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Wraith King

Popularity: #20

Leaderboard: #2

Ban Rank: #33

KDA Rank: #7

Can reincarnate instantly upon death

Striding fearlessly toward his enemies, Wraith King stuns his foes and slashes them into submission. Should his enemies gain the upper hand, his self-resurrecting ultimate ensures he'll have another chance to swing his sword.

Win Rate 55.6%
Pick Rate 12.9%
Attributes
Wraith King Image

604 +61.6/lvl

291 +19.2/lvl

Strength Image

22 +2.8/lvl

Agility Image

16 +1.7/lvl

Intelligence Image

18 +1.6/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

60 - 62 + 2.8/level (155.2 - 157.2 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

1.7 + 0.3/level (12.2 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

315

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Bone Guard

Win Rate: 54.9%

Pick Rate: 32.5%

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Bone Guard


Reincarnation

When reincarnating, 2,3,4 skeletons are spawned and attack each nearby enemy hero.

Spectral Blade

Win Rate: 55.9%

Pick Rate: 67.5%

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Spectral Blade


Reincarnation

When reincarnating, nearby enemy heroes have their curse cooldowns reset.

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Vampiric Spirit

LEVELS WITH: Reincarnation

BREAKABLE: Yes


Grants Wraith King Lifesteal. When slain Wraith King turns into a free pathing Wraith with Bonus Attack and Movement Speed for a short duration, delaying his death.


Credit for allies whose death was delayed will go to whoever struck the original killing blow.

Does not affect Reincarnate deaths.

Lifesteal from creeps is reduced by 40%.

Break only disables the passive lifesteal component.

Respawn timer is reduced by Wraith duration.


LIFESTEAL: 26% / 34% / 42% / 50%

WRAITH DURATION: 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5

BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75

BONUS MOVE SPEED: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%


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LEVEL 10 TALENT: +10% Vampiric Spirit Lifesteal


PATCH 7.37
  • Lifesteal increased from 20/30/40/50% to 26/34/42/50%

  • Now decreases respawn timer by Wraith duration

  • Aghanim's Scepter no longer reduces respawn time


Q

Wraithfire Blast

Wraith King sears an enemy unit with spectral fire, dealing damage and stunning, then dealing damage over time and slowing the target.


STUN DURATION: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6

SLOW DURATION: 2

MOVEMENT SLOW: -20%

IMPACT DAMAGE: 75 / 90 / 105 / 120

DAMAGE PER SECOND: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80

Cooldown

17 / 14 / 11 / 8

Mana Cost

95 / 110 / 125 / 140

Cast Range

525


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  • +25% Wraithfire Blast Impact Damage/DPS
  • +1s Wraithfire Blast Stun Duration

Ostarion calls on his damned lineage, laying waste to his opponents.
W

Bone Guard

Gains a Charge for every 2 units killed. Activate to spend all charges, summoning skeletons that respawn once when killed. Skeletons benefit from Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal.


SKELETON DURATION: 40

SKELETON DAMAGE: 34 / 39 / 43 / 49

SKELETON BUILDING DAMAGE REDUCTION: 35%

SKELETON HERO BONUS DAMAGE: 25%

Cooldown

50

Mana Cost

70 / 80 / 90 / 100


Wraith King's blade drains his enemy's essence to feed his aura.

Spectral Blade

Curses units that Wraith King attacks, dealing a flat amount of damage and a percentage of the attack damage again after a delay. Vampiric Spirit's lifesteal applies to the curse damage and a unit cannot be cursed again for a short period of time.


CURSE DAMAGE: 50%

BASE DAMAGE: 10 / 25 / 40 / 55

CURSE COOLDOWN (CREEPS): 6

CURSE DELAY: 3


Mortal Strike

Wraith King passively deals bonus damage on an attack with a cooldown.


Cooldown

6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5


One blow to crush a foe.
R

Reincarnation

Wraith King's form regroups after death, allowing him to resurrect when killed in battle. Upon death, enemy units in a 900 radius are slowed. Can be self-cast to kill Wraith King instantly.


MOVEMENT SLOW: -75%

ATTACK SPEED SLOW: -75

SLOW DURATION: 5

COOLDOWN: 180 / 150 / 120

Cooldown

180 / 150 / 120


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Causes Reincarnation to have no mana cost.


Conspirators against the Wraith King wonder why he never stays dead.

Talents

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Reincarnation Casts Wraithfire Blast

-2s Mortal Strike Cooldown

+ 2.2 %

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+70 Attack Speed

+ 2.6 %

+35% Cleave

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+400 Health

+1s Wraithfire Blast Stun Duration

+ 3.2 %

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+25% Wraithfire Blast Impact Damage/DPS

+10% Vampiric Spirit Lifesteal

+ 0.3 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

With the Bone Guard facet, if you have a strong level 2 powerspike on the lane, skill Vampiric Spirit on level 2, build up skeletons, release them on level 2 and use Wraithfire Blast when all creeps die.

Use Wraithfire Blast to secure ranged creep last hits by either stunning the creep or an enemy hero.

Use Mortal Strike in combination with your Spectral Blade to poke and harass your opponents.

With the Bone Guard facet, when farming jungle, try not to let your skeletons tank neutral creeps too much.

With the Bone Guard facet, when neutral camp is at 30% of total health, move to the next camp to have your skeletons follow you by providing them with a new target.

With the Bone Guard facet, you should have Bone Guard maxed out at level 7 to increase farming speed.

Consider keeping a skill point on level 6 for Reincarnation or invest it in spells that will improve your farming speed if you are jungling.

Once you have a Blink Dagger, focus on killing backliners or supports first.

Mana burn is a big problem for the Wraith King. Consider getting an early BKB or Aghanims Shard against mana burn heroes or Diffusal Blade carriers.

If you took the Bone Guard facet, your skeletons are not super useful in teamfights. Use them to push out lanes or after fights to take the buildings.

Counter Strategy

Wraith King has low armor. Pressure him with right clicks.

Reincarnation has a long cooldown on level 1. Look to pressure Wraith King while it is down.

If Wraith King took the Bone Guard facet, he farms quickly with skeletons. Smoke on him, place deep wards and sentry block off his camps with sentires.

Don't commit all your spells and abilities on Wraith King's first life unless you are sure you can kill him once more.

Manaburn is great at stopping Wraith Kings ultimate from activating until he gets BKB or Aghanims shard.

If Wraith King seems to be saving gold he is most probably buying radiance, be careful of this timing and try to punish this before he has it.

Lore

For untold years, King Ostarion built a kingdom from the remains of his enemies. It was an obsessive's errand, done to pass the long eternities of a monarchy that seemed fated never to end. He believed that as long as he built up the towers of his palace, he could not die. But eventually he learned that he had been deluded... that bone itself could perish. Deeply mistrustful of flesh, he sought a more permanent way of extending his reign, and at last settled on pursuit of wraith energy, a form of pure spirit given off by certain dark souls at death. Should he infuse himself with Wraith Essence, he thought he might create a body as luminous and eternal as his ego. On the millennial solstice known as Wraith-Night, he submitted to a rite of transformation, compelling his subjects to harvest enough souls to fuel his ambition for immortality. No one knows how many of his champions died, for the only survivor who mattered was the Wraith King who rose with the sun on the following morn. Now he rarely spends a moment on his glowing throne--but strides out with sword drawn, demanding a fealty that extends far beyond death.

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