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Version

Description

7.34c

• Increased Take Aim passive attack range bonus from 100/200/300/400 to 130/220/310/400.
• Increased Assassinate base damage from 250/350/450 to 300/400/500.

7.34

• Assassinate
  • Changed
    damage from a fixed 320/510/700 to 250/350/450 + 1 * InstantAttackDamage.
  • Reduced mana cost from 175/225/275 to 175 on each level.
  • Added
    new passive component.
    • Resets the ability's current cooldown whenever Sniper is credited for the hero kill.

7.33d

• Increased Shrapnel radius from 400 on each level to 400/425/450/475.

7.33c

• Take Aim now grants 200 active attack range bonus.

7.33

• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Assassinate stun duration from 1/1.25/1.5 to 0.8/1/1.2.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Increased Concussive Grenade damage from 25 to 200.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +14% Shrapnel movement speed slow increased to +15%.

  LVL 20

   

  +24 Shrapnel damage per second increased to +25.

  LVL 20

   

  +28 Headshot knockback distance reduced to +25.

7.32d

• Shrapnel
  • Reduced effect radius from 450 to 400.
  • Increased mana cost from 50 to 75.

7.32

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade can no longer be cast while rooted or leashed.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +15 attack damage ➜ +30 Headshot damage.

7.31d

• Increased Assassinate damage from 320/485/650 to 320/510/700.

7.31

• Increased Take Aim mana cost from 25 to 50.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade
    • Reduced damage from 125 to 25.
    • Reduced cooldown from 16 to 10.

7.30

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Increased Shrapnel damage per second from 20/35/50/65 to 25/40/55/70.
• Take Aim
  • No longer grants True Strike while active.
  • Changed
    active component from increasing proc chance by 30% to setting proc chance to 100%
  • Increased active self movement speed slow from 25% on each level to 45%/40%/35%/30%.
  • Reduced duration from 4 to 3.
  • Reduced mana cost from 50 to 25.
  • Reduced cooldown from 35/30/25/20 to 20/18/16/14.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade
    • Increased enemy knockback distance from 450 to 475.
    • Increased self knockback distance from 425 to 475.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  15% cooldown reduction ➜ +1s Take Aim active duration.

7.29b

• Reduced Take Aim active self movement speed slow from 30% to 25%.

7.29

• Reworked
  Take Aim active component.

Old

Take Aim

Can be activated to double the attack range bonus for 1 attack.

Active attack range bonus: 100/200/300/400

Active max attacks: 1

Mana cost: 30

Cooldown: 9/8/7/6

New

Take Aim

Can be activated to provided True Strike and increased Headshot proc chance for a short duration. Slows Sniper while active.

Self movement speed slow: 30%

Headshot proc chance bonus: 30%

Duration: 4

Mana cost: 50

Cooldown: 35/30/25/20

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade
    • Now knocks Sniper 450 range away from the targeted direction over 0.4 seconds.
    • Increased cast range from 550 to 600.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 25

   

  +5 Shrapnel charges increased to +6.

7.28b

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade
    • Reduced mana cost from 75 to 50.
    • Reduced cooldown from 20 to 16.

7.28a

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Concussive Grenade now deals 125 damage within the area upon impact.

7.28

• Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.
• Rescaled base agility and gain from 21 + 3.4 to 27 + 3.2.
• Reduced base attack damage from 19‒25 to 13‒19.
• Reduced Shrapnel charge replenish time from 40 to 35.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Sniper:
  • Grants Sniper the Concussive Grenade ability.

Concussive Grenade

Launches a grenade at the target area, knocking enemies back, and slowing their movement speed and disarming them for a short duration.

Cast time: 0.1

Cast range: 550

Radius: 375

Knockback distance: 425

Knockback duration: 0.4

Movement speed slow: 50%

Duration: 3

Mana cost: 75

Cooldown: 20

Notes: The projectile travels at a speed of 2500. The knockback distance is always the same, no matter how far the unit is from the center. Enemies are disabled during the knockback.

7.27b

• Reduced Shrapnel damage per second from 20/40/60/80 to 20/35/50/65.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Assassinate stun duration from 1.5 on each level to 1/1.25/1.5.

