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Version History

Version

Description

7.29

• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Burrowstrike cast range from 800/1000/1200/1400 to 1300 on each level.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Epicenter
    • The passive pulses no longer happen if there is no enemy within the radius. [?]
    • Increased passive pulse radius from 400 to 475.
• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +175 health increased to +200.

Level 15 left talent: +15% Caustic Finale movement speed slow increased to +20%.

Level 20 left talent: +20 health regen increased to +25.

Level 25 right talent: +4 Epicenter pulses increased to +5.

7.28

• Epicenter
  • Now uses a 2-second cast time, instead of a 2-second channel time.
  • Increased radius per pulse from 275 + 50 per pulse to 500 + 25 per pulse.

Notes: Radius of each pulse from 275/325/375/425/475/525/575/625/675/725/775/825/875/925 to 500/525/550/575/600/625/650/675/700/725/750/775/800/825.

• Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Sand King:
  • Adds a passive component to Epicenter.

Releases a single Epicenter pulse after moving a certain distance.

Distance required for pulse: 700

Pulse radius: 400

Notes: Uses the current level for the damage value. Applies the slow as well. Not disabled by Break. The distance counter only resets upon releasing a pulse. Teleporting effects (which includes blinking) may only add up to 700 range to the distance counter, no matter how big the actual teleported distance was.

• Talents:

Level 15 left talent: +8% Caustic Finale movement speed slow increased to +15%.

7.27b

• Reworked Caustic Finale

Old Caustic Finale

Sand King's attacks inject a venom that causes enemy units to violently explode when its timer expires, or when the unit dies, damaging and slowing nearby enemies. Deals less damage if its timer expires.

Effect radius: 400

Explosion damage: 90/130/170/220

Expire damage: 20/50/80/110

Movement speed slow: 15%/20%/25%/30%

Attack speed slow: 15/20/25/30

Debuff duration: 6

Slow duration: 3/3.5/4/4.5

Notes: The debuff cannot be refreshed. The debuff deals damage and slows upon expiring. If the debuff is lost due to the target dying, the damage is higher.

New Caustic Finale

Sand King's attacks inject a venom that causes enemy units to move more slowly and violently explode when it dies.

Damage radius: 500

Base damage: 70/90/110/130

Max health as damage: 10%/14%/18%/22%

Movement speed slow: 10%/15%/20%/25%

Debuff duration: 5

Notes: The debuff can be refreshed. Does nothing upon expiring. Deals area damage only when the target dies.

• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: -30 Epicenter attack speed slow ➜ +20 Epicenter damage per pulse.

Level 15 left talent changed: +2 Epicenter pulses ➜ +8% Caustic Finale movement speed slow.

Level 20 left talent changed: +25 Epicenter damage per pulse ➜ +20 health regen.

Level 20 right talent changed: +8 armor ➜ -2s Burrowstrike cooldown.

Level 25 right talent changed: +40 health regen ➜ +4 Epicenter pulses.

7.26c

• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +150 health increased to +175.

Level 10 right talent changed: +15 movement speed ➜ -30 Epicenter attack speed slow.

Level 15 left talent changed: -40 Epicenter attack speed slow ➜ +2 Epicenter pulses.

Level 20 left talent changed: +3 Epicenter pulses ➜ +25 Epicenter damage per pulse.

7.26b

• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +200 health reduced to +150.

Level 10 right talent: +20 movement speed reduced to +15.

Level 15 left talent: +50 Epicenter attack speed slow reduced to +40.

Level 15 right talent: +40 Sand Storm damage per second reduced to +30.

Level 20 left talent: +4 Epicenter pulses reduced to +3.

Level 20 right talent: +10 armor reduced to +8.

Level 25 left talent: 50% Sand Storm blind/movement speed slow reduced to 40%.

Level 25 right talent: +50 health regen reduced to +40.

7.25

• Caustic Finale
  • Now reduces attack speed by 15/20/25/30 as well.
  • Increased slow duration from 3 on each level to 3/3.5/4/4.5.
• Increased Epicenter damage per pulse from 110 to 110/120/130.

7.23

• Increased base attack speed from 100 to 110.

7.22e

• Sand Storm's blind now uses pseudo-random distribution.

7.22c

• Reduced strength gain from 3.2 to 3.
• Increased Sand Storm mana cost from 60 to 75.

