Spectre stats, abilities and strategy
Haunts her enemies and teleports to her target
Spectre haunts her enemies wherever they may be. Able to destroy lone prey with ease, she spreads her presence throughout the battlefield to choose her target. Once she has gathered her strength, none can escape her terrible wrath.
Win Rate 51.5%
Pick Rate 8.7%
Attributes
582 +55.0/lvl
267 +20.4/lvl
21 +2.5/lvl
25 +2.1/lvl
16 +1.7/lvl
Stats
Damage:
64 - 68 + 4.4/level (221 - 225 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
4.2 + 0.4/level (16.7 at level 30)
Movement:
290
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Is now a Universal Hero
- Base Damage decreased by 2
- Damage at level 1 unchanged (48-52)
- Damage gain per level increased from +2.1 to +2.8
- Damage at level 30 increased by 27 (from 122-126 to 149-153)
Facets
Forsaken
Win Rate: 43.9%
Pick Rate: 13.2%
Spectre deals 2x damage with Desolate. Spectre's illusions no longer have Desolate.
Patch 7.38b
- Desolate: Damage Multiplier increased from 1.75x to 2x
Patch 7.38
- Desolate: Desolate deals 1.75x damage, but Spectre's illusions can no longer trigger Desolate
Twist the Knife
Win Rate: 52.6%
Pick Rate: 86.8%
Reality also casts Spectral Dagger on the target.
Patch 7.38
- Reality: No longer decreases cooldown
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Spectre and her illusions are permanently phased.
Spectral Dagger
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Spectre flings a dagger to draw a Shadow Path, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed of any enemies along the trail. Units hit by the dagger also trail a Shadow Path. While treading the path, Spectre phases through otherwise impassable terrain.
There is a 1 second grace period after leaving the path where no collision is preserved.
Does not trigger spell block or spell reflect.
DAMAGE: 70 / 120 / 170 / 220
MOVEMENT SPEED CHANGE: 10% / 14% / 18% / 22%
DURATION: 7 / 7 / 7 / 7
22 / 20 / 18 / 16
110 / 120 / 130 / 140
1800
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +12% Spectral Dagger Slow/Bonus
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +80 Spectral Dagger Damage
Mercurial's dagger eclipses the physical plane in shadow, a state in which mortals cower, but spectres thrive.
Desolate
ABILITY: Passive
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Deals bonus damage whenever Spectre attacks an enemy that does not have any allied units within a 400 radius around them.
Damage is dealt before Spectre's attack.
Spectre's illusions also have Desolate.
BONUS DAMAGE: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70
RADIUS: 400
FACET: Forsaken
Spectre deals 2x damage with Desolate. Spectre's illusions no longer have Desolate.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +15 Desolate Damage
Often times, warriors find themselves alone with a vision of Mercurial - the fated question is if it is the true Spectre.
Dispersion
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Damage done to Spectre is reflected on her enemies, leaving her unharmed. The effect lessens with distance.
The reflected damage is not dealt to Spectre.
Illusions don't get this ability.
Damage is reflected before reductions, and is returned as the same damage type.
DAMAGE REFLECTED: 7% / 11% / 15% / 19%
MIN RADIUS: 300
MAX RADIUS: 800
Aghanim's Shard
Dispersion can be activated to increase the amount absorbed and reflected by Dispersion by %activation_bonus_pct%% of its base values for %activation_duration%s. Cooldown %activation_cooldown%. Manacost %activation_manacost%.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +5% Dispersion
Patch 7.38
- Damage Reflected decreased from 11/14/17/20 to 7/11/15/19%
A daunting task lies before enemies of Mercurial - killing a shadow with blade and magic.
Reality
PASSIVE: No
Spectre exchanges places with a chosen Haunt.
1.5
FACET: Twist the Knife
Reality also casts Spectral Dagger on the target.
Patch 7.38
- Cooldown decreased from 3s to 1.5s
The scattered shadows unite into the one true Spectre.
Shadow Step
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Creates a spectral nemesis to haunt a single visible enemy hero. At any moment during the duration, Spectre can use Reality to exchange places with any haunting illusion. Haunt illusions are uncontrollable, take extra damage, and deal less damage than Spectre herself. They ignore terrain.
DURATION: 5 / 6 / 7
HAUNT DAMAGE: 40% / 60% / 80%
HAUNT DAMAGE TAKEN: 200% / 200% / 200%
60 / 55 / 50
150
FACET: Twist the Knife
Haunt and Shadow Step illusions no longer disappear when their target dies.
Patch 7.38
- Cooldown increased from 60/50/40s to 60/55/50s
With great focus of will, Mercurial can sometimes limit the extent of her division.
Haunt
Scepter grants new ability
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Creates a spectral nemesis to attack each enemy hero. Illusions spawned from this ability follow the same rules as Shadow Step illusions and can also be swapped to by using Reality.
HAUNT DURATION: 7
HAUNT DAMAGE: 80%
HAUNT DAMAGE TAKEN: 200%
160
150
At the height of combat, Mercurial's physical manifestation shatters, and the shadowy pieces haunt those who still cling to life.
Talents
+5% Dispersion
+25% All Spectre Illusion Damage
+ 3.6 %
+12% Spectral Dagger Slow/Bonus
+ 4.2 %
+350 Health
+80 Spectral Dagger Damage
+15 Desolate Damage
+ 1.8 %
+5 Health Regen
-4s Spectral Dagger Cooldown
+ 1.6 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 25 Talent +30% Haunt Illusion Damage replaced with +25% All Illusion Damage
Strategy
Use Spectral Dagger to secure ranged creep last hits and damage the opponents.
When in trouble, use a Spectral Dagger to run over a cliff or a treeline, or even pop a defensive Shadow Step to escape.
Look around for Shadow Step opportunities. Spectre farms slowly so kills are necessary.
Spectres Shadow Step is amazing for killing backliners and supports. Focus on killing those at the start of the fight.
Check opponents for break effects. Adapt your playstyle and itemization accordingly.
Consider Aghanim's Shard later in the game against lineups that do a lot of burst damage.
With Manta Style, Spectre gains burst and Roshan potential as Desolate works on illusions.
Counter Strategy
Spectre is a weak laner. Look to pressure her early on. She's slow at recovering.
If Spectre has Twist the Knife facet, Desolate does no damage to you if you are close to an allied unit.
The closer you are to Spectre the more damage you take from Dispersion.
Protect your supports from being killed during the Spectres Shadow Step.
Spectres Shadow Step has a long cooldown. Look to fight after it was used.
Break effects remove Desolate and Dispersion and make Spectre much weaker.
Lore
Just as higher states of energy seek a lower level, the Spectre known as Mercurial is a being of intense and violent energy who finds herself irresistibly drawn to scenes of strife as they unfold in the physical world. While her normal spectral state transcends sensory limitations, each time she takes on a physical manifestation, she is stricken by a loss of self--though not of purpose. In the clash of combat, her identity shatters and reconfigures, and she begins to regain awareness. She grasps that she is Mercurial the Spectre--and that all of her Haunts are but shadows of the one true Spectre. Focus comes in the struggle for survival; her true mind reasserts itself; until in the final moments of victory or defeat, she transcends matter and is restored once more to her eternal form.