Enchantress
Hero
Enchantress
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Aiushtha, the Enchantress, is a ranged intelligence hero who uses her abilities to push through lanes and gank with relative ease. Enchantress works well as a jungler in the early game, as it maximizes the effectiveness of her Enchant ability or, harass enemies in lane using Impetus that deals damage based on how far her target is. On first glance, she may be just a support, serving her allies with powerful heals, creep abilities and slows, but as time goes on, her power increases and once she is packed with good items, Enchantress' regular attacks are strong enough to kill most heroes with a couple of attacks if they stand far enough, while avoiding burst attacks with the help of Untouchable. This will make her a potential carry.
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Bio[edit]
Aiushtha, the Enchantress▶️ "You know what I love? Everything!"
Lore:
Aiushtha appears to be an innocent, carefree creature of the woods, and while this is certainly true, it is hardly the sum of her story. She well understands the suffering of the natural world. She has wandered far, and fared through forests bright and drear, in every clime and every season, gathering friends, sharing news, bringing laughter and healing wherever she goes. For in worlds wracked by war, forests are leveled for the building of ships and siege engines; and even in places of peace, the woods are stripped for the building of homes, and as fuel for countless hearths.
Aiushtha hears the pleas of the small creatures, the furtive folk who need green shade and a leafy canopy to thrive. She lends her ears to those who have no other listeners. She carries their stories from the wood to the world, believing that her own good cheer is a kind of Enchantment, that can itself fulfill the promise of a verdant future.
Aiushtha hears the pleas of the small creatures, the furtive folk who need green shade and a leafy canopy to thrive. She lends her ears to those who have no other listeners. She carries their stories from the wood to the world, believing that her own good cheer is a kind of Enchantment, that can itself fulfill the promise of a verdant future.
Voice:
Abilities[edit]
Places an enchantment on each attack while activated, causing it to deal additional damage based on how far away the target is. The farther the target, the greater the damage dealt.
Cast Range: 575
Distance as Damage: 8%/12%/16%/20% (
14.5%/18.5%/22.5%/26.5%)
14.5%/18.5%/22.5%/26.5%)
6/
65
Modifiers
modifier_enchantress_impetus: Undispellable. Persists death.While Aiushtha favors peaceful means, she is capable of a magical onslaught from a distance, her spears gaining energy from the natural life around her.
Notes:
- The cast range of Impetus is based on the attack range of the caster.
- The cast range can be further increased by other attack range bonuses. However, it is not affected by cast range bonuses.
- The distance is calculated as the projectile hits the target.
- This means moving away from the target causes it to deal more damage on impact, and moving closer decreases the damage.
- 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.
- Impetus deals its damage before the attack damage is applied, but still depends on the attack hitting the target.
- The damage is capped at 1750 distance, which equates to 140/210/280/350 ( 253.75/323.75/393.75/463.75) damage.
Ability
Target Unit
Target Unit
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Enchantress charms an enemy. If the enemy is a hero, they are slowed. If the enemy is a creep, she brings it under her control.
Cast Animation: 0.3+0.67
Cast Range: 700
Hero Move Speed Slow: 55%
Hero Slow Duration: 3.75/4.5/5.25/6
Max Enchanted Creeps: 1
Creep Max Health Bonus: 200/300/400/500
Creep Attack Damage Bonus: 10/30/50/70
Creep Armor Bonus: 2/4/6/8
Enchant Duration: 30/60/90/120
28/ 40/
Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled. Cannot convert spell immune units.Modifiers
modifier_enchantress_enchant_controlled: Dispellable with death only. modifier_dominated: Dispellable with death only. modifier_kill: Dispellable with death only.
modifier_enchantress_enchant_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.A true steward of the forest, Aiushtha befriends all within it - from lowly trolls to powerful centaurs.
Notes:
- Casting Enchant on heroes (including clones and the Vengeance Aura illusion) or creep-heroes slows them and applies a basic dispel on them (long sound is played).
- Enchant first applies the dispel, then the slow.
- Slowed units leave behind a trail of flowers as they move, which is only visible when the unit itself is visible.
- Casting Enchant on any other enemy unit which is not a ward or building enchants it (short sound is played). This includes all other illusions.
- Enchant applies a basic dispel on the target which removes buffs and debuffs.
- The enchanted creep also gets fully healed. Its mana does not get restored.
- Cannot be cast on ancient creeps, siege creeps, Necronomicon Warriors and Necronomicon Archers.
- Enchanting a new creep kills the previous enchanted creep.
- When an enchanted creep's duration ends, it dies instantly. The death is not credited to anyone so that no one gets experience from it.
