Vengeful Spirit

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Vengeful Spirit 18 + 2.9 27 + 3.3 13 + 1.5
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 516 1396 2298 2672 +0 +1.8 +5.86 +9.96 +11.61 Mana 75 231 483 807 915 +0.01 +0.66 +1.71 +3.06 +3.54 Armor 0 4.5 12.2 19.7 22.78 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 12 26 39 53 85 99 130 144 148 162 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.75/s 1.02/s 1.28/s 1.39/s Attack Range 400 (800) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.33 + 0.64 Projectile Speed Move Speed 300 ( 330) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Shendelzare, the Vengeful Spirit, is a ranged agility hero who excels at ganking, disabling, and kill hunts. She is one of the most well-rounded supports in the game, possessing a skill set that allows her to set up kills for her team during ganks and teamfights, strengthening her team and weakening the enemy in large-scale engagements, and saving allies from certain death if they are caught by the enemy.

Effective at all stages of the game, Vengeful Spirit is typically seen roaming the battlefield, searching for targets to prey on. She possesses a strong targeted stun in Magic Missile and an armor reduction debuff in Wave of Terror, making her a strong partner in a gank. Motivated by her lust for revenge, Vengeance Aura boosts the attack damage of all nearby allies, making Shendel an invaluable ally to teams with strong physical damage output and turning her into a potential semi-carry. If Shendelzare dies, her death will not be in vain, as her killer will be afflicted with a debuff that reduces their attack damage as well as their allies', ensuring that her presence is felt even after being killed. Her ultimate Nether Swap immediately swaps Vengeful Spirit's position with another hero, ally or enemy, allowing her to displace a key enemy hero for easy elimination, or save an ally in distress at the potential cost of her own life. Vengeful Spirit's skill set and low reliance on farm allows her to be played with great recklessness, as even her death can be integral towards guiding her team to victory. Shendelzare requires very selfless and skilled play to operate well, and relies on the competence of teammates as much as herself.

Bio

Shendelzare, the Vengeful Spirit

▶️ "The road of revenge is long, but what awaits me at the end makes it worthwhile."

Lore:

Even the most contented Skywrath is an ill-tempered creature, naturally inclined to seek revenge for the slightest insult. But Vengeful Spirit is the essence of vengeance. Once a proud and savage Skywrath scion, Shendelzare was first in succession for the Ghastly Eyrie until a sister's treachery robbed her of her birthright. Snared in an assassin's net, Shendelzare tore free only at the cost of her wings, limping away in the ultimate humiliation: On foot. With her wings broken, she knew the Skywrath would never accept her as ruler; and in the highest roost of the Eyrie, inaccessible except by winged flight, her sister was untouchable. Unwilling to live as a flightless cripple, and desiring revenge far more than earthly power, the fallen princess drove a bargain with the goddess Scree'auk: She surrendered her broken body for an imperishable form of spirit energy, driven by vengeance, capable of doing great damage in the material plane. She may spend eternity flightless, but she will have her revenge.

Voice:

Gin Hammond (Responses)

Abilities

Magic Missile

▶️QC

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Fires a magic missile at an enemy unit, stunning and dealing damage.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.5

Cast Range: 500

Damage: 100/175/250/325 ( )

Stun Duration: 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8

 13/12/11/10

 110/120/130/140

Modifiers [?]

Stunned

Strong

A simple Skywrath technique, the magic missile is Shendel's primary tool for vengeance.

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1250.

• Magic Missile can be disjointed.

Wave of Terror

▶️WE

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Vengeful Spirit lets loose a wicked cry, weakening the armor of enemies and giving vision of the path ahead.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.5

Cast Range: 1400

Wave Travel Distance: 1400

Effect Radius: 300

Damage: 45/70/95/120

Armor Reduction: 3/4/5/6

Duration: 15

 22/20/18/16

 40

Modifiers [?]

Wave of Teror

Any

Shendel's haunting voice hints at her approaching vindication.

• The wave travels at a speed of 2000, taking seconds to travel the full distance.

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

• The wave provides 500 radius flying vision as it travels, which lasts for 3 seconds.
  • This vision starts 100 range away from Vengeful Spirit and reaches for up to range away (starting distance + travel distance + vision radius).

• Does not affect couriers.

• The debuff from successive casts does not stack, only the duration gets refreshed.

• The wave blocks neutral creep camps.

Vengeance Aura

ED

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies / Enemies

Vengeful Spirit's presence increases the physical damage of nearby friendly units. If Vengeful Spirit is slain, her killer will be possessed with a negative Vengeance Aura, reducing the damage of her killer and its nearby allies until Vengeful Spirit revives.

