Witch Doctor

Zharvakko, the Witch Doctor, is a ranged intelligence hero who can take on the role of a support or a ganker. A master of voodoo curses and healing arts, he possesses several positioning-dependent crowd control/damage spells as well as a heal that scales well into the late game. Maledict is one of the most powerful damaging spells in the game, and is fittingly enough quite hard to hit properly - but when applied at the right time, Malediction can curse someone to suffer a slow, humiliating death as they limp back towards safety. Paralyzing Cask is a somewhat-unreliable stun that requires multiple enemies to bounce between to be effective, but can provide a barrage of stuns to the enemy team if they are grouped together. Death Ward has the potential to be one of the most damaging ultimates in the game so long as he is able to channel the spell uninterrupted.

Talents

 * Upgrading health increases maximum health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.
 * The armor and attack damage are added as bonus armor and bonus attack damage, and therefore do not benefit illusions.
 * Respawn reductions cannot reduce respawn time below 1 second.
 * The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.

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History
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Trivia

 * Witch Doctor is sometimes called "The Walking Fountain", referring to his support abilities Voodoo Restoration and Death Ward.
 * Witch Doctor's last hit response Wdoc lasthit 05.mp3 "Pills here!" is a reference to Left 4 Dead, another title from Valve, where the players can notify the other survivors that they found pills. The survivors would say "Pills here" upon finding some.
 * Witch Doctor's original name in DotA was Vol'jin, a reference to the character from the Warcraft universe. Vol'Jin is the warchief of the playable race, the Trolls.
 * Witch Doctor's fun name in DotA was Moose, taken from the player DL.Moose who played the Witch Doctor.
 * His dying line Wdoc death 10.mp3 "Bad medicine.." is likely a reference to Bon Jovi's popular old classic Bad Medicine.
 * The line Wdoc kill 03.mp3 "Ask not for whom the spell tolls." is a reference to John Donne's poem "Meditation XVII".
 * It could also be a reference to the thrash metal Group Metallica, with their song For Whom the Bell Tolls