7.21d

• Increased Burrowstrike cast range from 350/450/550/650 to 400/500/600/700.
• Increased Sand Storm damage per second from 20/40/60/80 to 20/45/70/95.

7.21c

• Increased base intelligence from 16 to 19.

7.21

• Increased strength gain from 2.8 to 3.2.
• Increased Burrowstrike damage from 85/150/215/280 to 100/160/220/280.
• Increased Sand Storm radius from 350/450/550/650 to 425/500/575/650.

7.20e

• Reduced Sand Storm damage per second from 25/50/75/100 to 20/40/60/80.

7.20d

• Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.
• Reduced Burrowstrike stun duration from 1.9/2/2.1/2.2 to 1.6/1.8/2/2.2.
• Increased Sand Storm cooldown from 40/32/26/18 to 40/34/28/22.
• Talents:

Level 15 right talent: +50 Sand Storm damage per second reduced to +40.

7.20c

• Reduced strength gain from 2.9 to 2.8.
• Reduced agility gain from 2.1 to 1.8.
• Reduced base attack damage from 25-35 to 23-33.

7.20b

• Sand Storm
  • Increased mana cost from 60/50/40/30 to 60 on each level.
  • Increased cooldown from 34/28/22/16 to 40/32/24/16.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Sand Storm
  • No longer requires channeling. It now ends when Sand King leaves the area.
  • While inside the area, attacking or casting spells now reveals Sand King for 0.7 seconds.
  • Rescaled radius from 525 on each level to 350/450/550/650.
  • Reduced damage per second from 40/60/80/100 to 25/50/75/100.
  • Increased cooldown from 34/26/18/10 to 34/28/22/16.
  • Reduced duration from 50 on each level to 20/25/30/35.
• Epicenter
  • No longer pierces spell immunity.
  • The radius now increases by 50 per pulse on each pulse, instead of sometimes by 25 and sometimes 75.

Notes: Radius of each pulse from 275/325/375/425/475/525/575/650/675/700/725/750/775/800 to 275/325/375/425/475/525/575/625/675/725/775/825/875/925.

• Talents:

Level 10 right talent: +25 movement speed reduced to +20.

Level 25 right talent: +35 health regen increased to +50.

7.18

• Increased Burrowstrike cooldown from 11 on each level to 14/13/12/11.

7.17

• Reduced base attack damage from 25-41 to 25-35.
• Reduced Caustic Finale movement speed slow from 21%/24%/27%/30% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.

7.16

• Reduced Caustic Finale movement speed slow from 30% on each level to 21%/24%/27%/30%.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent: +30 movement speed reduced to +25.

7.14

• Caustic Finale no longer applies its area effects when the debuffed target gets denied by the enemy, or when the target expires if it was a summon.

7.13b

• Reduced base armor from 0 to -1.
• Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.

7.12

• Reduced movement speed from 295 to 290.
• Reduced Burrowstrike stun duration from 2.17 on each level to 1.9/2/2.1/2.2.

7.07d

• Reduced Burrowstrike damage from 100/160/220/280 to 85/150/215/280.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reworked talents:

Old:

Level 10: +5 armor or +10% magic resistance

Level 15: +50 Epicenter attack speed slow or +50 Sand Storm damage per second

Level 20: +120 gold per minute or +350 health

Level 25: +4 Epicenter pulses or +50 health regen

New:

Level 10: +200 health or +30 movement speed

Level 15: +50 Epicenter attack speed slow or +50 Sand Storm damage per second

Level 20: +4 Epicenter pulses or +10 armor

Level 25: 50% Sand Storm blind/movement speed slow or +35 health regen

7.06e

• Caustic Finale now deals a fixed 20/50/80/110 damage upon expiring, instead of being 50% of the death explosion damage. [?]

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2.6 to 2.9.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Sand Storm
  • Reduced invisibility linger duration from 1.5 on each level from 0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5.
  • Increased damage from 25/50/75/100 to 40/60/80/100.
• Caustic Finale is no longer a unique attack modifier.
• Talents:

Level 15 left talent changed: -30s respawn time ➜ +50 Epicenter attack speed slow.

7.02

• Talents:

Level 10 right talent changed: +200 mana ➜ +10% magic resistance.

Level 15 left talent changed: +15 movement speed ➜ -30s respawn time.

