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Version

Description

7.35c

• Increased Summon Spirit Bear Cooldown from 120 to 150/140/130/120.
• Reduced Spirit Bear Movement Speed from 340/360/380/400 to 300/330/360/390.
• Spirit Bear is now properly affected by Monkey King's Jingu Mastery.

7.35

• Reduced strength gain from 2 to 1.8.
• Reduced Savage Roar enemy radius from 375 to 350.
• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced armor from 3/4/5/6 to 0/2/4/6.
  • U
    Reduced Savage Roar enemy radius from 375 to 350.
  • Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
    • Fetch
      • No longer applies a 20% self movement speed slow.
      • Increased debuff duration from 2.25 to 2.5.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +8 Spirit Bear armor reduced to +7.

  LVL 15

   

  -8s Savage Roar cooldown reduced to -7s.

7.34c

• Increased base armor from -2 to 0.
• Increased Spirit Link attack speed bonus from 16/32/48/64 to 20/35/50/65.

7.34b

• Increased base strength from 18 to 20.

7.34

• Spirit Bear [?]
  • The unit is now a  Universal Creep-Hero Unit that has an attribute base and gain of 0 + 0 / / per level.
  • Attribute granting sources now fully work for the unit.
  • U
    Illusion creating sources that fully affect the Spirit Bear now creates Spirit Bear illusions.
  • U
    Spell Reflection sources fully works with the Spirit Bear.
  • Added
    Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Spirit Bear:
    • Return
      • Now increases attack proximity range from 1100 to Global. [?]
      • The Spirit Bear is no longer instantly killed when Lone Druid dies.
      • Spirit Link casts no longer apply fear on the Spirit Bear for its duration.
  • Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
    • Now also grants the Spirit Bear the Fetch ability. [?]
      • Roots the targeted unit or rune and uncontrollably drags them toward Lone Druid with a 2.25-second duration. [?]
      • Applies a 20% self-movement speed slow when dragging a unit. [?]
      • Deals 300 damage in 0.5-second intervals if the affected target is an enemy.
      • Has a 30-second cooldown and 75-mana cost.
• True Form no longer set base attack time to 1.6.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:.
  • Moved
    Summon Spirit Bear Ability Upgrade component to Return.
  • New
    Adds an active component to Spirit Link.
    • The ability effects are now applied on the ally hero, damage done by the ally heals Lone Druid and vice versa.
    • Has a 1200-cast range and can now be cast onto an ally hero as a 20-second buff.
    • Grants the following ability effects while active:
      • 35% shared armor bonus and 35 attack speed bonus.
      • The Spirit Bear is feared back to the fountain unless it has Aghanim's Scepter equipped before the ability cast.
    • Has a 40-second cooldown and 50-mana cost.

7.33c

• Reduced base attack damage from 4‒8 to 1‒5.

7.33

• Lone Druid no longer has Agility as a primary attribute and is now a Universal hero.
• Reduced strength gain from 2.5 to 2.
• Reduced agility gain from 2.8 to 2.
• Increased intelligence gain from 1.4 to 2.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Reduced base attack damage from 18‒22 to 4‒8.
• Reduced Savage Roar enemy duration from 1.1/1.6/2.1/2.6 to 0.8/1.2/1.6/2.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Savage Roar
    • Reduced ally movement speed bonus from 20% to 15%.
    • Reduced ally attack speed bonus from 60 to 40.

7.32

• Reduced Savage Roar enemy duration from 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6 to 1.1/1.6/2.1/2.6.

7.31b

• Spirit Link
  • Reduced attack speed bonus from 16/34/52/70 to 16/32/48/64.
  • Reduced shared armor from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -10s Savage Roar cooldown reduced to -8s.

7.31

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased base attack damage from 20 to 28.
  • Entangling Claws
    • Now deals its first tick of damage immediately, instead of 0.25 seconds after the debuff is placed.
    • Reduced damage interval from 0.25 to 0.2.
    • Rescaled duration from 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 to 1/1.6/2.2/2.8.
    • Reduced number of damage intervals from 3/6/9/12 to 6/9/12/15.
    • Reduced damage per second from 60 on each level to 30/40/50/60.
• Spirit Link now also shares 10%/15%/20%/25% of Lone Druid's armor with the Spirit Bear and vice versa.
• Dying during True Form transformation time now resets the ability's cooldown.

7.30

• Increased Spirit Link attack speed bonus from 15/30/45/60 to 16/34/52/70.
• True Form [?]
  • Increased Entangling Claws proc chance from 20% to 30%.
  • Increased Demolish building attack damage bonus from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 15%/30%/45%/60%.

7.29b

• Increased Summon Spirit Bear health bonus per level from 75 to 90.
• Increased Savage Roar enemy duration from 1.2/1.6/2/2.4 to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -40s True Form cooldown increased to -50s.

7.29

• Reduced base attack time from 1.7 to 1.6.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• True Form now also increases base attack time to 1.7.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Savage Roar
    • Now also apply basic dispel on Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear on cast.
    • Ability now casts simultaneously by the other even when they would not be able to cast it normally (e.g. while stunned or silenced).
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

7.28a

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Savage Roar ally buff duration from 4 to 5.

