Pugna
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Pugna
19 + 2
21 + 1.3
26 + 5.2
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
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+44HP and +0.2HP regeneration |
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+0.22 armor and 1.3 attack speed |
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+62.4MP and +0.26MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +5.2 Main Attack Damage |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (121)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.5 + 0.5
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-05-20
Released | ||
2004-02-03
(5.62) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-05-20 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.40b) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Drains enemy life to heal himself. | |
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| A crafty trickster, Pugna turns the enemy's power against itself as he Blasts their defenses. While his Nether Ward strikes nearby foes that dare to cast a spell. He Decrepifies his target, temporary banishing them to another realm, and Drains Life from his enemies while replenishing himself with their vitality, ensuring that he will be ready for the next assault. | |
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| Roles: |  Nuker  Pusher |
| Adjectives | Cape, Green, Horns, Undead, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Siphoning Ward
Nether Ward now heals and restores mana to Pugna based on the damage dealt.
Rewards of Ruin
Grants self outgoing spell damage amplification per Tower destroyed in the game.
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
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Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Applies a debuff that reduces the affected enemy hero's outgoing spell damage while channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
Instantly kills regular illusions.
Reduces cooldown.
Instantly kills regular illusions.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
When Life Drain is cast on the ward, the magic refracts to enemy heroes within the radius and leeches their health for a portion of its damage.
Increases cast range.
While channeling, Life Drain periodically grants Pugna outgoing spell damage amplification per affected hero.
While channeling, Life Drain periodically grants Pugna outgoing spell damage amplification per affected hero.
Talents
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| +1.9 Mana Flare Mana to Damage Factor | 25 | +200 Nether Blast Damage |
| +1.5s Decrepify Duration | 20 | +15% Life Drain Heal |
| +250 Health | 15 | +30% Decrepify Ally Speed |
| +2 Nether Ward Hit Count | 10 | -1s Nether Blast Cooldown |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Bio
[edit]Who needs a blade when you have oblivion?▶️Pugna
Lore:
In the realm of Pugna's birth, near the vents of the Nether Reaches, there stood a lamasery devoted to the Arts of Oblivion, which drew its power from the nether energies. The Grandmaster of the temple compound had himself passed into Oblivion several years prior, leaving his academy without a leader. From the moment of their master's death, the regents of the temple began rites of divination to identify their master's reincarnation, and eventually all signs converged on the immediate neighborhood. Several villages squatted in the shadow of the temple, their alleys and plazas full of the laughter of squalling children.
Pugna, a mere thirteen months of age, was but one candidate among the local brats, and on the appointed day he was presented at the temple alongside two other promising tots. The lamas offered a jumble of worn relics to the children, treasured possessions of their former grandmaster. One boy reached for a porphyry wand that had belonged to the lama...and put it in his nostril. An impish girl pulled out an amulet that had also been the lama's, and immediately swallowed it. Pugna regarded the other two coolly, gave a merry laugh, and blasted them with gouts of emerald flame, reducing them to ashes in an instant. He then snatched up the wand and amulet, saying 'Mine!' The regents hoisted the beaming Pugna on their shoulders, wrapped him in their grandmaster's vestments, and rushed him to the throne before his mood could change. Within five years, the temple itself was another pile of ash, which pleased Pugna to no end.
Pugna, a mere thirteen months of age, was but one candidate among the local brats, and on the appointed day he was presented at the temple alongside two other promising tots. The lamas offered a jumble of worn relics to the children, treasured possessions of their former grandmaster. One boy reached for a porphyry wand that had belonged to the lama...and put it in his nostril. An impish girl pulled out an amulet that had also been the lama's, and immediately swallowed it. Pugna regarded the other two coolly, gave a merry laugh, and blasted them with gouts of emerald flame, reducing them to ashes in an instant. He then snatched up the wand and amulet, saying 'Mine!' The regents hoisted the beaming Pugna on their shoulders, wrapped him in their grandmaster's vestments, and rushed him to the throne before his mood could change. Within five years, the temple itself was another pile of ash, which pleased Pugna to no end.
Voice:
Oblivion Savant
[edit] Oblivion Savant 
Passive
Affects
Self
Pugna can cast any abilities, including item abilties, while channeling.
Rewards of Ruin
Grants self outgoing spell damage amplification per Tower destroyed in the game.
