Doom

Doom

The Dire

26 + 3.2 11 + 0.9 13 + 2.1

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 644 1594 2468 Mana 169 598 1079 Damage 53-69 103-119 149-165 Armor 0.54 2.64 6.28 Attacks / Second 0.65 0.74 0.89

Movement Speed 290 Turn Rate 0.5 Sight Range 1800/800 Attack Range Melee Missile Speed Instant Attack Duration 0.5+0.7 Cast Duration 0.3+0.51 Base Attack Time 1.7

Lucifer the Doom is a melee strength Hero with strong farming capabilities and a flexible skill and item build. He has low starting Armor, but his abilities and high health allow him to lane or even jungle quite effectively. A ruthless demon, he possesses malicious abilities revolving around greed, fire, and death. His Devour ability allows him to consume creeps, providing additional gold and allowing him to absorb any powers that creep had, which potentially allows him to have up to six total hero skills. His other main abilities Scorched Earth and LVL? Death, provide him mobility/sustenance and spammable nuke, respectively. Finally, his namesake ult Doom serves as one of the strongest single target lockdown abilities in the game. A unit afflicted with Doom takes intense damage over a lengthy duration, while having all his active abilities - even those from items - completely silenced. With the ability to farm a lot of expensive items very quickly and the ability to render an enemy hero completely useless during a teamfight, Doom can quickly become a walking nightmare on the battlefield.

Bio

Lucifer, the Doom Play "The seven hells hunger." Role: Durable / Carry / Nuker Lore: He that burns and is not consumed, devours and is never sated, kills and is beyond all judgment--Lucifer brings doom to all who would stand against him. Bearing away souls on the tip of a fiery sword, he is the Fallen One, a once-favored general from the realm behind the light, cast out for the sin of defiance: he would not kneel. Six times his name was tolled from the great bell of Vashundol. Six and sixty times his wings were branded, until only smoking stumps remained. Without wings, he slipped loose from the tethers that bound him within the light and he fell screaming to earth. A crater in the desert, Paradise lost. Now he attacks without mercy, without motive, the only living being able to move freely between the seven dark dominions. Lashed by inescapable needs, twisted by unimaginable talents, the Doom carries his own hell with him wherever he goes. Defiant to the last. Eventually, the world will belong to Doom. Voice: John Patrick Lowrie (Responses)

Abilities

Devour Q E Ability Affects Target Unit Creeps Consumes an enemy or neutral creep, acquiring any special abilities that it possessed. Range: 300 Gold Bonus: 25/50/75/100 70/60/50/40 60/50/40/30 Lucifer's appetite and greed are never sated.

Notes: Can target all creeps other than Ancient, Mechanical or Hero-Creeps (like Warlock's Golem or Visage's Familiars.) Can only gain the abilities of neutral creeps. Goes through Magic Immunity. However, Golems cannot be devoured. If a neutral creep who possesses abilities is targeted, you gain all its active and passive abilities until you replace them with another creep's abilities. Devouring a creep without abilities will do nothing. Gives Doom the original bounty of the creep, along with the bonus gold corresponding to each level of the skill. The less HP a unit has when it is devoured, the less time it will take Doom to devour it. It takes one second for Doom to devour 20HP from the devoured target.

Scorched Earth W T Ability Affects Damage No Target Enemies Magical Carpets the nearby earth in flames, damaging enemies while Doom gains bonus HP regen and increased movement speed. Radius: 600 Duration: 10/12/14/16 seconds Damage/Heal Per Second: 12/18/24/30 Movement Speed Bonus: 16% 60/55/50/45 60/65/70/75 The Fallen One spreads destruction in his wake, sparing none from the flame which sustains him.

Notes: The flames follow Doom for the duration of the ability. The regeneration and increased move speed from Scorched Earth are also conferred upon other units Doom controls. Total damage dealt/healed: 120/216/336/480

LVL? Death E V Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemy Heroes Magical Dissipates a piece of an enemy Hero's soul, mini-stunning and dealing bonus damage equal to 20% of the target's maximum health when the enemy's level is a multiple of a specific number or 25. Range: 600 Damage: 125/175/225/275 (+ Bonus damage equal to 20% of the target's max health) Level Multiple: 6/5/4/3 or 25 8 110 Lucifer shares the fire branding bestowed upon him at the time of his exile.

Doom R D Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Universal Inflicts a curse that prevents an enemy Hero from casting spells or using items, while taking damage over time. Doom also disables most passive abilities. Range: 550 Duration: 15 (16*) Damage Per Second: 30/50/70 (50/80/110*) 110 150/200/250 Increases damage and duration. Duration doesn't count down while the target is within 550 of Doom. When a name is tolled from the bell of Vashundol, doom is sure to follow.