7.28

• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Lone Druid:
  • Savage Roar grant allies within 700 radius a 4-second 20% movement speed and 60 attack speed bonus upon cast.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -32s True Form cooldown increased to -40s.

  LVL 25

   

  +1000 True Form max health ➜ +1000 True Form and Spirit Bear max health.

7.27b

• Reduced strength gain from 2.7 to 2.5.
• Savage Roar is no longer cast simultaneously by the other when they would not be able to cast it normally (e.g. while stunned or silenced). [?]
• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Changed
    from granting attack damage bonus per level to increasing base attack damage per level.
  • Increased max health as backlash damage from 10% to 20%.
• Reduced Entangling Claws creep duration from 2.25/4.5/6.75/9 to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3. [?]
• Reduced True Form armor bonus from 10/15/20 to 8/10/12.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  -0.15s Spirit Bear base attack time reduced to -0.1s..

7.26c

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +800 True Form max health increased to +1000.

  LVL 25

   

  -0.16s Spirit Bear base attack time reduced to -0.15s.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +30 Spirit Bear movement speed reduced to +25.

  LVL 10

   

  +250 health reduced to +200.

  LVL 15

   

  +10 Spirit Bear armor reduced to +8.

  LVL 15

   

  -12s Savage Roar cooldown reduced to -10s.

  LVL 20

   

  -40s True Form cooldown reduced to -32s.

  LVL 25

   

  +1000 True Form max health reduced to +800.

  LVL 25

   

  -0.2s Spirit Bear base attack time reduced to -0.16s.

7.26a

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  -0.25s Spirit Bear base attack time reduced to -0.2s.

7.25

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +125 attack range ➜ +30 Spirit Bear movement speed.

7.23f

• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced base attack damage from 25 to 20.

7.23c

• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced base attack damage from 30 to 25.

7.23b

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased base attack time from 1.7/1.6/1.5/1.4 to 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45.

7.23a

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased base attack time from 1.65/1.55/1.45/1.35 to 1.7/1.6/1.5/1.4.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  -0.5s Spirit Bear base attack time reduced to -0.25s.

7.23

• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced level from 7 to 1.
  • Spirit Bear now levels up together with Lone Druid.
  • Now grants 5 attack damage bonus per level.
  • Now gains 75 health per level.
  • Reduced base attack damage from 30‒40/50‒60/70‒80/90‒100 to 30 on each level.
  • Reduced base health from 1500/2000/2500/3000 to 1100/1400/1700/2000.
  • Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
  • Changed
    attack type from Basic to Hero.
  • Changed
    armor type from Basic to Hero.
  • Reworked
    Return.
    • No longer has a 3-second damage cooldown. [?]
    • No longer instantly teleports the Spirit Bear to Lone Druid.
    • Now has a 3-second channel time. [?]
    • Changed
      level requirement from Summon Spirit Bear Level 2+ to available on all levels.
    • Increased cooldown from 5 to 30.
  • Entangling Claws
    • Changed
      level requirement from Summon Spirit Bear Level 3+ to available on all levels.
    • Changed
      damage type from Physical to Magical.
    • Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.25. [?]
    • Reduced hero duration from 3 on each level to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3.
    • Reduced non-hero duration from 9 on each level to 2.25/4.5/6.75/9.
  • Removed
    Defender.
  • Demolish
    • Changed
      level requirement from Summon Spirit Bear Level 4 to available on all levels.
    • Reduced attack damage bonus against buildings from 40% on each level to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
• Reworked
  Spirit Link.

Old

Spirit Link

Links Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, increasing the attack speed of both and causing damage each one deals to heal the other.

Attack speed bonus: 20/40/60/80

Shared lifesteal: 40%/50%/60%/70%

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 43/36/29/22

Notes: Instant-cast ability that buffs Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, wherever it is.

New

Spirit Link

Links Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, increasing the attack speed of both and causing damage dealt by the Spirit Bear to heal Lone Druid.

Attack speed bonus: 15/30/45/60

Shared lifesteal: 20%/35%/50%/65%

Notes: Passive ability.

• Savage Roar
  • Now always applies the effect around Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, no matter who of them casts it.
  • Increased radius from 325 to 375.
• Reworked
  True Form.
  • No longer reduces movement speed upon transformation.
  • Now has a 40-second duration.
  • Reduced attack range loss from 400 to 325.
  • Increased armor bonus from 4/6/8 to 10/15/20
  • Increased health bonus from 300/700/1000 to 500/1000/1500.
    • Now heals Lone Druid for the same amount as the health bonus upon transformation.
  • Increased mana cost from 25 to 200.
  • Increased cooldown from 0 to 100.
  • Removed
    the following sub-abilities:
    • Druid Form
    • U
      Battle Cry
  • Added
    Entangling Claws and Demolish.
    • These abilities now take the fourth and fifth slot while True Form is active.
    • Ability values are based on the current level of Summon Spirit Bear.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -25s Battle Cry cooldown ➜ -40s True Form cooldown.

