Ancient Black Dragon

Ancient Black Dragon

 

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Ancient Black Dragon
Ancient Neutral Creep
Health 2000 +2 Mana 500 +1 Level 6 Armor 4 Magic Resistance 30% Status Resistance 0 Attack Damage ▶️ Default 62 ‒ 68 Attack Range 300 Acquisition Range 300 Attack Speed 135 • 2s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.5 Projectile Speed 1500 Move Speed ▶️ 300 (100) Turn Rate 0.9 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 800 Bounty 78–82 Experience 124 Model Scale 1 Abilities Fireball Splash Attack Dragonhide Aura Intern npc_dota_neutral_black_dragon

Ancient Black Dragon is a neutral creep found in:

• Dragon Camp

Abilities

Fireball

▶️QF

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

The Black Dragon hurls a fire blast on the ground, igniting the area in a 300 radius for 8/9/10/12 seconds. Enemies caught in the fire will take 85 damage per second.

Cast Animation: 0.3+1.1

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 300

Damage per Second: 85

Debuff Duration: 8/9/10/12

 15

 200

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Holy Persuasion increases the level of certain persuaded creeps' ability by 1 and unlocks the 4th ability level.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_black_dragon_fireball

Undispellable

• Deals 42.5 damage in 0.5-second intervals, immediately upon cast, resulting in 17/19/21/25 damage instances.

• Can deal up to 722.5/807.5/892.5/1062.5 damage to a single unit (before reductions).

• Multiple instances of Fireball on the same area stack, with each cast dealing damage to units within range.

• Provides 300 radius flying vision at the targeted area for its duration. The vision does not linger.

• As a neutral unit:
  • The dragon never uses this spell.

• As a player-controlled unit:
  • No restrictions.

• Has a cast backswing of 0.8 when cast by Doom (acquired through Devour).

• Has a cast backswing of 1.07 when cast by Rubick (acquired through casting Spell Steal on Doom).

• Fireball has 4 levels by default, but the 4th level can only be unlocked by the following sources:
  • Holy Persuasion
  • Helm of the Overlord's Dominate

Splash Attack

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

The Black Dragon's explosive attacks are felt by all nearby enemies.

Splash Radius: 250

Splash Damage: 100%

Modifiers [?]

modifier_black_dragon_splash_attack

Undispellable

• When the attack misses or is disjointed, no splash damage is dealt.

• Splash damage is affected by Damage Block.

Dragonhide Aura

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies

The Ancient Black Dragon's dreaded presence grants nearby allies additional armor. This bonus can stack with itself.

Neutral Radius: 800

Player-Controlled Radius: 1200

Armor Bonus: 3

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Modifiers [?]

modifier_black_dragon_dragonhide_aura

Undispellable

modifier_black_dragon_dragonhide_aura_bonus

Death

• Multiple instances of the aura fully stack.
  • When player-controlled, all neutral creep auras have a 1200 radius.
  • Does not affect invulnerable units.
  • The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

Innate

Neutral Upgrade

Ability
Passive

Affects
Neutral Units

Neutral creeps now increase their stats as time passes by.

Max Stack: 30

Upgrade Interval: 450

Health Bonus per Interval: 30

Armor Bonus per Interval: 0.5

Base Attack Damage Bonus per Interval: 3

Attack Speed Bonus per Interval: 5

Gold Bounty Increase per Interval: 1

Experience Bounty Increase per Interval: 5

Modifiers [?]

modifier_neutral_upgrade

Undispellable

modifier_neutral_sleep_ai

Undispellable

• Each upgrade interval is at 7.5 mins after the game horn.
  • Instantly updates all existing neutral creeps upon each upgrade interval.

• Grants the following total permanent bonuses at max stacks during the 225^th minute (3:45:00 game-time):
  • 900 health bonus.
  • 15 armor bonus.
  • 90 base attack damage bonus.
  • 150 attack speed bonus.
  • Additional 30 and 150_XP bounty.

• The total values on each upgrade cycle can be seen in each of the camps' articles.

• Additionally, certain neutral creeps' abilities instantly update their ability level every 15 mins, up to 2 times, after the game horn.

Recent Changes

Version

Description

7.33

• Rescaled Fireball debuff duration from 10 to 8/9/10/12. [?]

7.31

• Rescaled attack damage from 48‒81 to 62‒68.
• Reduced magic resistance from 50% to 30%.
• Increased base attack time from 1.5 to 2.
• Increased attack speed from 100 to 135.
• Reduced attack point from 0.94 to 0.5.
• Reduced attack backswing from 0.56 to 0.5.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.9.
• Reduced gold bounty from 108‒137 to 78‒82.
• CHANGED
  defense class from Basic to Default. [?]
• Dragonhide Aura is now a 800 radius aura when unit is not player-controlled. [?]

7.30c

• Increased Fireball mana cost from 100 to 200.