Changelogs
Version History[]
Version
Description
- Increased strength gain from 1.9 to 2.1.
- Increased intelligence gain from 1.7 to 1.9.
Talents:- LVL 15+40 Shadow Dance health regeneration increased to +50.
- Talents:
- LVL 25+50s Essence Shift steal duration reduced to +40s.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Depth Shroud aura linger duration from 0.5 to 0.01.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Pounce leap distance from 1100 to 1000.
- Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
- Reduced Dark Pact total damage from 90/160/230/300 to 75/150/225/300.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Depth Shroud cast range from 800 to 600.
- Talents:
- LVL 20+75 attack speed bonus during Shadow Dance increased to +80.
- Increased Pounce cooldown from 20/16/12/8 to 22/18/14/10.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Pounce leap distance from 1200 to 1100.
- Aghanim's Shard
- Reduced Depth Shroud radius from 300 to 250.
- Reduced agility gain from 1.7 to 1.5.
- Increased base attack speed from 110 to 120.
- Pounce
- No longer deals 40 magical damage onto the latched target.
- Now applies 0/1/2/3 stacks of Essence Shift based on its current level onto the latched target.
- ChangedShadow Dance health regeneration bonus from
5%/6%/7% * MaxHPto a flat 60/90/120 per second.
- Talents:
- LVL 15
- Increased base attack damage from 32‒40 to 34‒40.
- Rescaled Essence Shift duration from 15/30/60/100 to 20/40/60/80.
- Dark Pact
- Increased total damage from 75/150/225/300 to 90/160/230/300.
- Reduced mana cost from 75 to 65.
- Reduced base strength from 21 to 20.
- Pounce
- Now deals 40 magical damage upon leashing the target.
- Increased latch radius from 95 to 120.
- Reduced base attack speed from 115 to 110.
- Talents:
- LVL 25+65s Essence Shift steal duration reduced to +55s.
- Reduced Dark Pact self damage percentage from 50% to 30%.
- Reduced Shadow Dance cooldown from 80/65/50 to 75/60/45.
- Talents:
- LVL 1518% lifesteal ➜ 50 attack speed bonus during Shadow Dance.LVL 15+20 attack speed ➜ +80 Dark Pact damage.LVL 20
- Rescaled Shadow Dance movement speed bonus from 20%/35%/50% to 24%/36%/48%.
- ReworkedAghanim's Shard upgrade:
- OldGrants Slark the Fish Bait ability.
- NewGrants Slark the Depth Shroud ability.
- Depth Shroud
- Shrouds a target area for some time. All allies within that area gain all of Shadow Dance's effects until leaving the area.
- Cast point: 0.1
- Cast range: 800
- Radius: 300
- Duration: 3
- Mana cost: 75
- Cooldown: 75
- Aura linger duration: 0.5
- Notes: Grants all of Shadow Dance's bonuses, the movement speed, health regeneration and invisibility with True Sight immunity. The effect is provided by an aura. Affects self as well.
- AddedAttribute Bonus.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Fish Bait
- Increased duration from 4 to 6.
- Reduced mana cost from 100 to 50.
- Reduced cooldown from 20 to 12.
- Fish Bait
- Reduced Shadow Dance cooldown from 80/70/60 to 80/65/50.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Pounce leap distance from 1100 to 1200.
- AddedAghanim's Shard upgrade for Slark:
- Fish Bait
- Throws a fish bait at the target enemy, slowing their movement speed and granting True Sight over them for a short duration. Landing Pounce on the debuffed enemy grants Slark attack speed for Pounce's duration.
- Cast point: 0.2
- Cast range: 110
- Movement speed slow: 30%
- Pounce attack speed bonus: 50
- Duration: 4
- Mana cost: 100
- Cooldown: 20
- Notes: Can be disjointed. Provides True Sight over the target and exposes them.
