Shadow Demon
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Shadow Demon
Grants the following bonuses per attribute point: | |
+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration | |
+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed | |
+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +1 Main Attack Damage |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (118)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.35 + 0.5
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0.6
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Ethereal
Gib Type | ||
2012-03-15
Released | ||
2010-07-26
(v6.68) | ||
Competitive Span
2012-03-22 — Present |
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Stacks exponential poison damage against his foes. | |
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Conspiring to gain power in material plane, the Shadow Demon patiently amassed himself a cult of followers. An entity of malevolent corruption, he spreads Shadow Poison to pollute the pure, while catching souls to compound and Disseminate his own spell effects, few dare to approach Shadow Demon. Banishing an enemy into the void as his allies gather for the kill, his Demonic Curses can Cleanse his allies of impurities, or inflict pain while stripping unneeded servants of every enchantment, effectively relieving his enemy of their duties — and their lives. | |
Roles: | Support Disabler Initiator Nuker |
Adjectives | Cape, Demon, NicePecs, Red, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Disseminate-affected enemy units lose a percentage of their current health, regaining half of it after the debuff ends.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Grants the Demonic Cleanse ability.
Dispels debuffs continuously on the affected allied unit, then heals it at the end of the duration.
Dispels debuffs continuously on the affected allied unit, then heals it at the end of the duration.
Talents[edit]
2 Disruption Charges | 25 | -30s Demonic Purge / Demonic Cleanse Cooldown |
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+150 Demonic Purge Damage +150 Demonic Cleanse Heal | 20 | +15% Disseminate Shared Damage |
-1s Shadow Poison Cooldown | 15 | +25 Move Speed |
+10 Strength | 10 | +15% Shadow Poison Damage |
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes |
Bio[edit]
Who toys with demons will find himself toyed with.▶️ Shadow Demon
Alias:
SD
Lore:
Among the sovereign demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane, as if sensing that mastery of this gritty dimensional nexus might be the key to total domination of all realities.
Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and heirophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will.
What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens—and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup.
Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.
Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and heirophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will.
What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens—and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup.
Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Menace[edit]
Passive
Affects
Enemy Units
Imbues attacks with an offensive stacking debuff that amplifies incoming damage taken by the affected enemy unit.
Shadow Servant[edit]
Passive
Affects
Enemy Heroes
These servants are illusions that deals a portion of dying enemy hero's damage and receives additional incoming damage.
This ability levels up with Disruption.
Hero Model[edit]
Details
Tap on the innate abilities for more details.
Abilities[edit]
Disruption[edit]
Unit
Affects
Heroes
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.6
Cast Range: 650
Hidden Duration: 2.75
Upon returning, Shadow Demon creates illusions of the banished hero under his control. These illusion deals a portion of the affected hero's damage and receive additional incoming damage.
Grants the created illusions base attack damage bonus.
Grants the created illusions base attack damage bonus.
Number of Illusions: 2
Base Attack Damage Bonus: 25/40/55/70
Duration: 11/12/13/14
The pain of deception comes not while it happens, but when it is revealed.
Disseminate[edit]
Whenever the affected unit takes damage, all enemy units, including the target itself if it is an enemy, also receive a portion of that damage.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.6
Cast Range: 700/800/900/1000
Since the primary unit-targeted enemy is affected by the damage shared, this effectively amplifies the damage applied to it.
Disseminate reapplies its ability effects once Disruption ends on the affected unit, based on its remaining duration, effectively pausing its duration.
Shadow Poison[edit]
Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0
Cast Range: 1500
Stack Duration: 10
The poison deals an exponentiation damage for the first few stacks corresponding to the stack amount on the affected enemy unit.
Stacks to Multiply: 5
Exponent Base: 2
Max Nth Power: 4
The damage of subsequent stacks increases linearly by a fixed amount after the number of exponential stacks.
This ability fully affects enemy units under Disruption.
The ever growing influence of the Shadow Demon can pollute the most valiant and pure of heroes.
Shadow Poison Release[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0
This ability fully affects enemy units under Disruption, regardless of its source.
Demonic Cleanse[edit]
Unit
Affects
Allied Units
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.6
Cast Range: 800
This ability fully affects enemy units under Disruption, regardless of its source.
