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Lifestealer 25 + 2.4 18 + 2.4 15 + 1.8
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 670 1396 2188 2496 +0 +2.5 +5.86 +9.46 +10.86 Mana 75 255 555 915 1047 +0 +0.75 +2.01 +3.51 +4.06 Armor 1 4 9.6 15.6 17.93 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 22 28 47 53 80 86 116 122 130 136 Attack Rate 0.71/s 0.81/s 1.01/s 1.22/s 1.3/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed ▶️ 120 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.39 + 0.44 Projectile Speed Instant Move Speed ▶️ 325 ( 355) Turn Rate 0.9 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

N'aix, the Lifestealer, is a vicious melee strength hero whose abilities give him the power to bring down durable heroes quickly, while sustaining his health by leeching the very life of his enemies.

The main role of the Lifestealer is to fulfill the job of a formidable carry, he is able to do so by restoring his life through his abilities. Feast is his passive ability and his signature, every attack he lands consumes the flesh and blood of his victim, regenerating his own health. N'aix can send himself into a bloody Rage, increasing his movement speed, while granting a short period of spell immunity. Open Wounds tears the enemy, causing the prey's wounds to open, bleeding their life essence, allowing Lifestealer and his allies to feast down as well as greatly slowing them to a crawl. When in need, N'aix can use Infest to hide himself inside his allies or any non-hero unit, laying dormant, until he is ready to come out, devouring the flesh from the inside, killing the non-hero unit, bursting out the chunks of flesh and bones of his unfortunate host, damaging foes around him and ambushing them with carnivorous savagery.

The Lifestealer is a monstrous beast of gluttony and greed, bent on stealing the lives of every living creature he encounters, violently killing them to sate the Lifestealer's terrifying thirst and hunger.

хуесос

N'aix, the Lifestealer

▶️ "Oh Master, behold all these lives for the taking!"

Lore:

In the dungeons of Devarque, a vengeful wizard lay in shackles, plotting his escape. He shared his cell with a gibbering creature known as N'aix, a thief cursed by the Vile Council with longevity, so that its life-sentence for theft and cozening might be as punishing as possible. Over the years, its chains had corroded, along with its sanity; N'aix retained no memory of its former life and no longer dreamt of escape.

Seeing a perfect vessel for his plans, the wizard wove a spell of Infestation and cast his life-force into N'aix's body, intending to compel N'aix to sacrifice itself in a frenzy of violence while the mage returned to his body and crept away unnoticed. Instead, the wizard found his mind caught in a vortex of madness so powerful that it swept away his plans and shattered his will. Jarred to consciousness by the sudden infusion of fresh life, N'aix woke from its nightmare of madness and obeyed the disembodied voice that filled its skull, which had only the one thought: To escape.

In that moment Lifestealer was born. The creature cast its mind into dungeon guards and soldiers, compelling them to open locks and cut down their companions, opening an unobstructed path to freedom while feeding on their lives. Lifestealer still wears the broken shackles as a warning that none may hold him, but on the inside remains a prisoner. Two minds inhabit the single form--a nameless creature of malevolent cunning, and the Master whose voice he pretends to obey.

Voice:

Bruce Miles (Responses)

Abilities

Rage

▶️QR

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Launch into a maddened rage, becoming Spell Immune, and gaining increased movement speed.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Move Speed Bonus: 15%/16%/17%/18%

Duration: 3/4/5/6 ( 4.5/5.5/6.5/7.5)

 18

 75/100/125/150

Modifiers [?]

modifier_life_stealer_rage

Death

The madness and brutality of N'aix makes him a vicious and unrelenting foe in combat.

• Interrupts Lifestealer's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Applies spell immunity for the duration and a basic dispel upon cast.

• During Rage, Lifestealer cannot be affected by Ghost Scepter. The buff gets removed immediately.

Feast

WF

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies / Self

Lifestealer's attacks heal himself for a percentage of his target's max health.

Enemy Max Health as Lifesteal: 1.6%/2.2%/2.8%/3.4% ( 2.8%/3.4%/4%/4.6%)

Enemy Max Health as Damage: 0.6%/0.8%/1%/1.2%

Modifiers [?]

modifier_life_stealer_feast

Undispellable

After escaping from his cell in Devarque, N'aix subsisted on flesh and bones of those unfortunate to cross his path.

• Stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.

• Cannot lifesteal off of wards, buildings and allied units.

