Ulmortus, Ghoul Lord

intelligence Hero

created by by Pigzit | Last update: Dec 04, 2025

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melee

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COMPLEXITY

Debilitation

passive ABILITY

Ghoul Lord passively reduces enemy magic resistance and max HP for every instance of damage they take from Ghoul Lord. NOTE: Attacks count as one damage instance, and items such as Spirit Vessel a...

Ghostly Image

active ABILITY

Upgrades Ghostly Image

90/100/110/120

Exhume

active ABILITY

120

50/40/30/20

Ritual Dagger

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

200/300/400

140/120/100

Self Slaughter

active ABILITY

Grants Self Slaughter

150

180

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LEVEL

BONUS STATS

STRENGTH

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

AGILITY

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

INTELLIGENCE

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

DPS

DAMAGE

SPEED

RANGE

ARMOR

MAGIC RES.

SPEED

TURN RATE

VISION

ABILITIES

THIS IDEA CONTAINS A TOTAL OF 5 ABILITIES

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Debilitation

Ghostly Image

Exhume

Ritual Dagger

Self Slaughter

Passive

Debilitation

Active

Ghostly Image

Active

Exhume

Active

Ritual Dagger

ULTIMATE ABILITY

Active

Self Slaughter

BASIC

Debilitation

TYPE passive

DAMAGE hp removal

TARGET MODE none

Ghoul Lord passively reduces enemy magic resistance and max HP for every instance of damage they take from Ghoul Lord. NOTE: Attacks count as one damage instance, and items such as Spirit Vessel and Radiance can apply stacks as well. Instances only apply a stack if they deal atleast 20 damage of any type after reductions.

DEBUFF DURATION 10

HP LOSS PER STACK 20

RESIST LOSS PER STACK 1%

MAX STACKS 20/30/40/50

BASIC

Ghostly Image

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE area

Creates a phantom at target location that wanders in a circle around the spawn point and taunts enemy heroes that walk near the area it lingers around. Enemies taunted to the phantom take damage per second for the duration of the taunt. After a successful taunt is finished the phantom disappears. Deals damage in 0.5 second intervals.

TAUNT DURATION 2/2.5/3/3.5

DAMAGE PER SECOND 60/80/100/120

TAUNT RANGE 300

WANDER RADIUS 375

CAST RANGE 350/400/450/500

Aghanim's Shard

Upgrades Ghostly Image

Ghostly Image becomes a charge based ability with 2 charges. Increases taunt duration by 0.5 seconds.

90/100/110/120

BASIC

Exhume

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE area

Applies a debuff to enemies in an area that varies in strength based on the number of corpses in the area for the duration. Damage and duration scale with the number of corpses, and new corpses in the radius increase the duration of actively debuffed heroes. Deals damage in 1 second intervals. Ghostly Images and the Ghoul Lord himself count as corpses. Creeps, neutrals, illusions, and living Ghoul Lord illusions count as half a corpse each.

RADIUS 240/360/480/600

CAST RANGE 300/375/450/525

DPS PER CORPSE 20/30/40/50

BASE DMG PER SECOND 30/50/70/90

DURATION PER CORPSE 1

BASE DURATION 4

120

50/40/30/20

BASIC

Ritual Dagger

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE unit

Ulmortus plunges the sacred Ritual Dagger into target enemy hero, channeling to stun them and deal damage per second. If their health falls under a fixed threshold during this stun they are instantly killed. Deals damage in 1 second intervals. Ritual Daggers cast range is equal to Ulmortus attack range.

THRESHOLD 300/550/800

STUN DURATION 3/4/5

DAMAGE PER SECOND 100/125/150

200/300/400

140/120/100

BASIC

Self Slaughter

TYPE active

DAMAGE hp removal

TARGET MODE none

Granted with Aghanims Scepter. Ulmortus plunges his ritual dagger into his own skull, killing himself instantly and creating a new corpse. After a 5 second delay, he respawns at the site of the slaughter with 50% of the health he had when he died, and heals all allies surrounding him on respawn for a percentage of the health he lost from the ritual. On respawn, all of his items and his other non-ultimate spells have their cooldowns reset.

DAMAGE TO HEAL 30%

HEAL RADIUS 500

CAST TIME 0.75

Aghanim's Scepter

Grants Self Slaughter

Grants new ability: Self Slaughter

150

180

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

is breakable: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

ULTIMATE ABILITY

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

blocked by Linken's Sphere: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Grants new ability: Self Slaughter

Grants Self Slaughter

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Ghostly Image becomes a charge based ability with 2 charges. Increases taunt duration by 0.5 seconds.

Upgrades Ghostly Image

Talent Tree

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+3s Ritual Dagger Max Channel Duration

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+200 Ritual Dagger Threshold

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+200 Ghostly Image Taunt Range

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+40 Movement Speed

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+10 Max Debilitation Stacks

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+10s Debilitation Duration

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+100 Cast Range

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+25 Attack Speed

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ITEM & SKILL BUILDS

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Ghoul Lord Core

hard carry

The name of the game here is maximize damage instances against as many heroes as you can. Radiance is great for this, Blademail is a poor mans Radiance, and Maelstrom or Battlefury can also be situationally good. Witch Blade synergizes with your stats well and applies extra slow for staying on top of enemies. BKB helps channel your stun longer in case you aren't at the health threshold. Skadi, Shiva, and Hex all keep you on top of enemies who are going to kite you otherwise and will help you chase even without having a movement ability.

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Ghoul Lord Support

soft support

Maximizing damage instances is good here as well, but we also want items that synergize with your Ghostly Image. Meteor Hammer applies a lot of damage instances and can be channeled while enemies are feared by the ghost with extra time to spare, dealing mass damage and keeping them in Exhume. Shard and Atos help this synergy further and will keep enemies in Exhume for much longer, be it feared or rooted. Aghs can be nice in a pinch if your team needs heals, and is a very risky way to refresh both of your Ghostly Image charges in the middle of a teamfight. Euls can help set up your ghosts like how Void Spirit uses Aether Remnant, and Wraith Pact is great at applying lots of AOE damage instances and buffing your allies.

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IDEA DESCRIPTION

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This is hero built on the design principle of -damage instances matter-. This is something we see in Dota only once, that being Templar Assassin, and in her case damage instances matter only defensively. Ghoul Lord's passive makes it so that instances of damage he applies in everything from attacks to items reduce enemy magic resistance and max HP, with a long cooldown finisher ultimate that instantly kills heroes under a certain health level. I'm not quite sure what roles he would fill, as initially I designed him as a highly level dependent midlane ganker. As the whole hero came together it became clear that his abilities can be effective in many other ways, and might be more effective in a support role under certain circumstances and with certain items built. This is one of my most vague heroes in design intention as I primarily built him for one core mechanic and branched off of that, so you might have a whole other idea about how he should be played and what might be broken, so let me know what you think!

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Hero Art: Antonio J. Manzanedo (Wizards of the Coast)

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FlyDoomer commented 3 years ago

Nice item adition! :)

Pigzit replied 3 years ago

Thanks! Wanted to test it out and added some item guides to the Purifier as well. Works really well so far and might go back and edit my previous posts with guides like this

FlyDoomer commented 3 years ago

I created an item for your hero xD Defractioner

FlyDoomer replied 3 years ago

https://dotaideas.com/post/item/27

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