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Trang-Oul - Uncanny

Created by Steve-O on 2008-05-02
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From the steamy recesses of the southern swamps comes a figure cloaked in mystery. The Uncanny, as his name implies, is an unseemly form of sorcerer whose spells deal with the raising of the dead and the summoning and control of various magics for his purposes. Though his goals are often aligned with those of the forces of light, some do not think that these ends can justify his foul means. Though some shun him for his peculiar looks and ways, none doubt the power of the Uncanny, which is the stuff of nightmares.

Soul Release (E)
Sends out his own life force to fly down a straight path damaging everything in its way. And deals another damage when the soul comes back. 1000 range. 225 AOE. The soul can be returned by pressing the shortcut key.
Level 1 - Level 1 - Deals 50 damage and another 50 damage when it strikes the enemy back at the costs of 40 hit points and regains 20 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 2 - Level 2 - Deals 75 damage and another 75 damage when it strikes the enemy back at the costs of 60 hit points and regains 30 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 3 - Level 3 - Deals 100 damage and another 100 damage when it strikes the enemy back at the costs of 80 hit points and regains 40 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 4 - Level 4 - Deals 175 damage and another 175 damage when it strikes the enemy back at the costs of 100 hit points and regains 50 hit points when the soul comes back.
This skill can kill yourself. It's more like of Abaddon's Death Coil.
Mana Cost: 50/75/100/125
Cooldown: 15

Framework: Sends out a soul. Its like of Terrorblade's Sunder, but shoots on a straight path.

Notes: This is like Puck's Illusionary Orb skill. But its AOE is smaller.

Soul Grip (R)
The Uncanny sends outs some of his life force to grip an enemy unit causing damage and prevents an enemy from moving for 2 seconds. When his soul is sent out he takes takes damage and when the soul comes back he gains back some hit points.
Level 1 - Level 1 - 25 damage per second. Damages Uncanny by 50 hit points and regains 25 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 2 - Level 2 - 50 damage per second. Damages Uncanny by 100 hit points and regains 50 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 3 - Level 2 - 75 damage per second. Damages Uncanny by 150 hit points and regains 75 hit points when the soul comes back.
Level 4 - Level 4 - 100 damage per second. Damages Uncanny by 200 hit points and regains 100 hit points when the soul comes back.
This is not bad for chasing heroes. Since Uncanny is a melee type of hero.
Mana Cost: 120
Cooldown: 15

Framework: Uncanny sends out a Sunder like attack to an enemy. Then after 2 seconds the soul comes back to him like of Undying's zombies sending hit points back to him. The grip works like Rooftrellen's Overgrowth but its color is light blue.

Notes: The color of the soul is blue. This skill has a cast delay like of Sven's Storm Bolt. So heroes can evade this attack. Leap, Blink, Phase Shift etc.

Soul Attract (T)
The afflicted becomes a universal target. This skill causes the afflicted hero to be attacked by all units around it. 275 AOE
Level 1 - Level 1 - Lasts for 1 second.
Level 2 - Level 2 - Lasts for 1.5 seconds.
Level 3 - Level 2 - Lasts for 2 seconds.
Level 4 - Level 4 - Lasts for 2.5 seconds.
All the surrounding units that are attacking the cursed hero cannot be controlled. Except your skeletons.
Mana Cost: 80/ 90/ 100/ 110
Cooldown: 15

Framework: When the curse is casted on a hero. It's effect is like of Vol'jin's Maledict but its color is light blue. And the effects of the units that are attacking the cursed hero is question mark on top of their heads.

Notes: This is much like of Axe's berserkers call without the bonus armor.

Raise Skeleton (K)
Casts a spell on a corpse of a slain monster to raise a skeleton that fights by your side. Can summon 5 skeletons at all levels.
Level 1 - Level 1 - Summons a melee skeleton fighter with 250 hit points, 25-29 damage and a 10% chance to deal 1.5x critical strike.
Level 2 - Level 2 - Summons an archer skeleton with 400 hit points, 35-39 damage and has Poison Attack that slows target by 2%. Lasts for 1 second. And is stackable. Max stacks of 5.
Level 3 - Level 3 - Summons a skeletal mage 650 hit points, 200 mana, 45-49 damage ( ranged ) and a Mana Burn skill. Burns up to 50 mana. ( 100 mana cost ) Mana Burn cooldown of 12 seconds.
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 8

Framework: Lvl 1 - The melee skeleton warriors will look like a small King Leoric. Lvl 2 - The archer skeleton will look like a small Bone Clinkz. Lvl 3 - And the skeletal mage will look like a small Pugna with his attack changed to color red.

