Puck

Puck

The Radiant

15 + 1.7 22 + 1.7 24 + 2.4

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 435 948 1575 Mana 312 806 1313 Damage 47-58 85-96 124-135 Armor 2.08 5.86 10.48 Attacks / Second 0.71 0.87 1.07

Movement Speed 295 Turn Rate 0.4 Sight Range 1800/1200 Attack Range 550 Missile Speed 900 Attack Duration 0.5+0.8 Cast Duration 0.1+0.51 Base Attack Time 1.7

Puck the Faerie Dragon is a highly mobile ranged intelligence hero best known for being an extremely unpredictable and slippery target. Puck is commonly played as an initiator and ganker, with spells that are equally useful for super-aggressive maneuvers as well as daring escapes. Expert use of Puck's abilities will let you appear out of nowhere, suddenly leave your enemies crippled and disadvantaged, and get away in the blink of an eye - but mess up your timing or misjudge the situation, and there is little left to save this fragile Hero from death.

Bio

Puck, the Faerie Dragon Play "Stay and amuse me!" Role: Initiator / Nuker / Disabler / Escape Lore: While Puck seems at first glance a mischievous, childish character, this quality masks an alien personality. The juvenile form of a Faerie Dragon, a creature that lives for eons, Puck spends countless millennia in its childish form. So while it is technically true that Puck is juvenile, it will continue to be so when the cities of the present age have sloughed away into dust. Its motives are therefore inscrutable, and what appears to be play may in fact indicate a darker purpose or just its endless fondness for mischief. Voice: Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Illusory Orb Q R Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Magical Puck launches a magic orb that floats in a straight path, damaging enemy units along the way. At any point, Puck may teleport to the orb's location using Ethereal Jaunt. Cast Range: 3000 Travel Range: 1800 Radius: 225 Damage: 70/140/210/280 12 150 The playful Faerie Dragon delights in confusing others, vanishing and reappearing where unexpected.

Notes: The Illusory Orb grants flying vision to the area around it while it travels. The orb will travel 1800 units in 3 seconds, hitting all enemies in a 200 unit radius around the orb.

Waning Rift W W Ability Affects Damage No Target Enemies Magical Puck releases a burst of faerie dust that deals damage and silences enemy units nearby. Radius: 400 Silence Duration: 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.0 Damage: 70/140/210/280 16 100/110/120/130 With a mischievous grin, Puck spreads its enchanted powder which disrupts magical flow.

Phase Shift E F Ability Affects Channeled Self Puck briefly shifts into another dimension where it is immune from harm. Duration: 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.25 6 With a quip and flash, Puck returns to the alien dimension from whence it came.

Notes: Puck retains its collision size while phaseshifted. Puck can cancel Phase Shift at any time with any action. Puck will not receive assist gold or urn charges while phase shifted. Currently with a bug if Puck Phase Shifts while under the effects of Last Word, it will stay on Puck until a spell is cast.

Ethereal Jaunt D E Ability Affects No Target Self Shifts into the Illusory Orb.

Notes: This ability is automatically attained when the first level of Illusory Orb is learned. Ethereal Jaunt disjoints, dodging projectile attacks and skills.

Dream Coil R C Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Magical Creates a coil of volatile magic that latches onto enemy Heroes, stunning them for .5 seconds and damaging them. If the enemy hero stretches the coil by moving too far away, it snaps, deals damage again and stuns. Radius: 375 Coil Range: 750 Coil Duration: 6 (8*) Initial Stun Duration: 0.5 Initial Damage: 100/150/200 Coil Break Stun Duration: 1.5/2.25/3 Coil Break Damage: 100/150/200 (200/250/300*) 85 100/150/200 Increases damage from coil breaks and increases coil duration. The Faerie Dragon sows confusion by forcing its enemies to vividly dream about their own mortality.

Notes: Any movement ability used to escape Dream Coil will trigger the damage and stun, however the hero will still continue to their destination. Certain abilities, such as Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning and Morphling's Waveform, grant invulnerability during cast and will break Dream Coil with no effect. If a hero becomes magic immune after being linked by Dream Coil, the visual effect will still be present but the ability will not do anything if the immunity is active upon breaking the link.

Recommended items

Explanation: Early game, you may want to offset your low health with Gauntlets, Bracers, Branches, or a Magic Wand. If taking the mid lane, a Bottle is a good choice since it allows good health/mana regen, as well as better rune control for ganking. Phase Boots are excellent for ganking, which you should be doing. However Power Treads provide good stats and attack speed, as well as having the ability to switch to Intelligence treads at a moment's notice to enlarge your mana pool or your health pool. Blink Dagger synergizes very well with all of Puck's abilities. Get it as soon as possible. See the Tips section.

Tips

• Puck needs a solo lane in order to capitalize on its powerful abilities, and can easily play alone even against a dual lane because of Ethereal Jaunt and Illusory Orb.
  • Puck should generally go mid, as Puck is almost impossible to win a lane against and as such will heavily malign the enemy's midgame carry/ganker; as well as the easy access to the sidelanes for ganking that mid grants. Puck also burns mana very quickly and as such will require a bottle and runes to sustain its lane.
• When escaping from danger, always Phase Shift after you use Illusory Orb. This way, you can sit invulnerable and wait for the orb to travel before you slip away.
• The Blink Dagger is the perfect item to get on Puck, as it helps with initiating and escaping in addition to the many escape methods that Puck has.
• With a Level 4 Phase Shift and Blink Dagger, Puck can escape almost any dangerous situation with quick hands or queuing up spells. It is important to note, however, that Puck must still turn to cast abilities while phase shifted. Blinking out, for instance, can be very difficult if you wish to escape in the opposite direction, particularly if damage over time effects are active.
  • Puck's turn speed is among the lowest of all heroes.
• Phase Shift can even be used to avoid physical effects like Pudge's Hook.
• An effective Puck player uses tricks and mind games on opponents. One such example is casting Illusory Orb, running in a different direction to where you cast it, then teleporting to it.
• Mix Puck with a hero like Chen and you can use an Illusory Orb, then have Chen teleport you back to base to refill your bottle without leaving lane. Use Ethereal Jaunt to the orb before it disappears.
• Should you have a Blink Dagger, the ideal initiation combo is to blink in a group of enemies, Waning Rift, Dream Coil, shoot an Illusory Orb through as many enemies as possible but in a safe direction, Phase Shift, then use Ethereal Jaunt to teleport to the Orb. The silence from Waning Rift is more than long enough to execute this combination.
• Waning Rift is your most important skill in late-game, as its silence is a huge boon to your team.

