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Version History[]

Version
Description
  • Increased Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen effect radius from 300/325/350/375 to 375 on each level.
Sleeping Dart icon Sleeping Dart
Launches a dart at an enemy, putting them asleep for 3 seconds, during which they are invulnerable. Upon waking up, they take damage and are slowed for a short while.
Cast time: 0.2
Cast range: 1200
Damage: 150
Movement speed slow: 25%
Slow duration: 4
Sleep duration: 3
Mana cost: 125
Cooldown: 20
Notes: The projectile travels at a speed of 1600 and can be disjointed.
  • Increased Strength attribute symbol strength gain from 1.9 to 2.4.
  • Reduced base Agility attribute symbol agility and gain from 30 + 2.5 to 18 + 1.4.
  • Increased base attack damage from 21‒25 to 41‒45.
  • Increased base health regeneration from 1 to 2.
  • Increased base armor from 1 to 3.
  • Increased base movement speed from 290 to 315.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Moved
      from the third to the first ability slot.
    • No longer slows movement speed by 8%/12%/16%/20%.
    • No longer reduces vision of affected enemies to 200.
    • Rescaled miss chance from 10%/30%/50%/70% to 25%/35%/45%/55%.
    • Rescaled radius from 325 on each level to 280/310/340/370.
    • Increased cooldown from 17/15/13/11 to 20/17/14/11.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Now has 2 charges that have a 25/20/15/10 second replenish time.
    • Reduced cooldown from 10/8/6/4 to 0.1 on each level. [?]
    • Reduced damage from 75/90/105/120 to 25/50/75/100.
  • Reworked
    Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade.
    • Moved
      from the fourth to the third ability slot. This is now a basic ability.
    • Changed
      ability targeting type from No Target to Target Area.
    • Now has a cast range of 400.
    • Changed
      from having a fixed attack interval of 0.6/0.55/0.5 to having a fixed attack count of 4.
    • Heroes no longer have a higher priority than creeps, now attacks every units with equal chances.
    • Reduced instant attack damage from 100% to 55%/70%/85%/100%.
    • Reduced channel time from 4/4.5/5 to 2.
    • Reduced cooldown from 50/45/40 to 21/18/15/12.
    • Reduced mana cost from 75 to 50.
  • Cloak and Dagger icon Cloak and Dagger
    • Moved
      from the first to the fourth ability slot. This is now Riki minimap icon Riki's ultimate ability.
    • No longer grants 2/3/4/5 health regeneration bonus.
    • Reduced fade delay from 6/5/4/3 to 4/3/2.
    • Increased damage per Agility attribute symbol agility from 0.4/0.6/0.8/1 to 1/1.5/2.
  • Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
    • Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade [?]
      • Now increases cast range to 1000. [?]
      • Now increases attack count to 6.
      • Reduced max channel time from 7/8/9 to 3.
  • Increased Blink Strike icon Blink Strike cast range from 500/600/700/800 to 600/700/800/900.
  • Reduced base health regeneration from 3 to 1.5.
  • Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Rescaled damage from 100 on each level to 75/90/105/120.
    • Reduced cooldown from 16/12/8/4 to 10/8/6/4.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Reduced movement speed slow from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.
    • Reduced miss chance from 40%/50%/60%/70% to 10%/30%/50%/70%.
  • Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade
    • Reduced radius from 500 to 450.
    • Reduced duration from 4/5/6 to 4/4.5/5.
  • Increased base attack damage from 8‒12 to 11‒15.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Increased radius from 250/275/300/325 to 325 on each level.
    • Increased cooldown from 11 on each level to 17/15/13/11.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Increased damage from 55/70/85/100 to 100 on each level.
    • Reduced cast range from 800 on each level to 500/600/700/800.
  • Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade
    • Now hits a random enemy unit within the area, instead of hitting all at once on each interval.
    • Now also hits enemy non-hero units, instead of heroes only. [?]
    • Reduced attack interval from 1 on each level to 0.5/0.45/0.4.
    • Increased duration from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6.
  • Reduced base Agility attribute symbol agility from 34 to 30.
  • Increased Strength attribute symbol strength gain from 1.6 to 1.9.
  • Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
  • Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
  • Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.
  • Reduced Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen movement speed slow from 13%/17%/21%/25% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Reduced Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen movement speed slow from 19%/21%/23%/25% to 13%/17%/21%/25%.
  • Reduced Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen movement speed slow from 25% on each level to 19%/21%/23%/25%.
  • Reduced Blink Strike icon Blink Strike damage from 60/80/100/120 to 55/70/85/100.
  • Increased Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen mana cost from 75/80/85/90 to 90 on each level.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Increased cast range from 700 to 800.
