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Puck #13 17 + 2.4 22 + 2.5 23 + 3.5
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 540 1200 1920 2200 +0.5 +2.2 +5.56 +9.16 +10.56 Mana 75 351 939 1503 1731 +0.5 +1.65 +4.1 +6.45 +7.43 Armor -3 0.67 6.5 12.67 15.08 Damage Block - Magic Resistance 25% Status Resistance 0% Damage 22‒30 45‒53 94‒102 141‒149 160‒168 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.72/s 0.92/s 1.14/s 1.23/s Attack Range 550 (800) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5+0.8 Projectile Speed 900 Move Speed ▶️ 290 Turn Rate 0.9 Collision Size 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 • 800 Legs 2 Gib Type Default Ability Upgrades Waning Rift Phase Shift

Orbs to enemies and silences them.
Hatched on the frond of the Undertree, Puck's youthful mischievousness belied inscrutable motives. By teleporting to its Illusory Orb to Jaunt through short distances, it attacks and disrupt foes with bursts of Silencing Dust, Phase Shifting in and out of existence to avoid swords and spells alike. Equally adept at fighting and play, Puck Coils its foes to a single point, forcing them to break their restraints and be stunned, or stay and face Puck's advancing allies.
Roles:	Initiator Disabler Escape Nuker
Complexity:

Bio

Puck, the Faerie Dragon

▶️ "I find myself strangely drawn to this odd configuration of activity."

Lore:

While Puck seems at first glance a mischievous, childish character, this quality masks an alien personality. The juvenile form of a Faerie Dragon, a creature that lives for eons, Puck spends countless millennia in its childish form. So while it is technically true that Puck is juvenile, it will continue to be so when the cities of the present age have sloughed away into dust. Its motives are therefore inscrutable, and what appears to be play may in fact indicate a darker purpose or just its endless fondness for mischief.

Voice:

Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Illusory Orb

▶️▶️QR

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Puck launches a magic orb that floats in a straight path, damaging enemy units along the way. At any point, Puck may teleport to the orb's location using Ethereal Jaunt.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27

Cast Range: 3000

Travel Distance: 1950

Damage Radius: 225

Damage: 75/150/225/300 ( 125/200/275/350)

 12/11/10/9

 110/120/130/140

Modifiers [?]

modifier_projectile_vision

Undispellable

Both Illusory Orb and Ethereal Jaunt are linked abilities.

The playful Faerie Dragon delights in confusing others, vanishing and reappearing where unexpected.

NOTES

• Illusory Orb travels at a speed of 550, taking 3.55 seconds to reach max distance

• With the travel distance and damage radius, the orb can hit units up to 2175 range away.

• The orb starts emitting red pulses after having traveled for 2.5 seconds, indicating that it is about to reach its maximum travel range.

• Leveling the ability immediately updates the damage values of the current instance.
  • TALENT NOTES
    However, the damage increasing talent does not update the current instance.

• The orb leaves behind a trail of flying vision, with a radius of 450. The vision lingers for 5 seconds.

Waning Rift

▶️WW

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Puck teleports to the target location and releases a burst of faerie dust that deals damage and silences enemy units nearby.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27

Cast Range: Global

Max Distance: 400 ( 550)

Radius: 400 ( 550)

Damage: 60/120/180/240 ( 135/195/255/315)

Silence Duration: 2/2.5/3/3.5 ( 2.75/3.25/3.75/4.25)

 Knockback Distance: 400

 Knockback Duration: 0.5

 True Sight Duration: 5

 16/15/14/13 ( 12/11/10/9)

 100/110/120/130

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Waning Rift now has 550 radius and range and knocks enemies back 400 distance over 0.5 seconds (non-interrupting). Reveals invisible enemy units and wards in the area for 5 seconds.

Spell Immunity Notes:

The True Sight debuff fully affects spell immune enemies.

Root Notes:

Does not teleport the caster when cast while rooted.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_silence

Any

modifier_knockback

Any

modifier_item_dustofappearance

Any

With a mischievous grin, Puck spreads its enchanted powder which disrupts magical flow.

NOTES

• ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets 25 range in front of Puck.

• Waning Rift does not disjoint projectiles upon cast.

• Despite the visual effects, the silence and damage are applied instantly in the entire radius.
  • It first applies the damage, then the silence debuff, then the knockback, then the True Sight debuff.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  Waning Rift now knocks units back at a speed of 800. The knockback distance is always 400, no matter how far the unit is from the center.
  • Units are not disabled during the knockback. They can still turn, attack, and use items. Does not interrupt channeling abilities.
  • Can push units over impassable terrain. Destroys trees enemies come in contact with during the knockback.
  • Places the same debuff as Reveal on enemies to reveal them. However, it does not slow enemies.
    • Successive reveal debuffs do not stack but refresh its duration.
  • The debuff is placed on wards, attached units and Couriers as well.

