Ringmaster

Popularity: #76

Leaderboard: #100

Ban Rank: #72

KDA Rank: #60

Hero

Build

Matchup

Ringmaster stats, abilities and strategy

Directs the battle with fear and mesmerism

All the battlefield's a stage, and Ringmaster is a gleeful director. Controlling fights with a showman's flair, Ringmaster tames enemies with his fearsome whip and endless knives, ushers allies away from danger with his cunning escape act, and always draws a crowd to unwillingly witness the wonders of his mesmerizing wheel.

Win Rate 47.8%

Pick Rate 5.1%

Attributes

Ringmaster image

582 +46.2/lvl

375 +36.0/lvl

Strength Image

21 +2.1/lvl

Agility Image

13 +1.4/lvl

Intelligence Image

25 +3.0/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

48 - 58 + 3.0/level (149 - 159 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

575

Attack

Armor:

3.2 + 0.2/level (12.3 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

310

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Patch 7.38

  • Added to Captains Mode
  • Removed Center Stage Facet

Facets

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Funhouse Mirror

Win Rate: 48.9%

Pick Rate: 75.8%

Use: Proportion Distortion

Creates %images_count% imperfect image of your hero that lasts %illusion_duration% seconds. Your illusion deals %tooltip_damage_outgoing_ranged% and takes %tooltip_damage_incoming_total_pct% damage.


Patch 7.38

  • Dark Carnival Barker: Sets Dark Carnival Souvenirs to Funhouse Mirror, Strongman Tonic and Whoopee Cushion
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Crystal Ball

Win Rate: 44.4%

Pick Rate: 24.2%

Use: Clairvoyance

Scans a targeted %radius% area with global range for %duration% seconds. Indicates whether there are enemy heroes in that area for the duration. Reveals invisible units and wards in the scanned area, but does not provide vision. The reveal effect lingers for %truesight_linger_duration% second.


Patch 7.38

  • Dark Carnival Barker: Sets Dark Carnival Souvenirs to Crystal Ball, Unicycle and Weighted Pie

Abilities

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Dark Carnival Barker

ABILITY: Passive


Ringmaster receives a random single-use Dark Carnival Souvenir whenever an enemy hero dies within 925 units of him. Additional Souvenirs are held as charges.

If Ringmaster does not have a Souvenir when he respawns he will be granted one.


FACET: Carny Classics

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Ringmaster's Souvenirs are Funhouse Mirror, Strongman Tonic, and Whoopee Cushion.

FACET: Sideshow Secrets

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Ringmaster's Souvenirs are Crystal Ball, Unicycle, and Weighted Pie.

Q

Tame the Beasts

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


CHANNELED - Ringmaster twirls his whip for up to %abilitychanneltime% second then cracks it. Whipped enemies are damaged and flee in fear from Ringmaster. Channel time exponentially increases damage and extends the fear duration, but reduces the radius.


RADIUS START: 450

RADIUS END: 200

MIN DAMAGE: 45 / 70 / 95 / 120

MAX DAMAGE: 180 / 280 / 380 / 480

MIN FEAR DURATION: 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.4

MAX FEAR DURATION: 0.6 / 0.8 / 1 / 1.2

Cooldown

16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Mana Cost

90 / 105 / 120 / 135

Cast Range

700


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +75/+300 Tame the Beasts Min/Max Damage

LEVEL 15 TALENT: Debuff Immunity While Channeling Tame the Beasts

LEVEL 10 TALENT: +75 Tame the Beasts Radius


From unhappy crowds to unruly acts, nothing persuades a pack of animals quite like the crack of the Ringmaster's whip.

W

Escape Act

AFFECTS: Unit

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

BUFF: Yes


Ringmaster packs himself or an allied hero into a mobile, extradimensional box. Boxed units gain phased movement, slow resistance, bonus magic resistance, and bonus movement speed. They are also untargetable, muted, silenced, and disarmed. The box will pop open after the effect expires or it moves more than 500 units away.


