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Dark Seer

Popularity: #121

Leaderboard: #57

Ban Rank: #118

KDA Rank: #50

Pulls and manipulates his enemies' positions

Versatile and strategic, Dark Seer excels at manipulating the positions of his enemies. Vacuuming foes into the attacks of his allies, he can turn enemy strength against itself by pulling foes through his replicating wall.

Win Rate 50.0%
Pick Rate 1.5%
Attributes
Dark Seer Image

560 +57.2/lvl

327 +32.4/lvl

Strength Image

20 +2.6/lvl

Agility Image

19 +1.8/lvl

Intelligence Image

21 +2.7/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

49 - 55 + 5.0/level (222.5 - 228.5 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

5.2 + 0.3/level (16.2 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

295

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Quick Wit

Win Rate: 49.4%

Pick Rate: 56.3%

Quick Wit

Heart of Battle

Win Rate: 50.6%

Pick Rate: 43.7%

Heart of Battle

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Mental Fortitude

Dark Seer's Intelligence cannot be lower than the average of his Strength and Agility.


If the average between his Strength and Agility is higher, he gains Bonus Intelligence to match them.


PATCH 7.37

Intelligence now cannot be lower than the average of Strength and Agility


Q

Vacuum

Dark Seer creates a vacuum over the target area that sucks in enemy units, disrupting them and dealing damage.


RADIUS: 325 / 400 / 475 / 550

Cooldown

60 / 50 / 40 / 30

Mana Cost

60 / 90 / 120 / 150

Cast Range

450 / 500 / 550 / 600


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  • +75 Vacuum AoE

Ish'Kafel modifies the center of gravity to a place of his choosing.
W

Ion Shell

Surrounds the target unit with a bristling shield that damages enemy units in an area around it.


RADIUS: 275

DAMAGE PER SECOND: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90

DURATION: 21 / 24 / 27 / 30

Cooldown

9

Mana Cost

100 / 110 / 120 / 130

Cast Range

800


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  • +65 Ion Shell Radius
  • Ion Shell Provides +250 Max Health
  • +50 Ion Shell Damage
  • 2 Ion Shell Charges

The Dark Seer slices holes into the 'Land Behind the Wall,' causing prismatic energy to seep forth.
E

Surge

Charges a target friendly unit with power, giving it a brief burst of phased movement speed. Allows the unit to reach maximum movement speed and cannot be slowed.


DURATION: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

Cooldown

24 / 19 / 14 / 9

Mana Cost

50

Cast Range

600


Ish'Kafel once used his speed of mind to navigate the maze between the walls.
R

Wall of Replica

Raises a wall of warping light that slows, damages, and creates replicas of any enemy hero who crosses it. Enemy replicas serve at the Dark Seer's will. Replicas last until they are destroyed, or until the wall's duration ends.


WALL DURATION: 30

REPLICA DAMAGE: 70% / 80% / 90%

REPLICA DAMAGE TAKEN: 200%

SLOW DURATION: 1

Cooldown

100

Mana Cost

125 / 250 / 375

Cast Range

1300


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  • +20% Wall of Replica Illusion Damage

The Dark Seer, while unable to return to his natural realm, can channel part of the prismatic wall with powerful strength of mind, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks.

Normal Punch

Passive ability. Causes Dark Seer's next attack on a hero to have True Strike, knock a replica out of the victim, damaging and stunning them based on how far Dark Seer has moved in the past 3 seconds. Max power is reached after 1100 distance moved.


MAX STUN DURATION: 1.25

MAX KNOCKBACK DISTANCE: 350

ILLUSION DURATION: 6

MAX DAMAGE: 400

Cooldown

9


Talents

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350 AoE Surge

+ 2.9 %

2 Ion Shell Charges

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+50 Ion Shell Damage

+ 1.3 %

-40s Wall of Replica Cooldown

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Ion Shell Provides +250 Max Health

+ 0.1 %

+75 Vacuum AoE

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+65 Ion Shell Radius

+20% Wall of Replica Illusion Damage

+ 0.3 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Double Ion Shell the first wave and make sure opponents don't deny many creeps.

Execute push and pull strategy. Push the lane with shells and pull the big camp.

If you can't pressure on the lane consider creep skipping and farming neutral camps nearby.

If you are fighting close to pillar spots or cliffs, consider Vacuuming opponents on those.

Push out dangerous lanes with Ion Shells.

Keep your melee cores shelled and wait for a moment when opponents are clumped up to do your combo.

Prioritize using Wall of Replica and Normal Punch on heroes that have strong illusions or auras.

Counter Strategy

Against Dark Seer, focus on denying creeps as Ion Shells are making them drop low.

Dark Seer will push the lane in with Ion Shell and pull the big neutral camp. Block it or prevent it.

Dark Seer relies on clarities to maintain Ion Shell spam. Look to cancel them.

When Dark Seer's Surge is on cooldown he is vulnerable.

Avoid buying Radiance and Assault Cuirass against Dark Seer as he can replicate these items with his ulti.

Don't clump up in teamfights for Vacuum into Wall of Replica combination of Dark Seer.

Lore

Fast when he needs to be, and a cunning strategist, Ish'Kafel the Dark Seer requires no edged weapons to vanquish his enemies, relying instead on the strength of his powerful mind. His talent lies in his ability to maneuver the fight to his advantage. Hailing from a place he calls 'The Land behind the wall,' Dark Seer remains an outsider here--a warrior from a realm beyond the veil of this reality.

Once a great general among his people, and a valiant defender of the god-king Damathryx, Dark Seer's army was wiped out by a much larger force in the final days of the Great Boundaries War. Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls. At the last moment, just before capture, he crossed over--then sealed the walls forever in an explosive release of dark energy. When the dust settled, he saw that he had saved his people but found himself blinking at the sun of a different world, with no way to return. Now he is committed to proving his worth as a military strategist, and vows to show that he's the greatest tactician this strange new world has ever seen.

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