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Captain

agility Hero

by MMan Dec 07, 2025

Captain

Drains enemy gold to restore his health.

Captain Blackbeard is a cunning Oglodi pirate who can deal massive damage to his enemies with his blunderbuss and explosive kegs. With his curse, or blessing as he calls it, Captain heals himself as he plunders gold from enemies and can delay his death in battle, coming back to life if he can outlast his foes.

Original idea.

Original ability icons from: DotA 2 and HotS

agility HERO

ranged

mid laner

Preferred role

Position 2. Primary role is to farm and complete primary objectives.

COMPLEXITY

Blood Money
Blood Money

Blood Money

passive ABILITY

Upgrades Blood Money

Blood Money: 25/40/55/70% of the gained gold heals the Captain for 5s duration. Levels with Golden Bargain.

Blunderbuss
Blunderbuss

Blunderbuss

active ABILITY

Upgrades Blunderbuss
Upgrades Blunderbuss
Upgrades Blunderbuss
Upgrades Blunderbuss

Shoots bunch of deadly lead balls that damages all enemies in a cone. Enemies take additional damage per each bullet hit.

spell manacost

90 / 100 / 110 / 120

spell cooldown

11 / 10 / 9 / 8

Powderkeg
Powderkeg

Powderkeg

active ABILITY

Upgrades Powderkeg
Upgrades Powderkeg
Upgrades Powderkeg

Tosses an explosive powder keg to the target enemy, ally or point. Keg ignites and explodes after it recieves attacks from heroes or Blunderbuss bullets. Further attacks causes the keg to explode i...

spell manacost

100

spell cooldown

20 / 18 / 16 / 14

Plunder
Plunder

Plunder

active ABILITY

Upgrades Plunder
Upgrades Plunder
Upgrades Plunder

Marks an enemy hero with a curse, draining and stealing their gold based on the distance moved. Captain and his allies also steal additional gold from the marked enemy with each hit. Blunderbuss bu...

spell manacost

65 / 75 / 85 / 95

spell cooldown

18

Golden Bargain
Golden Bargain

Golden Bargain

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

Upgrades Golden Bargain

Captain enters a state that delays his death, reduces his attack damage, and causes his attacks to plunder gold from enemy heroes. During this state, any source of plundered gold heals him, but he ...

spell manacost

-

spell cooldown

120 / 90 / 60

Keelhaul
Keelhaul

Keelhaul

active ABILITY

Grants Keelhaul

Ties the enemy unit to a small vessel, damaging and dragging it behind across the selected direction. Vessel pushes and damages any enemy unit it contacts with. Target enemy gets slowed after the d...

spell manacost

100

spell cooldown

20

Traits unselected

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 6 ABILITIES

Unit portrait

Showing abilities of Captain

Blood Money
I

Blood Money

Blunderbuss

Blunderbuss

Powderkeg

Powderkeg

Plunder

Plunder

Golden Bargain

Golden Bargain

Keelhaul

Keelhaul

BASIC

Blunderbuss

Blunderbuss

active

physical

area

Shoots bunch of deadly lead balls that damages all enemies in a cone. Enemies take additional damage per each bullet hit.

CAST / TRAVEL RANGE 800

CONE ANGLE 90°

FIRED BULLETS 6

BASE DAMAGE 80 / 120 / 160 / 200

DAMAGE PER BULLET 10 / 15 / 20 / 25

spell manacost 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
spell cooldown 11 / 10 / 9 / 8
Upgrades Blunderbuss

+100 Blunderbuss Range

Upgrades Blunderbuss

-2s Blunderbuss Cooldown

Upgrades Blunderbuss

Increases fired bullets by 2 and causes each bullet hit to reduce enemy armor by 1 for 10s.

Upgrades Blunderbuss

Captain’s attacks deal 20-50% of their damage in 280 radius around their targets. Higher damage is based on proximity. Increases Blunderbuss bullet damage to 16/24/32/40 and each bullet hit slows enemies by 4/6/8/10% for 2s. Increases Powderkeg explosion radius and max knockback distance by 75.

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

1

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

4

Valid targets

SELF

ALLY

ENEMY

NEUTRAL

HEROES

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

CREEPS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

BUILDINGS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

SPECIFIED RULES

works on illusions: YES

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HERO´S MODIFIERS

MODIFIERS THAT ALTER THE GAMEPLAY OF THE HERO

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Gold Rush

Gold Rush

Captain gains +100/150/200/250 attack range against Plunder target. Each attack target recieves reduces the ability cooldown by 0.5s. Killing the target grants 15/20/25/30% bonus movement speed for 6s.

