History Characters / Dota2RadiantStrength

* InASingleBound: Life Break starts with a fairly magnificent leap that can cover some fairly impressive ground. If fully upgraded, he can even do this once every ''four seconds''.

* WeaksauceWeakness: For all of Huskar's spell resistance, enemies who have high base damage will likely eviscerate him before he can do too much damage, as he needs to be at fairly low health to be effective. Additionally, ''Doom'' will completely nullify his magic resistance, meaning that getting hit by ''Doom'' at low health will mean swift death.

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Brewmaster is a melee tanky hero that can both deal and take a lot of punishment, making him able to both carry and tank. He is an exceptionally good duelist, as his core set of abilities allow him to empower himself and debilitate opponents. On the other hand, his powerful ultimate, while somewhat hard to manage properly, makes him a huge threat during teamfights. His first ability, ''Thunder Clap'', is a ground slam that damages all nearby opponents, also slowing their movement and attack speed. His second ability, ''Drunken Haze'', hurls a casket at target enemy hero, drenching them in alcohol, which slows their movement speed and gives them a chance to miss their attacks. His third ability, ''Drunken Brawler'', is a passive skill that gives Brewmaster a chance to dodge enemy attacks, as well as critically strike with his basic attacks for bonus damage. Brewmaster's ultimate, ''Primal Split'', splits him into three elemental warriors: Earth, Storm and Fire, each with a set of abilities. Earth is melee tank who is immune to enemy spells, has a chance to deal area-of-effect damage around himself with his basic attacks and can hurl a boulder to damage and stun an enemy hero. Storm is a ranged mage that can dispell all buffs and debuffs in a nearby area, trap an opponent inside a cyclone and give himself invisibility and bonus movement speed. Fire is a melee high damage warrior that constantly deals magic damage to nearby opponents through its fiery aura. If any of the three warriors is alive at the end of the ability, Brewmaster is revived. Brewmaster's ultimate ability can be upgraded by the item Aghanim's Scepter, which increases the duration, reduces the cooldown of the ability and allows all three warriors to benefit from Brewmaster's third ability.

* LiteralSplitPersonality[=/=]SelfDuplication: His ultimate, ''Primal Split'', splits him into three elemental warriors.

** '''Ogre''': [[http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/9/9a/Alch_ability_concoc_25.mp3 "Didn't you hear me telling you to throw it?!"]]

* TheJuggernaut: With ''Chemical Rage'' activated, Alchemist can regenerate health faster than any other hero without a Heart of Tarrasque, and gains a huge amount of bonus HP. As such, he can shrug off all but the most damaging nukes in a few seconds, and walk right over any squishy supports that get in his way.

* OurOgresAreHungrier: The ogre mount seems to be quite different than the ogre mooks found in game.

* UnstoppableRage: When under the effects of Chemical Rage, the ogre runs faster, regenerates health faster, receives bonus health, and attacks faster.

** AlwaysChaoticEvil: Somewhat downplayed, but his people are implied to have a preference for violence.

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* ArchEnemy: He and Leviathan hate each others guts.

* CriticalHitClass: A common strategy for Kunkka is to build the damage-dealing items Shadow Blade and Daedalus to use with Tidebringer; the bonus damage provided by uncloaking with Shadow Blade, combined with a lucky critical hit from Daedalus, can potentially annihilate an entire team in one go.

* DifficultButAwesome: His spells have enormous burst possibility (rivaling some dedicated nukers!) and can stun and catch out enemies. However, they're some of the most difficult spells to land in the game.

''"Rattletrap descends from the same far-flung kindred as Sniper and Tinker, and like many of the Keen Folk, has offset his diminutive stature through the application of gadgetry and wit. The son of the son of a clockmaker, Rattletrap was many years apprenticed to that trade before war rode down from the mountains and swept the plains villages free of such innocent vocations. “Your new trade is battle,” his dying father told him as the village of their ancestors lay in charred and smoking ruins. It is a poor tradesman who blames his tools, and Rattletrap was never one to make excuses. After burying his father among the ruins of their village, he set about to transform himself into the greatest tool of warfare that any world had ever seen. He vowed to never again be caught unprepared, instead using his talents to assemble a suit of powered Clockwerk armor to make the knights of other lands look like tin cans by comparison. Now Rattletrap is alive with devices—a small but deadly warrior whose skills at ambush and destruction have risen to near-automated levels of efficiency. An artisan of death, his mechanizations make short work of the unwary, heralding a new dawn in this age of warfare. What time is it? It's Clockwerk time!"''

* CastFromHitpoints: Huskar spends hitpoints to use Burning Spears, and his ultimate, Life Break, costs a ton of his health.

* WeaksauceWeakness: For all of Huskar's spell resistance, enemies who have high base damage will likely eviscerate him before he can do too much damage, as he needs to be at fairly low health to be effective.

* DifficultButAwesome: As an extremely item-dependant hero with abysmal stat growth, players need to make every last-hit count and largely avoid combat for a good portion of the game while building core items. But by the end of the game, a well-played Alchemist can become a nigh-unkillable juggernaut.

* TookALevelInBadass: A small one, but before the 6.77c patch Rooftrellen was pretty much never picked in competitive games due to his rather underwhelming abilities. Then the 6.77c patch changed ''Living Armor'' to make it reduce damage from ALL instances of damage (Previously, ''Living Armor'' only blocked physical damage). With the global range on the ability, this little change made it nigh-impossible to successfully gank Rooftrellen's allies in the early game, and made him a much more common pick in competitive games just for Living Armor alone.

Wisp is an unique ranged hero that is commonly played as a hardcore support thanks to its many ways to help allies. Even though Wisp lacks any sort of killing power by itself, with only one directly offensive ability, the capability to protect, support, empower and provide kills for its allies makes Wisp a very powerful pick in expert hands. While pretty hard to play due to his completely ally-dependant kit, a well played Wisp can prove to be a gamechanging presence on the battlefield. Wisp's first ability, ''Tether'', is arguably its more important, and it links Wisp to a nearby ally, forming an energy tether between the two that will break if they move too far apart (although it can be casted from a range twice as long as the breaking range, which will make Wisp quickly dash to its target and can be used for quick getaways). While linked, both Wisp and the ally enjoy bonus movement speed, and the ally will regen any amount of health and mana that Wisp gains. Additionally, any enemy unit that passes through the tether is stunned. Wisp's second ability, ''Spirits'', generates five energy spirits that circle around Wisp, and can be pulled in or out to circle closer or farther away from Wisp. When a spirit makes contact with an enemy hero it will explode, damaging all nearby enemies. Spirits that make contact with enemy non-hero units will damage them for a smaller amount, but will not explode. Wisp's third skill, ''Overcharge'', increases Wisp's attack speed and gives him a damage reduction from all sources at the cost of mana and health each second and, more importantly, is shared with the ally affected by Wisp's first skill. Finally, Wisp's ultimate, ''Relocate'', teleports itself and any linked ally to any position on the map for twelve seconds after a short cast time, which allows Wisp to be a global pressence on the map.

* SquishyWizard: Despite being a Strength hero, Wisp has pathetically low base stats and stat growth in all three areas; of all Strength heroes in the game, it has the lowest base Strength (tied with Phoenix, who is still only in Dota 1) and second-lowest Strength growth, beat out only by Alchemist. On top of all that, it's the only Hero in the game that starts with '''negative''' base armor. Needless to say, Wisp is very easy to kill if ever caught alone.