Phase Shift

▶️EF

Ability
No Target / Channeled

Affects
Self
( Enemies)

Damage
 Instant Attack

Puck briefly shifts into another dimension where it is immune from harm.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Max Channel Time: 1/1.75/2.5/3.25

Buff Linger Duration: 0.03

 Instant Attack Radius: 750

 8/7.5/7/6.5

 0

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Puck attacks all enemies within its attack range + 750 every time it phase shifts.

Spell Immunity Notes:

Instant attacks fully pierce spell immunity.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_puck_phase_shift

Death

With a quip and flash, Puck returns to the alien dimension from whence it came.

NOTES

• Disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• Certain items abilities which do not cancel channeling (e.g. Shadow Walk or Arctic Blast) do cancel Phase Shift.

• Puck is invulnerable and hidden for its duration.
  • Does not provide phased movement, so the caster can still block other units during Phase Shift.
  • The buff lingers for one server tick once the channeling ends or is interrupted, which allows using items while still invulnerable and hidden.

• SHARD NOTES
  Phase Shift now causes Puck to perform instant attacks on all enemies within range whenever Phase Shift is cast.
  • These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.
  • Every visible and attackable enemy nearby, including buildings and Couriers, are attacked.
    • Does not attack wards and Undying Zombies.
  • For melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will always miss.
  • The search radius can be further increased by other attack range bonuses.
• SPELL STEAL
  Does not interrupt the channeling upon losing ability.

Ethereal Jaunt

▶️DE

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Teleports Puck to a flying Illusory Orb.

Cast Animation: 0+0.53

 0

 0

Ability Draft Notes:

Replaces Illusory Orb while the orb flies, instead of being in a separate slot.

Sub-ability of Illusory Orb.

Both Ethereal Jaunt and Illusory Orb are linked abilities.

NOTES

• This sub-ability is inactive until Illusory Orb is cast, and turns inactive again once the Illusory Orb of that cast is gone.

• Ethereal Jaunt disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• When two Illusory Orbs are cast in succession, this ability only stays active for the duration of the first cast.
  • However, it always teleports the caster to their last created Illusory Orb.

Dream Coil

▶️▶️RC

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Damage
Magical
( Instant Attack)

Creates a coil of volatile magic that latches onto enemy Heroes, damaging and leashing them. If the enemy hero stretches the coil by moving too far away, it snaps, stunning and dealing additional damage.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0.27

Cast Range: 750

Coil Latch Radius: 375

Link Break Radius: 600

Initial Damage: 150/230/310 ( 300/380/460)

Link Break Damage: 200/300/400 ( 350/450/550)

Link Break Stun Duration: 1.8/2.4/3

Coil Duration: 6

 Instant Attack Radius: 775

 Instant Attack Interval: 0.6

 75 ( 65)

 100/150/200

Spell Immunity Notes:

Does not affect spell immune enemies.

Dream Coil can be dispelled by spell immunity only.

Latches on spell immune enemies without stunning or damaging them.

Leash break stun and damage pierce spell immunity.

Instant attacks pierce spell immunity.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dream_coil_thinker

Undispellable

modifier_puck_coiled

Death

modifier_stunned

Strong

The Faerie Dragon sows confusion by forcing its enemies to vividly dream about their own mortality.

NOTES

• Every enemy hero within 375 range of the coil gets leashed upon cast, preventing them from casting certain mobility abilities.
  • Entering the area after cast has no effect. The coil does not leash enemies after cast.
  • Treat illusions, clones and creep-heroes as heroes.

• If a leashed enemy moves 600 range away from the coil, the leash snaps, stunning and damaging the enemy.
  • It does not matter how far or how fast the enemy moves away, the stun and damage always hit it if possible.
  • The leash snap first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• Dream Coil leashes invisible units and on units in the Fog of War as well, but it does not provide vision over them. The link visually draws to their last known location.

• Multiple instances of Dream Coil fully stack, with each cast placing its own separate leash.

• TALENT NOTES
  The Dream Coil rapid fire talent causes Puck to perform instant attacks on all leashed enemies, as long as it stays within 775 radius of the targeted area.
  • The instant attack radius is not affected by other attack range bonuses.
  • These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.
  • The attacks are performed even while Puck is disabled, or hidden. This means the attacks happen even during Phase Shift.
  • The attacks are performed in 0.6-second intervals, starting 0.6 seconds after cast, resulting in up to 10 instances.
  • Since the instant attacks are bound to the leash, snapping it, or dispelling it with spell immunity causes the instant attacks to stop.
  • Multiple instances of Dream Coil on enemies cause Puck to perform instant attacks multiple times, for each instance, with the interval based on when the debuffs were received.

Talents

Hero Talents
Dream Coil Rapid Fire	25	Dream Coil Pierces Magic Immunity
+150 Initial/Break Dream Coil Damage	20	-4s Waning Rift Cooldown
+75 Waning Rift Damage	15	-10s Dream Coil Cooldown
+0.75s Waning Rift Silence Duration	10	+50 Illusory Orb Damage

Recent Changes

Main Article: Puck/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.32e

• Reduced Waning Rift damage from 70/130/190/250 to 60/120/180/240.

