Bane

Atropos, the Bane Elemental (or simply Bane), is a ranged intelligence hero whose dark and nightmarish abilities give him prowess as a disabler, ganker, and nuker. Mostly played as a support, his high starting stats make him a menace in lane. Bane possesses four potent single-target spells, which must be used well to make up for his lack of pushing power or area of effect presence. Bane’s first spell, Enfeeble, reduces the target’s attack damage, health regeneration, and the speed they cast spells, crippling physical damage dealers, tanky brawlers, and spellcasters alike. Brain Sap deals hefty damage to the target and heals Atropos for the same amount, giving Bane a massive presence in small skirmishes. Nightmare puts a unit to sleep, completely disabling it for several seconds. The unit awakes when it is attacked or takes damage, though Bane can freely attack nightmared targets without waking them. Finally, Bane’s Fiend’s Grip is a channeled spell that completely disables the target, drains its mana and deals high damage over time. Bane’s aptitude for incapacitating and debilitating enemies make him an invaluable support to allies—and a nightmare for enemies.

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• Tranquil Boots give movement speed for mobility. The passive health regeneration also helps to offset Soul Ring’s health cost.
• Urn of Shadows gives Bane more utility while also providing useful bonuses. As he is already a strong ganker, Bane can easily get charges that can then be used to heal teammates or add additional damage to ganks.
• Force Staff provides intelligence and health regeneration to use abilities. The active can get Bane and allies to the right position, or break Linken’s Sphere, opening up opportunities for disables.
• Ghost Scepter gives Bane a way to shield himself from physical attacks for a short duration, gaining him time to use his abilities or to retreat. Use with Fiend’s Grip to prevent the enemy from killing him with physical attacks.
• Glimmer Cape brings invisibility and magic resistance to Bane and his allies, allowing them to initiate on enemies or escape from engagements. Use on Bane while channeling Fiend’s Grip to conceal himself from enemies.
• Solar Crest weakens the armor of target, including Roshan, allowing allies to deal more physical damage to them, and the passive mana regeneration helps Bane to maintain his mana pool.
• Meteor Hammer grants strength, intelligence, and regeneration. The item’s channel time benefits from Nightmare’s long duration disable, ensuring the stun on targets. The item also applies damage to enemy buildings and creeps, helping Bane push and clear waves.
• Eul’s Scepter of Divinity gives increased movement speed, allowing Bane to position for abilities, and the intelligence and strong scaling mana regeneration greatly help with his casting. The active provides yet another disable that Bane can use on the enemy to set up ganks or hinder them in teamfights, or use on Bane himself to provide a short duration of invulnerability while also dispelling debuffs such as silences.
• Rod of Atos gives Bane more health and a larger mana pool. It also provides a root disable, giving Bane and allies time to pin down the target.
• Lotus Orb grants armor, regeneration, and Echo Shell that can be used on Bane or allies to remove debuffs and reflect targeted abilities.
• Shiva’s Guard provides Bane with armor and attack speed slow aura, increasing his resilience against physical attacks. The added intelligence improves his damage and expands his mana pool; the active adds more damage in teamfights and slow movement speed of enemies.
• Scythe of Vyse provides a large intelligence bonus and mana regeneration that alleviates Bane’s casting problems, while also providing all-around attributes to increase survivability. The active allows him to utilize an instant hex.
• Guardian Greaves restores mana and health to team while removing debuffs from Bane. The armor and health regenerating aura works better on heroes at low HP, potentially saving them from deaths.
• Aghanim’s Scepter drastically reduces cooldown of Fiend’s Grip and makes it harder for enemy team to interrupt channeling.

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• The origin of the name “Atropos” comes from Greek mythology. One of the Moirai Sisters (commonly referred to as the Sisters of Fate), Atropos was the sister in charge of cutting the “Life Thread” of those who were going to die. Her name literally means ‘the no-Turning One’ (> α ‘no, without’ + τρέπειν ‘to turn’), referring to the irreversible and inevitable destiny of death.
• Bane’s rival line towards Tinker ▶️ “Do Tinkers dream of electric sheepsticks?” is a reference to the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. “Sheepstick” is also a commonly used name for the Scythe of Vyse.
• The theme and abilities of Bane are based on the game Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis. In this game, there is a Bane “element” which provides spells that are named Enfeeble, Brain Sap, Nightmare and Fiend’s Grip, with a similar theme of Bane in Dota 2.
• Bane’s move line ▶️ “Sleep no more!” is a reference to Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, in particular, his famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Hamlet reasons over whether to take his own life or carry on: “To die, to sleep-. No more-and by a sleep we say to end…”
• Fiend’s Grip sound effect makes use of one of Bane’s lines (“▶️ The bane of your existence”).
• Bane’s Last hit Response “▶️ The wages of fear” is a reference to the film of the same name.
• Bane is the only hero in Dota that has both the same base value as well as the same growth value on all 3 attributes. Even when general attribute value adjustments have been made on other heroes through different versions, Bane has still kept this peculiarity in every version, intentionally.

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• Pre-release icons and textures

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• Beta model based on the previous concept art

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