Techies
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Techies
19 + 2.6
16 + 1.8
25 + 3
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
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+57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration |
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+0.3 armor and 1.8 attack speed |
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+36MP and +0.15MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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+3.33 Main Attack Damage |
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900 Projectile Speed
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90 (106)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.5 + 0.5
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2014-09-04
Released | ||
2004-04-08
(4.0beta2) | ||
Competitive Span
2014-12-17 — 2016-12-12 2018-04-26 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.40b) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Surprises enemies with invisible landmines and explosive attacks. | |
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| Techies Demolitions was not so much a business as it was an excuse for Squee, Spleen, and Spoon to practice their favorite hobby: Blowin' stuff up. For them, battle is a matter of mischief. Giggling while they place misleading Minefield Signs, lob Sticky Bombs around the battlefield, hiding their renowned Proximity Mines they buried beneath Toterin that collapsed the town into a heap of rubble, testing their latest invention — a disarming zaps firing Reactive Tazer, and much more. Techies Demolitions handles dissatisfied customers with unexpected cheer. Their last words 'Blast Off!' can be heard just before an epic and reckless explosion delivers enough to leave most enemies dead. Or at least enraged. Often both. | |
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| Roles: |  Nuker  Disabler |
| Adjectives | Fiery, Potbelly, Steed, Nose Legs ( 6 ) |
Squee's Scope
Grants Techies both attack range bonus and attack projectile speed bonus per point of current attack speed.
Spleen's Secret Sauce
The recipe for Spleen's Secret Sauce is sacrificing more health for more Blast Off! damage.
Spoon's Stash
Techies stacks all previously selected Enchantments onto newly-crafted Neutral Items.
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
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Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Creates a minefield in the area-targeted location upon cast.
The entire minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero is within its proximity radius, and deals damage to all moving enemy units within the minefield radius.
The Minefield Sign is destroyed when the duration ends.
The entire minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero is within its proximity radius, and deals damage to all moving enemy units within the minefield radius.
The Minefield Sign is destroyed when the duration ends.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Enables casting Reactive Tazer on allied units, with all ability effects centering and following the targeted ally around.
The ability now also deals damage to enemy units it disarms.
The ability now also deals damage to enemy units it disarms.
Talents
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| -0.8s Proximity Mines Activation Delay | 25 | +252 Attack Damage |
| -15s Blast Off! Cooldown | 20 | +160 Sticky Bomb Damage |
| +3 Mana Regen | 15 | +200 Blast Off! Damage |
| -3s Proximity Mines Cooldown | 10 | +20% Magic Resist |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Bio
[edit]Measurements made." "Bombs built." "Powder's dry." "Okay, let's blow something up!▶️Squee, Spleen, and Spoon, the Techies
Aliases:
Squee, Spleen, Spoon
Lore:
In the storied saga of Dredger's Bight, no business has ever been more reviled than Techies Demolitions. Then again, Dredger's Bight no longer exists. Nor does Toterin. Or even Trapper Town. In fact, if one were to track the history of Techies Demolitions they might notice that shortly after Techies appear, towns tend to disappear.
Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.
Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.
Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.
Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?
Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.
Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.
Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.
Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?
Voice:
Minefield Sign
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Places a warning sign!
All Proximity Mines within the radius are now invulnerable.
All Proximity Mines within the radius are now invulnerable.
Cast Animation: 1.25 + 0.4
Cast Range: 
150
150 Effect Radius: 
500 ( 1000)
500 ( 1000) Max Signs: 1
Duration: 60 ( 240)
240) Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Increases all Proximity Mines' damage within the radius of the Minefield Sign.
Damage Factor: 1.15
Increases all Sticky Bombs' damage within the radius of the Minefield Sign.
Damage Factor: 1.15
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Creates a minefield in the area-targeted location upon cast.
The entire minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero is within its proximity radius, and deals damage to all moving enemy units within the minefield radius.
The Minefield Sign is destroyed when the duration ends.
Creates a minefield in the area-targeted location upon cast.
The entire minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero is within its proximity radius, and deals damage to all moving enemy units within the minefield radius.
The Minefield Sign is destroyed when the duration ends.