Max Stacks: 22
Spell Damage Amp per Tower Destroyed:
1.5%
Spell Damage Amp per Tower Destroyed:
1.5% 
- All Pugna's ability casts, including
item abilities, within its respective 
cast range limits, have the following properties while channeling:
- Does not interrupt the current channeling source.
- Have an
instant cast time. - Neither requires
turning nor 
facing the targeted location or unit to cast, as long it is within the cast range.
- Pugna cannot channel another ability while already channeling.
- All Pugna's ability casts, including
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- Grants self generic
outgoing spell damage amplification that affects 
spell damage sources sourced to Pugna.
- Stack additively with other generic outgoing damage sources.
- Does not affect
HP Removal sources.
- Grants self generic
modifier_pugna_oblivion_savant
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_STATE_CASTS_IGNORE_CHANNELINGMODIFIER_PROPERTY_SPELL_AMPLIFY_PERCENTAGE- Grants up to 33% outgoing spell damage amplification with all towers destroyed.
Hero Model
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Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
innate abilities for more details.- Oblivion Savant notes apply.
Abilities
[edit]Nether Blast
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An exploding pulse that deals damage to enemy units in the area.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0
Cast Range: 600
600 Effect Delay: 0.8
Effect Radius: 
400
400 Damage: 95/170/245/320 (
295/370/445/520)
295/370/445/520) 
Nether Blast is less effective on buildings.
Damage Factor: 0.65
0.65 
5 (
4)
4)
100/115/130/145
The Arts of Oblivion include a deafening blast of emerald flames from the Nether Reaches.
- Can affect enemy units at max 1000-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.
- Can affect enemy units at max
- Both the ability's visual and sound effects during the effect delay are visible ally-only.
modifier_pugna_nether_blast_thinkerOn Hidden Entity
- Deals 61.75/110.5/159.25/208 (
191.75/240.5/289.25/338) 
magical spell damage (before reductions) to 
buildings.
Decrepify
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Unit
Affects
Units / Nether Ward
Slows an enemy unit and reduces its magic resistance while rendering it ethereal.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.4
Cast Range: 550/600/650/700
550/600/650/700 Move Speed Slow: 45%/50%/55%/60%
Magic Resist Reduction: 20%/30%/40%/50%
Debuff Duration: 3.5 (
5)
5) 
For affected allied units, Pugna grants them incoming heal amplification without slowing their movement speed.
Heal Amp: 
10%/15%/20%/25%
10%/15%/20%/25% Buff Duration: 3.5 ( 5)
5)Move Speed Bonus: (
30%)
30%)16/13/10/7
80
A now-mastered relic from his childhood, Pugna delights in banishing others into the Nether Realm, whether for good, evil, or simple enjoyment.
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Doubletap casts the ability on Pugna.- Disable Help on Pugna prevents Decrepify from affecting the allied hero.
- The affected unit now has the following properties:
- Attack immune
Disarm
Ethereal
- Grants 100%
physical damage resistance as a secondary effect. - Multiple ethereal-based
magic resistance reduction sources do not stack, the higher multiplier takes precedence. - However, it stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
- Grants 100%
- Recasting the ability on the same
targeted unit refreshes the buff or debuff duration, and updates the ability values of the current instance regardless of factions. 
- Applies a
movement speed slow. - Does not affect the following units:
- Buildings
- Enemy Nether Ward.
- Enemy Tombstone.
- Other
ward-type units.
- Applies a
- Applies the following ability effects:
- Incoming
heal amplifcation. - Movement speed bonus.
- Affects the following units:
- Allied Nether Ward.
- Allied Tombstone.
- Applies the following ability effects:
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pugna_decrepify- Reapplying the ability either as a buff or debuff on the same targeted unit, from the same source, does not update the ability values, but refreshes its duration.
- Reapplying the ability on the same targeted unit, from different sources, update the ability values, and refreshes its duration.
- Reapplying the ability either as a buff or debuff on the same
modifier_pugna_decrepify
Decrepify: Slowing movement by x% and increasing spell damage by x%.
MODIFIER_STATE_DISARMEDMODIFIER_STATE_ATTACK_IMMUNEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEAL_AMPLIFY_PERCENTAGE_TARGETMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MAGICAL_RESISTANCE_DECREPIFY_UNIQUEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PHYSICAL modifier_pugna_decrepifyDecrepify: Slowing movement by x% and increasing spell damage by x%.
