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+ | * Can regenerate up to {{#expr:{{#explode:{{#var:Burrow value2}}|%}}*60}}% of Nyx Assassin's max [[Health regeneration|health]] and max [[Mana regeneration|mana]] in one minute. |
* Burrow lasts until using {{A|Unburrow|Nyx Assassin}} sub-ability is used or {{A|Vendetta|Nyx Assassin}}, or until death. |
* Burrow lasts until using {{A|Unburrow|Nyx Assassin}} sub-ability is used or {{A|Vendetta|Nyx Assassin}}, or until death. |
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Nyx Assassin, is a melee agility hero who is feared as one of the most effective gankers and solo-killers in the game. With his powerful burst damage nukes, Nyx Assassin specializes in disabling and killing lone and fragile enemies with little to no warning. He possesses an area nuke and stun ability in Impale, allowing him to disable enemies in a straight line in front of him while dealing damage. His Mana Burn ability can destroy a significant fraction of a target hero's mana pool while dealing the same amount as damage, making him the bane of weak intelligence heroes with lots of mana but very little health. Should the enemy attempt to attack him, Nyx Assassin can dissuade them with Spiked Carapace, stunning any heroes that attack him while reflecting their damage back at them. His ultimate, Vendetta, turns Nyx invisible, allowing him to deal tremendous pure damage to the next target that he strikes out of invisibility. Stalking from the shadows, Nyx Assassin can strike without warning and lay low his foes before they realize that their death is upon them.
Bio
Unlike most grubs of his colony, Nyx Assassin did not arise from metamorphosis with the plodding thoughts and blunted appendages common to the worker caste of his kind. For his was a special transformation, guided by the grace of Nyx. He was the chosen one, selected from the many and anointed with an extract of the queen goddess herself. Not all survive the dark blessing of the queen's chamber, but he emerged with a penetrating mind, and dagger-like claws–his razor sharp mandibles raking the air while his thoughts projected directly into the minds of those around him. Of all zealot scarabs, he alone was selected for the highest calling. After his metamorphosis, he was reborn, by grace of Nyx, with abilities which shaped him for one thing and one thing only: to kill in the name of his goddess.
Abilities
- The spikes travel at a speed of 1600.
- With the travel distance and radius, Impale can hit units up to 825 range away.
- Hit units are knocked up 350 range for the initial 0.5 seconds of the stun.
- While in the air, other units may pass below hit airborne units.
- When Impale hits invisible units, the visual effects below the hit unit are still visible.
- The damage is applied upon landing, not upon getting hit.
- While burrowed, Impale's cast range and the spikes travel distance increase to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "%"..
- Therefore, Impale now can hit units up to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "%". range away.
- The cooldown is reduced to -511 seconds.
- Applies the damage first, and then the mana loss.
- Effectively burns 29%/33%/38%/42% of the target's maximum mana pool if it has no flat mana bonus.
- Despite dealing the damage first, the damage is based on how much mana the target actually lost from Mana Burn.
- This means, when cast on an enemy who has 5 mana left, it also deals only 5 damage (before reductions).
- Can be cast on creep-heroes, but has no effect on them, since they have no intelligence, wasting mana and cooldown.
- While burrowed, Mana Burn's cast range increases to 1125.
No Target
Enemies
While Burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast.
- Spiked Carapace interrupts Nyx Assassin's channeling abilities upon cast.
- Can be cast during Vendetta, without breaking the invisibility. Breaks the invisibility of other sources.
- The buff from multiple casts of Spiked Carapace does not stack but gets refreshed instead.
- Only reflects player based damage directly towards the damage dealer. A unit can only be affected once per buff.
- Reflects incoming damage before all manipulations. However, damage manipulation on the enemy still affects the damage normally.
- Reflects the same damage type as received.
- Reflected physical damage is affected by damage block as well.
- Reflected damage has the no-reflection flag, preventing its damage from interacting with other sources of damage with the same flag.
- Fully ignores self-inflicted damage, and damage flagged as HP Removal.
- Reflected damage cannot be amplified with outgoing spell damage amplification and cannot spell lifesteal.
- Can be amplified by incoming spell damage amplification.
- Spiked Carapace has a global range and affects units through the Fog of War or invisibility.
- Spiked Carapace first applies the debuff, then the reflected damage.
- Spiked Carapace fully negates and reflects after all reductions, causing several on-damage effects to not trigger.
- Has a higher priority than Aphotic Shield, but lower than False Promise. It will still reflect and stun when combined with False Promise.