7.26c

• Reduced Shrapnel movement speed slow from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 12%/18%/24%/30%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Assassinate stun duration from 1.8 to 1.5.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  20% cooldown reduction reduced to 15%.

  LVL 15

   

  +16% Shrapnel movement speed slow reduced to +14%.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 attack damage reduced to +15.

  LVL 10

   

  25% cooldown reduction reduced to 20%.

  LVL 15

   

  +20% Shrapnel movement speed slow reduced to +16.

  LVL 15

   

  +40 attack speed reduced to +30.

  LVL 20

   

  +30 Shrapnel damage per second reduced to +24.

  LVL 20

   

  +35 Headshot knockback distance reduced to +28.

  LVL 25

   

  +6 Shrapnel charges reduced to +5.

  LVL 25

   

  +125 attack range reduced to +100.

7.25

• Increased base attack damage from 15‒21 to 19‒25.
• Reduced Headshot damage from 30/60/90/120 to 20/50/80/110.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Assassinate cast point reduction from 1 to 0.5.

7.23c

• Increased agility gain from 3.1 to 3.4.

7.23

• Increased Shrapnel damage per second from 15/35/55/75 to 20/40/60/80.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Assassinate
    • Old
      • Turns into a 400-radius area-targeting ability, targeting all enemy heroes and illusions.
      • The projectiles now apply an instant attack with an ensured 280% critical strike and a 100% Headshot proc, instead of doing fixed magical damage.
    • New
      • Reduces cast point to 1.
      • Increases stun duration to 1.8.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  -1.5s Assassinate cast time ➜ +30 Shrapnel damage per second.

7.21d

• Reduced Shrapnel charge replenish time from 50 to 40.
• Reduced Take Aim cooldown from 15/12/9/6 to 9/8/7/6.

7.21c

• Reduced Shrapnel charge replenish time from 55 to 50.
• Increased Headshot damage from 20/50/80/110 to 30/60/90/120.

7.21b

• Increased base strength from 17 to 19.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +15% Shrapnel movement speed slow increased to +20%.

7.21

• Increased agility gain from 2.7 to 3.1.
• Headshot now knocks enemies back by 10 distance upon proccing. [?]

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +35 Shrapnel damage per second ➜ +15% Shrapnel movement speed slow.

7.20

• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• Added
  new Take Aim active component.

Can be activated to double the attack range bonus for 1 attack.

Active attack range bonus: 100/200/300/400

Active max attacks: 1

Mana cost: 30

Cooldown: 15/12/9/6

• Assassinate no longer pierces spell immunity.

7.19

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +25 Shrapnel damage per second increased to +35.

7.18

• Headshot
  • Headshot damage now pierces spell immunity. [?].
  • Increased damage from 15/40/65/90 to 20/50/80/110.

7.17

• Increased Assassinate cast range from 2000/2500/3000 to 3000 on each level.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  15% cooldown reduction increased to 25%.

7.16

• Increased nighttime vision from 1100 to 1400.

7.15

• Increased base strength from 16 to 17.

7.12

• Reduced Assassinate mana cost from 175/275/375 to 175/225/275.

7.07c

• Reduced strength gain from 2 to 1.7.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  12% cooldown reduction increased to 15%.

  LVL 15

   

  +20 Shrapnel damage per second increased to +25.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +15 attack speed ➜ +20 attack damage.

  LVL 10

   

  +5 mana regeneration ➜ 12% cooldown reduction.

  LVL 15

   

  +200 health ➜ +20 Shrapnel damage per second.

  LVL 15

   

  +20 Shrapnel damage per second ➜ +40 attack speed.

  LVL 20

   

  25% cooldown reduction ➜ -1.5s Assassinate cast time.

  LVL 20

   

  +8 armor ➜ +35 Headshot knockback distance. [?]

  LVL 25

   

  +4 Shrapnel charges increased to +6.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 attack range increased to +125.

7.06e

• Increased agility gain from 2.5 to 2.7.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 1.7 to 2.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +4 mana regeneration increased to +5.

