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Weaver #41 16 + 2 17 + 3.1 20 + 2
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 20 372 988 1692 1956 +1.25 +2.85 +5.65 +8.85 +10.05 Mana 80 320 656 1040 1184 +0.5 +1.5 +2.9 +4.5 +5.1 Armor 1 3.83 11.07 18.23 21.15 Magic Resist 25% 27% 29.8% 33% 34.2% Damage Block - Damage 37 43 54 60 97 103 140 146 157 163 Attack Rate 0.67/s 0.76/s 1/s 1.24/s 1.34/s Attack Range 425 (750) Attack Speed ▶️ 120 (1.8s BAT) Attack Animation 0.55 + 0.36 Projectile Speed 900 Move Speed ▶️ 275 ( 305) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Goo Internal npc_dota_hero_weaver

Rewinds time to reverse damage and position.
All Weavers worked to maintain the fabric of creation, save one Skitskurr, who took it upon himself to create that which had not been woven. Cast out for his ambitions, Skitskurr was now free from his obligations, free to weave a new reality of his own. Opening a gap in spacetime, the Weaver invites "The Swarm" — young Weavers to latch onto enemies, and nibble away at their armor. Nearly impossible to pin down, he slips into micro-wormholes, passing through enemies and reappearing with Shukuchi. The fabric of time frays around Skitskurr, occasionally replaying, causing his Geminate Attacks to be witnessed — and felt — more than once. The Weaver takes brinkmanship to an extreme. Fighting to the verge of death, Skitskurr turns back the clock with Time Lapse, reversing his injuries and undoing his foes' efforts, much to their dismay.
Roles:	Carry Escape
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Legs ( 4 )

Bio

Skitskurr, the Weaver

▶️ "Fate weaves the threads of our lives together. Fate also wields the blade that cuts them short."

Lore:

The fabric of creation needs constant care, lest it grow tattered; for when it unravels, whole worlds come undone. It is the work of the Weavers to keep the fabric tight, to repair worn spots in the mesh of reality. They also defend from the things that gnaw and lay their eggs in frayed regions, whose young can quickly devour an entire universe if the Weavers let their attention lapse. Skitskurr was a master Weaver, charged with keeping one small patch of creation tightly woven and unfaded. But the job was not enough to satisfy. It nagged him that the original work of creation all lay in the past; the Loom had done its work and travelled on. He wanted to create rather than merely maintain—to weave worlds of his own devising. He began making small changes to his domain, but the thrill of creation proved addictive, and his strokes became bolder, pulling against the pattern that the Loom had woven.

The guardians came, with their scissors, and Weaver's world was pared off, snipped from the cosmic tapestry, which they rewove without him in it. Skitskurr found himself alone, apart from his kind, a state that would have been torment for any other Weaver. But Skitskurr rejoiced, for now he was free. Free to create for himself, to begin anew. The raw materials he needed to weave a new reality were all around him. All he had to do was tear apart this old world at the seams.

Aliases:

NW, Skitskurr

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities

The Swarm

▶️▶️QR

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

Weaver launches a swarm of 12 young Weavers that latch on any enemy unit in their path, attacking and reducing armor until it is killed.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 3000

Max Travel Distance: 3000

Beetles Spawn Radius: 300

Beetles Latch Radius: 100

Number of Beetles: 12

Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 6/6/8/8 ( 10/10/12/12)

Hero Attacks to Destroy: 3/3/4/4 ( 5/5/6/6)

Tick Interval: 1.15/1.0/0.85/0.7

Damage per Tick: 18/22/26/30

Armor Reduction per Tick: 1 ( 1.5)

Beetle Duration: 16

 44/36/28/20

 110

Spell Immunity Notes:

Exposure pierces debuff immunity.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_projectile_vision

Undispellable

modifier_weaver_swarm

Undispellable

modifier_weaver_swarm_debuff

Death

Skitskurr opens a gap in the space time fabric, allowing young Weavers to slip through and aid him in combat.

Beetle
Attached
Health 100 +0 This unit has no mana. Level 2 Duration 16 Armor 0 Magic Resistance 0% Status Resistance 0 Collision Size 18 Bound Radius 8 Vision Range (F) 321 Bounty 32–34 Experience 20 Notes Uncontrollable Phased Spell Immune

• The Swarm spawn within a 300 radius randomly around Weaver and moves forward at a speed of 750, taking 4 seconds to reach the maximum distance.
  • The Beetles are not attackable when traveling as a swarm. They are only attackable after latching onto targets.
  • They provide flying vision while traveling forwards, and while latched onto their targets.
  • They are attached type units, and have the highest priority for auto-attack behaviors, together with Phantoms.
  • With the maximum travel distance, spawn radius, and latch radius, the Beetles can latch on units 3400 range away.