  LVL 25

   

  Battle Cry grants spell immunity ➜ +1000 True Form max health.

7.22

• Increased strength gain from 2.4 to 2.7.
• Increased True Form health bonus from 300/600/900 to 300/700/1100.

7.21

• Increased agility gain from 2.4 to 2.8.
• Reduced base movement speed from 330 to 325.
• Spirit Bear
  • Increased movement speed from 340/355/370/385 to 340/360/380/400.
  • Increased attack damage from 35/50/65/80 to 30‒40/50‒60/70‒80/90‒100.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -0.3s Spirit Bear base attack time ➜ 0s Entangling Claws cooldown.

  LVL 25

   

  0s Entangling Claws cooldown ➜ -0.5s Spirit Bear base attack time.

7.20e

• Reduced base movement speed from 340 to 330.
• Spirit Bear
  • Increased movement speed from 340/350/360/370 to 340/355/370/385.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +150 attack range reduced to +125.

  LVL 20

   

  -0.2s Spirit Bear base attack time increased to -0.3s.

7.20c

• Reduced base agility and gain from 24 + 2.7 to 20 + 2.4.
• Reduced armor from 0 to -2.
• Rescaled Spirit Link cooldown from 44/36/28/20 to 43/36/29/22.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +175 attack range reduced to +150.

  LVL 20

   

  +40 Spirit Link attack speed ➜ -0.2s Spirit Bear base attack time.

7.20b

• Spirit Link
  • Reduced attack speed bonus from 30/50/70/90 to 20/40/60/80.
  • Increased cooldown from 42/34/26/18 to 44/36/28/20.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.75 to 0.25.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Increased base movement speed from 320 to 340.
• Spirit Bear
  • Increased movement speed from 320/330/340/350 to 340/350/360/370.
  • Reduced attack backswing from 0.67 to 0.4.
  • Increased attack damage from 35/45/55/65 to 35/50/65/80.
  • Entangling Claws
    • No longer interrupts the target.
    • No longer pierces spell immunity.
  • Added
    the Defender ability.

Spirit Bear absorbs a portion of the damage dealt to Lone Druid while within the leash range.

Damage redirected: 30%

Notes: This ability is available on all levels of Summon Spirit Bear. Spirit Bear has to be within the attack proximity range of Lone Druid to absorb the damage. The damage is still credited to the orginal source, and is lethal to Spirit Bear.

• Replaced
  Rabid with Spirit Link.

Old

Rabid

Increases the attack and movement speed of Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear.

Move speed bonus: 10%/15%/20%/25%

Attack speed bonus: 20/30/40/50

Duration: 25

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 35

New

Spirit Link

Links Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear, increasing the attack speed of both and causing damage each one deals to heal the other.

Attack speed bonus: 30/50/70/90

Shared lifesteal: 40%/50%/60%/70%

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 50/60/70/80

Cooldown: 42/34/26/18

Notes: Works like lifesteal, only reacting on attack damage dealt.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +40 Rabid attack speed ➜ +40 Spirit Link attack speed.

7.15

• Increased base strength from 17 to 18.

7.10

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased health regeneration from 4/5/6/7 to 5/6/7/8.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  -8s Savage Roar cooldown increased to -12s.

7.07c

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased health from 1400/1800/2300/2700 to 1500/2000/2500/3000.

7.07b

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased health regeneration from 2/3/4/5 to 4/5/6/7.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 1.75.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reduced movement speed from 325 to 320.
• Increased turn rate from 0.4 to 0.5.
• Battle Cry
  • Reduced cooldown from 60 to 45.
  • Reduced duration from 6 to 5.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +50 Spirit Bear attack damage ➜ +10 Spirit Bear armor.

  LVL 15

   

  +50 attack damage ➜ -8s Savage Roar cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  +50% Spirit Bear magic resistance ➜ +40 Rabid attack speed.

  LVL 20

   

  +12 Spirit Bear armor ➜ -25s Battle Cry cooldown.

  LVL 25

   

  -10s Savage Roar cooldown ➜  Battle Cry grants spell immunity.

  LVL 25

   

  +1.5s Entangling Claws duration ➜ 0s Entangling Claws cooldown.

7.06c

• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced base attack time from 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45 to 1.65/1.55/1.45/1.35.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.1 to 2.4.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.5 to 0.25.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
• Rabid
  • Increased attack speed bonus from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50.
  • Rescaled duration from 18/22/26/30 to 25 on each level.
  • Reduced cooldown from 45 to 35.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -40s respawn time ➜ +50% Spirit Bear magic resistance.

7.04

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +30 Spirit Bear attack damage increased to +50.

7.03

• Reduced base attack damage from 22‒26 to 18‒22.
• Increased Rabid cooldown from 30 to 45.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +55 attack damage reduced to +50.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +200 attack range reduced to +175.

  LVL 15

   

  +65 attack damage reduced to +55.

  LVL 20

   

  +7 Spirit Bear armor increased to +12.

  LVL 25

   

  -50s respawn time reduced to -40s.

