Troll Warlord
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Troll Warlord
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Jah'rakal, the Troll Warlord, is a ranged agility hero able to output mighty damage competitively at range and in melee. His Berserker's Rage gives him the unique ability to change his attack position from ranged to melee and back at will as the situation warrants. When in close combat, his stats are increased accordingly: he gains bonus armor, movement speed, reduced base attack time, and the ability to root. Not only does this greatly improve the Troll Warlord, but allows him to overpower most other carries, as well as permanently ensnare a target for extended amounts of time. The Troll Warlord is an axe specialist, using them in his unique Whirling Axes, which has two variations: the first is available to his ranged form wherein he throws axes in a cone formation to damage and slow enemies. The second is available to his melee form, whirling axes around himself in a small radius to damage and blind nearby enemies. In keeping with his savage nature, Fervor builds up the Warlord's momentum, granting him attack speed with each consecutive hit on the same target, though the momentum is lost upon switching targets. His Ultimate, Battle Trance, increases his attack speed further, boosts his movement speed, prevents death and grants lifesteal at the expense of almost complete loss of control when enemies are nearby, mindlessly attacking them. Notorious for his superbly fast attack speed that can be matched by few, Jah'rakal is truly a force to be reckoned with.
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Bio[edit]
Jah'rakal, the Troll Warlord▶️ "I suffer the innocents and guilty alike. There are no innocents."
Lore:
It's an easy thing to offend a troll. A prickly and contentious race, trolls thrive on argument and strife, missing no excuse to raise their voices in dispute. Males grow to maturity in subterranean chambers beneath their matriarch's domicile, feeding and amusing themselves while contributing nothing. Often they stay for years beyond the age of maturity, while the matriarch provides them with sustenance. When young trolls are finally pushed from their sub-chamber, they gather with others of their kind, forming roving gangs of malcontents who complain loudly about all manner of vexation.
As much as trolls love to argue, imagine how rare it is for a troll to be driven from his own kind for being too difficult to get along with. Such was Jah'rakal's fate, a monger troll from deep in the Hoven. So deluded was he, so bitter and abrasive, that even other trolls found his company intolerable. After one particularly vitriolic outburst in which he claimed the lion's share of loot from their latest raid, his cohorts finally snapped. They turned on him, beat him with clubs, and drove him from the encampment. Enraged at his banishment, he returned the next day, armed with steel, and slew them all, one by one. He then swore a blood oath: he would ever after be a fighting force unto himself. Now he roams the world as the Troll Warlord, bitter and angry, the Imperial high commander of an army of one.
As much as trolls love to argue, imagine how rare it is for a troll to be driven from his own kind for being too difficult to get along with. Such was Jah'rakal's fate, a monger troll from deep in the Hoven. So deluded was he, so bitter and abrasive, that even other trolls found his company intolerable. After one particularly vitriolic outburst in which he claimed the lion's share of loot from their latest raid, his cohorts finally snapped. They turned on him, beat him with clubs, and drove him from the encampment. Enraged at his banishment, he returned the next day, armed with steel, and slew them all, one by one. He then swore a blood oath: he would ever after be a fighting force unto himself. Now he roams the world as the Troll Warlord, bitter and angry, the Imperial high commander of an army of one.
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Abilities[edit]
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While active, Troll Warlord swaps from using ranged to melee attacks. Melee attacks have a chance to ensnare, preventing the target from moving or using mobility spells. Berserker's Rage also grants additional movement speed, armor, and decreases base attack time.
Whirling Axes has different functionality while Berserker's Rage is active.
Whirling Axes has different functionality while Berserker's Rage is active.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Armor Bonus: 4/5/6/7
Move Speed Bonus: 15/25/35/45
Attack Range Loss: 350
Base Attack Time: 1.45
Root Chance: 14%/16%/18%/20%
Root Duration: 0.8/1.2/1.6/2
0
The rooting is disabled, all other components are not.
