Phantom Assassin stats, abilities and strategy
Blinks onto her foes with critical strikes
The moment she finds her prey, Phantom Assassin strikes. Instantly closing in on a target, she effortlessly dodges attacks as she relentlessly cuts away at her foe. Without warning, any one of her attacks could prove suddenly and brutally fatal.
Win Rate 45.2%
Pick Rate 19.2%
Attributes
538 +44.0/lvl
255 +20.4/lvl
19 +2.0/lvl
21 +3.4/lvl
15 +1.7/lvl
Stats
Damage:
56 - 58 + 3.4/level (168 - 170 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
4.5 + 0.6/level (23.3 at level 30)
Movement:
310
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Removed Veiled One Facet
Facets
Methodical
Win Rate: 43.1%
Pick Rate: 56.8%
Coup de Grace procs every INVALID TYPE attacks on the same hero or INVALID TYPE attacks on non hero units.
Patch 7.38
- Coup de Grace: Critical Damage decreased from 325/450/575% to 300/400/500%
Sweet Release
Win Rate: 48.0%
Pick Rate: 43.2%
Stifling Dagger re-casts when an enemy dies.
Patch 7.38
- Stifling Dagger: Whenever a dagger hits and does not kill an enemy, it leaves a stacking debuff that lasts for 6 seconds. When the debuffed unit dies, they launch one Stifling Dagger per stack at random enemies around the target, prioritizing heroes. These daggers have 50% damage and slow duration values
- Stifling Dagger: Stacks can't be dispelled and each new dagger refreshes the duration of all current stacks. Recast range equals Stifling Dagger's cast range centered around the debuffed enemy
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Phantom Assassin focuses inward, increasing her ability to evade enemy attacks. Evasion improves with Phantom Assassin's levels. Stacks diminishingly with other sources of Evasion.
STARTING EVASION: 20%
BONUS EVASION PER LEVEL: 1%
BONUS EVASION: %
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +15% Immaterial Evasion
Patch 7.38
- Bonus Evasion per level decreased from 1.5% to 1%
Stifling Dagger
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Throws a dagger slowing the enemy unit's movement speed, dealing %base_damage%+%attack_factor_tooltip%% of Phantom Assassin's attack damage as physical damage and applying attack effects from items and abilities.
If an attack effect is chance-based, the chance of its application will be the same as its chance to occur.
Spell-immune enemies are not affected by Stifling Dagger's slow.
Stifling Dagger grants vision around its location while it travels and upon impact.
MOVE SLOW: -50%
SLOW DURATION: 2.1 / 2.4 / 2.7 / 3
BASE DAMAGE: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
ATTACK DAMAGE: 30% / 45% / 60% / 75%
6
30
700 / 850 / 1000 / 1150
FACET: Sweet Release
Whenever a unit is non-fatally hit by Stifling Dagger, they receive a stacking debuff that lasts for 6 seconds. When a unit dies, a Stifling Dagger with 50% damage and slow duration values is cast on a random nearby unit for every stack of the debuff, prioritizing heroes.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +15% Stifling Dagger Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: -1.5s Stifling Dagger Cooldown
Patch 7.38
- Movement Slow Duration decreased from 2.2/2.8/3.4/4s to 2.1/2.4/2.7/3s
The first skill learned by the Sisters of the Veil often signals an incoming hit.
Phantom Strike
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
Teleports to a unit, friendly or enemy, and grants bonus attack speed while attacking if it's an enemy unit.
BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 100 / 130 / 160 / 190
DURATION: 2.5
11 / 9 / 7 / 5
35 / 40 / 45 / 50
650 / 750 / 850 / 950
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +60 Phantom Strike Attack Speed
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +200 Phantom Strike Cast Range
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +0.5s Phantom Strike Duration
Patch 7.38c
- Cast Range decreased from 1000 to 650/750/850/950
Mortred's silken veil is the last thing her unfortunate target sees.
Blur
BUFF: Yes
Phantom Assassin blurs her body, disjointing incoming projectiles, increasing her movement speed, causing her to be impossible to see until she comes near enemy heroes, towers, or outposts.
Attacking Roshan with a regular attack will dispel Blur.
DURATION: 30
VANISH RADIUS: 625 / 550 / 475 / 400
VANISH BUFFER: 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8 / 1
COOLDOWN REDUCTION: %
MANA COST REDUCTION DURING BLUR: 0%
BUFF DURATION AFTER BLUR: 0
MANA COST REDUCTION AFTER BLUR: 0%
ACTIVE MOVEMENT SPEED: 3% / 6% / 9% / 12%
60 / 55 / 50 / 45
50
625 / 550 / 475 / 400
Aghanim's Scepter
Causes Blur to have instant cast time and applies a dispel. Any time Phantom Assassin gets a hero kill, her abilities are refreshed. Reduces cooldown.