* TheRival / BashBrothers: With Ymir the Tusk.

* EarthquakesCauseFissures: His ''Earth Splitter'' ultimate creates a fissure about twice the screen size!

* LimitBreak[=/=]LightningBruiser: ''Astral Spirit'' gives Elder Titan bonus damage and movement speed for each enemy it passes through. In the case of enemy heroes, it gives him +5% movement speed and +40 damage per hero, so catching four heroes with the projection (to say nothing of any creeps that happen to be standing around) will give him +20% movement speed and +160 attack damage, which, combined with his ''Natural Order'' aura, means that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7V7GETcwY he'll be hitting almost as hard as if he were carrying a Divine Rapier]].

* RaceLift: He was a [[{{ALoadOfBull}} Tauren]] in the first ''[=DoTA=]'', though for the sequel he was changed to an original design for copyright reasons.

* ShockwaveStomp: ''Echo Stomp''

* TribalFacepaint

* ItemCaddy: Perhaps more than any other hero [[hottip:*:possibly barring Medusa]], Alchemist relies on a six-slotted inventory of powerful items to get kills. This is made easier by his passive, which makes farming much faster and easier, so a good Alchemist will probably assemble most his arsenal by the thirty-minute mark.

* DifficultButAwesome: Despite its global range, ''Rocket Flare'' travels fairly slowly, meaning that it can be difficult to hit targets that aren't standing still if you're shooting your flare anywhere that isn't on the same screen as Clockwerk. ''Hookshot'' also has a very limited radius of effect, making it hard to latch onto enemy heroes that are actively trying to juke you. But once you master these skills, Clockwerk becomes much deadlier. Flares can push creep lanes from the other side of the map and snipe fleeing enemy heroes in the dark (or simply for denying an enemy's Healing Salve or Clarity during laning), while Hookshot can travel across more than a screen to latch enemy heroes who think they're safe, use ''Power Cogs'' to lock them in, and activate ''Battery Assault'' to deal damage over time.

* BarrierWarrior: His second skill, ''Repel'', gives magic immunity to the target, making them invulnerable to most spells. At high levels, he can basically spam it continuously and only give the enemy a two-second window to cast spells on the target if they don't have any purge abilities. Even late-game where everyone on both teams may be carrying Black King Bars, the spammability of the spell means that you can use it in any situation rather than hold it in reserve for just the right teamfight.

* StoneWall: Omniknight is notorious as one of the hardest heroes in the game to kill due to his skills, and for his ability to make his teammates equally hard to kill. Unfortunately, his low Agility gain means that he has trouble dishing out damage on the scale that a semi-carry can.

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!!Razzil Darkbrew, the Alchemist

''"The sacred science of Chymistry was a Darkbrew family tradition, but no Darkbrew had ever shown the kind of creativity, ambition, and recklessness of young Razzil. However, when adulthood came calling he pushed aside the family trade to try his hand at manufacturing gold though Alchemy. In an act of audacity befitting his reputation, Razzil announced he would transmute an entire mountain into gold. Following two decades of research and spending and preparation, he failed spectacularly, quickly finding himself imprisoned for the widespread destruction his experiment wrought. Yet Razzil was never one to take a setback lightly, and sought escape to continue his research. When his new cellmate turned out to be a fierce ogre, he found just the opportunity he needed. After convincing the ogre not to eat him, Razzil set about carefully concocting a tincture for it to drink, made from the moulds and mosses growing in the prison stone work. In a week’s time, it seemed ready. When the ogre drank the potion, it flew into an unstoppable berserker rage, destroying the cell bars and exploding through walls and guards alike. They soon found themselves lost somewhere in the forest surrounding the city with a trail of wreckage in their wake and no signs of pursuit. In the tonic’s afterglow, the ogre seemed serene, happy, and even eager. Resolving to work together, the pair set off to collect the materials needed to attempt Razzil’s Alchemic transmutation once more.''

Alchemist is a quirky melee hero whose variety of alchemical spells grants him a versatile skillset, and is usually played as a carry. His main strengths include his unparalleled ability to farm gold from enemy creeps, as well as his incredibly powerful steroid ultimate. While he is quite weak during the early stages of the game, he'll eventually become a powerful and hard to kill damage dealer if he's allowed to farm freely. His first ability, ''Acid Spray'', coats a large nearby area in acid, continuously damaging and reducing the armor of enemies in the area. His second (and quirkiest) ability, ''Unstable Concoction'', allows him to start brewing an unstable potion that he can then hurl at a nearby enemy hero to damage and stun them. The longer he brews the potion, the stronger the damage and stun will be, but if he brews it for too long the potion will eventually explode, damaging and stunning the Alchemist himself. His third, and arguably more important ability is a passive skill called ''Greevil's Greed'' that increases the gold the Alchemist obtains for killing enemy creeps, the bonus gold stacking if he keeps killing creeps in the next few seconds, up to a cap. His final and ultimate ability, ''Chemical Rage'', drives his ogre into an alchemical fury, and is one of the strongest steroids in the game, giving the Alchemist a large bonus to his health, health and mana regeneration, movement speed and attack speed for a long duration.

* AcidPool: Acid Spray can create one in an area.
* AlchemyIsMagic: Razzil's alchemy is apparently able to turn living organisms into gold.
* BadassBeard: Razzil himself.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Razzil and the ogre refer to themselves as the brains and the brawn, respectively.
* DeadlyGas: His Acid Spray ability creates a large cloud that shreds the armor and health of enemies.
* DifficultButAwesome: As an extremely item-dependant hero with abysmal stat growth, players need to make every last-hit count and largely avoid combat for a good portion of the game while building core items. But by the end of the game, a well-played Alchemist can become a nigh-unkillable juggernaut.
* FatAndSkinny: The ogre and Razzil, respectively.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: The ogre's primary means of attack.
* HumanResources:
--> '''Alchemist (killing Pudge):''' [[http://hydra-images.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/e/ec/Alch_rival_02.mp3 "You don't think Pudge will mind if we salvage him for fluids, do you?"]]
--> '''Alchemist (killing Puck):''' [[http://hydra-images.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/e/e6/Alch_rival_05.mp3 "All right! Fairy dragon blood is hard to come by!"]]
--> '''Alchemist (killing Skeleton King):''' [[http://hydra-images.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/f/f9/Alch_rival_08.mp3 "One Skeleton King provides a day's requirement of calcium."]]
* ItemCaddy: Perhaps more than any other hero [[hottip:*:possibly barring Medusa]], Alchemist relies on a six-slotted inventory of powerful items to get kills. This is made easier by his passive, which makes farming much faster and easier, so a good Alchemist will probably assemble most his arsenal by the thirty-minute mark.
* TheJuggernaut: With ''Chemical Rage'' activated, Alchemist can regenerate health faster than any other hero without a Heart of Tarrasque, and gains a huge amount of bonus HP. As such, he can shrug off all but the most damaging nukes in a few seconds, and walk right over any squishy supports that get in his way.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Alchemist has the lowest total stat growth out of all heroes, with even many non-Strength heroes having better Strength growth than him. Yet if a competent Alchemist maxes Greevil's Greed early and is given free-farm, he can easily farm multiple late-game items before the carry on the opposite side has even purchased their first core item. It is not unusual for good Alchemist players to be six-slotted with plenty of gold for buybacks before the 30-minute mark in a match.
* LightningBruiser
* MagikarpPower: Perhaps more than any other hero in the game, Alchemist depends on buying expensive items (such as Assault Cuirass and Mjollnir) for success. As such, Alchemist is relatively helpless for most of the laning and pushing stages, but by the final push a well-farmed Alchemist can become a beefy killing machine, capable of soloing teams with greatly buffed auto-attacks.
* MoneyMultiplier: ''Greevil's Greed'' grants bonus gold for every unit killed in a specific time.
* MountedCombat: Razzil rides on the back of an ogre. Whilst Razzil does the pointing, the ogre does the punching.
* OurOgresAreHungrier: The ogre mount seems to be quite different than the ogre mooks found in game.
* PhantasySpelling: Chymistry
* PurpleIsPowerful: [[UnstoppableRage Chemical Rage]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: A minor example with Unstable Concoction. If it's not thrown within 7 seconds, it will stun and damage the Alchemist.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The portrait for his ultimate, [[UnstoppableRage Chemical Rage]]
* SuperMode: [[UnstoppableRage Chemical Rage]]
* SuperPowerMeltdown: The Unstable Concoction. Razzil throws a potion at an enemy that stuns them depending on how long he shakes it up. However, if he holds on to it too long, it will explode and stun himself.
* SuperSerum: How the ogre enters its Chemical Rage form.
* TookALevelInBadass: Before the 6.75 patch Alchemist had the lowest win rate in the game and was regarded as a joke character. The 6.75 patch, however, buffed all of his abilities to the point where he is viable and can be a pretty big threat, and in The International 2013 he became a high tier pick.
* ThereWasADoor: The ogre simply crashes through the walls of the prison that he and Razzil was stuck in.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: ''Unstable Concoction'' has Alchemist hurl a beaker of explosive chemicals at the target.
* UnstoppableRage: When under the effects of Chemical Rage, the ogre runs faster, regenerates health faster, receives bonus health, and attacks faster.

