Ancient Black Dragon

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Ancient Black Dragon
Ancient Neutral Creep
Health 2000 +2 Mana 500 +1 Level 6 Armor 4 Magic Resistance 30% Status Resistance 0 Attack Damage Default 62 ‒ 68 Attack Range 300 Acquisition Range 300 Attack Speed 135 • 2s BAT Attack Animation 0.5+0.5 Projectile Speed 1500 Move Speed 300 (100) Turn Rate 0.9 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 800 Bounty 78–82 Experience 124 Model Scale 1 Abilities Fireball Splash Attack Dragonhide Aura Intern npc_dota_neutral_black_dragon

Ancient Black Dragon is a neutral creep found in:

• Dragon Camp

Abilities

Fireball

Q

F

Fireball

▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Hurls a fireball and ignites an area on the ground. Deals damage per second to affected enemy units within the radius.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 1.1

Cast Range:  1000

Radius: 300

Damage per Second: 85

Duration: 8/9/10/12

The unit does not attempt to cast this ability by default.

This ability has multiple levels by default. However, the 4th level can only be unlocked by certain hero abilities or sources.

15

200

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• Creates a negative aura upon cast that deals 42.5 magical spell damage to affected enemies in 0.5-second intervals within the radius.
  • This immediately affects enemies upon applying the damage per second debuff.

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On hidden entity

• Has 4 levels by default. The 4th level can only be unlocked by the following sources:
  • Holy Persuasion
  • Gluttony Devour
  • Helm of the Overlord's Dominate

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Splash Attack

Splash Attack

Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Physical

The unit's attacks are felt by all enemy units within the splash radius.

Splash Radius: 250

Splash Damage: 100%

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• Applied as physical damage within the radius, and is affected by damage block sources.
  • Not affected by the unit's outgoing spell damage amp sources and spell lifesteal sources.
  • However, it can be amplified by incoming spell damage amp sources applied on enemies.
  • Does not splash damage against the following units:
    • The primary target.
    • Buildings
    • Ward-type units.

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Hidden modifier

Dragonhide Aura

Dragonhide Aura

Ability

Passive / Aura

Affects

Allied Units

The Ancient Black Dragon grants flat bonus armor to allied units within the radius.

Radius: 1200

Armor Bonus: 3

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Neutral creeps' aura has a smaller radius by default.

Neutral Aura: 800

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• The aura has the following properties:
  • Multiple overlapping Dragonhide Aura radius stack.
  • Does not affect the following units:
    • Invulnerable units.

• ILLUSIONS
  Illusions bestows the aura, but does not benefit from the bonus armor.

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Hidden modifier

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Dragonhide Aura: Armor increased by x.

Neutral Upgrade

Neutral Upgrade

Ability

Passive

Affects

Neutral Creep

Neutral creeps grow stronger as time passes by.

As the creeps grow stronger over time, so do some of their abilities.

Max Stacks: 30

Upgrade Interval: 450

Max Ability Level: 30

Ability Upgrade Interval: 900

Details

• Other Neutral Upgrade notes apply.

Recent Changes

Version

Description

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Rescaled Fireball debuff duration from 10 to 8/9/10/12. [?]

7.31
(2022-02-23)

• Rescaled attack damage from 48‒81 to 62‒68.
• Reduced magic resistance from 50% to 30%.
• Increased base attack time from 1.5 to 2.
• Increased attack speed from 100 to 135.
• Reduced attack point from 0.94 to 0.5.
• Reduced attack backswing from 0.56 to 0.5.
• Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.9.
• Reduced gold bounty from 108‒137 to 78‒82 .
• CHANGED defense class from Basic to Default. [?]
• Dragonhide Aura is now a 800 radius aura when unit is not player-controlled. [?]

7.30c
(2021-09-11)

• Increased Fireball mana cost from 100 to 200.