Huskar
Hero
Huskar
    21 + 3.4
13 + 1.6
18 + 1.5
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Huskar, the Sacred Warrior, is a ranged strength hero who is an effective ganker and carry, with both great benefits and risks offered. He is known to be a powerful adversary in most games because his damage-per-second attacks can easily kill almost all heroes at any point in the game, assuming no one is nearby to save them. Unlike many other heroes, Huskar does not require much mana to use his abilities; rather, he sacrifices his own health to inflict additional damage. His passive, Berserker's Blood, defines the power of sacrifice: Huskar gets more dangerous the more he gets hurt. This ability gives him increased health regen and attack speed depending on how much life he is missing. Combined with the DPS from Burning Spear, the increased attack speed from Berserker's Blood allows Huskar to output colossal damage, which can be used to gain an advantage over the enemies early on during the game. His Life Break is his most dangerous ability, but also his riskiest one: charging towards his target, Huskar sheds a large amount of his life force to cut an equal amount of the target's current health. This is great to use as an initiation spell as it deals a guaranteed percentage damage, allowing Huskar and his allies to feel the pain that the Sacred Warrior felt. Courageous and fearless, Huskar is powerful at any stage of the game and is willing to suffer and face death, for the greater good of taking his allies to victory.
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Bio[edit]
Huskar, the Sacred Warrior▶️ "Those who are given more in life must not cling to it but risk it all at every moment."
Lore:
Emerging from the throes of the sacred Nothl Realm, Huskar opened his eyes to see the prodigal shadow priest Dazzle working a deep incantation over him. Against the ancient rites of the Dezun Order, Huskar's spirit had been saved from eternity, but like all who encounter the Nothl he found himself irrevocably changed. No longer at the mercy of a mortal body, his very lifeblood became a source of incredible power; every drop spilled was returned tenfold with a fierce, burning energy. However this newfound gift infuriated Huskar, for in his rescue from the Nothl, Dazzle had denied him a place among the gods. He had been denied his own holy sacrifice.
In time the elders of the order sought to expand their influence and Huskar, they agreed, would be a formidable tool in their campaign. Yet becoming a mere weapon for the order that denied him his birthright only upset him further. As the first embers of war appeared on the horizon, he fled his ancestral home to find new allies, all the while seeking a cause worthy of unleashing the power his total sacrifice could bring.
In time the elders of the order sought to expand their influence and Huskar, they agreed, would be a formidable tool in their campaign. Yet becoming a mere weapon for the order that denied him his birthright only upset him further. As the first embers of war appeared on the horizon, he fled his ancestral home to find new allies, all the while seeking a cause worthy of unleashing the power his total sacrifice could bring.
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Abilities[edit]
Inner Fire
Cast Animation: 0.2+0.64
Radius: 500
Damage: 100/170/240/310
Max Knockback Distance: 400
Knockback Duration: 1
Debuff Duration: 1.75/2.5/3.25/4
Health Restoration Reduction: 50% Move Speed Slow: 40%
14/ 11/10/9/8)
75/
Causes Inner Fire to reduce healing and regeneration by 50% and applies a 40% movement speed slow. Lowers cooldown by 3 seconds. Can be cast while disabled.
Disarm persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.Modifiers
modifier_huskar_inner_fire_knockback: Dispellable with death only. modifier_huskar_inner_fire_disarm: Dispellable with any dispel.Not even Huskar's own flesh can contain the unending expansion of his life force.
Notes:
- Inner Fire first applies the damage, then the debuffs.
- The knockback is not a set distance. It pushes every enemy so they are 400 range away from Huskar's cast location. So the minimum knockback distance is -100.
- The knockback duration is always 1, so the speed varies between -100 and 400, depending on the knockback distance.
- With Aghanim's Shard, the disarm modifier also slows movement speed by 40% and applies a 50% heal reduction, health regeneration reduction, lifesteal reduction and spell lifesteal reduction.
Huskar sets his spears aflame, dealing damage over time with his regular attack. Multiple attacks will stack additional damage. Each attack drains some of Huskar's health. Lasts 8 seconds.
Cast Range: 450 (
475)
475)Current Health as Cost: 3%
Damage per Second: 5/10/15/20 ( 10/15/20/25)
10/15/20/25)Duration: 8
0
Does not pierce spell immunity. Attempts to damage if debuff was placed before spell immunity.Pierces spell immunity when the required talent is chosen.
Modifiers
modifier_huskar_burning_spear_self: Undispellable. Persists death. modifier_huskar_burning_spear_debuff: Dispellable with death only. modifier_huskar_burning_spear_counter: Dispellable with death only.The Sacred Warrior ignites his weaponry after marking it with his own blood - causing far greater pain than he himself feels.
Notes:
- The health cost is direct HP Removal, and is not lethal.
- Uses Huskar's 400 ( 425) attack range when using Autocast. Manually casting it uses the 450 ( 475) cast range.
- The cast range can be further increased by other attack range bonuses. However, it is not affected by cast range bonuses.
