Lycan stats, abilities and strategy
Shapeshifts into a ferocious beast
As a man or as a wolf, Lycan devastates enemies with sharp claws and deadly jaws. Summoning stealthy wolves to scout ahead or assault a foe, his wolf transformation grants him the speed and strength to run down his enemies, or escape an ambush.
Win Rate 48.5%
Pick Rate 1.5%
Attributes
736 +74.8/lvl
351 +20.4/lvl
28 +3.4/lvl
18 +1.7/lvl
23 +1.7/lvl
Stats
Damage:
52 - 57 + 3.4/level (164 - 169 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
3.0 + 0.3/level (13.6 at level 30)
Movement:
305
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38c
- Base Strength increased from 26 to 28
- Damage at level 1 increased from 50–55 to 52–57
Patch 7.38
- Is now a Strength Hero
- Base Damage increased by 20
- Damage at level 1 unchanged (50-55)
- Strength gain increased from 3.0 to 3.4
- Agility gain decreased from 1.8 to 1.7
- Intelligence gain increased from 1.2 to 1.7
- Damage gain per level decreased from +4.2 to +3.4
- Damage at level 30 decreased by 40 (from 202-207 to 162-167)
Facets
Pack Leader
Win Rate: 50.8%
Pick Rate: 36.0%
Enemy heroes killed by Lycan or his units extend Shapeshift duration.
Spirit Wolves
Win Rate: 46.7%
Pick Rate: 30.5%
Summon Wolves creates invulnerable non-attacking wolves that buff Lycan's health and attack damage.
Patch 7.38b
- Summon Wolves: Bonus health per wolf increased from 50/100/150/200 to 60/115/170/225
Alpha Wolves
Win Rate: 47.7%
Pick Rate: 33.6%
Increases the max level of Summon Wolves while lowering the max level of Howl and Feral Impulse.
Patch 7.38
- Summon Wolves: Hightail duration decreased from 8s to 6s
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Lycan and units he controls deal 2% extra damage to neutral creeps per hero level.
EXTRA DAMAGE: %
Summon Wolves
PASSIVE: No
Summons 2 wolves to aid Lycan in battle. At level 3, wolves gain Permanent Invisibility, and at level 4 wolves gain Cripple that gives 20% chance to cripple the target, causing 8 damage per second and lose 60 attack speed for 4 seconds.
DURATION: 50
BASE ATTACK TIME: 1.2 / 1.1 / 1 / 0.9 / 0.9 / 0.9
DAMAGE: 23 / 29 / 35 / 41 / 47 / 53
HP: 325 / 375 / 425 / 475 / 525 / 575
WOLF COUNT: 2
BONUS HEALTH PER WOLF:
BASE DAMAGE INCREASE PER WOLF:
30
FACET: Spirit Wolves
Summoned Wolves are invulnerable and uncontrollable spirits that do not attack, but provide health and damage bonuses to Lycan.
FACET: Alpha Wolves
Max Level increased to 2. Level 5 wolves gain Hamstring, which empowers their attacks to root enemies and cause them to take more physical damage on attacks. Level 6 wolves have Hightail, an active ability that gives wolves phased movement, evasion, movespeed, and attack speed.
Aghanim's Shard
Causes one of your creep waves to include one uncontrollable wolf that moves with the wave. Additionally, wolves spawned this way may Cripple towers.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +2 Wolves Summoned
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +350 Summon Wolves Health
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +10 Wolves Damage
Patch 7.38
- Magic Resistance rescaled from 40/50/60/70% to 45/50/55/60%
The very enchantment that twisted his being also summons canine familiars.
Howl
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Strikes fear into enemies, reducing armor and attack damage of all enemies within 2000 range of Lycan and his wolves. At night, Howl's armor and attack damage reductions are global.
DURATION: 8
ATTACK DAMAGE REDUCTION: 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%
ARMOR REDUCTION: 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
FEAR DURATION: 0
22 / 20 / 18 / 16
40
FACET: Alpha Wolves
Max level decreased to 1.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Howl Reduces Total Attack Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +3 Howl Armor Reduction
Blood-curdling wolf cries signal to opponents that Banehallow is among them.
Feral Impulse
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Increases the HP regeneration and damage of Lycan and all units under his control.
BONUS DAMAGE: 10% / 20% / 30% / 40%
BONUS HP REGEN: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
FACET: Alpha Wolves
Max level decreased to 1.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +25% Feral Impulse Damage
His animalistic symbiosis with canine kind gives Banehallow enhanced reflexes and hunting capabilities.
Shapeshift
PASSIVE: No
Lycan assumes his lupine form, granting him critical strikes and added vision at night. During Shapeshift, Lycan moves at increased speed and cannot be slowed.
Hex doesn't remove Lycan's movement speed.
Lycan has a smaller collision size in this state.