7.00

• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Sniper:
  • Assassinate
    • Turns into a 400-radius area-targeting ability, targeting all enemy heroes and illusions.
    • The projectiles now apply an instant attack with an ensured 280% critical strike and a 100% Headshot proc, instead of doing fixed magical damage.
• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +15 attack speed

    

  +4 mana regeneration

  +200 health

    

  +20 Shrapnel damage per second

  25% cooldown reduction

    

  +8 armor

  +4 Shrapnel charges

    

  +100 attack range

6.88b

• Increased turn rate from 0.6 to 0.7.
• Increased night vision range from 1000 to 1100.

6.88

• Increased Shrapnel damage per second from 15/30/45/60 to 15/35/55/75.

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased Shrapnel damage per second from 12/24/36/48 to 15/30/45/60.

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.

6.85

• Reduced Shrapnel effect delay from 1.4 to 1.2.

6.84

• Reduced agility gain from 2.9 to 2.5.
• Shrapnel
  • No longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
  • Changed
    from granting vision instantly upon cast to granting vision after the effect delay.
  • Increased effect delay from 0.8 to 1.4.
  • Increased charge replenish time from 40 to 55.
• Headshot can now miss.
• Reduced Assassinate damage from 355/505/655 to 320/485/650.

6.83

• Shrapnel
  • No longer deals damage to buildings.
  • Slow and damage of multiple casts no longer stack.
  • Changed
    from having a regular 15-second cooldown to having 3 charges with a 40-second replenish time.
  • Reduced mana cost from 120 to 50.
  • Increased duration from 9 to 10.

6.82

• Changed
  Headshot procs from stunning for 0.25 seconds to slowing movement speed by 100% and attack speed by 100 for 0.5 seconds.
• Increased Shrapnel radius from 400 to 450.

6.81

• Fixed acquisition range not matching max attack range.
  • Increased acquisition range from 800 to 950.

6.80

• Increased Take Aim attack range bonus from 80/160/240/320 to 100/200/300/400.

6.79

• Increased Take Aim attack range bonus from 75/150/225/300 to 80/160/240/320.

6.78

• Increased Sharpnel radius from 360 to 400.

6.76

• Sharpnel
  • Now provides Flying Vision in the targeted area for its duration.
  • Increased cast range from 1200 to 1800.
• Headshot
  • Attacks which proc can no longer miss to evasion or blind effects.
  • Increased proc chance from 25%/30%/35%/40% to 40% on each level.
  • Rescaled damage from 30/45/60/75 to 15/40/65/90.
  • Increased stun duration from 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2 to 0.25 on each level.
• Increased Assassinate cast range from 1500/2000/2500 to 2000/2500/3000.

6.75

• Sharpnel
  • Increased radius from 350 to 360.
  • Increased duration from 8 to 9.
• Increased Headshot damage from 30/40/50/60 to 30/45/60/75.
• Increased Take Aim attack range bonus from 65/130/195/260 to 75/150/225/300.

6.74

• Increased Headshot damage from 30/30/40/50 to 30/40/50/60.

6.73

• Increased Sharpnel radius from 325 to 350.

6.72c

• Updated hero attack projectile.

6.71

• Sharpnel
  • Increased damage from 10/20/30/40 to 12/24/36/48.
  • Fixed ability interactions with .

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Sniper has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.68

• Increased night vision from 800 to 1000.
• Assassinate kills now grant Sniper experience_XP outside the experience radius.

6.65

• Sharpnel
  • Reduced duration from 10 to 8.
  • Reduced radius from 450 to 325.

6.64

• Increased Sharpnel cast range from 900 to 1200.

6.61

• Increased Take Aim attack range bonus from 55/110/165/220 to 65/130/195/260.

6.60

• Replaced
  Scattershot with Sharpnel.

Old

Scattershot

Fire a ball full of shrapnel into the air, which promptly explodes, showering the target area in explosive pellets, each doing a random amount of damage within the area.

Cast range: 900

Effect radius: 350

Pellet radius: [ Info Needed ]

Effect delay: 0.8

Number of pellets: 8/12/16/20

Damage per pellet: 20‒35

Mana cost: 120

Cooldown: 13

New

Sharpnel

Fires a ball full of shrapnel into the air. which promptly explodes, showering the target area. Enemy units that walk in this area get damaged and slowed. Deals 30% damage to buildings.

