Can reincarnate instantly upon death
Striding fearlessly toward his enemies, Wraith King stuns his foes and slashes them into submission. Should his enemies gain the upper hand, his self-resurrecting ultimate ensures he'll have another chance to swing his sword.
Win Rate 57.2%
Pick Rate 17.4%
Attributes
604 +61.6/lvl
291 +19.2/lvl
22 +2.8/lvl
16 +1.7/lvl
18 +1.6/lvl
Stats
Damage:
60 - 62 + 2.8/level (155 - 157 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
3.7 + 0.3/level (14.2 at level 30)
Movement:
315
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Bone Guard
Win Rate: 57.7%
Pick Rate: 68.8%
Gains a Charge for every 2 creeps killed and 2 charges per hero killed.. Activate to spend all charges, summoning skeletons that respawn once when killed. Skeletons benefit from Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal.
Spectral Blade
Win Rate: 56.3%
Pick Rate: 31.2%
Curses units that Wraith King attacks, dealing a flat amount of damage and a percentage of the attack damage again after a delay. Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal applies to the curse damage and a unit cannot be cursed again for a short period of time.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Grants Wraith King Lifesteal. When slain Wraith King turns into a free pathing Wraith with Bonus Attack and Movement Speed for a short duration, delaying his death.
Credit for allies whose death was delayed will go to whoever struck the original killing blow.
Does not affect Reincarnate deaths.
Break only disables the passive lifesteal component.
Respawn timer is reduced by Wraith duration.
LIFESTEAL: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40%
WRAITH DURATION: 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5
BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75
BONUS MOVE SPEED: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
AURA RADIUS:
Aghanim's Scepter
Turns Vampiric Spirit into an aura, allowing allied heroes to turn into wraiths when slain. Extends wraith duration.
AURA RADIUS:
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +10% Vampiric Spirit Lifesteal
Wraithfire Blast
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Wraith King sears an enemy unit with spectral fire, dealing damage and stunning, then dealing damage over time and slowing the target.
STUN DURATION: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6
SLOW DURATION: 2
MOVEMENT SLOW: -20%
IMPACT DAMAGE: 75 / 90 / 105 / 120
DAMAGE PER SECOND: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
14 / 12 / 10 / 8
95 / 110 / 125 / 140
525
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +1s Wraithfire Blast Stun Duration
PATCH 7.38c
Cooldown decreased from 17/14/11/8s to 14/12/10/8s
Ostarion calls on his damned lineage, laying waste to his opponents.
Bone Guard
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Gains a Charge for every 2 creeps killed and 2 charges per hero killed.. Activate to spend all charges, summoning skeletons that respawn once when killed. Skeletons benefit from Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal.
Break disables the gaining of new stacks.
SKELETON DURATION: 46
MAX CHARGES: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8
SKELETON DAMAGE: 34 / 39 / 43 / 49
SKELETON BUILDING DAMAGE REDUCTION: 35%
SKELETON HERO BONUS DAMAGE: 25%
42
70 / 80 / 90 / 100
LEVEL 20 TALENT: special_bonus_unique_wraith_king_facet_3
Wraith King's blade drains his enemy's essence to feed his aura.
Spectral Blade
ABILITY: Passive
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PASSIVE: Breakable
Curses units that Wraith King attacks, dealing a flat amount of damage and a percentage of the attack damage again after a delay. Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal applies to the curse damage and a unit cannot be cursed again for a short period of time.
CURSE DAMAGE: 50%
BASE DAMAGE: 10 / 25 / 40 / 55
CURSE COOLDOWN (HEROES): 18 / 16 / 14 / 12
CURSE COOLDOWN (CREEPS): 6
CURSE DELAY: 3
LEVEL 20 TALENT: special_bonus_unique_wraith_king_facet_3
LEVEL 10 TALENT: special_bonus_unique_wraith_king_facet_1
Mortal Strike
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Wraith King passively deals bonus damage on an attack with a cooldown.
CRITICAL DAMAGE: 160% / 200% / 240% / 280%
6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5
One blow to crush a foe.