Level 15 right talent changed: +12% magic resistance ➜ +50 Sand Storm damage per second.

7.00

• Burrowstrike can no longer be cast while rooted.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Burrowstrike no longer applies Caustic Finale on illusions.
• Added talents:

Level 10: +5 armor or +200 mana

Level 15: +15 movement speed or +12% magic resistance

Level 20: +120 gold per minute or +350 health

Level 25: +4 Epicenter pulses or +50 health regen

6.88e

• Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 295.

6.88b

• Reduced Sand Storm cooldown from 40/30/20/10 to 34/26/18/10.
• Reduced Epicenter mana cost from 175/250/325 to 150/225/300.

6.88

• Increased base strength from 21 to 22.
• Reduced Epicenter cooldown from 140/120/100 to 120/110/100.

6.87

• Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
• Rescaled Sand Storm max channel time from 20/40/60/80 to 50 on each level.

6.86

• Increased base strength from 18 to 21.
• Increased Caustic Finale slow from 25% to 30%.
• Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old: Increases Epicenter pulse count to 8/10/12 and reduces cooldown to 120/100/80.
  • New: Increases Burrowstrike's cast range to 800/1000/1200/1400 and makes it apply Caustic Finale on every enemy hero hit by it.

6.85

• Caustic Finale
  • Increased expire damage from 30% to 50% of explosion damage.
  • Increased slow from 20% to 25%.

6.84

• Caustic Finale
  • Now always triggers the explosion (via unit death or when the debuff expires). If triggered by expiring, it deals 30% of the damage.
  • Multiple attacks on the same target no longer refresh the debuff.
  • Now slows all damaged units by 20% for 3 seconds.
  • Reduced debuff duration from 8 to 6.

6.81

• Fixed Epicenter to support multiple instances at the same time (e.g. via Refresher Orb).

6.80

• Increased Sand Storm radius from 275/325/375/525 to 525 on each level.

6.79

• Increased Sand Storm damage increased from 20/40/60/80 to 25/50/75/100.
• Increased Epicenter attack speed slow from 10 to 30.

6.78

• Sand Storm
  • Increased invisibility linger duration from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.5 to 1.5.
  • Reduced damage interval from 1 to 0.5. [?]

6.73

• Epicenter's slow is no longer blocked by spell immunity.
• Increased Caustic Finale debuff duration from 2 to 8.

6.72d

• Increased collision size from 12 to 24.

6.72c

• Reduced collision size from 24 to 12.

6.72

• Increased base armor from -1 to 0.

6.71

• Reduced Burrowstrike mana cost from 140 to 110/120/130/140.

6.70

• Increased strength gain from 2.3 to 2.6.
• Increased Caustic Finale debuff duration from 0.25 to 2.

6.69

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade
  • Increased Epicenter number of pulses from 7/9/11 to 8/10/12.

6.68

• Increased base armor from -2 to -1.

6.63

• Reduced Sand Storm cooldown from 40/35/30/25 to 40/30/20/10.

6.60

• Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Sand King:
  • Increases Epicenter number of pulses to 7/9/11 and reduces cooldown to 120/100/80.

6.55

• Increased base armor from -3 to -2.

6.52b

• Fixed various glitches caused by Sand Storm with Spectral Dagger and Black Hole

6.52

• Reduced base armor from 0 to -3.
• Fixed a control issue when casting Burrowstrike.
• Sand Storm
  • Fixed Sand Storm, Rot and Storm Seeker from not being able to affect the same area at the same time.
  • Fixed not affecting sleeping units.

6.51

• Fixed Burrowstrike affecting Juggernaut during Blade Fury.
• Fixed a bug between Voodoo Restoration and Burrowstrike.

6.50

• Recoded Burrowstrike:
  • No longer turns hit enemies invulnerable during the air time.
  • No longer causes hit enemy units to instantly face towards Sand King's starting point.
  • No longer conflicts with Earth Spike, Impale, Ravage and Burrowstrikes from other Sand Kings.
  • No longer fails to stun and damage enemies when the targeted point was a cliff.
• Sand Storm
  • Increased radius from 200/250/300/350 to 300/350/400/550.
  • Increased invisibility linger duration from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2 to 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.5.
• Epicenter
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 40% to 30%
  • Reduced attack speed slow from 40 to 10.

6.41

• Fixed a bug with Burrowstrike.

