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Slark, the Nightcrawler, is a melee agility hero that utilizes his abilities to spring onto enemy heroes and slip out unhindered. He is a very mobile ganker, but remains attribute-wise below most other carries unless he is able to steal away attributes with his abilities. Once he does, though, only a few heroes can hope to be as fearsome as the Nightcrawler - extremely mobile to the point of ever-presence, his strikes only hitting harder and faster.
Slark can quickly leap forward onto enemies with Pounce to leash them and bind them from escaping. His Dark Pact releases a delayed dispel that breaks even the most powerful disables. This gives him one of the most flexible abilities to start and end fights in the game. He is also capable of stealing attributes by attacking his victim to boost his own attack damage temporarily with Essence Shift, which can rapidly shift engagements in his favor, even when merely performing hit-and-run maneuvers. Slark's ultimate, Shadow Dance, allows him to remain unseen even while attacking for a short duration and allows him to move quicker when not under the watch of enemy eyes to strike in and out of enemy ranks unhindered.
Bio
Abilities
- Dark Pact interrupts Slark's channeling spells upon cast.
- Deals Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3#}}*0.1". ( Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3 tal#}}*0.1".) damage within a {{#show:#Dark Pact|?value1#}} radius in 0.1 second intervals, starting {{#show:#Dark Pact|?value2#}} seconds after cast for a total of 10 instances.
- Slark takes Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3#}}*{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value4#}}*0.1". ( Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3 tal#}}*{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value4#}}*0.1".) damage in the same intervals, resulting in Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3#}}*{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value4#}}". ( Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value3 tal#}}*{{#show:#Dark Pact|?value4#}}".) total damage.
- Applies a strong dispel on Slark in the same intervals, before each of its damage instances.
- The self-inflicted damage can be reduced or amplified, but can never kill Slark.
- The visual effects and sounds during the {{#show:#Dark Pact|?value2#}} seconds delay is only visible and audible to allies.
- The visual effect of the damaging pulses are visible even when Slark is invisible.
- Dark Pact ends Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". seconds after cast, but ends instantly when Slark dies.
- Re-casting Dark Pact during the effect delay cancels the previous cast and starts a new one instead.
- Slark leaps forward at a speed of 933.33 for up to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". seconds.
- Always jumps for the full distance, unless an enemy hero gets within {{#show:#Pounce|?value2#}} radius of Slark during the jump.
- Can latch on enemy heroes up to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". range away (max distance + latch radius).
- Slark can turn, cast spells, and use items during Pounce, but cannot attack.
- Pounce can latch on invisible units, but not on invulnerable/hidden units, or on illusions.
- When latching on a unit, Slark is automatically ordered to attack the target.
- The more the leash gets stretched, the slower the affected unit can walk away from the center, eventually coming to a full stop. It directly affects the target's movement speed.
- The following spells are not able to break the leash: Skewer, Leap, Pounce, Tree Dance, Primal Spring, Toggle Movement, Force Staff and Hurricane Pike.
- Every other position changing effect, including spells like Primal Roar and Blinding Light, can break the leash.
- When the leash expires while a position changing effect is ongoing, it instantly cancels the position changing effect.
- This goes for the following spells: Flamebreak, Primal Roar, Power Cogs, Hookshot, Vacuum, Gust, Boulder Smash, Rolling Boulder, Geomagnetic Grip, Deafening Blast, Tether, Blinding Light, Adaptive Strike (Strength), Charge of Darkness, Greater Bash, Timber Chain, Walrus PUNCH!, Force Staff and Hurricane Pike.
- Pounce destroys trees within 100 radius around Slark upon landing.
Passive
Enemy Heroes / Self
- Essence Shift steals attributes before attack damage is applied.
- Successive attacks do not refresh the duration of all stolen/lost attributes. Each stack has its own duration.
- The status buff and debuff icon show the number of current stacks and show the duration of the last stack.
- Effective stats loss by primary attribute of attacked enemies, on top of Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack damage:
- Strength: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". health, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% health regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% magic resistance, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". armor, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% move speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". mana, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% mana regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% spell damage.
