Queen of Pain stats, abilities and strategy
Blinks in to deal massive magical damage
Queen of Pain strikes without warning, destroying gathered foes with deafening screams. Should an enemy survive her onslaught, she slows their escape with a throw of her dagger before finishing them off.
Win Rate 49.2%
Pick Rate 14.6%
Attributes
560 +52.8/lvl
375 +40.8/lvl
20 +2.4/lvl
22 +2.5/lvl
25 +3.4/lvl
Stats
Damage:
51 - 57 + 3.4/level (163 - 169 at level 30)
Range:
550
Armor:
3.7 + 0.4/level (18.1 at level 30)
Movement:
290
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Masochist
Win Rate: 49.1%
Pick Rate: 75.4%
Queen of Pain has bonus Spell Amplification but a percentage of her spell damage is reflected back to her.
Patch 7.38
- Outgoing Spell Damage Reflected increased from 21% to 27%
Bondage
Win Rate: 49.7%
Pick Rate: 24.6%
Whenever an enemy within %radius% range deals spell damage to Queen of Pain, she returns %spell_reflect_pct% of the damage dealt.
Patch 7.38
- Now is a facet that improves Succubus
- Succubus: Now also makes Spell Lifesteal apply to reflected Magical and Pure Damage
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
All sources of Spell Lifesteal also apply to Pure Damage. Queen of Pain gains Spell Lifesteal that increases with proximity to her enemies. Lifesteal is at its maximum when the enemy is 300 units or closer to her and at its minimum when the enemy is 800 units or further from her.
MINIMUM LIFESTEAL: 2%
MAXIMUM LIFESTEAL: 14%
FACET: Bondage
Spell Lifesteal also applies to Pure & Magical reflected damage.
Patch 7.38
- Now is an innate ability
- Now also makes all sources of Spell Lifesteal apply to Pure Damage
- Spell Lifesteal decreased from 12-18% to 2-14%
Shadow Strike
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Hurls a poisoned dagger which deals large initial damage, and then deals damage over time. The poisoned unit has its movement speed slowed for 16 seconds. An instance of damage is dealt every 3 seconds.
The affected unit slowly regains its original movement speed every second during the duration.
Units afflicted by Shadow Strike can be denied by their allies when their HP drops below 25% of their maximum health.
INITIAL DAMAGE: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140
DAMAGE PER TICK: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
MOVEMENT SLOW: 20% / 35% / 50% / 65%
DURATION: 16
13 / 10 / 7 / 4
100 / 110 / 120 / 130
450 / 500 / 550 / 600
LEVEL 15 TALENT: -1s Shadow Strike Damage Interval
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +35 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units
Patch 7.38
- Initial Damage increased from 30/60/90/120 to 50/80/110/140
- Aghanim's Scepter no longer increases initial damage by 50
Akasha's envenomed dagger allows her to delight in the drawn out suffering of her victims.
Blink
PASSIVE: No
Short distance teleportation that allows Queen of Pain to move in and out of combat.
You can use Blink to dodge incoming projectiles.
12 / 10 / 8 / 6
65
1075 / 1150 / 1225 / 1300
Aghanim's Shard
Releases a sonic boom when Queen of Pain blinks, at both her starting and ending locations. Deals %shard_damage% damage in a %shard_aoe% AoE and silences the target for %shard_duration% seconds.
The Secret Queen lives up to her title, making her pain impossible to escape.
Scream Of Pain
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
The Queen of Pain lets loose a piercing scream around her, damaging nearby enemies.
Scream Of Pain will hit invisible units.
Scream Of Pain cannot be disjointed.
RADIUS: 600
DAMAGE: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300
7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6
120
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +100 Scream of Pain Damage
The sultry voice of Akasha beckons her opponents while stealing their souls.
Sonic Wave
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Creates a gigantic wave of sound in front of Queen of Pain, dealing heavy damage to all enemy units in its wake and pushing them back.
Sonic Wave can hit units up to 1150 units away.
WAVE MAX RADIUS: 450
DAMAGE: 350 / 500 / 650
KNOCKBACK DISTANCE: 350
110 / 95 / 80
250 / 400 / 550
700
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +250 Sonic Wave Damage
LEVEL 20 TALENT: -45s Sonic Wave Cooldown
Her most exquisite of all of torments, Akasha's Sonic Wave puts her poor foes out of their misery.
Talents
+250 Sonic Wave Damage
-2s Blink Cooldown
+ 0.8 %
-45s Sonic Wave Cooldown
+100 Scream of Pain Damage
+ 1.6 %
+30 Damage
-1s Shadow Strike Damage Interval
+ 1.4 %
+7 Strength
+ 1.1 %
+35 Attack Speed against Shadow Striked units
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
Use Scream of Pain to secure ranged creeps and hit opponents at the same time.
Avoid overinvesting points in Shadow Strike. It will make your farming and midgame fights hard.
When in trouble, blink into fog, into treelines or over cliffs.
Look around for opportunities to gank once you have Sonic Wave and control runes.
Blink or position yourself in such a way that you can land a multi-hero Sonic Wave in fights.
When not much is happening, push out the side lanes.
Pick up Aghanim's Shard after your first few core items as it provides silence and extra damage. Using it on creep waves also gives you instant wave clear when paired with Scream of Pain.
Aghanims scepter is very strong in teamfights. Spam your Shadow Strike on multiple targets to do massive AoE damage once you have it.
Counter Strategy
Queen of Pain's Shadow Strike is a great harassing spell. Buy extra consumables or dodge it if your hero has a spell that can.
Look to play aggressively on Queen of Pain once her Blink is on cooldown. She is very squishy.
Control power runes against Queen of Pain. She likes to bottle and gank with those.
Be aware of Queen of Pain's Dagon or Orchid Malevolence timing. She can solo kill most of the heroes with it.
Avoid fighting in choke spots and clumping up against Queen of Pain's Sonic Wave.
Spell immunity and magic resistance items are quite good against Queen of Pain.
Lore
The Ecclesiast-King of Elze nursed a desire for pain--forbidden pain. In a less prominent political figure, such desires might be considered unwise, but in a monarch of his stature, to satisfy such thirsts would have threatened the virtue of the Divine Throne itself. Therefore he turned to his dungeon full of demonologists, promising freedom to whoever could summon a personal succubus of torment and bind it entirely to his service. The creature who arrived, Akasha by name, visited upon him such exquisite torments that he named her his Secret Queen, and he began to spend all his spare moments submitting to her clever torments--eventually abdicating all his responsibilities in his pursuit of the painful pleasures that only she could bring. Queen of Pain could bring him to the brink of death, but she was rune-bound to keep him alive. At last the King's neglect of state brought on an uprising. He was dragged from his chamber and hurled from the Tower of Invocations, and at the moment of death, Queen of Pain was let loose into the world, freed from servitude--freed to visit her sufferings on anyone she deigned to notice.