• The Beetle latches 64 range in front of any enemy unit that comes within 100 radius, unless another Beetle has already latched onto it.
  • This means that multiple casts do not affect the same unit more than once, and its duration cannot be refreshed.
  • Can latch on invulnerable units, but not invisible or hidden units.
  • Does not latch on enemy Couriers.

• The Beetle and its latched target have the following interactions:
  • When the latched target turns invisible, while not under True Sight, the Beetle dies instantly.
  • When the latched target is hidden, the Beetle is still latched onto the target and not removed.
  • When the latched target is affected by the following abilities, the Beetle disappears: Infest, Dismember, Gobble Up and Voodoo Switcheroo.
  • When the latched target is now untargetable, the Beetle applies its first damage instance and the armor reduction debuff then dies after 0.2 seconds.
  • The Beetle dies instantly while entering Chronosphere.
  • Beetles that disappear or die instantly in the aforementioned situations are not credited to anyone.

• The Swarm deals damage in 1.15/1.0/0.85/0.7-second intervals, starting immediately when it is latched on a unit, this results in 14/17/19/23 possible attacks.
  • Although the Beetles are latched to their targets, the damage is sourced to Weaver, not the Beetles.
  • Therefore, the damage is affected by outgoing damage manipulation and spell lifesteal.
  • Can deal up to 252/374/494/690 damage to each latched enemy (before reductions).

• The armor reduction is bound to the Beetle and independent from the damage per tick.
  • The armor reduction fully affects ethereal units, but not invulnerable units.
  • Can reduce up to 14/17/19/23 ( 21/25.5/28.5/34.5) armor per unit.

• On each interval, The Swarm first applies the armor reduction, then the damage.

Shukuchi

▶️WC

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self / Enemies

Damage
Magical

Weaver shifts out of visibility, gaining max movement speed --doing harm to any enemies it passes through.

Cast Animation:  0+0

Fade Time: 0.25

Damage Radius: 175

Damage: 100/130/160/190 ( 155/185/215/245)

Haste Speed: 550

Buff Duration: 4

 Debuff Duration: 4.6

 15/12/9/6 ( 12.5/9.5/6.5/3.5)

 60

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Shukuchi puts a mark on enemies it damages that last 4.6 seconds.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_weaver_shukuchi

Death

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack_mark

Any

Ability Draft Notes:

Geminate Attack must be drafted as well for it to get applied.

As the Weavers worked in the fabric of creation, small wormholes allowed them to slip through time to better work their craft.

• Does not interrupt Weaver's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Disjoints projectiles upon cast, if the enemy has no True Sight on Weaver.

• Shukuchi can only damage the same unit once per cast.
  • Leveling up the ability while fully invisible does not update the current Shukuchi damage instance.

• During the fade time, Weaver can cast abilities, use items and perform attacks without breaking the invisibility.

• The invisibility is broken upon reaching the cast point of abilities or items, or upon landing an attack. Missed attacks do not break it.
  • Weaver can pick up, drop, or attack items without breaking the invisibility.

• Grants haste and phased movement while fully invisible, meaning Weaver cannot be slowed below the hasted value.
  • Unlike other phased movement sources, Shukuchi turns Weaver phased instantly upon cast, instead of after the fade time.
  • Shukuchi still grants 200/230/260/290 movement speed bonus on top of the haste movement, but this will not be reflected in the HUD unless the caster unlocks maximum movement speed.

• SHARD
  Shukuchi now applies a 4.6-second debuff on all affected enemies.
  • 0.25 seconds after breaking invisibility, Geminate Attack triggers on all enemies within 1200 radius with the Shukuchi debuff.
  • Weaver has to be alive for Geminate Attack to proc.

Geminate Attack

▶️EE

Ability
Active Attack Modifier

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Instant Attack

Allows Weaver to dispatch two attacks at once.

Cast Range: 425

Effect Delay: 0.25

Number of Extra Attacks: 1 ( 2)

Attack Damage Bonus: 20/35/50/65 ( 110/125/140/155)

Buff Duration: 0.05

After Shukuchi Invisibility

 Effect Delay: 0.2

 Target Search Radius: 1200

 8.5/6.5/4.5/2.5

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

0.2s after Weaver exits Shukuchi, enemies with a mark within 1200 range will also be attacked with a secondary Geminate attack.

Break Notes:

Disabled, despite being an active ability.

Illusion Notes:

The ability is always toggled on, but illusions cannot trigger it.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack

Undispellable

modifier_weaver_geminate_attack_bonus

Undispellable

Ability Draft Notes:

Geminate Attack triggers for allied Shukuchi marks as well.

Skitskurr's relationship with time is somewhat variable, causing his actions to be witnessed — and felt — more than once.