Nature's Attendants
Cast Animation: 0.3+0.93
Search Radius: 275
Active Number of Wisps: 8 ( 14)
14)Heal per Second per Wisp: 4/8/12/16 ( 24/28/32/36)
24/28/32/36)Duration: 12
Passive Number of Wisps: 3 35 170/
Adds 3 permanent Nature's Attendants that follow Enchantress around.Modifiers
modifier_enchantress_natures_attendants: Dispellable with death only.Whimsical spirits of the woods possess a healing power that is quite subtle, but gains strength in numbers.
Notes:
- Every 0.5 seconds, each wisp chooses a random allied unit to heal. So it is possible to heal up to 8/14 allies at a time.
- The heal targets are chosen completely random, without any priorities. Multiple wisps can randomly select the same unit.
- Each wisp will approach its chosen target, indicating the wisp is healing the target.
- However, when choosing the wisps increasing talent, the visual effect does not adapt. The numbers of wisps can be seen does not increase.
- Ignores ancient creeps and allies that already are at full health.
- Wisps can heal invulnerable units, but not hidden units.
- The search radius is centered around and follows Enchantress, not where the ability was cast.
- When Enchantress dies, the wisps still continue to heal units nearby her death's location.
- Nature's Attendants does not stack with itself. Casting the ability while it is active refreshes the buff.
- Can heal a total of 32/64/96/128 health per second or 384/768/1152/1536 health over its full duration.
- The number of wisps increasing talent can heal a total of 56/112/168/224 health per second or 672/1344/2016/2688 health over its full duration.
- The bonus heal per wisp talent can heal a total of 192/224/256/288 health per second or 2304/2688/3072/3456 health over its full duration.
- With both talents, it can heal a total of 336/392/448/504 health per second or 4032/4704/5376/6048 health over its full duration.
- The number of wisps increasing
- With Aghanim's Shard, the passive wisps can heal up to 12/24/36/48 ( 72/84/96/108) health per second or 720/1440/2160/2880 ( 4320/5040/5760/6480) per minute.
Sproink
Leaps backward and dodges incoming projectiles, and launches an Impetus attack on the furthest 3 enemy units within Enchantress' attack range + 200.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Leap Distance: 500
Leap Duration: 0.4
Impetus Attacks Range Buffer: 200
Number of Impetus Attacks: 3
5 50
Modifiers
modifier_enchantress_bunny_hop_passive: Undispellable. Persists death. modifier_enchantress_bunny_hop: Dispellable with death only.Sproink is as Sproink does.
Notes:
- Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.
- In Ability Draft, Sproink can be unlocked by the player that drafted Untouchable.
- Sproink interrupts Enchantress' channeling abilities upon cast.
- Sproink disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- Leaps at a speed of 1250 for up to 0.4 seconds.
- Always leaps 180° away from the direction Enchantress is facing. Does not lock Enchantress' facing angle during the leap.
- Can leap over other units and over impassable terrain.
- During Sproink, Enchantress can attack, cast abilities, and use items.
- Halfway through the leap, at 0.2 seconds, Enchantress performs instant attacks based on the current Impetus level on the furthest 3 enemies within her total attack range, plus the bonus.
- Searches for enemies all around her, meaning it may target enemies behind Enchantress as well.
- These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, and are prevented by disarms.
- Impetus notes fully apply.
Untouchable
Ability
Passive
Passive
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Enchantress beguiles her enemies, slowing their attacks when she is attacked.
Attack Speed Slow: 120/160/200 ( 185/225/265)
185/225/265)
Grants a new ability: Sproink.
Although the debuff is still placed on each attack, it does not slow during Break.Modifiers
modifier_enchantress_untouchable: Undispellable. Persists death. modifier_enchantress_untouchable_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.After attacking Aiushtha, most opponents are overwhelmed with guilt having attacked such a natural beauty.
Notes:
- Untouchable is triggered whenever a unit starts an attack on Enchantress, regardless of distance.
- This means it does not matter if the attack successfully hits or not, the slow is still applied.
- When the attack was fully executed, then the slow debuff lasts as long as the remaining backswing duration of the attack.
- Canceling the attack backswing does not affect this duration, so it is not possible to reset the attack speed by canceling it.
- When switching attack targets, the debuff persists, but does not apply the slow against the new target.
- The debuff persists until the attack against the new target finishes or gets canceled.
- This means it is possible to skip the backswing-based slow duration by issuing an attack order (A) on a new target within attack range between each attack.
- This also means, the debuff does not affect the idle animation in attack animation after the backswing.
- Does not work against buildings, allies, or invulnerable units. Works against vulnerable wards.
Talents[edit]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| +20 Nature's Attendants Heal | 25 | +6.5% Impetus Damage |
| Enchant Affects Ancients | 20 | +65 Untouchable Slow |
| +6 Nature's Attendants Wisps | 15 | +40 Damage |
| +20 Movement Speed | 10 | +12% Magic Resistance |
Notes:
- The magic resistance talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
- The magic resistance talent increases Enchantress's magic resistance to 34%.