- Burning Spear stacks additively when used multiple times on one target.
- Each attack places the counter modifier on the target.
- The number of debuffs are summed up and displayed as one icon on the affected enemy.
- A number on the icon reveals the amount of stacks. The number is visible to everyone.
- Every instance's duration is completely independent from other instances. They do not prolong or refresh each other.
- The debuff modifier is only placed once and refreshed with successive casts.
- The debuff deals damage equal to 5/10/15/20 ( 10/15/20/25) times the number of stacks, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied.
- The damage is decided by the level of spell upon placing the debuff modifier. Therefore, placing new stacks with higher level of the ability on targets with old stacks still uses the old damage value.
- The damage per second increasing talent immediately update all current active Burning Spear stacks.
- Deals a total of 40/80/120/160 ( 80/120/160/200) damage per Burning Spear instance (before reductions).
Berserker's Blood
EB
EB
Ability
Passive
Passive
Affects
Self
Self
Huskar's injuries feed his power, giving increased attack speed and health regen based on missing health. Health regen is a percentage of your strength.
Max Attack Speed Bonus: 160/210/260/310
Strength as Max Health Regen Bonus: 20%/40%/60%/80% ( 55%/75%/95%/115%)
55%/75%/95%/115%)Max Bonus Health Threshold: 10%
Modifiers
modifier_huskar_berserkers_blood: Undispellable. Persists death.After losing his birthright, Huskar gained a lethality in physical combat that is only heightened as his own blood is spilled.
Notes:
- Huskar's model size increases the closer he gets to the max bonuses of Berserker's Blood, up to 35%.
- Although not visible in the HUD due to it no showing enough decimals, each missing point of health grants bonuses.
- The bonuses grow exponentially, ramping up faster the lower his health is.
- The benefits ramp up to approximately 50% at 40% health and 75% at 25% health.
- No bonuses are applied at 100% health and the maximum bonus values are applied when strictly below 10% health.
- The health percentage is checked periodically and the effects adapted instantly.
Huskar draws upon his health to break an enemy's life, leaping at a target within attack range to shatter a percentage of that hero's current health, and slowing them. While leaping, Huskar is spell immune.
Cast Animation: 0.3+0.5
Cast Range: 550 (
850)
850)Current Health as Cost: 32%/38%/44%
Target Current Health as Damage: 32%/38%/44%
Move Speed Slow: 60%
Slow Duration: 3/4/5
Taunt Duration: 3 16/ 13/11/9)
Forces the enemy target to attack you and increases cast range.
Blocked upon impact. When blocked, Huskar takes no damage either.Modifiers
modifier_huskar_life_break_charge: Dispellable with death only. modifier_huskar_life_break_slow: Dispellable with any dispel. modifier_huskar_life_break_taunt: Dispellable with death only.No matter the danger, Huskar thrusts himself into melees that only he can survive.
Notes:
- Huskar leaps at a speed of 1200.
- Applies a basic dispel on Huskar upon cast.
- Upon cast, Huskar receives a hidden charge buff, which lasts for 5 seconds or until reaching the target, whichever is shorter.
- This modifier turns him spell immune, disarms him, forces him to face the target and is responsible for the leap animation.
- Since the modifier has a set max duration, it can expire while leaping, continuing the rest of the leap without its effects.
- If Huskar is disabled during the leap or the distance between the target and Huskar becomes more than 1450, the leap stops.
- Huskar can use items and abilities during the leap. However, position changing effects like Blink Dagger cancel it.
- The 32%/38%/44% current health as cost is magical damage. Therefore, it can be reduced by magic resistance.
- The self-inflicted damage is not lethal, no matter how strong it gets amplified, so it cannot be used to deny oneself.
- The self-inflicted damage is applied on impact, it's not applied if the leap is interrupted prematurely.
- Life Break first applies the damage, then the slow debuff, and then the taunt debuff.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, Life Break taunts the target for 3, forcing them to attack Huskar.
- Does not silence the target, so active attack modifiers with Autocast on are still applied.
Talents[edit]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| Burning Spears Pure Damage | 25 | 25% Spell Lifesteal |
| -3s Life Break Cooldown | 20 | +35% Berserker's Blood Regen |
| 15% Lifesteal | 15 | +5 Burning Spears DPS |
| +12 Damage | 10 | +175 Health |
Notes:
- The attack range talent also affects the cast range of Burning Spear.
- 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.
- The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.
- The lifesteal talent stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.
- The spell lifesteal talent stacks additively with other sources of spell lifesteal.
- The spell lifesteal talent heals for 5% from non-hero units. Treats creep-heroes as creeps and does not heal off of illusions.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Huskar/Changelogs
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- Reduced base agility and gain from 15 + 1.8 to 13 + 1.6.
- Reduced Berserker's Blood strength as maximum health regeneration bonus from 25%/45%/65%/85% to 20%/40%/60%/80%.
- Increased Life Break cooldown from 12 on each level to 16/14/12.
