Attack range

Attack Range

 

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▶️ My range increases. — Windranger

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Attack range ( ) is the range at which a hero may perform their basic attack on another unit. There are two main subdivisions of attacks: melee and ranged. Attack range can be extended by certain abilities.

Definitions

The attack range itself is not what decides if a unit is classified as Ranged or Melee. This characteristic is set for each unit individually, regardless of their actual attack range. This means that it is possible for a melee unit to have a higher attack range than a ranged unit.

These are the differences between melee and ranged units:

• Melee heroes attacks hit instantly upon reaching their attack point.
  • Melee attacks miss if the target moves more than 350 range out of the hero's attack range, unless they have True Strike.
  • Melee heroes can attack up cliffs, provided the enemy is close enough to the edge to be within the hero's range.
  • Melee attackers have an extra 150 attack range when attacking Observer and Sentry Wards.
  • Melee heroes have an innate Damage Block ability, having a 50% chance to block 16 damage.
  • Certain items uses different values for melee heroes, such as Skull Basher, Quelling Blade and etc.
    • Melee heroes can use cleave.
    • Cold Attack movement speed slow and attack speed slow apply the lesser values against melee heroes.
    • The attack range bonus from Broom Handle and Echo Strike work exclusively for melee heroes.

• Ranged heroes fire a projectile when they attack.
  • The time it takes for a ranged projectile to land is determined by the hero's projectile speed and their distance from the target.
  • Projectile attacks can be disjointed, and have a chance to miss when attacking a target on uphill or higher elevation.
  • Certain items uses different values for melee heroes:
    • Cold Attack movement speed slow and attack speed slow use greater values against ranged heroes.
    • Some attack range bonuses apply exclusively to ranged heroes, such as Dragon Lance, Telescope, and etc.

Some heroes have abilities that allow them to switch between melee form and ranged form, allowing them to benefit from both forms for a timed duration.

Miss Chance

Main Article: Evasion

For melee units, if the target is farther than 350 range more than the melee unit's attack range, the attack will always miss, true strike does not guarantee hits on units outside of the buffer range. For most melee heroes attack buffer range is the sum of the hero's base attack range and 350 range.

For ranged units, they are affected by the uphill miss chance. It causes 25% of the ranged attacks to miss if the attacker is at a lower terrain level as the target. A unit is considered to be on higher elevated terrain when it is no longer visible to the player due to the terrain. This means when an enemy stands on a relatively higher ramp, uphill miss chance applies whether visible or not. It does not matter how many terrain levels difference is between them, the miss chance always stays 25%.

Acquisition Range

In order to prevent units from automatically attacking any visible enemy unit, they have a certain acquisition range. This range determines how close an enemy has to get in order for the unit to automatically attack it. Since this only goes for auto attacks, this range has no influence on units which have auto attack set to ◎ Never in the game options.

The default acquisition range is 600 for melee heroes, and 800 for ranged heroes. There are some exceptions to this mainly due to abilities.

Acquisition Range Table
Heroes		Acquisition Range
	Melee Heroes	600
	Ranged Heroes	800
	Sniper with Take Aim learned	950
	Rubick in True Form or Berserker's Rage ranged form	800
	Dragon Knight in Elder Dragon Form	600
	Lone Druid in Druid Form	600
	Terrorblade in Metamorphosis form	600

Motion Buffer

See also: Cast Range

The default motion buffer range for attack range is 250, this range prevents attacks (and unit-targeted abilities) from cancelling when the target moves out of attack range during cast time, or before reaching the attack point.

Attack Range Table

Attack Range
Heroes	Base	Modified	Talent Bonus	Notes
	700
	675	735/795/855/915	935/995/1055/1115	Chilling Touch base and talent bonus
	670		795R	Generic attack range bonus
	650
	630
	625
	620
	600		725	Generic attack range bonus
	600		700	Generic attack range bonus
	600
	575	775		Sproink Impetus attack range buffer
	575
2	575	600/640/680/720	640/680/720/760	Poison Attack cast range
			615	Generic attack range bonus
	575
1	550	650/750/850/950	750/850/950/1050	Take Aim bonus Generic attack range bonus
1	550	225		True Form attack range loss
	225	550		Druid Form attack range gain
	500
1	500	575/650/725/800		Lil' Shredder bonus
1	500	150		Berserker's Rage attack range loss
	150	500		Berserker's Rage attack range gain
	480
	475	475.3		Shadow Realm bonus
	475
	450
1	425	775/825/875/925		Arctic Burn bonus
	425
2	400	450		Burning Spear cast range
2	400	600	925	Liquid Fire / Liquid Frost cast range
			725	Generic attack range bonus
	400
	380
	365
	350
	330
1	160	240/290/340/390	360/410/460/510	Psi Blades base and talent bonus
	300
	250
	200
	175
1	150	165/180/195/210		Metamorphosis bonus
1	150	500	675	Elder Dragon Form base and talent bonus
1	150	350		Tree Grab attack range
Other Melee Heroes	150

¹ These heroes have abilities that modify their attack range.

