Vengeful Spirit

Vengeful Spirit

The Radiant

16 + 2.3 27 + 2.35 15 + 1.75

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 454 1138 1879 Mana 195 559 1001 Damage 39-53 76-90 115-129 Armor 3.78 8.96 14.42 Attacks / Second 0.74 0.96 1.19

Movement Speed 295 Sight Range 1800/800 Attack Range 400 Missile Speed 1500 Attack Duration 0.33+0.64 Cast Duration 0.3+0.51 Base Attack Time 1.7

Shendel the Vengeful Spirit is a ranged agility Hero excelling in ganks, disabling and kill hunts. Despite being a support, she is capable of acting as a semi- or even full carry owing to her huge base attack damage and her various abilities which enhance it. She has abilities that are very useful in ganks and surprise attacks. Vengeful Spirit is typically seen roaming the battlefield, searching for targets to prey on, hitting them with a powerful stun and reduce their armor making them more vulnerable and weakened. Her very presence empowers the attack of her allies and she can swap positions with others, sacrificing herself to save her ally or letting her allies take on their unfortunate victim, all for her need to exact vengeance.

Beginners will dislike this Hero very much, especially because her most important role is suicidal. And not only that, Vengeful Spirit is overly dependent with her timing, target priority, opponent logic, and game sense for her to be actually any use. She is recommended for intermediate to advanced players.

Bio

Shendel, the Vengeful Spirit "You shall be broken like my wings!" Role: Support / Disabler / Lane Support / Initiator 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, first in succession for the Ghastly Eyrie, a sister's treachery robbed her of her birthright. Snared in a hired assassin's net, she tore free only at the cost of her wings, limping away in the ultimate humiliation: On foot. With her wings shattered, she knew her people would never accept her as ruler; and in the high roost of the Skywrath flock, 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 Avilliva 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: Responses

Abilities

Magic Missile Q C Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Magical Fires a magic missile at an enemy unit, stunning and dealing damage. Cast Range: 500 Stun Duration: 1.45/1.55/1.65/1.75 Damage: 100/175/250/325 10 110/120/130/140 A simple Skywrath technique, the magic missile is Shendel's primary tool for vengeance.

Wave of Terror W E Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies HP Removal Vengeful Spirit lets loose a wicked cry, weakening the armor of enemies and giving vision of the path. Range: 1400 Radius: 300 Debuff Duration: 20 Damage: 18.75/37.5/56.25/75 Armor Reduction: 2/3/4/5 15 40 Shendel's haunting voice hints at her approaching vindication.

Notes: Damage type: HP Removal The wave does not count as damage for purposes of removing non-combat buffs or disabling items. The wave gives vision as it goes forward.

Vengeance Aura E D Ability Affects Passive Allies Vengeful Spirit's presence increases nearby friendly units' physical damage. Radius: 900 Bonus Damage: 12%/20%/28%/36% Although they may not share her undying passion for revenge, allies do draw on her fanaticism in combat.

Notes: The bonus damage provided by the aura is based on base damage and primary attribute.

Nether Swap R W Ability Affects Target Unit Heroes Instantaneously swaps positions with a target Hero, friend or enemy. Range: 600/900/1200 45 (10*) 100/150/200 Decreases cooldown, and allows swapping of non-hero units. Martyrdom is a small price to pay for vengeance.

Notes: Works on magic immune units. Trees near Vengeful Spirit and the target will be destroyed upon swapping. Interrupts channeling skills of the target.

