Ancient Black Dragon

Ancient Black Dragon
Ancient Jungle Creep
Level	6
Health	2000
Health regeneration	2
Mana	500
Mana regeneration	1
Armor	4
Magic resistance	50%
Status resistance	0%
Attack damage	48‒81
Acquisition range	300
Attack range	300
Base attack time	1.5
Attack animation	0.94+0.56
Projectile speed	1500
Movement speed	300
Follow range	100
Turn rate	0.5
Collision size	24
Vision range	800 (G)
Bounty	108‒137
Experience	124
Model scale	1
Abilities	Fireball; Splash Attack; Dragonhide Aura;

Old Abilities

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 10 seconds. Enemies caught in the fire will take 85 damage per second.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1000

Radius: 300

Damage per Second: 85

Duration: 10

15

100

Modifiers

modifier_black_dragon_fireball: Undispellable. Persists death.

Notes:

Deals 42.5 damage in 0.5 second intervals, immediately upon cast, resulting in 21 damage instances.

Can deal up to 892.5 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).

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. Persists death.

Notes:

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.

Radius: 1200

Armor Bonus: 3

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Modifiers

modifier_black_dragon_dragonhide_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_black_dragon_dragonhide_aura_bonus: Dispellable with death only.

Notes:

The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

Multiple instances of Dragonhide Aura fully stack with each other.

Does not affect invulnerable units.

Also stacks with other sources of armor.

Since this ability is in the 3rd slot for the dragon, Doom does not get it when devouring it.

Version History[]

Version

Description

7.29

Increased armor from 3 to 4.

7.28

Reduced magic resistance from 70% to 50%.
Increased Fireball cooldown from 10 to 15.

7.26b

Increased gold bounty from 97-123 to 108-137.

7.26

Reduced gold bounty from 108-137 to 97-123.

7.20

Splash Attack
- Changed damage type from magical to physical.
- Fixed splash damage not considering armor type.
- No longer affected by spell lifesteal and spell damage amplification.
- Now deals 100% damage in 250 radius, instead of 100% in 225 radius, 75% in 300 radius and 50% in 250 radius.
Increased Dragonhide Aura radius from 900 to 1200.

7.07d

Reduced gold bounty from 120-152 to 108-137.

7.06

Reduced gold bounty from 150-190 to 120-152.
Reduced experience bounty from 155 to 124.

7.00

No longer has spell immunity.
Increased magic resistance from 0% to 70%.
Increased mana regeneration from 0 to 1.
Changed ability order from Fireball -> Dragonhide Aura -> Splash Attack to Fireball -> Splash Attack -> Dragonhide Aura.