Trivia

• Puck's alternate name was Kupu-Kupu, which means "butterfly" in the Indonesian language.
• Puck was introduced in v6.48 as result of a hero creation contest for the Warcraft III: Frozen Throne fairy dragon model held by the dota-allstars.com forums.
• Puck pays homage to a character of the same name from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; aside for Puck's playful attitude, its line "A midsummer nightmare" is also an allusion to the play.

Update history

October 25, 2012 Patch

• Fixed several "missing lane" line bugs for Puck, Mirana, Meepo, Lina, Keeper, Shadow Demon, and Windrunner.
• Updated vision values on these abilities: Unstable Concoction, Phantasm, Waveform, Storm Hammer, Mirror Image, Spirit Lance, Requiem of Souls, Spectral Dagger, Venomous Gale, Earthbind, Dream Coil, Shackleshot, Wall of Replica, Flamebreak, Deafening Blast, Ghost Ship.

September 13, 2012 Patch

• Added new lines to Puck, Enchantress, Lina, Vengeful Spirit and Windrunner.

July 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Phase Shift proccing Essence Aura.

May 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed being able to cast Phase Shift while rooted.

May 10, 2012 Patch

• Fixed attack range.
• Fixed channel time on level 4 Phase Shift.

April 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Ethereal Jaunt not dodging projectiles properly.

March 08, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented]Updated Puck's textures.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Phase Shift sometimes not dodging incoming attack projectiles.
• Fixed some types of spells (like EMP) from causing damage when already Phase Shifted.

January 19, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Ethereal Jaunt from triggering Last Word/Magic Stick.
• Fixed Phase Shift autocasting if you were already stunned before.
• Fixed being able to move in certain situations while auto-casting Phase Shift.

December 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a bug with Phase Shift that could let you use it an infinite number of times.
• Fixed endless Phase Shift during Chronosphere.

August 06, 2011 Patch

• Changed legacy keys for the following heroes: Drow Ult from P to M, Puck secondary 1 from D to E, Dazzles Ult from E to W, Enchantress ability1 from P to N.

August 02, 2011 Patch

• Illusory Orb now grants 800/800 flying vision which persists for 3.34 seconds.
• Illusory Orb no longer uses a frontal cone.
• Dream Coil no longer affects illusions.

July 29, 2011 Patch

• Phase Shift is now a channeled ability, so it displays a channel bar and allows actions to be queued after it.

July 22, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a bug with Phase Shift on autocast that could cause him/her/it to get stuck attacking Axe permanently.

July 16, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Phase Shift interaction with various spells.
• Fixed minimap icon disappearing when he used Phase Shift.

July 08, 2011 Patch

• Dream Coil will no longer do its initial attachment to invisible units.
• Fixed Phase Shift avoiding all damag while silenced if set to autocast.

July 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Phase Shift autocast not interrupting other actions (ie. continuing to move while shifted).

March 12, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a few bugs with Dream Coil interaction with magic immune.

March 03, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Dream Coil stunning invulnerable units (waveform, omnislash, etc).

February 12, 2011 Patch

• Added a modifier to indicate that you are tethered by Puck's Dream Coil.

January 30, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Puck's autocast Phase Shift not working correctly (still doesn't work correctly with disables).
• Fixed cases where creating a linear projectile directly on yourself would cause it to get stuck. This includes fixes to Fissure, Ghost Ship, Dragon Slave, Arrow, Impale, Waveform, Illusory Orb, Meat Hook, Burrowstrike, Wave of Terror, and Power Shot.

January 22, 2011 Patch

• Fixed abilities not updating their buttons when changing states. (ie. Puck's Ethereal Jaunt).

Balance changelog

6.77

• Illusory Orb cooldown decreased from 13 to 12

6.76

• Base Damage increased by 5.

6.75

• Dream Coil duration increased from 5 to 6 (Aghanim's from 7 to 8).
• Illusory Orb AoE increased from 200 to 225.
• Waning Rift damage increased from 60/120/180/240 to 70/140/210/280.

6.74

• Ethereal Jaunt now dodges projectiles.
• Phase Shift autocast removed.
• Phase Shift manacost removed.
• Phase Shift level 4 duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds.
• Aghanim Upgraded Dream Coil no longer increases the manacost from the base spell.

6.72

• Base damage increased by 4.
• Waning Rift silence duration rebalanced from 0.1/1/2/3 to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 seconds.

6.70

• Waning Rift cooldown from 20 to 16.

6.68

• Illusory Orb cooldown decreased from 15 to 13

6.63

• Illusory Orb manacost increased by 25, Ethereal Jaunt manacost (25) removed

6.52

• Lowered Puck's attack range from 600 to 550

6.48b

• Lowered Puck's Intelligence gain per level
• Increased cool down on Waning Rift
• Slightly lowered Puck's movement speed

6.48

• Created

See also

• Puck responses