Recommended Items

Explanation: Placeholder

Tips

• Under all circumstances max Magic Missile first.
• Besides being an effective disabler, she is a potent interrupter from Magic Missile and Nether Swap.
• Her Vengeance Aura boosts her own damage as well, so do not underestimate her autoattack.
• A ganking trick early-game is to Nether-Swap an enemy hero into a tower's range, then use Magic Missile to stun them. With the tower's help you should easily kill the hero.
• Venge is best chosen when you have very auto-attack reliant heroes like Ursa and Drow Ranger. She is also effective in helping spells that are hard to land, such as Lina's Light Strike Array.
• In large encounters your stun is best used on the enemy's support units, rather than their carries.
• Wave of Terror is an armour reduction spell with very little mana cost, and should be used in every encounter. It can be used to reveal the fog of war to scout out possible ambushes or to reveal an area for a Nether Swap.
• Nether Swap is useful in encounters to bring easily-killed enemy heroes into the range of your carries/gankers.
• Desolator should always be built, as its armour reduction stacks with Wave of Terror's; and the two together allow Venge to act as a semi-carry if she chooses.
• Vengeful spirit is an item-independent hero. That being said, she can be effective even with minimal items. She should constantly be ganking your opponents keeping enemy carries in check, warding and de-warding maps or assist in pushes. Reserve the farming for your carries.
• Nether Swap has multiple uses despite its simple mechanic. It allows vengeful to sacrifice herself for either an enemy key hero or to save an important ally from dying. Such act is sometimes essential to win a clash or perhaps even an entire game. One should not hesitate to sacrifice oneself in an encounter if it allows for one's team to get kills; Venge is not very reliant on items so it is best for her to die. One can reduce her death time with a Bloodstone if one so wishes.
• With good communication, Nether Swap allows you to escape death by swapping with an ally that has potent escape mechanism such as Queen of Pain's Blink without putting them in much danger.
• With Kunkka's X mark the spot on Vengeful, she can then swap her opponents while being returned back to her exact location afterwards, effectively saving her from imminent death.
• If being pursued by multiple heroes, Nether Swap can sometimes be used on the enemy hero most furthest from you, resulting in the pursuers to overshoot slightly due to a sudden change in direction, giving you extra time to escape in a different pathway though putting you in the opposite direction from your intended escape route.

Trivia

• Blink Dagger cannot be bought on Vengeful Spirit. If it could be, she would be able to blink to an enclosed area and then switch places with an enemy, leaving her foe potentially trapped.
• Previous designs of Vengeful Spirit showed her with a mask.
• Vengeful Spirit's fun name, "820", is given in respect of legendary DotA player 820.

Update History

October 06, 2011 Patch

• Vengeful Spirit's Magic Missile is more obviously a projectile now.
• Vengeful Spirit now has a new model and weapon.

September 16, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Nether Swap not destroying trees around the two locations.

September 15, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Nether Swap not destroying trees around the two locations.

August 03, 2011 Patch

• Updated Vengeful to new model.
• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's weapon drawing a square when an illusion.

August 02, 2011 Patch

• Vengeful Spirit: Fixed the range on Wave of Terror. It was huuuuge! now it's the cast range.

July 08, 2011 Patch

• Returning Hero: Vengeful Spirit (Rough Model)

July 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Netherswap not getting blocked by Sphere.
• Fixed Roshan/Ancients getting Netherswapped.
• Fixed Vengeance Aura not affecting Siege units.
• Fixed Wave of Terror reveal aoe being slightly lagged.
• Fixed Wave of Terror speed being lower than it should.

June 24, 2011 Patch

• Disabled Blink Dagger for Vengeful Spirit and Pudge. Disabled Quelling Blade for Kunkka.

May 26, 2011 Patch

• Fixed vision duration on Wave of Terror
• New Vengeful Spirit color pass.

March 03, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Magic Missle projectile speed.

February 19, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Wave of Terror not being lethal.

February 12, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Wave of Terror vision aoe being too small.

February 04, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Courier being affected by Vengeance Aura.
• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Wave of Terror to remove health rather than do damage, so it will no longer break things like clarities.

January 30, 2011 Patch

• 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.

Ability Change Log

6.72

• Aghanim's Nether Swap can now target creeps.

6.71

• Removed the small attack damage reduction aspect of Wave of Terror.

See also

• Vengeful Spirit responses