Kaaga, [A hard carry, which is rare]

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DESCRIPTION:

Kaaga is a 1/3 human, 1/3 assassin-bug, and 1/3... something else. She have 6 legs, each are long and needle-like; She have 4 wings, which can only belong to a demon race; she have 2 eyes and 2 arms, strangely human; and she have 3 antennas, with the middle antenna hiding her 3rd eye. She have a human mouth which allows her to talk, but her tongue is also hiding a creepy proboscis inside it, which is a long tube-like mouthpart of many insects. Her exoskeleton are mostly brown, red, and black. She is a dual-wielding monster designed to be a monster.

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HERO SUMMARY:

Kaaga is built to be a very hard carry specializing in critical hits. Her Maleficent Blade is a basic crit. Giving her 'Maleficent Blade' charges when it procs. All of her spells can use these charges. She can toggle it off to disable her basic spells from using charges, so she can save up for her ult.

Shadow Parry, somewhat similar to Spiked Carapace allows her to completely dodge a damage instance. It will teleport Kaaga next to her attacker, after which she'll retaliate with one powerful crit. She can effortlessly escape with Umbral Slide should she got out of position.

Her ultimate, Blood Finale is a single target delete button. Constricting her target from moving or attacking, as she prepares the 3-hit fatal combo. Each hit from this ability consumes a charge (up to 3), so do make sure you spare some of it before deleting someone.

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A chimera made with the talents of a forgotten assassin, ambush instincts of an ancient assassin nymph bug, and wings of a Foulfell demon.

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Str Agi int : 23 + 2.2 : 18 + 4.3 : 12 + 1.6

Health H regen amp Mana M regen amp Armor Spell Dmg. Damage M spd amp : : : : : : : BASE 200 0% 75 0% 0 0% 28 - 31 0%

Base HP regen Base MP regen Movement Turn rate Vision range Attack range Projectile Spd. Attack Ani. B.A.T. Magic resist Collision Legs : 0 : 0 : 300 : 0.5 : 1800/800 : 150 : instant : 0.25 + 0.65 : 1.7 : 25% : 24 : 6

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[Q] Maleficent Blade Each attack has a chance to strike a critical hit, gaining one 'Maleficent blade' charges. She can use those charges whenever she cast a spell. Toggle OFF to disallow Umbral Slide and Shadow Parry to use charges. ABILITY : PASSIVE / TOGGLE Chance Critical Charges duration Max charges : 25% / 30% / 35% / 40% : 140% / 150% / 160% / 170% : 60 : 3 (+1 / +2 / +3) (+1) Her blades being cursed are just rumors, it's all skill. NOTES : Gives an Average DPS Increase of 8.8%/14.4%/20.8%/28%. Second lowest. Next with Chaos Knight If a spell uses a charge, it uses values with the. Toggle it off in case you want to save up charges for her ultimate without worrying that her spells will deplete them. Blood Finale will still consume charges regardless of the toggle.

[W] Umbral Slide Teleports a short distance. Then becomes invisible with bonus movespeed. Using a maleficent charge reduces cooldown. ABILITY CAST ANIMATION CAST RANGE : TARGET POINT : 0.1 + 0 : Global Blink distance Invi movespeed Invi duration MANA COOLDOWN : 425 / 500 / 575 / 650 : 15% / 30% / 45% / 60% : 4 : 40 : 20 / 16 / 12 / 8 (12 / 9 / 6 / 3) Her physiology of 6 needle-like legs allows for movements as quiet as shadows, NOTES : If Maleficent Blade is toggled off, this spell won't use a charge. 0 second fade time. The cast animation and blink particles does not distinguish her blink direction.

[E] Shadow Parry In a short window, Kaaga will negate the next damage instance from an enemy hero. Kaaga, after evading the damage, will blink right next to her attacker and strike with one, painful blow. If her attacker is more than 1500 unit distance away she will evade the damage but won't blink. Using a maleficent charge gives lifesteal to the attack. ABILITY PIERCES IMMUNITY? CAST ANIMATION : NO TARGET : YES : 0 + 0 Jump range limit Buff duration Critical Lifesteal MANA COOLDOWN : 1500 (Global) : 1.5 : 200% / 230% / 260% / 290% (360% / 390% / 420% / 450%) : 120% : 30 : 18 / 14 / 10 / 6 With 3 antennas and a specialized third eye, Kaaga's inhuman reflexes ensures no retaliation amongst her preys. NOTES : If Maleficent Blade is toggled off, this spell won't use a charge. Does not interrupt channeling nor actions upon cast, but it does when it triggers. Has visuals and sounds seen and heard by all. Can only trigger once to the first hero-based damage. (even summons won't trigger it) Damage less than 50 (before reductions) will not be parried. The parrying attack is an instant attack, meaning disarms and disables will not prevent the attack. If the attacker is invisible, hidden, ethereal, or any form that makes them unattackable, she will still teleport to their location but will not perform an attack.

