Templar Assassin stats, abilities and strategy
Slows down enemies with traps
Peppering the battlefield with slowing traps, Templar Assassin hides invisibly, ready to ambush her prey. Once she springs her attack, she shreds enemies with piercing psionic blades, and deflects counterattacks with her refracting shield.
Win Rate 50.6%
Pick Rate 10.8%
Attributes
626 +52.8/lvl
315 +24.0/lvl
23 +2.4/lvl
23 +3.4/lvl
20 +2.0/lvl
Stats
Damage:
53 - 59 + 3.4/level (165 - 171 at level 30)
Range:
250
Armor:
3.8 + 0.6/level (22.6 at level 30)
Movement:
310
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Agility gain increased from 3.2 to 3.4
Facets
Voidblades
Win Rate: 49.6%
Pick Rate: 25.1%
Meld bonus damage and armor reductions are applied to all enemies in the Psi Blades split range.
Refractor
Win Rate: 51.6%
Pick Rate: 66.0%
Refraction gains a damage charge every time a shield charge gets consumed.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Templar Assassin and her teammates can see Roshan's respawn timer.
Refraction
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Templar Assassin becomes highly elusive, gaining a small barrier and bonus to her damage. The damage and avoidance effects are separate, and have a limited number of instances. If a barrier is consumed, a new one is created as long as there are charges left. If an instance of damage would deal more damage than the remaining barrier, all of the damage is absorbed.
Damage as HP Removal bypasses Refraction (it won't reduce the charges).
Refraction is visible to enemies.
INSTANCES: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
BARRIER PER INSTANCE: 30
BONUS DAMAGE: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
DURATION: 17
14
85
FACET: Refractor
Whenever a shield instance is consumed, Templar Assassin gains a damage instance.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +4 Refraction Instances
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +40 Refraction Damage
LEVEL 20 TALENT: Refraction Dispels
LEVEL 15 TALENT: Refraction Can Be Cast While Disabled
Patch 7.38c
- Cooldown decreased from 16s to 14s
- Number of instances increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6
Manipulating her psionic veil, Lanaya bends nature's law to her will.
Meld
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Templar Assassin conceals herself, becoming invisible as long as she remains still. If Meld's invisibility is broken by attacking an enemy, Lanaya's attack will deal bonus damage to the enemy and reduce their armor for 6 seconds.
Meld is broken by any action other than staying in position or channeling Psionic Projection.
Meld's armor reduction does not work against towers.
BONUS DAMAGE: 70 / 125 / 180 / 235
ARMOR REDUCTION: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
ARMOR REDUCTION DURATION: 6
11 / 9 / 7 / 5
35 / 40 / 45 / 50
FACET: Voidblades
Meld bonus damage and armor reductions are applied to all enemies in the Psi Blades split range.
FACET: Hidden Reach
When in Meld, Templar increases her attack range by up to an additional 400 range over 1s.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: 1.0s Meld Hit Bash
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +2.5s Meld Debuff Duration
Patch 7.38c
- Fixed not applying to both attacks if Meld was used twice in quick succession
Lanaya is as elusive as her covenant with the Hidden Temple.
Psi Blades
ABILITY: Passive
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked unit, splitting and damaging enemy units directly behind it, while gaining bonus attack range. For each unit it damages, the split damage is reduced by a percentage.
Split damage hits invisible units.
Attack effects like Bash will only be applied to the main target.
BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200
PSI BLADE RANGE: 400 / 500 / 600 / 700
SPLIT AMOUNT: 70% / 80% / 90% / 100%
SPLIT SLOW DURATION: 0
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +100 Psi Blades Attack and Split Range
Patch 7.38
- Psi Blade Range decreased from 550/600/650/700 to 400/500/600/700
- Split Amount decreased from 85/90/95/100% to 70/80/90/100%
Her blades pierce the skin as much as the mind, furthering her understanding of the mystery that is reality.
Trap
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Springs the trap nearest to Templar Assassin, slowing nearby enemies.
If the ability is in alt-cast state, springs the trap that is closest to the mouse cursor.