    • Reduced cast point from 0.4 to 0.3.
  • Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade
    • Increased radius from 475 to 500.
    • Reduced cooldown from 70 to 40.
New
Cloak and Dagger icon Cloak and Dagger
Riki fades into the shadows, becoming invisible. Every time Riki strikes his enemy from behind, he deals bonus damage based on his agility. When Riki attacks, he becomes visible.
Fade delay: 6/5/4/3
Damage per agility: 0.4/0.6/0.8/1
  • Reworked
    Blink Strike icon Blink Strike.
    • Moved
      from the fourth ability slot to the second ability slot. This is now a basic ability.
Old
Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy. Blink Strike charges restore every 35 seconds.
Cast range: 800
Damage: 40/70/100
Charges: 4/5/6
Charge replenish time: 35
Mana cost: 40
Notes: Ultimate ability, pierces spell immunity.
New
Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy.
Cast time: 0.4
Cast range: 700
Damage: 20/40/60/80
Mana cost: 50
Cooldown: 16/12/8/4
Notes: Does not pierce spell immunity.
Phases out of the world while striking every enemy from behind in an area once per second.
Cast time: 0.4
Max channel time: 3/4/5
Radius: 450
Mana cost: 75
Cooldown: 90/80/70
Notes: Riki minimap icon Riki is hidden while channeling. Attacks all enemies from behind at the same time, and apply attack modifiers (e.g. Cloak and Dagger icon Cloak and Dagger).
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Increased max charges from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6.
    • Increased charge replenish time from 30 to 35.
    • Rescaled damage from 50/70/90 to 40/70/100.
Old
Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility
Riki fades into the shadows, staying permanently invisible except while attacking. While silenced, Riki will be visible.
Fade delay: 3/2/1
Notes: Is an ultimate ability.
New
Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility
Riki fades into the shadows, becoming invisible and gaining additional health regeneration. If Riki attacks an enemy, he will become visible.
Fade delay: 8/6/4/2
Invisible health regeneration bonus: 4/5/6/7
Notes: The health regeneration is only active while fully invisible.
  • Reworked
    Blink Strike icon Blink Strike.
    • Moved
      to the fourth ability slot. This is now Riki minimap icon Riki's ultimate ability.
Old
Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy.
Cast range: 700
Damage: 30/60/90/120
Mana cost: 50
Cooldown: 20/15/10/5
Notes: Is a regular ability.
New
Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy. Blink Strike charges restore every 30 seconds.
Cast range: 800
Damage: 50/70/90
Charges: 3/4/5
Charge replenish time: 30
Mana cost: 40
Notes: Now pierces spell immunity.
  • Backstab icon Backstab now works when attacking allied units.
  • Increased Backstab icon Backstab damage per Agility attribute symbol agility from 0.25/0.5/0.75/1 to 0.5/0.75/1/1.25.
  • Changed
    Riki minimap icon Riki hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]
  • Changed
    Riki minimap icon Riki hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.
  • Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.
  • Increased attack range from 100 to 128.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Increased cast range from 350 to 425.
    • Reduced cooldown from 15 to 13.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • Updated ability effects.
    • Reduced cooldown from 30/20/10/5 to 20/15/10/5.
  • Added
    new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
    • Riki minimap icon Riki has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
    • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
  • Fixed ability interactions between Last Word icon Last Word and other Silence sources (e.g. Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen).
  • Reduced cast point from 0.5 to 0.4.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Changed
      ability backend operations. [?]
    • No longer stuns units within the area upon cast.
  • Increased base armor from 2 to 3.
  • Increased base armor from 0 to 2.
  • Increased base Agility attribute symbol agility from 22 to 24.
  • Reduced Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen radius from 300/325/350/400 to 250/275/300/325.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Reduced miss chance from 50%/60%/70%/80% to 40%/50%/60%/70%.
    • Increased movement speed slow from 20% to 25%.
    • Reduced radius from 300/350/400/450 to 300/325/350/400.
    • Reduced cooldown from 17 to 15.
  • Increased Backstab icon Backstab damage per Agility attribute symbol agility from 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 to 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Rescaled movement speed slow from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 20% on each level.
    • No longer disarms enemies.
    • Now causes enemies within to miss 50%/60%/70%/80% of their attacks.
  • Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
    • No longer has a 0.3-second damage delay.
    • Now blinks closer to the target.
  • Rescaled Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen movement speed slow from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.
New
Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
Throws a smoke bomb down in the area, disabling all enemy units' attacks and spells. Also slows opponents.
Cast range: 350
Radius: 300/350/400/450
Movement speed slow: 10%/20%/30%/40%
Duration: 7
Mana cost: 45/45/50/55
Cooldown: 11
Notes: Silences and disarms enemies within. Also applies a mini-stun to every unit inside upon cast.