Melee illusions cannot root.Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_berserkers_rage: Undispellable. Persists death.
modifier_troll_warlord_berserkers_rage_ensnare: Dispellable with any dispel.Like his anger, Troll Warlord's supply of axes is infinite.
Notes:
- Berserker's Rage is not available in Ability Draft.
- Does not interrupt Troll Warlord's channeling abilities upon toggling.
- Toggling On disables Whirling Axes (Ranged) and then enables Whirling Axes (Melee).
- Turns Troll Warlord into a melee unit with 150 attack range for its duration (relevant for Rubick and Ability Draft).
- This means items treat the caster as a melee hero (e.g. Manta Style, Skull Basher, etc).
- Attack range bonuses are not overridden and still work normally.
- When toggling On while a ranged projectile is flying, it is treated as a melee attack by items, but cannot root with Berserker's Rage.
- When the attack connects on the target, the area in front of Troll Warlord will receive cleave damage if he has Battle Fury, and items such as Orb of Venom and Skull Basher use the melee attack values. However, Quelling Blade uses the ranged values if Troll Warlord was ranged at the start of the projectile.
- Persists through Troll Warlord's death. If Berserker's Rage was active upon death, he respawns with it active.
- The root proccing attack first applies the debuff, then its own damage.
- The root provides True Sight over the target for it's duration.
- The proc chance uses pseudo-random distribution.
- When toggled Off, all changes are reverted and he becomes a ranged unit again.
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Troll hurls a fistful of five axes in a cone shape over 950 range, slowing and damaging enemy units.
Cast Animation: 0.2+0
Cast Range: 950
Axes Travel Distance: 950
Axes Radius: 100
Axes Spread End Radius: 206.17
Damage: 75 (
165)
165)Move Speed Slow: 40%
Slow Duration: 2.5/3/3.5/4
9 (
4)
60 ( 30)
Causes Ranged Axes to dispel enemies. Reduces cooldown and manacost.
Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_whirling_axes_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.Only axes fueled by hate whirl with such a deadly spin.
Notes:
- Whirling Axes (Ranged) is only available when Berserker's Rage is toggled Off.
- In Ability Draft, both Whirling Axes abilities are separate, stand-alone abilities that can be drafted up independently.
- The axes travel at a speed of 1500, taking 0.63 seconds to travel the full distance.
- Spawns 5 axes which spread up to 25° and affect units within 100 radius around them.
- Has no starting radius, the axes spawn at one point in front of Troll Warlord. So the total area is shaped like a cone.
- With the travel distance and axes radius, it can hit units up to 1050 range away.
- The axes first apply a basic dispel, then the damage, then the debuff.
- Does not affect Roshan.
- During Battle Trance this ability has an instant cast time, and does not require Troll Warlord to face the targeted direction.
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Cast Animation: 0+0
Spin Radius: 350
Axes Radius: 100
Damage: 50/100/150/200 ( 140/190/240/290)
140/190/240/290)Miss Chance: 60%
Blind Duration: 5
Whirl Duration: 3
9 ( 4) 50 ( 25)
Causes Melee Axes to dispel Troll Warlord. Reduces cooldown and manacost. Blind effect persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_whirling_axes_melee: Dispellable with death only. modifier_troll_warlord_axe_invulnerable: Undispellable. Persists death. modifier_troll_warlord_whirling_axes_blind: Dispellable with any dispel.Keep your enemies close.
Notes:
- Whirling Axes (Melee) is only available when Berserker's Rage is toggled On.
- In Ability Draft, both Whirling Axes abilities are separate, stand-alone abilities that can be drafted and leveled up independently.
- Interrupts Troll Warlord's channeling abilities upon cast.
- The axes travel at a speed of 1250 and move out at a speed of 233.33 until reaching the max distance in 1.5 seconds, and then move back to Troll Warlord at the same speed.
- The axes always spawn towards east and west at Troll Warlord's position and rotate clockwise.
- With the max spin radius and axes radius, it can hit units up to 450 range away.
- The axes first apply the damage, then the debuff.