Cast range: 900

Radius: 450

Effect delay: 0.8

Damage per second: 10/20/30/40

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

Slow duration: 2

Shrapnel duration: 10

Mana cost: 120

Cooldown: 15

Notes: The slow gets refreshed on each damage interval.

6.56

• Reduced Assassinate cooldown from 30/20/10 to 20/15/10.

6.52

• Scattershot now provides Flying Vision within its area for 1 second.
• Assassinate
  • Added
    overhead ability cast effects. [?]
  • Fixed ability bugs.

6.50

• Reduced Scattershot damage per pellet from 10‒35 to 20‒35.

6.45

• Increased agility gain from 2.4 to 2.9.

6.44b

• Fixed Scattershot affecting Psionic Traps.

6.44

• Increased base intelligence from 12 to 15.

6.41

• Headshot can now proc on allied units again.

6.39

• Updated hero description.

6.31

• Headshot can no longer proc on allied units.
• Increased Assassinate cooldown from 30/15/5 to 30/20/10.

6.30

• Fixed Assassinate ability buff issues.

6.28

• Reduced base agility from 28 to 21.
• Reduced Headshot stun duration from 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.25 to 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2.
• Assassinate now displays a status debuff icon on the target.

6.24

• Increased Scattershot mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 120 on each level.

6.20

• Increased base agility and gain from 26 + 1.9 to 28 + 2.4.
• Reduced Scattershot damage per pellet from 14‒40 to 10‒35.
• Fixed Assassinate ability buff issues.

6.17

• Increased base agility from 21 to 26.
• Reduced base intelligence from 16 to 12.
• Updated Scattershot ability tooltips.
• Fixed Take Aim not working for multiple Snipers.
• Headshot
  • Fixed memory leak issues.
  • Updated ability tooltips.

6.09b

• Fixed last hits made with Scattershot not being registered by things like Battle Hunger.

6.06

• Changed
  Scattershot ability backend operations.

6.04

• Updated Take Aim ability tooltips.

6.03

• Reduced attack projectile speed from Instant to 3000. [?]
• Restored
  the previous
  Reworked
  Scattershot (6.02).

Fires a ball full of shrapnel into the air, which promptly explodes, showering the target area in explosive pellets, each doing a random amount of damage.

Cast range: 900

Radius: 350

Number of pellets: 8/12/16/20

Damage per pellet: 14‒40 (Physical)

Mana cost: 75/90/105/120

Cooldown: 13

Notes: The effect is delayed by 0.8 seconds. Neither destroys trees, nor mini-stuns. Damages buildings as well.

6.01

• Restored
  the previous Scattershot (Pre 6.00) temporarily.

Fires an exploding shot, dealing moderate area of effect damage.

Cast range: 700

Radius: 250

Damage: 100/150/200/250

Mana cost: 75/85/95/105

Cooldown: 6

Notes: Destroys trees in its area. Applies a mini-stun on all enemy units within the area.

6.00

• Reduced agility gain from 2.7 to 1.9.
• Increased intelligence gain from 1.7 to 2.6.
• Reduced base mana from 200 to 100.
• Reduced attack point from 0.7 to 0.17.
• Increased attack backswing from 0.58 to 0.7.
• Increased attack projectile speed from 900 to Instant.
• Reduced base movement speed from 300 to 290.
• Reworked
  Scattershot.

Old

Scattershot

Fires an exploding shot, dealing moderate area of effect damage.

Cast range: 700

Radius: 250

Damage: 100/150/200/250

Mana cost: 75/85/95/105

Cooldown: 6

Notes: Destroys trees in its area. Applies a mini-stun on all enemy units within the area.

New

Scattershot

Fires a ball full of shrapnel into the air, which promptly explodes, showering the target area in explosive pellets, each doing a random amount of damage.

Cast range: 900

Radius: 350

Effect delay: 0.8

Number of pellets: 8/12/16/20

Damage per pellet: 15-60 (Physical)

Mana cost: 75/90/105/120

Cooldown: 13

Notes: Neither destroys trees, nor mini-stuns. Damages buildings as well.