Notes: Every level. The skeleton that you can summon are upgraded. The skeletons are like Visage's revenants. They dont have any duration.

Discussion:

Table of Contents :

I. Skill Build

II. Skill Synergies

III. Item Build

III.1 Early Game
III.2 Mid Game
III.3 Late Game
III.4 Luxury Items

IV. Best Allies

V. Worst Enemies

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I. Skill Build:

1. Soul Grip

2. Soul Attract

3. Soul Grip

4. Soul Attract

5. Soul Grip

6. Summon Skeleton

7. Soul Attract

8. Soul Grip

9. Soul Attract

10. Soul Spear

11. Summon Skeleton

12. Soul Spear

13. Soul Spear

14. Soul Spear

15. Stats

16. Summon Skeleton

17-25. Stats

II. Skill Synergies :

Soul Attract and Soul Grip works like Axe's Berserkers Call and Counter Helix, but this combo does is it curses a targeted hero to be attacked by all units around an AOE to attack him or her. While the Soul Grip prevents it from moving. So it afflicts more damage.

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Soul Attract and Summon Skeleton fits well with each other. Think of this, many creeps plus Summon Skeleton and Soul Attract would result to a lot of damage.

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Soul Grip on a tower or on a bunch of creeps and Soul Attract. After a bunch of damage. I think that hero might have a red life. Soul Spear would be quite enough.

III. Item Build :

III.1 Early Game :

Robe of the Magi Headdress of Rejuvenation

Robe of the Magi will be one of the ingredients for our core items. So dont forget to get one. Since INT type heroes gain added mana regeneration for every INT adding stuffs you buy to it, mana won't be a problem. Headdress of Rejuvination is also needed for a support item later on.

After minutes of farming, you need to have these :

Netherezim Buckler Blade of Alacrity Robe of the Magi Headdress of Rejuvenation

Blade of Alacrity for a suitable amount of ATKSPD and Netherezim Buckler for added defense. Both items are ingredients for our core items.

Next, you should have these items in this stage :

Diffusal Blade Mekansm Boots of Speed

Diffusal Blade is needed for the Soul Grip plus Soul Attract combo. After the grip, you should immediately cast Purge which is activatable by clicking the Diffusal Blade. Mekanism for recovering lost hit points, because some of Uncanny's skills damages some of his hit points.

III.2 Mid Game :

At this point of the game, your enemies become more agile, gain some more hp and damage, so you need to be able to counter them.

Power Treads Vitality Booster Chain Mail

Power Treads for more movement speed and ATKSPD, Vitality Booster, another ingredient for our core items and Chainmail for our luxury item.

You can farm good by the use of Summon Skeleton, they have good hit points that is enough for them to tank neutrals.

III.3 Late Game:

At this point, you really need to have these :

Manta Style Plate Mail Hyperstone

Manta Style to synergize Soul Grip, Soul Attract and Summon Skeleton combo. Plate Mail and Hyperstone are ingredients in making Assault Cuirass.

The last good item for Uncanny. This gives your summoned skeletons an ATKSPD aura and a minus def aura for enemies.

III.4 Luxury Items :

Since Uncanny has slow ATKSPD, these items are maybe just what you need :

Sange and Yasha Mask of Madness Hyperstone Guinsoo`s Scythe of Vyse

These items give ATKSPD bonuses suitable for Uncanny, Sange and Yasha's maim could give a good fight, while Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse's Hex could be helpful for some heroes with Blink or Wind Walk etc.

IV. Best Allies :

Rylai Crestfall - The Crystal Maiden Rylai's Frosbite will give you more time to inflict damage after Soul Grip.

Yurnero - The Juggernaut Yurnero's Blade Fury deals great DPS. Soul Grip plus Blade Fury hurts.

Rooftrellen - The Treant Protector Overgrowth then Soul Attract and many skeletons will be good.

Darchrow - The Enigma Blackhole and skeletons and many creeps. Soul Spear could do the chasing.

Furion - The Prophet Furion's Sprout will give you much time to deal large amount of damage to a

hero dont forget that at lvl 2 Summon Skeleton they become Skeleton Archers.

Rhasta - The Shadow Shaman Shackles holds for nearly 5 seconds. It's very nice to have a Rhasta on your line-

up.

Pudge - The Butcher Soul Grip the Meat Hook the Dismember would be enough.

Vol`Jin - The Witch Doctor One word. Maledict.