- Only units within 100 range of an axe get damaged and blinded.
- The visual effects of this abilities are offset and do not reflect the actual currently affected area.
- The full damage and debuff is dealt the first time a unit comes in contact with an axe, being hit by the other axe does not deal extra damage or reapply the debuff.
- Whirling Axes' blind uses pseudo-random distribution.
- Does not affect Roshan.
- If Troll Warlord dies, the ability ends and the axes disappear.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, applies a basic dispel on Troll Warlord upon cast.
Fervor
DV
DV
Ability
Passive
Passive
Affects
Self
Self
With each continuous blow on the same target, Troll gains increased attack speed. If Troll changes targets, the stacks drop to zero.
Max Stacks: 12
Attack Speed Bonus per Stack: 15/20/25/30 ( 20/25/30/35)
20/25/30/35) Does not prevent gaining new stacks. Nullifies the bonus attack speed of all stacks.Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_fervor: Dispellable with death only.If at first you don't succeed, strike, strike again.
Notes:
- Troll Warlord gains or loses stacks as soon as his attacks land on the target.
- This means that missed or disjointed attacks do not count, and in ranged form, it reacts on projectile hit, not on launch.
- This is how much attack speed Fervor grants with a certain amount of stacks on each level.
- Level 1: 15/30/45/60/75/90/105/120/135/150/165/180
- Level 2: 20/40/60/80/100/120/140/160/180/200/220/240
- Level 3: 25/50/75/100/125/150/175/200/225/250/275/300
- Level 4: 30/60/90/120/150/180/210/240/270/300/330/360
- This is how much attack speed Fervor grants with a certain amount of stacks on each level with the attack speed bonus increasing talent.
- Level 1: 20/40/60/80/100/120/140/160/180/200/220/240
- Level 2: 25/50/75/100/125/150/175/200/225/250/275/300
- Level 3: 30/60/90/120/150/180/210/240/270/300/330/360
- Level 4: 35/70/105/140/175/210/245/280/315/350/385/420
- When already having stacks, the first attack against a new target removes the previous stacks, without granting a new stack.
Ability
No Target
No Target
Affects
Allies
Allies
Global active. Grants all allied heroes 70 Attack Speed or 25% Status Resistance for 5 seconds based on whichever stance Troll is currently in. Ranged provides attack speed and melee provides status resistance.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Radius: Global
Attack Speed Bonus (Ranged): 70
Status Resistance Bonus (Melee): 25%
Duration: 5
80 75
Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_rampage: Dispellable with any dispel.Notes:
- Requires Aghanim's Shard upgrade to be unlocked.
- Interrupts Troll Warlord's channeling abilities upon cast.
- Only affects heroes, including clones and illusions, excluding creep-heroes.
- Affects invulnerable and hidden allies as well.
- Works independently from Berserker's Rage, checks for the caster's current range type.
- This means for Rubick during e.g. Shapeshift, Rampage grants status resistance bonus.
- Creates red particles if the caster was melee on cast, and teal if they were ranged.
- Checks the caster's range type periodically and updates the buff immediately.
- The particle effects do not update.
- The status resistance bonus stacks multiplicatively with other sources of status resistance.
- Despite the tooltip, the buff is dispellable by any dispel and it fully works on spell immune allies.
Ability
No Target
No Target
Affects
Self
Self
Troll unleashes a powerful battle trance, that forces you to continuously attack the closest enemy unit within 900 range, prioritizing heroes. Damage does not kill you during this mode. Grants you bonus lifesteal, attack speed and movement speed. Applies a Basic Dispel.
Cast Animation: 0+0.5
Enemy Search Radius: 900
Lifesteal: 40%/60%/80%
Self Move Speed Bonus: 25%/30%/35%
Self Attack Speed Bonus: 140/170/200
Duration: 6.5 ( 8.5)
8.5) 90 150
Grants a new ability: Rampage.Modifiers
modifier_troll_warlord_battle_trance: Dispellable with death only. modifier_troll_warlord_battle_trance_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.An adrenaline rush of pure hatred quickens your blades.
