Templar Assassin

Psionic Trap
Duration	Permanent
Hit Points	100
Armor	0
Movement Speed	100
Sight Range	300/300
Bounty	1
Experience	12
Notes	Although a move speed of 100 is displayed in the game for Psionic Traps, they cannot move.

Templar Assassin
Templar Assassin
The Radiant
The Radiant
Movement Speed	305
Turn Rate	0.7
Sight Range	1800/800
Attack Range	140
Missile Speed	900
Attack Duration	0.3+0.5
Cast Duration	0.3+0.51
Base Attack Time	1.7

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Lanaya the Templar Assassin is a short-ranged Agility hero capable of dealing huge bursts of Physical damage to swathes of enemies with expert positioning and timing. Unlike most physical damage dealers, Lanaya reaches her damage potential quite early and then scales up from that point with carry items, letting her gank with impunity throughout the mid-game, and her range changes from a melee hero to a ranged hero with short reach as she levels Psi Blades.

Her Psionic Traps provide map control and the ability to chase down fleeing heroes from up to 2000 range, and Refraction and Meld lets you shrug off high-damage nukes and disjoint projectiles. With a Blink Dagger, Lanaya can quickly materialize in the enemy team's weakest flank and shred several heroes at once with her Meld and Psi Blades.

[edit] Bio

Lanaya, the Templar Assassin
Play "Where mind meets matter, those are the temple steps from which the mysteries may be glimpsed."
Role:	Carry / Escape
Lore:	Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws--peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners. As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed.
Voice:	Linda K. Morris (Responses)

[edit] Abilities

Refraction

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Ability	Affects	Damage
No Target	Self	Physical

Manipulating her psionic veil, Templar Assassin becomes highly elusive, avoiding damage while gaining a bonus to her damage. These effects are separate, and have a limited number of instances.

Duration: 3/4/5/6 attacks or 17 seconds
Bonus Damage: 20/40/60/80

17

100

Manipulating her psionic veil, Lanaya bends nature's law to her will.

Notes:

Direct HP Removal does not trigger the damage block.

The instance blocking and damage bonus are independent of each other.

Only instances of more than 5 damage (after all reductions) will remove a charge.

Refraction "bonus damage" icon: $Refraction damage icon.png$

While Refraction's damage block is active, Lanaya and her allies will see a visual effect around her (a white "forcefield"). This is not visible to the enemy.

Whenever Refraction blocks an instance of damage, a small visual effect will occur. This is visible to both allies and enemies.

While Refraction's self-damage bonus is active, Lanaya gains a visual effect (her psi-blades will be longer and glow more). This is visible to both allies and enemies.

Meld

Ability	Affects	Damage
No Target	Self	Physical

Templar Assassin conceals herself, gaining invisibility while remaining still. On the next attacked enemy unit, Lanaya will reduce its armor and deal bonus damage to it.

Invisibility Duration: Indefinite
Bonus Damage: 50/100/150/200
Armor Reduction: 2/4/6/8
Armor Reduction Duration: 10

7

50

Lanaya is as elusive as her covenant with the Hidden Temple.

Notes:

Doesn't work against towers.
Meld is broken by any action, including moving. Thus, to use it as a nuke, you need to immediately attack right after Melding.

The bonus damage and armor reduction is only applied if Meld is broken by attacking a unit.

The armor debuffs don't stack with each other.

The invisibility has a fadetime of 0.001 seconds.

Meld places a buff on the Templar Assassin rendering her invisible. It is not channeling spell, and will therefore not be broken by stuns or silence.

Psi Blades

Ability	Affects	Damage
Passive	Enemies	Pure

Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked unit, spilling and damaging enemy units directly behind it, while gaining bonus attack range.

Bonus Attack Range: 60/120/180/240
Spilled Damage Area of Effect: 80 width, 615/655/695/735 length
Spill Range: 590/630/670/710

Damage will only be blocked if magic immune unit is not the primary target.

Illusions can use the bonus attack range, but not the damage spill.

