Pugna

Pugna is a ranged intelligence hero whose spells give him powerful nuking and pushing capability. Nether Blast is a delayed low-cooldown area nuke which also deals damage to buildings, allowing Pugna to use it as a basic nuke as well as a pushing spell. Decrepify is a unit-targeted spell that gives its target the ethereal status effect, rendering them unable to take physical damage but also slowing them and decreasing their magic resistance. Nether Ward is a ward-type ability that debilitates enemy casting, degenerating their mana while punishing them with powerful nukes based on the mana cost of the spells they cast within its domain. Pugna's ultimate ability, Life Drain, is a channeling ability which saps enemy health and grants it to himself, and can be cast on allies to give them health and mana as well. With a strong array of versatile nukes, Pugna can be a force to be reckoned with in teamfights, able to blast his foes into Oblivion with ease.

Talents

 * Upgrading health increases maximum health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.
 * The mana regen is added as a bonus and does not benefit illusions.
 * Respawn reductions cannot reduce respawn time below 1 second.
 * The cast range increase also affects the link break distance of.

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Trivia

 * According to 's rival hero taunt, Pugna is composed largely of phosphorus. Being a skeleton, he would be made of the phosphorus-containing mineral hydroxyapatite, a major component of bone.
 * Several lines of dialogue reference being Pugna's pet before he was summoned from the Nether by a wizard.
 * "Pugna" is a Latin word that translates to a few meanings, namely "fight", "dispute", or "conflict".
 * Pugna's unused response pugna ability decrep 02.mp3 "First, do no harm." is a reference to the medical principle "Primum non nocere", which is latin and translates into "First, do no harm".
 * In DotA, Pugna's title was Oblivion. While his lore and lines still mention "Oblivion" in Dota 2, this is now the name of his art of sorcery rather than his title.