- This attack damage talent is added as raw attack damage, so it does not benefit illusions, and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Enchantress/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Nature's Attendants
- Rescaled wisp count from 4/6/8/10 to 8 on each level.
- Rescaled heal per wisp from 7/9/11/13 to 4/8/12/16.
- Increased duration from 11 to 12.
- Increased Untouchable attack speed slow from 100/140/180 to 120/160/200.
- Rescaled Enchant cooldown from 20 on each level to 28/24/20/16.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Enchantress:
- Adds 3 permanent Nature's Attendants wisps that follow Enchantress at all time.
Recommended Items[edit]
Starting items:
- Tango heals every little wound that you get from jungling or gank attempts.
- Healing Salve recovers health from a greater clash, which could potentially happen while ganking or in the jungle when meeting a roaming hero.
- Clarity restores mana to keep using Enchant when jungle or gank.
- Iron Branch gives cost-effective attribute bonuses.
- Smoke of Deceit makes ganking easier with invisibility and movement speed boost.
Early game:
- Boots of Speed provides movement speed boost for Enchantress to gank early.
- Magic Stick refills health and mana in short bursts.
- Infused Raindrops gives mana regeneration and blocks some magical damage to go along with Untouchable that counters physical attacks.
- Wind Lace provides movement speed bonus for cheap; will build into Drum of Endurance.
Mid game:
- Phase Boots give movement speed boost for superb positioning.
- Magic Wand gives more attributes, as well as burst health and mana.
- Dragon Lance provides attack range bonus to increase damage of Impetus. The bonus strength and agility help Enchantress with some health and attack speed.
- Drum of Endurance gives attributes and movement speed boost for Enchantress to gank and push.
Late game:
- Aghanim's Scepter increases Enchantress's damage output and attack range, allowing her to stay farther away from the fray.
- Hurricane Pike, upgraded from Dragon Lance, enables Enchantress to deal tremendous damage over a short period of time while keeping herself in a safe distance.
- Bloodthorn helps to pick off a single target with silence and critical strike, as well as granting intelligence, mana regeneration, and attack speed, greatly increasing the rate of using Impetus.
Situational items:
- Orb of Venom, coupling with Enchant, slows enemy movement speed so Enchantress and her creeps can land more attacks.
- Urn of Shadows grants charges for slain enemies; use them to damage enemies or heal allies.
- Hand of Midas accelerates farm to help Enchantress transition to a damage dealer with her core items.
- Helm of the Dominator has aura that provides attack speed and health regeneration for Enchantress and her controlled creeps. Furthermore, it enables Enchantress to control another creep to increase the size of her army.
- Hood of Defiance protects Enchantress against magical damage, working well with Untouchable to increase survivability.
- Rod of Atos gives attributes and a root to keep target in place for Impetus.
- Black King Bar grants spell immunity to keep Enchantress alive and firing Impetus without enemy interruptions.
- Monkey King Bar pierces evasion for Enchantress to land Impetus.
- Shiva's Guard gives intelligence, survivability, and a slow, allowing Enchantress to keep in range of her targets.
- Scythe of Vyse provides good bonuses to attributes and a hex that allows Enchantress to keep using Impetus on a target.
- Moon Shard increases attack speed for faster Impetus, useful when you have the mana regeneration to sustain it.
- Assault Cuirass allows Enchantress to attack faster with Impetus, and survive for longer in fights with armor.
Gameplay[edit]
| Roles: | Support Jungler Pusher Durable Disabler |
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| Complexity: | ★★☆ |
| Playstyle: | Sproink! Carefree and pure of heart, Aiushtha wanders the forests, listening to the stories of its inhabitants. Nature's Attendants flutter around her, lively sprites that heal critters big and small. When necessary, she Enchants woodland creatures to do her bidding. A perfect image of Untouchable innocence, hunters hesitate to make even the slightest move against Aiushtha. This reluctance is seldom reciprocated. Threats against her friends embolden the Enchantress to break her gentle demeanor, giving her the Impetus to bring those who disturb the peace to a swift and final justice. |
Audio[edit]
History[edit]
Equipment[edit]
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Trivia[edit]
- Unlike most heroes, Enchantress's attack projectiles actually use the model of her equipped cosmetic weapon.
- Enchantress' alternate/fun name in DotA was Bambi, referencing the classic Disney animated film of the same name.
- Enchantress' phrases ▶️ "Light of foot, light of heart!", ▶️ "With skipping grace", and ▶️ "Oh do not run too fast for I will but bespeak thy grave and die" derive from Andrew Marvell's poem "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn".
- Enchantress' line ▶️ "I guess the good do die young." is a reference to the 1977 song by Billy Joel "Only the Good die young".
- The line ▶️ "Ready or not, here I come!" is a reference to the traditional announcement at the start of the childhood game of Hide and Seek, and possibly a reference to the song Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) originally created by the Delfonics.
Gallery[edit]
Concept art
Ability icon progress
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