Upgrades Plunder
Black Powder

Black Powder

Captain’s attacks deal 20-50% of their damage in 280 radius around their targets. Higher damage is based on proximity. Increases Blunderbuss bullet damage to 16/24/32/40 and each bullet hit slows enemies by 4/6/8/10% for 2s. Increases Powderkeg explosion radius and max knockback distance by 75.

Upgrades Blunderbuss
Upgrades Powderkeg

Wingman

Parrot rotates around 400 radius of Captain and attacks nearby enemies. Parrot has 450 attack range and deals 10 + 25% of Captain's base attack damage. Attack interval scales with Captain's attack speed, ranging from 3.0-1.0s. It can plunder gold from enemies with attacks, and can also take bounty runes within its attack range.

AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Grants new ability: Keelhaul

Grants Keelhaul

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Increases fired bullets by 2 and causes each bullet hit to reduce enemy armor by 1 for 10s.

Upgrades Blunderbuss

Talent Tree

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3 Powderkeg Charges

No notes

Upgrades Powderkeg
25

+6 Golden Bargain Plundered Gold per Hit

No notes

Upgrades Golden Bargain

+50 Plunder Max Drained Gold

No notes

Upgrades Plunder
20

-2s Blunderbuss Cooldown

No notes

Upgrades Blunderbuss

-4s Plunder Cooldown

No notes

Upgrades Plunder
15

+90 Powderkeg Damage

No notes

Upgrades Powderkeg

+100 Blunderbuss Range

No notes

Upgrades Blunderbuss
10

+10% Blood Money Gained Gold to Heal

No notes

Upgrades Blood Money

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IDEA DESCRIPTION

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Captain Blackbeard is a cunning Oglodi pirate who can deal massive damage to his enemies with his blunderbuss and explosive kegs. With his curse, or blessing as he calls it, Captain heals himself as he plunders gold from enemies and can delay his death in battle, coming back to life if he can outlast his foes.

Original idea.

Original ability icons from: DotA 2 and HotS

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Innate & Facets for 7.36

Innate - Blood Money: 25/40/55/70% of the gained gold heals the Captain for 5s duration. Levels with Golden Bargain.

Facet 1 - Gold Rush: Captain gains +100/150/200/250 attack range against Plunder target. Each attack target recieves reduces the ability cooldown by 0.5s. Killing the target grants 15/20/25/30% bonus movement speed for 6s.

Facet 2 - Black Powder: Captain’s attacks deal 20-50% of their damage in 280 radius around their targets. Higher damage is based on proximity. Increases Blunderbuss bullet damage to 16/24/32/40 and each bullet hit slows enemies by 4/6/8/10% for 2s. Increases Powderkeg explosion radius and max knockback distance by 75.

Facet 3 - Wingman: Parrot rotates around 400 radius of Captain and attacks nearby enemies. Parrot has 450 attack range and deals 10 + 25% of Captain's base attack damage. Attack interval scales with Captain's attack speed, ranging from 3.0-1.0s. It can plunder gold from enemies with attacks, and can also take bounty runes within its attack range.

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Pigzit

Pigzit commented 3 years ago

Flavor wise, this design is super cool. I really love the ultimate, more specifically the passive component. This design is strong enough you could just have the ult be that passive and it would hold up on its own. Big fan of this one
MMan

MMan replied 3 years ago

Glad you liked it! I thought the passive alone would be like weaker version of old Sadist/Bloodbath as an ultimate. I added the cheat death component to add a bit more functionality to the skill (and also inspired by the first PoTC movie, especially the icon)
Datfizh

Datfizh commented 3 years ago

I'm inclined to put Keelhaul as basic ability than Plunder. Also, I think Blood Money can be changed to be a 50% chance to get 1.5/2/2.5x gold bounty on any kill and 100/125/150% bonus Attack Damage based on target's missing health with 10/20/30% health threshold.
MMan

MMan replied 3 years ago

Originally Keelhaul was basic ability and Powderkeg was the shard. But an easy displacement ability like it would be a bit broken as a basic skill so i swapped them. As for Plunder and Bloodmoney i think they are the skills that defines the gimmick with this hero: steal and live. Suggested version looks like it can be a BH thing.