5.75

• Reduced Take Aim attack range bonus from 75/150/225/300 to 55/110/165/220.

5.74

• Increased Take Aim attack range bonus from 50/100/150/200 to 75/150/225/300.
• Reduced Scattershot cooldown from 8 to 6.

5.72

• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.03 to 0.01.
• Reduced attack range from 600 to 550.
• Scattershot
  • No longer affects buildings.
  • Now affects non-structure units.
  • Reduced cooldown from 10 to 8.
  • Reduced mana cost from 85/100/115/125 to 75/85/95/105.
• Reworked
  Take Aim

Old

Take Aim

Kardel enters sniper mode. he can only move very slowly, but gains an immense amount of range each shot deals more damage, but he attacks slower.

Cast time: 3.25

Attack range bonus: 150/400/650/900

Base attack time reduction: 0.5

Night vision bonus: 800

Health reduction: 100

Movement speed reduction: 150

Mana Cost: 120/80/40/0

Cooldown: 0

New

Take Aim

Passively enhances the range of Kardel's rifle.

Attack range bonus: 50/100/150/200

5.66

• Reduced Assassinate cast point from 2/1.85/1.7 to 1.7/1.65/1.5.

5.61

• Take Aim
  • Increased base attack damage from 15‒25 to 22‒32.
  • Reduced max channel time from 4 to 3.
  • Reduced mana cost from 100 to 75.

5.58

• Reduced strength gain from 2.3 to 1.7.
• Rescaled base agility and gain from 20 + 2.9 to 21 + 2.75.
• Increased base intelligence from 15 to 16.
• Reduced base attack damage from 15‒25 to 15‒21.
• Increased base attack time from 1.5 to 1.7.
• Reduced Scattershot mana cost from 85/100/115/130 to 85/100/115/125.
• Rescaled Headshot proc chance from 25/30/40% to 25/30/40/40%.
• Take Aim
  • Now reduces base attack time to 1.2.
  • Now increases base attack damage to 15‒25.

5.55

• Rescaled Take Aim attack range bonus from 250/500/750/1000 to 150/400/650/900.

5.52

• Take Aim
  • No longer increases attack damage.
  • No longer increases base attack time.
  • Increased channeled time from 3.25 to 4.
  • Reduced bonus attack range from 1000 on each level to 250/500/750/1000.
  • Rescaled mana cost from 120/80/40/0 to 100 on each level.

5.50

• Increased base health from 100 to 150.
• Reduced base attack time from 1.7 to 1.5.
• Replaced
  Undermine with Scattershot.

Old

Undermine

All dwarves know how to undermine the structure of a building. Just let the rifleman close enough to a structure.

Cast range: 75

Building damage: 150/250/350/450

Cast time: 2

Mana cost: 100

Cooldown: 32

New

Scattershot

Fires an exploding shot, dealing moderate area of effect damage.

Effect delay: 0.25

Damage: 100/150/200/250

Cast range: 650

Radius: 250

Mana cost: 85/100/115/130

Cooldown: 10

• Replaced
  Rifle Upgrade with Take Aim.

Old

Rifle Upgrade

Increases the power of the Sniper's rifle.

Upgrades the following abilities: Undermine, Headshot and Assassinate.

New

Take Aim

Kardel enters sniper mode. he can only move very slowly, but gains an immense amount of range each shot deals more damage, but he attacks slower.

Cast time: 3.25

Base attack damage bonus: 27

Attack range bonus: 1000

Acquisition range bonus: 950

Base attack time reduction: 0.5

Night vision bonus: 800

Health reduction: 100

Movement speed reduction: 150

Mana Cost: 120/80/40/0

Cooldown: 0

5.35

• Undermine
  • Increased cast point from 2 to 3.
  • Increased mana cost from 120/140/160/160 to 120/140/160/180.
  • Now stun towers for 0.05 seconds.
• Rescaled Headshot stun duration from 0/0.1/0.2/0.25 to 0/0.05/0.07/0.1.
• Replaced
  Rapid Reload with Rifle Upgrade.

Old

Rapid Reload

Increases the rifleman's attack speed by reloading his gun faster.

