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Pugna

Popularity: #77

Leaderboard: #84

Ban Rank: #106

KDA Rank: #93

Drains enemy life to heal himself

A crafty trickster, Pugna turns the enemy's power against itself as he blasts their defenses. While his nether ward strikes nearby foes that dare to cast a spell, he drains life from enemies to ensure he will be ready for the next assault.

Win Rate 48.7%
Pick Rate 5.0%
Attributes
Pugna Image

538 +44.0/lvl

387 +62.4/lvl

Strength Image

19 +2.0/lvl

Agility Image

21 +1.3/lvl

Intelligence Image

26 +5.2/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

47 - 54 + 5.2/level (211.8 - 218.8 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

630

Attack

Armor:

3.5 + 0.2/level (12.1 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

330

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Siphoning Ward

Win Rate: 49.0%

Pick Rate: 77.1%

Nether Ward restores mana and health to Pugna based on how much damage is dealt.


Nether Ward

Nether Ward restores mana and health to Pugna based on how much damage is dealt.

DAMAGE TO HP: 30%

DAMAGE TO MANA: 40%

Rewards of Ruin

Win Rate: 47.6%

Pick Rate: 22.9%

Pugna receives {s:bonus_tower_scale}% spell amplification per destroyed tower.


Oblivion Savant

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Oblivion Savant

Pugna can cast spells and use items while channeling.


Includes items which are channeled.

Can still only channel a single spell at a time.


Q

Nether Blast

An exploding pulse deals damage to enemies and structures in the area. Deals 65% damage to structures.


BLAST DELAY: 0.8

RADIUS: 400

BLAST DAMAGE: 95 / 170 / 245 / 320

Cooldown

5

Mana Cost

100 / 115 / 130 / 145

Cast Range

600


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  • -1s Nether Blast Cooldown
  • +160 Nether Blast Damage

The Arts of Oblivion include a deafening blast of emerald flames from the Nether Reaches.
W

Decrepify

A powerful banishing spell that slows a unit and renders it unable to attack or be attacked. Healing on affected allies is increased, while afflicted enemies take extra magic damage instead.


ENEMY INCREASED MAGIC DAMAGE: -20% / -30% / -40% / -50%

Cooldown

16 / 13 / 10 / 7

Mana Cost

80

Cast Range

475 / 550 / 625 / 700


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  • +30% Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies
  • +1.5s Decrepify Duration

A now-mastered relic from his childhood, Pugna delights in banishing others into the Nether Realm, whether for good, evil, or simple enjoyment.
E

Nether Ward

Pugna places a Nether Ward at the target location. The ward will fire at any enemy hero who casts a spell dealing base damage plus the damage multiplier of the mana spent by the enemy hero.


WARD ATTACK RANGE: 1400

DAMAGE PER MANA: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6

ATTACKS TO DESTROY: 4 / 4 / 4 / 4

Cooldown

40

Mana Cost

80

Cast Range

150


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Increases cast range.


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  • +2 Nether Ward Health
  • +1.75 Nether Ward Damage Per Mana

While at the lamasery for the Arts of Oblivion, Pugna learned to dominate his classmates with a simple ward charged with Nether magic.
R

Life Drain

CHANNELED - When cast on an enemy, Pugna drains health from the target enemy unit to heal himself and granting vision over the target. If Pugna has full HP, and the enemy target is a Hero, Life Drain will restore mana instead. When cast on an ally, Pugna will drain his own health into his ally.


ENEMY DRAIN PER SECOND: 150 / 250 / 350

ALLY DRAIN/HEAL PER SECOND: 120 / 210 / 300

Cooldown

7

Mana Cost

100 / 150 / 200

Cast Range

700


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Reduces cooldown by %abilitycooldown%s. When targeting an enemy hero, Pugna reduces their outgoing spell damage by 8% per second up to a maximum of 75% and increases his own, up to a maximum of 100%. When draining through a Nether Ward using Shard, the rate of increase/decrease is 4% instead. Debuff lasts 8 seconds.


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Life Drain can target your Nether Ward, causing life drain to refract to all enemy heroes within %abilitycastrange% units of the ward for 75% of its normal value. The effect is interrupted if the ward is destroyed.


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  • +20% Life Drain Heal

Pugna has truly become more powerful than even the grandmaster of Oblivion.

Talents

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+1.75 Nether Ward Damage Per Mana

+160 Nether Blast Damage

+ 0.8 %

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+n/as Decrepify Duration

+n/a% Life Drain Heal

+ 2.6 %

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+350 Health

+ 2.3 %

+30% Decrepify Movement Speed To Allies

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+2 Nether Ward Health

+ 1.6 %

-1s Nether Blast Cooldown

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Use Nether Blast to secure ranged creep last hits and to damage opponents at the same time.

Use Decrepify to ruin last hits for the opponents.

You can Decrepify yourself or an ally in trouble and even attempt to teleport out.

Chip opponents' towers gradually with Nether Blast whenever you can if current mana allows it.

Life Drain instantly destroys basic illusions.

The full value burst spell combo would be: Nether Ward, Nether Blast, Decrepify quickly and begin Life Draining.

With Life Drain, you can restore health to an ally or mana if he's full health. Watch your health though.

Place Nether Ward close enough to opponents but out of their sight.

You can Decrepify yourself or anyone within range while channeling Life Drain.

Counter Strategy

Pugna's Nether Blast takes one second to explode. You can dodge it by moving away.

Be careful not to use high mana cost spells around Pugna's Nether Ward.

Look to interrupt Pugna's Life Drain by running away or by stunning or silencing him.

Pugna takes buildings down fast with Nether Blast. Organize defense quickly.

Spell immunity and magic resistance items are great against Pugna's magical damage.

A well timed Lotus Orb is great at countering Pugna's Decrepify and Life Drain combo.

Lore

In the realm of Pugna's birth, near the vents of the Nether Reaches, there stood a lamasery devoted to the Arts of Oblivion, which drew its power from the nether energies. The Grandmaster of the temple compound had himself passed into Oblivion several years prior, leaving his academy without a leader. From the moment of their master's death, the regents of the temple began rites of divination to identify their master's reincarnation, and eventually all signs converged on the immediate neighborhood. Several villages squatted in the shadow of the temple, their alleys and plazas full of the laughter of squalling children.

Pugna, a mere thirteen months of age, was but one candidate among the local brats, and on the appointed day he was presented at the temple alongside two other promising tots. The lamas offered a jumble of worn relics to the children, treasured possessions of their former grandmaster. One boy reached for a porphyry wand that had belonged to the lama...and put it in his nostril. An impish girl pulled out an amulet that had also been the lama's, and immediately swallowed it. Pugna regarded the other two coolly, gave a merry laugh, and blasted them with gouts of emerald flame, reducing them to ashes in an instant. He then snatched up the wand and amulet, saying 'Mine!' The regents hoisted the beaming Pugna on their shoulders, wrapped him in their grandmaster's vestments, and rushed him to the throne before his mood could change. Within five years, the temple itself was another pile of ash, which pleased Pugna to no end.

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