7.32d

• Increased Dream Coil initial damage from 125/200/275 to 150/230/310.

7.32b

• Illusory Orb
  • Reduced travel speed from 651 to 550.
  • Increased mana cost from 80/100/120/140 to 110/120/130/140.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Enchanted Mango allows Puck to use Illusory Orb more often in lane.
• A couple of Iron Branches give Puck a decent early game attributes boost and also later build into Magic Wand.
• Faerie Fire supplies an instant heal and attack damage, which may give Puck an edge in trading hits and killing creeps.
• Tango provides Health Regeneration, crucial to sustain in any lane.

Early game:

• Bottle helps Puck manages rune from the mid lane, as well as replenishing mana for its early game nukes.
• Null Talisman and its components gives Puck a decent early game attributes boost.
• Healing Salve helps keep Puck in lane. You can also use healing salve into phase shift to allow Puck to heal HP even while in combat.
• Magic Wand helps Puck sustain mana and health to keep active in the mid lane.
• Boots of Speed increase movement speed to help Puck get to runes.
• Town Portal Scroll helps Puck rotate to different lanes and help out allies.

Mid game:

• Power Treads help Puck in the early to mid game, as they supplement both Puck's small health pool, as well as its mana pool.
• Arcane Boots, an alternative to Power Treads, help Puck use its magical nukes more often in the early to mid game.
• Boots of Travel, another alternative to Power Treads, helps in split pushing and taking fights from across the map. Also, the extra movement speed is appreciated on Puck.
• Blink Dagger provides great synergy with Puck's abilities and further augments its evasive nature.
• Eul's Scepter of Divinity offers another disable, as well as keeping Puck safe for a few extra seconds until its other escape abilities come off cooldown.
• Witch Blade adds a very large boost to Puck's already high burst damage, and later builds into Revenant's Brooch.

Late game:

• Revenant's Brooch upgrades from Witch Blade and increases its already high burst damage. The active component is very useful for bursting down high Armor, low Health/Magic Resistance heroes. It also grants a lot of stats which are great help on Puck.
• Dagon increases Puck's damage output with magical burst and intelligence.
• Linken's Sphere makes Puck even harder to pin down, and provides great attributes and regeneration.
• Scythe of Vyse provides mana and mana regeneration, helping Puck use its expensive abilities. It also provides hex for Puck to disable the enemies.
• Ethereal Blade gives very good stats and Spell Amplification, the active synergizing very well with Revenant's Brooch and Puck's magical burst.
• Octarine Core reduces the cooldowns of all of Puck's items and abilities. Given the fact that Puck tends to buy a lot of items with active abilities and all 4 of its spells are active abilities, the Cooldown Reduction is very much appreciated, allowing Puck to spam its already low-cooldown abilities even more. The Mana/Mana Regeneration boost is also appreciated on Puck, who has very mana costly spells.

Situational items:

• Aghanim's Scepter grants attributes and makes Waning Rift knock back enemies and grant True Sight on them.
• Veil of Discord helps increase your team's magical damage output in the mid game.
• Force Staff gives Puck extra mobility. Puck can also use it to break Dream Coil and trigger a stun.
• Shiva's Guard increases mana pool and armor to resist physical damage. It also provides an area nuke and slow.

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History

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Equipment

Puck Equipment (expand sets) Sets Amusements of the Ageless Fae Complete Ethereal Monarch Curious Coldspell Cycles of the Serene Essence of the Trickster Eternal Nymph Ethereal Monarch Faeriesnap Spriteleaf Luminous Scarab Mischievous Dragon Mystic Coils Reminiscence of Dreams Head Mischievous Fruits Tail Merry Wanderer's Brush Wings Aether-Wings Blossom of the Merry Wanderer Ethereal Wings Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Ambience of Reminiscence Kinetic: Dreamcoil of Reminiscence Kinetic: Orb of Reminiscence Kinetic: Rift of Reminiscence

Trivia

• Puck's alternate name was "Kupu-Kupu", which means "moth" or "butterfly" in the Malay and Indonesian languages.

• Puck was introduced in 6.48 as a result of a hero creation contest held on the DotA-Allstars forum, in which players designed a new hero to suit the faerie dragon model from "Warcraft III". This makes Puck the first and only hero created by the community.

• Puck pays homage to a character of the same name from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Aside from Puck's playful attitude, its line "A midsummer nightmare" is also an allusion to the play.

• Since Puck pays homage to a Shakespeare character, most of its lines are delivered in phrasing similar to iambic pentameter.

• The 6.87 Illusory Orb projectile speed change was a developer's joke based on this reddit thread.

• ▶️ "One Puck, two Puck, three Puck more!" is a reference to Eminem's final rap battle in 8 Mile movie (2002).

• ▶️ "One and one and one is three!" is a reference to The Beatles' song "Come Together" (1969).

Gallery

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  Old model and icons

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  The International 2014 artwork

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Puck T-shirt design