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Version History

Version

Description

7.29b

• Reduced base attack damage from 28-38 to 26-36.
• Reduced armor from 0 to -1.
• Reduced Phantom Rush agility bonus from 11/22/33/44 to 10/20/30/40.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Spirit Lance
    • No longer increases cast range by 200.
    • Reduced bounce distance from 900 to 750.
    • Reduced illusion damage dealt bonus from 50% to 40%.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: 16% evasion ➜ +150 health.

Level 15 right talent changed: +200 health ➜ 16% evasion.

7.29

• Rescaled base attack damage from 26-40 to 28-38.
• Doppelganger
  • Reduced cast range from 600 to 575.
  • Reduced tree destruction radius from 200 to 150.
• Reduced Phantom Rush maximum rush distance from 600/700/800/900 to 600/675/750/825.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Spirit Lance illusion damage dealt bonus from 30% to 50%.
• Talents:

Level 15 left talent: -2s Spirit Lance cooldown increased to -3s.

Level 20 left talent: +4% Juxtapose illusion damage dealt increased to +5%.

Level 20 right talent: +350 Phantom Rush range reduced to +300.

7.28b

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Now also increases Spirit Lance cast range by 200.

7.28a

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Spirit Lance illusion damage dealt bonus from 20% to 30%.

7.28

• Increased base intelligence from 19 to 21.
  • Rescaled Spirit Lance mana cost from 110/120/130/140 to 120 on each level.
• Phantom Rush
  • Now always grants the agility bonus, instead of only upon starting an attack on the targeted enemy. [?]
  • Reduced minimum trigger distance from 250 to 200.
• Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old: Reduces Phantom Rush agility bonus duration to 1.5, removes minimum rush distance, and causes the rush buff to trigger on each attack, ignoring the cooldown.
  • New: Adds an active component to Juxtapose.

Can be cast to destroy all currently active Juxtapose illusions, and then quickly creates the max amount of illusions around Phantom Lancer with an increased duration.

Cast time: 0

Spawn radius: 550

Spawn interval: 0.05

Extra duration: 10

Mana cost: 75

Cooldown: 60

Notes: The illusions are spawned randomly around Phantom Lancer.

• Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Phantom Lancer:
  • Increases Spirit Lance illusion damage dealt by 20% and causes the projectile to bounce to another unit within 900 radius, prioritizing heroes.
• Talents:

Level 15 left talent: -1s Spirit Lance cooldown increased to -2s.

Level 20 right talent: +400 Phantom Rush range reduced to +350.

7.27b

• Rescaled base attack damage from 48-70 to 52-66.
• Increased Spirit Lance damage from 100/150/200/250 to 100/160/220/280.
• Talents:

Level 15 left talent changed: +100 Spirit Lance damage ➜ -1s Spirit Lance cooldown.

Level 20 left talent changed: +5 Juxtapose max illusions ➜ +4% Juxtapose illusion damage dealt.

7.26c

• Talents:

Level 20 left talent: +4 Juxtapose max illusions increased to +5.

7.26b

• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +20 attack speed reduced to +15.

Level 10 right talent: 20% evasion reduced to 16%.

Level 15 left talent: +125 Spirit Lance damage reduced to +100.

Level 15 right talent: +250 health reduced to +200.

Level 20 left talent: +5 Juxtapose max illusions reduced to +4.

Level 20 right talent: +500 Phantom Rush range reduced to +400.

Level 25 left talent: 30% Critical Strike chance reduced to 24%.

Level 25 right talent: -5s Doppelganger cooldown reduced to -4s.

7.25c

• Reduced base agility from 29 to 26.

7.24

• Talents:

Level 15 right talent: +275 health reduced to +250.

Level 25 right talent: -6s Doppelganger cooldown reduced to -5s.

7.23

• Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old: Causes Spirit Lance to bounce to nearby enemies within 400 radius up to 5 times.
  • New: Reduces Phantom Rush agility bonus duration to 1.5, removes minimum rush distance, and causes the rush buff to trigger on each attack, ignoring the cooldown.

7.22g

• Increased Juxtapose illusion damage dealt from 20% to 22%.

7.22e

• Reduced Spirit Lance mana cost from 125/130/135/140 to 110/120/130/140.
• Talents:

Level 15 right talent: +250 health increased to +275.

7.22d

• Increased Juxtapose illusion damage dealt from 18% to 20%.

7.22c

• Increased Juxtapose illusion damage dealt from 16% to 18%.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent: 15% evasion increased to 20%.