DURATION: 25
SHAPESHIFT MOVE SPEED: 550
BONUS NIGHT VISION: 1000
TRANSFORM TIME: 1.1
CRITICAL CHANCE: 40%
CRITICAL DAMAGE: 160% / 200% / 240%
HEALTH BONUS: 250 / 350 / 450
110 / 100 / 90
100
FACET: Pack Leader
Movement and critical strike bonuses are also applied to all units under Lycan's control. Enemy heroes killed by Lycan or his units extends Shapeshift duration by 5s.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +6s Shapeshift Duration
Forever a slave to his lycanthropy, Banehallow has come to accept his curse, and embrace his own savagery.
Wolf Bite
Scepter grants new ability
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
Lycan bites an ally, granting them Shapeshift properties. Lycan and the bitten target gain 40% Lifesteal and share the healing effect of Lifesteal with each other as long as they are within %lifesteal_range% range of each other.
Wolf Bite cooldown matches the cooldown of the current level of Shapeshift.
110 / 100 / 90
150
300
Does this bite look infected?
Talents
+2 Wolves Summoned
+ 6.0 %
Howl Reduces Total Attack Damage
+25% Feral Impulse Damage
+ 1.9 %
+6s Shapeshift Duration
-15s Shapeshift Cooldown
+ 0.1 %
+350 Summon Wolves Health
+10 Wolves Damage
+3 Howl Armor Reduction
+ 3.0 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
Rush Helm of Iron Will to solve your health sustain issues.
You can scout enemy whereabouts with Wolves before the 0 minute runes and check for the mid lane ward.
Focus on securing last hits and denying as you have extra damage from the Wolves and Feral Impulse.
Avoid feeding summons to opponents. Deny them or send them away, perhaps to block a camp or control a rune.
Lycan's laning power spike is Helm of Dominator and level 6. Try to get a kill or force the enemy out of the lane and you can take the tower fast.
Delay death of the 5 minute catapult wave to meet Helm of the Dominator and level 6 power spike so you can take the enemy tower.
Take control of a neutral creep with a stun or root with the Helm of the Dominator so the opponents cant teleport out when you chase them with your Ultimate.
When dominated creep is about to die, you can overtake another one and deny gold and experience to opponents.
When not much is happening, push out the sidelines with summons. Black Dragon is particularly good for that.
Lycan is great at killing Roshan due to summons, Howl and auras. Bring him down by the 20 minute mark.
Consider using wolves to scout in mid to late game. You can deny runes as well.
Aghanim's Scepter's Wolf Bite is a huge buff for one of your right-clicking cores.
In tough late game scenarios resort to split-pushing, Aghanim's Shard will keep your lanes pushed in and make it easier to split-push.
Use your burst damage to make maximum use of item spikes by looking for kills and objectives on the map.
Look to isolate and kill enemy supports quickly in fights as they will find it hard to kite you without items.
Try to initiate fights or gather around your teammates when your ultimate is up. If your ultimate is on cooldown you should be pushing lanes or splitpushing and pressuring towers.
Consider using your wolves to help your laning partner win the support trade-offs.
Counter Strategy
Lycan is a low armor hero. Pressure him with your right-clicks early in the game before he gets the Helm of Iron Will.
Try to kill the wolves, especially when they are on low levels.
Be aware of Lycan's level 6 and Helm of Dominator timing.
Lycan and his summons do a lot of damage to buildings. Organize defense quickly or send a hero that can naturally defend towers.
Lycan is a snowbally hero and falls off. Look to extend the game. Don't be greedy with items.
Crimson Guard and armor items are great against the physical damage output of Lycan and his units.
Lycan is great at split-pushing and ratting. Consider getting Boots of Travel on a core.
Lycan is able to kill Roshan early on. Ward and check Roshpit.
Look to gank Lycan when you know his ultimate is down. He is fairly useless without it.
Lore
Banehallow was noble-born to the house of Ambry, the greatest of the landed castes in the old kingdom of Slom. Before the Fall, as the King's wants grew strange, and his court grew crowded with sorcerers and charlatans, the house of Ambry was the first to rise against the avarice of the throne. No longer willing to pay homage and fealty, they instead sent six-thousand swords into the capital, where they were wiped out in the Massacre of the Apostates. And then came the teeth behind the old truth: When you strike a king's neck, you had better take his head.
Enraged by the betrayal, the king exterminated the vast Ambry bloodline, sparing only the lord of the house and his youngest son, Banehallow. Before all the royal court, with the disgraced lord chained to the ornate marble floor, the King bade his magicians transform the boy into a wolf so that he might tear out his own father's throat. "Do this," the king said, "so that Lord Ambry will understand the bite of betrayal." Powerful magic was invoked, and the child was transformed. But though his body was changed, his spirit remained intact, and instead of biting the exposed neck of his father, he attacked his handlers, tearing them to pieces. A dozen of the King's knights perished under the wolf's teeth before they managed to drive it off into the night. Lord Ambry laughed from his chains even as the King ran him through with a sword. Now the heir to the lost house of Ambry, Banehallow wanders the trail as the Lycan, part warrior, part wolf, in search of justice for all that he lost.