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Dazzle 18 + 2.5 20 + 1.7 25 + 3.7
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 516 1286 2100 2408 +0.25 +2.05 +5.55 +9.25 +10.7 Mana 75 375 987 1575 1827 +0 +1.25 +3.84 +6.29 +7.32 Armor 0 3.33 7.3 12.13 13.88 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 22 28 47 53 98 104 147 153 168 174 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.71/s 0.85/s 1.02/s 1.08/s Attack Range 575 (800) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.3 + 0.3 Projectile Speed 1200 Move Speed ▶️ 305 ( 335) Turn Rate 0.7 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Dazzle, the Shadow Priest, is a ranged intelligence hero who conjures dazzling dark light to heal his allies and prevent their deaths. His Shadow Wave is a low-cooldown nuke and chain healing ability, dealing more damage to nearby enemies for each ally the wave heals. Shallow Grave makes an ally temporarily unkillable, allowing Dazzle's teammates to survive impossible situations. Poison Touch is a spammable ability that slows its target and deals damage over time. His ultimate, Bad Juju, allows for all of his spells and items to be used more frequently, while also causing his spells to temporarily reduce his enemies' armor.

A hard support with little item dependence, Dazzle's Shadow Wave nevertheless gives him the option to farm or push waves when he needs to. He also scales well into the late game, as unlike most supports his spells deal physical damage, and all of them but Poison Touch pierces spell immunity. Loyal priest of the shining shadows, Dazzle will save you time and time again.

Bio

Dazzle, the Shadow Priest

▶️ "Where my shadow falls, there falls my foe."

Lore:

Each young acolyte to the Dezun order must complete a series of rites before becoming a shadow priest. The final rite, the rite of shades, is a harrowing spiritual journey through the Nothl Realm, an unpredictable domain from which not all visitants return. Of those who do, some return mad. Others return with strange aptitudes. But all who go there are changed by their experiences.

Driven by the need for enlightenment, Dazzle was the youngest of his tribe ever to request the sacred ritual. At first the order refused him, saying he was too young. But Dazzle was not to be dissuaded. Sensing something special in the headstrong young acolyte, the elders relented. Dazzle drank down the sacred potion and sat by the fire while the rest of his tribe danced through the night.

In this ethereal dimension of the Nothl Realm, the properties of light and dark are inverted. Thus his brilliant healing light, beautiful to our eye, is actually a sinister kind of evil; and the darkest deeds are done in a dazzling glow. The elders' intuition was prophetic: Dazzle returned to his people as a Shadow Priest like none seen before, with the power to heal as well as to destroy. Now he uses his gift to cut down his enemies and mend his friends.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities

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Poison Touch

▶️▶️▶️QT

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical
( Instant Kill)

Releases a cone of poison that strikes multiple enemy units. Deals damage over time and slows the targets. Anytime the targets get attacked by Dazzle, the debuff duration is refreshed and slow is increased.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.57

Cast Range: 500/600/700/800

Starting Radius: 200

Max Distance: 500

End Radius: 300

Number of Targets: 2/4/6/8

Damage per Second: 16/28/40/52 ( 76/88/100/112)

Base Move Speed Slow: 16%/18%/20%/22% ( 56%/58%/60%/62%)

Move Speed Slow Increase per Refresh: 2%/2.5%/3%/3.5%

Duration: 4/5/6/7

 Hex Set Move Speed: 100

 Hex Duration: 1.25

 27/24/21/18

 110/120/130/140

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Causes Poison Touch to hex affected targets for 1.25 seconds.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dazzle_poison_touch

Any

modifier_hexxed

Strong

One of the few Dezun rites used for offensive purposes, the paralytic enchantment often proves useful.

• Poison Touch's projectiles travel at a speed of 1300.

• With the starting radius, distance, and end radius, Poison Touch can hit units up to 1000 range away.
  • The complete area is shaped like a cone in front of Dazzle.
  • The area starts in front of Dazzle, and not at the primary target's position.

• Targets within the cone area are not chosen randomly. It chooses the closest valid targets to the primary target within the cone.

• Deals damage in 1-second intervals, starting immediately, resulting in 5/6/7/8 damage instances when not refreshed.

• Can deal up to 80/168/280/416 ( 380/528/700/896) damage to each target when not refreshed (before reductions).