7.00

• Spirit Bear
  • Now has 0.5 mana regeneration.
• True Form
  • No longer disjoints projectiles.
  • Druid Form
    • No longer disjoints projectiles.
    • Reduced transformation time 1.9 to 0.8.
• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +200 attack range

    

  +250 health

  +30 Spirit Bear attack damage

    

  +65 attack damage

  -50s respawn time

    

  +7 Spirit Bear armor

  -10s Savage Roar cooldown

    

  +1.5s Entangling Claws duration

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Spirit Bear
  • Entangling Claws now uses pseudo-random distribution.
• True Form
  • Reduced attack range loss from 422 to 400. [?]
  • Reduced Battle Cry attack damage bonus from 90/120/150 to 70/100/130.

6.86e

• Increased Savage Roar cooldown from 28/24/20/16 to 38/32/26/20.

6.86c

• Fixed True Form not granting its health bonus while leveling up ability.

6.86b

• Added
  to Captain's Mode.

6.86

• Removed
  from Captain's Mode.
• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Spirit Bear
  • Increased attack damage from 28‒38 on each level to 35/45/55/65.
  • Increased movement speed from 320/320/330/340 to 320/330/340/350.
• Replaced
  Synergy with Savage Roar.

Old

Synergy

Increases the Lone Druid's synergy with his Spirit Bear and himself, upgrading attributes and abilities.

Spirit Bear attack damage bonus: 10/20/30/40

Spirit Bear move speed bonus: 10/20/30/40

Rabid duration bonus: 10/20/30/40

True Form health bonus: 100/200/300/400

New

Savage Roar

Lone Druid or Spirit Bear roars fiercely causing nearby enemies to flee towards their base in terror. Their movement speed is increased.

Cast time: 0.1

Radius: 325

Movement speed bonus: 20%

Duration: 1.2/1.6/2/2.4

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 28/24/20/16

Notes: Rooted enemies will not be able to run away. Spirit Bear also has this ability, but the cooldown between it and Lone Druid are shared.

• Rabid
  • Increased movement speed bonus from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Increased duration from 10 on each level to 18/22/26/30.
• Increased True Form health bonus from 250/400/600 to 300/600/900.

6.85

• Reduced Summon Spirit Bear cooldown from 180/160/140/120 to 120 on each level.
• Battle Cry
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 60/90/120 to 90/120/150.
  • Increased armor bonus from 6/12/18 to 10/15/20.

6.84

• Spirit Bear
  • Hero kills by the Spirit Bear now provide Experience_XP credit to Lone Druid.
  • Entangling Claws damage is no longer reduced by Damage Block.
• True Form
  • Now persists through death.
  • Battle Cry
    • Increased armor bonus from 5/10/15 to 6/12/18.
    • Increased attack damage bonus from 50/75/100 to 60/90/120.
• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Lone Druid:
  • Spirit Bear
    • Increases attack proximity range to Global. [?]
    • Prevents the Spirit Bear from dying if Lone Druid dies.

6.83

• Spirit Bear
  • Reduced Return cast point from 0.3 to 0.
• Battle Cry
  • Increased cooldown from 30 to 60.
  • Reduced duration from 8 to 6.
  • Increased armor bonus from 2/4/6 to 5/10/15.
  • Increased attack damage bonus from 20/40/60 to 50/75/100.

6.82

• Spirit Bear
  • Now has 300 mana.
  • Transmute now grants the experience_XP to Lone Druid when used by Spirit Bear.

6.81

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased health regeneration from 2 on each level to 2/3/4/5.

6.80

• Spirit Bear
  • Entangling Claws is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier.

6.79

• Increased base movement speed from 315 to 325.
• Spirit Bear
  • Increased experience bounty from 196_XP to 300_XP.
• Increased True Form movement speed reduction from 35 to 45. [?]

6.78b

• Fixed Armlet of Mordiggian not granting its health regeneration bonus to the Spirit Bear.

6.78

• Spirit Bear
  • Is now affected by Unholy Strength health drain.
  • Increased gold bounty from 100 to 300 .

6.75

• Summon Spirit Bear can no longer be cast if the Spirit Bear has taken damage from a player unit in the last 3 seconds.

6.72f

• Fixed Return ability issue. [?]

6.72d

• Spirit Bear
  • Return can no longer be cast if Spirit Bear has taken damage from a player unit in the last 3 seconds.
• Increased True Form collision size from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Reduced True Form collision size from 24 to 12.

6.72

• Reduced Demolish attack damage bonus against buildings from 60% to 40%.

6.71

• Fixed ability interactions between Bash and the Spirit Bear.
• Fixed various abilities, including item abilities, malfunctioning during transformation abilities (e.g. True Form).

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Lone Druid has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • No longer cancels the cast and prints an error message while Spirit Bear is active.
  • Can now be cast while the Spirit Bear is still alive, restoring its health and returning it to Lone Druid.
  • Increased attack proximity range from 925 to 1100.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Fixed unit sometimes missing its attacks when its target was moving away.
    • Fixed unit losing items on death in certain conditions.
• Reduced True Form movement speed reduction from 45 to 35.

