Shadow Demon

Popularity: #115

Leaderboard: #104

Ban Rank: #100

KDA Rank: #87

Hero

Build

Matchup

Shadow Demon stats, abilities and strategy

Stacks exponential poison damage against his foes

Spewing clouds of demonic poison to damage enemies or scout the battlefield, few dare to approach Shadow Demon. Banishing an enemy as his allies gather for the kill, he can inflict demonic curses as he summons traitorous illusions to turn enemy strength against itself.

Win Rate 47.7%

Pick Rate 1.9%

Attributes

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626 +57.2/lvl

339 +43.2/lvl

Strength Image

23 +2.6/lvl

Agility Image

18 +2.2/lvl

Intelligence Image

22 +3.6/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

51 - 55 + 3.6/level (169 - 173 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

500

Attack

Armor:

3.0 + 0.4/level (16.0 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

290

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Promulgate

Win Rate: 47.3%

Pick Rate: 71.9%

Disseminate instantly removes a percentage of the opponent's health for its duration.

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Shadow Servant

Win Rate: 48.6%

Pick Rate: 28.1%

Shadow Demon creates illusions of heroes that die near him.

Abilities

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Menace

ABILITY: Passive

PASSIVE: Breakable


Shadow Demon's Attacks apply a stacking 2% Amplify Damage debuff to the enemy for %duration% seconds.


Break disables the application of new stacks.

Break does not disable the effects of existing stacks.

Q

Disruption

AFFECTS: Unit

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

BUFF: Yes

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Banishes the targeted unit from the battlefield for a short duration. Upon returning, two illusions of the banished unit with bonus base damage are created under Shadow Demon's control.


BANISH DURATION: 2.75

ILLUSION DURATION: 11 / 12 / 13 / 14

ILLUSION DAMAGE: 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%

BONUS BASE DAMAGE: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70

ILLUSION DAMAGE TAKEN: 300%

Cooldown

26 / 24 / 22 / 20

Mana Cost

120

Cast Range

650


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: 2 Charges of Disruption


The pain of deception comes not while it happens, but when it is revealed.

W

Disseminate

AFFECTS: Unit and area

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Whenever the target takes damage, all enemies, including the target itself if it is an enemy, within 675 range of the target also receive a portion of that damage. Can target enemy and allied units. Effect is paused if the target is hidden by Disruption.


DURATION: 6

SHARED DAMAGE: 20% / 25% / 30% / 35%

Cooldown

26 / 22 / 18 / 14

Mana Cost

100

Cast Range

700 / 800 / 900 / 1000


FACET: Promulgate

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If the target is an enemy, they lose 9 11 13 15% of their health, regaining half of it after the effect is lifted. If the target is an ally, increases their health by that amount instead.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Disseminate Shared Damage

E

Shadow Poison

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Deals damage in a line, and afflicts enemy units with a poison effect. The poison deals 1/2/4/8/16 times the stack damage based on the number of stacks on the target, up to 5 stacks. Additional stacks cause 50 damage each. This deferred damage is dealt when Shadow Poison's duration is expired, or the Release sub-ability is used.


Shadow Poison can affect units under Disruption.


STACK DAMAGE: 24 / 36 / 48 / 60

MAX STACKS TO MULTIPLY: 5

RADIUS: 200

HIT DAMAGE: 24 / 36 / 48 / 60

Cooldown

2.5

Mana Cost

45

Cast Range

1500


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LEVEL 10 TALENT: +15% Shadow Poison Damage


Patch 7.38

  • Hit Damage decreased from 30/40/50/60 to 24/36/48/60

The ever growing influence of the Shadow Demon can pollute the most valiant and pure of heroes.

Shadow Poison Release

PASSIVE: No


Releases the poison to do damage on all affected enemies. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Shadow Poison.


Cooldown

1

R

Demonic Purge

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes

PASSIVE: No

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Purges the target enemy unit, removing positive buffs, and slowing the target for the duration. The unit slowly regains its speed until the end of the duration, upon which damage is dealt. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Demonic Purge. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


The slow starts at 100% and decreases over time to %min_slow%.

