Medusa

Notes:

• Split Shot does not interrupt Medusa’s channeling abilities upon toggling On / Off.

• When toggled On, Medusa’s main attack damage and bonus attack damage are reduced.
  • Other sources of damage added to the primary attack are not reduced (e.g. Bash).
  • The reduction displayed in the HUD is inaccurate, as it is based on the main attack damage, instead of main and bonus damage.

• Split Shot persists through Medusa’s death. If Split Shot was active upon death, she respawns with it active.

• Causes Medusa to perform instant attacks on the closest 4 enemies whenever she launches an attack projectile.
  • This means all projectiles are released at the same time together with the main attack. It does not matter whether the primary attack misses.
  • The extra projectiles travel at the same speed as the leading attack’s projectile.
  • This means their speed can be further increased by other attack projectile speed bonuses.
  • These instant attacks may not proc any attack modifiers or on-hit effects, unless the Split Shot uses modifiers talent is learned. They do not have True Strike.
  • They are affected by armor type, and blocked by damage block like regular attacks.

• With Medusa’s base attack range and Spilt Shot’s range bonus, the ability has a search radius of 750.
  • The search radius can be further increased by other attack range bonuses.
  • Does not target wards, buildings, invisible units, attack immune units, or units inside the Fog of War, but does target Couriers.
  • However, attacking wards or buildings still causes secondary arrows to hit valid targets within the search radius.
  • Secondary arrows are not released upon attacking allies.

Notes:

• Mystic Snake travels at a speed of 800.

• Applies the damage first, the slow debuff, then the petrify debuff.

• The snake always bounces to the closest valid target around its current target. Cannot hit the same unit more than once per cast.
  • The snake can bounce on units in the Fog of War, but not on invisible, invulnerable or hidden units.
  • If the snake’s current target turns invulnerable, hidden or invisible, the bounce neither counts, nor increases the damage.
  • The snake continues bouncing to nearby valid targets in these cases.

• The snake provides 100 radius flying vision around itself. The vision does not last.

• Medusa’s mana is restored when the snake returns to her. The restored amount is based on all hit enemies’ maximum mana.
  • Hit illusions are not counted towards the mana restore value.

• Mystic Snake needs to hit units with a combined total mana pool of 1273/1072/942/851 ( 305/307/308/310) in order to fully reclaim its mana cost.

• Each successful hit on an enemy increases the damage of the next bounce by 35% of the ability’s base damage.
  • This means its damage grows linearly, not exponentially, dealing 28/42/56/70 damage more per bounce.

• This is how much damage Mystic Snake deals and for how long it petrifies per bounce when all bounces successfully hit (before reductions):

• With Aghanim’s Scepter, Mystic Snake applies the Stone Gaze debuff on enemies it hits.

Notes:

• Mana Shield does not interrupt Medusa’s channeling abilities upon toggling On / Off.

• Mana Shield persists through Medusa’s death. If Mana Shield was active upon death, she respawns with it active.

• Applies unique incoming damage reduction on Medusa. Stacks multiplicatively with all other sources of incoming damage manipulation.
  • The reduction affects all damage Medusa allies take that is not flagged as HP removal.

• Increases Medusa’s effective health by 233.33% when toggled On, assuming she has enough mana.

Notes:

• Requires Aghanim’s Shard to be unlocked.

• Follows the same rules as Spell Block.

• The snake is sent out even if the triggering enemy is spell immune, invulnerable or hidden.

• Has no range limit. The snake can be sent out globally if targeted by abilities with Global cast range.

Notes:

• The enemy team must have vision over Medusa (while she is using Stone Gaze) for at least 1 server tick before the ability start affecting any enemies.
  • Stone Gaze will affect no enemies at all until this is achieved.
  • Once this is achieved, enemies that break vision of Medusa can still be affected by Stone Gaze, even through the Fog of War.

• Every enemy unit that faces Medusa within 85° in front of them within a 1200 radius around Medusa gets the facing and the slow debuff applied.

• The facing debuff counts for how long the unit faces Medusa. If it accumulates 2 seconds of facing time, it petrifies the unit.
  • The facing debuff lasts for either as long as Stone Gaze does (ending whenever Stone Gaze ends in any way), or until getting petrified.
  • Looking away from Medusa does not reset the the 2-second facing counter.
  • Facing Medusa while invulnerable or hidden still counts towards the 2-second counter.
  • This means the petrification can be avoided by being invulnerable as the ability attempts to petrify.

• The slow debuff only slows affected enemies while facing Medusa. Units that turn away are not slowed, but keep the debuff.
  • The slow debuff lasts for either as long as Stone Gaze does (ending whenever Stone Gaze ends in any way), or until getting petrified.

• Once the petrify debuff expires, the unit can be affected by Stone Gaze again, repeating until Stone Gaze ends, so long the unit faces Medusa.

• The petrify debuff is a stun, which also freezes animations, and amplifies incoming physical attack damage.
  • Does not amplify magical or pure attack damage, and does not amplify physical spell damage.

• Stone Gaze does not affect neutral creeps.

• Stone Gaze ends when Medusa dies, but already petrified enemies stay petrified for the duration.

Notes:

• The evasion talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources of evasion.

• This attack damage talent is added as raw attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

• The intelligence talent effectively grants Medusa 900 mana and 3.75 mana regeneration.