DURATION: 2 / 2.4 / 2.8 / 3.2

BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20%

BONUS MAGIC RESISTANCE: 50% / 60% / 70% / 80%

SLOW RESISTANCE: 100%

Cooldown

38 / 32 / 26 / 20

Mana Cost

80

Cast Range

600


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Escape Act has %max_charges% charges. When the box pops open, Impalement Art daggers are thrown in all directions, and all enemies in an %explosion_radius% radius take %explosion_damage% damage.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: Escape Act Grants Strong Dispel and Flying

LEVEL 10 TALENT: +200 Escape Act Cast Range


An adept assistant has nothing to fear within the confines of The Box. An amateur has...much darker prospects indeed.

E

Impalement Arts

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


Ringmaster throws one of his daggers to a precise point of his choosing. If he strikes an enemy, the dagger deals impact damage, briefly slows the unit hit, and causes them to bleed. The bleeding deals a percentage of the victim's maximum health in damage every second to heroes and flat damage per second to creeps.


IMPACT DAMAGE: 75

MAX HEALTH DAMAGE PER SECOND (HEROES): 3.5% / 4% / 4.5% / 5%

DAMAGE PER SECOND (CREEPS): 100

DURATION: 4

MOVEMENT SLOW: 100%

SLOW DURATION: 0.8

Cooldown

1

Mana Cost

80

Cast Range

2400


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +1s Impalement Arts Bleed and Slow Duration

LEVEL 15 TALENT: Impalement Arts Penetrates One Target


Passed down through generations, it simply wouldn't be a Kettle Circus without the Great Cogliostro's signature trick.

R

Wheel of Wonder

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Ringmaster rolls the Wheel of Wonder to the targeted location, knocking aside enemies along the way. After it reaches its target, enemies in range of the wheel take damage over time and are slowed by 50%.

Enemy heroes who face the wheel for more than %face_duration% seconds are mesmerized and drawn towards it. The first enemy to be mesmerized triggers a timer for the wheel to explode. If the timer is not triggered, it will automatically explode after %trap_duration% seconds.


MINIMUM RANGE: 700

RADIUS: 500

TIMER DURATION: 2.5 / 2.75 / 3

AURA DAMAGE PER SECOND: 50 / 75 / 100

EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 300 / 450 / 600

Cooldown

90 / 80 / 70

Mana Cost

175 / 275 / 375

Cast Range

1400


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +100 Wheel Radius and Range


No, brave friends, illusions are for charlatans and card sharks. What you witness today is the power of true magic. But only if you dare set your gaze upon...the mesmerizing wheel.

Crack

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


*CRACK*


Cooldown

0.5

Spotlight

Shard grants new ability

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Ringmaster shines 3 spotlights that sweep over an area. Enemies in the light have a chance to miss their attacks and are revealed if invisible. Illusions hit by the beam fade away, losing a percentage of their maximum health each second. These effects linger for 0.3 seconds after leaving the light.


RADIUS: 275

ILLUSION MAX HEALTH LOSS: 50%

MISS CHANCE: 30%

Cooldown

30

Mana Cost

50

Cast Range

1500


Are you ready for your fifteen seconds? The limelight draws no distinction between infamy and fame.

Talents

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Escape Act Grants Strong Dispel and Flying

+ 1.9 %

+100 Wheel Radius and Range

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+75/+300 Tame the Beasts Min/Max Damage

+1s Impalement Arts Bleed and Slow Duration

+ 1.5 %

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Debuff Immunity While Channeling Tame the Beasts

Impalement Arts Penetrates One Target

+ 1.4 %

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+200 Escape Act Cast Range

+75 Tame the Beasts Radius

+ 0.1 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Counter Strategy

Lore

Welcome, welcome, one and all — to a stage-lit extravaganza for the ages! Prepare to have your senses shattered! Your expectations demolished! Your Ancients smashed to ruins!

Witness the impossible feats and derring-do of the one and only clockwork marvel, the Great Cogliostro Kettle — Ringmaster, torture artist, genius in his own time — here now for the sole agony and entertainment of any hero bold enough to draw back the crimson carnival curtain and behold what mysteries await inside.

The mistake most maestros make is waiting for the public to come to them. The Ringmaster knows you need to go out and find your audience! Drag them to you. And make them watch.

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