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Elder Dragon Form

Description, attributes and patch history, in one place.

CURRENT GAME DATA

Dragon Knight assumes the form of the Elder Dragon, increasing the range of his abilities, gaining bonus movement speed, and a ranged attack with various properties. The Dragon evolves per level. The bonuses are cumulative. Level 1 Green: Grants a corrosive damage over time that can also damage buildings. Level 2 Red: Grants splash damage to the dragon's attacks. Level 3 Blue: Grants a debuff immunity piercing movement and attack frost slow on attack.

Lore

The dormant dragon power springs forth from within Davion, combining the powers of a legendary knight with a legendary Eldwurm.

Cooldown (s)
100
Mana cost
50
DURATION
60
BONUS MOVE SPEED
25 / 30 / 35 / 40
BONUS ATTACK RANGE
350
BONUS ABILITY RANGE
350
CORROSIVE DURATION
3
CORROSIVE DAMAGE
25 / 25 / 25 / 35
SPLASH DAMAGE
0 / 75 / 75 / 100%
SPLASH RADIUS
0 / 275 / 275 / 350
FROST DURATION
0 / 0 / 3 / 3
FROST MOVEMENT SLOW
0 / 0 / 30 / 45%
FROST ATTACK SLOW
0 / 0 / 50 / 65
Snapshot updated: Valve source

Current values, not historical patch values. Official descriptions are in English.

Change history

13 records
PATCH 7.41heroes

Dragon Knight › Elder Dragon Form

12 changes
  • Now evolves per level. The bonuses are cumulative

  • Level 1: Green Dragon: Attacks apply a Corrosive poison that deals 25 magical damage per second for 3 seconds. Affects buildings

  • Level 2: Red Dragon: Attacks have splash damage that deals 75% of attack damage to all enemies within 275 AoE range

  • Applies Corrosive poison to all affected units. Other attack modifiers will affect only the primary target

  • Level 3: Blue Dragon: Attacks also apply a Frost debuff, which pierces Debuff Immunity and slows attack by 50 and movement by 30%

  • Splash attacks apply Corrosive poison and Frost slow to all affected units. Other attack modifiers will affect only the primary target

  • Bonus Move Speed increased from 20 to 25/30/35

  • No longer provides bonus attack damage

  • Now also increases cast range of all abilities by 350

    Doesn't affect items

  • Aghanim's Scepter no longer improves Wyrm's Wrath effectiveness while in Dragon Form

  • Aghanim's Scepter Black Dragon stats slightly rescaled

  • Level 4 Black Dragon has the following stats: 40 Bonus Move Speed, 35 Corrosive Damage, 100% Splash Damage, 350 Splash Radius, 65 Attack Slow, 45% Movement Slow, and also provides +20% Magic Resistance and free pathing

Source: Valve’s Dota 2 patch notes. Dates use UTC. This archive contains imported gameplay patches; it does not include every client hotfix. Dota 2 belongs to Valve.
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