• Feast's lifesteal is affected by lifesteal amplification.

• Does not work against Roshan.

Ghoul Frenzy

EG

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies / Self

Passively causes Lifestealer's attacks to significantly slow enemy movement speed for 1.5 seconds. Grants you Attack Speed.

Attack Speed Bonus: 20/30/40/50

Move Speed Slow: 10%/15%/20%/25% ( 25%/30%/35%/40%)

Slow Duration: 1.5

Modifiers [?]

modifier_lifestealer_ghoul_frenzy

Undispellable

modifier_lifestealer_ghoul_frenzy_slow

Any

• The debuff from successive attacks does not stack, only the duration is refreshed.

Open Wounds

▶️DW

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Allies

Lifestealer rends an enemy unit, slowing the victim's movement speed and allowing all allies to regain health for a percentage of the damage they deal to that unit. All damage dealt will steal life, including damage from spells. The victim recovers movement speed over the duration.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.4

Cast Range: 800

Lifesteal: 50%

Max Move Speed Slow: 50%

Enemy Max Health as Damage per allied hero attack: 2%

Slow Duration: 8

 15

 75

Modifiers [?]

modifier_life_stealer_open_wounds

Any

Fresh wounds and the scent of blood often draw out the scavengers to finish the job.

• Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.

• Slows for 50%/50%/40%/30%/20%/10%/10%/10%, decreasing one step per second.

• Casting an instantly killing ability on a unit affected by Open Wounds heals the caster based on the target's remaining health.

• Does not heal enemies damaging their affected ally, or the affected unit through self-inflicted damage.

• Stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.

• Does not heal from damage flagged as HP Removal.

Visual indicator above the target.

Infest

RT

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Self
( Enemy Heroes)

Damage
 Instant Attack

Lifestealer infests the body of a target unit, becoming undetectable, and healing for a portion of his max hitpoints every second while inside. He can then explode from the host body, dealing damage to nearby enemies. If the infested unit is an enemy creep or a neutral creep, he can take control of the unit's ability to move and attack. Does not work on enemy heroes.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0

Cast Range: 150 ( 500)

Target Max Health Bonus: 400/800/1200

Target Move Speed Bonus: 15%/20%/25%

Self Max Health as Health Regen Bonus: 3%/4%/5% ( 6%/8%/10%)

 Enemy Hero Attack Interval: 1.25

 Enemy Hero Duration: 5

 100/75/50 ( 20)

 100/150/200

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Allows Infesting enemy heroes for 5 seconds, attacking their inside once every 1.25 seconds and doubling Lifestealer's regen rate. Increases cast range to 500 and reduces cooldown to 20 seconds.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Grants a new ability: Open Wounds.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_life_stealer_infest

Death

modifier_life_stealer_infest_effect

Death

modifier_life_stealer_infest_creep

Death

modifier_life_stealer_infest_enemy_hero

Death

With this infestation, N'aix consumes the life blood of the host, restoring him back to full unholy power.

• Applies a basic dispel on Lifestealer and disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• Lifestealer is invulnerable and hidden during Infest.

• Lifestealer still gains experience and gold during Infest.

• During Infest, all of Lifestealer's abilities are hidden, while Infest is replaced by Consume.

• During Infest, Lifestealer is periodically moved to the host's current position. This affects multiple things such as:
  • When Infest ends in any way, Lifestealer appears at the host's location.
  • Every aura Lifestealer has (including Gem of True Sight and Radiance) affects units around the host.
  • Effects which react on heroes' presence, such as Smoke of Deceit, Marksmanship or Blur, react on the host's presence.
  • Relocate forces Lifestealer out of the infested unit, dealing area damage.
  • Divine Favor and Recall get dispelled as soon as Lifestealer casts Infest.

• Can fully regenerate Lifestealer's health within 33.33/25/20 ( 16.67/12.5/10) seconds.
  • Can regenerate up to 180%/240%/300% ( 360%/480%/600%) of the Lifestealer's max health in one minute.

• The infested unit gets its maximum and current health increased by the given value.
  • The current health increase does not count as a heal and bypasses everything.

• The infested unit also gets its movement speed increased by the given value.
  • If the target is not a hero or creep-hero, its base movement speed also gets set equal to Lifestealer's current movement speed.

• If the target is not a hero or a creep-hero, Lifestealer automatically takes control over it, turning it into his unit.
  • If the target was an enemy, it retains its health bar colors, making it harder for enemies to tell that it got taken over.