Notes: Unlike other silences, Doom prevents the target from using items and disables some passive abilities. While the list of exceptions and peculiarities regarding which passive abilities Doom disables is available on Play DotA, in general it is only vital to know that critical strike, evasion, non-aura based lifesteal and bash (though not Greater Bash) are disabled for Doomed targets. Units afflicted by Doom can be denied by their allies when their HP drops below 25% of their maximum health. Total damage dealt over time: 450/750/1050 (800/1280/1760*)

Recommended items

Explanation: Stout Shield and Tango/Healing Salve are taken first to let you stay on lane until you get other items. Ring of Health (later Vanguard) is taken fast to be able to stay in lane even after being harassed. Ring of Basilius is taken for the cheap mana regeneration and armor you will need. Radiance is rushed to make it more effective (the earlier the better). Phase Boots are chosen over the others as it gives you a really powerful normal attack and being able to move through units (which is great as Doom's collision box is huge) as well as improving your chase with Radiance and Scorched Earth, the activated movement speed also stacks with the movement gained from Scorched Earth. Shiva's Guard can be useful to solve both of Doom's major problems: A lack of armor and a small mana pool. It also works nicely with his scorched earth to clear waves or jungle camps, and to catch up to targets in fights. Any other items from the armor department particularly, makes Doom even harder to kill, as well as harassing/weakening the opposing team.

Tips

• Doom has very poor Agility gain and one of the lowest starting armor in the game so it is essential to tank him up with armor items such as Assault Cuirass and Shiva's Guard to make his high HP go farther against physical attacks.
• Be aware of heroes that commonly build Linken's Sphere as casting Doom on them will result in it being completely wasted. Cast LVL? Death on them first to burn the Linken's Sphere cooldown before casting Doom.
• Cast Doom early in teamfights - the huge 15 second duration can render spell-dependent nukers such as Zeus or Lina virtually useless. Alternatively, if you can catch a hero carrying key support items like Mekansm and Pipe of Insight you can prevent those items from being used during the subsequent fight.
• Make use of Devour's ability steal to give yourself and your team useful neutral creep auras like regeneration, swiftness or bonus damage. One of the best lategame option is a wolf pack leader with passive critical hit chance (20 % for 2x damage) and 30% bonus damage aura. A Satyr Trickster gives you a purge spell on a very low (5 seconds) cooldown, it is a very versatile skill and it's another strong choice. A Kobold Taskmaster's movement speed aura can also be useful for ganking, chasing and fleeing.

Trivia

• Several of Doom's abilities are inspired by Final Fantasy's Blue Mages. LVL? Death was probably based off of the Level 5 Death skill. Devour is highly similar to Quina Quen's eat and cook abilities from Final Fantasy IX. His ultimate, Doom, also shares the same name of another Blue Mage ability, but the mechanics differ.
• His name, Lucifer, is the name of a fallen angel who is known as the Devil in the Bible.
• Despite his ultimate being a regular pentacle, a pentagram or pentacle is actually a symbol of protection, and does not mean evil or anything of the like, despite its current connotations. Paganism has no devil or Satan-esque figure. The picture/ability, to hold any sort of "evil", should be inverted, and due to the fact it changes direction when used on an enemy, should probably hold the face of Baphomet, too.

Update history

April 19, 2013 Patch

• Scorched Earth now shows its duration on the buff icon.

March 28, 2013 Patch

• Fixed Doom damage being blocked by Pipe.

February 07, 2013 Patch

• Fixed Doom's interaction with Monkey King Bar and Truestrike.

January 10, 2013 Patch

• Scorched Earth now only applies damage from Doom himself, not all the units affected by his aura.
• [Undocumented]Renamed Doom Bringer to Doom.

October 18, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Doom Bringer's missing tail.

July 05, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added teleport (start & end) animations for Death Prophet, Doom Bringer and Dragon knight.
• [Undocumented] Added spawn animations for Doom Bringer and Dragon Knight.
• [Undocumented] Added injured attack and injured idle animations for Doom Bringer.

June 14, 2012 Patch

• Fixed sometimes not gaining passive bonuses when devouring a neutral.

May 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Sphere working under Doom (Sphere will still block Doom).
• Added additional dialog for Earthshaker, Pudge, Storm Spirit, Shadow Fiend, and Doombringer.

March 08, 2012 Patch

• The tooltip for Doom now correctly updates when Doombringer has a Scepter.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Devour not working when eating a converted neutral creep.
• [Undocumented] Added injured animations for Doom Bringer.
• [Undocumented] Added chase animations for Doom Bringer.

December 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed evasion not being disabled properly under Doom/Chronosphere.

November 10, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Diffusal Blade's manabreak working through Doom.

October 06, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Doom gaining a ranged attack by orb walking after eating a ghost creep.

