History Characters / Dota2Neutrals

* OptionalBoss: Technically, defeating Tormentors or Roshan isn't compulsory to win the game. It only grants an Aghanim's Shard or gold, experience, and a OneUp (or two) that your team can use, which is sufficient to make them essential objectives of the game anyway.

* ObviousRulePatch: The Giant Wolf formerly had the same ''Critical Strike'' ability as the Alpha Wolf, but it was eventually removed and the wolf's damage was increased proportionately in return. This is almost solely for the benefit of Doom, as this no longer causes him to lose abilities gained from ''Devour'' when consuming a Giant Wolf (which is a PowerUpLetdown since consuming the Alpha Wolf would give him both the crit ''and'' the aura; back then, the option to put ''Devour'' on or off auto-cast so Doom would or would not switch the previously devoured creep's abilities with the new one's did not exist yet).

* HealingFactor: Each Tormentor's shield starts with 100 HP regeneration, which increases by a further 100 every time it respawns. This must be overcome by any team that seeks to kill one, and ensures that Tormentors will quickly heal back from any failed kill attempts.

* OptionalBoss: Technically, defeating Tormentors or Roshan isn't necessary to win the game. It only grants an Aghanim's Shard or gold, experience, and a OneUp (or two) that your team can use, which is sufficient to make them essential objectives of the game anyway.

If Roshan is slain, all heroes on the team that defeated him will gain gold in addition to Roshan's substantial experience bounty. He will also drop the Aegis of the Immortal, which will grant the bearer the ability to resurrect on death once, at which point the Aegis is consumed. If 5 minutes pass after Roshan's death and the Aegis has not been used, Roshan will reclaim it, and the Aegis carrier is healed to full health and mana over a short time. From his second death onwards, Roshan will also drop Cheese, which can be eaten to restore a significant amount of health and mana, or Roshan's Banner, which can be placed to grant permanent buffs to any lane creeps that walk by it and lasts 5 minutes. From his third death onwards, Roshan will either drop a Refresher Shard or Aghanim's Blessing. Roshan will then respawn after a random period of time between 8 and 11 minutes after death. Roshan's drops (except the Aegis) are dependent on where he was killed: if slain in the north pit, he drops the Banner and Aghanim's Blessing, and in the south pit he drops Cheese and Refresher Shard.

Roshan possesses the following abilities: ''Spell Block'', which blocks one targeted spell every 15 seconds, ''Bash'', which gives Roshan's attacks a chance to stun enemies and deal bonus damage, ''Slam'', which damages and slows nearby enemies, and ''Strength of the Immortal'', which grants him heavy magic resistance and phased movement, greatly reduces the damage he takes from illusions, and increases his maximum HP, armor, and ''Slam'' damage every 4 minutes starting from the first creep spawn. After being killed once, he gains ''Roar of Retribution'' which he uses if attacked by the team that last killed him, dealing damage to nearby enemies and making them more vulnerable to incoming damage while also alerting the other team with a globally audible sound effect; this ability also has its damage increased by ''Strength of the Immortal''.

* LethalJokeItem: From his second death onwards, Roshan will drop in addition to the Aegis... a piece of Cheese. Seems silly, until you examine it in the inventory and find that, when eaten, it gives enough burst healing to effectively be a second Aegis.

* MoneyMultiplier: The Kobold's ''Prospecting Aura'' increases nearby heroes' passive gold income. As such, grabbing one with Helm of the Dominator/Overlord or a creep-controlling ability, or digging one up with the Trusty Shovel, allows you to get some extra gold for yourself [[SupportPartyMember at the cost of the creep slot being filled by something that's worthless in a direct fight]].