• Can be cast on, but cannot take control over allied heroes and allied creep-heroes.

• When on level 2 or higher, can be cast on and take control over ancient creeps.

• Cannot be cast on Roshan, couriers, wards, buildings, enemy heroes and enemy creep-heroes.

• The infested unit receives a hidden modifier, which creates the visual effect above it, visible to allies only.

• Infest's cooldown starts upon leaving the infested unit, not upon cast.

• With Aghanim's Scepter, Infest can be cast on enemy heroes and creep-heroes.
  • Does not increase health or movement speed of such targets.
  • Although having a limited duration on these targets, Lifestealer still may use Consume to leave the host earlier.
  • Causes Lifestealer to perform instant attacks on an Infested enemy target in 1.25-second intervals, starting 1.25 after cast, resulting in up to 4 attacks.
  • These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.

Consume

▶️R/?T/?

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical / Instant Kill

Lifestealer eats the host body from the inside out, exploding from within.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Damage Radius: 700

Damage: 150/275/400

 0

• Only available during when Consume is cast and replaces Infest until Lifestealer gets out of the host.
  • If the infested target is a non-hero unit, and Lifestealer takes control over it, it also appears in the infested unit's UI, in the next available ability slot.

• If the infested unit dies before Lifestealer consumes it, the area damage is still applied.

• Does not kill or harm an infested allied heroes or creep-heroes.

• The damage is applied instantly in the area, it does not have a travel time.

• If the infested target gets taken over, Consume's Hotkey may vary based on what unit got taken over.

Talents

Hero Talents
+1.5s Rage Duration	25	+1.2% Feast Lifesteal and Damage
+15% Ghoul Frenzy Slow	20	+15% Infest Target Movespeed/Health
+30 Damage	15	+350 Health
+12% Rage Movement Speed	10	+150 Infest Damage

Notes:

• Grants bonus attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

• The health talent increases the max health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Lifestealer/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35

• Reduced Rage movement speed bonus from 15%/16%/17%/18% to 9%/12%/15%/18%.

7.34d

• Increased Feast enemy max health as damage from 0.8%/1.1%/1.4%/1.7% to 1%/1.3%/1.6%/1.9%.

7.34

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +25 attack damage increased to +30.

  LVL 15

   

  +325 health increased to +350.

  LVL 25

   

  +1.2% Feast max health as lifesteal ➜ +1.2% Feast max health as lifesteal/damage.

Gameplay

What was once a man is now little more than a husk, its mind long since departed from lifetimes of imprisonment. Or has it? Now on the loose, N'aix appears to be driven by a new purpose, although what precisely that is, none would know. The Lifestealer Feasts on raw flesh, nourishing himself with every attack while inflicting grievous Open Wounds that make escape near impossible. By sheer ferocity, or perhaps madness, N'aix flies into a Rage, intensifying his assault while defying all wizardry. For a particularly nasty surprise, the Lifestealer Infests an unhappy victim, hiding inside its body in wait for the opportunity to burst out in a gory explosion.
Roles:	Carry Durable Jungler Escape Disabler
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Adjectives:	Legs ( 2 )

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Lifestealer Equipment (expand sets) Sets Bloody Ripper Bonds of Madness Set Compendium Bloody Ripper Obsidian Atrocity Redrage Crawler Torment of the Chainbreaker Transmuted Armaments Trappings of the Ravenous Fiend Head Dark Maw Inhibitor Golden Dark Maw Inhibitor Back Golden Profane Union Profane Union Arms Dread Requisition Golden Dread Requisition Taunt Taunt: Chain Break Dance

Trivia

• Lifestealer's fun/alternate name in DotA was Gollum, a significant character in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit book series.
  • The references to Gollum are kept up in Dota 2:

    Just like written in Lifestealer's lore, Lifestealer is no longer the former self he was, but rather a possessed body. Gollum has a similar story. Once being a Hobbit, his soul got corrupted by the ring, turning into the Gollum he is now.

    Both Lifestealer and Gollum sometimes speak from themselves in plural form ("we", instead of "I"). They also talk to or about a "master".

    His rivalry line towards Tidehunter ▶️ "Tidehunter…I love a bit of raw fish now and again." refers to Gollum's hate towards stewing - or the preparing in general - of fish. Gollum prefers his fish raw and "wriggling".

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