Proximity Radius: ( 200)
200) Check Interval: ( 0.5)
0.5) Moved Distance Threshold: ( 200)
200) Damage per Proc: ( 300)
300) Minefield Duration: ( 10)
10) 
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Teleport sources may only add a certain distance to the distance counter, regardless of the teleport distance, and only proc one explosion.
Teleport sources may only add a certain distance to the distance counter, regardless of the teleport distance, and only proc one explosion.
Counter Bonus: ( 200)
200) 
60
Watch your step!
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Only one sign can exist at at time; planting a second sign causes the previous one to immediately disappear.
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This unit does not attack.
0
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This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.
The unit cannot be planted in the enemy's Fountain area.
All ability components also do not work within the enemy's Fountain area.
All ability components also do not work within the enemy's Fountain area.
- This ability is in the fourth ability slot.
- Has the following unit additional properties:
- Does not block
neutral creep camps. - Not a
pathing blocker. 
- The unit is visible to everyone.
- Has no
death animation; the unit visually lingers for 5 seconds and then sinks into the ground.
- Does not block
or 
- Creates an
aura at the 
area-targeted location that grants following ability effects:
- Grants
invulnerability to all Proximity Mines within the radius.
- Does not affect other
ward-type units.
- Does not affect other
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- Adds a passive component that checks for enemy heroes within 200 radius centered around the Minefield Sign in 0.5-second intervals.
- Acquiring the ability upgrade immediately updates the current Minefield Sign.
- Acquiring the
- Adds a passive component that checks for enemy heroes within 200 radius centered around the Minefield Sign in 0.5-second intervals.
- Grants
- Creates an
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- The minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero within the proximity radius
as a check happens. - Considers enemy
clones, 
illusions, and 
creep-heroes as heroes. - Does not consider the following units valid:
Hidden units.- Invulnerable units.
- The ability effects are applied as follows once activated:
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- The aura now accumulates the distance moved of enemy heroes within the effect radius
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- The aura now accumulates the distance moved of enemy heroes within the effect radius
- Checks and applies the magical spell damage accordingly per
server tick per 200-distance moved within the radius. - The following sources do not increase the distance counter:
Upward movement sources.
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- The spell damage applied only affects the enemy hero that procs the explosion, regardless of the ability effects.
- The
- Checks and applies the magical spell damage accordingly per
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- The Minefield Sign is destroyed once the ability upgrade effect ends.
- The Minefield Sign is destroyed once the
- The minefield is activated once a valid enemy hero within the proximity radius
modifier_techies_minefield_sign_thinker
On Hidden Entity
modifier_killOn Hidden Entity
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_LIFETIME_FRACTION modifier_techies_minefield_sign_auraOn Hidden Entity
MODIFIER_STATE_INVULNERABLE
modifier_techies_minefield_sign_scepter_auraActive Minefield: You will take damage magic damage when moving!
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- Has a min 150-cast range despite having a different value in the game files.
Squee's Scope
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Passive
Affects
Self
Grants Techies both attack range bonus and attack projectile speed bonus per point of current attack speed.
Attack Speed to Attack Range Bonus: 1
Attack Speed to Attack Projectile Speed Bonus: 1
- Selecting the
facet unlocks this ability.
- Grants bonus
attack range corresponding to the caster's attack range-type.
modifier_techies_squees_scopeHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACK_RANGE_BONUSMODIFIER_PROPERTY_PROJECTILE_SPEED_BONUSSpoon's Stash
[edit] Spoon's Stash
Passive
Affects
Self
Techies stacks all previously selected Enchantments onto newly-crafted Neutral Items.
- Selecting the facet unlocks this ability.
- This allows Techies to have two Tier 5 Enchantments by recrafting a Tier 5 item.
modifier_techies_spoons_stashHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PRESERVE_NEUTRAL_ITEM_PASSIVESHero Model
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Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
innate abilities for more details.Abilities
[edit]Sticky Bomb
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Lobs a Sticky Bomb toward the area-targeted location.
Once the bomb latches itself to an enemy hero within proximity, it applies a movement speed slow.
Once the bomb latches itself to an enemy hero within proximity, it applies a movement speed slow.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.7
Cast Range: 1000
1000 Latch Radius: 300
300 Latch Move Speed Slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%
After an effect delay, the latched bomb explodes and deals damage within the radius, applying a secondary movement speed slow.
