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Magnus - Magnataur

Maybe the most tremendous being on the Scourge, Magnus is a power to be reckoned with. Trained from birth to become a potent warrior, he is now at the peak of his strength. The Magnataur's giant axe can cleave paths through his enemies, and create a bone-breaking shockwave that ripples through the ground. Further strengthened by a demonic magic that enhances his attacks, he can crush enemies with shocking ease. His greatest power, though, is the ability to create an immensely strong magnetic field, sucking in helpless foes to meet their end.

Shockwave (W)
A wave of force ripples out from the Hero, causing damage to land units in a line.
Level 1 - 75 damage.
Level 2 - 150 damage.
Level 3 - 225 damage.
Level 4 - 300 damage.
• Damage type: magical
• If a unit exits and enters the area of effect it will be damaged two times.
• This skill only affects ground units.
• Casting range: 500
• Area of Effect: 150 (AoE)/ 850 (Distance)
Mana Cost: 90
Cooldown: 11/10/9/8

Empower (E)
Increases attack damage for a friendly unit.
Level 1 - 15% attack damage bonus, lasts 30 seconds.
Level 2 - 30% attack damage bonus, lasts 30 seconds.
Level 3 - 45% attack damage bonus, lasts 30 seconds.
Level 4 - 60% attack damage bonus, lasts 30 seconds.
• Only increases base damage and that given by the primary attribute of the units. Raw bonus damage is not increased.
• Casting range: 500
Mana Cost: 30
Cooldown: 7

Mighty Swing (T)
Magnus' halberd swings in a mighty arc, damaging all enemies in a fairly wide circle. Targets beside the primary take less damage.
Level 1 - 12.5% damage is splashed.
Level 2 - 25.0% damage is splashed.
Level 3 - 37.5% damage is splashed.
Level 4 - 50.0% damage is splashed.
• Damage type: pure
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A

Reverse Polarity (V)
Through some unknown property of matter, the Magnataur sucks all nearby enemies to a location in front of him and stuns them with a powerful slam, dealing damage.
Level 1 - Deals 150 damage and stuns for 2.5 seconds.
Level 2 - Deals 225 damage and stuns for 3.25 seconds.
Level 3 - Deals 300 damage and stuns for 4 seconds.
Mana Cost: 200/250/300
Cooldown: 120/110/100
• Damage type: magical
• Disable works on magic immune units.
• Pulls affected units to a random location 120-170 units in front of Magnataur.
• Area of Effect: 410
• Duration: 2.5/3.25/4 seconds on Heroes (3/4/5 seconds on creeps)

Strategies:

[Magnataur] Cleaving the Way to Victory posted by yukino_silvermaine on 2007-03-02
The Solo Hero, Magnus Magnataur posted by rjay01 on 2010-01-11
Magnetic Personality posted by donatboy on 2007-02-20

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338 By izzylicious 2010-03-06

o hai there, probably the most melee heroes that i ever saw getting rampages had mass cleaves, most of them were magnus, with a nice dagger blink, 2x cleave, mom/assault, buriza, in 4 sec can kill a whole team :) u can get a bkb yeah, but if u know how to use your ulti right, and you have a good enough team with enough disables to take on anyone who tries to inturrupt, u wont need it, u just need pure dmg.35+35+50% dmg = 120% dmg splashed.

337 By crazylife 2010-03-06

@332: That is never going to work without a dagger. Plus, battlefuries are tack on damage bonuses, not bonuses to agility, so empower would calculate the damage increase as if you didn't have those battlefuries. Also, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? you would be disable in a second and then ignored. Get a guinsoo and a shivas and you'll be better off, along with a heart or bkb, since those bfuries would give NO increase in health. at most, ONE BFURY ONLY. You get all that? Good.

336 By nooblet_pwner 2010-02-23

@332
you need a dagger in there. core on magna, cuz his ult AoE is too small unlike tide. 4 BF is also overkill, too much cleave for any good. better to get some other items. usually 2 BF is max you should get...and btw, cleave is not 113, but 50+140=190% cleave if you get 4 BF. cleave stacks 100%.

335 By BasChin01 2010-02-23

@332.

4 bfurys has no hp gain. and you will die easily. I like to get treads 2 bracers, pers, dagger, MoM, 1 bfury, then AC/Shivas. Sometimes travels are better that treads also.

334 By Kaiman 2010-02-19

Shouldn't that be 190% since you have 35% x4 and then 50% from your spell?

333 By aris000 2010-02-15

@332
i would suggest swap 1 battlefury with dagger.

332 By Furashi 2010-02-15

As the guide suggests, lvl up shockwave and stats alternatively until level 7 (obviously get reverse polarity at 6). From then on, I prefer to get lvl 4 empower, and then mighty swing. Why? because by lvl 13 you should already have a battle fury, so the damage bonus is more beneficial with empower.

Anyway, my preferred build is:
Mom
Treads
And Battlefury x4

With four battlefuries your cleave becomes 113%... You do more damage to surrounding enemies than the unit you are attacking...

331 By Szybki_Lopezz 2010-02-01

Well played magnus becomes a perfect carry, start shockwave and go stats untill u get lvl 8/9 then go splash, empower is usefull when u have a high amout of dmg already. As for he item build u start with PT,then Mom, bf, dagger, cuirass and buriza/hot, emower, MoM, blink, reverse, an u get 4 kills xD

330 By Tink0r 2010-02-01

Great hero for not so experienced players (like me), cause with shockwave and mighty swing you dont need much last hitting skills. Also he doest die so easy, so its not such a big deal to stand in a bad position.

329 By hex0r 2010-01-12

LMAO

328 By xy4kuz4x 2010-01-11

What is this ? There is no guide.

327 By LiL Money! 2010-01-08

whats the best skill build for him?
start with wave+stats?

326 By Jinzakk007 2009-12-22

umm i don't know, but i like this build
bfury(yes, one)
shiva
pthread
hyper->cuirass
satanic
1 is optional: dagger/bkb usually dagger

325 By izzylicious 2009-12-06

@ alon.. maybe like if magina is infront of him, got shock waved for split sec and blinked away infront of him and got hit by it again, he will take the dmg two times..

324 By pika125 2009-12-06

tiny can deal double the shockwave ........... only the person he toss......(plus his ulti lvl 3 ahha)

323 By chaosfreak11 2009-12-04

I think Tiny can toss the enemy to be damaged twice by Shockwave. Not sure though.

322 By alon95 2009-12-04

• If a unit exits and enters the area of effect it will be damaged two times.

what does it mean?

give an example pls

321 By slyfe 2009-11-30

you don't need 2 furies 1 is enough your cleave is pretty big anyways mask of madness would be way better.

320 By jovica 2009-11-30

IMO this hero is pretty limited with items..

I get treads, dagger 2 bracer and 2 furies..

i guess after tha a siva would be good but really ? your pretty limited.. maybe a buriza ? = / you can have like 1.2 k crits

319 By surfboard 2009-11-22

core items for this hero are:
power treads str
kelen's dagger
mask of madness
heart of tarrasque