment
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Trivia
- Akasha is the name (or variant of the name) of the fifth element in many religions such as Hinduism, Wicca (or other Neopaganism), with its roots deriving from ancient Paganism. "Akasha", when translated to English (from Sanskrit), means "aether" (air/spirit, depending on context). This element is seen/represented as the top point of a pentagram, a symbol sometimes misused as one of evil (there is no devil-esque figure in Paganism), and could have been intended to show or derive from Queen of Pain's sadistic nature. Doom's Doom skill icon is a regular pentagram, so it might be a misconception held by the DotA staff and reasoning for her name. A regular pentagram on someone, ignoring misconceptions, is actually protective.
- The name Aether is one of the many references Dota 2 makes to Greek mythology, as it is derived from a Greek deity of the same name.
- Akasha is also the name of the Queen of the Damned from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novel series, which could have inspired Queen of Pain's name, who, in turn, could have derived her name from the above roots.
- Scream of Pain's and Sonic Wave's sounds are based on some voice lines of Queen of Pain. Scream of Pain is based on this ▶️, while Sonic Wave uses a part of this ▶️.
- Queen of Pain's dying line "Your queen is dead" is possibly a reference to The Smiths' album, The Queen is Dead.
- Most of Queen of Pain's abilities were derived from the Warcraft III Night Elf hero, the Warden, with Sonic Wave being the only new ability introduced, replacing Vengeance. Fan of Knives was also substituted for Scream of Pain with the same effect, though an older version of Queen of Pain did have the Fan of Knives ability.
- Queen of Pain's response for killing Phantom Assassin "Blink! You're dead." likely refers to the popular Dr. Who episode "Don't Blink" in which the Doctor says, referring to Weeping Angels, "Don't blink, don't even blink. Blink, and you're dead."
- This line ▶️ "The Queen is dead, long live the Queen." is a reference to the movie Robin Hood (2010), when Prince John received King Richard's crown from Eleanor of Aquitaine.