Oracle

Tips

 * All of Oracle's spells have great direct synergy with each other.
 * The initial damage from is fully blocked by the 100% magic resistance from, turning it into a strong heal for allies. Other sources do bonus damage though, so it can backfire if timed poorly.
 * is purgeable, so can remove the healing effect of it, turning it into a strong instant nuke with no heal for enemies.
 * doubles all healing received during it, including the healing of, making it heal a total of 198/216/324/432 health if the spell's damage is taken into account.
 * , and  together on one ally effectively makes it heal for 198/396/594/792 health once the ultimate expires, since the damage is blocked by the 100% magic resistance and the heal doubled by the ultimate.
 * in combination with, or  can grant a hero 100% magic resistance and 100% resistance against physical damage, so only pure damage is able to harm them.
 * Owing to the fact that Oracle has the lowest natural base attack time in the game (surpassed only by Alchemist after he achieves the second level of his ult), Oracle can actually be a formidable auto-attacking hero.

Trivia

 * Oracle made his first official Dota 2 appearance in the comic "The Contract", revealed on the 14th of November 2014 in the official Dota2 blog.
 * Mike Shapiro (Oracle's voice actor) is also well-known for voicing Barney Calhoun and G-Man, two prominent characters in the Half-Life series, with his lines of "Prepare for unforeseen consequences", and "Is it really that time again?" referencing those of G-man's lines in Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Half-Life 2 respectively.
 * The line "So it goes" is a reference to the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. In the novel, it is a phrase used by the aliens, known as Tralfamadorians, who perceive all time simultaneously.
 * Oracle's prophecy line for Lion is a reference to the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia book series by C.S. Lewis, titled "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".
 * The prophecy line for Void "You ought to read Chronosphere of a Death Foretold. It's a prophetic book" is a reference to the book called "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", written by Gabriel García Márquez.
 * The Oracle's Phophecy to Viper : "V is not for visions of victory, but for a victim of a vicious viper." is a reference to the quote of V for Vendetta.
 * The Oracle's prophecy to Chaos Knight "Beware the knight who commandingly demands: do you even rift?" is a reference to the internet meme "Do you even lift?"
 * The line "First blood! Out of fifty possibilities, that was my preferred" is because there is actually 50 possible first bloods (each of 10 heroes can be killed by any of the 5 opposing heroes).