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Magnus

Popularity: #19

Leaderboard: #107

Ban Rank: #43

KDA Rank: #60

Hero

Build

Matchup

Charges in to reposition his enemies

Enemies who are foolish enough to gather learn to fear the horn of Magnus. Able to pull nearby foes together, he can batter them with empowered attacks or skewer them with his horn to bring them before his merciless allies.

Win Rate 47.5%
Pick Rate 14.9%
Attributes
Hero image

626 +68.2/lvl

315 +25.2/lvl

Strength Image

23 +3.1/lvl

Agility Image

12 +2.0/lvl

Intelligence Image

20 +2.1/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

68 - 76 + 5.0/level (244 - 252 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

200

Attack

Armor:

3.0 + 0.3/level (15.0 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

305

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Eternal Empowerment

Win Rate: 46.7%

Pick Rate: 51.8%

Empower is always on Magnus. Each subsequent attack increases its power.

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Diminishing Return

Win Rate: 48.4%

Pick Rate: 48.2%

Increases the max level of Shockwave. Level 5 Shockwave causes it to return towards Magnus's location.

Abilities

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Solid Core

ABILITY: Passive

DAMAGE TYPE: n/a

PASSIVE: Breakable


Magnus has slow resistance and suffers 50% less knockback from enemy's abilities and items.


SLOW RESISTANCE: 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%

Q

Shockwave

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Magnus sends out a wave of force, damaging enemy units in a line, pulling them towards him, and slowing them for a brief period.


DAMAGE: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300 / 300

MOVEMENT SLOW: 75%

SLOW DURATION: 0.7 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1 / 1

DISTANCE: 1200

Cooldown

13 / 12 / 11 / 10

Mana Cost

85 / 90 / 95 / 100

Cast Range

1200


FACET: Diminishing Return

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Increases the max level of Shockwave. Level 1 Shockwave causes it to return towards Magnus's current location after reaching max length. The return Shockwave travels 200 distance further and hits enemies a second time for 50% of the damage.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +125 Shockwave Damage


PATCH 7.38c
  • Damage decreased from 90/160/230/300 to 75/150/225/300

PATCH 7.38
  • No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

  • Mana Cost increased from 75 to 85/90/95/100


Mt. Joerlak was a somewhat unstable mass, and Magnus has learned to channel its reverberations.

W

Empower

AFFECTS: Unit

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

BUFF: Yes


Gives an allied unit bonus damage and cleave on attack. Magnus receives 30% larger bonus.


The bonus damage is based only on base damage and damage from primary attributes.

Cleave damage goes through spell immunity.

Ranged units cannot Cleave.


DURATION: 30 / 33 / 36 / 39

BONUS DAMAGE: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40%

CLEAVE DAMAGE: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40%

Cooldown

8

Mana Cost

45 / 55 / 65 / 75

Cast Range

800


FACET: Eternal Empowerment

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Empower is always on Magnus. Each of his subsequent attacks increases his self bonus by INVALID TYPE% up to a max of %self_multiplier_bonus_max_stacks% for %self_multiplier_bonus_stack_duration%s.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +10% Empower Damage/Cleave


PATCH 7.38c
  • Self bonus decreased from 50% to 30%


With a deep bellow, Magnus displays his true power.

E

Skewer

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


Magnus rushes forward, goring enemy units on his massive tusk. Heroes hit on the way will be dragged to the destination, then damaged and affected by slowed movement and attack speed. The damage is increased based on distance traveled.


SPEED: 900

DISTANCE: 800 / 900 / 1000 / 1100

SLOW: 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%

SLOW DURATION: 3.25

DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320

DISTANCE AS DAMAGE: 6% / 9% / 12% / 15%

TREE HIT DAMAGE: 0

CLIFF HIT DAMAGE: 0

Cooldown

22 / 20 / 18 / 16

Mana Cost

80


FACET: Run Through

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Deals additional damage when skewering enemies into trees or cliffs.


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Increases range and deals additional damage when skewering enemies into trees or cliffs.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Skewer Damage Per Distance Travelled

LEVEL 15 TALENT: -5s Skewer Cooldown

LEVEL 10 TALENT: +1.25s Skewer Slow Duration


PATCH 7.38b
  • Distance decreased from 900/975/1050/1125 to 800/900/1000/1100

  • Aghanim's Shard Distance decreased from 1175/1250/1325/1400 to 1075/1175/1275/1375

PATCH 7.38
  • Now deals 6/9/12/15% of the distance traveled as damage

  • No longer deals damage per tree/cliff hit by default

  • Now upgraded with Aghanim's Shard

  • Increases Skewer range by 275 and deals and additional 30 damage per tree hit and 125 damage for cliff hit


Magnoceros horns are valuable in direct proportion to their danger to prospective merchants.