* KillSteal: The Satyr Tormenter is particularly notorious for doing this as it will fire its Shockwave spell when three or more heroes are in the area, regardless of whether or not the camp has been aggroed. This leads to particularly strange scenarios where a fleeing hero (or even ''several'') will be denied in the middle of a chaotic teamfight. Satyr Tormenters were later changed to no longer cast Shockwave while AI-controlled.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Tormentors don't have a right-click attack or active abilities. Instead, they 'fight' by quickly healing back damage taken, while reflecting it at attackers and whittling them down over time.

* PaletteSwap: The two Tormentors use the same model, except the Tormentor on the Radiant side is colored light blue the Dire side's Tormentor is colored red.

** Some other heroes with high single-target sustained damage and regeneration can also take Roshan down at relatively low levels or bring him down solo, such as Troll Warlord (with Morbid Mask), Juggernaut, and Huskar. Slardar can do it with enough attack speed to proc his bash often enough.
** Roshan is highly vulnerable to attack speed slows, which greatly reduce his damage output and make him much easier to deal with. Enchantress, for instance, can reduce his attack rate to almost nothing with ''Untouchable'', and Solar Crest can do the same with an armor debuff attached.

Tormentors spawn at 20:00 in the match at fixed locations near the Radiant and Dire bases, and respawn 10 minutes after being defeated. Each Tormentor has 1 HP and cannot move or attack, but its ''Unyielding Shield'' ability gives it a large damage barrier that regenerates over time, and it has the ''Reflect'' ability which reflects a large percentage of the damage it takes, distributing it evenly among all heroes nearby.\\

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Tormentors don't have a right-click attack or active abilities. Instead, they 'fight' by quickly healing back damage taken, while reflecting it at attackers.

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If Roshan is slain, all heroes on the team that defeated him will gain gold in addition to Roshan's substantial experience bounty. He will also drop the Aegis of the Immortal, which will grant the bearer the ability to resurrect on death once, at which point the Aegis is consumed. If 5 minutes pass after Roshan's death and the Aegis has not been used, Roshan will reclaim it, and the Aegis carrier is healed to full health and mana over a short time. From his second death onwards, Roshan will also drop Cheese, which can be eaten to restore a significant amount of health and mana. From his third death onwards, Roshan will either drop a Refresher Shard or Aghanim's Blessing, depending on where he was killed (the north or south pit respectively). Additionally, all Watchers on the map will activate for the side that killed Roshan. Roshan will then respawn after a random period of time between 8 and 11 minutes after death.

Roshan possesses the following abilities: ''Spell Block'', which blocks one targeted spell every 15 seconds, ''Bash'', which gives Roshan's attacks a chance to stun enemies and deal bonus damage, ''Slam'', which damages and slows nearby enemies, and ''Strength of the Immortal'', which grants him heavy magic resistance and phased movement, greatly reduces the damage he takes from illusions, and increases his maximum HP, armor, and ''Slam'' damage every 4 minutes starting from the first creep spawn.

* OneManArmy: It takes several high-level heroes with several core items to defeat him.

* TemptingFate: As attractive as taking Roshan down is, doing the fight at the wrong time can be disastrous. It's quite common, especially in pubs, for a couple of players to be obsessed with taking him out, pushing the team into doing it, and getting shot in the back when the other team ambushes them, takes almost everyone out, and finishes Roshan off themselves. Roshan is best tackled after a successful battle or push, where the enemy team is regrouping and/or respawning, and thus relatively incapable of stopping you.

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Upon death he drops the Aegis of the Immortal, which allows its wearer to resurrect upon death for a few minutes. After subsequent deaths, he can also drop a Cheese, Aghanim's Blessing or Refresher Shard.

* AdaptationNameChange: Most neutral creeps received new names in the transition from the original ''[=DotA=]'' to ''Dota 2''. It is easier to list those who actually kept their names (Kobold, Ghost, Harpy Scout, Giant Wolf, Alpha Wolf, Mud Golem, Black Drake, Black Dragon, Rock Golem, Roshan).