MODIFIER_STATE_DISARMEDMODIFIER_STATE_ATTACK_IMMUNEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MAGICAL_RESISTANCE_DECREPIFY_UNIQUEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PHYSICAL
- The affected enemy now has the following magic resistance values:
Nether Ward
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Places a Nether Ward at the target location.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.4
Hit Count: 4 (
6)
6) Duration: 21/24/27/30
The ward passively Mana Flares enemy heroes, dealing damage proprotionally on the mana cost per enemy ability cast within the radius.
Although the ward flares the affected enemy units within the radius, all ability effects are sourced to Pugna.
Although the ward flares the affected enemy units within the radius, all ability effects are sourced to Pugna.
Effect Radius: 1400
1400 Base Damage: 50/70/90/110
Enemy Used Mana to Damage Factor: 1/1.2/1.4/1.6 (
2.9/3.1/3.3/3.5)
2.9/3.1/3.3/3.5)Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Creeps' attacks are less effective on the Nether Ward.
Creeps Attacks to Destroy: 16 ( 24)
24)
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases cast range.
Increases cast range.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
When Life Drain is cast on the ward, the magic refracts to enemy heroes within the radius and leeches their health for a portion of its damage.
When Life Drain is cast on the ward, the magic refracts to enemy heroes within the radius and leeches their health for a portion of its damage.
Refract Radius: ( 700)
( 700) Damage Factor: ( 0.75)
0.75) 
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
The self spell damage amplification and enemy reduction via the Nether Ward refraction is less effective to Pugna and all affected enemy heroes respectively.
The self spell damage amplification and enemy reduction via the Nether Ward refraction is less effective to Pugna and all affected enemy heroes respectively.
Spell Amp Change Factor: ( 0.5)
0.5) 40
80
While at the lamasery for the Arts of Oblivion, Pugna learned to dominate his classmates with a simple ward charged with Nether magic.
Siphoning Ward
Nether Ward now heals and restores mana to Pugna based on the damage dealt.
Damage to Heal Factor: 
0.2
Damage to Mana Restore Factor:
0.2
0.2 Damage to Mana Restore Factor:
0.2 
16
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The Nether Ward is an immobile ward-type unit and has the Mana Flare ability.
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Lvl
0
0
0%
600
This unit does not attack.
0
20/40/60/80 (x̄)
Both Towers and the Fountain do not attack the Nether Ward.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Life Drain can be cast on any Nether Wards, regardless of factions.
Multiple different Life Drain sources can be cast on the same Nether Ward as well, creating independent Life Drain refraction instances.
Life Drain can be cast on any Nether Wards, regardless of factions.
Multiple different Life Drain sources can be cast on the same Nether Ward as well, creating independent Life Drain refraction instances.
- The Nether Ward additionally has the following properties:
- Doubletap places the ward-type unit 150 ( 350)-distance in front of Pugna.
- The unit considers attacks from
clones as heroes, attacks from 
illusions and 
creep-heroes as creeps.
- The Mana Flare ability effects are applied as follows:
pugna_nether_ward_aura- The negative aura affecting enemy units within the radius.
- Although the aura debuff lingers, Mana Flare can only damage enemy units within the radius.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
Neutral creeps, despite not applying the debuff on them.-
- The ability effects visually draws to the following units, but does not apply the spell damage component on them:
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
- The ability effects visually draws to the following units, but does not apply the
- Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
-
- Applies its magical spell damage instance before the affected enemy unit's ability cast upon initiating its cast point.
- Hence, if the enemy unit
dies to the damage instance, the ability is unused.
- Hence, if the enemy unit
- Procs from the following enemy ability cast sources (after reductions):
- Per ability mana cost cast instance.
- Per instance of
ability mana cost per interval, except Chakram. - Deals a 0-damage instance on abilities with 0-mana cost.
- Per
- Does not proc on the following sources:
- Item abilities.
- Mana Break sources.
- Removing mana sources.
- Sources that do not proc on-cast effects.
- The following sources usually prevents damage do not save the enemy caster if the Mana Flare spell damage instance is lethal:
Damage negation sources with mana cost.
Spell immunity sources with mana cost.
- The spell damage procs per enemy mana cast event per enemy ability cast, sourced to the Nether Ward itself, and is defined as:
- Applies its magical spell damage instance before the affected enemy unit's ability cast upon initiating its cast point.
