Custodian (Universal) BEST OF July 2024

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created by by Satou the Deus Musco | Last update: Nov 25, 2025

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Custodian is a melee universal hero with a protective kit. She punishes enemy aggression and keeps her team save and healthy through heals and her innate barrier. Custodian was designed for the heroes wanted contest on r/dotaconcepts. Specifically for the Wards and Wardens contract. I designed Song Ward first, as I think it's a cool and unique effect for a ward. I followed this up by designing... View more

intelligence HERO

melee

unspecified

Preferred role

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COMPLEXITY

Guardian Roots

active ABILITY

For 5/6/7/8 seconds, any enemy who preforms a hostile action (attacking, casting spells/items on allies, dealing damage, crowd controlling, debuffing, etc.) near Custodian will be rooted and disarm...

85/100/115/130

Mulch

active ABILITY

Upgrades Mulch

Custodian deals damage in a radius around a targeted area. After the damage effect if finished the radius will grant health regeneration to allies based on previously dealt damage dealt.

105/110/115/120

Song Ward

active ABILITY

60/70/80/90

60/50/40/30

Tranquility

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

Upgrades Tranquility

200/300/400

180/140/100

Innate: Wooden Ward

passive ABILITY

Custodian and nearby allied heroes have an all damage barrier equal to 5% of their maximum health applied to them. The barrier has an indefinite duration, but can only be applied to allies if they ...

FACETS:

active ABILITY

This website does not support facets yet. So I will put the facets here. Organic farming: Neutral Creeps affected by Song Ward will stack their own camp up to 3 times. Natural protection: Guardia...

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BONUS STATS

STRENGTH

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

AGILITY

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

INTELLIGENCE

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

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ABILITIES

THIS IDEA CONTAINS A TOTAL OF 6 ABILITIES

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Guardian Roots

Mulch

Song Ward

Tranquility

Innate: Wooden Ward

FACETS:

Active

Guardian Roots

Active

Mulch

Active

Song Ward

Active

Tranquility

ULTIMATE ABILITY

Passive

Innate: Wooden Ward

Active

FACETS:

BASIC

Guardian Roots

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE none

DURATION 5/6/7/8

ROOT DURATION 1.5/2/2.5/3

ROOT DAMAGE 25/40/55/70 per second

RADIUS 400

85/100/115/130

BASIC

Mulch

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE area

Custodian deals damage in a radius around a targeted area. After the damage effect if finished the radius will grant health regeneration to allies based on previously dealt damage dealt.

DAMAGE PER SECOND 45/60/75/90

DAMAGE DURATION 3

HEALING PER SECOND 20% of total damage

HEALING DURATION 6

RADIUS (BOTH EFFECTS) 375/400/425/450

CAST RANGE 500/550/600/650

Aghanim's Shard

Upgrades Mulch

Enemies inside the damage and healing radius are slowed by 15%. Every time an enemy dies within the damage or healing radius the healing duration increases with 2 seconds if they're a hero or 0.4 seconds for a creep.

105/110/115/120

BASIC

Song Ward

TYPE active

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

Custodian places down a Song Ward that hypnotizes nearby neutral creeps and slows enemy hero and creep attack speed. Hypnotized neutral creeps do not retaliate when Custodian's team kills them. And hypnotized neutral creeps will behave as allied creeps if an enemy hero or creep is nearby, attacking them on sight and defending allied heroes. The hypnotized neutral creeps have an increased search radius for defending allied heroes and also have increased cast range, mana regen, and attack speed. They will casts spells they otherwise would not cast to defend allied heroes. Does not affect Roshan or Ancient Creeps. Song Wards have an indefinite duration, but only one Song Ward may be active at a time. Song Wards may be denied by any teammate at any amount of HP. -Hypnotized neutral creeps will still walk towards allies who attack them, but the creeps will not fight back. This makes stacking possible.

NEUTRAL RADIUS 1200/1600/2000/2400

NEUTRAL DEFENCE RADIUS 1200

NEUTRAL BONUS AS 10/20/30/40

NEUTRAL BONUS CAST RNG 50/100/150/200

NEUTRAL BONUS MANA REG 1/2/3/4

ENEMY RADIUS 800

ENEMY AS REDUCTION 20/40/60/80

WARD DURATION indefinite

WARD HP 2

WARD VISION 600

WARD BOUNTY 30/40/50/60

60/70/80/90

60/50/40/30

BASIC

Tranquility

TYPE active

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

Custodian hums the magical tune of tranquility. For a short duration no one on the map can take any damage. Allied heroes have increased mana regeneration during Tranquility. Tranquility also instantly restores Wooden Ward on all nearby allies. Tranquility may be stopped early by Custodian. Peace never lasts. Savor it while it is here.

DURATION 3

DAMAGE REDUCTION 100%

ALLY MANA REGEN 50/75/100

EFFECT RANGE global

Aghanim's Scepter

Upgrades Tranquility

During Tranquility cooldowns of allied abilities and items decreases at a steady rate. Reducing 10% of the cooldown per second. Does not affect Tranquility itself.

200/300/400

180/140/100

BASIC

Innate: Wooden Ward

TYPE passive

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

APPLICATION RADIUS 1200

BARRIER HEALTH 5% max HP

BARRIER DURATION indefinte

BASIC

FACETS:

TYPE active

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

This website does not support facets yet. So I will put the facets here. Organic farming: Neutral Creeps affected by Song Ward will stack their own camp up to 3 times. Natural protection: Guardian roots may be cast on allies, this makes the Guardian roots effect follow them. Has a cast range of 500.

ADVANCED

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SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

ADVANCED

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castable when leashed: YES

ADVANCED

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castable when leashed: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

ULTIMATE ABILITY

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

is breakable: 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

blocked by Linken's Sphere: YES

is breakable: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

During Tranquility cooldowns of allied abilities and items decreases at a steady rate. Reducing 10% of the cooldown per second. Does not affect Tranquility itself.

Upgrades Tranquility

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Upgrades Mulch

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+300 Guardian roots radius

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+7% Wooden Ward barrier health

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+1.5/0.75 Guardian Roots duration / root duration

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+45 Mulch damage per second

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Song Ward affects ancient creeps

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+50 Tranqulity mana regen

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+30 Song Ward enemy attack speed reduction

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Mulch healing per second is 33% of total damage

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She who guards all life, Custodian remembers the tranquility of the world before the Mad Moon shattered. Life was peaceful then, but peace never lasts. With the endless war of the ancients raging forever onward Custodian must now leave her peaceful ways. So save what innocence is left in the world.

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