• The duration gets refreshed whenever Dazzle lands an attack on the debuffed unit. Missed attacks do not refresh it.
  • Refreshing it also increases the movement speed slow value by 2%/2.5%/3%/3.5% each time. This has no stack limit.

• This is how much movement speed one instance of Poison Touch reduces when refreshed 8 times on each level:
  • Level 1: 18%/20%/22%/24%/26%/28%/30%/32% ( 58%/60%/62%/64%/66%/68%/70%/72%) movement speed.
  • Level 2: 20.5%/23%/25.5%/28%/30.5%/33%/35.5%/38% ( 60.5%/63%/65.5%/68%/70.5%/73%/75.5%/78%) movement speed.
  • Level 3: 23%/26%/29%/32%/35%/38%/41%/44% ( 63%/66%/69%/72%/75%/78%/81%/84%) movement speed.
  • Level 4: 25.5%/29%/32.5%/36%/39.5%/43%/46.5%/50% ( 65.5%/69%/72.5%/76%/79.5%/83%/86.5%/90%) movement speed.

• Multiple instances of Poison Touch fully stack.

• Bad Juju effectively reduces cooldown to:
  • Level 1: 0/0/0/0
  • Level 2: -27/-24/-21/-18
  • Level 3: -54/-48/-42/-36

• With Aghanim's Shard, enemies are hexed on projectile impact, setting their base movement speed to 100, silencing, muting and disarming them.
  • The hex is only applied once upon projectile impact. It is not applied upon refreshing the debuff with attacks.
  • The main debuff and the hex are applied at the same time, so after the hex the target is still slowed for 2.75/3.75/4.75/5.75 seconds.
  • Poison Touch first applies its main debuff, then the hex debuff.

Shallow Grave

▶️WG

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Allied Heroes

An ally blessed with Shallow Grave, no matter how close to death, cannot die while under its protection.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 700/800/900/1000

Duration: 4/4.5/5/5.5

 Heal: 200

 36/30/24/18

 120/130/140/150

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dazzle_shallow_grave

Death

Only a seasoned acolyte of the Shadow can properly perform the rite of preventing death.

• Prevents the target from dying by setting its minimum health to 1.
  • This means the target cannot die to damage, not even damage flagged as HP removal, so that it prevents the target from dying to False Promise's delayed damage.
  • Does not protect the target against Culling Blade's kill threshold, or Wraith Delay expiring.
  • Stops Ice Blast from shattering the target when graved while below the shatter threshold.

• Damage taken is technically not reduced, so any damage event still registers the full damage.

• Can be cast on illusions and creep-heroes.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• With the level 20 talent, losing the buff in any way heals the target for 200 health.

• Bad Juju effectively reduces cooldown to:
  • Level 1: 0/0/0/0
  • Level 2: -36/-30/-24/-18
  • Level 3: -72/-60/-48/-36

Shadow Wave

▶️ED

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Allies / Enemies

Damage
Physical

Sends out a bolt of power that arcs between allies, healing them while damaging any units standing nearby. Dazzle is always healed by Shadow Wave.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.57

Cast Range: 800

Damage Radius: 185

Bounce Distance: 475

Number of Bounces: 3/4/5/6

Heal: 80/100/120/140 ( 180/200/220/240)

Damage: 80/100/120/140 ( 180/200/220/240)

 14/12/10/8

 90/100/110/120

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes Shadow Wave to dispel allies. Increases heal by +100 and damage by +100

While it is a simplistic and routine rite among Shadow Priests, the Shadow Wave is also the most critical for success.

• Shadow Wave has no bounce delay, so all targets are healed at the same time.

• Shadow Wave has the following priorites: Hurt allied heroes ➤ hurt allied non-hero units (includes illusions) ➤ allied heroes ➤ non-hero units.
  • The lower the health of nearby allies, the higher their priority. This means the lowest health units get healed first.
  • If multiple units meet the exact same criteria (e.g. only full health non-hero units are within range), it chooses between them randomly.

• Regardless of the target, Dazzle is always healed without counting towards the number of bounces, effectively healing 4/5/6/7 units.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.

• Can heal and damage up to 320/500/720/980 ( 720/1000/1320/1680) health when all bounces hit (before reductions).
  • The damage radius is centered around each healed unit. An enemy unit can get damaged by all healed units per cast.