New
Blink Strike icon Blink Strike
Teleports to an enemy unit and strikes it, dealing bonus damage.
Cast range: 700
Damage: 30/60/90/120
Mana cost: 50
Cooldown: 30/20/10/5
Notes: The damage is independent from Riki's attacks and is delayed by 0.3 seconds.
New
Backstab icon Backstab
The Stealth Assassin isn't afraid to fight dirty, and specializes in attacking his opponents from behind.
Damage per agility: 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8
Notes: Riki's attacks deal bonus damage when attacking the back of enemies. The damage is based on Riki's agility.
  • Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility
    • Moved
      from the first to the fourth ability slot. This is now Riki minimap icon Riki's ultimate ability.
    • Increased level requirements from 5/10/15 to 6/12/16.
    • Increased fade time from 3/2.3/1.6 to 3.5/2.5/1.5.
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward.
    • Reduced attack damage from 61‒65/81‒85/131‒135/196‒200 to 61‒65/81‒85/121‒125/176‒180.
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward.
    • Reduced number of attack targets 1/2/2/3 to 1/1/2/2.
    • Increased health from 400 on each level to 400/400/400/500.
    • Increased armor from 7 on each level to 7/9/10/12.
  • Death Ward icon Death Ward
    • Increased duration from 10 to 15.
    • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
      • Rescaled attack damage from 51‒55/76‒80/136‒140/196‒200 to 61‒65/81‒85/131‒135/196‒200.
  • Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility
    • Increased number of ability levels from 1 to 3.
    • Rescaled fade delay from 3.6 to 3.6/2.6/2.
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
    • Reduced attack damage from 56‒60/81‒85/136‒140/216‒220 to 51‒55/76‒80/136‒140/196‒200.
    • Reduced armor from 10 to 7.
    • Reduced attack range from 700/700/800/900 to 700 on each level.
  • Reduced base attack damage from 27‒36 to 24‒28.
  • Reduced Nighttime nighttime vision from 1500 to 800.
  • Rescaled base Strength attribute symbol strength and gain from 18 + 1.8 to 17 + 2.
  • Increased Agility attribute symbol agility gain from 2.85 to 2.9.
  • Rescaled base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence from 15 + 1 to 14 + 1.3.
  • Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink
    • Reduced mana cost from 70 to 60.
    • Increased cooldown from 10/7/5/3 to 12/9/7/5.
  • Increased Death Ward icon Death Ward cooldown from 210/190/150/100 to 210/190/150/125
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
    • Increased attack damage from 56‒60/81‒85/116‒120/176‒180 to 56‒60/81‒85/136‒140/216‒220.
  • Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink
    • Increased mana cost from from 50 to 70.
    • Increased cooldown from 10/7/5/2 to 10/7/5/3.
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
    • Reduced True Sight level requirement from Level 3+ to Level 2+.
    • Increased attack damage from 56‒60/81‒85/106‒110/146‒150 to 56‒60/81‒85/116‒120/176‒180.
  • Added
    Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Riki minimap icon Riki:
    • Increases Death Ward icon Death Ward number of attack targets from 1/2/2/3 to 2/2/3/3.
    • Increases Unknown Unit icon Death Ward attack damage from to 56‒60/81‒85/116‒120/176‒180 to 81‒85/116‒120/176‒180/226‒230.
  • Death Ward icon Death Ward
    • Rescaled number of attack targets 1/2/2 to 1/2/2/3.
    • Increased number of ability levels from 3 to 4.
    • Increased level requirement from 6/11/16 to 6/11/16/21.
    • Rescaled mana cost from 200 on each level to 200/300/400/500.
    • Rescaled cooldown from 210 on each level to 210/190/150/100.
    • Now grants True Sight on ability Level 3+.
    • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
      • Rescaled attack damage from 56‒60/81‒85/106‒110 to 56‒60/81‒85/106‒110/146‒150.
      • Increased attack range from 700 on each level to 700/700/800/900.
      • Increased acquisition range from 700 on each level to 700/700/800/900.
  • Reduced acquisition range from 650 to 5.
  • Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink
    • Increased mana cost from 50/10/5/1 to 50/50/50/50.
    • Reduced cooldown from 10/10/7/5 to 10/7/5/2.
  • Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility
    • The ability no longer forces the hero to attack enemy units.
    • Reduced number of ability levels from 2 to 1.
    • Reduced level requirement from 3/6 to 3.
  • Updated hero model.
  • Unknown Unit icon Death Ward
    • Added
      new Unknown icon Splash Damage ability.