• Upon leveling Geminate Attack the first time, it has Autocast on by default.
  • Despite being an active ability, Geminate Attack can trigger while silenced, if set to Autocast.

• Geminate Attack's cast range can only be further increased by attack range bonuses of the same range as the caster. However, it is not affected by cast range bonuses.
  • Both Autocast and manually casting it use Weaver's current attack range.

• Causes Weaver to perform 1 ( 2) instant attack(s) on the attacked target 0.25 seconds after releasing the leading attack.
  • These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.
  • They do not break Disguise as well.

• Grants unique flat bonus attack damage upon Weaver's attack point to the extra attacks.
  • After the attack point, Weaver first attacks, triggers both the Geminate Attack buff and attack damage bonus buff, then releases the extra attack.
  • Weaver has to be alive for these extra attacks to happen.
  • There is no range limit for these extra attacks, they launch regardless of how far away the target is currently at.
  • Even if the initial attack damage kills the target before Geminate Attack triggers, the extra attacks are still released, hitting the dead target.

• For melee units, if the enemy target is farther than 350 range more than the attacker's range, the attack will always miss.

• Works against enemy buildings, Couriers and wards.
  • Neither work against allies nor Observer and Sentry Wards.

• SHARD
  Breaking the Shukuchi invisibility in any way now procs Geminate Attack 0.2 seconds after on every enemy affected by the Shukuchi debuff within 1200 radius.
  • Weaver still has to be alive for these extra attacks to happen.
  • These Geminate Attacks applied upon breaking invisibility are applied even if the ability itself is currently not castable, and regardless of its cooldown status.
  • Geminate Attack procs fully work against all targets with the Shukuchi debuff regardless of source.
  • TALENT
    The Geminate Attack count increasing talent fully applies to this Ability Upgrade.

Time Lapse

▶️RT

Ability
No Target
( Target Unit)

Affects
Self
( Allied Heroes)

Weaver warps backward to whatever position it was in five seconds earlier--regaining the HP and mana from that time. No effect on cooldown, gold or experience.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.53

Lapsed Time: 5

 Cast Range: 500

 70/55/40 ( 40)

 150/75/0

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Time Lapse may target allied Heroes with 500 cast range.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_weaver_timelapse

Undispellable

If Skitskurr does not deem the current reality of the world to fit his desires, he simply crawls back in time to right what was wronged.

• Weaver is ordered to stop right after getting moved back, this automatically cancels the cast backswing of Time Lapse.
  • However, ⇧ Shift-queue commands are not canceled.
  • SCEPTER
    Therefore, the cast backswing is only used when cast on allies.

• Time Lapse disjoints projectiles and applies a strong dispel upon cast.
  • Only affects Weaver's position (or coordinates), health, mana, and status debuffs. Buffs are not removed.

• Sets Weaver's or the target ally's health and mana back to what it was 5 seconds ago.
  • Time Lapse neither deals damage nor heals. Therefore, it does not interact with any on-damage effects.
  • When cast right after respawning, the caster's health, mana, and position are set to what they were before death.
  • This means that it does not kill the caster when cast immediately after respawning.

• SCEPTER
  Time Lapse now turns into a unit-targeted ability, applying all the effects on the target.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.
  • Cannot be cast on allies who have ☐ Disabled Help from Weaver.
  • Treats clones and illusions as heroes, and creep-heroes as creeps.

• SCEPTER
  Unit-targeting does not order the ally target to stop. Therefore, channeling abilities are not canceled.
  • When cast on allies right after respawning, their health, mana, and position are not set back to what they were before the death.
  • This means allies cannot be sent back to their death location after respawning, unlike how Weaver can when self-casting.

Talents

Hero Talents
+1 Geminate Attack	25	-2.5s Shukuchi Cooldown
+0.5 Swarm Armor Reduction	20	+90 Geminate Attack Damage
+2 Swarm Attacks to Kill	15	+20 Mana Break
+8 Strength	10	+55 Shukuchi Damage

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

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7.34e

• Increased Geminate Attack cooldown from 7/5.5/4/2.5 to 8.5/6.5/4.5/2.5.

7.34d

• Increased Shukuchi damage from 100/125/150/175 to 100/130/160/190.
• Increased Geminate Attack attack damage bonus from 15/30/45/60 to 20/35/50/65.

7.34c

• Increased The Swarm damage per tick from 18/20/22/24 to 18/22/26/30.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
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    Reduced Shukuchi debuff duration from 12 to 4.6.

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Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango gives Weaver some regeneration in lane. Best used when needing a small amount of regeneration in the early game. Don't be afraid to use them as dying in the early game can end up costing Weaver a lot of progress in the long run.

• Healing Salve can save Weaver after a dangerous situation. If you're super low, remember to use Shukuchi to get good distance from enemies and then use the Healing Salve to recover from large amounts of damage.