Explosion Radius: 350
350 Explosion Delay: 2
Damage: 95/170/245/320 (
255/330/405/480)
255/330/405/480)Move Speed Slow: 15%/25%/35%/45%
Slow Duration: 3
If the Sticky Bomb does not latch onto an enemy hero within the area-targeted radius, it also detonates after its explosion delay duration.
Dormant Duration: 2
16/13/10/7
100/115/130/145
Such revolutionary brilliance was meant to be shared.
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The Sticky Bomb is uncontrollable.
Although the ability does not grant vision itself, the Sticky Bomb does.
Although the ability does not grant vision itself, the Sticky Bomb does.
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This unit does not attack.
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This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.
This unit does not feel the effects from any damage sources.
It cannot be targeted by attacks or abilities and have its health bar temporarily hidden.
It cannot be targeted by attacks or abilities and have its health bar temporarily hidden.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The Sticky Bomb has a fixed 1.2-second travel time to the area-targeted location
regardless of distance. 
- Can latch on enemy units at max 1300-distance away with the cast range and latch radius.
- Can latch on enemy units at max
- The Sticky Bomb has a fixed 1.2-second travel time to the area-targeted location
- The Sticky Bomb searches for enemy heroes within latch radius immediately upon landing.
- Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
- Multiple Sticky Bombs may latch onto the same enemy hero.
- Latches on the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- Does not latch on the following units:
- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable units.
- Considers
- Chronosphere immediately nullifies the ability at this point.
- Trees within ≈100-radius centered around the unit are destroyed upon landing.
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- If there are no valid enemy heroes within the area-targeted location, the unit lies dormant for a short duration before exploding.
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- Does not change the unit's coordinates regardless of the dormant ability animations.
- The Sticky Bomb searches for enemy heroes within latch radius
- 0.1 seconds after the first valid enemy hero is found, the Sticky Bomb starts launching itself at 500-speed up to 2000-speed until reaching its target.
- Applies the latch
movement speed slow.
- Reapplying the debuff refreshes its duration.
- The latched unit has the following properties:
- Can neither be removed or disjointed once the
projectile starts homing into its target, except upon the Sticky Bomb's death. - Fully latches itself within 100-distance of the affected enemy hero, and keep that distance throughout.
- Can neither be removed or disjointed once the
- Applies the latch
- 2 seconds after latching, the Sticky Bomb explodes.
- Chronosphere does not prevent the spell damage explosion component.
- Deals magical spell damage within the radius sourced to Techies centered around the Sticky Bomb.
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techies_sticky_bomb_slow_secondary- Applies the explosion movement speed slow.
- Reapplying the debuff refreshes its duration.
- Applies the explosion
Cannot be disjointed once the Sticky Bomb latches.
modifier_techies_sticky_bomb_throwOn Hidden Entity
modifier_techies_sticky_bomb_countdownOn Hidden Entity
modifier_techies_sticky_bomb_chaseOn Hidden Entity
modifier_techies_sticky_bomb_slow
Sticky Bomb: Movement speed reduced by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE modifier_techies_sticky_bomb_slow_secondarySticky Bomb: Movement speed reduced by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE- Has the following unit additional properties:
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- Has no death animation; the Sticky Bomb immediately disappears.
- Has no
- The unit can be selected with Tab ↹.
- Although it has Pinpoint Detonate, it is permanently inactive.
Reactive Tazer
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Triggers an electric charge, granting the Techies team bonus movement speed for a short time.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.5
Move Speed Bonus: 18%/22%/26%/30%
Buff Duration: 6
Applies an offensive basic dispel and disarms enemy units attacking the Techies team.
After the buff duration ends, the charge explodes, applying all negative effects onto enemy units within the radius.
After the buff duration ends, the charge explodes, applying all negative effects onto enemy units within the radius.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Enables casting Reactive Tazer on allied units, with all ability effects centering and following the targeted ally around.
The ability now also deals damage to enemy units it disarms.
Enables casting Reactive Tazer on allied units, with all ability effects centering and following the targeted ally around.
The ability now also deals damage to enemy units it disarms.
