Pangolier

Donté Panlin, the Pangolier, is a melee agility hero. Due to his aggressive and brawling-oriented nature, he is best played in a position where he can quickly get an item advantage over the enemy. Perhaps his most iconic skill is Swashbuckle, a trickster's tool for swordplay and mobility, and also the first and only vector-targeted ability in Dota 2. Other tools in his kit include Shield Crash, which deals an area nuke and provides him with incoming damage reduction for each enemy hero hit, Heartpiercer, allowing his attacks to slice through enemies' armor, and Rolling Thunder, during which he curls into an unstoppable rolling ball which stuns and knocks back anything it hits, at the cost of a decreased turn rate.

Just like Io, Pangolier does not need to be facing towards a unit in order to move, attack, use abilities, or items.

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Audio
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History
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Trivia

 * Pangolier is sometimes labeled in the game files as Armadillo, and other times as Pangolin.
 * Pangolier speaks some French phrases, and has a French accent.
 * A swashbuckler is an heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword and chivalric ideals.
 * Pangolier's character was likely partially inspired by The Three Musketeers' D'Artagnan (for his mannerism, hot-hotheadedness, and French phrases) and Zorro.
 * Some of Pangoliers abilities have different names in the game files:
 * : Swash
 * : Thump
 * : Shell, Gyroshell
 * : Shell Stop
 * Rolling Thunder was the name of an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War.
 * Pangolier's response to killing pangolin rival 86.mp3 "What to do with a drunken sailor? Simple. Stab him in the heart." refers to the famous folk song/sea shanty Drunken Sailor (Also known as What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?).
 * Pangolier's response to meeting as ally pangolin ally 46.mp3 "Try to look on the bright side of life." is a reference to Eric Idle's famous song Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, featured in the classic Monty Python movie Life of Brian IMDB.
 * Pangolier's response to meeting ally pangolin ally 99.mp3 "Which level of hell is your favorite, Lion? I prefer the second. Or perhaps the seventh." alludes to Dante Alighieri's famous work: Divine Comedy. There are Nine Circles of Hell in Dante's work: the second is Lust, and the seventh is Violence, indicative of Pangolier's personality. Pangolier's name  Donté Panlin also bears resemblance to  Dante Alighieri.
 * Pangolier's rivalry response towards pangolin rival 223.mp3 "In my professional opinion? You're dead." is a direct quote from the Medic from Team Fortress 2.