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- Applies a self- heal and
mana restore correspondingly to the damage dealt:
- Applies a self-
- Executes the original ability cast.
- Enables Life Drain unit-targeting on the Nether Ward.
- Life Drain now refracts to all enemy heroes within 700 radius centered around the ward, with all ability effects sourced to Pugna.
- Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
- Considers
- The search radius is defined as:
- EXPR
SearchRadius = LifeDrain CastRange - An enemy hero may only be affected by the ability upgrade once per Life Drain cast and upon cast.
- Enemy heroes entering the refract radius after the ability cast are not affected.
- Other Life Drain and its ability upgrade notes apply.
- Life Drain now refracts to all enemy heroes within
modifier_pugna_nether_wardHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_STATE_MAGIC_IMMUNEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PHYSICALMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_MAGICALMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABSOLUTE_NO_DAMAGE_PUREMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_SPENT_MANAMODIFIER_PROPERTY_LIFETIME_FRACTIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTHBAR_PIPS modifier_pugna_nether_ward_auraNether Ward: Affected by Nether Ward
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_SPELL_AMPLIFY_PERCENTAGELife Drain
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When cast on an enemy unit, Life Drain damages the enemy unit and self-heals.
When casting on an allied unit, Life Drain succors the allied unit while damaging Pugna.
When casting on an allied unit, Life Drain succors the allied unit while damaging Pugna.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0
Cast Range: 700
700 Link Break Distance: 900
900 Max Channel Time: 10
Damage per Second: 150/250/350
Heal per Second: 150/250/350 ( 172.5/287.5/402.5)
150/250/350 ( 172.5/287.5/402.5) 
Instantly kills regular illusions.
Current Health as Damage: 100%
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Applies a debuff that reduces the affected enemy hero's outgoing spell damage while channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
Applies a debuff that reduces the affected enemy hero's outgoing spell damage while channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
Max Spell Amp Reduction: 
( 75%)
( 75%) Spell Amp Reduction per Second: ( 8%)
8%) Debuff Duration: ( 8)
8) 
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
While channeling, Life Drain periodically grants Pugna outgoing spell damage amplification per affected hero.
While channeling, Life Drain periodically grants Pugna outgoing spell damage amplification per affected hero.
Max Spell Amp Bonus: 
( 100%)
( 100%) Spell Amp Bonus per Second: ( 8%)
8%) Buff Duration: ( 8)
8) 7 ( 3.5)
3.5)115/160/205
Pugna has truly become more powerful than even the grandmaster of Oblivion.
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- The ability has three unit-targeting functionalities:
- Life Drain the unit-targeted enemy
Heals Pugna. - Life Drain the unit-targeted ally Deals self- magical spell damage Heals allied unit.
- Hence, casting Life Drain on allied targets works akin of the ally casting Life Drain on Pugna. This applies to all heal-related mechanics.
- The self-damage is lethal.
- Hence, casting Life Drain on allied targets works akin of the ally casting Life Drain on Pugna. This applies to all
- Life Drain Nether Ward Affects all enemy units within the search radius.
- Life Drain the unit-targeted enemy
- The ability has three unit-targeting functionalities:
- The ability has four main components:
- Applies all ability effects in 0.25-second intervals, starting 0.25 upon cast, over a max 40 instances.
- All ability components consider clones as heroes, illusions and creep-heroes as creeps.
- The ability effects are applied corresponding to the targeted unit's faction as follows:
- The Life Drain component.
- The ability upgrade.
- The primary link does not break in the following conditions:
- Upon the affected unit entering the Fog of War.
- The link still affects the unit if they are either invisible or
untargetable after being affected by Life Drain.
- Upon the affected unit entering the
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- Applies the following ability effects on the affected enemy unit(s):
Exposes and grants 
True Sight over the unit.
- Hence, the link still affects the unit if it becomes invisible after being affected by Life Drain.
- A 10-second 200-radius caster vision centered on the affected enemy location upon cast, this ability component is independent of the channeling time.
- The caster vision radius does not follow the affected enemy.
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Instant kill illusions on the first ability interval.- With min health sources, the ability reduces the affected illusion(s)' health by 1 per damage instance. Hence, it does not self- heal in this situation.
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- Deals 37.5/62.5/87.5 magical spell damage per interval.
- Applies the following ability effects on the affected enemy unit(s):
-
- The primary link does not break in the following conditions:
- The link breaks on the affected hero in the following conditions:
- The effective area for the link break distance is a half-sphere
and not a flat circle. Hence, the link can be broken with 
upward movement sources as well.