7.22

• Increased strength gain from 2 to 2.2.
• Increased agility gain from 3 to 3.2.

7.21c

• Increased Phantom Rush agility bonus from 9/18/27/36 to 11/22/33/44.

7.21b

• Increased Phantom Rush agility bonus from 6/14/22/30 to 9/18/27/36.

7.21

• Increased agility gain from 2.6 to 3.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent: 10% evasion increased to 15%.

Level 20 left talent: +4 Juxtapose max illusions increased to +5.

7.20d

• Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 3 to 1.5.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Reduced Spirit Lance movement speed slow from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 10%/18%/26%/34%.
• Increased Juxtapose illusion damage taken from 600% to 650%.

7.19d

• Reduced Spirit Lance cast range from 750 on each level to 525/600/675/750.

7.19c

• Reduced agility gain from 2.8 to 2.6.

7.19b

• Talents:

Level 25 right talent: -7s Doppelganger cooldown reduced to -6s.

7.19

• Reduced base intelligence from 21 to 19
• Increased Juxtapose illusion damage taken from 500% to 600%.

7.18

• Reduced base strength from 22 to 19.

7.16

• Doppelganger can no longer be cast while rooted.

7.15

• Increased base strength from 21 to 22.

7.10

• Talents:

Level 25 right talent: -5s Doppelganger cooldown increased to -7s.

7.07

• Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.
• Increased base health regeneration from 1.5 to 3.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Phantom Rush can now be toggled to disable it (default state is enabled).
• Doppelganger now adds 2 seconds duration to all your illusions.
• Reworked talents:

Old:

Level 10: +20 attack speed or +75 Spirit Lance damage

Level 15: 15% cooldown reduction or +8 all stats

Level 20: 15% evasion or 15% magic resistance

Level 25: +600 Phantom Rush range or +20 strength

New:

Level 10: +20 attack speed or 10% evasion

Level 15: +125 Spirit Lance damage or +250 health

Level 20: +4 Juxtapose max illusions or +500 Phantom Rush range

Level 25: 30% Critical Strike, 200% damage [?] or -5s Doppelganger cooldown

7.06e

• Increased agility gain from 2.6 to 2.8.

7.06d

• Increased base health regeneration from 0.5 to 1.5.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.75 to 0.5.
• Phantom Rush agility bonus is now timed so that the first attack after the rush benefits from the bonus. [?]
• Fixed Doppelganger illusions lasting 7 seconds, instead of 8. [?]
• Increased Juxtapose max illusions cap from 5/7/9 to 6/8/10

7.05

• Increased Phantom Rush agility bonus from 6/12/18/24 to 6/14/22/30.

7.03

• Spirit Lance illusions now have a constant 5 gold/experience bounty, instead of scaling with levels.

7.02

• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: +150 health ➜ +75 Spirit Lance damage.

7.00

• Phantom Rush
  • Now grants 6/12/18/24 agility for 2 seconds upon reaching the enemy and attacking it. [?]
  • Reduced minimum trigger distance from 300 to 250.
• Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Phantom Lancer:
  • Causes Spirit Lance to bounce to nearby enemies within 400 radius up to 5 times.
• Added talents:

Level 10: +20 attack speed or +150 health

Level 15: 15% cooldown reduction or +8 all stats

Level 20: 15% evasion or 15% magic resistance

Level 25: +600 Phantom Rush range or +20 strength

6.87

• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.

6.85

• Reduced agility gain from 3 to 2.6.
• Doppelganger now has a 0.1 second cast time.

6.84

• Hero kills by Phantom Lancer's illusions now provide Experience_XP credit to the hero.

6.83c

• Enabled in Captain's Mode.

6.82c

• Reduced Juxtapose max illusions cap from 6/8/10 to 5/7/9.

6.82

• Removed from Captain's Mode.
• Increased base strength from 18 to 21.
• Rescaled base agility and gain from 23 + 4.2 to 29 + 3.
• Replaced Doppelwalk with Doppelganger.

Old Doppelwalk

Renders Phantom Lancer invisible, while generating a duplicate image to confuse enemies.

Fade time: 0

Move speed bonus: 15%

Invisibility duration: 8

Number of illusions: 1

Illusion damage taken: 400%

Illusion damage dealt: 20%

Illusion duration: 20

Mana cost: 150/120/90/60

Cooldown: 30/25/20/15

New Doppelganger

Target an area. Phantom Lancer and all nearby illusions will disappear for 1 second, then have their positions shuffled into the target area. This also creates two illusions of opposite types.