Her blades pierce the skin as much as the mind, furthering her understanding of the mystery that is reality.

Notes:

Spilled damage hits invisible units.

Attack effects (like Unique Attack Modifiers) will only will be applied to the primary target.

Trap

Ability
No Target

Springs the nearest trap, slowing nearby enemies.

Range: 2100
Radius: 375
Slow: 50%
Duration: 5

0.5

Notes:

Learned when Psionic Trap is learned.

Triggering the nearest trap will make Lanaya pause and perform an animation. When triggering a trap manually by clicking on the trap you can avoid this animation from being executed.

Psionic Trap

Ability
Target Point

Templar Assassin places mystical traps that invisibly monitor enemy movement. When sprung, at her command, they exert a slowing influence of 30% in the area. Traps charge up to slow more by 5% for each second up to 50%

Cast Range: 2000
Maximum Traps: 5/8/11
Fade Time: 2
Trap Duration: Permanent

11/9/7

15

Calling upon the reach of the Hidden Temple, none escape the eye of the Templar.

Notes:

Traps are magic immune and have 100 HP.

Traps do not prevent neutral creeps from spawning.

Traps have 400/400 vision range.

Psionic Trap has a gold bounty of 1.

It will take 4 seconds after the trap is placed to reach the maximum slow of 50% from the trap

[edit] Psionic Trap ability

Spring Trap

Ability
No Target

Springs the trap, slowing nearby enemies.

Radius: 375
Slow: 50%
Duration: 5

0.5

Notes:

Cast from the trap itself.

[edit] Recommended items

Explanation:

A Blink Dagger is essential to reach Lanaya's maximum potential, as it opens up a world of possibilities. Perhaps most importantly, it allows her to make full use of Psionic Trap's slow for her attacks as she can immediately jump on the enemy after detonating one, also having the luxury of using a Meld-into-immediate attack combo for further damage. Choosing exactly which point to Blink at will also maximise the potential AoE damage of Psi Blades. Blink Dagger also serves as an effective escape mechanism; combined with Refraction's damage block, Meld's invisibility and Psionic Trap's slow, Lanaya becomes incredibly difficult to take down.
Desolator gives Lanaya an orb effect that decrease the opponent's armor. That combined with the armor reduction of Meld and its innate damage increase will pump Templar Assassin's DPS to a new height. With it and max level of Meld, you will be deducting 14 armor directly with one Meld, not including if you got a Medallion of Courage, which will give another -6 armor for a total of -20 armor. Assault Cuirass also gives a radius of -5 armor, which combined with everything else, gives an astonishing -25 armor where everything were to proc in the given time. That means Lanaya's physical damage output is theoretically one of the highest in Dota 2.

[edit] Equipment

[edit] Tips

Refraction is highly desirable to level up first, as the increased number of instances is key in playing mindgames. The attack damage increase is also significant.
Although leveling Meld will give Lanaya even more damage, it can be difficult to get in attack range to use it effectively without points in Psi Blade. If your team has disables that will give you time to move up into range, or if you have the advantage and can rush a Blink Dagger, Meld is a good choice. Otherwise, Psi Blade will grant you a bit more presence and safety during fights.
Use Psi Blades as a harass. It has a great spill radius, and not only can it be used to farm more effectively, but also to harass heroes. (If you are soloing the mid lane or otherwise.)
Place Psionic Traps at the rune spawn points to gain vision.
- A ward will still be better for more vision of the surroundings, and to free up traps for your own usage.
Denying with Refraction active will not use up a charge. To play the hero to maximum efficiency, use denies + the spill damage from Psi Blades to get your last hits. This will effectively give you unlimited offensive refraction charges.

[edit] Trivia

In DotA, Templar Assassin makes numerous references to the game Starcraft, another famous RTS game by Blizzard. Her ability to manipulate psionic energy, the psi blades she wields, and the mention of her master being originally from Aiur in her DotA biography all apply to the Protoss, one of the three main races of the game.