6.35

• Minor fixes to Epicenter to reduce lag issues.

6.20

• Reduced Burrowstrike damage from 80/160/240/340 to 100/160/220/280.
• Increased Caustic Finale damage radius from 250 to 400.

6.17

• Recoded Sand Storm to improve lags.

6.12

• Increased Sand Storm damage from 5/10/15/20 to 10/20/30/40.

6.11

• Slight improvements to Sand Storm to fix lag.

6.10

• Changed Burrowstrike hotkey from B to E.

6.09b

• Sand Storm
  • Fixed the channeling itself not ending upon the invisibility and area damage ending. [?]
  • Fixed some lag issues.
  • Reduced mana cost from 60 to 60/50/40/30.

6.09

• Replaced Entrench and the Untrench sub-ability with Sand Storm.

Old Entrench

The Sand King digs into the ground, biding his time. When he springs out from his burrow, he deals damage and stuns the surrounding enemies.

Duration: Permanent

Mana cost: 55

Cooldown: 10

Old Untrench

The Sand King pops out of the ground, dealing damage and stunning enemies around him.

Radius: 250/300/350/400

Damage: 70/140/210/280

Stun duration: 1.5

Mana cost: 55

Cooldown: 10

New Sand Storm

Sand King creates a fearsome sandstorm that damages enemy units while hiding him from vision. The invisibility remains for a short duration after the sandstorm ends.

Max channel time: 20/40/60/80

Radius: 200/250/300/350

Damage per second: 5/10/15/20

Invisibility linger duration: 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2

Mana cost: 60

Cooldown: 40/35/30/25

Notes: When the ability gets canceled by move orders or disables, Sand King remains invisible for a short while still, but the damage stops immediately. The visuel effects linger as well.

• Increased Epicenter cooldown from 120/100/80 to 140/120/100.

6.06

• Burrowstrike stun duration decreased from 2 to 1.65.
• Epicenter
  • Increased channeling time from 2/1.75/1.25 to 2 on each level.
  • Reduced damage per pulse from 120 to 110.
  • Reduced movement speed slow from 50% to 40%.
  • Reduced attack speed slow from 50 to 40.

6.05

• Replaced Sand Storm with Caustic Finale.

Old Sand Storm

Gives Sand King the ability to kick up dust in the face of his enemies causing them to miss. Also grants bonus damage.

Proc chance: 10%/18%/25%/35%

Attack damage bonus: 8/16/24/32

Enemy miss chance: 35%

Duration: 2

Notes: Is a Unique Attack Modifier. The attack damage bonus is permanent.

New Caustic Finale

Sand King's attacks inject a venom that causes enemy units to explode violently upon death, spreading area damage.

Damage radius: 250

Damage: 90/130/170/220

Debuff duration: 0.25

Notes: Is a Unique Attack Modifier. Each attack places a debuff on the target. If the target dies with the debuff, enemy units around it are damaged.

• Epicenter
  • Fixed a bug on Epicenter.
  • Increased channeling time from 2/1.75/1.25 to 2/1.75/1.5.

6.04

• Sand King is no longer restricted from buying Desolator.
• Reduced Epicenter pulse interval from 0.5 to 0.25.
• Fixed Sand King being able to attack during Entrench.

6.03

• Increased Epicenter pulse interval from 0.25 to 0.5.

6.00

• Sand King is now restricted from buying Desolator.
• Burrowstrike
  • Fixed being able to cast while silenced.
  • Fixed some other minor bugs.
• Fixed Entrench so that multiple Sand Kings can use it at the same time.
• Replaced Dust Trail with Sand Storm.

Old Dust Trail

The Sand King constantly kicks up dust behind him, slowing and confusing his enemies while inside the cloud. Do not, under any circumstances, learn this skill if you are Sentinel.

Radius: 150

Move speed slow: 5%/10%/15%/20%

Miss chance: 7%/14%/21%/28%

Trail duration: 2

Sand Storm

Gives Sand King the ability to kick up dust in the face of his enemies causing them to miss. Also grants bonus damage.

Proc chance: 10%/18%/25%/35%

Attack damage bonus: 8/16/24/32

Enemy miss chance: 35%

Duration: 2

Notes: Is a Unique Attack Modifier. The attack damage bonus is permanent.