Cast Range: ( 500)
( 500) Damage: ( 300)
300) 26/22/18/14
60
A steady bomb hand prefers an abundance of personal space.
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techies_reactive_tazer_disarmedhas two main components:
- Applies the debuff to all enemy units within the radius per proc, with the following proc conditions:
- Upon the Detonate Tazer
sub-ability cast. - Upon the debuff duration expiring.
- To all enemy units upon a successful attack on Techies, except the following sources:
Allied units.
Buildings- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable units.
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- The following attack damage sources also do not proc the debuff, however, acquiring the ability upgrade removes this restriction from the following sources:
Instant attack sources that do not proc 
attack modifiers.- Ward-type units.
- The following attack damage sources also do not proc the debuff, however, acquiring the
- Upon the Detonate Tazer
- Applies the debuff to all enemy units within the radius per proc, with the following proc conditions:
- The ability effects are applied as follows per proc:
- An offensive basic dispel on the affected enemy unit.
Disarm- The magical spell damage.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable units.
- Does not affect the following units:
- An offensive
- Applies the aforementioned ability effects as follows upon the losing the buff in any way.
- The ability effects are applied as follows per proc:
- Enables Reactive Tazer casting on allied units.
- The ability now procs and apply
techies_reactive_tazer_disarmedto any damage instance sourced from enemy units. 
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- Can affect enemy units at max 950-distance away with the cast range and effect radius upon cast.
- Can affect enemy units at max
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- All ability effects are now centered on the affected allied unit upon cast for the entire duration.
- Cannot be cast on the following units:
Doubletap casts the ability on Techies.- Acquiring the ability upgrade immediately update the current instance.
- The ability now procs and apply
modifier_techies_reactive_tazerReactive Tazer: Movement speed increased by x% and zapping attackers.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVEPSEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDED modifier_techies_reactive_tazer_disarmedTazered: Disarmed by Reactive Tazer
MODIFIER_STATE_DISARMED-
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- Upon cast, the
techies_reactive_tazerability effects on Techies or the affected allied unit intensifies, indicating its remaining duration.
- Upon cast, the
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- If the attacking unit becomes invisible, the ability particle effects draws toward its current location.
- However, the impact effects appear at their last known location.
- If the attacking unit becomes
Detonate Tazer
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T
Detonate TazerNo
Affects
Self / Allied Units
Instantly detonates Reactive Tazer and apply all its ability effects.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
0 + 0Max Duration: 6
0.5
Details
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- Replaces Reactive Tazer until this sub-ability is used, or until the
techies_reactive_tazerduration expires. - Reactive Tazer cannot be leveled up while this sub-ability is active.
- Cannot be
shift-queued.
- Replaces Reactive Tazer until this sub-ability is used, or until the
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- Interrupts Techies's
channeling abilities upon cast.
- Interrupts Techies's
Blast Off!
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Hurls themselves into the enemy's midst, deals massive area damage, and stuns enemy units within the radius upon landing.
Cast Animation: 1 + 0.9
Cast Range: 1000
1000 Landing Radius: 400
400 Damage: 200/300/400/500 (
400/500/600/700)
400/500/600/700) Leap Duration: 0.75
Stun Duration: 0.8/1/1.2/1.4
The detonation upon landing also applies a non-lethal self-damage on Techies corresponding to a portion of their current health.
Current Health as Self Damage Factor: 0.2
40/35/30/25 (
25/20/15/10)
25/20/15/10)100/125/150/175
Where we going?
Spleen's Secret Sauce
The recipe for Spleen's Secret Sauce is sacrificing more health for more Blast Off! damage.
Max Health as Self Damage Factor: 0.2
Self Max Health to Damage Bonus Factor: 0.15
Self Max Health to Damage Bonus Factor: 0.15
- Can affect enemy units at max 1400-distance away with the cast range and landing radius.
- Can affect enemy units at max
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
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- Has a fixed 0.75-second leap duration towards the area-targeted location , regardless of the leap distance.
- The leap duration varies depending on the terrain.
- Can leap over other units, and
impassable terrain of certain heights, due to the fixed leap duration.
- Hence the self disabling
forced movement applied varies between 0 ‒ 1333.33-distance, with a 281.108-max upward movement height.
- Hence the self
- Locks Techies'
facing angle.