      • Now reduces its attack damage after each bounce.
      • Now deals splash damage based on the damage radius.
  • Rescaled Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink cooldown from 10/10/5/2 to 10/10/7/5.
  • Updated hero model.
  • Added
    a 4th level to all basic abilities.
  • Increased Strength attribute symbol strength gain from 1.4 to 1.9.
  • Reduced base Intelligence attribute symbol intelligence and gain from 17 + 1.8 to 15 + 1.
  • Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink
    • Rescaled mana cost from 50/10/5 to 50/10/5/1.
    • Rescaled cooldown from 10/10/4 to 10/10/5/2.
  • Rescaled Mortal Strike (Skeleton King) icon Critical Strike critical damage from 150%/200%/250% to 150%/200%/250%/300%.
  • Reworked
    Permanent Invisibility icon Permanent Invisibility.
    • Old
      Forces Riki to auto-attack nearby units when invisibile based on the hero's acquisition range.
    • New
      Level 2 no longer forces Riki to auto-attack nearby units when invisible. [?]
      • Increased number of ability levels from 1 to 2.
      • Rescaled level requirement from 3 to 3/6.
  • Blink (Anti-Mage) icon Blink
    • Reduced mana cost from 50/10/10 to 50/10/5
    • Increased cooldown from 10/10/1 to 10/10/4
  • Reduced base attack damage from 30‒30 to 26‒26.
  • Reduced base attack time from 2.13 to 1.7.
  • Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
  • Reduced base movement speed from 350 to 300.
  • Reduced Strength attribute symbol strength gain from 1.5 to 1.4.
  • Reduced Mortal Strike (Skeleton King) icon Critical Strike critical damage from 200/300/400% to 150/200/250%
  • Death Ward icon Death Ward
    • Increased number of ability levels from 2 to 3.
    • Increased mana cost from 125/150 to 200.
    • Increased cooldown from 180 to 210.
      • Rescaled attack damage from 76‒80/101‒105 to 56‒60/81‒85/106‒110.
      • Rescaled number of attack targets from 1/2 to 1/2/2.
      • Added
        new True Sight ability.
        • Grants 900 radius True Sight on level 3.
  • Created

Patch History[]

Patch
Description
  • Typing SA or Stealth Assassin in the hero selection now highlights Riki minimap icon Riki.
  • Reduced versus scale from 1.1 to 0.87.
  • Reduced loadout scale from 1.1 to 0.87.
  • Added
    new Adjectives attributes. [?]
    • Riki minimap icon Riki has the following values: Bearded 1, Blue 1, Horns 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Fixed multiple different sources not working independently of each other.
    • Fixed ability granting assists on ally deaths.
    • Fixed Aghanim's Shard icon Ability Upgrade disabling global abilities.
  • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
    • Fixed debuff appearing on allies granting assists. [?]
    • Fixed Aghanim's Shard icon Ability Upgrade not allowing ally-related area-of-effect abilities to be cast if the ally is within the radius.
  • Fixed not attacking the target upon casting Blink Strike icon Blink Strike when the target is moving.
    • Smoke Screen icon Smoke Screen
      • Updated ability tooltips.
      • Updated ability descriptions.
      • Removed ranged projectile evasion ability strings.
  • Updated hero model and animation.
  • Updated hero model.
  • Fixed Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade having an arbitary target order for its attacks, instead of being random.
  • Applied forgotten 7.22f changes.
    • Increased Blink Strike icon Blink Strike cast range from 500/600/700/800 to 600/700/800/900.
  • Fixed several cosmetic items.
  • Tricks of the Trade icon Tricks of the Trade
    • Removed absolute values from ability description.
    • Added generic text that defines the ability.
    • Added ability tooltip modifiers.
  • Riki minimap icon Riki is enabled for new restricted accounts.
  • Fixed capitalization issue with some ability tooltips.
  • Added Russian voiceover lines.
  • Cloak and Dagger icon Cloak and Dagger
      • Renamed
        from Permanent Invisibility to Cloak and Dagger.
      • Added a cooldown display for the ability fade time.
      • The ability's cooldown now updates correctly to its fade time when leveled up.
      • No longer affected by cooldown manipulation.
  • Updated default hero workshop files, including separated fbx and smd.
  • Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.
  • Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
  • Fixed being unable to cast for a brief moment after using Blink Strike icon Blink Strike.
  • Added more movement lines.
  • Fixed Backstab icon Backstab working on ward-type units.
  • Fixed the Backstab icon Backstab sound sometimes playing when it was not proccing.
  • Backstab icon Backstab's bonus now increases properly when leveled up.
  • Scaled default hero model down 10%.
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