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Dark Seer 22 + 2.6 18 + 1.8 21 + 2.7
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 640 1360 2120 2420 +0.25 +2.45 +6.09 +9.89 +11.39 Mana 75 327 771 1239 1431 +0 +1.05 +2.94 +4.89 +5.67 Armor 2 5 9.2 14.2 16.03 Damage Block 16 (50%) Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Damage 33‒39 54‒60 91‒97 130‒136 146‒152 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.69/s 0.84/s 1.02/s 1.08/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.59+0.58 Projectile Speed Instant Movement Speed ▶️ 295 Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 • 800 Legs 2 Gib Type Default Ability Upgrades Ion Shell Normal Punch

Pulls and manipulates his enemies' positions.
A cunning tactician, the Dark Seer excels at manipulating positions of his enemies. Vacuuming and Punching foes into the attacks of his allies, drawing them into the prismatic thorns of his Ion Shell. Armed only with his intellect, he Surges across the land to survey every point of conflict. At strategic locations Ish'Kafel places his Wall of Replica, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks as an army of duplicates emerge to do battle against their own likenesses.
Roles:	Initiator Jungler Escape Disabler
Complexity:	★☆☆

Bio

Ish'Kafel, the Dark Seer

▶️ "If your enemy is equal, prepare for him. If greater, elude him. If weaker, crush him."

Lore:

Fast when he needs to be, and a cunning strategist, Ish'Kafel the Dark Seer requires no edged weapons to vanquish his enemies, relying instead on the strength of his powerful mind. His talent lies in his ability to maneuver the fight to his advantage. Hailing from a place he calls 'The Land behind the wall,' Dark Seer remains an outsider here—a warrior from a realm beyond the veil of this reality.

Once a great general among his people, and a valiant defender of the god-king Damathryx, Dark Seer's army was wiped out by a much larger force in the final days of the Great Boundaries War. Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls. At the last moment, just before capture, he crossed over—then sealed the walls forever in an explosive release of dark energy. When the dust settled, he saw that he had saved his people but found himself blinking at the sun of a different world, with no way to return. Now he is committed to proving his worth as a military strategist, and vows to show that he's the greatest tactician this strange new world has ever seen.

Alias:

DS

Voice:

John Patrick Lowrie (Responses)

Abilities

Vacuum

▶️QC

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Dark Seer creates a vacuum over the target area that sucks in enemy units, disrupting them and dealing damage.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.4

Cast Range: 450/500/550/600

Effect Radius: 400/450/500/550 ( 500/550/600/650)

Damage: 40/110/180/250

Pull Duration: 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6

60/50/40/30

60/90/120/150

Spell Immunity Notes:

Attempts to deal damage if enemy turns spell immune before the pull ends.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dark_seer_vacuum

Strong

Ish'Kafel modifies the center of gravity to a place of his choosing.

Notes:

• The pull duration always takes 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6 seconds, no matter how far or close the units are from the center, so the speed varies.
  • Affected units are fully disabled during the pull.
  • Can pull units over impassable terrain.

• Fully affects invisible and invulnerable units (except for units affected by Cyclone from items), but not hidden units.
  • Does not affect ancient creeps.

• The damage is applied upon losing the debuff, dispelling the debuff causes the damage to happen earlier.

• Destroys trees within 150 radius at the targeted point upon cast.

Ion Shell

▶️WE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies
( Allies)

Damage
Magical

Surrounds the target unit with a bristling shield that damages enemy units in an area around it.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.7

Cast Range: 600

Damage Radius: 275 ( 350)

Damage per Second: 30/50/70/90 ( 80/100/120/140)

Duration: 21/24/27/30 ( 36/39/42/45)

 Max Health Bonus: 275

 Number of Charges: 2

 Charge Replenish Time: 9

9 ( 0)

110/120/130/140

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes Ion Shell to have 2 charges, increases duration by 15 and provides +275 Health.

Spell Immunity Notes:

Can be cast on spell immune allies.

Cannot be cast on spell immune enemies.

Ability effects persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dark_seer_ion_shell

Any

The Dark Seer slices holes into the 'Land Behind the Wall,' causing prismatic energy to seep forth.

Notes:

• Ion Shell can be cast on enemy and allied units, damaging only enemy units. The unit with the shell itself is not damaged.
  • The damage affects invisible enemies within the radius, However, the visual effects do not appear.
  • Cannot be cast on Couriers.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• Successive casts on the same unit do not stack, but refresh the duration and update the damage to the current level instead.
  • When two opposing heroes cast it on the same target, the modifier updates and starts damaging the enemies of the latest caster.
  • The modifier status, however, does not update. Whether it is treated as a buff or debuff is determined by the first cast, and not updated on refresh.