• Bad Juju effectively reduces cooldown to:
  • Level 1: 0/0/0/0
  • Level 2: -14/-12/-10/-8
  • Level 3: -28/-24/-20/-16

• With Aghanim's Scepter, Shadow Wave applies a basic dispel on Dazzle and all healed allies.

Bad Juju

▶️▶️RW

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self / Enemies

Passively reduces cooldowns on your abilities and items. Anytime you cast a spell, all nearby enemies will have their armor reduced. Debuff stacks and refreshes duration.

Cooldown Reduction: 26%/38%/50%

Debuff Radius: 1200

Armor Reduction per Cast: 2/2.25/2.5 ( 2.5/2.75/3)

Duration: 8

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dazzle_bad_juju

Undispellable

modifier_dazzle_bad_juju_armor

Death

Each invocation of the Nothl realm helps it further permeate the surroundings of our own.

• Multiple sources of percentage-based cooldown reductions do not stack. The highest value takes priority.

• Reduces enemies' armor before the triggering ability takes effect.

• Does not trigger on active item abilities, on abilities with 0 cooldown, or on abilities which do not trigger on-cast effects.

• Places one debuff on enemies. This debuff gets stronger when it gets refreshed with successive casts.
  • A number on the icon shows how many times the debuff was refreshed, including the first cast.

• Affects invisible units and units in the Fog of War. Does not affect invulnerable or hidden enemies.
  • Does not affect Roshan.

Talents

Hero Talents
+0.5 Bad Juju Armor Reduction/Increase	25	+40% Poison Touch Slow
+60 Poison Touch DPS	20	+200 Heal On Shallow Grave End
+80 Attack Speed	15	+45 Shadow Wave Heal / Damage
+1.75 Mana Regen	10	+300 Poison Touch Attack Range

Recent Changes

Main Article: Dazzle/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35

• ADDED
  denying functionality to Poison Touch with the following conditions:
  • Affected heroes under 25% of max health and the ability effects can now be denied by an allied hero.
• Bad Juju
  • No longer affects item abilities.
  • Reduced health cost multiplier per cast from 1.5 to 1.4.

7.34c

• Increased intelligence gain from 2.5 to 2.8.
• Reduced Bad Juju health cost from 75/100/125 to 75 on each level.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +60 attack speed increased to +80.

7.34b

• Shadow Wave
  • Increased heal from 60/85/110/135 to 75/95/115/135.
  • Increased damage from 60/85/110/135 to 75/95/115/135.

Gameplay

A journey to the Nothl realm changes all its visitors, not least of which Dazzle, a young acolyte of the Dezun order. Consecrated as a Shadow Priest, Dazzle sends outs Shadow Waves to mend and maim. Foes are crippled by his Poison Touch, while allies are blessed with Shallow Grave, cheating death no matter how severe their injuries. Enemies within earshot of his incantations feel their bodies weaken, for those who cross Dazzle are invariably afflicted with an eternity of Bad Juju.
Roles:	Support Nuker Disabler
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Legs ( 2 )

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Equipment

Dazzle Equipment (expand sets) Sets Ancestral Trappings Set Darkclaw Emissary Delights of Petaluna Divinations of the Nothl Haze Forbidden Medicine Lineage Delights of Petaluna Rite of the Acolyte Priest Ritual Garb of the Father Spirits Set Shadow Flame Yuwipi Set Weapon Graveheart Staff Pipe of Dezun Venom-Herb Caduceus Back Crimson Gates of Nothl The Gates of Nothl Misc Golden Nothlic Burden Nothlic Burden Nothlic Burden of the Crimson Witness Trolltooth Necklace

Trivia

• Dazzle's weapon is based on the khakkhara, a type of staff carried by Buddhist priests.
• The current version of Dazzle was created in 6.39 (upon release, Weave was a regular ability while Shallow Grave was his ultimate), but there was another version of Dazzle, which was released in 6.00. However, this old version of the Shadow Priest only lasted for 3 version, as he was removed in 6.03. He was considered a "filler hero".
  • Upon his release in 6.00, his name was Razzle, the Shadow Priest. His Title, Shadow Priest, and his abilities and are most likely a reference to the Priest, a playable class from World of Warcraft, a title from Blizzard Entertainment. The Priest class is able to assume a Shadow Form, turning it into a Shadow Priest and has several abilities named Shadow Word and Power Word, from which some have a similar effect to Razzle's spells.

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