Pugna stats, abilities and strategy
Drains enemy life to heal himself
A crafty trickster, Pugna turns the enemy's power against itself as he blasts their defenses. While his nether ward strikes nearby foes that dare to cast a spell, he drains life from enemies to ensure he will be ready for the next assault.
Win Rate 48.8%
Pick Rate 3.8%
Attributes
538 +44.0/lvl
387 +62.4/lvl
19 +2.0/lvl
21 +1.3/lvl
26 +5.2/lvl
Stats
Damage:
47 - 54 + 5.2/level (211 - 218 at level 30)
Range:
630
Armor:
3.5 + 0.2/level (12.1 at level 30)
Movement:
330
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Siphoning Ward
Win Rate: 49.3%
Pick Rate: 73.4%
Nether Ward restores mana and health to Pugna based on how much damage is dealt.
Rewards of Ruin
Win Rate: 47.2%
Pick Rate: 26.6%
Pugna receives 1.25% spell amplification per destroyed tower.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Pugna can cast spells and use items while channeling.
Includes items which are channeled.
Can still only channel a single spell at a time.
Nether Blast
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
An exploding pulse deals damage to enemies and structures in the area. Deals 65% damage to structures.
Damage is delayed by 0.8 seconds.
BLAST DELAY: 0.8
RADIUS: 400
BLAST DAMAGE: 95 / 170 / 245 / 320
5
100 / 115 / 130 / 145
600
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +180 Nether Blast Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: -1s Nether Blast Cooldown
The Arts of Oblivion include a deafening blast of emerald flames from the Nether Reaches.
Decrepify
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
A powerful banishing spell that slows a unit and renders it unable to attack or be attacked. Healing on affected allies is increased, while afflicted enemies take extra magic damage instead.
Only magical and pure damage can affect a unit under the effects of Decrepify.
Doesn't slow allied units.
Can be used on your Nether Ward.
ALLY HEAL AMPLIFICATION: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
ENEMY INCREASED MAGIC DAMAGE: 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%
ENEMY MOVE SLOW: 45% / 50% / 55% / 60%
16 / 13 / 10 / 7
80
475 / 550 / 625 / 700
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +1.5s Decrepify Duration
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +30% Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies
A now-mastered relic from his childhood, Pugna delights in banishing others into the Nether Realm, whether for good, evil, or simple enjoyment.
Nether Ward
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Pugna places a Nether Ward at the target location. The ward will fire at any enemy hero who casts a spell dealing base damage plus the damage multiplier of the mana spent by the enemy hero.
Nether Ward deals damage before the actual spell is cast, so if the caster dies the spell will have no effect.
Nether Ward can be decrepified.
Illusions and creeps deal 25% damage to Nether Ward.
WARD ATTACK RANGE: 1400
BASE DAMAGE: 50 / 70 / 90 / 110
DAMAGE PER MANA: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6
DAMAGE TO HP: 0%
DAMAGE TO MANA: 0%
ATTACKS TO DESTROY: 4 / 4 / 4 / 4
40
80
150
FACET: Siphoning Ward
Nether Ward restores mana and health to Pugna based on how much damage is dealt.
Aghanim's Shard
Increases cast range to %AbilityCastRange%.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +1.9 Nether Ward Damage Per Mana
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +2 Nether Ward Health
While at the lamasery for the Arts of Oblivion, Pugna learned to dominate his classmates with a simple ward charged with Nether magic.
Life Drain
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
CHANNELED - When cast on an enemy, Pugna drains health from the target enemy unit to heal himself and granting vision over the target. When cast on an ally, Pugna will drain his own health into his ally.
ENEMY DRAIN PER SECOND: 150 / 250 / 350
ALLY DRAIN/HEAL PER SECOND: 150 / 250 / 350
7
100 / 150 / 200
700
Aghanim's Scepter
Reduces cooldown by %abilitycooldown%s. When targeting an enemy hero, Pugna reduces their outgoing spell damage by %spell_amp_drain_rate%% per second up to a maximum of %spell_amp_drain_max%% and increases his own, up to a maximum of %max_spell_amp_drain_pct%%. When draining through a Nether Ward using Shard, the rate of increase/decrease is %spell_amp_drain_rate_ward%% instead. Debuff lasts %spell_amp_drain_duration% seconds.
Aghanim's Shard
Life Drain can target your Nether Ward, causing life drain to refract to all enemy heroes within %abilitycastrange% units of the ward for %shard_damage_pct_from_ward%% of its normal value. The effect is interrupted if the ward is destroyed.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +20% Life Drain Heal
Patch 7.38
- No longer instantly kills enemy illusions
- No longer restores mana
- Ally Drain/Heal per second increased from 120/210/300 to 150/250/350
Pugna has truly become more powerful than even the grandmaster of Oblivion.
Talents
+1.9 Nether Ward Damage Per Mana
+180 Nether Blast Damage
+ 0.4 %
+1.5s Decrepify Duration
+20% Life Drain Heal
+ 1.5 %
+350 Health
+ 2.2 %
+30% Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies
+2 Nether Ward Health
+ 2.1 %
-1s Nether Blast Cooldown
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 25 Talent Nether Ward Damage Per Mana increased from +1.75 to +1.9
- Level 25 Talent Nether Blast Damage increased from +160 to +180
Strategy
Use Nether Blast to secure ranged creep last hits and to damage opponents at the same time.
Use Decrepify to ruin last hits for the opponents.
You can Decrepify yourself or an ally in trouble and even attempt to teleport out.
Chip opponents' towers gradually with Nether Blast whenever you can if current mana allows it.
The full value burst spell combo would be: Nether Ward, Nether Blast, Decrepify quickly and begin Life Draining.
With Life Drain, you can restore health to an ally. Watch your health though.
Place Nether Ward close enough to opponents but out of their sight.
Because of your innate, you can use all your spells and items while channeling Life Drain.
Counter Strategy
Pugna's Nether Blast takes one second to explode. You can dodge it by moving away.
Be careful not to use high mana cost spells around Pugna's Nether Ward.
Look to interrupt Pugna's Life Drain by running away or by stunning or silencing him.
Pugna takes buildings down fast with Nether Blast. Organize defense quickly.
Spell immunity and magic resistance items are great against Pugna's magical damage.
A well timed Lotus Orb is great at countering Pugna's Decrepify and Life Drain combo.
Lore
In the realm of Pugna's birth, near the vents of the Nether Reaches, there stood a lamasery devoted to the Arts of Oblivion, which drew its power from the nether energies. The Grandmaster of the temple compound had himself passed into Oblivion several years prior, leaving his academy without a leader. From the moment of their master's death, the regents of the temple began rites of divination to identify their master's reincarnation, and eventually all signs converged on the immediate neighborhood. Several villages squatted in the shadow of the temple, their alleys and plazas full of the laughter of squalling children.
Pugna, a mere thirteen months of age, was but one candidate among the local brats, and on the appointed day he was presented at the temple alongside two other promising tots. The lamas offered a jumble of worn relics to the children, treasured possessions of their former grandmaster. One boy reached for a porphyry wand that had belonged to the lama...and put it in his nostril. An impish girl pulled out an amulet that had also been the lama's, and immediately swallowed it. Pugna regarded the other two coolly, gave a merry laugh, and blasted them with gouts of emerald flame, reducing them to ashes in an instant. He then snatched up the wand and amulet, saying 'Mine!' The regents hoisted the beaming Pugna on their shoulders, wrapped him in their grandmaster's vestments, and rushed him to the throne before his mood could change. Within five years, the temple itself was another pile of ash, which pleased Pugna to no end.