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Summon Wolves

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Active Instant

Summons two wolves to fight for Lycan. Level 2-4 wolves have Critical Strike, level 3-4 wolves have permanent invisibility, and level 4 wolves gain 15 HP regen per second.

• If wolves are summoned during the duration of Howl, they will receive the damage bonus until the duration is up.
• If wolves are summoned while any wolves are still alive, the existing wolves will be removed.
• At all levels, wolves have 1 (Heavy) armor, 90 (melee) range, 1200/800 vision, a 0.33/0.64 second attack animation, and 80% spell resistance.
• Wolves have 200 / 240 / 280 / 320 HP, 23-24 / 29-32 / 36-41 / 44-51 (Chaos) damage, and 400 / 420 / 440 / 460 movespeed at level 1 / 2 / 3 / 4.
• Starting at level 2, Wolves have Crit Strike giving a 30% chance to deal 1.7 times damage.
• Starting at level 3, Wolves have Permanent Invisibility with a 1.7 second fade time.
• Starting at level 4, Wolves have 15 HP/sec regeneration.
• Wolves give 21 / 26 / 36 / 41 gold and 20 XP bounty.

Howl

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Active Instant

Grants bonus damage according to the attacked target, not the attacking target.

• Does not affect Spiderites spawned by Broodmother's Spiderlings.

Feral Impulse

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Passive N/A

Increases attack damage. Bonus attack speed is only applied when attacking heroes.

• Affects all units under the Lycanthrope's control, not just himself and his wolves.

Shapeshift

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Active Instant

Lycan assumes his true form, increasing his combat capabilities. During Shapeshift, Lycan and all units under his control move at maximum speed and cannot be slowed.

• Cannot be slowed by any spell (e.g., Purge, Hex).
• All his summons and illusions get the same movement speed, including those from Necronomicon and Helm of the Dominator.
• Lycanthrope's collision size is lowered in this state (from 24 to 8).
• The wolf has a Base Attack Time of 1.4 seconds and 1800/1800 vision
• Lycanthrope has phase during Shapeshift

Critical Strike

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Passive N/A

Gives a chance to deal bonus damage.

• Only available during Shapeshift.

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These changes will slightly reduce his pushing power since heroes will lose a lot of damage from Howl and units will lose attack speed from Feral Impulse when attacking non-hero units, including building, however it doesn't mean that this would destroy Lycanthrope's pushing power completely - it is just nerfed by a good amount. On the other hand, he will kill heroes better and it would even be stronger when playing with summoned units who can use the bonus damage against heroes. His farming will be hurt a lot due to the reduced damage against creeps, so Feral Impulse's AoE is reverted back to global to compensate.

This change is to increase Lycanthrope's hero-killing potential (from 75% damage to 100%, a 33% increased) while reducing his pushing power (from 70% to 40%, a 43% decreased). This slightly hurts his jungling (as most creeps have Medium or Heavy armor, which takes more damage from Normal attack type), but I believe we can compensate by adding more damage to the Wolves.