Notes:
- Battle Trance interrupts Troll Warlord's channeling abilities upon cast.
- Applies a basic dispel on the Troll Warlord upon cast.
- Battle Trance first applies the buff, then the dispel.
- When cast while not attacking, Troll Warlord automatically chooses an attack target within the search radius.
- Prioritizes heroes over other units. Uses default auto-attack rules to decide for targets.
- Does not target Roshan, buildings, wards, allies, or invulnerable or attack immune enemies.
- When cast while already attacking a target, Troll Warlord sticks to that target, even if it is Roshan, a building, a ward, or an ally.
- He only switches the current attack target when it becomes unattackable (turns invulnerable or attack immune, or dies).
- Grants shared vision over the current attack target as long as it stays within 900 range of the buffed hero, revealing it through the Fog of War. Does not provide True Sight.
- While attacking, the Troll Warlord becomes almost fully uncontrollable, and can only be ordered to to toggle Berserker's Rage, or cast Whirling Axes.
- Prevents Troll Warlord from dying by setting his minimum health to 1.
- This means he cannot die to damage, not even damage flagged as HP removal, so that it prevents him from dying to False Promise's delayed damage.
- Does not protect him against a lethal Culling Blade, or the expiring of Wraith Delay.
- Stops Ice Blast from shattering Troll Warlord when in Battle Trance while below the shatter threshold.
- Damage taken is technically not reduced, so any damage event still registers the full damage.
- The Battle Trance strong dispel talent turns the basic dispel into a strong dispel.
- Also allows Battle Trance to be cast while stunned, cycloned, slept, hidden, or during Forced Movement.
- Does not allow it from being cast while silenced, taunted, hexed or prevented from acting.
- Troll Warlord is unable to ⇧ Shift-queue this ability upon learning the talent.
Talents[edit]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| Battle Trance Strong Dispels | 25 | +2s Battle Trance Duration |
| +30 Damage | 20 | 20% Evasion |
| +90 Whirling Axes Damage | 15 | +5 Fervor Attack Speed |
| +225 Health | 10 | +7 Agility |
Notes:
- The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.
- The agility talent effectively grants Troll Warlord 1.17 armor, 7 attack speed, and 7 attack damage.
- This attack damage talent is added as raw attack damage.
- Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.
- The evasion talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources of evasion.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Troll Warlord/Changelogs
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- Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Rescaled Berserker's Rage armor bonus from 6 on each level to 4/5/6/7.
- Whirling Axes (Ranged)
- Reduced cast range from 1000 to 950.
- Reduced axes travel distance from 1000 to 950.
- Increased mana cost from 50 to 60.
- Reduced Battle Trance movement speed bonus from 30%/35%/40% to 25%/30%/35%.
- Reworked Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Old: Makes Battle Trance provide a global aura that grants allied heroes, including self, 60 attack speed.
- New: Grants Troll Warlord the Rampage ability.
- Rampage
- Grants all allied heroes on the map attack speed if Troll Warlord is in his ranged form, or status resistance if he is in his melee form.
- Cast time: 0
- Radius: Global
- Attack speed bonus: 70
- Status resistance bonus: 25%
- Duration: 5
- Mana cost: 75
- Cooldown: 80
- Notes: Affects Troll Warlord himself as well.
- Talents:
- Increased Berserker's Rage movement speed bonus from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45.
- Reworked Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Old: Reduces Battle Trance cooldown from 90 to 35, and allows it to be cast on allied and enemy heroes. Has a cast range of 525, and lasts 3.25 seconds on enemy heroes.
- New: Reduces Whirling Axes cooldown from 9 to 4 and mana cost by 50%. Causes Whirling Axes (Ranged) to apply a basic dispel on hit enemies, and Whirling Axes (Melee) to apply a basic dispel on self upon cast.
- Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Troll Warlord:
- Makes Battle Trance provide a global aura that grants allied heroes, including self, 60 attack speed.