- Locks Techies'
- This ability component can be explictly interrupted and nullified by the following sources applied on Techies:
- Other offensive forced movement sources.
- Chronosphere
- Other offensive
- Has a fixed 0.75-second leap duration towards the
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- Applies the following ability effects on the debuff-affected enemy units within the radius:
stunned- The magical spell damage.
- The spell damage bonus is applied as one damage instance in the combat log, and is defined as:
- EXPR
ΣSpellDmg + 0.15 × TechiesMaxHP
- The spell damage bonus is applied as one damage instance in the combat log, and is defined as:
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- Trees within the landing radius centered around Techies are destroyed.
- Trees within the
- Applies the following ability effects on the debuff-affected enemy units within the radius:
- The current health as self-damage has the following properties:
- Non-lethal.
- Does not interact with generic damage manipulation sources.
- Interacts with the following mechanics:
Damage barrier sources.
Damage negation sources.
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- The self-damage value upon landing is applied as one damage instance in the combat log, and is defined as:
- The current health as self-damage has the following properties:
Root sources do not interrupt the ability if already leaping forward.
Has the
This ability's cast point is not modified when acquired.
DOTA_ABILITY_BEHAVIOR_NORMAL_WHEN_STOLEN.This ability's cast point is not modified when acquired.
modifier_techies_suicide_leap
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATION modifier_stunned
Stunned
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATIONProximity Mines
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Plants an invisible mine that cannot be detected by certain True Sight sources.
The mine is visible to enemy units within the mine proc radius, and detonates if an enemy unit is standing within the proc radius for a period of time.
The mine is visible to enemy units within the mine proc radius, and detonates if an enemy unit is standing within the proc radius for a period of time.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.47
Cast Range: 450
450 Min Plant Distance: 350
Proc Radius: 500
500 Activation Delay: 1 (
0.2)
0.2) Detonation Delay: 1
Hit Count: 1
Ward Duration: 
The mines reduces the affected enemy unit's magic resistance while dealing damage.
The explosions deals more damage the closer the affected unit to the proximity radius.
The explosions deals more damage the closer the affected unit to the proximity radius.
Min Damage Radius: 500
Max Damage Radius: 150
Min Damage: 240/345/450
Max Damage: 400/575/750
Magic Resist Reduction: 15%/20%/25%
Debuff Duration: 5
Proximity Mines are less effective on buildings.
Damage Factor: 
0.3
0.3 
15 (
12)
12)
3
0
110/140/170
The bane of Toterin!
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The Proximity Mine is an immobile unit. However, it does not block neutral creep camps.
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This unit does not attack.
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The Proximity Mine is immobile, permanently invisible and permanently phased, it ignores collision size and other units may pass through it.
Proc Radius: 500
Fade Delay: 1 ( 0.2)
0.2)-
- Grants all 3 charges upon learning the ability.
- Has the following targeting functionalities:
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- Upon selecting the ability, the area-targeting indicator indicates the min placement radius between Proximity Mines.
- All existing Proximity Mines sourced to Techies also displays a red circle indicating the min placement radius.
- Briefly displays the proc radius upon cast, visible to Techies only, with point being the Proximity Mine's current location.
- Briefly displays the proc radius
- However, it can affect enemy units at max 950-distance away with the cast range and proc radius.
- However, it can affect enemy units at max
- Other allied Proximity Mines (
P) cannot be placed within the min plant distance within Circle. - Hence, the
PP'has a358-min plant distance with the unit's
bound radius.
- Other allied Proximity Mines (
- Has the following activation sequence:
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- Has a 1 ( 0.2)-second activation delay duration.
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- Does not detonate when being destroyed by the enemy units' attacks.
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- The Proximity Mines are visible to enemy units during the activation delay duration.
Module:VarQuery:35: No results found. (stack trace logged)
- The
- Has a 1 (
- After the activation delay duration, the Proximity Mine becomes active, and becomes Permanently Invisible.
- Cannot be revealed by
True Sight sources, and has the following mechanic interactions:
- Cannot be revealed by
Source Reveal Attack Immune Reveal 
True Sight
Chronosphere
- The ability effects are applied as follows once the Proximity Mine is activated:
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▶️
- Upon an enemy unit entering proc radius , the corresponding Proximity Mine becomes visible, emits a sound effect audible to everyone and through the Fog of War.