• Deals 4.5/7.5/10.5/13.5 ( 12/15/18/21) damage in 0.15-second intervals, starting 0.15 seconds after the cast, resulting in 140/160/180/200 ( 240/260/280/300) damage instances.

• Can deal up to 630/1200/1890/2700 ( 1680/2400/3240/4200) damage to a single unit (before reductions), if the enemy unit stays within range for the full duration.
  • With Aghanim's Scepter, it can deal up to 1080/1950/2940/4050 ( 2880/3900/5040/6300) damage to a single unit (before reductions), if the enemy unit stays within range for the full duration.
  • The damage upgrading talent immediately upgrades all of Dark Seer's currently active Ion Shell modifiers.

• With Aghanim's Scepter, Ion Shell also increases the max health of targeted allies by 275, keeping the current health percentage the same.

Surge

▶️ER

Ability
Target Unit
( Target Area)

Affects
Allies

Charges a target friendly unit with power, giving it a brief burst of movement speed and removes unit collisions. Allows the unit to reach maximum movement speed and cannot be slowed.

Cast Animation: 0.4+0.57

Cast Range: 600

Haste Speed: 550

Duration: 3/4/5/6

 Radius: 350

19/16/13/10

50

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dark_seer_surge

Any

Ish'Kafel once used his speed of mind to navigate the maze between the walls.

Notes:

• ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• Applies haste and grants phased movement on the target, meaning it cannot be slowed while affected.

• The area of effect talent turns Surge into a 350 radius area-targeted ability, so that it cannot directly target units anymore.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping centers the radius around Dark Seer.

Consecutive Normal Punches.
Left: 0-299 distance
Middle: 300-899 distance
Right: 900 distance

Normal Punch illusion as they appear to allies and enemies.

Normal Punch

▶️▶️▶️

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Damage
Magical

Passive cooldown attack. Causes Dark Seer's next attack on a hero to have True Strike, knock an illusion out of the victim, damaging and stunning them based on how far Dark Seer has moved in the past 3 seconds. Max power is reached after 900 distance moved.

Recent Movement Time Window: 3

Distance Required for Max Values: 900

Min Knockback Distance: 50

Max Knockback Distance: 350

Min Damage: 10

Max Damage: 300

Min Stun Duration: 0.2

Max Stun Duration: 2.25

Number of Illusions: 1

Illusion Damage Dealt: 80%

Illusion Damage Taken: 200%

Illusion Spawn Delay: 0.7

Illusion Duration: 6

14

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dark_seer_normal_punch

Undispellable

modifier_dark_seer_normal_punch_illusion_thinker

Undispellable

modifier_dark_seer_normal_punch_illusion

Death

modifier_illusion

Death

modifier_invulnerable

Death

modifier_stunned

Strong

modifier_knockback

Strong

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting Wall of Replica to be unlocked.

Notes:

• Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.

• Grants Dark Seer's attacks True Strike when not on cooldown. The cooldown triggers upon successfully landing an attack on an enemy.

• The bonus damage is dealt in a separate damage instance, and counts as spell damage.
  • This means it is not affected or considered by anything that works with attack damage.
  • This also means that it fully works with spell damage amplification and spell lifesteal.

• Constantly checks the distance Dark Seer moves and calculates the damage, knockback distance, knockback duration, and stun duration accordingly.
  • For every 10 distance moved, the damage increases by 3.222, knockback distance by 3.333, knockback duration by 0.011, and stun duration by 0.023.
  • Teleporting effects (which includes Blink) may only add up to 600 range to the distance counter, no matter how big the actual teleported distance was.
  • The distance counter never resets, so it is possible to perform multiple full power punches in a row, with the help of cooldown resetting sources.

• These are the damage, knockback distance, and stun duration values at certain distances moved in the last 3 seconds (before reductions):
  • 0 distance moved: 10 damage, 50 knockback distance, 0.1s knockback duration, 0.2s stun duration.
  • 180 distance moved: 68 damage, 110 knockback distance, 0.305s knockback duration, 0.61s stun duration.
  • 360 distance moved: 126 damage, 170 knockback distance, 0.51s knockback duration, 1.02s stun duration.
  • 540 distance moved: 184 damage, 230 knockback distance, 0.715s knockback duration, 1.43s stun duration.
  • 720 distance moved: 242 damage, 290 knockback distance, 0.92s knockback duration, 1.84s stun duration.
  • 900 distance moved: 300 damage, 350 knockback distance, 1.125s knockback duration, 2.25s stun duration.

