Weaver

Weaver
Weaver
The Dire
The Dire
Movement Speed	290
Sight Range	1800/800
Attack Range	425
Missile Speed	900
Attack Duration	0.64+0.36
Cast Duration	0.3+0.51
Base Attack Time	1.7

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Skitskurr the Weaver is a ranged agility Hero, who isn't capable of being in the center of a battle, but can really annoy and harass his enemies in the lane. His abilities allow him to evade damage that would be dealt or already dealt to him. Weaver is a carry who can surprise wounded foes running away from the battle, hunt them down and disappear, avoiding the focus of the enemy team.

Even with Weaver's great survivability, Beginners usually find this character hard to play as he requires good knowledge of the map, timing, opponent's logic and item planning while having a very small amount of health. He is recommended for intermediate to advanced players.

[edit] Bio

Skitskurr, the Weaver
"The loom weaves and a new pattern appears."
Role:	Carry / Escape
Lore:	The fabric of creation needs constant care, lest it grow tattered; for when it unravels, whole worlds come undone. It is the work of the Weavers to keep the fabric tight, to repair worn spots in the mesh of reality. They also defend from the things that gnaw and lay their eggs in frayed regions, whose young can quickly devour an entire universe if the Weavers let their attention lapse. Skitskurr was a master Weaver, charged with keeping one small patch of creation tightly woven and unfaded. But the job was not enough to satisfy. It nagged him that the original work of creation all lay in the past; the Loom had done its work and travelled on. He wanted to create rather than merely maintain—to weave worlds of his own devising. He began making small changes to his domain, but the thrill of creation proved addictive, and his strokes became bolder, pulling against the pattern that the Loom had woven. The guardians came, with their scissors, and Weaver's world was pared off, snipped from the cosmic tapestry, which they rewove without him in it. Skitskurr found himself alone, apart from his kind, a state that would have been torment for any other Weaver. But Skitskurr rejoiced, for now he was free. Free to create for himself, to begin anew. The raw materials he needed to weave a new reality were all around him. All he had to do was tear apart this old world at the seams.
Voice:	Responses

[edit] Abilities

The Swarm

Ability Type	Targeting Type	Allowed Targets
Active	Point	Enemy Units

Weaver launches a swarm of 12 beetles that latch on any enemy unit in their path, attacking and reducing armor until it is killed.

Range: 3000
Beetle Duration: 8/12/16/20
Damage Per Attack: 15/20/25/30
Armor Reduced Per Attack: 1

36/33/30/27

100

Skitskurr opens a gap in the space time fabric, allowing young Weavers to slip through and aid him in combat.

Notes:

Beetles are magic immune, but can be killed in 4 attacks from a hero, or 8 from other units.

Every 1.5 seconds, the beetle will attack its target, dealing damage and reducing the target's armor by 1 until the beetle is killed or the duration expires.

Beetles provide 321/321 sight, but will drop off their target if it becomes invisible.

Shukuchi

Ability Type	Targeting Type	Allowed Targets
Active	Instant	Enemy units

Weaver shifts out of visibility, gaining the ability to move at maximum speed through physical units--doing harm to any enemies it passes through.

Radius: 175
Duration: 4
Damage: 90/100/110/120

12/10/8/6

60

As the Weavers worked in the fabric of creation, small wormholes allowed them to slip through time to better work their craft.

Notes:

Damage type: magical

Can only damage a unit once per cast.

Gives Weaver maximum movement speed for the duration.

Fade time: 0.25 seconds

Geminate Attack

Ability Type	Targeting Type	Allowed Targets
Passive	N/A	Enemy units and towers

Allows Weaver to dispatch two swarms, attacking an enemy twice.
The extra attack will not trigger other attack effects (such as critical strike) and overrides Unique Attack Modifiers.

Number Of Extra Attacks: 1

6/5/4/2.5

Skitskurr's relationship with time is somewhat variable, causing his actions to be witnessed - and felt - more than once.

Notes:

The extra attack will never trigger attack effects (unique attack modifiers, bash, and critical strike).

Can affect towers.

Will never trigger extra attack during Shukuchi (first hit, the one removing invisibility).

It is beneficial to spend full 4 seconds for positioning ourselves and timing attack so projectiles set off as close after Shukuchi falls off as possible.

Time Lapse

Ability Type	Targeting Type	Allowed Targets
Active	Instant	Self

Weaver warps backward to whatever position it was in five seconds earlier--regaining the HP and mana from that time. No effect on cooldown, gold or experience.

Time Warped: 5

60/50/40

150/75/0

If Skitskurr does not deem the current reality of the world to fit his desires, he simply crawls back in time to right what was wronged.

Notes:

Removes negative buffs from Weaver.

[edit] Recommended Items

Explanation:
Weaver has excellent survivability with Shukuchi and Time Lapse. This means Weaver can safely spend gold on DPS items relatively early in the game. Geminate Attack makes raw damage items very effective on Weaver. (The extra attack does not trigger attack effects, so the benefit of items that provide those effects is not multiplied by Geminate Attack.) Radiance and Monkey King Bar are common choices because they give so much bonus damage. Also, Radiance's Burn Damage complements Shukuchi in two ways: to effectively chase down fleeing heroes with Shukuchi's bonus movement speed, and to deal damage from the safety of Shukuchi's invisibility.

Weaver is vulnerable if disabled, or if enemies have True Sight of him. Linken's Sphere can help to block disables, such as any source of Hex, as well as abilities that give True Sight, such as Slardar's Amplify Damage and Bounty Hunter's Track.

[edit] Trivia

Weaver's original title was Nerubian Weaver, a race from the Warcraft universe [1], and his original name was Anub'seran.
Geminate Attack is frequently misread as Germinate Attack. To geminate is to double, coming from the Latin word for twin (as in Gemini).