A unit can be affected by either Demonic Purge or Demonic Cleanse, but not both.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Demonic Cleanse is now a charged-based ability with a restore time corresponding to the the ability's current cooldown.
Demonic Cleanse is now a charged-based ability with a restore time corresponding to the the ability's current cooldown.
This ability levels up with Demonic Purge.
Demonic Purge[edit]
Dispels buff and slows the enemy unit for the duration. The unit slowly regains its movement speed until the end of the duration, upon which the damage is applied.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.6
Cast Range: 800
Min Damage: 0
Min Move Speed Slow: 20%
Max Move Speed Slow: 100%
Duration: 6
This ability fully affects enemy units under Disruption, regardless of its source.
A unit can be affected by either Demonic Purge or Demonic Cleanse, but not both.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Demonic Purge is now a charged-based ability with a restore time corresponding to the the ability's current cooldown.
Applies Break.
Demonic Purge is now a charged-based ability with a restore time corresponding to the the ability's current cooldown.
Applies Break.
This ability levels up with Demonic Cleanse.
Once Shadow Demon no longer has any need for his collected cultist, he releases it from its subservience — and its life.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Shadow Demon/Matches
Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
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Feb 02, 2025 - 19:05 CT | Tier 4 | Nounish Cup | 1 : 0 | |||||
Feb 02, 2025 - 16:55 CET | Tier 1 | FISSURE PLAYGROUND | 0 : 1 | |||||
Feb 02, 2025 - 17:00 EET | Tier 4 | UPEA National League | 0 : 1 | |||||
Feb 01, 2025 - 20:40 CT | Tier 4 | Nounish Cup | 1 : 0 | |||||
Feb 01, 2025 - 19:30 CT | Tier 4 | Nounish Cup | 0 : 1 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Rescaled Disruption illusion base attack damage bonus from 30/40/50/60 to 25/40/55/70.
- Increased Demonic Purge cooldown from 60 on each level to 70/65/60.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Increased Demonic Purge charge restore time from 60 on each level to 70/65/60.
- Increased Demonic Cleanse charge restore time from 60 on each level to 70/65/60.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Demonic Cleanse cooldown from 60 on each level to 70/65/60.
- Disseminate Promulgate
- Reduced enemy current health loss from 14%/16%/18%/20% to 9%/11%/13%/15%.
- U Reduced ally current health bonus from 14%/16%/18%/20% to 9%/11%/13%/15%.
- U Reduced ally max health bonus from from 14%/16%/18%/20% to 9%/11%/13%/15%.
- Reduced Shadow Poison enemy hit vision radius from 400 to 300.
- Disseminate Promulgate
- Reduced enemy current health loss from 20% on each level to 14%/16%/18%/20%.
- U Reduced ally current health bonus from 20% on each level to 14%/16%/18%/20%.
- U Reduced ally max health bonus from from 20% on each level to 14%/16%/18%/20%.
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.
Relics | Voice Lines | |
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Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
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Master |
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Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- In DotA, Shadow Demon's hero name was Eredar. This was removed in his transition to Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard as the Eredar are a race of magic wielders from the Warcraft universe.[1]
- In earlier versions of DotA, Shadow Demon's in-game model was a Gnoll Warden, a canine-like creature in Warcraft. However, in 6.72 through 6.74, Shadow Demon's model was replaced with a purple Eredar Warlock. From 6.75 onwards, Shadow Demon's model was once again changed to Archimonde's Warcraft III model, a blue variant of Eredar Warlock.
- Shadow Demon's first model in DotA would eventually reused for Arc Warden.
- Shadow Demon's fun/alternate name was "Giblet", innards of birds that are used in cooking.
- All of Shadow Demon's ability sound effects have some of his voice lines interpolated. The used lines are all in the demon language "Ozkavosh".
- ▶️ ("Sa nith icha gluth.") is used by ▶️ Disruption.
- The first part of this ▶️ line ("Ozh icha tak izh") is used by ▶️ Soul Catcher.
- ▶️ ("Grrrr, Kish!") is used by ▶️ Shadow Poison.
- ▶️ ("Ozh icha tak lash") is split up into 2 parts and then used by ▶️ ▶️ Demonic Purge.
Gallery[edit]
- LV-shadowdemon-prev.jpg
Low Violence model
Bone Harvest sprite - alive