- Grants self an incrementing outgoing spell damage buff, while applying the same amount outgoing spell damage reduction on the unit-targeted enemy.
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pugna_life_drain_spell_amp- Grants self a 2% buff and applies a 2% debuff on all affected enemy units respectively per stack per interval.
- Both modifiers applied are independent of each other.
- Stacks addtively with other outgoing damage manipulation sources.
- Does not affect HP Removal sources.
- Grants self an incrementing
Life Drain on both targets ends when any of both targets are no longer affected.
modifier_pugna_life_drain_spell_amp
Life Drain Spell Damage: Spell damage changed by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_SPELL_AMPLIFY_PERCENTAGE modifier_pugna_life_drainLife Drain: Draining Life.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERSMODIFIER_PROPERTY_PROVIDES_FOW_POSITION modifier_pugna_life_drain_spell_ampLife Drain Spell Damage: Spell damage changed by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_SPELL_AMPLIFY_PERCENTAGELife Drain Ability Effects Visualized (Ally)
The link is Green ➜ Green from Pugna when cast on an allied unit.
Life Drain Ability Effects Visualized (Enemy)
The link is Red ➜ Green from the enemy unit in most situations.
- Multiple Life Drain sources can be cast on any Nether Wards, including the same Nether Ward, regardless of factions.
Recent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Pugna/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 11, 2026 - 12:00 PET | Qualifier |   | SA CQ DreamLeague S28 |      |  | 0 : 1 |  |      | |
| January 11, 2026 - 17:00 IST | Tier 3 |  | APAC Predator League 2026 |    |   | 1 : 0 |  |      | |
| January 11, 2026 - 15:00 CST | Qualifier |   | OQ2 ESL Challenger CN |  |   | 0 : 1 |   |     | |
| January 11, 2026 - 12:00 SGT | Qualifier | | SEA CQ DreamLeague S28 |    | | 0 : 1 |   |    | |
| January 9, 2026 - 12:00 CET | Qualifier | | WEU CQ DreamLeague S28 |   |   | 0 : 1 |  |     |
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
- Increased Life Drain mana cost from 100/150/200 to 115/160/205.
- Nether Ward Siphoning Ward
- Reduced spell damage to heal factor from 0.25 to 0.2.
- Reduced spell damage to mana restore factor from 0.3 to 0.2.
Talents:
- LVL 15 +350 health reduced to +300.
- LVL 20 +20% Life Drain heal reduced to +15%.
- LVL 25 +180 Nether Blast damage reduced to +200.
- Decrepify 's ethereal effects are now disabled while the affected unit is debuff immune.
- Nether Ward Siphoning Ward
- Reduced spell damage to heal factor from 0.3 to 0.25.
- Reduced spell damage to mana restore factor from 0.4 to 0.3.
Dota Plus Progress
[edit]Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
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 Grandmaster |
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Equipment
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| Weapon | |
| Head | |
| Nether Ward | |
| Taunt | |
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Trivia
[edit]- According to Alchemist's rivalry responses, Pugna is composed largely of phosphorus. Being a skeleton, he would be made of the phosphorus-containing mineral hydroxyapatite, a major component of bone.
- Several of Pugna's voice lines reference Viper being his pet, before he was summoned from the Nether by a wizard.
- "Pugna" is a Latin word that translates to a few meanings, namely "fight", "dispute", or "conflict".
- Pugna's unused response ▶️ "First, do no harm." is a reference to the medical principle "Primum non nocere", which is latin and translates into "First, do no harm".[1]
- In Deadlock, Lady Geist's Life Drain ability may be inspired by Pugna's Life Drain, both of which drain the target's health into the caster.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Pugna uses the model of the Skeletal Mages, an Undead unit summoned by the Necromancers.
- In DotA, Pugna's title is Oblivion. Although Oblivion is still relevant to his lore, it is not his title in Dota 2.
- In earliy versions of DotA, Pugna's title was Tormented Soul, which eventually was given to Leshrac.
- Decrepify's original iteration is identical to the Blood Mage's Banish.
- Nether Ward's original iteration is identical to the Faerie Dragons' Mana Flare.
- Life Drain's original iteration is identical to the Dark Ranger's Life Drain.
Gallery
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Model
Low Violence model
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead
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