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!!Mangix, the Brewmaster

''"Deep in the Wailing Mountains, in a valley beneath the Ruined City, the ancient Order of the Oyo has for centuries practiced its rights of holy reverie, communing with the spirit realm in grand festivals of drink. Born to a mother’s flesh by a Celestial father, the youth known as Mangix was the first to grow up with the talents of both lineages. He trained with the greatest aesthetes of the Order, eventually earning, through diligent drunkenness, the right to challenge for the title of Brewmaster—that appellation most honored among the contemplative malt-brewing sect. As much drinking competition as mortal combat, Mangix for nine days drank and fought the elder master. For nine nights they stumbled and whirled, chugged and struck, until at last the elder warrior collapsed into a drunken stupor, and a new Brewmaster was named. Now the new, young Brewmaster calls upon the strength of his Oyo forebears to speed his staff. When using magic, it is to his spirit ancestors that he turns. Like all Brewmasters before him, he was sent out from his people with a single mission. He wanders the land, striving toward enlightenment through drink, searching for the answer to the ancient spiritual schism—hoping to think the single thought that will unite the spirit and physical planes again."''

Brewmaster is a melee tanky hero that can both deal and take a lot of punishment, making him able to both carry and tank. He is an exceptionally good duelist, as his core set of abilities allow him to empower himself and debilitate opponents. On the other hand, his powerful ultimate, while somewhat hard to manage properly, makes him a huge threat during teamfights. His first ability, ''Thunder Clap'', is a ground slam that damages all nearby opponents, also slowing their movement and attack speed. His second ability, ''Drunken Haze'', hurls a casket at target enemy hero, drenching them in alcohol, which slows their movement speed and gives them a chance to miss their attacks. His third ability, ''Drunken Brawler'', is a passive skill that gives Brewmaster a chance to dodge enemy attacks, as well as critically strike with his basic attacks for bonus damage. Brewmaster's ultimate, ''Primal Split'', splits him into three elemental warriors: Earth, Storm and Fire, each with a set of abilities. Earth is melee tank who is immune to enemy spells, has a chance to deal area-of-effect damage around himself with his basic attacks and can hurl a boulder to damage and stun an enemy hero. Storm is a ranged mage that can dispell all buffs and debuffs in a nearby area, trap an opponent inside a cyclone and give himself invisibility and bonus movement speed. Fire is a melee high damage warrior that constantly deals magic damage to nearby opponents through its fiery aura. If any of the three warriors is alive at the end of the ability, Brewmaster is revived. Brewmaster's ultimate ability can be upgraded by the item Aghanim's Scepter, which increases the duration, reduces the cooldown of the ability and allows all three warriors to benefit from Brewmaster's third ability.

* AlcoholHic
* BigFun
* BoisterousBruiser
* BoozeBasedBuff: Played straight with the Brewmaster's ''Drunken Brawler'' ability, which gives him a chance to evade attacks and deal critical damage. Inverted with his ''Drunken Haze'' ability, which causes a negative buff on enemies.
* CriticalHitClass: His ''Drunken Brawler'' ability gives him a chance to regularly deal critical (200%) damage.
* ContinuityNod: Although the Storm Spirit is now a human, Brewmaster still labels him as his cousin, likely due to his celestial heritage. In the original Dota, both Brewmaster and Storm Spirit were pandarens.
** While he is a red panda now, his "ancestral spirits" have a giant panda pattern like the original's elemental pandaren.
* DrunkenMaster
* ElementalPowers: After his ultimate (see LiteralSplitPersonality below).
** BlowYouAway
** DishingOutDirt
** PlayingWithFire
* EpicFlail: An odd combination of what can be called [[FightingWithChucks nunchaku]], but with a [[SimpleStaff staff]] on one end is his WeaponOfChoice. However, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_section_staff it's a real weapon]].
* GlowingEyes: His elemental spirits.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He uses his barrel of booze as much as a weapon as his staff.
* LiteralSplitPersonality[=/=]SelfDuplication: His ultimate, ''Primal Split'', splits him into three elemental warriors.
* [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda-ing To The Audience]]: His race is very Panda-like. The relation becomes more apparent when you look at his previous skin and ancestral spirits. He even used to be a [[{{Warcraft}} Pandaren]] in the original [=DotA=].
* ShockwaveStomp: ''Thunder Clap''
* StoutStrength
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: When performing ''Primal Split'', Brewmaster becomes invulnerable for the duration of the transformation, until after the three elementals are able to move.

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!!Rigwarl, the Bristleback

''"Never one to turn his back on a fight, Rigwarl was known for battling the biggest, meanest scrappers he could get his hands on. Christened Bristleback by the drunken crowds, he waded into backroom brawls in every road tavern between Slom and Elze, until his exploits finally caught the eye of a barkeep in need of an enforcer. For a bit of brew, Bristleback was hired to collect tabs, keep the peace, and break the occasional leg or two (or five, in the case of one unfortunate web-hund). After indulging in a night of merriment during which bodily harm was meted out in equal parts upon both delinquent patrons and his own liver, Bristleback finally met his match. “Your tusks offend me, sir,” he was heard to drunkenly slur to one particularly large fellow from the northern wastes whose bill had come due. What followed was a fight for the ages. A dozen fighters jumped in. No stool was left unbroken, and in the end, the impossible happened: the tab went unpaid. Over the weeks that followed, Bristleback's wounds healed, and his quills grew back; but an enforcer's honor can be a prickly thing. He paid the tab from his own coin, vowing to track down this northerner and extract redemption. And then he did something he'd never done before--he actually trained, and in so doing made a startling discovery about himself. A smile peeled back from his teeth as he flexed his quills. Turning his back to a fight might be just the thing."''