Bonus attack speed: 10/20/30/40

New

Rifle Upgrade

Increases the power of the Sniper's rifle.

Undermine mana cost reduction: 10/20/30/50

Undermine cast time reduction: 0.67/0.67/0.67/0.5

Headshot proc chance reduction: 0%/0%/5%/5% [?]

Headshot damage increase: 3/6/9/12

Assassinate damage increase: 10/20/30/40

Assassinate cast range increase: 0/0/100/200

• Assassinate
  • Now stuns the target for 0.1 seconds.
  • Rescaled damage from 375/525/675 to 355/505/655.

5.31

• Changed
  primary attribute from strength to agility.
• Reduced base strength and gain from 20 + 2.8 to 16 + 2.3.
• Increased base agility from 16 + 2.2 to 20 + 2.9.
• Assassinate
  • Reduced cast point from 2 on each level to 2/1.85/1.7.
  • Increased cast range from 1500 on each level to 1500/2000/2500.
  • Reduced cooldown from 30 on each level to 30/15/5.
  • Increased mana cost from 175/250/325 to 175/275/400.

5.10

• Changed
  primary attribute from agility to strength.
• Increased base strength and gain from 18 + 2.23 to 20 + 2.8.
• Reduced base agility and gain from 20 + 2.75 to 16 + 2.2.
• Increased intelligence gain from 1.15 to 1.75.

4.1beta01

• Assassinate
  • Increased damage from 300/450/600 to 375/525/675.
  • Increased mana cost from 150 to 175/250/325.

4.0beta6

• Reduced base attack time from 1.8 to 1.7.

4.0beta5

• Rescaled Undermine mana cost from 160 to 120/140/160/160.

4.0beta2

• Added
  a 4th level to all basic abilities.
• Undermine
  • Rescaled damage from 150/300/450 to 150/250/400/500.
  • Increased mana dost from 100 to 160.
  • Reduced cooldown from 32 to 15.
• Headshot
  • Rescaled bonus damage from 25/35/50 to 20/30/40/50.
  • Rescaled proc chance from 25%/30%/40% to 25%/30%/40%/40%.
  • Rescaled stun duration from 0/0.1/0.2 to 0/0.1/0.2/0.25.
• Rescaled Rapid Reload attack speed bonus from 10/20/30 to 10/20/30/40.
• Increased Assassinate damage from 300/375/450 to 300/450/600.

3.2e

• Reduced base attack damage from 16‒26 to 15‒25.

3.2b

• Headshot
  • Reduced hero stun duration from 0.2/0.3/0.4 to 0/0.1/0.2.
  • Reduced non-hero stun duration from 1/2/3 to 0/0.1/0.2.
• Increased Assassinate cooldown from 20 to 30.

3.0b

• Reduced base attack damage from 28‒38 to 16‒26.
• Increased base attack time from 1.6 to 1.8.

3.0a

• Added Rapid Reload ability description: The Dwarven Sharpshooter reloads his rifle with uncanny speed..

2.60

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

30 Aug 2023

• Reduced loadout scale from 1 to 0.84.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Sniper has the following values: Bearded 1, Cape 1, Red 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

12 Jun 2023

• Updated Headshot ability backend strings.

13 May 2023

• Updated Take Aim ability tooltips.

01 Dec 2022

• Updated Take Aim ability descriptions.

11 Nov 2022

• Updated Concussive Grenade ability backend strings.

03 Nov 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Headshot ability descriptions.
  • Shrapnel
    • Updated ability descriptions.
    • Updated ability backend strings.
  • Updated Assassinate ability notes.

14 Sep 2022

• Updated the following ability descriptions:
  • Headshot
  • Assassinate

01 Sep 2022

• Fixed Concussive Grenade ability effects not following the Fog of War rules.

24 Mar 2022

• Added an overhead disarm icon to Concussive Grenade.

07 Mar 2022

• Updated Concussive Grenade ability descriptions.

19 Aug 2021

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Take Aim's active granting 60% chance to proc Headshot, instead of 100%.

18 Aug 2021

• Added ability cast sound to Take Aim.

09 Apr 2021

• Updated default hero model and animations.

17 Dec 2020

• Updated hero model.
• Updated subtitles.

