Visage stats, abilities and strategy
Scouts and attacks with his familiars
As his deadly familiars scout the field, Visage cloaks himself in armor and seeks the next battle. Once near a skirmish, he gathers soul energy from damage inflicted upon nearby fighters before releasing it in a devastating attack.
Win Rate 51.5%
Pick Rate 1.3%
Attributes
604 +61.6/lvl
339 +34.8/lvl
22 +2.8/lvl
11 +1.3/lvl
22 +2.9/lvl
Stats
Damage:
59 - 69 + 4.9/level (231 - 241 at level 30)
Range:
600
Armor:
1.8 + 0.2/level (10.5 at level 30)
Movement:
285
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Base Damage increased by 17
- Damage at level 1 increased by 3 (from 42-52 to 45-55)
- Strength gain increased from 2.4 to 2.8
- Agility gain increased from 1.0 to 1.3
- Intelligence gain increased from 2.4 to 2.9
- Damage gain per level decreased from +4.1 to +3.2
- Damage at level 30 decreased by 33 (from 189-199 to 156-166)
Facets
Sepulchre
Win Rate: 54.3%
Pick Rate: 52.3%
Grave Chill also affects units around the target. Visage can also recall his familiars.
Patch 7.38
- Grave Chill: Radius increased from 250 to 300
- Grave Chill: Secondary Target Penalty decreased from 75% to 50%
Faithful Followers
Win Rate: 38.6%
Pick Rate: 6.2%
Familiars automatically move with Visage and attack his targets.
Patch 7.38
- Summon Familiars: Familiar Gold Bounty decreased from 70 to 50
Death Toll
Win Rate: 50.1%
Pick Rate: 41.4%
Soul Assumption kills give bonus gold. Visage can also recall his familiars.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Visage's ability cooldown durations are accelerated as long as he's not taking damage.
Grants a stack every 2s that Visage does not take damage. Each stack grants 2% cooldown acceleration with a max of %max_stacks% stacks. Stacks fade after %linger_duration%s upon taking any damage.
Break disables the gaining of new stacks.
Break does not disable the bonuses from existing stacks.
Affects Visage's ability cooldown durations, including spells already on cooldown.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +4 Lurker Max Stacks
Grave Chill
AFFECTS: Unit and area
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Visage drains the movement and attack speed of the targeted unit, gaining it for itself and nearby familiars.
The two buffs can be removed separately by dispels.
The speed gained is independent of the speed lost on the target.
Familiars within 900 range of Visage will also receive bonuses from Grave Chill.
DURATION: 5
MOVE SPEED DRAIN: 12% / 16% / 20% / 24%
ATTACK SPEED DRAIN: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70
AOE:
SECONDARY TARGET PENALTY: %
17 / 15 / 13 / 11
90
625
FACET: Sepulchre
Grave Chill also affects units around the target.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +2s Grave Chill Duration
Patch 7.38b
- Duration decreased from 6s to 5s
- Move Speed Drain decreased from 15/20/25/30% to 12/16/20/24%
The warmth of the sun is never felt in the dark cold of the Narrow Maze.
Soul Assumption
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Visage gathers charges of soul essence each time nearby heroes take more than 100 damage. When the essence is released, it deals base damage as well as damage for each gathered soul charge.
Charges are only gained for damage greater than 2 and less than 3000 that is dealt by a player or Roshan. Self-damage or Soul Assumption damage isn't counted.
BASE DAMAGE: 20
DAMAGE PER CHARGE: 70
BONUS GOLD PER CHARGE PER KILL: 0
CREEP GOLD: 0%
MAX CHARGES: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
CHARGE DURATION: 6
GATHER DAMAGE THRESHOLD: 100
GATHER DAMAGE RADIUS: 1800
4
110
1000
FACET: Death Toll
Soul Assumption kills give 30 gold per soul charge, up to INVALID TYPE gold. Reduced gold from creeps. Enemy heroes killed within 3s of being affected by Soul Assumption also give gold.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +25 Soul Assumption Damage Per Charge
The collected souls of the dead reach out to bring another into their fold.
Gravekeeper's Cloak
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Visage generates a layered barrier that protects him from damage. If he receives damage from a player, one layer is removed, and takes time to recover.
Each time Visage receives damage greater than the Minimum Damage that was not self-inflicted and was from a player owned source, a layer is removed.
Familiars within 900 range of Visage will receive the current damage reduction from Gravekeeper's Cloak.
Break disables the gaining of new stacks.
Break does not disable the bonuses from existing stacks.
MAX LAYERS: 4
DAMAGE REDUCTION PER LAYER: 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%
LAYER RECOVERY TIME: 7 / 6 / 5 / 4
MINIMUM DAMAGE: 40
MAX DAMAGE REDUCTION: 80%
COOLDOWN:
MANA COST:
Visage's tough scales share equal properties of ghost and stone, making it nearly impervious to blade and magical assault.
Stone Form
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Orders the Familiar closest to Visage to cast Stone Form in its current location, turning into stone and smashing into the ground, stunning and damaging all targets in the area. The Familiar becomes invulnerable, and will regain its health very rapidly. After 6 seconds, the Familiar will automatically leave Stone Form.
Can be alt-cast to order the closest Familiar to the target location to move there and cast Stone Form.
While Stone Form is not dispellable, the stun can be removed by strong dispels.
