Undying stats, abilities and strategy
Summons hordes of zombies to attack his foes
Shambling into battle, Undying forces enemies to decide whether to flee his wrath or be torn apart by it. He drains strength from his foes, and summons a horde of clawing undead. When he finally becomes a hulking flesh golem, his enemies may already be overwhelmed.
Win Rate 51.6%
Pick Rate 8.5%
Attributes
604 +52.8/lvl
399 +33.6/lvl
22 +2.4/lvl
10 +1.2/lvl
27 +2.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
53 - 61 + 2.4/level (136 - 144 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
2.7 + 0.2/level (10.8 at level 30)
Movement:
300
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Rotting Mitts
Win Rate: 51.7%
Pick Rate: 79.8%
While transformed into a Flesh Golem, attacks spawn a zombie.
Ripped
Win Rate: 51.0%
Pick Rate: 20.2%
Casting Soul Rip on allies increases their Strength by a percentage of Undying's Strength.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
When Undying dies he will instantly respawn in the fountain. Begins the game on cooldown. Cannot be refreshed.
480
Decay
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Undying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself. Deals 2x damage to creeps.
The strength stolen stacks, but can't cause a hero to have strength below 1.
The strength steal takes effect before the damage is dealt.
Affects invisible units.
BASE DAMAGE: 20 / 60 / 100 / 140
STRENGTH STEAL: 4
STEAL DURATION: 35
RADIUS: 325
13 / 10 / 7 / 4
100
650
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +40 Decay Damage
Patch 7.38
- Damage increased from 10/50/90/130 to 20/60/100/140
The strength of the living is simply borrowed from the strength of the dead.
Soul Rip
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Undying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy. Soul Rip can also be used to heal Tombstone.
Can heal Tombstone, but can't heal or damage other buildings.
Does not rip from invisible units, invulnerable units, units in the fog of war, or spell immune enemies.
Does rip from spell immune allies, including zombies.
DAMAGE/HEAL PER UNIT: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45
MAX UNITS: 10
RIP RADIUS: 1300
TOMBSTONE HEAL: 4 / 8 / 12 / 16
STRENGTH GAIN: 0%
DURATION: 0
18 / 14 / 10 / 6
80 / 90 / 100 / 110
750
FACET: Ripped
Casting Soul Rip on allies increases their Strength by a percentage of Undying's Strength.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +10 Soul Rip Damage/Heal
Patch 7.38
- Mana Cost rescaled from 100 to 80/90/100/110
Even allies feel despair in Undying's presence.
Tombstone
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Summons a tombstone at the target point. Zombies will frequently spawn next to every enemy unit in the area around the Tombstone, and attack them. Zombies have the Deathlust ability, which causes their attacks to slow the target, and if the target reaches below a certain amount of health, increases the attack and movement speed of the zombie.
Tombstone is Spell Immune, but can be healed by Soul Rip.
Zombies and Tombstone are Spell Immune.
If their initial target dies or goes out of vision, the Zombie will die.
ATTACKS TO DESTROY: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
TOMBSTONE DURATION: 30
ZOMBIE SPAWN RADIUS: 1200
DEATHLUST HEALTH THRESHOLD: 40%
ZOMBIE SPAWN INTERVAL: 4 / 3.6 / 3.2 / 2.8
ZOMBIE ATTACK DAMAGE: 34
80
125 / 150 / 175 / 200
500
Aghanim's Shard
Tombstone can be cast on an allied hero to bunker inside of the tombstone. Heroes that enter the Tombstone cannot leave for %tombstone_bunker_cd% seconds nor can they re-enter after leaving. If the tombstone is destroyed with a hero inside, that hero gets stunned for %tombstone_stun_penalty% seconds.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +6 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +20 Zombie Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: -15s Tombstone Cooldown
Dirge calls on his fallen brothers to fight for the Dead God.
Flesh Golem
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Undying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem. Gains a percentage increase to strength and imbues attacks with a slow and damage amplification.
SLOW: 30% / 35% / 40%
DAMAGE AMPLIFICATION: 25% / 30% / 35%
SLOW DURATION: 3
STRENGTH MULTIPLIER: 40% / 50% / 60%
DURATION: 40
BONUS MOVESPEED: 20 / 30 / 40
ZOMBIE DURATION: 0
140
100 / 125 / 150
FACET: Rotting Mitts
While transformed into a Flesh Golem, attacks spawn a zombie.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +50% Flesh Golem Strength Bonus
Patch 7.38
- Slow decreased from 35/40/45% to 30/35/40%
The flesh of the recently dead add to the power of Dirge's plague.
Talents
+6 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
+50% Flesh Golem Strength Bonus
+ 0.4 %
-2s Decay Cooldown
Tombstone On Death
+ 0.3 %
+10 Soul Rip Damage/Heal
+ 1.8 %
+20 Zombie Damage
-15s Tombstone Cooldown
+40 Decay Damage
+ 0.7 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent Decay Damage decreased from +50 to +40
Strategy
Catch both opponents on the lane with Decay and use the extra damage to harass or secure last hits.
Check for the number of stick charges opponents have before diving or committing for a kill.
Don't make it too easy for opponents to destroy Tombstone. Place it on pillars, cliffs and protect it.
Tombstone destroys trees and provides great vision.
When you drop low on resources consider suiciding into neutral camp or opponents towers to reset quickly.
During Flesh Golem, look to right click an enemy hero who your cores are targeting at least once for damage amplification.
Undying allows the team to kill Roshan early due to zombie tanking and damage amplification from Flesh Golem.
Play as aggressively as you can in front of your team with Flesh Golem and Decay to absorb damage and chase down enemy heroes. Don't be afraid of dying.
Keep in mind to you use Aghanim's Shard defensively on an allied hero and save them from being bursted.
Counter Strategy
Undying uses Decay frequently. Make sure you buy Magic Stick or Wand against him.
Keep distance from Undying as he is likely to have high damage due to Decay stacks.
Keep an eye on your total HP against Decay spam. Soul Rip can finish you off.
Make Tombstone a priority in fights or you risk being slowed greatly and take a lot of damage.
Consider killing off zombies chasing you or team mates in trouble.
Avoid being hit by Undying in Flesh Golem form as you will take extra damage and be slowed.
Lore
How long has it been since he lost his name? The torn ruin of his mind no longer knows.
Dimly he recalls armor and banners and grim-faced kin riding at his side. He remembers a battle: pain and fear as pale hands ripped him from his saddle. He remembers terror as they threw him into the yawning pit of the Dead God alongside his brothers, to hear the Dirge and be consumed into nothingness. In the darkness below, time left them. Thought left them. Sanity left them. Hunger, however, did not. They turned on each other with split fingernails and shattered teeth. Then it came: distant at first, a fragile note at the edge of perception, joined by another, then another, inescapable and unending. The chorus grew into a living wall of sound pulsing in his mind until no other thought survived. With the Dirge consuming him, he opened his arms to the Dead God and welcomed his obliteration. Yet destruction was not what he'd been chosen for. The Dead God demanded war. In the belly of the great nothing, he was granted a new purpose: to spread the Dirge across the land, to rally the sleepless dead against the living. He was to become the Undying, the herald of the Dead God, to rise and fall and rise again whenever his body failed him. To trudge on through death unending, that the Dirge might never end.