• Clarity helps Weaver sustain his mana in lane.

• Slippers of Agility helps Weaver get last hits.

• Circlet gives Weaver a few extra stats, and can be built into a Wraith Band to help with last hitting.

Early game:

• Regular Stick gives nothing.

• Boots of Speed give a decent speed boost, so Weaver can be a bit faster when he Shukuchi is on cooldown and he is one of the slowest heroes in the game.

• Blight Stone synergizes well with Weaver's armor reduction.

Mid game:

• Magic Wand offers extra attributes and more charge capacity.

• Power Treads give Weaver some extra attributes and attack speed.

• Linken's Sphere gives extra health and blocks spells. Combined with Time Lapse and Shukuchi, this makes Weaver extremely hard to kill. If the enemy team has a lot of low-cooldown abilities to pop it or AoE disables/nukes, consider skipping it in favor of Black King Bar.

Late game:

• Diffusal Blade increases damage and attack speed and grants Weaver a slow, something his own abilities are lacking. The Manabreak stacks with Weaver's own Mana Break talent.

• Desolator gives excellent damage and an armor reduction debuff that synergizes well with Geminate Attack and The Swarm. Really important you get this by the late game as this can help with getting kills.

• Black King Bar should be a choice if enemies have a lot of disables/nukes that can't be blocked with Linken's Sphere, or if they have multiple low cooldown abilities.

• Eye of Skadi provides overall great stats and increases your chasing/kiting potential with its Cold Attack.

Situational items:

• Hurricane Pike increases Weaver's attack range and gives a decent boost to strength and agility. The mobility it grants help Weaver put extra distance between himself and the enemies while he is waiting for Shukuchi to come off cooldown. Furthermore, The Swarm grants vision on the target, so Weaver can attack them during Hurricane Thrust.

• Heart of Tarrasque can be very frustrating for the enemy team, as Time Lapse will recover a great deal of Weaver's health. The health regeneration allows Weaver to get back in a fight, and Weaver can simply use Shukuchi to get away for the health regeneration to activate.

• Daedalus greatly increases Weaver's damage, as Geminate Attack can proc the crit.

• Butterfly provides damage, armor, attack speed, and evasion, making Weaver harder to kill and more damaging.

• Monkey King Bar grants lots of bonus damage, which Weaver makes use of with Geminate Attack.

• Satanic is a good choice on Weaver, considerably increasing his survivability with its strength bonus and lifesteal. Moreover, it can give you a third life so to speak after Time Lapse with its Unholy Rage. Combined with Weaver's high attack damage and Geminate Attack, even a single attack during Satanic's active can heal you back up to full health.

• Mjollnir is rarely a terrible choice on a carry. They will help you farm faster, and you will have a chance to zap the enemies twice with a single attack through Geminate Attack.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics	Voice Lines
Kills On Swarmed Heroes Shukuchi Kills Time Lapse Kills Near Death Time Lapses Double Shukuchis Swarm Damage Spells Blocked With Linkens Damage While Invisible Physical Damage Triple Kills Mega Kill Streak Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Hehehhehah! ▶️ The pattern is complete.
	Silver	▶️ You thought you had me, didn't you? ▶️ I'm sensing a pattern here.
	Gold	▶️ There's a snag in your plans. ▶️ A pattern repeats.
	Platinum	▶️ A feast for my beetles.
	Master	▶️ Ho, snap!
	Grandmaster	▶️ Shuttle and loom, I weave your doom.

Equipment

Weaver Equipment (expand sets) Sets Armored Exoskeleton Set   Combine of the Loomkeeper   Dimension Ripper   Dimensional Infestation   Ember Tipped Carapace Set   Grasp of the Riven Exile   Inerrant Eminence   Master Weaver Set   Threads of Entwined Fate Set   Vespoid Stalker Antennae Crimson Cyrridae   Golden Cyrridae Arms Skittering Desolation Back Crimson Pique Taunt Taunt: Exterminated

Trivia

• Weaver's original title was Nerubian Weaver, and his original name was Anub'seran. Nerubians are a race of arachnids in the Warcraft universe.

• Weaver's fun name in DotA was Anoob'seran.

• Geminate Attack is frequently misread as "Germinate Attack". To geminate is to double, coming from the Latin word for twin (as in Gemini).

• Shukuchi is a Japanese term for rapid movement, or teleportation. The ability's name is a reference to an ability of the same name of a character named Soujiro from the anime Rurouni Kenshin.

• Weaver draws many inspirations from a character of the same name in the novel, Perdido Street Station.

• Time Lapse icon may also be a reference to the box art of the movie Alien 3, considering that Sigourney Weaver has the lead role in the film.

Gallery

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