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Silencer 19 + 2.7 22 + 2.4 25 + 2.9
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 538 1352 2210 2562 +0 +1.9 +5.68 +9.58 +11.13 Mana 75 375 855 1347 1551 +0 +1.25 +3.28 +5.33 +6.16 Armor -1 2.67 8.27 14.27 16.6 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 18 32 43 57 83 97 124 138 141 155 Attack Rate 0.68/s 0.81/s 1/s 1.22/s 1.3/s Attack Range 600 (800) Attack Speed ▶️ 115 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5 + 0.5 Projectile Speed 900 Move Speed ▶️ 290 ( 320) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Nortrom, the Silencer, is a ranged intelligence hero who can be played as a support, carry, or initiator. He is one of the few intelligence heroes that truly benefit from intelligence items and is effective against heroes that rely mostly on spells, as he can silence them while stealing their intelligence and adding it to his own. He is a notorious anti-caster hero who can disrupt the magical abilities of his enemies and cripple spellcasters throughout the game. Arcane Curse slows and causes enemies to lose health for a set duration, but increases with each spell the enemy casts, forcing them to either wait and cast no spell until it expires, or cast spells and prolong the debuff and thus take more damage. Last Word places a curse on Nortrom's target that damages and silences for a long duration if the target casts a spell. If the target does not cast a spell before the curse duration ends the effects are the same. Glaives of Wisdom is an active attack modifier that deals a percentage of Nortrom's intelligence as pure damage. Nortrom's ultimate, Global Silence, silences all enemy units on the map for a few seconds. A well-timed Global Silence can be used to save yourself or an ally, initiate a teamfight, or ruin the enemy's initiation.

Silencer has the unique innate ability, Intelligence Steal, which permanently steals the intelligence of enemy heroes that die near him or are directly killed by him and adds it to his own. This rewards his presence in teamfights, also making his glaives ever stronger as the battle goes on.

Bio

Nortrom, the Silencer

▶️ "Enemies should be seen and not heard."

Lore:

Part of the seventh and final generation of a carefully designed pedigree, Nortrom was bred by the ancient order of the Aeol Drias to be the greatest magic user the world had ever seen. He was the prophesied one, the culmination of two-hundred years of careful pairings, a war-mage who would bring glory to the order, and destruction to their sworn enemies, The Knights of the Fold. Raised with other young mages in a hidden cantonment among the hills of the Hazhadal barrens, the order's preceptors waited for Nortrom’s abilities to manifest. While the other students honed their talents with fire, or ice, or incantatory spells, Nortrom sat silent and talentless, unable to cast so much as a hex. As the day of final testing approached, he still hadn’t found his magic. In disgust, the preceptors berated him, while the children laughed. “You are no mage,” the head of the order declared. Still, Nortrom did not slink away. He entered the day of testing and faced down the young mages who had mocked him. And then his preceptors learned a valuable lesson: a lack of magic can be the greatest magic of all. Nortrom silenced the young mages one by one and defeated them in single combat, until he alone stood as champion of the Aeol Drias, in fulfillment of the prophecy.

Voice:

Michael Gregory (Responses)

Abilities

Intelligence Steal

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemy Heroes / Self

Silencer will permanently steal 2 (2.8 with Talent) intelligence from any enemy hero that dies within 925 range or is killed by the Silencer.

Steal Radius: 925

Stolen Intelligence: 2 ( 2.8)

Modifiers [?]

Int Steal

Undispellable

• This is an innate ability and does not need to be skilled. It is not bound to any ability, but to Silencer himself.

• Stolen intelligence is directly removed from the enemy's base intelligence and added to Silencer's base intelligence.

• Can only steal from base intelligence + intelligence gained from levels. Bonus intelligence cannot be stolen.

• It does not matter how an enemy hero within the radius dies, Silencer always steals its intelligence.

• Silencer also always steals intelligence when he deals the killing blow on an enemy hero, regardless of distance.
  • However, Silencer needs to be alive as the kill happens to steal the intelligence.

• Cannot steal intelligence from illusions or hero clones.
  • When Silencer kills a Meepo clone however, he does steal intelligence, since killing a Meepo clone also kills the main Meepo.

• Cannot reduce enemy base intelligence below 1. Silencer also does not gain intelligence from heroes that are at 1 intelligence.

• The bonus intelligence steal does not apply retroactively, meaning that taking the talent will not increase the amount of intelligence already stolen.

• Enemy non-intelligence heroes effectively lose 24 ( 33.6) mana, 0.1 ( 0.14) mana regen and % ( %) spell damage.
  • Enemy intelligence heroes effectively lose 24 ( 33.6) mana, 0.1 ( 0.14) mana regen, % ( %) spell damage, and 2 ( 2.8) attack damage.
  • Vice versa, effectively increases Silencer's mana, mana regen amplification, spell damage, and attack damage by the same amount per stack.