Meepo - Geomancer Geomancer's Earthbind would be very good.

Ish~kafel - Dark Seer His Vacuum synergizes good with Uncanny's Soul Attract.

V. Worst Enemies :

Hard Nukers :

Zeus - Lord of Olympia Aiushtha - The Enchantress Lina Inverse - The Slayer Huskar - Sacred Warrior Kel`Thuzad - The Lich

Leshrac - The Tormented Soul Lion - The Demon Witch Nevermore - The Shadow Fiend Pugna - The Oblivion Azgalor - Pit Lord

Zeus could easily wipe your army out because of his Chain Lightning.
Enchantress could hurt you so much. And her Untouchable skill can slow you a lot.
Lina's skills are AOE she can easily wipe out your army.
Huskar's Burning Spear can easily pawn you at early game.
The Chain Frost will be very good against you because you have skeletons by your side, and they don't have spell resistance.
Leshrac's Lightning, Diabolic Edict and Pulse Nova damages you very well.
Finger of Death can easily pawn you because of your low hit points.
Shadowraze can inflict a total of 900 damage on 1 wave because of Uncanny being a melee hero.
Nether Blast is also a very good AOE damage.
Pitlord's Firestorm will damage Uncanny very well and also his skeletons.

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1 By Squarepant 2008-05-03

hehe 1st^^ bot bad

2 By dohyun99 2008-05-03

Soul Spear? I don't see one. But nice idea

Reminds me of Diablo 2 and the Trang-ouls set for necromancers. Also the ultimate

Now i want to play D2 lol. Darn you!

3 By darthp 2008-05-03

Interesting hero...2 skills that hurts self. However wats with the Soul Spear in the skill synergies? It's not in his skill..do u mean Soul Release?

4 By darthp 2008-05-03

oh, and how long did it take your hero to be approved? Thnx

5 By darthp 2008-05-03

oh, and how long did it take your hero to be approved? Thnx

6 By indistinguishable 2008-05-03

hey not a bad hero build. very nice synergy skills. it looks quite good. just that your ulti can be kinda gay haha

7 By Counter_Force[X] 2008-05-03

kinda underpowered, needs some more buff
stat gain is low
int does not synergize with his range and ability, make him ranged

8 By JeFf_ThE_mAOri 2008-05-03

@dohyun99

this dus remind me of d2 cos i used to play it aswell lol..
then saying that the skill att he top says soul release nd on the skill build it says soul spear.

but stil this is a really good idea!! 7/10 from me cos agi gain is to low put it to about 1.6

9 By i_am_me 2008-05-03

soul spear??

i thought it was soul release..

with a different picture too..

good hero.. will rate later

10 By ic4three778 2008-05-03

great! all the skills are not so imba cuz you pay your life for it. its like huskar only... weaker... at first i was shocked at those stats but its alright. give this guy radiance and hood of defiance/vanguards and he's good to go. 9/10

11 By Zabasaz 2008-05-03

I like the concept and it's very polished and organized, although I wonder if he could be more synergized and if his skills could scale better.

12 By Ghost 2008-05-03

please go all or nothing on the d2 necromancer rip.

if you are going to have attract (req level 18.. or 24, forgets) and raise skeleton (ultimate why? req level 1)

lacking in synergy

13 By rambol 2008-05-03

Individually, the skills are creative, but no synergy, and low stat gains.

14 By kornfleykz 2008-05-03

can "Soul Attract" be casted on allies?

15 By leon3625 2008-05-03

balance I'd say

16 By dohyun99 2008-05-03

i agree with Ghost a bit.

You might as well put in Bone Spirit and maybe Revive.

just a thought

17 By Pinky Ishkafel 2008-05-03

steve-o...!!! ~_~ you're back!

18 By Zabasaz 2008-05-03

I noticed your hero synergies were pretty lacking. You outline things that are given - like saying you're good with a hero that can root (sprout, frostbite, etc) of course you are, EVERY hero is.

The hero weaknesses are a step up but some are kind of redundant, too.

19 By Raxxar 2008-05-03

Well... What can I say... COOL!
Cept for the jacked off name from Diablo (yes, WE KNOW YOU DID! xD just kidding, it's ok) , well, really good hero...
Although I think the first throw soul thingy is kinda weak... Really tough to aim by itself and extremely hard to get it to hit twice... My advice... Pump the damage up a bit, so then enemies will be more punished when they're hit twice... Otherwise, it just adds up to a normal nuke...
Anyway, really good, 8/10

20 By Steve-O 2008-05-03

Im a bit drunk when i made this..Lol
I'll be remaking this hero again.