26 Aug 2020

• Updated Take Aim's active component's mechanisms
  • Now uses a separate modifier, instead of relying on the passive modifier.
  • The separate modifier is dispellable.
  • Now turns inactive when cast, and stays inactive until losing the modifier from a previous cast. [?]

20 Mar 2020

• Fixed max attack damage being too low by 1 since the last patch.

03 Dec 2019

• UPDATE 2
  • Take Aim now states that the cooldown starts after using the range bonus attack.

26 Nov 2019

• Reduced volume of attack impact sound from 1 to 0.5.
• Fixed Assassinate projectile to not pierce spell immunity when the immunity was gained after launch.

01 Feb 2018

• Updated Shrapnel visual effect to show the total effect radius better.
• Fixed Take Aim range bonus getting stuck if leveled up while the additional attack range bonus was active.

05 Dec 2017

• Assassinate
  • Removed absolute values from ability description.
  • Added generic text that defines the ability.
  • Added ability tooltip modifiers.

22 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

07 Nov 2017

• Added attack speed activity modifiers and movement speed activity modifiers for Sniper.
  • These modifiers are used to trigger different animations at different speeds.

09 Jan 2017

• Fixed an audio issue with Assassinate.

05 Jan 2017

• Fixed the ability interaction with Assassinate and moving Aghanim's Scepter out of the backpack.

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

12 Dec 2016

• Assassinate
  • UPDATE 5
    • Fixed various ability bugs.
  • UPDATE 7
    • Updated and fixed ability tooltip.

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed Headshot damage going through spell immunity.

17 Feb 2016

• Updated workshop hero files to Source 2.

16 Oct 2015

• Added Russian voiceover lines.

29 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Updated Shrapnel delayed impact sound effects.

19 Mar 2015

• Fixed Shrapnel tooltip.

04 Feb 2015

• Fixed Shrapnel being refreshable.

29 Apr 2014

• Fixed acquisition range not matching maximum attack range.
  • This affects his ability to auto attack units at his maximum range.
• Fixed Headshot sometimes triggering True Strike independently from the mini-stun and damage bonus.
• Fixed Assassinate channeling time being interrupted if the target becomes temporarily invulnerable.

18 Apr 2013

• Fixed animation issue with heroes are in range.

23 Aug 2013

• Updated default hero workshop model files with improved weighting, including corrected smd files.

18 Jul 2013

• Fixed Shrapnel backswing behavior.

28 Jun 2013

• Fixed Headshot True Strike component not working with illusions.
• Updated to higher fidelity model.
  • Uploaded new default model to the Dota2 workshop.

19 Apr 2013

• Added victory animations.
• Added more aggressive posing of idle, run and attack when enemy is in range.

14 Mar 2013

• Fixed Shrapnel doing slightly less damage than intended to towers.
• Headshot
  • Fixed not working on creep-heroes.
  • Fixed physical damage bonus being blocked by spell immunity.

28 Feb 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Shrapnel cast backswing behavior.

30 Nov 2012

• Headshot now uses pseudo-random distribution.

13 Sep 2012

• U
  Broken down default hero model into multiple parts for loadout.

19 Jul 2012

• Added teleport start and end animations.
• Added spawn animations.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.

15 Mar 2012

• Fixed Headshot proc damage.

01 Mar 2012

• Fixed loadout issues.

16 Feb 2012

• Headshot
  • Fixed bonus proc damage working against buildings.
  • Fixed ability bonus working while being Doomed.

03 Nov 2011

• Fixed Assassinate reveal debuff never disappearing if the target dodges it with blink-based abilities.

29 Sep 2011

• Fixed Assassinate ministun interaction with Avatar.

09 Sep 2011

• Sniper will only say his Shrapnel line if he captures any heroes in the radius.

07 Aug 2011

• Fixed Legacy Keys.

02 Aug 2011

• Fixed Shrapnel slow duration. It was hardcoded to 1.5 and now it is 2.
• Assassinate
  • Fixed cast time.
  • Now prevent units from going invisible while ability is casting.

29 Jul 2011

• Fixed Shrapnel slow not getting upgraded per level.

30 Apr 2011

• Added
  Sniper.