Old Abilities
Adaptive Strike (pre 6.60)
Blasts a target with magical energy, dealing damage or disabling the target based on Morphling's dominant attribute between agility and strength.
Cast Range: 600/700/800/900
Base Damage: 30/60/90/120
Damage Agi Multiplier: 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6
Stun Duration: 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6
Knockback Distance: 100
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100
The Morphling calls upon his elements to crush his opponents with waves.
- This ability got reworked into the current Adaptive Strike in the 6.60 gameplay patch.
- Either damages, or stuns and knocks back.
- Damages if agility is higher than strength, stuns and knocks back if strength is higher than agility, even if it is just 1 point higher.
- If agility and strength are even, it applies all effects, damage, stun and knockback.
Waveform (6.05-6.30b)
QW
QW
The Morphling dissolves into his components and surges forward, dealing damage to everything in his wake.
Cast Range: 700
Max Blink Distance: 700
Damage Starting Width: 110
Damage Travel Distance: 810
Damage End Width: 300
Damage: 75/150/225/300
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175
A torrential flood takes enemies by force.
- This ability got reworked into the current Waveform in the 6.31 gameplay patch.
- Does not blink for the full distance when targeting closer than the max distance. However, the damaging wave always travels the full distance.
- When targeting a unit, the wave is released towards its current location upon cast.
- The wave travels at a speed of 1100, while the blink is instant.
- Can hit units up to 1110 range away (810 travel distance + 300 end radius).
- The complete area is shaped like a cone.
Morph Attack WE
WE
Morphling focuses his next attack to reach further targets.
Cast Range: 550/650/750/850
Base Damage: 30
Agility as Bonus Damage: 140%/180%/220%/260%
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50
- This ability got replaced by Adaptive Strike in the 6.31 gameplay patch.
- This ability gets replaced by Crushing Wave when using Adapt to switch to intelligence form.
- Does not share cooldown with Crushing Wave and Unstable Power.
- Despite launching a projectile, the damage is dealt instantly upon cast.
Crushing Wave WE
WESummons a wave to blast an enemy unit. Deals damage, stuns for a short duration and moves the unit slightly backward.
Cast Range: 800
Damage: 100/150/200/250
Stun Duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75
Knockback Distance: 100
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75
- This ability got replaced by Adaptive Strike in the 6.31 gameplay patch.
- This ability gets replaced by Unstable Power when using Adapt to switch to strength form.
- Does not share cooldown with Morph Attack and Unstable Power.
- Launches a projectile, which travels at a speed of 3000.
- The knockback is applied instantly upon cast, while the damage and stun are applied when the projectile hits.
- Destroys trees within a 200 radius around the target.
Unstable Power WE
WEAffects
Allies
Allies
Increases the attack damage and armor of a target unit.
Cast Range: 750
Attack Damage Bonus: 30%/40%/50%/60%
Armor Bonus: 4/5/6/7
Duration: 12
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75/
- This ability got replaced by Adaptive Strike in the 6.31 gameplay patch.
- This ability gets replaced by Morph Attack when using Adapt to switch to agility form.
- Does not share cooldown with Morph Attack and Crushing Wave.
- Can be set on autocast.
- When set on autocast, Morphling automatically casts this on an attacking allied unit within range.
- Autocast cannot occur while Morphling is executing an order.
- In the version 6.05, this ability dealt damage over time and was castable on enemies. The damage caused a deny if the target died to it.
Adapt RD
RD- This ability got replaced by Replicate in the 6.31 gameplay patch.
- Switches Morphling's primary attribute. On each attribute, Morphling has a different second ability and different attack range.
- On agility, he has Morph Attack, 350 attack range and 275 movement speed.
- On intelligence, he has Crushing Wave, 500 attack range and 275 movement speed.
- On strength, he has Unstable Power, 175 attack range and 290 movement speed.
- Upon successfully switching, all buffs and debuffs on Morphling are dispelled. Disjoints projectiles and resets all of Morphling's ability and item cooldowns.
- Also causes Morphling to forget queued commands and cancel any spell or attack targeted at him.
Attribute Bonus
UU
Ability
Passive
Passive
Affects
Self
Self
The Morphling's Attribute Bonus adds a straight up 2 points to agility, strength and intelligence. You don't see the icon and bonus points become part of Morphling's base attributes.
Strength Bonus: 2/4/6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20
Agility Bonus: 2/4/6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20
Intelligence Bonus: 2/4/6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20
- Morphling used this modified version of Attribute Bonus in the gameplay patches 6.04 to 6.28.
- Unlike the regular Attribute Bonus of all other heroes, this one directly added the attributes to Morphling's base attributes.
- This means these extra attributes could be used by Morph.
- In the gameplay patches 6.04 and 6.04b, this had 14 levels. It required level 1/3/5/7/9/11/13/15/17/19/21/23/25/27 to learn.
- This means the last level was not learnable since the level cap is at 25.
- This used to not grant intelligence in the gameplay patches 6.04, 6.04b and 6.20-6.28. It used to grant 1 intelligence in 6.05.
Tidal Wave QW
QWCreates a large wave of water, dealing damage to enemy units in a line.
Cast Range: 700
Starting Radius: 110
Travel Distance: 810
End Radius: 300
Damage: 75/150/225/300
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100/
- This ability got replaced by Waveform in the 6.05 gameplay patch.
- When targeting a unit, the wave is released towards its current location upon cast.
- The wave travels at a speed of 1100.
- Can hit units up to 1110 range away (810 travel distance + 300 end radius).
- The complete area is shaped like a cone.
Blink WB
WBAbility
Target Point
Target Point
Affects
Self
Self
Short distance teleportation that allows Morphling to move in and out of combat.
- This ability got replaced by Morph Attack / Crushing Wave / Unstable Power in the 6.05 gameplay patch.
- Blink disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- Does not blink for the full distance when targeting closer than the max distance.
- When targeting beyond the max blink distance, it blinks for 560/640/720/800 range towards the targeted direction, instead of the full distance.
Spellsteal
RT
Ability
Toggle
Toggle
Affects
Self
Self
The Morphling can steal a spell cast by any nearby unit. The copied spell is of the same level as it spell was copied from.
- This ability got removed in the 6.04 gameplay patch.
- When toggled on, Morphling gains the next spell a hero casts within the radius. This includes allied heroes.
- In order to steal a new spell, Spell Steal must be toggled off and then on again. Only 1 ability is stolen per toggle.
- Can only steal hero spells. Every other spell cast within the radius is not registered.
- The following hero abilities cannot be stolen: Dark Flames, Elder Dragon Form, Spin Web, Summon Spirit Bear, Return, Eclipse, Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Rabid"., One, Battle Cry, True Form, Berserker's Rage, Metamorphosis, Freezing Field, Omnislash, Nether Swap, Sprout, Mana Leak, Entrench, Thundergod's Wrath, Shapeshift, Searing Arrows, Ante Up
- Words of the developer back then: "Yeah, I'm really sad but we ended up removing Spellsteal. It afforded a lot of troubles, and we decided that it was just too much trouble to cope with. We actually are at a complete loss as to a 4th skill for him; right now he can just get 4 more levels of stats because he cannot reasonably use anything else: attack bonuses he doesn't need, defense bonuses he doesn't need since he keeps Blink, more nuking he doesn't need, superior farming he doesn't need...etc etc. We decided 4 more levels of stats is all he wants anyway."