August 02, 2011 Patch

• Fixed LVL? to do bonus damage first.

July 29, 2011 Patch

• He now plays his cast animations when casting abillities from units he's devoured.

July 22, 2011 Patch

• Fixed not being able to devour lane creeps.
• Devour can now devour lane creeps.

July 08, 2011 Patch

• Scorched Earth now has no cast point.
• Doom cannot be cast on Ancients/Roshan.
• Cannot Devour another unit while devouring (mouth full, etc).
• Scorched Earth now ticks once every second for its duration.
• Scorched Earth cannot be purged.
• Scorched Earth now increases health regeneration instead of healing for X every second.
• Scorched Earth now fades immediatly when the duration expires instead of lasting for .5 longer (because it used to be an aura).
• LVL?Death now applies its damage in two events: First the regular damage and then the bonus damage.
• LVL?Death now ministuns for 0.01 instead of 0.1.
• Doom cannot be purged.
• Doom now does 13 damage ticks, starting with one at the start of the cast the last one coming 1 second before it expires.

July 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Doom Bringer so that when he devours a creep with no abilities, it does not clear his previously-acquired creep abilities.

June 24, 2011 Patch

• New Hero: Doom Bringer

Balance changelog

6.78

• Doom:
  • Now disables Feast, Backtrack, Dispersion, Juxtapose, Bristleback and Blood Bath.
  • Aghanim's Scepter upgrade duration reworked (Duration doesn't count down while near Doom)

6.77

• Scorched Earth now also affects other units you control
• Doom now has too much armor! (+1)

6.76

• Doom duration increased from 13 to 15 (and scepter from 14 to 16).

6.75

• Devour
  • Creep level restriction removed.
  • Cooldown from 60/55/50/45 to 70/60/50/40.
  • Gold from 40/60/80/100 to 25/50/75/100.
  • Manacost from 60 to 60/50/40/30.
• LVL? Death
  • Bonus damage now deals 20% of Max HP instead of a fixed amount (275).
  • Damage increased from 100/150/200/250 to 125/175/225/275.
• Scorched Earth damage/heal increased from 12/16/20/24 to 12/18/24/30.

6.74

• LVL? Death bonus damage increased from 250 to 275.

6.73

• Scorched Earth duration increased from 8/10/12/14 to 10/12/14/16.

6.72

• Doom's duration decreased from 14 to 13 seconds ( Aghanim's Scepter Doom is still 14).

6.70

• Scorched Earth damage and health regeneration reduced from 15/20/25/30 to 12/16/20/24.

6.69

• Base armor reduced by 2.
• Doom cast range reduced from 650 to 550.

6.68

• LVL? Death mana cost rescaled from 85/105/125/145 to 110.
• Scorched Earth
  • Mana cost increased from 60 to 60/65/70/75.
  • Movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16%.
• Starting intelligence reduced from 16 to 13.

6.66

• Devour
  • Max creep level from 1/2/4/6 to 2/4/5/6.
  • Bonus gold from 10/20/30/40 to 40/60/80/100.
  • Cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 60/55/50/45.
  • Mana cost from 50/45/40/35 to 60.
  • Now gains the abilities of the target neutral creep has until you devour another creep with abilities to replace it.
• Scorched Earth reworked.

Old Scorched Earth:

Large aoe castable.

MS Bonus: 10/15/20/30%

AS Bonus: 10/15/20/30%

Deals: 1/2/3/4 dps

Heals: 1/2/3/4 dps

Duration: 20

CD: 10

Manacost: 60

Cast Range: 800

AOE: 700

New Scorched Earth:

Temporary effect around you. Earth is scorched wherever you are walking.

MS Bonus: 20%

Damage: 15/20/25/30

Heals: 15/20/25/30

Duration: 8/10/12/14

Cooldown: 60/50/40/30

Manacost: 60

AOE: 600

• Doom
  • Duration from 12/14/16 to 14 (scepter from 14/16/18 to 14).
  • Damage per second from 40/60/80 to 30/50/70 (scepter from 50/70/90 to 50/80/110).
  • Cooldown from 160/130/100 to 110 (scepter from 90/80/70 to 110).

Replaced Abilities

Scorched Earth (old) W T Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Magical Carpets the earth in flames of the target area, damaging enemies while Doom gains bonus HP regen and increased attack and movement speed. Range: 800 Radius: 700 Duration: 20 Damage/Heal Per Second: 1/2/3/4 Movement Speed Bonus: 10%/15%/20%/30% Attack Speed Bonus: 10/15/20/30 10 60 The Fallen One spreads destruction in his wake, sparing none from the flame which sustains him.

Notes: Total damage dealt/healed: 20/40/60/80

See also

• Doom responses