6.67

• Fixed ability interactions between Pierce and Spirit Bear with invisible units.

6.66b

• Fixed ability interactions between Summon Spirit Bear and Bash.
• Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift with enemy transformation abilities:
  • True Form
  • Druid Form

6.64

• Increased base movement speed from 305 to 315.
• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Changed
    having a 1500 leashed range to having a 925 attack proximity range.
  • Attempting to attack an enemy outside the leash range now causes the bear to stop attacking, instead of returning it back to Lone Druid.
• True Form
  • Now reduces movement speed by 45 on each level.
  • Increased transformation time from 1.45 to 1.933.
  • Increased armor bonus from 2/4/6 to 4/6/8.

6.63b

• Fixed ability interactions between Entangling Claws and Overgrowth.

6.63

• Spirit Bear
  • Entangling Claws
    • No longer disarms the target.
    • Increased damage per second from 40 to 60.

6.60

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Now grants the Spirit Bear inventory on all levels, instead of only Level 4.
  • Changed
    Demolish level requirement from Level 3+ to available on all levels.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Updated unit model size.
    • Changed
      unit type from creep to creep-hero. [?]
• Reworked
  Rabid.

Old

Rabid

Syllabear can create an intense combative fury in either himself or his Spirit Bear companion.

Cast range: 300

Movement speed bonus: 5%/10%/15%/20%

Attack speed bonus: 10/20/30/40

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 30

Notes: Only buffs the targeted unit. Can be cast on any of Lone Druid's units. Can be set to Autocast.

New

Rabid

Increases the attack and movement speed of Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear.

Movement speed bonus: 5%/10%/15%/20%

Attack speed bonus: 10/20/30/40

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 30

Notes: Has an instant cast time and only buffs Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear. Does not require a target and has no auto-cast.

• True Form
  • Updated unit model size.
  • Increased attack range from 100 to 150.
  • Battle Cry
    • Changed
      level requirement from Level 2+ to available on all levels.
    • Increased attack damage bonus from 0/20/20 to 20/40/60.
    • Increased armor bonus from 0/2/2 to 2/4/6.
    • Reduced duration from 10 to 8.
  • Removed
    One.

6.58

• Spirit Bear
  • Entangling Claws
    • Increased proc chance from 16% to 20%.
    • Reduced cooldown from 6 to 5.

6.54

• Increased base armor from -1 to 0.

6.52b

• Fixed ability interactions between Sprout and Summon Spirit Bear.

6.52

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Reduced cooldown from 180 on each level to 180/160/140/120.
  • Fixed ability interactions with Sprout.

6.51

• True Form now grants 2/4/6 armor bonus.

6.50

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased Demolish attack damage bonus against buildings from 33% to 60%.

6.46

• Updated Rabid ability icon.

6.44

• Changed
  Entangling Claws level requirement from Level 4 Summon Spirit Bear to Level 3+.

6.42

• Updated hero sound effects.
• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Now cancels the cast instead of wasting mana and cooldown
  • Added an error message when attempting to cast while Spirit Bear is alive.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Entangling Claws no longer works against ancient creeps.
• Updated Synergy ability icon.

6.40

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Changed
    Entangling Claws level requirement from all levels of to Level 4. [?]
  • Fixed Burn ability particles appearing at the center of the map when Spirit Bear dies with it.
• Fixed ability interactions between Shallow Grave and True Form.

6.39

• Spirit Bear
  • Increased base attack time from 1.75/1.6/1.45/1.3 to 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45.

6.35

• Fixed ability interactions between True Form and Chronosphere.

6.34

• Spirit Bear
  • Is now properly affected by Black Hole.

6.33

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed unit with Radiance equipped.

6.30

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • No longer causes the Spirit Bear to automatically return to Lone Druid upon leveling the ability while the bear is alive.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Return now has a 5-second cooldown.

6.29b

• True Form
  • Fixed base attack damage during True Form still being 22‒29, instead of 22‒26.
  • No longer increases armor by 1.

6.29

• Attribute Bonus can now be seen in the HUD when available.

6.28

• Spirit Bear
  • Updated Entangling Claws ability tooltips.

6.27

• Reduced Summon Spirit Bear mana cost from 125 to 75.
• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed Spirit Bear's items being lost when dying in Deathmatch mode.
  • Reduced collision size from 48 to 24.

6.22

• Updated hero description.

6.20

• Fixed the Spirit Bear not disappearing upon repicking Lone Druid.

6.17

• Increased attack range from 500 to 550.
• Updated Battle Cry ability tooltips.

6.11

• Spirit Bear
  • Updated Entangling Claws ability tooltips.

6.10

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed ability interactions with Demonic Conversion.

6.09b

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed an issue with Manta Style and Illusion Rune.
  • Can no longer be targeted by Demonic Conversion.

6.04

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed model animation issues.
• Fixed Rabid being unable to be cast on self.
• True Form now grants 250/400/600 health bonus while active.

6.00

• Updated all Lone Druid's and the Spirit Bear's ability tooltips.