Radius: 900

Attack Damage Bonus: 10%/18%/26%/34% ( )

Death Attack Damage Reduction: 10%/18%/26%/34% ( )

Modifiers [?]

Command Aura Effect

Undispellable

Command Negative Aura

Undispellable

Command Negative Aura Effect

Undispellable

Although they may not share her undying passion for revenge, allies do draw on her fanaticism in combat.

• Only increases base damage and that given by the primary attribute of affected units. Raw bonus damage is not increased.

• The same goes for the negative aura. Only decreases base damage and that given by the primary attribute.

• The aura's buff and the negative aura's debuff linger for 0.5 seconds.

• When Vengeful Spirit dies to an enemy player, the player's hero will be afflicted with the negative Vengeance Aura.

• Despite the visual effect, when dying to enemy illusions or summons, the hero owning them gets the aura instead.

• Dying to non-player-controlled units gives no one the negative aura.

• Allies denying Vengeful Spirit do not get the negative aura.

• The positive and negative auras affect invulnerable units.

• Does not affect couriers.

Nether Swap

▶️RW

Ability
Target Unit
( Passive)

Affects
Heroes
( Units)

Instantaneously swaps positions with a target Hero, friend or enemy. Nether Swap interrupts channeling abilities on the target.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.5

Cast Range: 700/950/1200

Number of Illusions on Death: 0 ( 1)

Illusion Damage Dealt: 0 ( 50%)

Illusion Damage Taken: 0 ( 150%)

 45 ( 10)

 100/150/200

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Decreases cooldown, allows swapping of non-hero units and causes Vengeful Spirit to spawn a Vengeance Illusion when she dies. Vengeance illusion lasts until she revives and is able to use all of your abilities (but not items).

Martyrdom is a small price to pay for vengeance.

• Interrupts channeling spells on the target, enemies and allies alike.

• If Vengeful Spirit swaps a unit onto an impassable ledge, that unit gains free pathing for 5 seconds.

• Destroys trees within 300 radius around Vengeful Spirit and the Nether Swap target.

• Can be cast on illusions and Spirit Bear.

• Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Nether Swap cannot be cast on ancient creeps.

• The Vengeance illusion which spawns on death when upgraded is bound to Nether Swap, meaning if it is not learned at least once, no illusion spawns.
  • The illusion spawns 108 range away from Vengeful Spirit's death location. It appears either north, east, south or west from that spot.
  • The illusion always spawns with full mana and health and all abilities off cooldown, regardless of their status on Vengeful Spirit.
  • The illusion does not get a set duration upon spawning. It will disappear once Vengeful Spirit respawns. It also spawns even when having Aegis of the Immortal.
  • Since it is an illusion, it is affected by any ability which instantly kills illusions, like hex.
  • The created illusion is visually distinguishable from the real Vengeful Spirit for the enemies.
  • Unlike most other illusions, the illusion created upon death has no bounty.

Talents

Hero Talents
Magic Missile Pierces Spell Immunity	25	+20% Vengeance Aura Damage
+35 Movement Speed	20	+65 Damage
+100 Magic Missile Damage	15	+8 all stats
+25 Attack Speed	10	+8% Magic Resistance

Notes:

• The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.

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

• Stacks diminishingly with other magic resistance sources.
  • Increases Vengeful Spirit's magic resistance to 31%.

• 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

Vengeful Spirit Equipment (expand sets) Sets Acrimonies of Obsession Blessing of the Crested Umbra Contessa's Creed Dark Reclamation Downfall of the Howling Hearth Dreadhawk Armor Echoes of the Eyrie Flightless Fury Omen's Embrace Regal Ruin Resentment of the Banished Princess Shadows of the Fall Vestments of the Alary rive Vestments of the Fallen Princess Vision of the Seraph Scion Weapon Scree'auk's Talon Head Crown of the Merciless Shoulder Crimson Mournful Reverie Mournful Reverie Taunt Taunt: The Royal Raspberry

Trivia

• Magic Missile is the first offensive spell available for arcane spellcaster classes in the famed RPG series, Dungeons & Dragons.
• Previous designs of Vengeful Spirit showed her with a mask that looked similar to her Vengeance Aura ability icon.
• Vengeful Spirit's fun name, "820", is a tribute to former professional DotA player 820.
• In DotA1, she was the sister of Mortred, the Phantom Assassin, and her name was Shendelzare Silkwood. In Dota 2, her lore was changed so that she became affiliated with the Skywrath, thus switching her affiliations to Dragonus, the Skywrath Mage.
• In the transition to Dota 2, her aura's name was changed from Command Aura to Vengeance Aura.

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