- Upon an enemy unit entering proc radius
- Procs all ability effects when a valid enemy unit is within proc radius for the full 1-second detonation delay duration.
- Hence, the Proximity Mine takes 2 ( 1.2) seconds to detonate when planted next to a valid enemy unit.
- The following enemy units can proc the Proximity Mine:
- Units with
flying movement. - Invisible units.
- Units with
- The following enemy units do not proc the Proximity Mine:
- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable units.
- Ward-type units.
- Hence, the Proximity Mine takes 2 (
- The Proximity Mine becomes invisible again, and resets its detonation delay duration in the following conditions:
- Once the enemy unit exits proc radius .
- Once the enemy unit becomes invulnerable.
- Once the enemy unit exits proc radius
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techies_land_mine_burn- Stacks multiplicatively with other
magic resistance sources. - ▶️
- The detonating Proximity Mine emits an explosion audible to everyone and through the Fog of War.
- The detonating Proximity Mine emits an explosion audible to everyone and through the
- Stacks multiplicatively with other
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- Applies the magical spell damage of its corresponding level, corresponding to the enemy unit's position within the damage radius and
upon detonating.
Circle F = Min Damage RadiusCircle R = Max Damage Radius
- The spell damage applied is sourced to the Proximity Mine.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Applies the magical spell damage of its corresponding level, corresponding to the enemy unit's position within the damage radius
- Grants a 1-second 300-radius flying vision centered around the Proximity Mine's current location, Circle , upon detonating.
- Grants a 1-second 300-radius flying vision centered around the Proximity Mine's current location, Circle
modifier_techies_land_mineHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_UNIT_COLLISIONMODIFIER_STATE_ROOTEDMODIFIER_STATE_MAGIC_IMMUNEMODIFIER_STATE_INVISIBLEMODIFIER_STATE_TRUESIGHT_IMMUNE modifier_techies_land_mine_burnProximity Mine: Magic resistance reduced by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MAGICAL_RESISTANCE_BONUS
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- Affected buildings now have -15%/-20%/-25% magic resistance.
- Hence, each Proximity Mine deals a max 460/690/937.5 magical spell damage to buildings.
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- Affected enemy heroes now have the following magic resistance values:
Recent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Techies/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | ||||
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| January 8, 2026 - 18:00 EET | Qualifier |   | EEU OQ2 DreamLeague S28 |      |   | 0 : 1 |  |      | |
| January 8, 2026 - 18:00 EET | Qualifier | | EEU OQ2 DreamLeague S28 |     | | 0 : 1 | |    | |
| January 7, 2026 - 22:30 UTC | Qualifier | | SA OQ2 DreamLeague S28 |     |  | 1 : 0 | |      | |
| January 7, 2026 - 19:20 EET | Qualifier | | EEU OQ2 DreamLeague S28 | | | 1 : 0 |  |  | |
| January 7, 2026 - 17:40 CET | Qualifier | | WEU OQ2 DreamLeague S28 |   | | 0 : 1 | |    |
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
- Increased Proximity Mines cast range from 400 to 450.
- Increased base
agility from 14 to 16.
Talents:
- LVL 20 +125 Sticky Bomb search/explosion radius ➜ +160 Sticky Bomb damage.
- Reduced Reactive Tazer cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 26/22/18/14.
- Increased Proximity Mines min damage factor from 0.5 to 0.6.
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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Equipment
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Trivia
[edit]- Before its release, Techies was showcased at the All-Star match of The International 2014, and played by Artour "Arteezy" Babaev (VOD)
- Techies makes many references to other titles from Valve.
- Techies makes several references to Team Fortress 2, mainly to the Demoman.
- His kill response for Lion ▶️ "They're going to have to glue you back together! Yeah, in Hell!" quotes the Demoman's kill taunt.
- His defeat response ▶️ "We're a sorry buncha losers. You said it" quotes the Demoman's sudden-death response.
- The flavor text of Pinpoint Detonate "Kablooey!" quotes the Demoman's response for destroying structures.
- Squee's design resembles that of the Soldier, both wearing an oversized helmet, and wielding a rocket launcher.