- Agility: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". health, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% health regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% magic resistance, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". armor, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% move speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". mana, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% mana regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% spell damage.
- Intelligence: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". health, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% health regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% magic resistance, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". armor, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% move speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". mana, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% mana regen amp, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% spell damage.
- Effectively grants Slark Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". armor, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% move speed, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack speed, and Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". attack damage per stack.
- Essence Shift cannot reduce any attribute below 0. However, Slark continues to gain agility, even when the attacked hero has no more attributes left to steal.
- When Slark dies, he loses all stolen attributes, but the affected enemies do not get theirs back, and vice versa.
- Cannot steal attributes from illusions, but can steal from hero clones.
- Can steal attributes from allies.
- Shadow Dance interrupts Slark's channeling spells upon cast.
- Slark gains or loses the health regen and movement speed bonus 0.5 seconds after getting in or out of enemy vision, or casting Shadow Dance.
- If Slark is damaged by a neutral creep, the health regen and movement speed bonus are lost for 2 seconds.
- When casting Shadow Dance, he turns invisible and cannot be revealed by anything. However, the black cloud created is visible to enemies.
- The invisibility is granted by an aura, its buff lingers for {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value5#}} seconds.
- When not upgraded, the buff immediately disappears as soon as Shadow Dance expires. When upgraded, it lingers out when expiring.
- This means Shadow Dance effectively lasts Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". ( Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".) seconds when upgraded, even for Slark.
- When not upgraded, the aura affects the caster only. When upgraded, it affects allied heroes, illusions and creep-heroes as well.
- The aura only provides the invisibility. Therefore, allies do not receive the passive health regeneration and movement speed buff.
- The aura does not affect invulnerable units, so even if Slark turns invulnerable during it, he gets revealed.
- Restores health in the form of health regeneration, so it regenerates Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}*0.1 )*100". of max health in 0.1 second intervals.
- Regenerates a total of Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}*{{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value6#}} )*100". ( Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}*{{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value6 tal#}} )*100".)( Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}*({{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value6#}}+{{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value5#}}) )*100"., Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( {{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}*({{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value6 tal#}}+{{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value5#}}) )*100".) of Slark's maximum health while active, considering the regeneration is not prevented.
- Can possibly restore 100% of Slark's health on its own within Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "ceil (10000*(1/{{#show:#Shadow Dance|?value4#}}))". seconds.
- Health regen bonuses which are based on maximum health are not amplified by strength.
- Shadow Dance does not allow Slark to walk through units.
Talents
Hero Talents | ||
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+120s Essence Shift Duration | 25 | +1s Shadow Dance Duration |
+3s Pounce Leash | 20 | +150 Dark Pact Damage |
20% Lifesteal | 15 | +30 Attack Speed |
+8 Agility | 10 | +10 Strength |
- Stacks additively with other lifesteal sources.
Recommended items
Gameplay
The only prisoner ever to escape from Dark Reef, Slark's abilities and ruthlessness are without equal. The Nightcrawler Pounces on his foes, leaping over obstacles and pinning them to the ground. With every swing of his barnacle encrusted blade, Slark steals his target's essences, converting them to render himself more agile. He forges a Dark Pact, sacrificing his own lifeblood to dissipate negative energies that damage foes, and frees him from magical constraints. Concealing himself with Shadow Dance, the Nightcrawler presents no visible target to would-be attackers. Hidden in this black haze, Slark escapes the inescapable, and returns to gut his enemies with little risk of retribution. | |
Roles: | Carry Escape Disabler Nuker |
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Adjectives: | Legs ( 2 )
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Audio
History
Equipment
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Trivia
- Slark is named after a rare murloc in World of Warcraft.
- Slark's murloc heritage was completely removed in the transition to Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues, since the murlocs are an existing race in the Warcraft universe.
- Slark's response ▶️ "Met you once, cut you twice." is a reference to the carpentry phrase "measure twice, cut once".
- Slark's respawn line ▶️ "Griefer madness..." is a reference to the propaganda film Reefer Madness. As well, a griefer is a role a player assumes while in a multiplayer game to deliberately irritate other players.
- Slark's weapon, a shiv, is the traditional prison weapon and is a reference to his backstory.
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