5.72

• Reduced base attack damage from 22‒29 to 22‒26.
• Spirit Bear now only gets moved back to the Lone Druid upon starting an attack on a unit, instead of always when leaving its leash range.

5.71

Happened between 5.69 and 5.71

• Spirit Bear
  • Can now attack units with Flying Movement.
  • Now has 33% magic resistance on level 4.
  • Rescaled health from 1600/1900/2200/2500 to 1400/1800/2300/2700.
  • Increased Entangling Claws proc chance from 3%/6%/9%/12% to 4%/8%/12%/16%.

5.62

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

12 Oct 2023

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Transmute granting experience to the Spirit Bear.

06 Oct 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between Soulbind, Parting Shot and the Spirit Bear.

05 Oct 2023

• UPDATE 2
  • Spirit Bear
    • Fixed the unit being not able to disassemble items.
    • Fixed the following abilities treating the unit as heroes:
      • Spear of Mars
      • Pounce

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Bear or Sylla in the hero selection now highlights Lone Druid.

29 Sep 2023

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Summon Spirit Bear ability tooltips.

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Sylla or Bear in the hero selection now highlights Lone Druid.

08 Sep 2023

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed displayed as the unit name on the minimap.
  • The following abilities no longer treat the unit as heroes:
    • Attacks against ward-type units that require a fixed amount of attacks to destroy.
    • Culling Blade cooldown skip on kill.
    • Focus Fire cooldown skip on kill.
    • Jingu Mastery hits.
  • Fixed kill rewards interactions with the Tormentor.
    • Fixed not granting the unit Aghanim's Shard - Roshan if Lone Druid already has one.
    • Fixed kill rewards not granting the Gold and Experience_XP bounty if all allies already have Aghanim's Shard.

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced versus scale from 0.86 to 0.79.
• Reduced loadout scale from 0.87 to 0.79.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Lone Druid has the following values: Arachnophobic 1, Bearded 1, Fuzzy 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

05 Jul 2023

• Increased True Form default model texture width from 512px x 512px to 512px x 1024px.

22 May 2023

• Updated Entangling Claws ability backend strings.

18 May 2023

• Updated Entangling Claws ability modifiers.
• Spirit Bear
  • Updated unit modifier.
  • Updated unit abilities' Hotkey.

25 Apr 2023

• Fixed the Parting Shot Clone summoning a permanent Spirit Bear clone with Summon Spirit Bear.

10 Jan 2023

• Removed
  Jungler role from hero.

07 Dec 2022

• Updated Demolish ability tooltips.

01 Dec 2022

• Updated Summon Spirit Bear ability tooltips.

18 Nov 2022

• Increased Spirit Bear default model texture width from 512px x 512px to 1024px x 1024px.

09 Nov 2022

• Updated Savage Roar ability descriptions.

03 Nov 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Summon Spirit Bear ability descriptions.

01 Sep 2022

• Fixed Savage Roar ability duration values.

29 Jun 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated True Form ability tooltips.

24 Mar 2022

• Spirit Bear
  • Transmute now grants experience and gold to its caster.
  • Now can gain Magic Stick-based item charges.

07 Mar 2022

• Updated True Form ability descriptions.

14 Sep 2021

• The following abilities are now marked as Ultimate abilities:
  • Entangling Claws
  • Demolish

17 Aug 2021

• Fixed Aghanim's Shard upgraded Savage Roar granting 40 bonus attack speed to allies instead of 60.

18 Sep 2020

• Increased max polygon counts.

26 Feb 2020

• Fixed Magic Lamp preventing instant kill effects.
  • Fixes item preventing the Spirit Bear from dying when Lone Druid dies.

12 Mar 2020

• Fixed being able to put skill points into Entangling Claws and Demolish during True Form.

02 Mar 2020

• Added lore text to Spirit Link.

06 Feb 2020

• Neutral items held by Spirit Bear now show as held by Lone Druid in the neutral items tab.

05 Feb 2020

• Change mixgroup of Savage Roar cast sound from Ultimates to Weapons.

09 Dec 2019

• Entangling Claws
  • Fixed ability not being affected by status resistance.
  • Fixed the 0s Entangling Claws talent not affecting Lone Druid's Entangling Claws in True Form.
• Spirit Link lifesteal is now disabled by Break.

03 Dec 2019

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Savage Roar descriptions to say that it is always cast on Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear.
  • Added description to True Form buff.

15 Oct 2019

• Fixed Spirit Bear base attack time talent showing two minus symbols.

08 Aug 2019

• Fixed any items (such as Gem of True Sight) being movable to the Spirit Bear's designated Town Portal Scroll slot.

12 Dec 2018

• Fixed the Spirit Bear missing spec, normal and detail masks.

27 Nov 2018

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Spirit Link sound not playing on the Spirit Bear.

08 Dec 2018

• Added a boolean variable to Savage Roar that allows switching between affecting only player units, and affecting all enemy units including lane and neutral creeps.

26 Nov 2018

• Fixed an issue with Return.

11 Jul 2018

• Updated Savage Roar icon.