Cast range: 600

Target area radius: 325

Illusion gather radius: 900

Reappear delay: 1

Illusion 1: Deals 0% damage and takes 100% damage.

Illusion 2: Deals 20% damage and takes 600% damage.

Illusion duration: 8

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 25/20/15/10

Notes: Has an instant cast time. disjoints projectiles upon cast. Allies an distinguish the 2 different illusions. Phantom Lancer and all gathered illusions are hidden and invulnerable for the second.

• Replaced Juxtapose with Phantom Rush.

Old Juxtapose

Phantom Lancer's attacks have a chance to create illusions to confuse enemies.

Proc chance: 12%

Max illusions: 2/4/6/8

Illusion damage taken: 450%

Illusion damage dealt: 20%

Illusion duration: 20

New Phantom Rush

Triggers when issuing an attack order on an enemy unit outside of attack range. Grants bonus movement speed and Phase until Phantom Lancer strikes his target.

Minimum rush distance: 300

Maximum rush distance: 600/700/800/900

Rush speed: 800

Cooldown: 16/12/8/4

Notes: Illusions also have this passive. If the attack order on the original target is canceled, the speed bonus is lost.

• Moved Juxtapose to the fourth ability slot. This is now Phantom Lancer's ultimate ability.
• Replaced Phantom Edge with a reworked Juxtapose.

Old Phantom Edge

Phantom Lancer hones his abilities. Improves chance of Juxtaposing, and the Juxtapose illusions can now create their own illusions. Phantom Edge also increases Phantom Lancer's magic resistance.

Magic resistance bonus: 10%/15%/20%

Juxtapose proc chance bonus: 2%/4%/6%

Juxtapose illusion proc chance: 3%/5%/7%

New Juxtapose

Grants Phantom Lancer, and his illusions, a chance to create an illusion when attacking.

Hero proc chance: 40%/45%/50%

Illusion proc chance: 8%

Max illusions: 6/8/10

Illusion stats: 16% damage dealt, 500% damage taken

Hero illusion duration: 8

Illusion illusion duration: 4

Notes: Juxtapose illusions attack the target that the passive triggered on.

6.79

• Spirit Lance is now disjointable.

6.78

• Reduced Spirit Lance illusion damage dealt from 25% to 20%.
• Reduced Doppelwalk illusion damage dealt from 25% to 20%.
• Reduced Juxtapose illusions damage dealt from 25% to 20%.
• Reduced Phantom Edge illusions damage dealt from 25% to 20%.

6.76

• Reduced collision size from 24 to 8.

6.75

• Increased agility gain from 2.8 to 4.2.
• Increased Spirit Lance slow duration from 3 to 3.25.

6.73

• Increased Doppelwalk movement speed bonus from 10% to 15%.
• Increased Juxtapose max illusions cap from 2/3/4/5 to 2/4/6/8.

6.72d

• Increased collision size from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Reduced collision size from 24 to 12.
• Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.
• Juxtapose
  • Increased proc chance from 3%/6%/9%/12% to 12% on each level.
  • Reduced max illusions cap from 5 on each level to 2/3/4/5.

6.72

• Increased attack range from 100 to 128.

6.69

• Reduced strength gain from 2 to 1.7.

6.67

• Increased Juxtapose illusions damage taken from 400% to 450%.

6.63

• Increased Juxtapose illusion duration from 15 to 20.

6.55

• Increased Spirit Lance cast range from 600 to 750.

6.54

• Spirit Lance
  • No longer mini-stuns the target upon projectile impact.
  • The slow is now applied upon projectile impact, instead of launch.
  • Now creates an illusion upon projectile impact. The illusion deals 20% damage, takes 400% damage and lasts 2/4/6/8 seconds.
  • All of Phantom Lancer's illusions within 675 radius around him now cast a fake Spirit Lance whenever Phantom Lancer casts it.
  • Can no longer be disjointed.
  • Reduced damage from 100/150/215/310 to 100/150/200/250.
  • Reduced mana cost from 140 on each level to 125/130/135/140.
  • Reduced cooldown from 9 to 7.
• Doppelwalk
  • Reduced invisibility duration from 12 to 8.
  • Increased illusion damage taken from 300% to 400%.
• Juxtapose
  • Reduced max illusions cap from 6 to 5.
  • Increased illusions damage taken from 300% to 400%.

6.52

• Doppelwalk illusions will now automatically walk forwards for a short distance upon spawning, to make it less obvious to the enemies that the spell was cast.

