Ringmaster Enters The Dota 2 Arena
After countless delays since the announcement, Valve has finally added the newest hero – Ringmaster, to the game.
Ringmaster is a ranged hero, and has been categorized as a support. He is also placed under the disabler and escape categories.
Here are his abilities:
TAME THE BEASTS (CHANNELED) - Ringmaster twirls his whip for up to 1 second then cracks it. Whipped enemies are damaged and flee in fear from Ringmaster. Channel time exponentially increases damage and extends the fear duration, but reduces the radius.
ESCAPE ACT - Ringmaster packs himself or an allied hero into a mobile, extradimensional box. Boxed units gain phased movement, slow resistance, bonus magic resistance, and bonus movement speed. They are also untargetable, muted, silenced, and disarmed. The box will pop open after the effect expires or it moves more than 500 units away.
IMPALEMENT ARTS - Ringmaster throws one of his daggers to a precise point of his choosing. If he strikes an enemy, the dagger deals impact damage, briefly slows the unit hit, and causes them to bleed. The bleeding deals a percentage of the victim's maximum health in damage every second to heroes and flat damage per second to creeps.
WHEEL OF WONDER (ULTIMATE) - Ringmaster rolls the Wheel of Wonder to the targeted location, knocking aside enemies along the way. After it reaches its target, enemies in range of the wheel take damage over time and are slowed by -50%.
Enemy heroes who face the wheel for more than 0.5 seconds are mesmerized and drawn towards it. The first enemy to be mesmerized triggers a timer for the wheel to explode. If the timer is not triggered, it will automatically explode after 8 seconds.
On top of these four abilities, Ringmaster also has souvenirs:
FUNHOUSE MIRROR - Creates 1 imperfect image of your hero that lasts 18 seconds. Your illusion deals 28% and takes 300% damage.
STRONGMAN TONIC - Temporarily increases an allied hero's Strength by 5 plus 1.5 per Ringmaster's level for 8 seconds. The effect holds for 4 seconds and then deteriorates over the duration.
WHOOPEE CUSHION - Propels your hero forward 400 units. Leaves a 200 radius stink cloud behind for 3 seconds that slows enemies by -30%.