[R] Blood Finale Kaaga constricts a victim for 2.75 seconds, becoming invincible, untargetable and impossible to be removed unless she desired. Target is slowed and revealed after which Kaaga attacks in extremely quick succession. Each attack requires, and consumes, all maleficent charges. Passively increases max Maleficent Blade charges. ABILITY CAST ANIMATION CAST RANGE : UNIT TARGET : 0.2 + 0 : 150 Duration Movement Slow Max Maleficent Charges MANA COOLDOWN : 2.75 : 40% / 60% / 80% : +1 / +2 / +3 : 140 : 55 / 45 / 35 An unholy predatory ritual of a forgotten demon race! NOTES : Kaaga is disarmed during the constriction, but can cast spell and use items. She is invulnerable and cannot have outside interactions while constricting. Kaaga begins attacking immediately after 2.75 seconds, with attacks 0.1 seconds apart. The constriction lasts 2.65 seconds and +0.1 seconds more for each maleficent charges Kaaga has when it was used, in which they are still slowed and revealed. Kaaga remains disarmed and invulnerable during the attacks. Instant attacks are used. If the target is at a state where they cannot be attacked after the constricting, Kaaga will detach and the spell stops. Leaving her with unspent charges. Invisibility cannot save the victims since this ability provides true sight. There is no way to separate her from her target unless the target teleports 2000 units in 0.03 sec, or if Kaaga used Umbral Slide, or Cancel Blood Finale. Maleficent Blade can still proc critical hits but CANNOT give Maleficent charges during Blood Finale. Will still consume maleficent charges regardless of whether Maleficent Blade is toggled on or off.

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Talents Level 25 Level 20 Level 15 Level 10 : : : : 5% Enemy Max Health as Attack Damage Blood Finale mute +1 Maleficent Max Charges +15 Movement speed || OR || || OR || || OR || || OR || +160% Shadow Parry crit Blood Finale silence Remove Shadow Parry range limit +35 Damage to non-heroes Notes : 5% Enemy Max health as Attack Damage ▼ Damage is added as bonus attack damage. It can crit, lifesteal, and cleave. Does not give bonus damage against wards and buildings.

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER Upgrades Maleficent Bade. Every crit of this ability applies a 0.3s mini-stun.

AGHANIM'S SHARD Upgrades Maleficent Bade. Every crit of this ability applies a 4s vision/true sight debuff on enemies.

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CHANGELOGS:

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ARCHIVE :

This hero idea is really cool. Shadow Parry, once I understood it, would probably be one of my favorite spells in the game. However, I still have a few gripes with her.

First of all, using Maleficent Blade charges is really underwhelming except when Death is toggled. I would either
-significantly increase the cooldown of her other spells (Umbral Slide and Shadow Parry have 20 sec cooldown at all levels) and make using a charge makes the spell have 4/3/2/1 cooldown based on the level of Maleficent Blade.
-Make Umbral Slide be a 11/9/7/5 cooldown blink and the invisibility and speed are only granted by using a charge, and give Shadow Parry critical damage only when a charge is used.

Secondly, the name Death, as you know, is stupid.
Name it Twin Blades. Why has she not been using her other sw- SHUT UP, LOGIC!
Also, it shouldn't be unable to gain charges. At most, it still only has a 50% chance of gaining one and that allows 6 max attacks to become 9. Especially as a charge is so hard to get, this could help the spell overall to pull its weight as an ultimate. Perhaps increasing the crit chance as well would also help.

Next, I would ramp up the mana costs of her abilities, if the next suggestion is not taken. Right now casting all spells the maximum amount would cost 18 mana per second; it is literally impossible for her to have to think about mana woes or run out unless she is level 1 and spams more than a PA who just discovered dagger.
It would also make using the charge on Shadow Parry more useful if it cost, say, 100 mana.

My fourth and final suggestion is more significant and changes the hero a decent amount, but hear me out. (This is not a problem, like (in my opinion) the others might be. It is just a possibility that I dreamed up).
Right now, her entire skillset is based around damage and movement. Maleficent blade gives damage from crits and movement from reduced cd/mana spells. Umbral Slide gives ridiculous movement benefits. Shadow Parry deals a ton of damage and moves her to fight an enemy she can probably kill. And Death... kills things.
However, I feel that the spirit of the hero could be preserved while
-Giving her more weaknesses where she has almost none
-Giving her a new ability in the place of Umbral Slide, while
-Making Death feel cooler, by giving it parts of Umbral Slide

Heres the idea.
-Shadow Parry blinks strikes to them as normal, and after 1 second, is teleported back to her original position. Gives 4 seconds of lingering vision on the target.
-Death performs a blink strike from a random direction against any unit in previously attacked in the last 3 seconds, as well as giving increased BAT. It also gives .1 seconds of complete undetectability. This happens on every attack.
-Death becomes an orb attack. Its just easier that way to use it only once (to pursue a shadow-parried unit, for example.)
-Umbral Slide is exchanged for a unique ability. Here's one suggestion, but there's no reason it should be this. I can't think of anything I really like.

I don't really think this is the right ability to put in, but it should be something that inflicts a debuff or debuffs without doing any direct damage, and without positioning.
In fact, to better combo with Shadow Parry and Death, it should require positioning from afar, so I really don't believe in it. I can't think of anything better though as I have to go :(

Yes, the charge bonuses are intentionally weak. I designed them to be more 'situational' rather than 'necessary' because as you've said, charges are hard to get by and I don't want you to waste it on those spells. It encourages people to actually save it for her ultimate.

In other words, her playstyle does not revolve on 'Maleficent Blade', only 'Death Stance' needs those charges. The bonuses of her normal spells are just 'cherries on top' in the case that she won't be needing to use her ultimate.

You say that weaknesses she had none. One of her biggest weakness is her complete lack of crowd control. She can chase, yes, but at the cost of being out of position. She is also very vulnerable to crowd controls herself. Most especially disarms and silences, if not stuns. That's why she must itemize according to her weaknesses. She also cannot farm very well, with zero ways to clear creep waves. Like all carries, she's very weak early game being vulnerable to lane harass.

I think her skillset's fine as it is. Many thanks for the feedback! It's a lot better than no feedback. :)