21 By Brewser 2008-05-03

interetsing one
i think its gd
balanced

22 By dohyun99 2008-05-04

lol

the side-effects of booze are the following:

lack of concentration
a warm, fuzzy feeling
loopiness
everything seems like a good idea
carelessness
hang-over the next day

and all that equals up to a nice hero idea that could use a remake

23 By Shimrra_3 2008-05-04

OK I would say this is about 7/10, but considering he was drunk? Amazing... so I'm gonna wait for the sober remake lol. Sif leave skills in the discussion that have been removed ahhaaha.

24 By Shadowinks 2008-05-04

The ulti is very interesting. 10/10

25 By austin_3b 2008-05-05

This hero is gay

they should changed the skill
because it's boring

26 By OnlyTheHeart 2008-05-05

does hood of defaince work with the damage he takes ?o.0 lol axe-cast beserkers call then u soul grip him =gg

27 By xanynorian 2008-05-05

...where did u invent soul attract?
cuz i made that similar skill to one of my ideas...right down to the description of "negative berserkers call" and exclamation marks.
its true rly... so where did u invent it. id rly like to know

28 By Counter_Force[X] 2008-05-05

lately, i noticed hero ideas are lacking in attention, ever since bard man and zombo became inactive

29 By dohyun99 2008-05-05

@above comment, agreed.

I miss the old days when they'd bust open the entire idea and pick their way through it giving notice to every fine detail. Where are they anyways?

@xanynorian

it's also a skill in Diablo 2 so unless you came up with that idea many many years ago and copyrighted it, the idea belongs to Blizzard .

30 By frOzEntraxex 2008-05-06

Well, its all good..
btw, Steve-O! ahaha!,

New guide?, pls... ^_^V,

31 By SlwaBluPhnx 2008-05-06

I liked it, very good balanced hero.

10/10

32 By xanynorian 2008-05-06

@dohyun99
oh man ur right sry for my last comment i just were confused for the similarity..
i knew i had heard of a skill like this somewhere.. so it was the good ol' diablo 2...
no wonder i got messed up.

33 By dohyun99 2008-05-06

yup, good ol' D2

I miss my hacked account that got banned from all the patches lol. It was so imba. I always killed everyone in PVP lmao.

and then the patches came out so i had to start from scratch and i ended up still being nasty until i stopped playing and my account expired

34 By Ungdi 2008-05-06

Very well designed hero. Love the idea of a ranged bersekers call on enemy heros.

35 By Ghost 2008-05-07

lol yeah hero ideas has died without me, zombie, bardman, mangoman the only one remaining is xhellspawnx and he isn't very active there anymore either.

deam heroes doesn't get enough attention for the work put into them.

36 By maxpayne09_13 2008-05-07

yow, put a duration in the last skill.
so it would suck!!haha!!LOL.
nice hero

37 By GoneForeva 2008-05-10

Eyah diablos skillz but really works for me man, Put it in come on we didn't have any new heroes lately anymore u no

38 By iankath123 2008-05-10

39 By mv20vm 2008-05-11

Steve-O is back. Nice hero idea. I'm not comfortable with the Soul Grip but its a good skill

40 By ChaosPrimarch 2008-05-11

Well, his ult is good and all, but I'd rather have poison damage instead of manaburn. By the way, what would 50 mana taken away at level 16 do?

41 By nwa4life 2008-05-12

This guy is just lik visage, undyin, terrorblade and puck all in 1 hero. The first skill puck. The secend 1 undying and terrorblade the 3rd 1 random and the last 1 Visage. This hero is ok to me but he maybe imba and wat people tend to do is make a hero imba.

Nice presentation overall. Lik it but he is melee >.<

Good job though maybe u shouldn't drink and come up with an idea but if that idea sucks then well stick to drinking. nice 1. XD.

42 By apex131986 2008-05-12

does global stun for an ultimate be imba?..as in the stun will have a short duration!??..

43 By apex131986 2008-05-12

does global stun for an ultimate be imba?..as in the stun will have a short duration!??..

44 By xaerodon 2008-05-13

Not too good, ur like many ppl who r so afraid of making your hero imba that u get so paranoid and end up making them too weak.... However, some nice ideas, which is what this section is all about. I wonder if IceFrog will recieve this...

45 By Viper-Shadow 2008-05-13

OH noes! Soul Grips has the same icon as "Inner Hate" from one of my hero ideas...