- Sticky Bomb's ability name is a reference to the Demoman's secondary stock weapon, which is a Stickybomb Launcher.
- Techies also makes several references to Counter-Strike with his voice lines.
- His defeat response ▶️ "Counter-Techies Win" references the victory announcement in Counter-Strike: "Counter-Terrorists win".
- His Sticky Bomb cast response ▶️ "Bomb has been planted" quotes the bomb planted annoucement.
- His unused fail response ▶️ "Bomb has been defused. Darn!" quotes the bomb defused announcement.
- His last-hit response ▶️ "Continue testing." is a catch phrase from GLaDOS from Portal, specifically from the Co-Op trailer of Portal 2.
- Techies rare line ▶️ "Who said we couldn't count to three, huh?" is references a long-running gag that Valve cannot release a game with the number 3 in its title, as they yet have to release a third installment for any of their titles.
- Techies makes several references to Team Fortress 2, mainly to the Demoman.
- Techies' attack response ▶️ "See! Fore!" is a pun on the plastic explosive C-4.
- Techies' purchase response ▶️ "Claymore! But not that kind of claymore." is a reference to the M18 Claymore mine.
- Techies' kill response ▶️ "Loud noises!" is a to a scene of Brick Tamland from the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
- The individual Techies' names are taken from several pop culture references.
- The name Squee is taken from Squee, the Immortal, an immortal goblin from Magic the Gathering.
- The name Spleen is likely taken from the flavor text of Goblin Soothsayer, which reads:
- "I see a great victory and rivers of blood. And . . . hmm, looks like a spleen.".
- Spoon's name has a bit of a history within DotA:
- Originally, Techies was just named Squee and Spleen, as everyone thought the model included two goblins.
- However, some time later, people realised there is a third goblin hiding in the barrel; Only its feet are visible.
- Once this was found out, the name was updated to Squee Spleen and Spoon.
- The name Spoon is a reference to a scene from The Matrix film, where a boy bends a spoon with his mind and then says to Neo: "Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realise the truth." ... "There is no spoon."[1]
- The name was chosen because the third goblin effectively did not exist until the third goblin was discovered. There was no Spoon.
- This reference is expanded on in Dota 2. Squee and Spleen think Spoon is dead, so they think there is no Spoon anymore.
- ▶️Squee: "Spoon was in the workshop when it exploded, right?"
- Splee: "I think so."
- Spoon: "No I wasn't."
- Squee: "You know, sometimes I can still hear his voice."
- In the past, there was some confusion as to who was Spleen and who was Squee. According to the game files and their lip syncing:
- Squee is riding the cart and wielding the rocket launcher, while smoking a cigar. He has the lower voice.
- Spleen is pushing the cart and carrying Sploon on his back. He has the high voice.
- The mix-up was commonly caused by their voices, as the smaller of the two has the lower voice, and the bigger the higher voice.
- Even the developers were affected by the mix-up several times, mislabling their cosmetic items.
- Although their slots were fixed, the names are still switched up in the Bombtrails and Boomsticks and Powdersled Rookery sets.
- Spoon's design — fingers and long nose sticking out the barrel — may be a reference to Kilroy, a meme that was popular in World War II.
- There is a hidden "trollface" in Remote Mines' ability icon.
- Sticky Bomb's slow debuff does not have its own particle system and uses the particle effects of Thunder Clap's debuff instead.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Techies' hero concept is originally based on the Goblin Sappers, a single-use unit that can be hired from the Goblin Laboratories.
- In DotA, Techies' full title was Goblin Techies. In Dota 2, the Goblin race was replaced by the Keenfolk.
- Techies' old ability, Suicide Squad, Attack! was inspired by the Goblin Sappers' Kaboom!.
- Proximity Mines are inspired by the Goblin Land Mines, an item that can be used to place mines.
- Techies' old ability, Stasis Trap was inspired by the Witch Doctors' Stasis Trap Ward.
- Techies has a 1/6 chance to spawn in with the name "Double Joker", which may be a reference to the Double Joker in Rummikub.
- Techies' hero concept is originally based on the Goblin Sappers, a single-use unit that can be hired from the Goblin Laboratories.
Gallery
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