- Reduced base attack speed from 120 to 115.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+5 agility increased to +6.LVL 10+8 strength increased to +9.LVL 25+0.8s Shadow Dance duration increased to +1s.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+6 agility reduced to +5.LVL 10+10 strength reduced to +8.LVL 1520% lifesteal reduced to 15%.LVL 15+25 attack speed reduced to +20.LVL 20+1s Pounce leash duration reduced to +0.8s.LVL 20+150 Dark Pact damage reduced to +120.LVL 25+80s Essence Shift steal duration reduced to +65s.LVL 25+1s Shadow Dance duration reduced to +0.8s.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Pounce leap distance from 1200 to 1100.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Pounce
- Reduced leap distance from 1400 to 1200.
- Rescaled charge replenish time from 20/16/12/8 to 10 on each level
- Pounce
- Talents:
- LVL 15+30 attack speed reduced to +25.
- ReworkedAghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- OldShadow Dance
- Adds a 425-radius aura component that turns allies invisible and grants True Sight immunity while active.
- Reduces cooldown to 30.
- NewPounce
- Increases leap distance to 1400.
- Increases leap speed to 1866.66.
- Replaces the cooldown with 2 charges that have a 20/16/12/8-second replenish time.
- Reduced base attack damage from 33‒41 to 32‒40.
- Reduced Essence Shift steal duration from 15/30/60/120 to 15/30/60/100.
- Increased base attack speed from 100 to 120.
- Shadow Dance
- Increased max health as health regeneration bonus from 3%/5%/7% to 5%/6%/7%.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Shadow Dance active aura radius from 325 to 425.
- Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
- Increased base movement speed from 295 to 300.
- Increased Pounce leash radius from 350 to 400.
- Reduced Shadow Dance movement speed bonus from 30%/40%/50% to 20%/35%/50%.
- Talents:
- LVL 25+100s Essence Shift steal duration reduced to +80s.
- Increased Dark Pact mana cost from 55/50/45/40 to 60 on each level.
- Reduced Pounce duration from 2.75/3/3.25/3.5 to 2.5/2.75/3/3.25.
- Essence Shift now also steals agility when a debuffed enemy dies within 300 radius. [?]
- Reduced Shadow Dance duration from 4/4.5/5 to 4/4.25/4.5.
- Talents:
- LVL 10+8 agility reduced to +6.LVL 20+2s Pounce leash duration reduced to +1.5s.LVL 25+120s Essence Shift steal duration reduced to +100s.
- Pounce
- Reduced leash duration from 3.5 on each level to 2.75/3/3.25/3.5.
- Increased leash radius from 325 to 350.
- Essence Shift now only steals agility when Slark himself makes the kill. [?]
- Increased Shadow Dance cooldown from 60 on each level to 80/70/60.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 3.25 to 1.75.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Increased turn rate from 0.6 to 0.7.
- Pounce
- AddedEssence Shift permanent agility steal passive component. Slark has to make the killing blow to steal agility.
- Now permanently steals 1 agility from heroes' who die with the debuff on.
- Also permanently steals agility outside of 300 radius if Slark makes the killing blow.
- Removes agility from enemy's bonus agility and adds to Slark's bonus agility.
- Agility is also permanently stolen if Slark is dead as the kill happens.
- Increased Shadow Dance duration from 4 on each level to 4/4.5/5.
- Increased base health regeneration from 2.75 to 3.25.
- Increased Shadow Dance movement speed bonus from 30%/35%/40% to 30%/40%/50%.
- Increased base health regeneration from 1.5 to 2.75.
- Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 295.
- Fixed a bug with Pounce where the leashed target could sometimes use Force Staff to break the leash if it was not moving on Pounce impact.
- Increased strength gain from 1.6 to 1.9.
- Reduced intelligence gain from 1.9 to 1.7.
- Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
- Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
- Reduced base movement speed from 305 to 300.
- Talents:
- LVL 15+10 strength increased to +15.LVL 20+250 health ➜ 10% cooldown reduction.
- Pounce
- AddedAghanim's Scepter upgrade for Slark:
- Shadow Dance
- Adds a 325-radius aura component that turns allies invisible and grants True Sight immunity while active.