6.51

• Phantom Edge
  • No longer grants 5%/10%/15% chance for evasion.
  • Now grants 10%/15%/20% magic resistance.

6.50

• Increased strength gain from 1.5 to 2.0.

6.36

• Increased base intelligence and gain from 16 + 1.7 to 21 + 2.
• Reduced Doppelwalk cooldown from 30 on each level to 30/25/20/15.

6.35

• Increased base armor from -1 to 0.

6.20

• Reduced base strength and gain from 19 + 2 to 18 + 1.5.

6.13

• Increased agility gain from 2.7 to 2.8.

6.10

• Fixed some memory leak issues on Spirit Lance.

6.06

• Increased Spirit Lance damage from 80/135/200/295 to 100/150/215/310.

6.04

• Spirit Lance
  • No longer turns the target ethereal.
  • Now slows movement speed by 10%/20%/30%/40% and attack speed by 10/20/30/40 for 3 seconds.
• Reduced Doppelwalk invisibility duration from 20 to 12.

6.03

• Reduced Juxtapose max illusions cap from 8 to 6.

6.02

• Doppelwalk
  • Reduced cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 30 on each level.
  • Increased illusion damage dealt from 20% to 25%.
• Increased Juxtapose illusions damage dealt from 20% to 25%.
• Reduced Phantom Edge evasion chance from 10%/20%/30% to 5%/10%/15%.

6.00

• Created.

Patch History

Patch

Description

17 Aug 2020

• Increased max polygon counts.

14 Aug 2020

• Increased max polygon counts.

18 May 2018

• Fixed an exploit with Phantom Lancer.

30 Nov 2017

• Optimized Spirit Lance projectile.

16 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

12 Nov 2017

• Fixed a crash when Demonic Purge is used on Phantom Lancer's illusions.

31 Oct 2017

• Added a head slot to loadout.
• Change several shoulder slot items to head slot.

09 Oct 2017

• Fixed Phantom Rush not canceling when a patrol command is issued during its effect.

08 Oct 2017

• Fixed Phantom Rush not canceling when targeting a trees with an action during it.

15 May 2017

• Fixed Doppelganger illusions lasting 1 second less than intended.

21 Dec 2016

• Update 2
  • Updated default item build.

26 Jul 2016

• Added Russian voiceover lines.

30 Mar 2016

• Fixed a problem with attack animations.

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed Phantom Rush triggering while dead.

22 Dec 2015

• Fixed ability interactions between Time Dilation and abilities that swap index (i.e. Doppelganger).

08 Jul 2015

• Fixed units popping in and out of view when Phantom Lancer was in the game.

30 Apr 2015

• Update 7
  • Fixed Phantom Rush not being disabled by Break.

25 Sep 2014

• Update 4
  • Fixed Doppelganger illusions not being added to your selection if you have that option on.
  • Fixed Phantom Rush on dead units.
• Update 5
  • Updated audio lines for Doppelganger
  • Fixed Phantom Rush sometimes moving slower than intended.

24 Sep 2014

• Update 2
  • Fixed Phantom Rush on dead units.
  • Fixed Juxtapose illusion count being off by 1.

16 Jun 2014

• Updated voice line subtitles.

28 Mar 2014

• Updated Doppelwalk ability tooltip.

28 Mar 2013

• Fixed being able to have 1 Juxtapose illusion too many.

28 Feb 2013

• Fixed an issue where illusions made by a player on the other team would create uncontrollable Juxtapose illusions.

08 Nov 2012

• Doppelwalk
  • Fixed the Doppelwalk illusion not reproducing Phantom Lancer's abilities (including all attributes bonuses) correctly.
  • Fixed the Doppelwalk illusions not triggering Juxtapose.

25 Oct 2012

• Updated Spirit Lance vision values.

26 Jul 2012

• Fixed Doppelwalk illusions not correctly replicating their inventory item slots.

10 May 2012

• Added to Captain's Mode.

04 May 2012

• Doppelwalk
  • Fixed bug where Dopplewalk illusions were not getting attributes from their attribute bonus.
  • Fixed bug where a red ring was visible to the opposing team under an invisible Phantom Lancer after the Doppelwalk illusion died.
  • Fixed bug when Dopplewalking where there would sometimes be a visible jump in the hero's health bar to the enemy team.
• Fixed some values in damage output and input from Juxtapose illusions.

03 May 2012

• Added Phantom Lancer.

12 Jan 2012

• U
  Updated default hero portrait.