0.5
Psionic Trap
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Templar Assassin places mystical traps that invisibly monitor enemy movement. When sprung at her command, they deal a small amount of damage and exert a slowing influence of 20% in the area. Traps charge up to slow %movement_speed_max%% after %trap_max_charge_duration% seconds. Deals bonus damage when fully charged.
Traps last indefinitely.
They have invisibility that fades in over 2 / 2 / 2 seconds and spell immunity. They take 2 hits to kill by ranged heroes, 1 by melee heroes, and 4 by creeps.
Traps have 400/400 vision range and don't prevent neutral camps from spawning.
MAX TRAPS: 5 / 8 / 11
MIN MOVEMENT SLOW: 20%
MAX MOVEMENT SLOW: 50%
BONUS DAMAGE: 225 / 300 / 375
MIN SILENCE DURATION:
MAX SILENCE DURATION:
BONUS TRAP VISION:
11 / 8 / 5
15
1800
Aghanim's Shard
Increases max trap count and trap vision range. When activated, traps now silence affected enemies.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +5% Psionic Trap Slow
Patch 7.38
- Aghanim's Scepter no longer grants +100 bonus damage
Calling upon the reach of the Hidden Temple, none escape the eye of the Templar.
Psionic Projection
Scepter grants new ability
PASSIVE: No
CHANNELED - Allows Templar Assassin to teleport to any Psionic Trap after channeling for %abilitychanneltime% seconds, detonating it upon arrival as if it was fully charged and instantly dealing %extra_damage% bonus damage. Channeling Psionic Projection does not break Meld.
10
50
Patch 7.38
- Bonus Damage upon arrival increased from 300 to 375
In reward for her service, Lanaya has been granted access to secrets that unlock new techniques for her psionic gifts.
Talents
+4 Refraction Instances
+ 0.2 %
1.0s Meld Hit Bash
+40 Refraction Damage
+ 4.1 %
Refraction Dispels
+100 Psi Blades Attack and Split Range
+ 6.1 %
Refraction Can Be Cast While Disabled
+5% Psionic Trap Slow
+ 0.1 %
+2.5s Meld Debuff Duration
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38c
- Level 25 Talent Refraction Instances increased from +3 to +4
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent +20 Refraction Damage replaced with +2.5s Meld Debuff Duration
- Level 20 Talent +3 Meld Armor Reduction replaced with +40 Refraction Damage
Strategy
Before the game starts make sure to share your units with your team so they can use your traps.
Consider skilling Meld on level 1 against melee match-ups.
Keep repositioning to Psi Blade the opponent when lasthitting.
You can push the lane in faster with psi blades and refraction in order to secure river runes.
Try to get your level 6 as soon as possible and force your opponent out of the lane.
Ask your teammates to stack for you, especially ancients as you can clear them early.
Psionic Traps provide vision, so place them on rune spots, Roshpit and other strategic spots.
You can stack with Psionic Traps but you need to be within the aggro range of neutral creeps.
Don't rotate unnecessarily. Focus on hitting your item timings and pressure opponents' tower.
Focus on bursting squishy backliners and supports, especially with Blink Dagger.
Templar Assassin is great at taking Roshan early, Look for opportunities to rosh once you have desolator.
Counter Strategy
Damage over time spells and items are great at removing Templar's Refraction charges.
To dodge Templar's Psi Blade, play on your hero's max range and avoid being in line with Templar's attack direction.
Templar assassin struggles against well coordinated ganks in the early game before her traps are online.
Make sure to have sentry on the lane against Templar's Psionic Trap.
Templar Assassin tends to stack and farm ancients early on. Block the camp or contest her.
Carry detection on multiple heroes against Templar.
Templar Assassin takes down buildings fast with Desolator. Organize defense quickly.
Armor items, Ghost Scepter and Heaven's Halberd are great against Templar Assassin.
Be aware of Templar Assassin's Desolator and Blink Dagger timing. She can solo kill most heroes.
Templar Assassin is able to take Roshan early on. Ward and check Roshan.
Check the Roshpit for Psionic Trap before taking Roshan.
Lore
Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws--peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners.
As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed.