Lone Druid

Sylla, the Lone Druid, is an adaptable and versatile ranged or melee agility hero, who summons a Spirit Bear, which has its own set of abilities and can equip items, as his ally. With the help of his Spirit Bear, he can carry, jungle, and push lanes effectively. Because of this, technically speaking, the Spirit Bear and Lone Druid himself are two available heroes at once. The Lone Druid himself is mostly played as the aura giver, while the Spirit Bear is played as the main damage dealer and tank. When he activates his abilities, it will not only buff him but the Spirit Bear as well. Lone Druid is versatile as he can change from a fast ranged warrior to a tough and mighty melee bear himself. Together, they can push the lanes effectively, farm Neutrals in a clinch, and can take down Roshan by themselves if equipped with the right items. Due to the Spirit Bear, Lone Druid can have up to 12 items making him extremely formidable as he scales into the late game.

Various mechanics

 * Items
 * The cooldown of an item is bound to the item itself, and not to the unit holding the item. This means that giving the bear an item which already is on cooldown, is still on cooldown in its inventory, it does not get refreshed for the bear.
 * If the Spirit Bear has an item on cooldown, and then receives the same item again from Lone Druid but off cooldown, the newly received item is usable right away, despite the other one being still on cooldown. Using it puts it on cooldown and restarts the cooldown of the other one.
 * However, when an item went on cooldown due to a shared cooldown (e.g. going on cooldown because of  getting used, or when having multiple ), it is not on cooldown when given to the bear, since the item itself was not used to proc the cooldown.
 * functions on the Spirit Bear as it does on couriers. This means it does not reveal invisible units when held by Spirit Bear. It is still dropped when Spirit Bear dies.
 * Spirit Bear cannot pick up the, but can attack (destroy) it.
 * Spirit Bear can pick up and consume it normally.
 * s on the Spirit Bear work exactly like how they do for heroes. It can be purchased normally, and manually dropped from the inventory. It is muted when given to allies.
 * It is possible to swap an original Rapier between Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, as it is not muted like how it is for allies. When picked up by an enemy, it turns into a free Rapier as usual.
 * The Spirit Bear can pick up free Rapiers. But just like heroes, it cannot manually drop a free Rapier from its inventory. This means free Rapiers cannot be swapped between Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear like an original Rapier.
 * Divine Rapiers carried by the Spirit Bear drop on its death.


 * Runes
 * Spirit Bear can activate any rune.
 * When activating s, Lone Druid gains gold and experience from it.
 * When activating the, nothing happens, since only heroes can have illusions of themselves. All other runes work normally and fully for the Spirit Bear.
 * The Spirit Bear can also attack runes to deny them, like other units.
 * Spirit Bear can bottle runes and use runes like heroes. Its also gets refilled when doing so.
 * The team chat message displays "Lone Druid", and not "Spirit Bear" when it uses runes.

Talents

 * The attack range bonus only affects Lone Druid's ranged attacks. His attack range while in is not increased.
 * Upgrading health increases maximum health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.
 * The attack damage and armor bonuses to the Spirit Bear are applied immediately upon selecting the talents. No re-summoning required.
 * The attack damage is added as bonus attack damage, and therefore does not benefit illusions.
 * Respawn reductions cannot reduce respawn time below 1 second.
 * The extra duration to is not shown in the HUD. Also, only the hero duration is increased, the creep duration is unaffected.

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Audio
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History
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Trivia

 * Lone Druid's original name was "Syllabear", a pun on the name of Syl-lab-le, one of the developers who worked with Guinsoo. Before retiring, he created this hero. It has now been shortened to "Sylla".
 * Lone Druid's design, including sickle and cauldrons, is based on depictions of Celtic druids.