Nyx Assassin's damage on enemies also burns mana as a percentage of the damage dealt.
Detailed attributes
- MANA BURN
- 12%
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Nyx Assassin
Description, attributes and patch history, in one place.
CURRENT GAME DATA
Reflects enemy damage and stuns
Nyx Assassin is always hunting for fragile targets. Sneaking invisibly through the forest, when he spots his prey, he swipes them with his deadly claws and impales them on stunning spikes, then reverses any counterattack with his reflecting carapace.
Lore
Deep in the Archive of Ultimyr, shelved between scholarly treatises on dragon cladistics and books of untranslatable spells, there is an ancient tome of entomological curiosities. Compiled by scholars, the book describes the telepathic talents of the zealot scarab, a strange species of social insect with abilities unique to all the seven planes. Unlike most grubs of his colony, Nyx Assassin did not arise from metamorphosis with the plodding thoughts and blunted appendages common to the worker caste of his kind. For his was a special transformation, guided by the grace of Nyx. He was the chosen one, selected from the many and anointed with an extract of the queen goddess herself. Not all survive the dark blessing of the queen's chamber, but he emerged with a penetrating mind, and dagger-like claws--his razor sharp mandibles raking the air while his thoughts projected directly into the minds of those around him. Of all zealot scarabs, he alone was selected for the highest calling. After his metamorphosis, he was reborn, by grace of Nyx, with abilities which shaped him for one thing and one thing only: to kill in the name of his goddess.
Strength17+2.7 per level
Agility18+2.9 per level
Intelligence21+2.6 per level
- Health
- 494
- Mana
- 327
- Health regeneration
- 3.7
- Mana regeneration
- 1.05
- Min attack damage
- 26
- Max attack damage
- 30
- Armor
- 4
- Magic resistance
- 25%
- Movement speed
- 310
- Attack range
- 150
- Base attack time
- 1.7
- Projectile speed
- 900
- Turn rate
- 0.6
- Day vision
- 1,800
- Night vision
- 800
Innate ability
Abilities 5
Rock spikes burst from the earth along a straight path. Enemy units take damage, then are hurled into the air and stunned.
Detailed attributes
- Cooldown (s)
- 17 / 15 / 13 / 11
- Mana cost
- 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
- Cast range
- 750
- Cast point (s)
- 0.3
- STUN DURATION
- 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2
- IMPALE DAMAGE
- 100 / 160 / 220 / 280
- The spikes move at 1600 units per second, over 750 range.
- Impale cannot be blocked by Linken's Sphere.
Deals damage equal to a percentage of the target's Max Mana and burns part of it away. Deals additional damage equal to a percentage of the damage the target has taken from Nyx Assassin in the last 15s. Resets accumulated damage before applying damage.
Detailed attributes
- Cooldown (s)
- 11 / 9.5 / 8 / 6.5
- Mana cost
- 100 / 105 / 110 / 115
- Cast range
- 800
- Cast point (s)
- 0.4
- MAX MANA AS DAMAGE
- 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%
- MANA BURNT
- 9 / 12 / 15 / 18%
- BONUS DAMAGE
- 15%
When activated while above ground, Spiked Carapace reflects and negates damage dealt to Nyx Assassin (max once from each source), as well as stunning the source of the damage. Activating Spiked Carapace will not break Vendetta invisibility. While Burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast.
Detailed attributes
- Cooldown (s)
- 20 / 16 / 12 / 8
- Mana cost
- 40
- REFLECT DURATION
- 2
- STUN DURATION
- 0.7 / 1 / 1.3 / 1.6
- DAMAGE REFLECTED
- 140%
- The damage is calculated after all reductions.
- Spiked Carapace will only trigger on damage from other player controlled sources.
- The damage reflected will have the same damage type as it had when it was dealt to Nyx Assassin.
- Damage done by this ability is considered reflected damage. Reflected damage does not provide any lifesteal and cannot be reflected.
Burrow
Granted by Aghanim’s ScepterNyx Assassin buries himself beneath the battlefield over a short duration. Once burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast, the range of Mind Flare and Impale is increased, and Impale's cooldown is decreased. While burrowed, Nyx Assassin is stationary, unable to attack, and invisible. Nyx Assassin gains damage reduction from all damage sources.
Detailed attributes
- Cast point (s)
- 1.5
- MAX HP REGEN
- 1%
- MAX MANA REGEN
- 1%
- BURROW DAMAGE REDUCTION
- 40%
- BURROW BONUS CAST RANGE
- 500
- BURROW BONUS COOLDOWN REDUCTION
- 25%
- BURROW SPIKED CARAPACE RANGE
- 400
- Casting Vendetta will cancel burrow.
Nyx Assassin becomes invisible and gains a speed bonus. If Nyx Assassin attacks to break the invisibility, massive bonus damage is dealt with the attack that applies a break to the target. Nyx Assassin has 75 additional attack range and a 70% faster attack animation for this attack.
Detailed attributes
- Cooldown (s)
- 80 / 70 / 60
- Mana cost
- 180 / 240 / 300
- DURATION
- 45 / 50 / 55
- MOVEMENT SPEED
- 16 / 18 / 20%
- BONUS DAMAGE
- 300 / 400 / 500
- BREAK DURATION
- 4
Aghanim’s Shard
Decreases cooldown by ?s. For the first 15s of Vendetta, Nyx is hasted and has unobstructed pathing.
- If a spell is used to break the invisibility, or the invisibility expires, the bonus damage is lost.
- With Aghanim's Shard, the Break is applied before the bonus damage.
? means this value is not supplied by the source.