09 Nov 2017

• Added a second placeholder empty slot on the Spirit Bear for when the abilities are not unlocked.

08 Nov 2017

• Fixed True Form transformation time.

06 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 2
  • Empty ability column for the Spirit Bear now has an icon with the tooltip Empty.
  • This has been added to support a filler ability entry that is put into place when no abilities on the bear are active.
  • Gets replaced by the respective ability when the Spirit Bear level reaches level 3.

17 Feb 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

20 Jan 2017

• Fixed bug where items in Spirit Bear backpack get unmuted upon death.

11 Jan 2017

• Fixed the K/D/A scoreboard overlapping with multi-unit portraits.

06 Aug 2016

• Added Spirit Bear's items to the Additional Items display.

29 Jul 2016

• Fixed Spirit Bear not tracking Black King Bar usage properly.

06 Jul 2016

• Fixed a bug with the Auto Select Summoned Units option when re-summoning Spirit Bear.

16 Jun 2016

• Corrected the default 'Disabled animation for the Spirit Bear submission template.
• True Form
  • Added True Form as officially supported workshop submissions.
    • To function with animation layers and cloth, these need to use Valve's skeleton and animations.
  • Added rare loadout animation to True Form.

19 Apr 2016

• Fixed ability interactions between Savage Roar and Last Word.

31 Mar 2016

• Fixed Spirit Bear appearing grayscale even when Lone Druid had an Aghanim's Scepter.

24 Mar 2016

• Added missing death and Savage Roar animations to several True Form cosmetics.
• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed being unable to use Bottle, Enchanted Mango or Tango on Spirit Bear.
  • Fixed Spirits not dealing damage to Spirit Bear.
  • Fixed maim not working against Spirit Bear
  • Fixed the grayscale Spirit Bear effect getting stuck.
  • UPDATE 2
    • Fixed a crash with Bottle on Spirit Bear.

17 Feb 2016

• Added Savage Roar animations to Spirit Bear. [?]

12 Feb 2016

• Fixed Rabid effects with Rage of the Dark Wood equipped.

06 Feb 2016

• Fixed Savage Roar ability values on the Spirit Bear not being updated to 6.86e.

27 Jan 2016

• Fixed Illusory Orb not damaging Spirit Bear.

23 Dec 2015

• Fixed Savage Roar affecting and overriding Dueling targets.

22 Dec 2015

• Fixed Spirit Bear not respecting Auto Select Summoned Units options when re-summoning.

16 Dec 2015

• Savage Roar
  • UPDATE 3
    • Fixed ability not causing channeling heroes to run away.
  • UPDATE 5
    • Fixed Legacy Keys on Spirit Bear.
    • The ability is now always in the third slot regardless of Spirit Bear's level.
    • Fixed ability affecting lane creeps and neutral creeps.

30 Nov 2015

• Fixed Alt+ Left Click items on Spirit Bear.

04 Nov 2015

• Fixed some cases where Spirit Bear was not displaying the disarm state correctly.

03 Oct 2015

• Fixed server exploit Lone Druid.

18 Sep 2015

• Fixed server crash with Spirit Bear using Hex on an enemy.

10 Sep 2015

• Fixed Fate's Edict not properly disarming Spirit Bear.

02 Sep 2015

• Fixed Spirit Bear incorrectly drawing a model using Blink Dagger.

10 Jul 2015

• Fixed Consume not working on Spirit Bear.

18 Jun 2015

• Fixed Spirit Bear not playing its animations sometimes.

30 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 7 (TEST)
  • Fixed an ability interaction crash with Lone Druid and Hybrid.

29 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed Spirit Bear being able to consume Moon Shard.

12 Feb 2015

• Fixed Spirit Bear's Necronomicon units and Dominate units not giving kill credit to Lone Druid.

18 Dec 2014

• Fixed Spirit Bear healing its health from picking up and dropping Vitality Booster.

20 Nov 2014

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed unit being unable to pick up Bounty Rune.
  • Added new health bars.

17 Oct 2014

• Fixed Transmute on Spirit Bear not granting Experience_XP to Lone Druid.

25 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed Avatar duration not being tracked properly on Spirit Bear.

24 Sep 2014

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Spirit Bear
    • Fixed unit interaction with summons.
    • Fixed unit's mana capacity.

29 Apr 2014

• Summon Spirit Bear
  • Fixed a bug preventing casting the ability immediately after using Return.
  • Fixed a bug casting the ability immediately after a Spirit Bear died.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Adjust custom Spirit Bear hitboxes to be more consistent with default models.
    • Fixed bug preventing Spirit Bear from being able to retrieve items from the stash.
    • Fixed Insatiable Hunger not lifestealing from Spirit Bear.
    • Fixed the following passive abilities not affecting Spirit Bear:
      • Geostrike
      • Craggy Exterior

09 Jan 2014

• Updated default hero and Spirit Bear workshop files, including separated fbx and smd.

23 Sep 2013

• Fixed level 1 and 2 Spirit Bear having 1800 day vision instead of 1400.
• Fixed True Form last hit sound effects.