• Normal Punch first applies the stun, then the damage, then the knockback, then the attack damage.

• The illusion is spawned 350 range behind the enemy's determined landing position, 0.7 seconds after Normal Punch was delivered.
  • The illusion can be controlled normally. It is initially ordered to attack the punched target.

• The punch particle and sound effects upgrade when the distance counter is at 300, and upgrade again when at 900.

Wall of Replica illusion as they appear to allies and enemies.

Wall of Replica

▶️RW

Ability
Target Point / Vector Targeting

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Raises a wall of warping light that slows and creates replicas of any enemy hero who crosses it. Enemy replicas serve at the Dark Seer's will. Replicas last until they are destroyed, or until the wall's duration ends.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.73

Cast Range: 1300

Number of Walls: 1 ( 2)

Wall Length: 1300

Wall Width: 50

Move Speed Slow: 50%/60%/70%

Illusion Damage Dealt: 70%/85%/100% ( 90%/105%/120%)

Illusion Damage Taken: 200%

Duration: 30

Slow Duration: 1

 Parallel Wall Distance: 600

100 ( 60)

125/250/375

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Normal Punch ability.

Spell Immunity Notes:

Creates illusions of spell immune enemies.

Does not slow spell immune enemies.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dark_seer_wall_of_replica

Undispellable

modifier_darkseer_wallofreplica_illusion

Death

modifier_illusion

Death

modifier_invulnerable

Death

modifier_dark_seer_wall_slow

Any

The Dark Seer, while unable to return to his natural realm, can channel part of the prismatic wall with powerful strength of mind, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks.

Notes:

• The values of the wall are set upon creation, and do not update upon leveling the ability up after having placed the wall.

• A wall can only create one illusion per player. There cannot be more than one illusion per player per wall.
  • This means when there are multiple walls up (with the parallel wall talent, or with multiple casts), each wall can create one illusion for each enemy.
  • This also means that when an enemy has multiple heroes ( Meepo Clones and Tempest Double), they are still limited to one illusion per wall.
  • Even if the illusion gets Enchanted, the wall still cannot create another illusion until the previous one dies.
  • When the illusion dies, the wall can create a new illusion of that hero as soon as it comes in range.

• Only creates illusions of real heroes. Does not create illusions of illusions pathing through the wall.
  • Can create illusions of Divided We Stand and Tempest Double as well, but not of Wukong's Command clones.
  • Can create the illusions of invulnerable enemies, but not hidden ones. The slow, however, is not placed on invulnerable units.

• Upon spawning, the illusions are automatically ordered to attack the heroes they are based on.

• Illusions created by Wall of Replica have a static 5 and 5_XP bounty which does not scale with levels.

• The illusions' duration is based on the remaining duration of the wall from which they originate.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the hero if the hero has a collision size of 24, and 72 if the collision size is 8. It appears either north, east, south or west from the target.

• Wall of Replica illusions are visually distinguishable for the enemies.

• The slow is applied constantly within the wall's area. When walls overlap with each, their slows do not stack.

• The parallel wall talent places a second wall 600 range behind the cast location of first wall, parallel to it.

Talents

Hero Talents
350 AoE Surge	25	Parallel Wall
+50 Ion Shell Damage	20	-40s Wall of Replica Cooldown
+75 Ion Shell Radius	15	+100 Vacuum AoE
+6 Armor	10	+20% Wall of Replica Illusion Damage

Notes:

• The armor talent does not benefit illusions.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Dark Seer/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.31

• Rescaled base strength and gain from 20 + 3.1 to 22 + 2.6.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 3.1 to 2.7.
• [U] Reduced Vacuum damage from 100/150/200/250 to 40/110/180/250.
• Ion Shell
  • Can now be cast on creep-heroes.
  • Rescaled duration from 25 on each level to 21/24/27/30.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Ion Shell duration bonus from 20 to 15.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Normal Punch illusion duration from 8 to 6.

7.30c

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Ion Shell max health bonus from 300 to 275.
• Talents:

Level 20 right talent: -30s Wall of Replica cooldown increased to -40s.

Level 25 left talent: 320 AoE Surge increased to 350 AoE. [?]

