Isaac, the Walking Nightmare

agility Hero

created by by MRnok14L | Last update: Dec 10, 2025

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agility HERO

melee

unspecified

Preferred role

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COMPLEXITY

Threading Needle

active ABILITY

Upgrades Threading Needl...

90/100/110/120

16/14/12/10

Umbrella

active ABILITY

100/125/140/155

18/17/16/15

Devil String

active ABILITY

130/150/170/190

34/29/24/19

Wicked Affection

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

Crave affection towards an enemy hero for a duration, copy a percentage of received damage (including health cost/loss) to them and copy a percentage of healing (including lifesteal) from them. Du...

125/200/275

Last Full Measure

passive ABILITY

Innate passive - When Isaac dies, causes enemies nearby to flee away in fear with +10% movement speed.

Play Doll

active ABILITY

Grants Play Doll

150

Traits unselected

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 6 ABILITIES

Showing abilities of Isaac, the Walking Nightmare

Threading Needle

Umbrella

Devil String

Wicked Affection

Last Full Measure

Play Doll

Active

Threading Needle

Active

Umbrella

Active

Devil String

Active

Wicked Affection

ULTIMATE ABILITY

Passive

Last Full Measure

Active

Play Doll

BASIC

Threading Needle

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE area

Can cast without facing target. Suddenly jab towards the target direction with a needle, dealing (magic) damage and a heavy but brief MS slow to enemies along the path. Affected enemies are also leashed in this path and could only move a limited distance away from it. The more units are hit, the longer the leash duration. Duration increment is halved with non-hero unit. Leash can be over-stretched and broken by forced movement. * Projectile speed is instant.

CAST TIME 0.0+0.3

DAMAGE 100/150/200/250

MS SLOW 80%

SLOW DURATION 0.8

LEASH DISTANCE 300

BASE LEASH DURATION 1.6/1.8/2.0/2.2

LEASH PER UNIT 0.3

NEEDLE COLLISION SIZE 125

CAST RANGE 575/650/725/800

90/100/110/120

16/14/12/10

Aghanim's Shard

Upgrades Threading Needle

Increase per unit leash increment by 0.2s. Threading Needle also marks the affected enemies for 50s (dispellable); Threading Needle can be cast from the position of marked units, but only if they are in vision and within 1.5x of the cast range. Toggle off auto-cast to avoid casting via marked units.

BASIC

Umbrella

TYPE active

DAMAGE mix

TARGET MODE area

Can cast without facing target. Swiftly deploy the umbrella at the target direction for a short duration (not channeled), gaining a damage barrier that only absorbs damage dealt from the frontside. Meanwhile, the eldritch horror on the backface of the umbrella constantly deals magic damage to enemies within a radius, and causes those looked at it within 90 degrees from their PoV for 1s to flee away in fear. While the barrier is in effect, Isaac can aim and cast Umbrella again to lunge forward 400 distance over 0.15s, dealing instant-attack to enemies in collision, before removing the barrier as the lunge ends. Lunge attack deals bonus physical damage that equals 50% of the remaining barrier capacity. *1 Lunge happens automatically as the barrier depletes. *2 Castable while rooted but the lunge will traverse no distance.

CAST TIME 0.1+0.2

BARRIER HP 90/180/270/360

BARRIER DURATION 1.5/2.0/2.5/3.0

BACKFACE DAMAGE RADIUS 650

BACKFACE DPS 50/60/70/80

FEAR DURATION 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0

LUNGE COLLISION LENGTH 100% self ar

LUNGE COLLISION WIDTH 150

LUNGE DAMAGE 100% self ad

BONUS DMG RATIO 50%

100/125/140/155

18/17/16/15

BASIC

Devil String

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE unit

Puppet entangles his devilish strings onto an enemy unit to bind them as his subject. While entangled with a subject, Puppet manipulates them to mirror his movement and attack target, and is able to click on self; Self attack is not lethal for both sides. The tangle duration reduces as the manipulatee moves or attacks. When the tangle ends or when the distance between the two is greater than 1x of the cast range plus 150, the string snaps to impact the subject in 0.2s, dealing damage, stun, and knocking them away 200 distance over 0.2s. Duration loss is halved if target is non-hero. Throughout entanglement, the manipulatee can act freely at anytime except when being manipulated to move or attack (when you move or attack), using manipulator’s movement speed or attack speed. Instantly destroys illusions. String snaps when the caster dies. String still snaps when being dispelled. Dispellable by any dispel or banish/hidden. Debuff immunity on the target will prevent their action to be manipulated. *1 Subject’s attack animation will sync up with yours to make both sides reach attack point at the same time. And they will have instant turn rate and unslowable attack when manipulated. *2 Attack duration loss occurs at the attack point or when the attack animation is aborted. *3 The snapping string is a target-unit, disjointable projectile that could trigger Linken again.