- Talents:
- Level 15 right talent: +6 Burning Spear damage per second reduced to +5.
- Level 20 right talent: +40% Berserker's Blood strength as health regen reduced to +35%.
- Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Increased strength gain 3.2 to 3.4.
- Increased Inner Fire knockback duration from 0.6 to 1.
- Reduced Burning Spear current health as cost from 4% to 3%.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Inner Fire can now be cast while disabled.
- Notes: Does not dispel the disable.
- Talents:
- Level 25 right talent changed: +200 attack range ➜ +25% spell lifesteal.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Inner Fire
- Increased movement speed slow from 35% to 40%.
- Increased cooldown reduction from 2 to 3.
- Inner Fire
Recommended Items[edit]
Starting items:
- Tango helps Huskar regain lost health from Burning Spear.
- Healing Salve also restores health to Huskar.
- Iron Branch gives cheap attributes and builds into Magic Wand later, or Huskar can use it with Tango to get more healing.
- Enchanted Mango gives health regeneration to offset the health cost of Burning Spear.
Early game:
- Phase Boots give Huskar some extra damage and armor, while allowing him to chase a little better.
- Magic Stick helps Huskar recover health in a pinch.
- Urn of Shadows helps Huskar restore health after a gank.
Mid game:
- Armlet of Mordiggian provides every stat that Huskar needs to be more effective and its Unholy Strength provides a way for Huskar to control his health. If you are able to practice armlet toggling, it will drastically improve Huskar's damage output and allow him to use it to survive fights as long as the enemies do not have abilities that deal damage over time.
- Morbid Mask allows Huskar to lifesteal from attacks, sustaining the health cost of Armlet of Mordiggian and Burning Spear. It upgrades to Satanic in the late game.
- Black King Bar negates Life Break's self damage and most enemy disables, letting Huskar jump into the fray with little risk of dying.
Late game:
- Satanic allows Huskar to sustain his health while under focus from the enemy team. It provides strength, damage, and lifesteal. Its active could also be used in a pinch to keep yourself from dying.
- Assault Cuirass grants much-needed armor, making Huskar much harder to kill alongside Berserker's Blood, and greatly improves his damage output.
Situational items:
- Heaven's Halberd gives some strength, status resistance, amplifies the health regen from beserker's blood, and provides disarm to halt an attacking enemy.
- Shadow Blade makes Huskar into a much better ganker. It also gives attack speed for more Burning Spear stacks.
- Aghanim's Scepter gives Huskar a pseudo-disable, helping him finish fleeing hero, or cancel TP/channeling.
- Heart of Tarrasque allows Huskar to keep Unholy Strength active indefinitely and it gives enough health to allow you to be at a low enough percentage to increase stacks from your Berserker's Blood but not low enough to be burst down.
- Mjollnir procs Chain Lightning frequently with the attack speed bonus from Berserker's Blood.
- Monkey King Bar counters enemy evasion with magical damage proc.
- Abyssal Blade procs Bash at a decent rate due to Huskar's high attack speed, even with the reduced chance, and Overwhelm is a powerful follow-up to Life Break.
- Hood of Defiance protects Huskar from magical burst damage, as Berserker's Blood no longer does so, and can upgrade to Pipe of Insight to benefit the team.
- Blade Mail gives Huskar an edge against high-damage opponents by turning their damage output against them.
- Solar Crest provides armor reduction to let Huskar focus down targets faster and bonus armor to make him more resilient.
Gameplay[edit]
| Roles: | Carry Durable Initiator |
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| Complexity: | ★☆☆ |
| Playstyle: | Rescued against his will from the Nothl Realm, the revived Huskar found supernatural strength in his own living essence. The Sacred Warrior marks Burning Spears with blood, setting both weapon and lifeforce alight before throwing them at his foes. By sacrificing a portion of his health with Life Break, Huskar lunges towards a single target, causing it to lose an even greater portion of health. With every blow sustained, Berserker's Blood redoubled the Sacred Warrior's speed and made him ever more resilient to magic, facing down his opponent in a bloody fervor until he emerged triumphant. |
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Trivia[edit]
- Huskar's name might be derived from the Old Norse word "Huskarl", the title given to the highly-skilled bodyguards of important Norse lords and kings.
- His name might also be derived from Huáscar Inca, a leader of the Inca Empire in the 16th century. Huskar's lore also connects him to Dazzle, who is a Shadow Priest (fits in the Native American shaman role).
- Before 6.79, you could use a Ghost Scepter and then manually cast Burning Spear on enemies. You would take little magic damage since the magic resistance provided by Berserker's Blood reduced the incoming magic damage significantly, while also being immune to physical damage because of the ethereal state.
- In The Lab, a VR game by Valve, there are some Bendie soldiers who wield Huskar's throwing spears in the minigame Longshot, along with other Dota 2 weapons like Axe's war axe, Dragon Knight's sword and Stout Shield.
Gallery[edit]
Splash artwork
Low Violence model
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Old model
Old portrait
