Largo stats, abilities and strategy [7.41a]
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 48.1%
Pick Rate 2.7%
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
Facets
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Buffs that Largo applies to himself or his team have extended duration.
BONUS DURATION: 9%
Patch 7.41
- Bonus Duration changed from 10% + 1% per level up to 9% + 1% per level
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. Killing or dispelling an effect from a target grants Largo temporary health regeneration. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
Can lick runes to pull them
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: 8
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 7.41
- Now can lick runes to pull them. Rune-licking refunds spent mana
- Health Regen Duration decreased from 10s to 8s
- Bonus health regen is now also provided if the target is killed by Catchy Lick
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
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% Croak of Genius Max Health DPS
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 20 TALENT: 50% Groovin' Armor Aura
Patch 7.41
- Aghanim's Scepter no longer adds damage to double-strumming
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
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PASSIVE: No
Largo plays a song that deals 20 / 30 / 40 magical damage to nearby enemies. The song also increases nearby allied heroes' spell amplification and grants their attacks additional magic damage.
DAMAGE: 20 / 30 / 40
ADDITIONAL MAGIC DAMAGE: 20% / 25% / 30%
SPELL AMP: 8% / 12% / 16%
BUFF DURATION: 1
0.2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +30% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
Patch 7.41
- Now also deals 20/30/40 magical damage by default
- Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter
- Increases magic damage by 6/12/18 per Groovin' stack when this song is used in double-strumming
'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% / 20% / 24%
SLOW RESISTANCE: 70% / 75% / 80%
MOVEMENT DURATION: 1
SLOW RESISTANCE DURATION: 0.3
0.2
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +30% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
Patch 7.41
- Move Speed decreased from 16/22/28% to 16/20/24%
- Slow Resistance decreased from 70/80/90% to 70/75/80%
'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: +30% 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
+30% Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects
+ 11.7%
50% Groovin' Armor Aura
+ 4.4%
+170 Catchy Lick Damage
+100 Catchy Lick Cast Range / +50 Pull Distance
1% Croak of Genius Max Health DPS
+ 4.3%
x2.5 Catchy Lick Health Regen
+15 Frogstomp Damage
+ 1.2%
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.41
- Level 15 Talent Croak of Genius Max Health DPS decreased from 1.5% to 1%
- Level 25 Talent Amphibian Rhapsody Song Effects decreased from +35% to +30%
Strategy
Use Catchy Lick to secure ranged creep last hits when you or your lane partner cannot safely walk up to 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.
Remember to use Croak of Genius on yourself before casting your spell combo to do more damage and conserve mana.
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.
Look to play a bit greedy and farm your {aghanims-scepter} before rotating too much as it makes you extremely potent in teamfights.
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 {lotus-orb} and {glimmer-cape} with {aghanims-shard} to apply the item buff to yourself as well whenever you cast it on an ally.
Purchase {aghanims-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 {shivas-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.