Largo stats, abilities and strategy [7.40c]
Strums music to empower allies and can dispel with a lick
With his slick-strumming fingers and sticky-whip tongue, Largo is always ready to grant his team damage, healing, or speed and dispel friends or foes using just the right lick.
Win Rate 50.1%
Pick Rate 3.7%
Attributes
648 +79.2/lvl
327 +31.2/lvl
24 +3.6/lvl
14 +1.3/lvl
21 +2.6/lvl
Stats
Damage:
63 - 69 + 3.6/level (181 - 187 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
4.3 + 0.2/level (13.0 at level 30)
Movement:
290
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.40c
- Added to Captains Mode
- Intelligence gain increased from 2.4 to 2.6
Facets
Musical pilgrimage
Win Rate: 50.1%
Pick Rate: 100.0%
This facet doesn't do anything. Largo just arrived from the island of Velu'Mar...
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Buffs that Largo applies to himself or his team have extended duration.
BONUS DURATION: 10%
Catchy Lick
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Largo licks the targeted unit with his tongue, pulling it back a short distance, applying a basic dispel, and dealing damage if it's an enemy. Dispelling an effect from a target grants Largo temporary health regeneration. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
DAMAGE: 85 / 170 / 255 / 340
ENEMY PULL DISTANCE: 235 / 265 / 295 / 325
ALLY PULL DISTANCE: 375
BONUS HEALTH REGEN: 4 / 7 / 10 / 13
HEALTH REGEN DURATION: 10
13 / 11 / 9 / 7
80 / 85 / 90 / 95
700
LEVEL 25 TALENT: 2 Catchy Lick Charges
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +170 Catchy Lick Damage
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +100 Catchy Lick Cast Range / +50 Pull Distance
LEVEL 10 TALENT: x2.5 Catchy Lick Health Regen
Patch 7.40b
- Enemy Pull Distance increased from 210/240/270/300 to 235/265/295/325
- Bonus Health Regen increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13
After generations spent living on the ancient isaloth Velu'Mar, the descendants of the Murkroot exiles have grown resilient, happily sampling toxins that would've struck their ancestors dead.
Frogstomp
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Largo tosses froglings to an area. They stomp the ground every 1 second, dealing damage and ministuns, and enemies in the area have reduced movement speed.
DAMAGE PER STOMP: 36 / 48 / 60 / 72
NUMBER OF STOMPS: 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
SLOW: 12% / 18% / 24% / 30%
RADIUS: 350
20 / 18 / 16 / 14
85 / 95 / 105 / 115
800
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +15 Frogstomp Damage
Patch 7.40c
- Damage per stomp increased from 35/45/55/65 to 36/48/60/72
Most Bard Monks spend decades mastering the musical arts, but even the top frog Largo has to admit that his young disciples have already grown shockingly good at counting a proper beat.
Croak of Genius
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
Largo strums a tune to a friendly hero. The hero's items and abilities have reduced mana cost and a percentage of their damage reverberates over the following 5 seconds. When an affected hero spends mana, the remaining buff duration is reduced by 0.5s. Duration is not reduced for Largo himself.
Only applies to damage sources affected by spell amplification.
Only applies to damage where the source and target are within 2000 units of each other.
DAMAGE REVERB: 30% / 35% / 40% / 45%
MANA COST REDUCTION: 15%
BUFF DURATION: 12 / 18 / 24 / 30
25
25 / 35 / 45 / 55
800
LEVEL 15 TALENT: 1.5% Croak of Genius Max Health DPS
Patch 7.40b
- Reverberated damage is now only applied if the target is within 2000 range of the caster
- Duration is no longer decreased on Largo from his own abilities
Largo loves to help his friends find glory through the power of music, never missing a chance at a killer duet.
Amphibian Rhapsody
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PASSIVE: No
Largo gets ready to groove. He is disarmed and his ability bar switches to 3 song abilities, each with different effects. Songs are only effective if strummed on the beat. Every time he strums successfully, he gains a stack of Groovin'. Each stack gives him bonus armor and reduces the mana cost of every song, but he loses a stack if he misses a beat. Stacks linger for a short duration when Largo's song ends.
Items can be used while in this mode.