- Talents:
- Level 25 right talent changed: -5s Whirling Axes cooldown ➜ +2s Battle Trance duration.
- Talents:
- Level 15 left talent: +70 Whirling Axes damage increased to +90.
- Level 15 right talent changed: +3 Fervor max stacks ➜ +5 Fervor attack speed per stack.
Recommended Items[edit]
Starting items:
- Tango sustains health so you can stay longer in lane.
- Healing Salve restores health as well.
Early game:
- Magic Wand helps to sustain in the lane against enemies that can spam spells.
- Phase Boots increase attack damage to complement Troll Warlord's high attack speed.
Mid game:
- Maelstrom increases farm speed, allowing to get more items quicker.
- Black King Bar is core on troll because Battle Trance only lasts 6.5 seconds. Every second matters, and stuns and disables potentially make you unable to do anything for several seconds, wasting the spell's potential.
- Morbid Mask provides lifesteal which works well with your high attack speed. Getting this can help you take out Roshan in the early game by yourself. It also upgrades into Satanic, which helps with survivability in the late game.
Late game:
- Butterfly provides a massive agility and attack speed bonus as well as evasion. In addition, the evasion, combined with the blind provided by Whirling Axes provides a great deal of survivability.
- Abyssal Blade provides Troll Warlord with stun and bash, which he can take advantage of due to his high attack speed. The item also gives damage block and health so he can survive in fights.
- Satanic provides an active that will allow Troll Warlord to hit enemies without the fear of dying and gain full health in a fraction of a second. The passive status resistance is what makes this item a must, as Troll Warlord doesn't like to be interrupted in fights so that he can focus one target.
Situational items:
- Battle Fury is alternative way to farm faster.
- Yasha is always a decent choice, for extra movement speed and agility. Upgrade it into either a Sange and Yasha for some durability, or a Manta Style for the illusions, dispel and disjointing projectiles.
- Shadow Blade offers cost effective attack speed and damage increases, strong initiation and mobility, and a mediocre escape. It also upgrades in the improved Silver Edge.
- Blink Dagger allows Troll Warlord to get on top of the enemies to root and kill them. Can be upgraded later to Swift Blink
- Diffusal Blade provides good agility and helps you deplete (quickly) a target of its mana.
- Daedalus gives your attacks a great deal of damage. Because maximum attack speed is easily achievable with his ultimate and passive, Troll Warlord can focus on damage and get multiple Daedalus to crit more often and lifesteal even more.
- Monkey King Bar counters evasion from the enemies due to its magical damage procs, and gives an increase to attack damage which complements attack speed bonuses from Fervor and Battle Trance.
Gameplay[edit]
| Roles: | Carry Pusher Disabler Durable |
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| Complexity: | ★★☆ |
| Playstyle: | Jah'rakal is an intolerable scoundrel, even for a troll. As such, being kicked out of the troll encampment only served to fuel his anger. The next day, he returned with steel in hand, and slew his former comrades in a Berserker's Rage. With each passing blow, the self-styled Troll Warlord accelerates his swings in an irate Fervor. Swapping effortlessly between melee and ranged, he throws his weapons to cripple from afar, while chopping down adjacent foes with Whirling Axes. To challenge Jah'rakal is to invite one's own death. The Troll Warlord enters a Battle Trance, channeling pure hatred into unequaled speed as he decimates his opponents in a storm of bloody axes. |
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Trivia[edit]
- Jah'rakal's lore and certain dialogue lines make several references to Internet trolls, a type of identity or role assumed by certain Internet users.
- Troll Warlord's alternate name in DotA was Cory Clark a nod to the famous internet troll.
- Battle Trance's ▶️ sound effect is based on ▶️ this and ▶️ this line combined.
- Troll Warlord's rare Whirling Axes cast response ▶️ "Axes of evil." is a reference to the term "axis of evil" which former U.S. president George W. Bush coined and used many times during his presidency.
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