Bristleback is a tanky melee hero that is specially good at ganking and chasing down enemies, although he can function as a semi-dedicated damage dealer with items. The low cooldown and cost of his abilities allows him to spam them to his heart's content, and they all stack for increasingly powerful effects. He is mainly played as a hardcore ganker, since his set of skills make escaping from him very hard, although he can also tank some serious punishment if played well. His first ability, ''Viscous Nasal Goo'', fires a mass of mucus at an enemy, slowing them and reducing their armor, which can stack several times thanks to its low cost and cooldown. With a similarly low cost and cooldown, his second ability, ''Quill Spray'', sends a barrage of quills around Bristleback, damaging all nearby opponents as well as giving them a stacking debuff that increases damage taken from further quill sprays. His third ability, ''Bristleback'', is a passive skill that reduces damage taken by Bristleback if he's hit from the sides, and reduces it even more if he's hit from the rear. Additionally, if he takes a certain amount of damage from the rear, he automatically releases a costless quill spray. Finally, his ultimate, ''Warpath'', is yet another passive ability that increases Bristleback's movement speed and attack damage everytime he casts an ability, which also stacks and has a clear synergy with his low cooldown abilities.

* TheBet: Apparently he was sent to war by the same bartender as Tusk.
--> '''Rigwarl:''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/e/ea/Bristle_rare_01.mp3 "It was a barkeep that got me into this mess. Yeah, I think I'll pay em a visit when this is done."]]
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: His only damaging spell ''Quill Spray'' is very weak, but has low cooldown and increases in power with each subsequent hit.
* EpicFlail: A huge boulder on a chain.
* EyepatchOfPower
* LargeHam: Can compete with Tusk in his sheer hamminess.
* LightningBruiser
* NaturalWeapon: His quills and snot.
* NoIndoorVoice
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Uses this ''a lot''.
--> '''Rigwarl (Killing Doom):''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/b/b8/Bristle_rival_20.mp3 "Who's. Doomed. Now."]]
* TheRival / BashBrothers: With Ymir the Tusk.
* SpikeShooter: Is able to shoot the quills from his back.
* [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Spike Ball Of Doom]]: He's a living one.
* UnstoppableRage: His ultimate ''Warpath''.
--> ''Bristlebog works himself up into a fury every time he casts a spell, increasing his movement speed and damage.''


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!!Bradwarden, the Centaur Warrunner

''"It's said that a centaur's road is paved with the corpses of the fallen. For the one called Warrunner, it has been a long road indeed. To outsiders, the four-legged clans of Druud are often mistaken for simple, brutish creatures. Their language has no written form; their culture lacks pictographic traditions, structured music, formalized religion. For centaurs, combat is the perfect articulation of thought, the highest expression of self. If killing is an art among centaurs, then Bradwarden the Warrunner is their greatest artist. He rose to dominance on the proving grounds of Omexe, an ancient arena where centaur clans have for millennia gathered to perform their gladiatorial rights. As his fame spread, spectators came from far and wide to see the great centaur in action. Always the first to step into the arena, and the last to leave, he composes a masterpiece in each guttering spray, each thrust of blood-slickened blade-length. It is the poetry of blood on steel, flung in complex patterns across the pale sands of the killing floor. Warrunner defeated warrior after warrior, until the arena boomed with the cheering of his name, and he found himself alone, the uncontested champion of his kind. The great belt of Omexe was bestowed, wrapped around his broad torso, but in his victory, the death-artist found only emptiness. For what is a warrior without a challenge? The great centaur galloped out of Omexe that day with a new goal. To his people, Warrunner is the greatest warrior to ever step into the arena. Now he has set out to prove he is the greatest fighter who has ever lived."''

Centaur Warrunner is a powerful melee hero who is notable for his immense survivability and tankiness, as well as his powerful initiation abilities. Although he lacks any ranged abilities, his enormous health pool and disruption skills allow him to close in onto the enemy team, where he can unleash a rampage of crowd control and damage. While not as powerful as a real carry, he can deal a lot of damage and survive most encounters thanks to his massive health. His first ability, ''Hoof Stomp'', makes him stomp the ground, damaging and stunning any nearby opponents. His second ability, ''Double Edge'', is where most of his damage comes from. It is a very powerful melee blow that deals heavy damage to his target, as well as other enemies in a small area around it, but also damages the Centaur Warrunner himself, although he cannot die through this damage. His third ability, ''Return'', is a passive skill that immediately damages any hero that hurts the Centaur Warrunner with their basic attacks, which greatly discourages squishy carries from focusing him. Finally, his ultimate, ''Stampede'', is a powerful initiation tool that immediately grants all allies on the map maximum movement speed and allows them to pass through enemy units, trampling them to inflict damage and a massive slow, although a single enemy cannot be affected by this more than once.

* AnAxeToGrind
* CreepyGood: Bradwarden is a seriously evil looking centaur with empty eyes, horns, jutting fangs and a mohawk. However, he is on Radiant side, often considered the ''good side.''
* GladiatorGames: Is a champion of them.
* HornedHumanoid
* MonochromaticEyes
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Unlike centaurs seen in most other works, Bradwarden has horns and out-jutting lower fangs.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: His culture has little to it other than violence.
** AlwaysChaoticEvil: Somewhat downplayed, but his people are implied to have a preference for violence.
* ShockwaveStomp: Hoof Stomp.
* WorthyOpponent: He regards Magnus as one.

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[[caption-width-right:256:[-[[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/f/f8/Ratt_respawn_10.mp3 "I have a degree in mechanical domineering!"]]-] ]]
!!Rattletrap, the Clockwerk

''"Rattletrap descends from the same far-flung kindred as Sniper and Tinker, and like many of the Keen Folk, has offset his diminutive stature through the application of gadgetry and wit. The son of the son of a clockmaker, Rattletrap was many years apprenticed to that trade before war rode down from the mountains and swept the plains villages free of such innocent vocations. “Your new trade is battle,” his dying father told him as the village of their ancestors lay in charred and smoking ruins. It is a poor tradesman who blames his tools, and Rattletrap was never one to make excuses. After burying his father among the ruins of their village, he set about to transform himself into the greatest tool of warfare that any world had ever seen. He vowed to never again be caught unprepared, instead using his talents to assemble a suit of powered Clockwerk armor to make the knights of other lands look like tin cans by comparison. Now Rattletrap is alive with devices—a small but deadly warrior whose skills at ambush and destruction have risen to near-automated levels of efficiency. An artisan of death, his mechanizations make short work of the unwary, heralding a new dawn in this age of warfare. What time is it? It's Clockwerk time!"''