- Although the damage dealt to enemies is equal to the amount of damage blocked, the effects work independently from each other.
- This means Spiked Carapace always blocks one damage instance, even when the source is spell immune or invulnerable.
- While burrowed, casting Spiked Carapace immediately applies its stun to all enemies within 7 radius.
- Since Spiked Carapace has no base damage, hit units are not damaged upon cast.
- Nyx Assassin still receives the cast buff normally, which can still reflect damage and stun enemies.
- However, the buff does not affect enemy units which have been hit by the stun upon cast. They can normally damage Nyx.
No Target
Self
- Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.
- In Ability Draft, Burrow can be unlocked by the player that drafted Vendetta.
- While burrowed, Nyx Assassin is invisible, disarmed, and rooted, so that he cannot attack, move, or use blink-based abilities.
- While burrowed, Impale and Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Mana Burn". can be cast without having to face the targeted point or unit.
- Other targeted abilities and items still require facing.
- Applies generic incoming damage reduction on Nyx Assassin while burrowed. Stacks additively with other sources of generic incoming damage manipulation.
- The reduction affects all damage Nyx Assassin takes that is not flagged as HP removal.
- Nyx Assassin can still be moved by abilities while burrowed, without getting unburrowed.
- Losing Aghanim's Scepter instantly unburrows Nyx.
No Target
- Interrupts Nyx Assassin's channeling abilities upon cast.
- Instantly reverts all bonuses provided by Burrow.
- Uses a different sound when unburrowing inside the river.
- Vendetta does not interrupt Nyx Assassin's channeling abilities upon cast.
- The attack out of Vendetta cannot miss.
- The attack first applies the Vendetta damage, then the debuff, then the attack 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.
- The invisibility is broken upon reaching the cast point of abilities or items, or upon landing an attack.
- Nyx can pick up, drop or attack items and runes without breaking the invisibility.
- Vendetta allows Nyx to phase through other units, including wards, but not through buildings.
- The level 25 talent grants fully unobstructed movement during Vendetta, allowing to path through cliffs and trees.
- With Aghanim's Shard, reduces most heroes' total magic resistance to 10%.
Talents
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Vendetta Unobstructed Pathing | 25 | 300 Mind Flare Radius |
+130 Impale Damage | 20 | +0.45s Spiked Carapace Stun Duration |
+0.75x Mind Flare Intelligence Multiplier | 15 | +0.5s Spiked Carapace Reflect Duration |
+0.2s Impale Stun Duration | 10 | +75 Vendetta Damage |
Recent Changes
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Burrow
- Now allows Nyx Assassin to cast his other unit-targeted abilities ( Impale and Mind Flare) without facing the target.
- These abilities have an instant cast time while Burrowed.
- Burrow
- Increased Mind Flare intelligence as damage multiplier from 2/3/4/5 to 3.5/4/4.5/5.
- Reduced Spiked Carapace cooldown from 26/20/14/8 to 23/18/13/8.
- Vendetta
- Now grants 75 attack range bonus.
- Increased attack animation speed from 50% to 70%.
- Spiked Carapace
- Increased damage reflected from 100% to 125%.
- Rescaled cooldown from 25/20/15/10 to 26/20/14/8.
- Vendetta
- Reduced damage from 300/450/600 to 300/400/500.
- Increased duration from 40/50/60 to 60 on each level.
Recommended Items
Gameplay
Within the colony of zealot scarabs, the queen goddess Nyx selected a single grub to answer her highest calling. And so, through designed metamorphosis, the Nyx Assassin came into being. The telepathic scarab devours his prey's minds through Mana Burn, while sending out rows of subterranean spikes to Impale them from below. Armored with a Spiked Carapace, he stuns attackers and reflects damage back to their source. But the goddess' servant is deadliest when unseen. A distracted target has no chance to react as the Nyx Assassin pierces its body with massive mandibles, thereby fulfilling an unspoken Vendetta in the name of his queen. | |
Roles: | Disabler Nuker Initiator Escape |
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Adjectives: | Legs ( 2 )
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Trivia
- Nyx Assassin's original name was Anub'arak, and he was titled "Nerubian Assassin". Both were changed in the transition to Dota 2 due to copyright reasons.
- Anub'arak is a character of Blizzard's franchise "Warcraft", who first appeared in the campaign of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He was the king of the Nerubians, a race of malevolent arachnids who were slain and raised as undead.
- Nyx Assassin's fun name in DotA was Anoob'arak.