• Fixed Epicenter so that multiple Sand Kings can use it at the same time.

5.84

• Reduced Epicenter damage per pulse from 125 to 120.

5.80

• Sand King can now attack flying units.

5.79

• Burrowstrike
  • Increased hero stun duration from 1.5 to 2.17.
  • Reduced non-hero stun duration from 3 to 2.17.
• Reduced Entrench and Unentrench mana cost from 63 to 55.
• Increased Epicenter damage per pulse from 70 to 125.

5.78

• Reduced Burrowstrike cast time from 0.3 to 0.
• Reduced Epicenter cast time from 0.3 to 0.

5.77

• Burrowstrike
  • Fixed not going on cooldown when directly targeting a unit with it.
  • Increased cast time from 0 to 0.3.

5.76

• Created.

Patch History

Patch

Description

25 Mar 2021

• Updated default hero model and animations.

10 Jan 2021

• Update 3
  • Fixed Sand Storm's description listing its duration twice.

17 Aug 2020

• Increased max polygon counts.

14 Aug 2020

• Increased max polygon counts.

29 Apr 2020

• Changed Epicenter sound effect mixgroup from Ultimates to Weapons.

19 Nov 2018

• Updated Sand Storm visual effects.

17 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

06 Jul 2017

• Adjusted hero model loadout scale.

03 Jul 2017

• Updated Caustic Finale tooltip.

21 Dec 2016

• Update 2
  • Updated default item build.

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed Sand Storm being canceled by purge.
• Fixed Caustic Finale behavior with Meepo clones.

22 Dec 2015

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

18 Dec 2015

• Adjusted the visibility size of Sand Storm particle effects in Fog of War.

30 Apr 2015

• Update 7
  • Fixed Caustic Finale not being disabled by Break.

02 May 2014

• Updated Epicenter ability tooltip.

29 Apr 2014

• Epicenter
  • Fixed pulse damage being removed after dying from Ice Blast kill threshold.
  • Fixed and updated ability to support simultaneously active Epicenters (i.e. Reset Cooldowns).

28 Aug 2013

• Fixed Epicenter not slowing attack speed by 10.

04 Jun 2013

• Fixed Sand Storm damage interval.

07 Feb 2013

• Fixed some ability backswing timing issues.

17 Jan 2013

• Burrowstrike can now be dispeled by Dark Pact.

26 Jul 2012

• Neutral creeps can now be damaged by Sand Storm.

24 May 2012

• Updated and adjusted default hero textures.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.

10 May 2012

• Fixed Cyclone being unable to dispel Sand Storm.

01 Mar 2012

• Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Sand King.

16 Feb 2012

• U
  Added injured and chase animations.

12 Jan 2012

• Burrowstrike
  • Fixed Repel causing ability to fail if used during the movement period.
  • Fixed refreshed Burrowstrike not hurting affected units.

17 Nov 2011

• Fixed Repel stopping Sand Storm.
• Fixed a bug with Epicenter using its upgraded number of pulses regardless of level.

13 Aug 2011

• Sand Storm will no longer damage neutral creeps.

05 Aug 2011

• Burrowstrike
  • He is now stunned for the duration of the ability so he doesn't walk out of short ones too soon.
  • He now plays burrow_in animation at the beginning of his ability and the burrow_out animation when the impale projectile finishes its course.
  • Fixed the air time from 0.8 to 0.52.
  • The stun time was starting at the beginning of the vertical motion but it's supposed to start when the unit lands.
    • Changed the stun time from 1.65 + 0 to 1.65 + 0.52.

16 Jul 2011

• Fixed Epicenter and Caustic Finale being purgeable.
• Fixed Burrowstrike not respecting Linken's Sphere and spell immunity rules when doing the close hit checks.

08 Jul 2011

• Fixed Epicenter from ending when Sand King dies.

01 Jul 2011

• Caustic Finale
  • Fixed working on spell immune units like Mass Serpent Ward.
  • Fixed Caustic Finale buffs being used by illusions.

12 Feb 2011

• Updated Epicenter channeling animation.

04 Feb 2011

• Fixed Burrowstrike to apply damage when the units land on the ground.
• Fixed Sand Storm not going away when invisibility is broken.

30 Jan 2011

• Fixed cases where creating a linear projectile directly on yourself would cause it to get stuck.
  • Fixes to Burrowstrike.