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Minerva by KidIcarus

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Minerva

By: KidIcarus
Last Updated: Jul 25, 2018
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Minerva

Terror of Athens

STR : 27 + 3.3
AGI : 18 + 1.9
INT : 23 + 2.4

ATTACK DAMAGE : 19 - 25
ARMOR : 0
MOVESPEED : 290
TURNRATE : 0.8
HEALTH REGEN : 2
VISION : 1800/1800
ATTACK RANGE : 400
PROJECTILE SPEED : 900
ATTACK ANIMATION : 0.35+0.633
ATTACK TIME : 1.7
ATTACK ANIMATION(MELEE) : 0.39+0.44
ATTACK TIME(MELEE) : 1.85

Primary Abilities

Q
Violent winds
*Using her massive wings Minerva is able to control wind currents pushing or pulling enemies depending on her form.*
When Minerva is in range form she will push nearby enemies away from her and when in melee form she will pull far away enemies closer. Enemies are pushed to a certain distance away from Minerva rather than a set distance from their original position
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
RADIUS MIN
RADIUS MAX
RADIUS MIN(MELEE)
RADIUS MAX(MELEE)
PIERCES IMMUNITY?		 : *No target*
: *Magical*
: *0*
: *400*
: *400*
: *700*
: *NO*
Bonus Damage
MANA
COOLDOWN		 : *60/120/180/240*
: *80/90/100/110*
: *21/17/13/9*
*flavor text*
W
Viscous feathers
*Every time Minerva attacks an enemy they gain a stack of "viscous feathers" hindering their movements and exposing their weak points causing them to take bonus damage when attacked. Stacks up to (3) times.*
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
DURATION
PIERCES IMMUNITY?		 : *Passive*
: *20 seconds*
: *Pure*
: *NO*
Bonus Damage/Slow
MANA
COOLDOWN		 : *3/6/9/12*
: *N/A*
: *N/A*
*flavor text*
E
Vehement Stalk
*Minerva dashes forward slashing anything in her way with her talons dealing damage based on her attack and applying a stack of "viscous feathers".*
Does not work with any attack modifiers such as Crits or lifesteal.
Destroys trees and goes over cliffs.
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
RANGE
CHARGES
PIERCES IMMUNITY?		 : *Target point*
: *Physical*
: *300*
: *1/1/2/2*
: *YES*
Bonus Damage
MANA
COOLDOWN		 : *30 + 40%/80%/80%/120%*
: *60*
: *10*
*flavor text*

Ultimate Abilities

R
Primal instincts
*Minerva turns into a vicious beast losing her attack range and changing her primary attribute to strength.
While in beast-form Minerva gains bonus strength for each nearby enemy hero.*
ABILITY
RADIUS
DURATION
PIERCES IMMUNITY?		 : *No target*
: *400*
: *8 Seconds*
: *YES*
Bonus Strength
MANA
COOLDOWN		 : *10/20/30*
: *100/150/200*
: *120/110/100*
*flavor text*
F
Aghanim Upgrade
*Minerva gathers her thoughts and fights her primal instincts gaining clarity and converts all her attacks into pure energy.
Nearby enemies disturbs Minerva's focus causing her to lose some clarity.*
Shares cooldown with "Primal instinct"
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
RADIUS
DURATION
PIERCES IMMUNITY?		 : *No target*
: *Pure*
: *400*
: *8 Seconds*
: *NO*
Bonus Intelligence
MANA
COOLDOWN		 : *5/10/15*
: *200/300/400*
: *120/110/100*
*flavor text*

Hero Talents

-60 Cooldown on "Primal Instinct"
25
+ 3 stacks on "Viscous feathers"

+ 40 Movementspeed
20
+ 1 "Vehement stalk" charge

+ 4 Second duration on "Primal instinct"
15
+ 30 Intelligence

+ 25 attackspeed
10
+ 6 HP regen

Lore:

The once prosperous city of Athens had decided to adopt an owlet found outside their city walls.
The owlet was loved by the people and given the name Minerva as well as a tower on top of the library where the owlet could hone her intellect. As the years passed Minerva had became a renowned scholar but unbeknownst to the world Minerva's memory had been failing her. It started with seconds but quickly grew to hours and days until eventually Minerva woke up to her city in ruins, all that was left was the tower above the library. In shock of the event, Minerva secluded herself in her tower vowing to restore her memory and find out what happened in her city.

Playstyles:

Standard
I imagine the standard build for this hero would be played as a farm heavy core focusing on farming with "Violent winds" and only taking fights when her ulti is off cooldown. Using either items like S&Y to stick to heroes or radiance to deal massive damage while being difficult to kill because of her ulti.

Aghanim
I don't think this would be a common item to purchase because it can't be used with her regular ulti, but I think this could work as a risky glass canon build or as a late game pickup because of how well it scales with other items.

Utility
I tried to limit the effectiveness "Violent winds" as a control spell because I was uncertain of how strong it would be to have a tanky support being able to vacuum enemies from an AoE of 700 but with the need to have ulti up for the spell to work I think the hero could work as a balance between team fighter and lane dominater applying "Viscous feathers" on enemies for harass.

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