Phantom Assassin stats, abilities and strategy [7.41a]
Blinks onto her foes with critical strikes
The moment she finds her prey, Phantom Assassin strikes. Instantly closing in on a target, she effortlessly dodges attacks as she relentlessly cuts away at her foe. Without warning, any one of her attacks could prove suddenly and brutally fatal.
Win Rate 46.1%
Pick Rate 9.4%
Attributes
538 +44.0/lvl
255 +20.4/lvl
19 +2.0/lvl
21 +3.4/lvl
15 +1.7/lvl
Stats
Damage:
56 - 58 + 3.4/level (168 - 170 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
4.5 + 0.6/level (23.3 at level 30)
Movement:
310
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Abilities
BUFF: Yes
Phantom Assassin blurs her body, disjointing incoming projectiles, increasing her movement speed, causing her to be impossible to see until she comes near enemy heroes or towers.
Attacking Roshan with a regular attack will dispel Blur.
DURATION: 30
VANISH RADIUS: 500
VANISH BUFFER: 0.8
BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED: 9.5%
45
50
500
Aghanim's Shard
Decreases Cooldown. Any time Phantom Assassin gets a hero kill, her ability cooldowns advance 60% of their max cooldown values.
Patch 7.41
- No longer levels with Coup de Grace
- Vanish Radius rescaled from 625/550/475/400 to 500
- Vanish Buffer rescaled from 0.4/0.6/0.8/1s to 0.8s
- Active Movement Speed changed from 6/9/12/15% to 9.5% + 0.5% per level
Meditation allows a Veiled Sister to carefully anticipate her opponents in combat.
Stifling Dagger
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF: Yes
Throws a dagger slowing the enemy unit's movement speed, dealing 65 / 70 / 75 / 80+30 / 45 / 60 / 75% of Phantom Assassin's attack damage as physical damage and applying attack effects from items and abilities.
If an attack effect is chance-based, the chance of its application will be the same as its chance to occur.
Spell-immune enemies are not affected by Stifling Dagger's slow.
Stifling Dagger grants vision around its location while it travels and upon impact.
MOVE SLOW: 50%
SLOW DURATION: 2.1 / 2.4 / 2.7 / 3
BASE DAMAGE: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
ATTACK DAMAGE: 30% / 45% / 60% / 75%
6
30
700 / 850 / 1000 / 1150
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Triple Strike Stifling Dagger
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +15% Stifling Dagger Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: -2s Stifling Dagger Cooldown
The first skill learned by the Sisters of the Veil often signals an incoming hit.
Phantom Strike
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
Teleports to a unit, friendly or enemy, and grants bonus attack speed while attacking if it's an enemy unit.
BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 100 / 130 / 160 / 190
DURATION: 2.5
0.1
35 / 40 / 45 / 50
650 / 750 / 850 / 950
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +60 Phantom Strike Attack Speed
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +200 Phantom Strike Cast Range
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +0.6s Phantom Strike Duration
Mortred's silken veil is the last thing her unfortunate target sees.
Immaterial
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Phantom Assassin focuses inward, increasing her ability to evade enemy attacks. Evasion improves with Phantom Assassin's levels. Stacks diminishingly with other sources of Evasion.
BONUS EVASION: 25% / 35% / 45% / 55%
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +20% Immaterial Evasion
Coup de Grace
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Phantom Assassin refines her combat abilities, acquiring a chance of gaining Deadly Focus with each attack. When attacking with Deadly Focus, Phantom Assassin will consume the buff and guarantee a critical hit. Stifling Dagger has a bonus chance to cause Deadly Focus.
CHANCE OF DEADLY FOCUS: 17%
DAGGER CHANCE OF DEADLY FOCUS: 34%
CRITICAL DAMAGE: 200% / 300% / 400%
DEADLY FOCUS DURATION: 6 / 8 / 10
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +10% Coup de Grace chance
A divine strike, Mortred honors her opponent by choosing them for death.
Fan of Knives
Scepter grants new ability
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Phantom Assassin releases sharp blades around her, dealing a percentage of each victim's max health on impact and applying Break.
MAX HEALTH DAMAGE: 30%
BREAK DURATION: 4
RADIUS: 550
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80
A sister is generally given a single name, but powerful names often have plentiful allies.
Talents
Triple Strike Stifling Dagger
+ 1.5%
+10% Coup de Grace chance
+60 Phantom Strike Attack Speed
+ 1.0%
+200 Phantom Strike Cast Range
+15% Stifling Dagger Damage
+20% Immaterial Evasion
+ 1.7%
-2s Stifling Dagger Cooldown
+0.6s Phantom Strike Duration
+ 1.8%
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
Use Stifling Dagger to secure creep lasthits.
Try to get to {cornucopia} early in tough lanes where you play passively and then get Power Treads to continue jungling faster. Send out extra regen if necessary to sustain and survive the lane.
Opponents are likely to have a lot of {magic-stick} charges so take that into account when playing aggressively.
You can disjoint most projectile spells and ranged attacks with Blur.
When farming dangerous areas or stacks, consider using Blur.
Make sure to max Phantom Strike instead of stifling dagger post-laning phase for faster farming speed.
You typically want to focus on killing disabling supports and backliners at the start of the fight.
Check opponents' inventories for break effects and evasion-piercing items. Adjust playstyle and itemization accordingly.
Pick up {aghanims-shard} if you need the Break vs heroes like {timbersaw} / {bristleback} etc.
Counter Strategy
Phantom Assassin uses Stifling Dagger frequently to obtain lasthits. Buy Magic Stick and Magic Wand to get charges.
Armor items are good against Phantom Assassin as she is all about physical damage.
Cheap items that allow you to survive Phantom Assassin's Phantom Strike are Ghost Scepter, Glimmer Cape and Eul's Scepter.
Consider purchasing items that pierce through evasion, breaks passives or causes magical damage to counter Phantom Assassins innate passive evasion ability.
Blademail will be a big nuisance for Phantom Assassin unless she has Black King Bar.
Phantom Assassin is weak until she gets Black King Bar, try to smoke and gank her before that timing and set deep wards in the jungle to do so.