Orbs to enemies and silences them
Puck has a talent for confounding its enemies with playfully elusive mischief. By teleporting to its damaging orb in order to hop short distances, it attacks foes with bursts of silencing dust. By the time its enemies can react, Puck has long since escaped.
Win Rate 47.1%
Pick Rate 4.4%
Attributes
374 +52.8/lvl
276 +45.6/lvl
17 +2.4/lvl
14 +2.5/lvl
23 +3.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
22 - 30 + 2.5/level (94.5 - 102.5 at level 30)
Range:
550
Armor:
0 + 0.4/level (11.6 at level 30)
Movement:
290
Roles
Carry
Escape
Nuker
Initiator
Durable
Disabler
Support
Pusher
Facets
Jostling Rift
Win Rate: 47.5%
Pick Rate: 88.4%
Waning Rift can push or pull targets.
Waning Rift
Waning Rift pushes enemies away. If the ability is in alt-cast state, it will pull them instead.
PUSH/PULL DISTANCE:
75/100/125/150
PUSH/PULL DURATION:
0.3
Curveball
Win Rate: 43.4%
Pick Rate: 11.6%
Puck's Illusory Orb can be curved in any direction, moves faster, and lasts longer.
Illusory Orb
Illusory Orb can now be vector targeted to manipulate the orb's travel path. The orb moves faster and lasts longer, but if it exceeds the max cast range it will be destroyed.
SPEED:
200
DURATION MULTIPLIER:
100%
Abilities
Puckish
Whenever Puck disjoints an attack, it restores 2% of its max mana and 2% of its max health. Dodging a targeted spell projectile restores 4x that amount.
Illusory Orb
Puck launches a magic orb that floats in a straight path, damaging enemy units along the way. At any point, Puck may teleport to the orb's location using Ethereal Jaunt.
PASSIVE:No
radius:225
max distance:1950
orb speed:550
orb vision:450
vision duration:2.5
damage:75 / 150 / 225 / 300
warning sound time:0.25
+50 Illusory Orb Damage
11 / 10 / 9 / 8
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Waning Rift
Puck teleports to the target location and releases a burst of faerie dust that deals damage and silences enemy units nearby.
AFFECTS:area
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:basic
radius:400
silence duration:2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5
damage:60 / 120 / 180 / 240
max distance:400
Aghanim`s Scepter Upgrade
Waning Rift now has %scepter_radius% radius and range and knocks enemies back %scepter_pushback% distance over %scepter_pushback_duration% seconds (non-interrupting). Reveals invisible enemy units and wards in the area for %scepter_vision_duration% seconds.
+1s Waning Rift Silence Duration
+60 Waning Rift Damage
+300 Waning Rift Radius/Max Distance
16 / 15 / 14 / 13
100 / 110 / 120 / 130
Phase Shift
CHANNELED - Puck briefly shifts into another dimension where it is immune from harm.
PASSIVE:No
duration:1 / 1.75 / 2.5 / 3.25
Aghanim`s Shard Upgrade
Puck's attacks deal bonus magic damage. Puck attacks all enemies within its attack range every time it phase shifts.
8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5
Dream Coil
Creates a coil of volatile magic that latches onto enemy Heroes, damaging and leashing them. If the enemy hero stretches the coil by moving too far away, it snaps, stunning and dealing additional damage.
AFFECTS:area
PASSIVE:No
coil duration:6
coil break radius:600
stun duration:0.5
coil initial damage:175 / 250 / 325
coil stun duration:1.5 / 2 / 2.5
coil break damage:200 / 300 / 400
coil radius:375
+175 Initial/Break Dream Coil Damage
75
100 / 150 / 200
Talents
+50 Illusory Orb Damage
+1s Waning Rift Silence Duration
-10s Dream Coil Cooldown
+60 Waning Rift Damage
-3s Waning Rift Cooldown
+175 Initial/Break Dream Coil Damage
Dream Coil Pierces Debuff Immunity
+300 Waning Rift Radius/Max Distance
Strategy
Use Illusory Orb immediately as you load into the game to place Observer Ward quickly.
Use Illusory Orb and Waning Rift to secure creep last hits and damage enemy heroes at the same time.
You can disjoint ranged attacks and spell projectiles with Phase Shift and Illusory Orb.
Illusory Orb gives you an upper hand when it comes to rune control and helps with stacking from distance.
Illusory Orb provides vision on its path so you can check for pillar wards and scout Roshan pit.
Play actively and look around for possibilities to gank. Make use of your hero's mobility and elusiveness.
When not much is happening, push out the sidelines with your nukes.
Puck is amazing at gap-closing, especially with Blink Dagger. Prioritize killing backliners and supports in fights.
Pick up Aghanims Shards in the mid to late game to insta kill creep waves with spells and do more damage in fights.
Counter Strategy
Puck has low armor and HP. Pressure her early on.
Control power runes against Puck. She likes to bottle and gank with those.
Fight back when Dream Coiled unless you think you can escape by breaking it.
Avoid fighting in choke spots and clumping up against Dream Coil.
Puck is hard to catch. Instant disables and silences are great against Puck.
Spell immunity and magic resistance items are great against Puck's magical damage.
Puck is great at split-pushing. Consider getting Boots of Travel on a Core.
Lore
While Puck seems at first glance a mischievous, childish character, this quality masks an alien personality. The juvenile form of a Faerie Dragon, a creature that lives for eons, Puck spends countless millennia in its childish form. So while it is technically true that Puck is juvenile, it will continue to be so when the cities of the present age have sloughed away into dust. Its motives are therefore inscrutable, and what appears to be play may in fact hide a darker purpose. Its endless fondness for mischief is the true indicator of Puck's true nature.