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Chaos Knight

Popularity: #91

Leaderboard: #71

Ban Rank: #45

KDA Rank: #89

Has strong but random damage output

Chaos Knight is an army unto himself. Able to summon a cavalry of clones to demolish enemy defenses, should an enemy present itself, he can rift reality to pull him and his phantasms close enough to rain brutal cudgel blows upon their head.

Win Rate 49.3%
Pick Rate 4.2%
Attributes
Chaos Knight Image

648 +68.2/lvl

291 +14.4/lvl

Strength Image

24 +3.1/lvl

Agility Image

18 +1.4/lvl

Intelligence Image

18 +1.2/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

48 - 78 + 3.1/level (151.9 - 181.9 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

5.0 + 0.2/level (14.1 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

325

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Phantasmagoria

Win Rate: 48.7%

Pick Rate: 67.8%

Phantasmagoria

Irrationality

Win Rate: 50.5%

Pick Rate: 32.2%

Reality Rift has equal chances of applying Break, Disarm, or Silence for {s:bonus_additional_debuff_duration_percent}% of the base debuff duration in addition to its normal effects.


Reality Rift

Reality Rift has equal chances of applying Break, Disarm, or Silence for =50% of the base debuff duration in addition to its normal effects.

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Reins of Chaos

BREAKABLE: Yes


Whenever illusions of Chaos Knight are created, there is a 50% chance that an additional 1 extra illusion will spawn.


Q

Chaos Bolt

Throws a mysterious bolt of energy at the target unit. It stuns for a random duration and deals random damage.


MINIMUM STUN: 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2

MAXIMUM STUN: 1.75 / 2.25 / 2.75 / 3.25

Cooldown

13 / 12 / 11 / 10

Mana Cost

110

Cast Range

500


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Causes Chaos Bolt to create a Phantasm illusion to attack the target. This illusion deals undefined% less damage.


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  • -3s Chaos Bolt Cooldown
  • +0.6 Min/Max Chaos Bolt Duration

Even Chaos Knight cannot predict this manifest of unholy energy.
W

Reality Rift

Teleports Chaos Knight, any illusions he has, and the target unit to a point along the line between him and the target. Reduces armor of the enemy unit for 6 seconds.


PULL DISTANCE: 300 / 350 / 400 / 450

Cooldown

18 / 14 / 10 / 6

Mana Cost

50

Cast Range

600 / 650 / 700 / 750


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  • +225 Reality Rift Pull Distance
  • Reality Rift Pierces Spell Immunity

Armageddon rides between the planes, bringing Chaos Knight to his victim wherever he may hide.

Chaos Strike

Chaos Knight and his illusions' attacks have a chance to deal a critical strike of varying strength with bonus lifesteal. Deals 2x damage to creeps, but lifesteal from creeps is reduced by 70%.


CHANCE: 33.33%

CRITICAL MIN: 125%

CRITICAL LIFESTEAL: 24% / 36% / 48% / 60%


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  • +30% Chaos Strike Lifesteal
  • +10% Chaos Strike Chance

Chaos Knight's unwieldy power bludgeons those who stand before him, crushing the thickest of armors.
R

Phantasm

Summons several phantasmal copies of the Chaos Knight from alternate dimensions. The phantasms are illusions that deal 100% damage, but take 350% damage. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


PHANTASM DURATION: 30

PHANTASM DAMAGE: 100%

PHANTASM DAMAGE TAKEN: 350%

Cooldown

75

Mana Cost

100 / 200 / 300


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Creates an illusion of allied heroes globally. Creates an additional illusion for Chaos Knight as well.


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  • +10s Phantasm Duration

Drawing on his battles fought across many worlds and many times, phantasms of the Chaos Knight rise up to quell all who oppose him.

Talents

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+10s Phantasm Duration

+ 0.5 %

+10% Chaos Strike Chance

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Reality Rift Pierces Spell Immunity

+0.6 Min/Max Chaos Bolt Duration

+ 0.9 %

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+10 Strength

-3s Chaos Bolt Cooldown

+ 0.1 %

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+225 Reality Rift Pull Distance

+ 2.5 %

+30% Chaos Strike Lifesteal

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Try to get level 2 before your opponent and go for a kill with your support. Chaos knight has good kill potential with levels. Try to catch enemies that are alone in 2 versus 1 trades.

Try to have chaos strike maxed by level 7 as it is your main tool for farming and will help with burst early. It also provides you with critical lifesteal to not have to go back to base while farming.

Use Phantasm off cooldown not just to fight but also to farm faster unless you suspect a fight will happen soon. Prioritize Ancient creeps whenever possible with Phantasm usage.

Illusions scale with stat attributes, attack speed and movement speed increases, health regeneration and some attack modifiers like lifesteal and crit.

Phantasmagoria makes your Phantasm illusions into strong illusions so they can't be instantly killed with hex, dagon or drains.

Try to target and burst enemy supports and save heroes at the start of fights. Your illusions will generally be killed off as the fight continues.

With Blink Dagger you can use Phantasm, blink in and pull illusions on target by using Reality Rift. Catch the important backline heroes with this like Sniper and Oracle.

Counter Strategy

Chaos Strike sustains Chaos Knight. Deal bursts of damage to him in lane so he can't hit creeps easily and regain HP. Keep him low all the time.

Chaos Knight's Phantasm applies a basic dispel on cast.

Either kills his illusions in the fights or disengage. Kite him around with slows and disables and keep distance from his Reality Rift.

Items that deal AoE damage and AOE disables are good against Chaos Knight's illusions. Look to buy items like Gleipnir for AOE disable.

Crimson Guard and armor items are good at offsetting Chaos Knight's physical damage output.

Lore

The veteran of countless battles on a thousand worlds, Chaos Knight hails from a far upstream plane where the fundamental laws of the universe have found sentient expression. Of all the ancient Fundamentals, he is the oldest and most tireless, endlessly searching out a being he knows only as "The Light." Long ago the Light ventured out from the progenitor realm, in defiance of the first covenant. Now Chaos Knight shifts from plane to plane, always on the hunt to extinguish the Light wherever he finds it. A thousand times he has snuffed out the source, and always he slides into another plane to continue his search anew.

Upon his steed Armageddon he rides, wading into battle with maniacal frenzy, drawing strength from the disorder of the universe. A physical manifestation of chaos itself, in times of need he calls upon other versions of himself from other planes, and together these dark horsemen ride into battle, as unstoppable as any force of nature. Only when the last Light of the world is scoured from existence will the search be ended. Where rides the Chaos Knight, death soon follows.

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