STUN RADIUS: 375
DAMAGE: 60 / 100 / 140
STUN DURATION: 0.8 / 1 / 1.2
BONUS REGEN: 150 / 175 / 200
Stone Form
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
After a short delay, the Familiar turns into stone and smashes into the ground, stunning and damaging all targets in the area. The Familiar becomes invulnerable, and will regain its health very rapidly. After 6 seconds, the Familiar will automatically leave Stone Form.
Can be alt-cast to order the Familiar to move to the target location and cast Stone Form.
STUN RADIUS: 375
DAMAGE: 60 / 100 / 140
STUN DURATION: 0.8 / 1 / 1.2
STONE DURATION: 6
BONUS REGEN: 150 / 175 / 200
11
50
Summon Familiars
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PASSIVE: No
Conjures 2 blind Familiars to fight for Visage. Familiars possess the Stone Form ability, that allows them to turn into stone, stunning enemies upon landing. While in Stone Form, Familiars are invulnerable, and rapidly regenerate their health. Familiars grant high bounty when killed.
Casting Summon Familiars will replace any existing Familiars.
Familiars within range of Visage will receive bonuses from Gravekeeper's Cloak and Grave Chill.
FAMILIAR HEALTH: 500 / 600 / 700
FAMILIAR ARMOR: 0 / 2 / 4
FAMILIAR ATTACK RANGE: 180
FAMILIAR SPEED: 430
FAMILIAR GOLD BOUNTY: 100
FAMILIAR ATTACK DAMAGE: 25 / 50 / 75
130 / 120 / 110
150
FACET: Sepulchre
The ability can be cast in the alt-cast state to recall Visages familiars after %recall_duration%s, during which they cannot attack or act.
FACET: Faithful Followers
Familiars will automatically attack the target Visage tried to attack last, and will return if that target is out of Visage's attack range, or Visage issues the cancel current action or hold position commands.
The ability can be toggled to the Auto-Cast state to command the Familiars to return to Visage and not leave his side until the state has been disabled.
FACET: Death Toll
The ability can be cast in the alt-cast state to recall Visages familiars after %recall_duration%s, during which they cannot attack or act.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +1 Familiar
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +1 Armor Corruption to Visage and Familiars
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +6 Visage and Familiars Attack Damage
Guardians of the Narrow Maze, Necro'lic's Familiars stand watch over his domain.
Silent as the Grave
Scepter grants new ability
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Turns Visage and familiars invisible, granting Visage bonus movement speed and upgrading its movement type to flying. When Visage or its familiars leave invisibility they deal more damage for a short duration. Lasts 30 seconds. Invisibility ends when attacking or casting.
BONUS DAMAGE DURATION: 4
BONUS DAMAGE: 20%
BONUS MOVESPEED: 20%
45
115
Talents
+1 Familiar
+ 5.9 %
Gravekeeper's Cloak grants +10 Armor
+1 Armor Corruption to Visage and Familiars
+ 3.3 %
+25 Soul Assumption Damage Per Charge
Soul Assumption Hits 3 Targets
+2s Grave Chill Duration
+ 2.8 %
+6 Visage and Familiars Attack Damage
+ 4.3 %
+4 Lurker Max Stacks
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent -3s Grave Chill Cooldown replaced with +4 Lurker Max Stacks
Strategy
Visage is fairly weak until level 6. Try to kill him before he gets stronger with his Familiars.
Familiars are fairly squishy when Visage is not around.
With the Sepulchre facet, use familiars to control runes, stack camps, gank lanes even without your hero, drag and cut creepwaves.
You can summon fresh familiars to be able to chain 4 stuns on opponents.
With Aghanim's Scepter, your burst and pick off potential further increases.
Pick up Aghanims Shard later in the game as it allows you to survive jumps , buy time and provides another stun.
With Boots of Travel, you can TP around the map to join fight or split push and bring your Familiars to you with the alternate cast of Summon Familiars.
Counter Strategy
Instances of 40 damage and higher will remove a layer of Gravekeeper's Cloak.
Visage's Familiars give a lot of gold and are easy to kill when Visage is not around.
Visage is snowbally hero and falls off in late game. Look to extend the game. Don't be greedy with items.
Visage takes down buildings fast with Familiars. Organize defense quickly.
Break effects are removing Gravekeeper's Cloak and Visage becomes much weaker.
Crimson Guard is great against the Familiar's physical damage.
Once Visage gets Aghanim's Scepter, place Observer wards and sentries and carry detection.
Lore
Perched atop the entrance to the Narrow Maze sit the looming shapes of sneering gargoyles, the paths into the hereafter forever in their gaze. Beasts and birds, men and monsters, all creatures that die and choose to travel beyond must someday pass beneath their sight. For an untethered spirit, the decision to journey through the veil of death is irrevocable. When chance comes, and by craft or cunning some restless soul escapes their hells and heavens, it is the dreaded gargoyle Visage, the bound form of the eternal spirit Necro'lic, who is dispatched to reclaim them. Ruthless and efficient, unhindered by the principles of death and fatigue, Visage stalks its prey without mercy or end, willingly destroying all which may give shelter to the fugitive essence. That which flaunts the laws of the afterlife may never rest, for while it is true that the dead may be revived, it is only a matter of time before Visage finds and returns them to their proper place.