- Reduces cooldown to 30.
- Shadow Dance
- RemovedAttribute Bonus.
- added Talents:
- Increased base health from 180 to 200.
- Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
- Increased attack range from 128 to 150.
- Dark Pact no longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
- Slark is no longer revealed by Chronosphere during Shadow Dance.
- Reduced Pounce damage from 70/140/210/280 to 60/120/180/240.
- Reduced Shadow Dance cooldown from 65 to 60.
- Fixed ability interactions between Spell Steal and Shadow Dance.
- Addedto Captain's Mode.
- Removedfrom Captain's Mode.
- Shadow Dance
- Can no longer be revealed by True Sight.
- Reduced duration from 5.5 to 4.
- Increased cooldown from 25 to 65.
- Dark Pact can no longer dispel Viper Strike.
- Reduced Dark Pact cooldown from 10/9/8/7 to 9/8/7/6.
- Increased Shadow Dance max health as health regeneration bonus from 3%/4%/5% to 3%/5%/7%.
- Pounce
- Increased damage from 40/80/120/160 to 70/140/210/280.
- Rescaled cooldown from 12 on each level to 20/16/12/8.
- Increased max distance from 400/500/600/700 to 700 on each level.
- Shadow Dance
- Increased max health as health regeneration bonus from 2%/3%/4% to 3%/4%/5%.
- Reduced passive activation delay from 0.7 to 0.5.
- ChangedSlark hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALLtoDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]- Increased collision size from 18 to 27.
- Increased bound radius from 12 to 24.
- ChangedSlark hull type from
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HEROtoDOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.- Reduced collision size from 27 to 18.
- Reduced bound radius from 24 to 12.
- RemovedEssence Shift permanent agility steal passive component.
- No longer reduces 1 of all attributes permanently from the killed hero.
- No longer grants 3 self permanent agility per debuffed kill.
- Increased strength gain from 1 to 1.8.
- Reduced agility gain from 2 to 1.5.
- Increased intelligence gain from 1.6 to 1.9.
- Fixed Dark Pact not removing Laser debuff.
- Pounce
- No longer hits non-hero units.
- Changedleap speed from 800/1000/1200/1400 to a fixed 933.33 speed.
- expr
Distance / 0.5➜933.33
- Increased latch radius from 85 to 95.
- Essence Shift
- Changedattribute reduction on attacks from
2 Primary + 1 Secondaryto 1 of all attributes. - Now also reduces 1 of all attributes permanently from the killed hero and grants self 3 permanent agility bonus.
- Slark has to make the killing blow while the enemy is affected by the Essence Shift debuff. Denied enemy counts as well.
- Reduced agility gained per attack from 4 to 3.
- Increased duration from 15/30/45/60 to 15/30/60/120.
- Fixed Essence Shift not working properly against the following heroes:
- Addednew Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
- Slark has the
DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HEROhull size. [?] - This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
- Slark has the
- Dark Pact
- Now deals the self damage in the same intervals as the damage after the effect delay, instead of all immediately upon cast.
- Reduced effect delay from 2 to 1.5.
- Increased pulse duration from 0.5 to 1. [?]
- Addedto Captain's Mode.
- Reduced base agility from 21 to 15.
- Increased base attack damage from 27‒35 to 33‒41.
- Reduced Dark Pact cooldown from 10 on each level to 10/9/8/7.
- Rescaled Pounce damage from 50/75/100/125 to 40/80/120/160.
- Fixed some more bugs on Dark Pact.
- Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift and Split Shot.
- Fixed Dark Pact not removing some debuffs.
- Fixed ability interactions between Essence Shift with enemy transformation abilities (e.g. Elder Dragon Form).
- Fixed some Dark Pact bugs.
- Pounce
- Essence Shift
- Fixed being able to kill units under the effect of Shallow Grave.
- Fixed Essence Shift sometimes not registering attacks at high attack speed.
