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

582 +46.2/lvl
375 +36.0/lvl

21 +2.1/lvl

13 +1.4/lvl

25 +3.0/lvl
Stats

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

Range:
575

Armor:
3.2 + 0.2/level (12.3 at level 30)

Movement:
310
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Added to Captains Mode
- Removed Center Stage Facet
Facets

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

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

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

Ringmaster's Souvenirs are Funhouse Mirror, Strongman Tonic, and Whoopee Cushion.
FACET: Sideshow Secrets

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

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

16 / 14 / 12 / 10

90 / 105 / 120 / 135

700





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.

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%

38 / 32 / 26 / 20

80

600


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.




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.

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

1

80

2400




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.

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

90 / 80 / 70

175 / 275 / 375

1400



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*

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%

30

50

1500
Are you ready for your fifteen seconds? The limelight draws no distinction between infamy and fame.
Talents



Escape Act Grants Strong Dispel and Flying
+ 1.9 %
+100 Wheel Radius and Range



+75/+300 Tame the Beasts Min/Max Damage
+1s Impalement Arts Bleed and Slow Duration
+ 1.5 %



Debuff Immunity While Channeling Tame the Beasts
Impalement Arts Penetrates One Target
+ 1.4 %



+200 Escape Act Cast Range
+75 Tame the Beasts Radius
+ 0.1 %
Win Rate
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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.