Clockwerk is a melee hero that is commonly played as a ganker and initiator thanks to his good mobility and single target damage. Clockwerk's ability to take out key target enemies is very well known and feared, for he can appear out of nowhere, isolate his designated target and eliminate them before moving onto his next opponent. Even though he's not as durable as other Strenght heroes, and he lacks effective area-of-effect damage, he is indeed a force to be reckoned with. Clockwerk's first ability, ''Battery Assault'', where most of his single target damage comes from, fires a barrage of short range missiles at random nearby enemy units for a duration, damaging and briefly stunning them for each missile, which is obviously more effective against isolated targets. This isolation is achieved through his second skill, ''Power Cogs'', which creates a barrier of electrified cogs around Clockwerk, trapping nearby opponents inside. These cogs cannot be moved through, require three attacks to be destroyed by enemy heroes (but only one by Clockwerk), and immediately damage and knock-back any enemy hero that comes nearby the outer ring of the barrier, although this can only happen once per cog. His third skill, ''Rocket Flare'', allows him to fire an exploding flare that deals moderate damage in a large area, and more importantly can be fired anywhere on the map. His ultimate skill, ''Hookshot'', is the source of his great mobility, and it fires a long-range hook that immediately pulls Clockwerk to any target it hits, except neutral monsters, dealing damage and stunning the target if it is an enemy unit. Clockwerk's ultimate ability can be upgraded by the item Aghanim's Scepter, which greatly reduces its cooldown.

* ClockPunk
* [[ClockworkCreature Clockwerk Armor]]: His suit of armor is incredibly complex, with many whirring gizmos and ticking parts, albeit gasoline-powered. ClockworkCreature was played straight in the first [=DotA=].

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!!Davion, the Dragon Knight

''"After years on the trail of a legendary Eldwurm, the skilled dragon-slayer found himself facing a disappointing foe: the dreaded Slyrak had grown ancient and frail, its wings tattered, its few remaining scales stricken with scale-rot, its fangs ground to nubs, and its fire-gouts no more threatening than a pack of wet matchsticks. Seeing no honor to be gained in dragon-murder, the young knight prepared to turn away and leave his old foe to die in peace. But a voice crept into his thoughts, and Slyrak gave a whispered plea that the knight might honor him with death in combat. The knight agreed, and found himself rewarded beyond expectation for his act of mercy: As he sank his blade in Slyrak's breast, the dragon sank a claw into his throat. As their blood mingled, Slyrak sent his power out along the Blood Route, offering all its strength and centuries of wisdom to the knight. The dragon's death sealed their bond, and Dragon Knight was born. The ancient power slumbers in the knight, waking when he calls it; or perhaps it is the Dragon that calls the Knight..."''

Dragon Knight is a melee hero that boasts a balanced skillset, innate tankiness and a very powerful ultimate, and is commonly played as a carry. Dragon Knight has a versatile skillset, with his devastating ultimate being the icing on the cake. However, Dragon Knight's main strenght is also his main downfall: while he's a truly fearsome opponent when he has his ultimate ready, he's a pretty lackluster hero when he doesn't, having no mobility, escape mechanisms or damage steroids. His first ability, ''Breathe Fire'', makes him breath a blast of fire that damages enemy units in a line in front of him. His second ability, ''Dragon Tail'', is a melee range shield bash that deals low damage but stuns the target for a long duration. His third ability, ''Dragon Blood'', is a passive skill that provides Dragon Knight with bonus armor and health regeneration. Finally, his ultimate, ''Elder Dragon Form'', transforms Dragon Knight into a mighty dragon for a long duration, giving him a ranged attack and extending the range of his second ability, as well as granting his basic attacks a different effect depending on the level of the ability. At level 1, it grants him a corrosive damage-over-time effect to his basic attacks. At level 2, it grants the same effect, while also making his attacks deal area-of-effect damage around their main target. At level 3, it loses the corrosive damage-over-time effect, but keeps the area-of-effect damage and also makes his basic attacks slow his target's movement speed and attack speed.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Dragon Knight is a very simple strength carry, who nonetheless is very potent throughout most stages of the game.
** Valve themselves picked up on this, and Dragon Knight is used in the new tutorial system to introduce players to Dota.
* BreathWeapon: In knight form, he can breathe cones of fire to burn his enemies. In dragon form, this replaces his normal attack.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: His eyes appear to glow from under his helmet.
* CoolHelmet
* CoolSword
* EnemyMine: Dragon Knight seems to have this going on with Jakiro, as even if Jakiro is a dragon, they don't seem to like each other much. They don't have any ally lines either. Although Jakiro seems to act shocked whenever Dragon Knight kills him.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He seems quite protective of dragons for a dragon hunter, probably absorbing a part of Slyrak's personality.
--> '''Dragon Knight (Killing Lina):''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/1/1e/Drag_lina_02.mp3 "That's what you get, Lina, for enslaving dragons."]]
** MonsterKnight
** SplitPersonalityTakeover
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* ThePowerOfBlood: Used by Slyrak to give his power to Davion.
* ShieldBash: ''Dragon Tail''
* SuperMode: ''Elder Dragon Form'' turns him in a dragon with higher movespeed, ranged attack and stun, and a free orb effect.
* SuperToughness: He has great starting armor and regeneration stat which only gets better late game with his passive and items. It's not uncommon to have over 70% resistance to physical damage, making him nigh-invincible in direct combat.
* TailSlap: ''Dragon Tail'' during his SuperMode.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Into an elder dragon.

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!!Raigor Stonehoof, the Earthshaker

''"Like a golem or gargoyle, Earthshaker was one with the earth but now walks freely upon it. Unlike those other entities, he created himself through an act of will, and serves no other master. In restless slumbers, encased in a deep seam of stone, he became aware of the life drifting freely above him. He grew curious. During a season of tremors, the peaks of Nishai shook themselves loose of avalanches, shifting the course of rivers and turning shallow valleys into bottomless chasms. When the land finally ceased quaking, Earthshaker stepped from the settling dust, tossing aside massive boulders as if throwing off a light blanket. He had shaped himself in the image of a mortal beast, and named himself Raigor Stonehoof. He bleeds now, and breathes, and therefore he can die. But his spirit is still that of the earth; he carries its power in the magical totem that never leaves him. And on the day he returns to dust, the earth will greet him as a prodigal son."''

Earthshaker is a powerful melee hero that is known for his incredibly powerful initiating and ganking abilities. Earthshaker stands out from other Strenght heroes in that he depends a lot on his spells and small mana pool to deal his potentially sky-rocketing damage, and is specially adept at damaging enemies that are clustered together. He is, however, very dependant on buying a Blink Dagger to provide him with the mobility he lacks to flash in the middle of the enemy team and unleash his devastating power. His first ability, ''Fissure'', makes him slam the ground with his totem, creating a rock wall in a long line in front of him that damages and stuns enemy heroes it collides with. The wall remains for a few seconds afterwards, becoming unpassable terrain. His second ability, ''Enchant Totem'', enchants his totem, greatly increasing the damage of his next attack. It is mostly used to proc his third ability, ''Aftershock'', which is a passive skill that damages and briefly stuns all nearby opponents whenever Earthshaker activates an ability. Finally, his ultimate, ''Echo Slam'', is what makes him so feared, and it slams the earth with his totem so strongly that it creates a powerful shockwave that damages nearby enemy units. The catch is that each enemy unit hit releases an additional shockwave around themselves, damaging nearby opponents, which means that a well placed Earthshaker is able to heavily damage or even kill the entire enemy team if they stand close. Earthshaker's ultimate ability can be upgraded by the item Aghanim's Scepter, and it makes every enemy unit hit release two shockwaves instead of one, essentially doubling the damage.