RADIUS: 800
BEAT INTERVAL: 1
MAX STACKS: 5
ARMOR PER STACK: 2 / 3 / 4
SONG MANA COST REDUCTION PER STACK: 1 / 1.5 / 2
STACK LINGER DURATION: 5
2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +35% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
LEVEL 20 TALENT: 50% Groovin' Armor Aura
Patch 7.40c
- Now can be toggled while silenced
- Radius increased from 750 to 800
The very first Bard Monk played a song that summoned a living island and saved the Murkroot exiles from a salt-worn death.
Bullbelly Blitz
PASSIVE: No
Largo plays a song that increases nearby allied heroes' spell amplification and grants their attacks additional magic damage.
ADDITIONAL MAGIC DAMAGE: 20% / 25% / 30%
SPELL AMP: 8% / 12% / 16%
BUFF DURATION: 1
0.2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +35% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
'Hey, when a beach brawl breaks out, you gotta learn to throw your musical weight around or the party's over proper quick.'
Hotfeet Hustle
PASSIVE: No
Largo plays a song that increases nearby friendly units' movement speed and grants a brief slow resistance.
MOVE SPEED: 16% / 22% / 28%
SLOW RESISTANCE: 70% / 80% / 90%
MOVEMENT DURATION: 1
SLOW RESISTANCE DURATION: 0.3
0.2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +35% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
'It's like that old story about the scary swamp witch. You better watch just where you're jumping when you're trying to do it lickety-split.'
Island Elixir
PASSIVE: No
Largo plays a song that heals nearby friendly heroes.
HEAL: 34 / 56 / 78
0.2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +35% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
'If this song can heal an ageless isaloth, it can handle a few cuts and bruises on the lot of you.'
Talents
2 Catchy Lick Charges
+35% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
+ 5.1%
50% Groovin' Armor Aura
+ 3.2%
+170 Catchy Lick Damage
+100 Catchy Lick Cast Range / +50 Pull Distance
1.5% Croak of Genius Max Health DPS
+ 4.3%
x2.5 Catchy Lick Health Regen
+15 Frogstomp Damage
+ 1.3%
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.40b
- Level 20 Talent Catchy Lick Damage increased from +140 to +170
Strategy
Use Catchy Lick to secure ranged creep last hits when your core cannot safely do it.
Use Catchy Lick to pull an enemy hero out of position, particularly when the enemy creep wave is dead. You can also use it to save an ally when they are in trouble.
Use Frogstomp and Catchy Lick together to keep an enemy hero in the stun and damage AoE for longer.
Use Catchy Lick to do a lot of damage even at early levels and pull an enemy hero closer to your melee attack range to trade with them.
Catchy Lick applies a basic dispel on cast. Use it on an ally or yourself when targeted by dispellable spells and items. Dispelling a debuff also applies a heal over time. You can also use it aggressively to take off dispellable buffs on enemy heroes.
Look to apply Croak of Genius on an ally who does a lot of nuke damage with their spells, such as 
Zeus and 
Lina. It causes their spells to do damage over time and also reduces their mana cost.
Remember that you cannot use your base spells like Catchy Lick or attack while strumming your instrument during Amphibian Rhapsody. You will have to turn off your ultimate when you wish to use your base toolkit.
Until you tank up with items like 
Glimmer Cape and 
Guardian Greaves, prioritize staying back and saving allies with Catchy Lick or provide lockdown with Frogstomp rather than standing next to your front line ally and channeling Amphibian Rhapsody.
When strumming your instrument during Amphibian Rhapsody, prioritize the healing from Island Elixir or the mobility from Hotfeet Hustle. You can provide damage with Bullbelly Blitz when you or your allies are in no danger whatsoever.
Pick up 
Aghanim's Shard after
Glimmer Cape to apply the item buff to yourself as well whenever you cast it on an ally. Other buff items like 
Lotus Orb also work well in a similar manner.
Purchase 
Aghanim's Scepter to make yourself extremely potent in teamfights with your AoE damage, and provide buffs for allies by strumming multiple spells during Amphibian Rhapsody at the same time.
Counter Strategy
Someone should buy 
Spirit Vessel to nullify Largo's healing.
Be aware of your positioning and do not get pulled out of position by Largo's Catchy Lick.
Largo's Catchy Lick applies a basic dispel. He can take off dispellable buffs from enemies as well as debuff his allies.
Orchid Malevolence and other control items are a good counter to stop Largo from using his high impact spells in teamfights.
Items that offset healing such as 
Eye of Skadi and 
Shiva's Guard good against Largo.
Nullifier's continuous dispel heavily counters Largo and takes off the buffs from Croak of Genius, Bullbelly Blitz and Hotfeet Hustle.