Reincarnation
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Wraith King's form regroups after death, allowing him to resurrect when killed in battle. Upon death, enemy units in a 900 radius are slowed. Can be self-cast to kill Wraith King instantly.
Wraith King won't revive if he doesn't have enough mana.
If Wraith King has an Aegis and Reincarnation off cooldown, Reincarnation will trigger first.
Revives with full HP and Mana.
REINCARNATION TIME: 3 / 3 / 3
MOVEMENT SLOW: -75%
ATTACK SPEED SLOW: -75
SLOW DURATION: 5
COOLDOWN: 180 / 150 / 120
180 / 150 / 120
FACET: Bone Guard
When reincarnating, INVALID TYPE skeletons are spawned and attack each nearby enemy hero.
FACET: Spectral Blade
When reincarnating, nearby enemy heroes have their curse cooldowns reset.
Aghanim's Shard
Causes Reincarnation to have no mana cost.
PATCH 7.38c
Mana Cost increased from 200 to 225
Conspirators against the Wraith King wonder why he never stays dead.
Talents [E]
Reincarnation Casts Wraithfire Blast
-2s Mortal Strike Cooldown
+ 0.2 %
+ 1.8 %
+60 Attack Speed
+400 Health
+1s Wraithfire Blast Stun Duration
+ 3.2 %
+ 1.3 %
+10% Vampiric Spirit Lifesteal
Win Rate
Pick Rate
PATCH 7.38
Level 20 Talent +40% Cleave replaced with +60 Attack Speed
Strategy
With the Bone Guard facet, if you have a strong level 2 powerspike on the lane, skill Vampiric Spirit on level 2, build up skeletons, release them on level 2 and use Wraithfire Blast when all creeps die.
Use Wraithfire Blast to secure ranged creep last hits by either stunning the creep or an enemy hero.
Use Mortal Strike in combination with your Spectral Blade to poke and harass your opponents.
With the Bone Guard facet, when farming jungle, try not to let your skeletons tank neutral creeps too much.
With the Bone Guard facet, when neutral camp is at 30% of total health, move to the next camp to have your skeletons follow you by providing them with a new target.
With the Bone Guard facet, you should have Bone Guard maxed out at level 7 to increase farming speed.
Consider keeping a skill point on level 6 for Reincarnation or invest it in spells that will improve your farming speed if you are jungling.
Once you have a Blink Dagger, focus on killing backliners or supports first.
Mana burn is a big problem for the Wraith King. Consider getting an early BKB or Aghanims Shard against mana burn heroes or Diffusal Blade carriers.
If you took the Bone Guard facet, your skeletons are not super useful in teamfights. Use them to push out lanes or after fights to take the buildings.
Counter Strategy
Wraith King has low armor. Pressure him with right clicks.
Reincarnation has a long cooldown on level 1. Look to pressure Wraith King while it is down.
If Wraith King took the Bone Guard facet, he farms quickly with skeletons. Smoke on him, place deep wards and sentry block off his camps with sentires.
Don't commit all your spells and abilities on Wraith King's first life unless you are sure you can kill him once more.
Manaburn is great at stopping Wraith Kings ultimate from activating until he gets BKB or Aghanims shard.
If Wraith King seems to be saving gold he is most probably buying radiance, be careful of this timing and try to punish this before he has it.
Lore
For untold years, King Ostarion built a kingdom from the remains of his enemies. It was an obsessive's errand, done to pass the long eternities of a monarchy that seemed fated never to end. He believed that as long as he built up the towers of his palace, he could not die. But eventually he learned that he had been deluded... that bone itself could perish. Deeply mistrustful of flesh, he sought a more permanent way of extending his reign, and at last settled on pursuit of wraith energy, a form of pure spirit given off by certain dark souls at death. Should he infuse himself with Wraith Essence, he thought he might create a body as luminous and eternal as his ego. On the millennial solstice known as Wraith-Night, he submitted to a rite of transformation, compelling his subjects to harvest enough souls to fuel his ambition for immortality. No one knows how many of his champions died, for the only survivor who mattered was the Wraith King who rose with the sun on the following morn. Now he rarely spends a moment on his glowing throne--but strides out with sword drawn, demanding a fealty that extends far beyond death.