COOLDOWN REDUCTION: %
Patch 7.38
- Now isn't removed on attack by default
Meditation allows a Veiled Sister to carefully anticipate her opponents in combat.
Coup de Grace
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Phantom Assassin refines her combat abilities, acquiring a chance of gaining Deadly Focus with each attack. When attacking with Deadly Focus, Phantom Assassin will consume the buff and guarantee a critical hit. Stifling Dagger has a bonus chance to cause Deadly Focus.
CHANCE OF DEADLY FOCUS: 17%
DAGGER CHANCE OF DEADLY FOCUS: 34%
CRITICAL DAMAGE: 200% / 300% / 400%
ATTACKS TO TRIGGER:
DEADLY FOCUS DURATION: 6 / 8 / 10
FACET: Methodical
Coup de Grace procs every INVALID TYPE attacks on the same hero or INVALID TYPE attacks on non hero units. Stifling Dagger counts as 2 attacks.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +10% Coup de Grace chance
Patch 7.38
- Critical Damage decreased from 200/325/450% to 200/300/400%
A divine strike, Mortred honors her opponent by choosing them for death.
Fan of Knives
Shard grants new ability
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Phantom Assassin releases sharp blades around her, dealing a percentage of each victim's max health on impact and applying Break.
MAX HEALTH DAMAGE: 28%
BREAK DURATION: 3
RADIUS: 550
20
80
Patch 7.38
- Cooldown increased from 15s to 20s
- Mana Cost increased from 50 to 80
Talents
Triple Strike Stifling Dagger
+ 2.0 %
+10% Coup de Grace chance
+60 Phantom Strike Attack Speed
+200 Phantom Strike Cast Range
+ 1.4 %
+15% Stifling Dagger Damage
+ 0.6 %
+15% Immaterial Evasion
-1.5s Stifling Dagger Cooldown
+ 0.7 %
+0.5s Phantom Strike Duration
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent Stifling Dagger Cooldown Reduction decreased from 2s to 1.5s
- Level 15 Talent +200 Phantom Strike Cast Range replaced with +15% Stifling Dagger Damage
- Level 20 Talent +20% Stifling Dagger Damage replaced with +200 Phantom Strike Cast Range
Strategy
Use Stifling Dagger to secure creep lasthits.
Try to get to {cornucopia} early in tough lanes where you play passively and then get Power Treads to continue jungling faster. Send out extra regen if necessary to sustain and survive the lane.
Opponents are likely to have a lot of {magic-stick} charges so take that into account when playing aggressively.
You can disjoint most projectile spells and ranged attacks with Blur.
When farming dangerous areas or stacks, consider using Blur.
Make sure to max Phantom Strike instead of stifling dagger post-laning phase for faster farming speed.
You typically want to focus on killing disabling supports and backliners at the start of the fight.
Check opponents' inventories for break effects and evasion-piercing items. Adjust playstyle and itemization accordingly.
Pick up {aghanims-shard} if you need the Break vs heroes like {timbersaw} / {bristleback} etc.
Counter Strategy
Phantom Assassin uses Stifling Dagger frequently to obtain lasthits. Buy Magic Stick and Magic Wand to get charges.
Armor items are good against Phantom Assassin as she is all about physical damage.
Cheap items that allow you to survive Phantom Assassin's Phantom Strike are Ghost Scepter, Glimmer Cape and Eul's Scepter.
Consider purchasing items that pierce through evasion, breaks passives or causes magical damage to counter Phantom Assassins innate passive evasion ability.
Blademail will be a big nuisance for Phantom Assassin unless she has Black King Bar.
Phantom Assassin is weak until she gets Black King Bar, try to smoke and gank her before that timing and set deep wards in the jungle to do so.
Lore
Through a process of divination, children are selected for upbringing by the Sisters of the Veil, an order that considers assassination a sacred part of the natural order. The Veiled Sisters identify targets through meditation and oracular utterances. They accept no contracts, and never seem to pursue targets for political or mercenary reasons. Their killings bear no relation to any recognizable agenda, and can seem to be completely random: A figure of great power is no more likely to be eliminated than a peasant or a well digger. Whatever pattern the killings may contain, it is known only to them. They treat their victims as sacrifices, and death at their hand is considered an honor. Raised with no identity except that of their order, any Phantom Assassin can take the place of any other; their number is not known. Perhaps there are many, perhaps there are few. Nothing is known of what lies under the Phantom Veil. Except that this one, from time to time, when none are near enough to hear, is known to stir her veils with the forbidden whisper of her own name: Mortred.