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N'kari Arch-Tempter

agility Hero

by Satou the Deus Musco Dec 06, 2025

N'kari Arch-Tempter

N'kari is a melee agility hyper carry who doesn't fight fair. He's got 3 ways of weaking his enemy's ability to fight while boosting himself up through being hurt and hurting enemies. He can start a battle by silencing his opponent and slowing them, once the silence is over the enemy might find that they've lost 36 intelligence (and thus 432 mana) and a tonne of attack speed and thus might not ... View more

agility HERO

melee

unspecified

Preferred role

Position not specified.

COMPLEXITY

Willing Prey
Willing Prey

Willing Prey

active ABILITY

N'kari gives his prey the desire for an agonizing death, sapping their will to fight back. His target is slowed and silenced.

spell manacost

120/130/140/150

spell cooldown

30/26/22/18

Witstealer sword
Witstealer sword

Witstealer sword

passive ABILITY

Enemies struck by N'kari's sword will forget where they are and lose their ability to defend themselves. N'kari's attacks apply witless stacks. Each stack reduces intelligence and attack speed. Eac...

Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism

Sadomasochism

passive ABILITY

N'kari delights in both his pain and the pain of his enemies. All damage N'kari takes or receives gives him Sadomasochism stacks that give him attack damage, lifesteal and health regen. Every time ...

spell cooldown

3/2.5/2/1.5

Acquiescence
Acquiescence

Acquiescence

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

N'kari lulls his enemy into a state of mindless bliss. Standing dully they are unable to preform any actions for the duration of Acquiescence. When Acquiescence ends the target awakens to all the p...

spell manacost

100/150/200

spell cooldown

160/140/120

Slicing shards
Slicing shards

Slicing shards

active ABILITY

Grants Slicing Shards

N'kari launches a volley of glass 6 shards in a line that cut into the enemy they hit. Enemies hit are afflicted by a bleeding debuff. Bleeding enemies take damage and have a chance to be criticall...

spell manacost

150

spell cooldown

16

Sensational Strike
Sensational Strike

Sensational Strike

passive ABILITY

Grants Sensational Str...

Every 6th attack N'kari's will cleave in a wide area around him that deals more damage. N'kari heals from all enemies hit by the cleave. -The cleave functions like a normal cleave and can critical...

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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

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Willing Prey

Willing Prey

Witstealer sword

Witstealer sword

Sadomasochism

Sadomasochism

Acquiescence

Acquiescence

Slicing shards

Slicing shards

Sensational Strike

Sensational Strike

BASIC

Willing Prey

Willing Prey

active

none

none

N'kari gives his prey the desire for an agonizing death, sapping their will to fight back. His target is slowed and silenced.

SLOW 30/40/50/60%

DURATION 3/4/5/6 seconds

CAST RANGE 600

spell manacost 120/130/140/150
spell cooldown 30/26/22/18

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

1

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

4

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

blocked by Linken's Sphere: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Grants new ability: Sensational Strike

Grants Sensational Strike

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Grants new ability: Slicing shards

Grants Slicing Shards

Talent Tree

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+6%/6/6 Sadomasochism lifsteal/damage/health regen

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25

-60 seconds Acquiescence cooldown

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+6 seconds Sadomasochism stack duration

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20

+600 Willing Prey cast range

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-0.5 Sadomasochism cooldown

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15

Willing Prey reduces armor by 6

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+6 Witstealer sword attack speed loss

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10

+12% magic resistance

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ITEM & SKILL BUILDS

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Carry

hard carry
Carry is N'kari's only viable role. His early game is too weak to survive any other lane. But if he can hold out his late game becomes brutal. For his skill build Sadomasochism should almost always be maxed first as it's his farming and laning spell. Witstealer sword is typically leveled last as it doesn't benefit farming and is most useful later in the game as a dueling tool, a single point is typically good enough for the early portions of the game anyways. For his talents getting all Sadomasochism talents is ideal if you're winning the game as it becomes incredibly power with all talents. If the game isn't going so good though then his other talents can allow him to play more around pick offs and catching key targets. In the early game build what you need to survive most of all. A vanguard gives you some valuable HP and damage block which is really good with Sadomasochism, it also builds into Abyssal later. Scepter is N'Kari's farming item. The build up might be bit rough, but in the end it's cheaper and stronger late game than Battlefury and it synergizes with illusion. Speaking of illusions, manta style is your big core item. His illusions benefit from both his passives, the scepter, and the shard, making his manta illusions scale like beasts. Skadi of course goes great with illusions and give you some of that beef and mana you're missing. Shadow blade will give you the mobility and pick off potential and combined with Willing Prey it's like you already heave an Orchid. Butterfly, Abyssal, and Moonshard are the late game finisher items for N'Kari. For situational items BKB might be required against high magic damage line up. Swift blink for when shadow blade just isn't fast enough. Crit is great with your scepter and illusions, so good that you might want to buy Daedalus in addition to your shard for crit chance, especially if you got a blink instead of a silver edge. Heart for if you really don't want to get bursted anymore. MKB when evasion is a factor. If you're stinking rich getting a radiance instead of a scepter early and then going back for the Aghs Blessing can get you even more farmed than before.
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N'kari is a melee agility hyper carry who doesn't fight fair. He's got 3 ways of weaking his enemy's ability to fight while boosting himself up through being hurt and hurting enemies. He can start a battle by silencing his opponent and slowing them, once the silence is over the enemy might find that they've lost 36 intelligence (and thus 432 mana) and a tonne of attack speed and thus might not have the power or the mana to fight back. And that's not even factoring in his ultimate that will force an enemy to be unable to take any action, even actions that could normally be taken while stunned. Even though Slaanesh is my least favorite of the chaos gods I did my best to sprinkle in some of that Slaanesh flavor. The number 6 is all over the place. And like in the lore where Slaanesh is the weakest but has the potential to become the strongest God so will N'kari start weak but become really strong late into the game.

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N'Kari, also called the "Soul-Flayer," the "Flesh-Tempter," the "Arch-Tempter," the "Bejewelled One," the "Chosen of Slaanesh", the "Herald of Dismay" and "Lord of a Thousand Songs," is the greatest Keeper of Secrets among the Daemonic legions of the Chaos God Slaanesh. He has pursued a millennia-long vendetta against the descendants of Aenarion and the High Elves of Ulthuan following nearly six millennia of imprisonment within the Great Vortex in the wake of his second battle with the very first Phoenix King, Aenarion. Nobody knows how this greater Daemon entered the war of the ancients, but it must be part of his master's great game.

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