- Shadow Dance
- The ability's passive movement speed and health regeneration bonus are now disabled by Doom.
- Updated ability tooltips.
- Created
Patch History[]
Patch
Description
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- Fixed Pounce affecting the Spirit Bear.
- Increased loadout scale from 1 to 0.9.
- Addednew Adjectives attributes. [?]
- Slark has the following values: Aquatic
1, Legs2and Nose1.
- Slark has the following values: Aquatic
- Fixed Essence Shift granting permanent agility bonus when killing an ally.
- Chronosphere no longer exposes units affected by Depth Shroud.
- Fixed charged-based abilities (e.g. Pounce) missing their cooldowns on the ability tooltips when they are upgraded.
- Fixed Dark Pact ability tooltips.
- Depth Shroud
- Updated ability tooltips.
- Updated ability descriptions.
- Updated Shadow Dance ability tooltips.
- Fixed Essence Shift sometimes not granting its kill credit and kill bonuses when the target is affected by Ice Blast.
- Fixed a Shadow Dance vision exploit between server and client side.
- Fixed Depth Shroud buff modifiers missing descriptions.
- Updated default hero model.
- Increased max polygon counts.
- Updated default hero model.
- Pounce can no longer be re-cast before the previous Pounce's leap finishes, to prevent accidentally wasting a charge when upgraded.
- Added a radius indicator for Shadow Dance.
- Increased Shadow Dance effect radius to the correct 7.22 value, from 400 to 425.
- Fixed Shadow Dance not being linked to the talent on the backend.
- Fixed Shadow Dance lasting 0.5 seconds longer than intended without Aghanim's Scepter
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- Updated default item build.
- Fixed Shadow Dance not granting passive bonuses if affected by abilities that exposes the target (i.e. Corrosive Haze).
- Added Russian voiceover lines.
- Adjusted Dark Pact ability casting effects and ongoing effects in Fog of War.
- Updated the processing on default hero voice.
- Fixed default hero voice pitch.
- Fixed losing existing attack target while casting Shadow Dance.
- Fixed Pounce not being removed by Blade Fury and Life Break.
- Fixed large stacks of Thirst sometimes letting Bloodseeker breaking Pounce leash.
- Added new voice files for allied and rivalry towards Techies.
- Fixed Pounce interrupting an ally Rubick's Telekinesis.
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- Shadow Dance
- Fixed some abilities that provides vision from disabling the passive when the ability is active.
- Fixed ability interactions with Thirst.
- Shadow Dance
- Fixed Shadow Dance passive buff icon updating on hero proximity while dead.
- Fixed Pounce sometimes causing an allied Flaming Lasso to end early.
- Addedto Captain's Mode.
- Fixed Dark Pact with the following abilities:
- Dispeling Last Word.
- Not dispeling Poison Attack.
- Not dispeling Poison Touch.
- Not dispeling Telekinesis.
- Addedto Captain's Mode.
- Dark Pact
- Fixed the ability not ending while Slark is dead.
- Fixed a number of incorrect ability interactions with the Dark Pact.
- Fixed a number of horizontal movement ability interactions with Pounce.
- Essence Shift counters on both Slark and enemy heroes will show the total duration (i.e. the time that the most recent stack will expire).
- Shadow Dance
- Fixed ability granting flying vision.
- Fixed ability granting passive bonuses to Slark illusions.
- Fixed an issue causing the ability's passive modifier to not update in the UI, despite being active.
- Fixed Pounce not initiating an attack order on the leashed target.
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- Fixed Dark Pact cast backswing behavior.
- Fixed some bugs with Pounce movement restriction.
- AddedSlark.
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- Added damage types for the following abilities:
- Fixed illusions not getting Essence Shift bonus values.
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- Fixed Dark Pact dispeling Shadow Dance buff.
- Items and other abilities can now be used during Pounce.
- Essence Shift no longer procs when attacking enemy illusions.
- Shadow Dance
- No longer has a fade time.
- Added bonus health regeneration ability visual effects.