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Midas

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by NukeGaming Dec 30, 2025

Midas

I got the idea to make this hero due to the fact that there is no hero that has special abilities that use gold. The play style of this hero is that you either save your gold to do more damage and get status resistance, or you spend it for items. His Q helps a lot for this. He can be played as a support to give their carries a gold boost. And my goal with this hero was to make it so it can slow down fast farming heroes because there is a point in the game where you cant really stop their carry from getting more and more gold, so why not add a hero that counters that. Also I was sick of Alch players just getting a free butt-load of gold. Anyways, I couldn't find any good pictures for this hero. The current one will have to due so I can upload this. He looks like a king in armor with a sword that replaces his missing hand.
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strength Attribute
melee Attack
Complexity

Moderate difficulty

All Preferred Positions

Flexible - can play any position

Abilities

Active and passive powers

Golden Touch

active Ability

Touch target hero or creep, turns them into a gold statue making them stunned and spell immune for the duration. When the target hero or creep dies before the duration ends, it awards the killer bo...

mana 90/100/110/120
cooldown 20/17/14/11

Envy

active Ability

Midas creates a circle of Envy that covers a 300 AOE area that when enemy heroes stand in it, they get slowed and take damage per second based on the amount of gold they have.

mana 80/100/120/140
cooldown 25

Kings Horde

passive Ability

The more gold Midas has, the more attack damage and status resistance he gains. Damage per 50 gold: 2/4/6/8 Status Resistance per 50 gold: 0.4%/0.5%/0.6%/0.7%

Curse Of Dionyssus

ULTIMATE
active Ability

Target enemy hero gains less gold from all sources during the duration. The duration of Curse of Dionyssus continues even after they die. If they die during the duration, they lose 5%/10%/15% more ...

mana 50/75/100
cooldown 60/55/50

HP

MP

LEVEL

1
6
12
18
25
30

BONUS STATS

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

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 4 ABILITIES

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Golden Touch

Type active Damage none Target unit
Available at level 1 | Has 4 levels
Touch target hero or creep, turns them into a gold statue making them stunned and spell immune for the duration. When the target hero or creep dies before the duration ends, it awards the killer bonus gold. Works with Hand of Midas and will multiply the gold. Can only be dispelled by strong dispels.
GOLD MULTIPLIER 1.5x/2.0x/2.5x/3.0x
CAST RANGE 200
STUN DURATION 2/2.5/3/3.5
mana 90/100/110/120
cooldown 20/17/14/11
Casting
Leash/Root Can be casted when the caster is leashed or rooted Yes
Interruption Goes on cooldown even if cast was interrupted Yes
Blocking
Linken's Sphere Is blocked by Linken's Sphere Yes
Pierces Spell Immunity Pierces spell immunity -
Targeting
Disjoint Can be disjointed, causing it to miss its target -
Illusions Illusion units can be targeted -
Dispel
Dispellable Can be dispelled -
Applies Dispel Applies dispel to the target -
Effects
Break The ability is breakable -
Barrier Applies protective barrier to the target/s -
Debuff Immunity Grants debuff immunity to target/s -

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Midas can cast his ult on allied heroes and himself. Instead of a gold gain debuff, they get a gold gain buff from all sources, +20%/+35%/+50% gold gained for the same duration and mana cost. When an ally hero dies with the ult on them, they lose 5%/10%/15% less gold.
Upgrades Curse Of Dionyssus

AGHANIM'S SHARD

King Horde becomes an aura that gives allies 50% of the effect to ally heroes. Can now be activated to give ally heroes in that AOE 50 gold from midas’ gold. Cooldown of 10 seconds. Will not give any gold if Midas does not have enough for everyone in the AOE.
Upgrades Kings Horde

Talent Tree

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25

Items Midas buys cost 25% less

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2 Charges of Curse of Dionyssus

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20

+1x gold mutilplier for Golden Touch

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-10 Seconds off Envy

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15

+4 Damage per gold for Kings Horde

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+30 Movement Speed

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10

+8 Strength

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-2s on Golden Touch

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I got the idea to make this hero due to the fact that there is no hero that has special abilities that use gold. The play style of this hero is that you either save your gold to do more damage and get status resistance, or you spend it for items. His Q helps a lot for this. He can be played as a support to give their carries a gold boost. And my goal with this hero was to make it so it can slow down fast farming heroes because there is a point in the game where you cant really stop their carry from getting more and more gold, so why not add a hero that counters that. Also I was sick of Alch players just getting a free butt-load of gold. Anyways, I couldn't find any good pictures for this hero. The current one will have to due so I can upload this. He looks like a king in armor with a sword that replaces his missing hand.

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Kind Midas was a greedy king that loved gold. More so then anything else. He would spend his days in his castle counting his gold. It seemed he couldn't get enough. It seemed, gold was the only thing he cared about other then his Daughter. One day, the god Dionyssus took attention to this man. Dionyssus, feeling that this greedy king needed to be taught a lesson, cursed him so that whatever he touches, turns to gold. The king, at first, loved and enjoyed his new found ability. Touching everthing in his castle and laughing with joy. But, it started to become a problem for him. He wasn't able to eat food he picked up due to it turning to gold. He had to get servants to feed food to him. His bathwater turning to gold after touching it. His clothing became unwearable. And finally, when his daughter came to embrace him, he begged her to stop and stay away from him. She ignored, and she was turned into a gold statue. The king became heartbroken. He begged and pleaded to reverse what has been done. The God Dionyssus showed himself to the king. He admitted he did it to him. And he explained that the king needed to learn a lesson. The king, filled with rage at the God, cursed at him and tried to attack him. Dionyssus, calling the king a fool, said he was going to reverse it, but after his actions, he decided that the king would have to learn to live with this curse. Dionyssus then cuts off Midas' right hand to keep as a reminder to people that greed, is a dangerous temptation. Years later, Midas has channeled his rage, trained for combat, and destroyed and pillaged any city that worshiped Dionyssus. His curse gave him newfound abilities to use at his disposal. He yearns that one day, he will kill the god that cursed him.

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Peetrek
Peetrek commented 3 years ago
I like a lot the Q spell. Not so much the ultimate, I wouldnt mess with buybacks. And maybe not so much with gold either, but making things into gold and giving a bonus bounty sounds fun
NukeGaming
NukeGaming Author replied 3 years ago
Okay, I will get rid of the buyback mechanic. I was kind of iffy when adding it in.
frenky
frenky commented 3 years ago
I really like this hero. Back in the days they were trying to create a hero based to play aroung "gold" and they failed with the Gambler, however you nailed it. He subtely synergizes with himself and has a cool and new interesting way to play around resources. However I think that the E is quite OP in that matter. Like having 5000 gold will give you 100% status resistance, HEY YO! xD. Anyways I like it.
NukeGaming
NukeGaming Author replied 3 years ago
Ah, I see with the 100% Status resistance. Will nerf it.