* CarryABigStick[=/=]TelephonePolearm: His totem.
* DishingOutDirt: Well, Raigor is made out of dirt.
* EarthquakesCauseFissures
* GeoEffects: His ''Fissure'' can not only stun but also temporarily create an impassible crevasse. Knowing how to use it to trap enemies is vital to mastering Earthshaker.
* GroundShatteringLanding: The animation for his ultimate, ''Echo Slam''
* HerdHittingAttack: ''Echo Slam'' deals bonus damage per every enemy unit within range, so hitting a lot of enemies is a requirement for it.
* InterfaceScrew: A recent visuals update means that his active abilities now shake the entire screen when cast.
* NounVerber
* PrimalStance
* ShockwaveStomp: Each of his abilities triggers an extra shockwave around him.

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!!Io, the Guardian Wisp

''"Wisp is everywhere, and in all things. Denounced by enemies as the great unmaker, worshiped by scholars as the twinkling of a divine eye, Wisp occupies all planes at once, the merest fraction of its being crossing into physical existence at any one moment. Like the great twin riders Dark and Light, and yet another ancient traveler whose true history is lost to the ages, Io the Wisp is a Fundamental of the universe—a force older than time, a wanderer from realms far beyond mortal understanding. Wisp is nothing less than the sum of all attractive and repulsive forces within matter, a sentient manifestation of the charge that bind particles together. It is only in the controlled warping of these forces that Wisp's presence can be experienced on the physical plane. A benevolent, cooperative force, Wisp bonds its strength to others so that the power of allies might be enhanced. Its motives inscrutable, its strength unimaginable, moves through the physical plane, the perfect expression of the mysteries of the universe."''

Wisp is an unique ranged hero that is commonly played as a hardcore support thanks to its many ways to help allies. Even though Wisp lacks any sort of killing power by itself, with only one directly offensive ability, the capability to protect, support, empower and provide kills for its allies makes Wisp a very powerful pick in expert hands. While pretty hard to play due to his completely ally-dependant kit, a well played Wisp can prove to be a gamechanging presence on the battlefield. Wisp's first ability, ''Tether'', is arguably its more important, and it links Wisp to a nearby ally, forming an energy tether between the two that will break if they move too far apart (although it can be casted from a range twice as long as the breaking range, which will make Wisp quickly dash to its target and can be used for quick getaways). While linked, both Wisp and the ally enjoy bonus movement speed, and the ally will regen any amount of health and mana that Wisp gains. Additionally, any enemy unit that passes through the tether is stunned. Wisp's second ability, ''Spirits'', generates five energy spirits that circle around Wisp, and can be pulled in or out to circle closer or farther away from Wisp. When a spirit makes contact with an enemy hero it will explode, damaging all nearby enemies. Spirits that make contact with enemy non-hero units will damage them for a smaller amount, but will not explode. Wisp's third skill, ''Overcharge'', increases Wisp's attack speed and gives him a damage reduction from all sources at the cost of mana and health each second and, more importantly, is shared with the ally affected by Wisp's first skill. Finally, Wisp's ultimate, ''Relocate'', teleports itself and any linked ally to any position on the map for twelve seconds after a short cast time, which allows Wisp to be a global pressence on the map.

* AmbiguousGender: Like Puck, Wisp is referred to as "it" although he's male in his BackStory in the first [=DotA=]. However, a description of one of his skills refers him in the masculine "his".
* DifficultButAwesome: Wisp (outside of a few comedy builds) is pretty much the only character who can do nothing but support other Heroes. It requires heavy teamwork, but is incredibly powerful when utilized correctly. Because of this, Wisp is one of the most commonly picked or banned Heroes in professional tournaments.
* EnergyBeing[=/=]CelestialBody
** Heck, even the in-game model itself is just particle!
* HappyFunBall: Often called this thanks to the spherical shape and totally unexpected power [[DifficultButAwesome in a coordinated team]].
--> '''Bastion Announcer:''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/2/28/Dlc_bastion_announcer_pick_wisp_follow.mp3 "Hey what's that little glowy ball? Famous last words."]]
* NatureSpirit
* OverclockingAttack: ''Overcharge'' increases the attack speed and reduces incoming damage of Wisp and its tethered ally at the price of burning away mana and health.
* PowerFloats
* SentientCosmicForce
* TheSpeechless: All the noises he makes can be described as submarine-sounding beeps and boops.
** Some other characters seem to understand him. Puck especially continuously regrets that people are missing Wisp's puns (unreliable - maybe she's just being [[LittleMissSnarker Puck]]).
* SquishyWizard: Despite being a Strength hero, Wisp has pathetically low base stats and stat growth in all three areas; of all Strength heroes in the game, it has the lowest base Strength (tied with Phoenix, who is still only in Dota 1) and second-lowest Strength growth, beat out only by Alchemist. On top of all that, it's the only Hero in the game that starts with '''negative''' base armor. Needless to say, Wisp is very easy to kill if ever caught alone.
* TimeAbyss
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Its abilities are based on atoms and it's backstory implies it's a sentient manifestation of the three major forces of quantum mechanics (Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetism).

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[[caption-width-right:256:[-[[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/f/fa/Sven_rare_06.mp3 "One man, in a world of foes."]]-] ]]
!!Sven, the Rogue Knight

''"Sven is the bastard son of a Vigil Knight, born of a Pallid Meranth, raised in the Shadeshore Ruins. With his father executed for violating the Vigil Codex, and his mother shunned by her wild race, Sven believes that honor is to be found in no social order--but only in himself. After tending his mother through a lingering death, he offered himself as a novice to the Vigil Knights, never revealing his identity. For thirteen years he studied in his father's school, mastering the rigid code that declared his existence an abomination. Then, on the day that should have been his In-Swearing, he seized the Outcast Blade, shattered the Sacred Helm, and burned the Codex in the Vigil's Holy Flame. He strode from Vigil Keep, forever solitary, following his private code to the last strict rune. Still a knight, yes...but a Rogue Knight."''

Sven is a melee hero with a simple, yet effective set of abilities. Not only can he be a very effective support OR carry, but he most notably can do both in a single game thanks to his kit containing both high utility spells that allow him to support and initiate, and powerful damage steroids that help him deal damage. He usually transitions from an early game supporting role to a full blown hard carry at late game, but he has to cope with a mid game phase in which he doesn't excel at either role. He's also very dependant on his small mana pool. His first ability, ''Storm Hammer'', launches his gauntlet at an enemy unit, damaging and stunning it, as well as other nearby enemies, which is notably one of the very few targeted stuns in the game. His second ability, ''Great Cleave'', is a passive skill that gives his basic attacks a cleaving effect that damages other targets around his attack target for a percentage of the damage dealt. His third ability, ''Warcry'', instantly increases the armor and movement speed of himself and nearby allies for a brief duration. Finally, Sven's ultimate ability, ''God's Strength'', grants him a large buff to his attack damage (going as far as triplicating it at maximum level) for quite a long duration, which gives him great carrying potential.