² See attack modifiers for details.

Most abilities acquired with Spell Steal which modifies attack range also fully affect Rubick's attack range for their duration when stolen and used, with the exception of Elder Dragon Form and Metamorphosis. See Spell Steal interaction for details.

However in Ability Draft, Elder Dragon Form increases the hero's attack range if it is drafted by a ranged hero, while Metamorphosis does not change the attack range of any other hero than Terrorblade.

Modifying Attack Range

Abilities Modifying Attack Range

• Ancient Apparition - Chilling Touch
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 60/120/180/240 ( 260/320/380/440)
  Active, with cooldown and mana cost.
• Broom Handle
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 50
  Affects melee heroes only.
• Dark Willow - Shadow Realm
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 0.3
  Duration: 3.5 ( )
  Applies only to the next attack within the duration.
  Applies to all attacks within the duration with Aghanim's Scepter.
• Dragon Knight - Elder Dragon Form
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 350
  Duration: 5
  Turns Dragon Knight into a ranged hero in dragon form.
• Dragon Lance - Dragon's Reach
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 140
  Affects ranged heroes only.
• Enchanted Quiver - Certain Strike
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 350
  Cooldown: 4
  Applies only to the next attack when off cooldown. Affects ranged heroes only.
• Grove Bow
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 100
  Affects ranged heroes only.
• Hoodwink - Acorn Shot
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 125/200/275/350
  Applies only to the ability's projectiles.
• Hurricane Pike - Dragon's Reach
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 150
  Affects ranged heroes only.
• Hurricane Pike - Hurricane Thrust
  
  Attack Range Bonus: Global
  Number of Attacks: 5
  Grants the caster temporary global attack range for a set number of attacks against the targeted enemy.
  Affects ranged heroes only.
• Lone Druid - True Form
  
  Attack Range Loss: 325
  Duration: 40
  Turns Lone Druid into a melee bear form for the duration.
• Penta-Edged Sword
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 100
  Affects melee heroes only.
• Snapfire - Lil' Shredder
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 75/150/225/300
  Number of Attacks: 6
  Active, attack range bonus last until number of attacks is fired or duration ends.
• Sniper - Take Aim
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 100/200/300/400
  Passive.
• Telescope - Prescient Aura
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 100
  Radius: 1200
  Affects ranged heroes only.
• Templar Assassin - Psi Blades
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 80/130/180/230 ( 200/250/300/350)
  Passive.
• Terrorblade - Metamorphosis
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 15/30/45/60
  Duration: 1
  Attack range bonus only in Metamorphosis form.
• Troll Warlord - Berserker's Rage
  
  Attack Range Loss: 350
  Attack range is lost when toggled on.
• Winter Wyvern - Arctic Burn
  
  Attack Range Bonus: 350/400/450/500
  Duration: 10 ( Indefinite)
  

Set Base Attack Range

These abilities sets the attack range of the caster or affected unit to a value.

Set Base Attack Range Abilities

• Lycan - Wolf Bite
  

  
  Base Attack Range: 1000
  Shapeshifts the affected target into a melee wolf.
• Tiny - Tree Grab
  
  Base Attack Range: 350
  Sets the caster's attack range to the specific value.

Talents

The following heroes have a talent that grants them attack range.

Bonus	Level 10		Level 15		Level 20		Level 25
	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Attack Range		+325		+100		+125	+125	+100

Besides these, the following heroes have other specific attack range talents:

Specific Attack Range Talents

• Shadow Shaman - Talent by Level 15 Right
  
  +120 Serpent Wards Attack Range:
  
• Witch Doctor - Talent by Level 20 Right
  
  +100 Death Ward Attack Range:
  

Attack Modifiers

Abilities that are attack modifiers use different attack range values if the cast range is different than the hero's attack range.

If the ability is cast manually, using the designated Hotkey, the ability uses the cast range. When using Autocast, it uses the hero's attack range. The cast range of these abilities can be further increased by other attack range bonuses. However, it is not affected by cast range bonuses.

Attack Modifiers Abilities

• Huskar – Burning Spear
• Jakiro – Liquid Fire
• Jakiro – Liquid Frost
• Outworld Destroyer – Arcane Orb
• Viper – Poison Attack

¹ Requires talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Reductions

The following abilities reduces the affected target's attack range by a percentage.

Attack Range Reduction Sources

• Tinker – Warp Flare

Recent Changes

Main Article: Attack Range/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.29

• Underlord's attack range increased from 175 to 200.
• Pudge's attack range increased from 150 to 175

7.27b

• Doom's attack range increased from 175 to 200.

7.22e

• Skywrath Mage's attack range increased from 600 to 625.

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