DOTA IDEAS A DOTA 2 INTERACTIVE FORUM

Stygian is a melee agility carry who can infinitely reduce armor with his ultimate. Stygian loves killing more than most carries, as his Lay Waste ability deals bonus damage versus low health enemies and his Skull Taker rewards him with agility and movement speed for making kills. While he may lack mobility and crowd control, he partially makes up for that with a long range nuke that applies his attacks 4 times (6 times with a level 25 talent).

This is a rework of an old idea. The original idea of Stygian was designed with specific competition criteria in mind that limited his complexity (the competition was for making a simple hero). I felt like remaking Stygian to allow for more complexity. Though ironically, I think the new design still fits the original criteria. Another big change is that this version of Stygian has no channels. The original version has channels as I thought that could be an interesting way of balancing a high damage carry, but as time goes on I think it's less and less interesting.

Innate and Facet ideas for when this website allows for it:

Innate:
Corrupter: Stygian gains 2% of lifesteal for each point of armor reduced on a target.

Facets:
Hate Manifest: Hate deals burst of damage. This is how it currently works. This facet makes Hate a much stronger spell early game. Hate slow amount is increased to make Hate worth it without this Facet.

Trophy kill:
Hero kills immediately give the maximum number of Skull Taker skulls.