* TheBerserker: His playstyle emphasizes rushing into the midst of the fight to deal as much damage as possible during his stun and buffs.
* {{BFS}}: The Outcast Blade, a sword as long as most people are tall!
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: A hilarious one with Enchantress:
--> '''Sven (killing Enchantress):''' [[UnusualEuphemism Go sproink]] [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/4/46/Sven_rival_06.mp3 yourself!]]
* ButtMonkey: In Dota's Hero Spotlight videos, he is always the designated target to show the hero's abilities and be killed... even in his own, so it spread to fan-made videos as well.
* CoolHelmet: A knight's helmet with huge horns.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When under the effects of God's Strength.
* GutturalGrowler: Game's prime example.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Meranth Hybrid]]: Both of Pallid Meranth (Mother's side) and a Vigil Knight (Father's side).
* HourOfPower: His skills (area stun, speed and armor increase, damage multiplier) and commonly built items ([[TheBerserker Mask of Madness]], [[NoSell Black King Bar]], and [[CastFromHitPoints Armlet]]) all give him a brief boost in power over his enemies. Activate all of them at once - and Sven becomes the prime candidate to score a [[TotalPartyKill Rampage]].
* KnightInSourArmor
* LightningBruiser
* MagicKnight: Relies heavily on his limited mana pool.
* RatedMForManly
* RazorWind: To indicate how far the ''Greater Cleave'' damage reaches past the sword's length.
* RocketPunch: ''Storm Hammer'' launches his enchanted gauntlet at the enemies.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin
--> '''Sven:''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/f/fe/Sven_rare_09.mp3 "It's Rogue Knight, dammit! It's not rouge knight."]]
* ScreamingWarrior: His ''Warcry'' gives himself and nearby allies a huge speed and armor boost. And he generally screams a lot.
* ShoutOut: His name is a reference to a wrestler, whose signature skill was to get 'Pumped Up.'
* SophisticatedAsHell
* SuperMode: ''God's Strength'' amplifies Sven's damage for a few seconds...
** TurnsRed: And changes his color to red.

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[[caption-width-right:256:[-[[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/0/07/Tiny_spawn_07.mp3 "Sticks and stones will break their bones."]]-] ]]

!!Tiny, the Stone Giant

''"Coming to life as a chunk of stone, Tiny's origins are a mystery on which he continually speculates. He is a Stone Giant now, but what did he used to be? A splinter broken from a Golem's heel? A shard swept from a gargoyle-sculptor's workshop? A fragment of the Oracular Visage of Garthos? A deep curiosity drives him, and he travels the world tirelessly seeking his origins, his parentage, his people. As he roams, he gathers weight and size; the forces that weather lesser rocks, instead cause Tiny to grow and ever grow."''

Tiny is a melee hero with great ganking and burst damage capabilities, but with Aghanim’s Scepter can transition into a successful late-game carry. His early game kill potential is very high as a result of the lethal burst damage of his first and second skills. Tiny is however heavily dependent on his mana pool and as the game progresses into the late game, where spell damage falls off and right-click damage takes priority, his slow attack speed becomes a major hindrance without farm, and thus he depends on a succesful early game. Tiny’s first skill, ''Avalanche'', causes a landslide in the targeted area, dealing damage and stunning all enemy units in its area of effect. His second skill, ''Toss'', tosses a random unit, friend or foe, within a short radius of Tiny at the targeted enemy, dealing damage in an area around it. Tiny’s deadly mid-game combo is using his first skill on a lone enemy, then tossing him into the air. As he falls back down, the landslide's stun and damage is reapplied, essentially doubling the damage. This combo allows Tiny to obliterate low health heroes. His third skill, ''Craggy Exterior'', is a passive ability which grants him bonus armor, deals damage to enemies who attack him and has a chance to stun them. Tiny’s ultimate and most iconic skill is another passive which makes him grow in size, aptly named ''Grow''. Whilst starting out small, by the time he has maxed his ultimate Tiny is among the largest heroes in the game. As he grows he gains bonus damage, movement speed and bonus damage to his second skill at the cost of a significant dent to his attack speed. Tiny can purchase an Aghanim’s Scepter, althought it doesn't specifically boost his ultimate, which makes him pick up a tree and use it as a melee weapon. It grants him increased attack range, bonus damage against buildings, a cleave to his attack and adding even more bonus damage to his second skill.

* DishingOutDirt: As a stone giant, this is to be expected.
* FastballSpecial: Toss can be used this way to hurl allies into the midst of enemies for teamfight initiation.

* {{Golem}}: Sort of.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: When used against an enemy, Toss inflicts damage to the tossed unit, and does [=AoE=] damage if targeted on an enemy. If combined with Avalanche, it inflicts double Avalanche's damage, making Tiny capable of [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] most squishy heroes in the game.
* HulkSpeak: One of his lines even deliberately makes a ShoutOut as such.
-->'''Tiny:''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/3/35/Tiny_attack_12.mp3 Tiny smash!]]
* IronicNickname: Although his name is true at first, Tiny quickly becomes one of the largest characters in the game.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Unlike a typical giant, Tiny is made of stone. He also can't be considered a proper "giant" until later in the game.
* LightningBruiser: As you level his ultimate, Tiny actually ''gains'' movement speed, to the point where he can chase most heroes around the map pretty easily.
* MagikarpPower: In the beginning of the game, Tiny is pretty pathetic- he has terrible agility, two spells that eat his mana very quickly, and fairly poor stat growth. Give him time and a few early kills, though, and he'll soon transform into a LightningBruiser, capable of smashing entire teams asunder by the mid-to-late game.
* TelephonePolearm: If given Aghanim's Scepter, Tiny will use A TREE as a bludgeon.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: You're not likely to make Aghanim's Scepter before you have your ultimate. But if you do, you'll be treated to a sight of Tiny hauling around a comically large tree - twice as big as himself if you didn't level the ultimate at all - with unique animations for all actions.
* WeirdBeard: Made of moss.

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[[caption-width-right:256:[-[[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/d/db/Treant_respawn_05.mp3 "Think me not ponderous... merely pondering."]]-] ]]

!!Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector

''"Far to the west, in the mountains beyond the Vale of Augury, lie the remains of an ancient power, a fount of eldritch energy nestled deep in the high woods. It is said that the things that grow here, grow strangely. To the forces of nature this is a sacred place, made to stay hidden and unknown. Many are the traps and dangers of this land--all-consuming grasses and crossbred fauna and poisonous flowers--but none are so fierce as the mighty Treant Protectors. These ageless, titanic beings, charged with keeping the peace in this dangerous land, ensure that none within encroach without reason, and none without poach their secrets. For time untold they tended to their holy ground, uninterrupted, only dimly aware of the changing world beyond. Yet inevitably the wider world grew aware of this untamed land, and with each passing winter the outsiders grew bolder. Soon they arrived with tools to cut and with flames to burn, and often the Treants would ponder: who are these fragile, industrious creatures? What now had become of the wild, green world? There came and went an age of questions and of doubts, a thousand summers of long traditions set to scrutiny, while more and more the outsiders died and fed their earth. When all that bloomed had finally finished their say, curiosity had overcome caution. It was decided: a lone Protector would be sent into the wider world, and instructed to wander until the glaciers arose once more, to observe the changing land and its creatures, and to discover what unknown dangers could threaten their sacred ground."''

