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Vallerie by Rakkis157

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Vallerie

By: Rakkis157
Last Updated: Aug 17, 2018
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Vallerie

The Voiceless

Vallerie is a tanky, mobile anti-caster carry that specializes in disrupting attacks or spells. Swiftest Sword is her bread and butter ability, letting her get close enough to make use of her other abilities. Graceful Grazing is her main carrying ability, allowing you to conditionally do massive amounts of damage. Painful Promise helps her farm while Dynamic Discipline protects her from enemy casters and fuels her mana hungry abilities.

Vallerie however lacks lockdown, and is quite vulnerable to enemies that can quickly drain mana due to her abilities needing quite a bit of mana to function, and enemies that can spawn illusions due to there being more ways for your enemies to disable your abilities.

This hero is the result of a personal challenge of creating an all-passive hero without said hero ending up as a simple rightclicker or having too passive a playstyle. I made this hero by first dissecting the differences between an active and a passive, and the biggest difference is that actives usually leaves a hero with more choices to make than a passive, primarily in terms of when you choose to use an ability and who you use them on.

As such, every single ability is designed to give the player as much control over their decisions as possible. Swiftest Sword presents you a choice on who to go for, while keeping you active during a fight by requiring you to constantly reposition. Graceful Grazing too requires you to constantly reposition, and rewards you for timing your attacks to when you can benefit most from them. Dynamic Discipline makes moving and not moving into choices. Promised Pain further stresses on the timing of your attacks.

STR: 21 + 2.3
AGI: 24 + 1.0
INT: 18 + 3.0

Health: 524 + 1.10
Mana: 345 + 1.41
Damage: 50-54 (32-36 base)
Range: 150 (melee)
Movespeed: 319 (315 base)
Armor: 6.34 (2.5 base)
Magic resistance: 26.08% (25% base)
Turn rate: 1
Vision range: 2200/1200
BAT: 1.0

Primary Abilities

Q
Swiftest Sword
While not directly facing a visible enemy hero, Vallerie's movement speed is set to 600/800/1000/1200 and she silences all enemies around her. This ability is disabled unless there is a visible enemy hero in front of her within 1300/1600/1900/2200 range.
ABILITY
PIERCES IMMUNITY?
: passive
: No
Silence Radius
Evasion
Linger Duration
: 200/250/300/350 units
: 0% (40% with talent)
: 0.5 seconds
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Notes
W
Graceful Grazing
While within 300 range of an enemy hero, Vallerie consumes mana based on her Intelligence from both herself as well as any enemy hero within range. Each of Vallerie's attacks will release all mana consumed within the past 5/6/7/8 seconds in a line, dealing damage to all enemies hit based on the consumed mana and disarming enemy heroes that take more than 6x their Intelligence as damage.
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
PIERCES IMMUNITY?

MANA
COOLDOWN
: Passive
: Magical
: No
: 10 + 1x Vallerie's Intelligence
: 5 (4 with talent)
Damage per Mana
Mana Drain Radius
Length of Unleashed Mana
Radius of Unleashed Mana
Disarm Duration
: 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0
: 300/350/400/450
: 400/600/800/1000
: 100
: 1/2/3/4
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Notes
E
Dynamic Discipline
Whenever Vallerie is hit by a targeted ability while not moving or attacking, she instead blocks that ability. The first enemy within range you right click on within 2 seconds of this ability activating will cause Vallerie to reflect the blocked ability at that enemy. Also restores Vallerie's mana as she moves.
ABILITY
PIERCES IMMUNITY?

MANA
COOLDOWN
: Passive
: No (Yes)
: 80/100/120/140
: 25/20/15/10
Cast Range
Mana Restored
Health Restored
Cast Animation
: 350/500/650/800 (800/950/1100/1250)
: 0.25%/1.5%/2.75%/4%
: 0% (0.25%/1.5%/2.75%/4%)
: 0.1/0.3
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Ultimate Abilities

R
Promised Pain
Whenever Vallerie attacks an unmarked enemy, she marks the target for 4 seconds, slowing its turn rate by 30/40/50%. Immediately after the mark expires, Vallerie dispels herself and teleports behind the marked enemy, dealing damage to all enemies within 300 range.
ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
PIERCES IMMUNITY?

MANA
: Passive
: Magical
: Partial
: 90/105/120
Damage
Duration
: 150/250/350 (300/400/500)
: 4
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Hero Talents

Dynamic Discipline also restores health
25
120 Intelligence

450 Cast Range
20
Swiftest Sword +1.5 seconds silence linger duration

20% Cooldown Reduction
15
100 Graceful Grazing activation and mana drain radius

40% evasion while Swiftest Sword is active
10
150 Promised Pain damage

Ability Synergies and Combos

WIP

Picking and Laning

WIP

Item Builds

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Design Decisions

WIP

Changelog

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Credits

Special thanks to Pizzacheetah [Tom] from the CHIP discord for the inspiration that birthed this hero.
Thanks to summer-penguin over at PlayDota for allowing me use of his icon compilation.
Artwork by Achikoako on Pixiv.

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