Legends of the Ancients: Riven, the Exile (Implemented)

Hero Descriptions (open image in new tab for better resolution)

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How to test and play

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• Download it here as a zip.
• Put the folder to "<dota2folder>/game/dota_addons/", so that the "<dota2folder>/game/dota_addons/dota-2-lua-abilities/addoninfo.txt" is a correct path.
• Write "dota_launch_custom_game dota-2-lua-abilites hero_demo_main" on console (without quotes)
• Pick Juggernaut (the overriden hero)
• To spawn enemies, enable cheat (enter "sv_cheats 1" on console) then enter "-createhero <heroname> <enemy/ally>". (e.g. "-createhero lina enemy")

Further Information

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Ki Burst

• There's no cast time, and does not cancel any channel (like Juggernaut's Blade Fury).
• During delay, Riven is free to act; only this ability is disabled. Riven is also invulnerable, allowing her to dodge attacks and projectiles.
• After delay, Riven instant-attacks all enemies in radius (including spell immune enemies), with added base damage that can crit. The attack behaves like normal attacks (uses modifiers).
• Riven also stuns enemies after delay, but does not pierce immunity.
• Cooldown starts right after cast, not after the delay.

Broken Wings

• If Riven currently targets (aggroing on) nothing, she dashes forward (like Sand King's Burrowstrike, but no stun). Does not dodge projectiles.
• If Riven currently aggroing someone, she dashed towards the target (even if the target is behind her).
• Riven always dashes at full range. If she dashes towards her target, she may go past them (not necessarily stop in front of target).
• After the first cast, there's a buff that allows Riven to cast it again, which expires after 2 seconds. When the buff is on, Broken Wings is off cooldown.
• At the third cast, no buff is granted, and Broken Wings goes into cooldown.
• Each cast uses its own mana, so a total of 75 mana for 3 casts.
• If Broken Wings is refeshed during the recast time, it still goes into cooldown after third cast (it's not refreshed)
• Riven instant-attacks (uses modifiers) all enemies in-between, with 100 width. Riven also deals magical damage in separate instance. (If caught enemy uses Ghost Scepter, they still get damaged by the magical damage.)

Runic Blade

• The Crit bonus is a guaranteed Critical Strike each hit (like Bloodthorn).
• Every cast from each Broken Wings counts; meaning triple cast gives 3 stacks.
• Increase the stack before the ability is executed. This means that all instant attacks from Broken Wings and Ki Burst have critical strikes.
• Each stack has its own duration, and does not refresh each other. The bonus value fully stack with each other.
• Break prevents gaining new stacks. Current stack still gives critical strike bonus.

Blade of the Exile

• Has 1 second cast time.
• This ability grants 100% cooldown reduction to basic abilities for the duration.
• If stolen by Rubick, it also refreshes any stolen basic abilities, but not ultimates.

Playstyle

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Her playstyle is simple enough: Get enough mana, and start wreck enemies. her skill 1 is a nice simple stun and area damage. It is similar to Slardar's stun, with attacks instead of just damage.

Skill 2 can be used to escape or damage enemies. If rapidly used thrice when targeting an enemy, it almost behaves like Juggernaut's Omnislash, just without invulnerability.

Skill 3 is the main reason skill 1 and 2 are deadly. Cast broken wings thrice, each slash has its own crit, and you get 3 stacks. Standard combo would be 3 Broken Wings then Ki Burst, to amplify the base bonus damage from Ki Burst the most.

When her ult is active, Broken Wings can truly behaves like Omnislash, but you have to spam it. With more casts, more crits added, and each consequent casts will be more dangerous.

Lifesteal and huge damage is important for her survivability, while attack speed may help a little after the combo finished. Battle Fury will be a very strong item.

Comments

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I know. I am so uncreative. This Riven is the Riven from League of Legends, altered to match Dota 2 universe (which is harsher, in my opinion). Most of her abilities were inspired by her LoL counterpart, but not necessarily taken straight away, so at least I still have some originality in that.

I admit, I took her backstory straight out from LoL, with some modifications to obscure her original place. I am not good at creating stories...

FAQ

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Why her ulti is so short?

The thing is, you can spam Broken Wings a bit more than the duration, because of the three-cast. Besides, Free Spell is a hax.

Why is she an intelligence hero?

Initially she is an agility hero, but I realized that she is too cast-oriented. As agility hero, she lack enough mana to even cast combos after using her ult. Attack speed is not that important for her too, as what she needed is attack damage.

Broken Wings is her signature move. Why on W instead of Q, like in the original?

It was, until I realized it is more tiresome to spam Q than W in keyboard. So I changed it.

Credits & Disclaimer

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I only own the ability concepts for the dota 2 version and source code for the said abilities within my GitHub repository.
The hero concept, portrait, ability icons, and backstory belong to Riot Games, which I believe is used under "Fair Use" policy.
The hero descriptions is my edited version to the original website.
All other objects (Dota 2, images, etc) is a copyright of their respective owners.

You may read, copy, modify and redistribute the abilities' source code without permission provided that you cite the original author's name.

Source Website: www.dota2.com
Riven at League of Legends: na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/Riven