7.30

• Increased health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Reduced Wall of Replica duration from 45 to 30.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Normal Punch
    • Now has True Strike.
    • Increased max damage from 250 to 300.
    • Increased illusion duration from 5 to 8.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: +75 Ion Shell radius ➜ +20% Wall of Replica illusion damage dealt.

Level 15 left talent changed: +25% Wall of Replica illusion damage dealt ➜ +75 Ion Shell radius.

Level 20 left talent: +60 Ion Shell damage per second reduced to +50.

Level 20 right talent: -30s Wall of Replica cooldown increased to -35s.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango sustains health in the laning stage.
• Healing Salve restores health to stay in lane.
• Clarity sustains mana to use Ion Shell.
• Iron Branch boosts Dark Seer's attributes, builds up to a Magic Wand and/or Mekansm later on and can be paired with Tango for more healing.
• Enchanted Mango gives health regeneration and can restore mana in a pinch, before Dark Seer acquires Soul Ring.

Early game:

• Magic Stick gives burst health and mana in a pinch.
• Soul Ring covers most of your mana issues and allows you to constantly use Ion Shell in order to harass your lane opponents and get some last hits.
• Boots of Speed gives mobility for chasing or running away.
• Infused Raindrops gives mana regeneration and absorbs some magical damage.

Mid game:

• Magic Wand sustains health and mana in fights.
• Helm of the Dominator allows you to pull off Vacuum combos by yourself. Also, gives you an additional controllable unit to use Ion Shell on to fight or to push out waves.
• Arcane Boots increase your mana pool and allow you to restore your teammates' mana.
• Mekansm adds to Dark Seer's teamfight effectiveness and increases durability. Also his decent intelligence gain means he will generally have enough mana to use the heal.
• Blink Dagger can help you positioning to place a better vacuum wall combo.
• Town Portal Scroll allows you to be at any lane for a gank, countergank, or push in seconds.

Late game:

• Guardian Greaves restores both health and mana to team; the health regeneration and armor aura works better on wounded allies.
• Shiva's Guard grants you more punch to your Vacuum and Wall of Replica initiation, and gives you armor and intelligence.
• Lotus Orb removes debuffs from Dark Seer or an ally, as well as granting Echo Shell to reflect spells.

Situational items:

• Force Staff changes position of Dark Seer or any heroes.
• Pipe of Insight grants you and your allies protection from magical damage.
• Crimson Guard can protect your team from physical attacks in teamfights.
• Aghanim's Scepter buffs Ion Shell, making it a survivability buff and giving two charges.
• Ghost Scepter should be considered to counter high physical damage dealers, ensuring your survival to use abilities.
• Black King Bar guarantees your initiation with spell immunity to ward off almost all disables.
• Scythe of Vyse grants mana regeneration and Hex to completely nullify an enemy hero from using abilities or attacking.
• Refresher Orb allows you to use your abilities and items twice in a row if needed.
• Radiance for dealing more magical damage combined with ion shell and 17% miss chance combined with your evasion.
• Octarine Core will restore your health because of your AoE magical damage abilities and lower cooldowns for better influence in fight.

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History

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Equipment

Dark Seer Equipment (expand sets) Sets Aqwanderer Set Forgotten Tactician Gombangdae Dosa Imperial Relics Insights of the Sapphire Shroud Keeper of Oloxicam's Glass Mentor of the Artif Convert Opus of the Vizier Exile Psionic Sage The Seers Command Set Head Craniomancer Shoulder Dark General's Mantle Arms Bracers of Forlorn Precipice Golden Bracers of Forlorn Precipice

Trivia

• Dark Seer's response, "Speed is the heart of battle." is an indirect quote of Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, who said "Quickness is the essence of war."
• Dark Seer's response, ▶️ "No, I will not calm my beard." is a response to Beastmaster's and Clockwerk's rival hero taunts, both voiced by Sam A. Mowry.
• Dark Seer's Vacuum's lore is based on the military term, center of gravity, which is a concept developed by Carl Von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, in his work On War.
• Normal Punch makes numerous references to the anime One Punch Man.
  • The name of the ability references the protagonist's move "Consecutive Normal Punches".
  • The particle effects include a giant red fist striking the enemy, which looks like the fists of the protagonist.
  • The particle effect generally has an anime-style theme to it, with the static lines and whirls, the haloes, and the japanese floating texts, which are the japanese equivalents of "Pow!".
• The effect of Normal Punch punching an illusion out of the body may be a reference to the scene in Doctor Strange in which Doctor Strange's "astral form" is getting separated from his physical form.

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