Arcane Curse

▶️QC

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Curses the target area, causing enemy heroes to take damage and slowing their movement speed. Anytime affected enemies cast a spell, the duration is increased.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.37

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 425

Damage per Second: 16/24/32/40 ( )

Move Speed Slow: 9%/12%/15%/18% ( 29%/32%/35%/38%)

Base Duration: 6

Penalty Duration: 5

 20/18/16/14

 125/130/135/140

Modifiers [?]

Curse Of The Silent

Any

Nortrom's lack of incantations is less of a problem for him than it is for his adversaries.

• Whenever an affected unit casts a spell, the duration is increased by 5. This effect has no stack limit.

• Fully ignores toggle abilities, active attack modifiers and the abilities listed here.

• If an affected unit gets silenced, the duration and the damage are paused until the silence expires.
  • However, the slow is not paused while silenced and still slows affected enemies.

• Successive casts of Arcane Curse fully stack, always placing an independent debuff.

• Deals damage in 1 second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied, resulting in 6 (+5 per penalty) instances.

• Can deal up to 96/144/192/240 (+80/120/160/200 per penalty) ( , + per penalty) damage to a single unit (before reductions).

• The sound effect played on every damage instance is only audible to the affected unit's player.

Glaives of Wisdom

▶️WW

Ability
Target Unit / Autocast

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Pure

Silencer enchants his glaives with his wisdom, dealing additional damage based on his Intelligence. Silencer temporarily steals his target's intelligence with each hit.

Cast Range: 600 ( 600.002)

Intelligence as Damage: 15%/35%/55%/75% ( 40%/60%/80%/100%)

Intelligence Steal: 1/1/2/3

Steal Duration: 10/20/30/40

 0

 15

Modifiers [?]

Glaives Of Wisdom Buff

Undispellable

Glaives Of Wisdom Buff Counter

Undispellable

Glaives Of Wisdom Debuff

Undispellable

Glaives Of Wisdom Debuff Counter

Undispellable

Although lacking in traditional incantations, Nortrom's pedigree of the Aeol Drias gives him uncanny wisdom, which he applies to physical combat.

• The bonus damage is dealt in a separate damage instance, and counts as spell damage.
  • This means it is not affected or considered by anything that works with attack damage.
  • This also means that it fully works with spell damage amplification and spell lifesteal.

• Deals its damage before the attack damage is applied, but still depends on the attack hitting the target.

• Checks Silencer's intelligence upon projectile hit, so increasing or decreasing his intelligence while the projectile flies does affect its damage.
  • Steals intelligence before applying its damage, so it does affect Glaives of Wisdom damage right away.

• Also reduces the target's current mana by 12 per stolen intelligence, instead of keeping the current mana percentage.
  • Effectively removes 12/12/24/36 current mana from the target. This lost mana is returned upon the debuff expiring.

• Unlike on the target, Silencer keeps his current mana percentage upon gaining and losing the intelligence.

• Cannot reduce enemy intelligence below 0, but Silencer always gains the full amount of intelligence, no matter how much the target has left.

• Target effectively loses 12/12/24/36 mana, 0.05/0.05/0.1/0.15 mana regen and spell damage (and 1/1/2/3 attack damage if it is an intelligence hero).
  • Vice versa, effectively increases Silencer's mana, mana regen, spell damage, and attack damage by the same amount per cast.

• Each attack places a new buff/debuff modifier on both, Silencer and the target. This means their durations are independent from each other.

• The counter modifiers on both, Silencer and his targets, show how much intelligence they gained/lost.
  • Upon death, the dying hero's intelligence restores back to its normal values, while the other party keeps the changed intelligence values for the remaining duration.

• Cannot steal intelligence from illusions or from Meepo clones. Can steal from Tempest Doubles.

Last Word

▶️ET

Ability
Target Unit
( Target Area)

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Enchants a target, providing vision of them and causing them to be damaged and silenced if they cast a spell or if the enchantment timer expires. Deals extra damage based on the difference in intelligence between Silencer and the target.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.47

Cast Range: 900

Radius: 0 ( 600)

Base Damage: 80/120/160/200

Intelligence Difference Multiplier: 1.5/2/2.5/3

Initial Debuff Duration: 4

Silence Duration: 3/4/5/6

 22/18/14/10

 115

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes Last Word to become an AoE ability.

Modifiers [?]

Last Word

Any

Silence

Any

Nortrom ensures that spells uttered by his opponents will be their last.