CAST RANGE 350/400/450/500

TANGLE DURATION 4/7/10/13

DISTANCE DURATION LOSS 1%

PER ATK DURATION LOSS 3

SNAP DAMAGE 80/160/240/320

SNAP STUN 0.6/1.0/1.4/1.8

130/150/170/190

34/29/24/19

BASIC

Wicked Affection

TYPE active

DAMAGE mix

TARGET MODE unit

Crave affection towards an enemy hero for a duration, copy a percentage of received damage (including health cost/loss) to them and copy a percentage of healing (including lifesteal) from them. During this time, if the target is within affection range and you are outside 90 degrees from their PoV, gain a huge amount of of attack speed and movement speed. The speed bonus unlocks movement speed. If target is in range and facing, gain bonus health regen, the closer the higher; Max potency at 25% of the range. * Cannot target Roshan.

CAST RANGE 800/950/1100

AFFECTION DURATION 8/10/12

DAMAGE COPY 25%

HEALING COPY 50%

AS BONUS 100/200/300

MS BONUS 150/300/450

HEALTH REGEN MAX 30/60/90

AFFECTION RANGE 100% cast range

125/200/275

BASIC

Last Full Measure

TYPE passive

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

Innate passive - When Isaac dies, causes enemies nearby to flee away in fear with +10% movement speed.

RADIUS 300

FEAR DURATION 1.5

BASIC

Play Doll

TYPE active

DAMAGE physical

TARGET MODE none

Unlock via Scepter. Transfer disellable debuffs away. Create a long-lasting doll (a clone) that shares access (as well as cooldown) of cater’s abilities and items, but the doll will lose lifetime for taking any action including normal movement AND forced movement. The doll has less health, mana and vision than its creator.

The doll does not inherit Gem of True Sight and Divine Rapier. Consumble items are all shareable using the portion from the creator. The doll can refill bottle and bottle up runes for its creator. It contains 120/120 gold/exp bounty.

This ability also has a 150 health cost in addition to the mana cost.

CAST RANGE 150

LIFETIME 66

DISTANCE LIFETIME LOSS 1%

LIFETIME LOSS PER ATK 3

LIFETIME LOSS PER SPEL 12

LIFETIME LOSS PER ITEM 18

DAMAGE DEALT 50%

DAMAGE TAKEN 100%

CLONE HEALTH 50%

CLONE MANA 25%

VISION RANGE 50%

150

Aghanim's Scepter

Grants Play Doll

Grants new ability: Play Doll

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

ULTIMATE ABILITY

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no valid targets selected.

SPELL RULES

castable when leashed

blocked by Linken's Sphere

can be disjointed

works on illusions

is breakable

goes on CD when cast interrupted

applies barrier

gives debuff immunity

is soft-dispellable

is strong-dispellable

applies soft dispel

applies strong dispel

Pierces Spell Immunity

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Grants new ability: Play Doll

Grants Play Doll

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Upgrades Threading Needle

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-8s Umbrella Cooldown

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+50% Wicked Affection Damage Copy

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+33% Lifesteal

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+9s Wicked Affection Duration

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+30 Mana Break

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+100 Threading Needle Damage

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+20% Evasion

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+125 Devil String Cast Range

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VOICE LINES

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bronze tier

Rank 1

At your service.

bronze tier

Rank 2

[All] Rehehehehehe-

silver tier

Rank 3

Your wish is my command.

silver tier

Rank 4

My order... is their demise.

gold tier

Rank 5

[All] I want to play a game.

gold tier

Rank 6

[All] Well played.

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"From a queendom actually not that far away, by that I mean it's not a bedtime story, a young queen gathered the best crafters in the realm to task them with bringing her infinite replayability, for her favorite butler has exerted beyond measure. A group of artisans built an ingenious doll that can be controlled with telekinetics. A group of magicians built a magical umbrella that can reveal unimaginable joys. And an old sage built an automata that possess remarkable likeness, even manners, of the passing butler. Together, these things saw the queen through her youth, adulthood, and old age, and eventually rested beside her in the burial where she is remembered as a benevolent ruler. Unbeknownst to others, the automata was fused with a fragment of mind that has been missing his owner so very much: a will that's willing do anything to rekindle the image of her great majesty. And - that - is where a jestful demon, or so they say, pulled a string and twist it into a walking nightmare. Now, your job, Occultist, is to track it down and abolish it out of our suffering. That's it. That's every detail I know. Please come quick. Uhhh... how do I turn this mirror thing off?"

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Satou the Deus Musco commented 1 year ago

You can pretty easily add art to your posts by using AI generation: https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator You can write something like "Dota 2 Nightmare" and get pretty good results that fit in the artstyle.

MRnok14L commented 1 year ago

Just to clarify: "DISTANCE DURATION LOSS 1%" means "0.01s per 1 distance". Moving 300 distance would drain tangle duration by 3s (while 300 distance typically takes 1s to traverse for an unit that has 300 MS), so the duration gets drained by 3+1=4s after with movement.

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