* ObviousRulePatch: The Giant Wolf formerly had the same ''Critical Strike'' ability as the Alpha Wolf, but it was eventually removed and the wolf's damage was increased proportionately in return. This is almost solely for the benefit of Doom, as this no longer causes him to lose abilities gained from ''Devour'' when consuming a Giant Wolf (which is a PowerUpLetdown since consuming the Alpha Wolf would give him both the crit ''and'' the aura).

* ContractualBossImmunity: Ancient creeps are more akin to heroes when it comes to spell interactions, meaning that they're flat out immune to some abilities that affect regular creeps (such as Helm of the Dominator and Hand of Midas); Doom and Enchantress can only ''Devour'' and ''Enchant'' them with the appropriate level 20 talent, and Chen needs Aghanim's Shard to take control of them.

* ContractualBossImmunity: A lot of abilities flat out don't work against Tormentors and Roshan specifically, such as Hand of Midas, Lifestealer's ''Feast'', Juggernaut's ''Omnislash'' and all kinds of forced movement. Additionally, Roshan can't be attacked from outside his lair, takes significantly less damage from illusions, destroys Wards in one hit and Couriers won't provide any vision within his pits.

* FoeTossingCharge: While travelling from one pit to the other, Roshan damages and knocks aside all units in his path. Notably, the knockback is blocked by debuff immunity, [[https://youtu.be/aTK_DyjGnFs which is a bad thing in this case]] as it means players with Black King Bar active just get TrampledUnderfoot instead.

* MoneyMultiplier: The Kobold's ''Prospecting Aura'' increases nearby heroes' passive gold income. As such, grabbing one with Helm of the Dominator/Overlord or a creep-controlling ability allows you to get some extra gold for yourself [[SupportPartyMember at the cost of the creep slot being filled by something that's worthless in a direct fight]].

* TheMedic: The Hill Troll Priest has the ''Heal'' ability and in practice spends most of its time healing its allies instead of attacking.

Composed of 2 Hill Troll and Dark Troll Summoner. The Hill Troll has ''Ensnare'', which throws a net to root an enemy to the ground. The Dark Troll Summoner's ability is ''Raise Dead'', which summons 3 Skeleton Warriors.

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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Many creeps will only use abilities under certain conditions or not at all while AI-controlled, making it less troublesome to farm them.

* HealingFactor: Each Tormentor's shield starts with 100 HP regeneration, which increases by a further 100 every time it respawns, ensuring that Tormentors will quickly heal back from any failed attempts to kill them.

* MiniBoss: Compared to Roshan, Tormentors are less powerful due to their limited form of offense, meaning they don't take too long for a team to bring down.

* MoneyMultiplier: The Kobold's ''Prospecting Aura'' increases nearby heroes' passive gold income by 20+ per minute. As such, grabbing one with Helm of the Dominator/Overlord or a creep-controlling ability allows you to get some extra gold for yourself [[SupportPartyMember at the cost of the creep slot being filled by something that's worthless in a direct fight]].

* AsteroidsMonster: Their ''Shard Golems'' ability split them into 2 (later 3) Shard Golems when killed.

* MightyGlacier: Tormentors cannot move at all, while Roshan walks very slowly (not that he even moves that frequently at the first place). Instead, they have respectable damage output as well as more HP than any hero could feasibly achieve (either in the form of regeneration for Tormentors or pool for Roshan), making it risky to fight them one-on-one.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Tormentors' and Roshan's special abilities aren't exactly complex or require special attention to deal with. What they do have, however, are the single highest HP regeneration or HP pool (respectively) in the game, which increase further as the game drags on; as such, fighting Tormentors and Roshan boils down to powering through all that health before the Tormentor can reflect your damage or Roshan can bash you to death (and hoping that the enemy team doesn't intervene).

* DamageSpongeBoss: Roshan has easily ''the'' highest HP pool of any unit in the game and only becomes bulkier over time, allowing him to easily outmuscle and outlast most heroes in single combat. It usually takes multiple heroes to bring down his massive health without him beating someone to death.