Positive buffs are continously removed from the target for the duration of the Purge.

Can be cast on invulnerable units.


PURGE DAMAGE: 300 / 450 / 600

MAX CHARGES:

BASE CHARGE RESTORE TIME:

Cooldown

70 / 65 / 60

Mana Cost

150 / 175 / 200

Cast Range

800


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Cooldown is removed, replaced with %max_charges% charges that replenish every %charge_restore_time_tooltip_scepter% seconds. Also causes Demonic Purge to break its target's passive abilities while active.

MAX CHARGES:

BASE CHARGE RESTORE TIME:


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +150 Demonic Purge Damage


Patch 7.38

  • Duration decreased from 6s to 5s

Once Shadow Demon no longer has any need for his collected cultist, he releases it from its subservience - and its life.

Demonic Cleanse

Shard grants new ability

AFFECTS: Unit

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes

PASSIVE: No

BUFF: Yes


Cleanses the target allied unit, removing negative buffs for the duration. At the end of the duration, the unit is healed. Units under the effect of Disruption can still be affected by Demonic Cleanse.

DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


Can be cast on invulnerable units.

Negative buffs are continously removed from the target for the duration of the Cleanse.


CLEANSE HEAL: 450

Cooldown

60

Mana Cost

150

Cast Range

800


Patch 7.38

  • Duration decreased from 6s to 5s
  • No longer requires at least Level 1 Demonic Purge to be castable
  • No longer upgrades with levels of Demonic Purge
  • Cooldown decreased from 70/65/60s to 60s
  • Cleanse Heal rescaled from 300/450/600 to 450
  • Mana Cost decreased from 150/175/200 to 150
  • No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter

Talents

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2 Charges of Disruption

+ 1.2 %

-30s Demonic Purge Cooldown

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+150 Demonic Purge Damage

+ 0.0 %

+15% Disseminate Shared Damage

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-1s Shadow Poison Cooldown

+25 Movement Speed

+ 3.5 %

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+10 Strength

+ 2.2 %

+15% Shadow Poison Damage

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Patch 7.38

  • Level 20 Talent +150 Demonic Purge/Cleanse Damage/Heal replaced with +150 Demonic Purge Damage
  • Level 25 Talent -30s Demonic Purge Cooldown no longer affects Demonic Cleanse

Strategy

Use Shadow Poison from fog to not fill stick charges for opponents.

Don't spam Shadow Poison unless you have mana and a chance to build up 5 stacks.

You can Disrupt an opponent's core and deny a creep or two.

Shadow Poison is great for stacking multiple camps.

Demonic Purge is great for kitting spell-immune heroes and to dispel important buffs including runes.

Don't show yourself at the start of the fight. Be quick at saving an ally with Disruption.

When not much is happening, push out the sidelines from the fog with Shadow Poison.

You can use Disruption on your cores to push out waves or to make deception plays.

Aghanim's Scepter is a must in late game for kiting opponents and for break effect.

Counter Strategy

Shadow Demon uses Shadow Poison frequently to harass. Magic Stick and Wand will be charged up.

If you have 3 stacks of Shadow Poison back up a bit and don't let yourself get hit by it again.

Shadow Demon's Demonic Purge applies continuous dispel and removes positive buffs from spells and items.

Focus Shadow Demon in the fights as he provides saves and control for his team.

Demonic Purge slows and damages through spell immunity. Be Careful not to waste Black King Bar on it.

Avoid buying Radiance and Assault Cuirass against Disruption as it will replicate these items.

Status resistance items, Linken's Sphere and a well timed Lotus Orb are great against Shadow Demon.

Once Shadow Demon gets Aghanim's Scepter he's able to break passive spells with Demonic Purge.

Lore

Among the sovereign Demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane, as if sensing that mastery of this gritty dimensional nexus might be the key to total domination of all realities.

Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and heirophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will.

What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens--and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup.

Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.

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