28 Jun 2013

• Enchant now affects Spirit Bear.

14 Jun 2013

• Fixed Battle Cry not having a radius limit (should be 1000).

09 May 2013

• Fixed Frost Arrows slowing Spirit Bear for the full creep duration.

02 May 2013

• UPDATE 5
  • Fixed Astral Spirit not counting Spirit Bear towards the creep count.

18 Apr 2013

• Fixed Mystic Flare hitting Spirit Bear.

28 Feb 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed cast backswing behaviors for the following abilities:
    • True Form
    • Return

07 Feb 2013

• Fixed Entangling Claws working against ancient creeps and creep-heroes (e.g. Familiar and Warlock Golem).

07 Nov 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Undying Zombie now correctly disables Return.

12 Sep 2012

• Added new micromanaging interface for heroes with multiple primary units (i.e. Lone Druid and Spirit Bear).
  • Added a channel bar to each slot.
  • Selected units are now highlighted, with a special highlight for the primary selected unit
  • Added a red flash when units are recently damaged.
  • You can now Left Click on slots to select or deselect units.

09 Aug 2012

• Fixed creep aggro behavior with Spirit Bear.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed not being able to ⇱⇲ Drag-select Spirit Bear by dragging over the model.
• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed abilities with 0 cast point missing its ability effects:
    • Spirit Link
    • True Form, Druid Form
    • Return

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• Fixed the following abilities from affecting [[Spirit Bear}:}
  • Glimpse
  • Curse of the Silent
  • Spirits

|Spirit Bear}:}

• • Glimpse
  • Curse of the Silent
  • Spirits]]

12 Jul 2012

• Fixed Spirit Bear not aggro-ing creeps when it attacks a hero.

11 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed Spirit Bear dying counting as denies.

20 Jun 2012

• Fixed having 1.3 too little armor.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed Holy Persuasion working on Spirit Bear.
  • Fixed Entangling Claws affecting wards.
• Fixed Battle Cry not affecting other units Lone Druid owns.

10 May 2012

• Fixed turn rate.
• Fixed base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.5.
• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed getting trapped in Power Cogs and Sprout.
  • Fixed kill bounty being too low.
  • Fixed Entangling Claws working on wards.
  • Fixed creep-heroes being able to purchase items directly into the Stash from the Secret Shop.

03 May 2012

• Fixed Spirit Bear teleporting far away from you with Return and causing it to get stuck in trees sometimes.

26 Apr 2012

• Spirit Bear
  • Fixed unit from breaking Disguise.
  • Fixed unit attributes tooltip not showing the correct values.
• Fixed True Form and Druid Form being cancelled and interruptable.

19 Apr 2012

• Spirit Bear
  • Added a visual effect at the Spirit Bear's old location when it is recast.
  • Fixed a bug when Spirit Bear would disassemble an item, causing it to have no owner.

13 Apr 2012

• Fixed Spirit Bear having incorrect damage type.

12 Apr 2012

• Added
  to Captain's Mode.
• Spirit Bear
  • Entangling Claws
    • Fixed ability not affecting spell immune units.
    • Fixed not interrupting channeling abilities when procced.
    • Fixed Unstable Concoction being castable on Spirit Bear.
  • Fixed the following abilities not hitting Spirit Bear:
    • Sacred Arrow
    • Meat Hook

28 Mar 2012

• Added
  Lone Druid.
• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Fixed a few True Form lines would play when in Druid Form.
  • Summon Spirit Bear
    • Fixed where Spirit Bear would drop drop-on-death items when ability is leveled up.
    • Fixed ability tooltip not working properly on hover.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Added overhead indicator when Spirit Bear is out of range.
    • Fixed Gem of True Sight on Spirit Bear.
    • Fixed Spirit Bear being killed when Lone Druid dies with Reincarnation.
    • Fixed being unable to use Boots of Travel 2 to teleport to Spirit Bear.
    • Fixed Sacrifice granting Spirit Bear mana permenantly.
    • Fixed Unholy Strength ability interactions.
    • Fixed Observer Ward and Sentry Ward usage by Spirit Bear.
    • Fixed Spirit Bear being rooted by the following abilities:
      • Demonic Purge
      • Purge
    • Fixed how Demolish works.

27 Mar 2012

• UPDATE 2 (TEST)
  • Updated default hero portrait icon.
  • Fixed bug with voice lines when picking up runes.
  • Spirit Bear
    • Fixed where leveling up Summon Spirit Bear would cause items with passive effects to stop working.
    • Fixed Return Legacy Keys.
    • Spirit Bear can now create illusions of itself.
    • No longer can pick up Aegis of the Immortal.
    • Entangling Claws
      • Fixed ability working on Roshan.
      • Fixed ability interactions and priority with Poison Attack.
  • Added Rabid duration to its ability tooltip.
  • Battle Cry
    • Fixed Legacy Keys.
    • Added duration to ability tooltip.
    • The ability is now capped at 3 levels.
  • Fixed leveling up Druid Form not automatically leveling up True Form.