R

Reverse Polarity

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only


Magnus changes properties of matter, pulling all nearby enemies in front of him and stunning them with a damaging slam.


PULL RADIUS: 430

EFFECT RADIUS: 0

MAX KNOCKBACK DISTANCE: 0

DAMAGE: 100 / 200 / 300

STUN DURATION: 2.5 / 3 / 3.5

Cooldown

120

Mana Cost

150 / 225 / 300

Cast Range

410


FACET: Reverse Reverse Polarity

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Reverse Polarity pushes enemies away all around Magnus instead of pulling enemies that are in front of him.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +0.8s Reverse Polarity Stun Duration

LEVEL 15 TALENT: +12 All Stats per hero hit with Reverse Polarity


Magnus fights with the fury of the erupting Mt. Joerlak.

Horn Toss

Scepter grants new ability

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Magnus tosses any enemies in front of him, launching them to his rear. Enemies take damage, spend 0.6 seconds in the air, and are stunned while in the air and an additional amount of time after landing.


DAMAGE: 300

AIR DURATION: 0.6

STUN DURATION: 0.75

Cooldown

30

Mana Cost

100

Talents [E]

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+0.8s Reverse Polarity Stun Duration

+10% Empower Damage/Cleave

+ 0.9 %

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+15% Skewer Damage Per Distance Travelled

+ 0.6 %

+125 Shockwave Damage

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-5s Skewer Cooldown

+ 2.0 %

+12 All Stats per hero hit with Reverse Polarity

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+1.25s Skewer Slow Duration

+1.5 Mana Regen

+ 3.6 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

PATCH 7.38
  • Level 10 Talent +0.75s Shockwave Slow Duration replaced with +1.25s Skewer Slow Duration

Strategy

Skewer destroys trees which can be useful against certain heroes.

When fighting close to pillars and cliffs, consider Skewering opponents on them.

Magnus has huge base damage that is further amplified by Empower. Use to win the lane last hit wise.

When an opponent is close to your tower, consider making Shockwave into Skewer play.

Ask your teammates to make stacks for you as you can clear them with ease once Empower is maxed out.

Make stacks for your farming core and continuously Empower him.

Consider turning during Reverse Polarity animation to be able to Skewer stunned units towards allies right away.

Don't rotate too much. Focus on farming Blink Dagger and then start playing more actively.

Once you have Blink Dagger, make use of it immediately before opponents are able to scout it.

Avoid showing yourself at the start of the fight. Wait for opponents to clump up and do your combo.

Pick up Aghanim's Shard later in the game to increase Skewer range and do more damage when pushing enemy heroes against trees and cliffs.

Counter Strategy

Be careful not to get Skewered by Magnus under the opponent's tower.

Empower is a great farming buff for Magnus and his melee cores. Contest their jungle and block camps.

Be aware of Magnus's Blink Dagger timing. Look to cancel his Dagger in the fights.

Avoid fighting in choke spots and clumping up against Blink Dagger into Reverse Polarity combos.

Reverse Polarity has a long cooldown. Look to fight opponents when it is down.

Status resistance items shorten the disable duration of Reverse Polarity.

Having Aegis on a core hero is a protection against Reverse Polarity. Kill Roshan on the first chance.

Lore

The master-smiths of Mt. Joerlak agree on only a single point: that the horn of a magnoceros is more precious than any alloy. And of all such horns, the largest and sharpest belongs to the beast they call Magnus. For half a generation, Magnus took easy sport goring hunters come to claim the treasures of his kin. Each time he would return to his cave with hooves and horns stained red, until his Matriarch urged him and all their kin to seek refuge to the north beyond the shadow of the mountain. But Magnus scoffed, having never failed to defend his people. The magnoceroi would stay, he decided, for a magnoceros does not believe in chance... nor does it ever change its mind.

But when Mt. Joerlak erupted without warning, and half his kin perished in the fire and ash, Magnus changed his mind after all. The survivors pushed north, until they reached a blockade watched over by a hundred hunters armed with bow and steel. Magnus expected no less. He led his fiercest brothers and sisters in a charge against their enemies, and fought with a ferocity matched only by the fire-spewing mountain at his back. Meanwhile the magnoceros elders, mothers, and calves vanished into the drifts. The master-smiths are divided about what happened next.

Some say Magnus reunited with his kin, while others claim he suffered mortal injuries and expired alongside the body of his Matriarch. Neither theory is correct. Magnus did vow to rejoin his kin...but only after seeking out those responsible for the eruption of Mt. Joerlak and watching them die upon his horn, for a magnoceros does not believe in chance.

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