• When the target casts a spell during the initial debuff, it gets damaged, then silenced, and then the cast spell goes off.
  • Since the spell counts as cast, the silence does not prevent it from happening. Although the silence happens first, the spell's effects are already queued up.
  • However death does stop the spell, meaning when the damage from Last Word is enough to kill the target, the cast spell does not go off.
  • This also means that damage negating spells like Refraction and spells that provide spell immunity do not block its damage.

• Does not trigger on toggle abilities, active attack modifiers and the abilities listed here.
  • Triggers on channeling spells, but waits for the channeling to stop first.
  • Last Word does trigger on Phase Shift. However, it only applies its effects when Phase Shift is canceled by the player prematurely.

• When the initial debuff expires, it still damages and silences the target.

• If the target has no intelligence, only the base damage is applied.

• The curse first applies the debuffs, then the damage.

• Grants shared vision as long as the 4 second initial debuff is on.

• Aghanim's Scepter turns Last Word into an area-targeted spell, so that it cannot directly target units anymore.

Global Silence

▶️RE

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Silencer stops all sound, preventing enemy heroes and units on the map from casting spells.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.37

Radius: Global

Duration: 4.5/5.25/6 ( )

 130

 300/450/600

Modifiers [?]

Global Silence

Any

With a shock to the ground, all magic and sound pauses, and Nortrom fulfills his prophecy.

• The silence affects spell immune, invisible and invulnerable creeps, summons and heroes. Does not affect hidden units.

• The sound effect of Global Silence which plays on each enemy's hero has the highest sound priority in the game.
  • This means it heavily tones down other game sounds for enemies, making it basically the only sound they can hear during the silence.

Talents

Hero Talents
Last Word Mutes	25	+25% Glaives of Wisdom Damage
Arcane Curse Undispellable	20	1 Glaives of Wisdom Bounces
+0.8x Last Word Int Multiplier	15	-20s Global Silence Cooldown
+20 Attack Speed	10	+10 Arcane Curse Damage

Recent Changes

Main Article: Silencer/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35

• Glaives of Wisdom
  • CHANGED
    damage type from Pure to Magical.
  • Increased intelligence as damage from 15%/35%/55%/75% to 20%/40%/60%/80%.

7.34

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • After the required hits, the next Glaives of Wisdom attack now silences all hit targets, including the bounced attack.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +10% Glaives of Wisdom intelligence as damage ➜ +1 Glaives of Wisdom number of bounces. [?]

  LVL 25

   

  +2 Glaives of Wisdom number of bounces ➜ +25% Glaives of Wisdom intelligence as damage.

7.33d

• Increased Arcane Curse initial damage from 40/60/80/100 to 20/40/60/80.

Gameplay

Two hundred years of selective breeding had produced Nortrom, the prophesied war-mage that would bring glory to the order of Aeol Drias. Therefore, disgust and disappointment followed when it was found that the boy could cast not even a hex. Yet, on the day of final testing, Nortrom would have the Last Word. His arranged opponents fell under an Arcane Curse, draining their health with each incantation made. Then, there was Global Silence. Not a gasp or whisper escaped their lips as Nortrom finished off each challenger with his multipronged Glaives of Wisdom. At that moment, it became clear to all watching: The absence of magic can be the greatest magic of all.
Roles:	Carry Support Disabler Initiator Nuker
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Legs ( 2 )

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Silencer Equipment (expand sets) Sets Grand Suppressor Guardian of Silence Set Hazhadal Magebreaker Heirlooms of Aeol Drias Hush of Eternal Night Order of the Silvered Talon Silent Champion Silent Edict Silent Slayer The Hidden Talent Set Tools of the Final Utterance Whisper of the Tribunal Weapon Fan of Piercing Silence Glaive of Oscilla Moon Whirl Star of Silence Whirling Mind Slicer Shield Aspect of Oscilla Shield of Stillness Head Dam'arakan Muzzle Dam'arakan Muzzle of the Crimson Witness

Trivia

• Unlike most heroes, Silencer's attack projectiles actually use the model of his equipped cosmetic weapon.
• Like Death Prophet, Omniknight and Io, Silencer received a color palette change, changing his model and icons, having his former red armor replaced with violet.
  • Before his palette change, newer players would occasionally mistake Silencer for Dragon Knight, and he would sometimes be referred to as "The other Dragon Knight". Even after the palette swap, some older players may refer to him as "Purple Dragon Knight".
• Silencer's spell sound effects are based on some of his voice lines. Arcane Curse debuff sounds is based on "▶️ Curse you!", Last Word is based on one of his laughing lines and Global Silence is based on ▶️ this.
• Chen is a member of the Knights of the Fold which would make him an enemy to Silencer based on Silencer's background. Despite this, there is no dialogue between the two heroes.

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