Treant Protector is a melee hero who is adept at supporting his team and keeping them alive. He is most notable for his skill set which essentially prevents early aggression from the enemy team whilst facilitating it for his own team. He is also naturally tanky, having one of the highest Strength growth in the game and possessing the highest base attack damage. His first skill, ''Nature’s Guise'', is a targeted ability which can turn himself or allies invisible when next to trees, whilst also granting them bonus move speed. It is notable that whilst under its effects Treant is capable of casting spells without breaking invisibility, something that most invisibility effects do not allow. His second skill, ''Leech Seed'', applies a slow to the targeted enemy unit and drains his health in pulses. It then proceeds to heal nearby allied units for the same amount of health stolen. His third skill, ''Living Armor'', is his bread-and-butter spell. Treant creates a shield around an allied unit, granting them bonus health regeneration and blocking some of the damage they receive for a certain number of instances. It will dispel when it either completes its duration or the number of damage instances has passed. It can also be cast globally, which allows Treant to save allies who are under attack from the other side of the map. He can also cast it on buildings, granting him one of the few ways to heal damaged structures. His ultimate, ''Overgrowth'', roots all enemies within a significant radius of Treant in place, preventing them from moving and attacking, but not from casting spells or using items. Whilst not dealing any damage, it will root the enemy in place for a long time and so long as enemy heroes do not have a way to break it they will be unable to avoid your teams follow-up damage, easily winning you the fight.

* BoringButPractical: Out of all of Treant's spells, only one deals damage and is easily outclassed by most damage-dealing spells in the game. His main play style revolves around continually casting ''Living Armor'' on allies and buildings, occasionally initiating a teamfight with ''Overgrowth''... and that's about it.
* BuffySpeak
* CloudCuckooLander: He is a slow thinker and easily gets distracted either by the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny beautiful scenery]] or [[ThePhilosopher mysteries of the universe]], and is often [[ComicallyMissingThePoint oblivious to combat around him]].
--> '''Treant Protector (Respawning):''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/8/89/Treant_respawn_09.mp3 "I think I'll go for a nice walk."]]
* CombatMedic: ''Leech Seed'' is an interesting example; it not only damages and slows whatever enemy it's used on, but it will also heal every enemy unit in a radius around it. HIs other utility spell, ''Living Armor'', is unique in that it is one of two spells that can also heal towers from anywhere on the map, turning potential enemy pushes into a slog.
* FreezeFrameBonus: His model has a small carving near his behind, saying "Riki was here".
* FurryConfusion: If he uses a tango (a consumable item that regenerates your health by destroying a tree) he'll apologize and show mild regret for what he's done, despite the tree being non-anthropomorphic.
--> '''Treant Protector (using a tango):''' [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/8/89/Treant_tango_01.mp3 "Sorry, friend."]]
* GaiasVengeance: His various plant-themed abilities can aid his team in a teamfight or a push.
* GentleGiant: He is a calm, peaceful treant with abilities focused on protecting allies and disabling enemies. He also has the game's second highest Strength growth and has ludicrous melee attack damage.
* GlowingEyes
* GreenThumb: Being a treant, this is to be expected.
* LifeDrain: ''Leech Seed''.
* MightyGlacier
* NatureHero
* PlantPerson
* ShoutOut: To Franchise/{{Pokemon}} with his spell, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Leech_Seed_%28move%29 Leech Seed.]]
** His appearance and personality are based on Treebeard from [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Lord of the Rings]].
* TheLostWoods: His land of origin.
* TookALevelInBadass: A small one, but before the 6.77c patch Rooftrellen was pretty much never picked in competitive games due to his rather underwhelming abilities. Then the 6.77c patch changed ''Living Armor'' to make it reduce damage from ALL instances of damage (Previously, ''Living Armor'' only blocked physical damage). With the global range on the ability, this little change made it nigh-impossible to successfully gank Rooftrellen's allies in the early game, and made him a much more common pick in competitive games just for Living Armor alone.
* TribalFacePaint
* TreeCover: ''Nature's Guise'' turns any friendly unit invisible, so long as they remain in proximinity to a tree. It's especially useful with surprise-oriented gankers like Pudge, as they can still cast spells while invisible.
* WeirdBeard: Just branches growing from his face into the shape of a beard.
* WhenTreesAttack

''"Purist Thunderwrath was a hard-fighting, road-worn, deeply committed knight, sworn to the order in which he had grown up as squire to elder knights of great reputation. He had spent his entire life in the service of the Omniscience, the All Seeing One. Theirs was a holy struggle, and so embedded was he in his duty that he never questioned it so long as he had the strength to fight and the impetuous valor that comes with youth. But over the long years of the crusade, as his elders passed away and were buried in sorry graves at the side of muddy tracks, as his bond-brothers fell in battle to uncouth creatures that refused to bow to the Omniscience, as his own squires were chewed away by ambush and plague and bad water, he began to question the meaning of his vows--the meaning of the whole crusade. After deep meditation, he parted ways with his army and commenced a long trek back to the cave-riddled cliffs of Emauracus, and there he set a challenge to the priests of the Omniscience. No knight had ever questioned them before, and they tried to throw him into the pit of sacrifice, but Purist would not be moved. For as he faced them down, he began to glow with a holy light, and they saw that the Omniscience had chosen to reveal Itself to him. The Elder Hierophant led him on a journey of weeks down into the deepest chamber, the holy of holies, where waited not some abstract concept of wisdom and insight, not some carved relic requiring an injection of imagination to believe in, but the old one itself. It had not merely dwelt in those rocks for billions of aeons; no, It had created them. The Omniscience had formed the immense mineral shell of the planet around itself, as a defense against the numerous terrors of space. Thus the All Seeing One claimed to have created the world, and given the other truths revealed to Puritan on that day, the knight had no reason to refute the story. Perhaps the Omniscience is a liar, deep in its prison of stone, and not the world's creator at all, but Omniknight never again questioned his faith. His campaign had meaning at last. And there can be no question that the glorious powers that imbue him, and give his companions such strength in battle, are real beyond any doubt."''

* BoringButPractical: Among the fandom, Treant has a reputation of not being very fun to play as. Out of all his spells, only one deals damage and is easily outclassed by most damage-dealing spells in the game. His main play style revolves around continually casting ''Living Armor'' on allies and buildings, occasionally initiating a teamfight with ''Overgrowth''... and that's about it.

* HolyHandGrenade: ''Purification'' is hard to hit an enemy with, but deals a lot of pure damage, making it a very deadly nuke that simultaneously heals an ally.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: A well-timed ''Purification'' can deal a huge amount of [=AoE=] Pure damage in a small area of effect, while at the same time healing its target, essentially doubling the difference in HP between the heal target and nearby enemies.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: ''All 3'' of his damaging abilities deal Pure damage (though ''Whirling Death'' deals Magical damage without any trees nearby).
** Even if it doesn' deal pure damage, ''Whirling Death'' also reduces an enemy's primary attribute by 15%, lowering max health of Strength heroes and armor of Agility heroes.

* LimitBreak[=/=]LightningBruiser: ''Astral Spirit'' gives Elder Titan bonus damage and movement speed for each enemy it passes through. In the case of enemy heroes, it gives him +5% movement speed and +40 damage per hero, so catching four heroes with the projection (to say nothing of any creeps that happen to be standing around) will give him +20% movement speed and +160 attack damage, which, combined with his ''Natural Order'' aura, means that he'll be hitting almost as hard as if he were carrying a Divine Rapier.

* ItemCaddy: He relies on items to net most of his kills; items that increase attack speed synchronize well with his ultimate.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: ''All 3'' of his damaging abilities deal Pure damage (though Whirling Death deals Magical damage without any trees nearby).

* GogglesDoNothing: While they could be used as protection from sawdust, he's just wearing them on his head.

* FanNickname: "Tree" or "Treeman" for [[CaptainObvious being a treeperson.]]

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