Shadow Demon

Shadow Demon
Shadow Demon
The Dire
The Dire
Movement Speed	295
Turn Rate	0.6
Sight Range	1800/800
Attack Range	500
Missile Speed	900
Attack Duration	0.36+0.5
Cast Duration	0.3+0.51
Base Attack Time	1.7

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Shadow Demon is a menacing ranged Intelligence hero who is most powerful in the early game for his strong set of spells. Disruption will take an enemy out of the fight, banishing them to a shadowy world and returning on the present world, along with two demonic illusions. Soul Catcher can curse his victim with vulnerability. The cursed target takes more damage from attacks and spells and his Shadow Poison can harass any unfortunate foe he encounters. During the laning phase, Shadow Poison is his main tool for an early kill, slowly infecting them and dealing more when afflicted with the poison again and again, until the Shadow Demon chooses to take the poison to its full effect, bursting out the collected poison. Demonic Purge, his ultimate, is his key to a successful kill, the Shadow Demon greatly slows down his fleeing victim and removes all buffs of his enemy, crippling and weakening them. His spells also serve as a great support for his allies as well as a great way to gank. With a great start, the Shadow Demon will begin to dominate the battle. An ancient being of evil and darkness, Shadow Demon will soon rise again and conquer, bringing the world to despair and destruction.

[edit] Bio

Shadow Demon
Play "This time it is the demon who will do the summoning!"
Role:	Support / Disabler / Nuker
Lore:	Among the sovereign Demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane, as if sensing that mastery of this gritty dimensional nexus might be the key to total domination of all realities. Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and heirophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will. What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom Bringer and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens--and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup. Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.
Voice:	Nolan North (Responses)

[edit] Abilities

Disruption

Ability	Affects
Target Unit	Heroes

Banishes the targeted unit, removing it from play for the duration. Upon returning, two illusions of the unit are created under Shadow Demon's control.

Range: 600
Banish duration: 2.5
Illusion duration: 5/6/7/8
Illusion Damage Dealt: 30%/40%/50%/60%
Illusion Damage Taken: 150%

25/22/19/16

120

The pain of deception comes not while it happens, but when it is revealed.

Soul Catcher

Ability	Affects	Damage
Target Point	Enemies	Pure

Curses a random enemy in an area to take increased damage. The bonus damage is dealt as a separate instance of damage. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Soul Catcher.

Casting Range: 600
Duration: 12
Radius: 450
Bonus Damage: 20%/30%/40%/50%

13	50/60/70/80

Damage is blocked but does not remove the debuff

Trying to resist the Shadow Demon's corruption is mostly a useless endeavor.

Shadow Poison

Ability	Affects	Damage
Target Point	Enemies	Magical

Deals damage in a line, and afflicts enemy units with a poison effect. The poison deals 1/2/4/8 times the stack damage based on the number of stacks on the target, up to 4 stacks. Additional stacks cause 50 damage each. This deferred damage is dealt when Shadow Poison's duration is expired, or the Release sub-ability is used.

Range: 1500
Radius: 180
Duration: 10
Damage: 50
Stack Damage: 20/35/50/65

2.75

50

Bonus damage will be done immediately when purged.

The ever growing influence of the Shadow Demon can pollute the most valiant and pure of heroes.

Notes:

Shadow Demon has small vision over affected heroes.

Each stack increases the damage it would deal exponentially, up to 4 stacks.

This has a sub-ability to let you release the poison at any time.

The damage can affect a unit affected by Disruption.

Will not show stacks past 19, but will still work.

Shadow Poison Release

Ability
No Target

Releases the poison to do damage on all affected enemies. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Shadow Poison.

Demonic Purge

Ability	Affects	Damage
Target Unit	Enemies	Magical

Purges the target enemy unit, removing positive buffs, and slowing the target for the duration. The unit slowly regains its speed until the end of the duration, upon which damage is dealt. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Demonic Purge.

Range: 800
Duration: 5
Damage: 200/300/400
Slow effect: Fast recovery rate/Medium recovery rate/Slow recovery rate

50

200

Damage is blocked but slow and buffs removal are not

Once Shadow Demon no longer has any need for his collected cultist, he releases it from its subservience - and its life.

Notes:

Buff removal.

The damage can affect a unit affected by Disruption.

[edit] Recommended items

Explanation:
Starting items are not particularly important for Shadow Demon, some form of healing, a magic stick, and branches will suffice; he can purchase the courier for the team if necessary.

Mana in the form of arcane boots and other int boosting items are necessary only if you plan on using Shadow Poison largely, otherwise any other form of boots will usually suffice, even un-upgraded, but Boots of Travel are always useful for assisting allies elsewhere in the map.

Dagon works well with Soul Catcher, but it's recommended to leave it at level 1 to invest in other support items afterwards.

Support items like Pipe, Shiva's, Necronomicon, Mekansm, Eul's, and Scythe of Vyse are helpful no matter the hero, but in particular, Eul's can synergize with Disruption to extend the length of the effect. Necronomicon's summons can be used to deal extra damage on a hero affected by Soul Catcher.

[edit] Equipment

[edit] Tips

If you are facing a hero with a strong orb effect like Anti-Mage in the lane, use Disruption on them often and force them to flee from the illusions.
Shadow Poison becomes more lethal when stacked up to 5 or more, with this, you can destroy enemies heroes in the lane, even in the earliest stages. However, the mana cost is great and you should learn to control your mana or buy mana-boosting items for you to perform.
Soul Catcher synergizes extremely well with single-target nukes, such as Finger of Death, Laguna Blade, or Dagon.
Disruption can save you or teammates from incoming damage and spells.
Disruption can be used to help teammates land spells such as Torrent, Light Strike Array and even Sun Strike or Slithereen Crush. When combined with Soul Catcher, this makes for a powerful ganking combination.
Demonic Purge will instantly kill any summoned units, from Beastmaster's Quillboar to Warlock's Golem. Similar to Diffusal Blade's Purge, this can be used to destroy any summoned unit that can potentially cause trouble for your team and the battle.

[edit] Update history

February 07, 2013 Patch

Fixed some ability Backswing timing issues ( Kunkka, Clockwerk, Timbersaw, Meepo, Pudge, Spirit Breaker, Sand King, Riki, Nyx Assassin, Lion, Pugna, Shadow Demon, Batrider).

January 03, 2013 Patch

[Undocumented] Updated Shadow Demon's textures.

October 25, 2012 Patch

Fixed several "missing lane" line bugs for Puck, Mirana, Meepo, Lina, Keeper, Shadow Demon, and Windrunner.

July 26, 2012 Patch

[Undocumented] Added spawn animations for Earthshaker, Night Stalker, Shadow Demon, Tidehunter, Tinker.
[Undocumented] Added teleport start and end animations for Earthshaker, Pudge, Night Stalker, Shadow Demon, Tidehunter, Tinker.

June 11, 2012 Patch