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Ceres Fauna by delta17

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Ceres Fauna

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Ceres Fauna is a

Universal Support hero who offers a copious amount of healing to the point where she actually scale off of it!

Wild Roots is a passive that deals damage to a random enemy for roughly the same amount she heals, transforming her most defensive aspect directly into damage. This allows her to strictly build healing items without compromising her damage output.

The rest of kit are built to synergize around this playstyle:

Healing Grove is her bread and butter healing ability — which can heal herself or allies both passively and actively;

Life-Giving Whisper is a powerful, but short ranged, single target spell that also converts healing into damage; And her ultimate,

Mother Nature is a simple AoE heal over time. With her around, her team is bound to be always at full health, while also making sure her enemies are not!

Illustration by: Kyatto-Mikazu (Pixiv)


	Str	22 + 3.0
	Agi	14 + 1.7
	Int	22 + 2.6

COMPLEXITY
◆◇◇
	Support	◆◆◆
	Durable	◆◆◇
	Nuker	◆◇◇

290

RANGED

350

Health
H regen
Mana
M regen
Atk speed
Armor
Damage
Dmg Sprd

BASE

: 120
: 0.25
: 75
: 0.25
: 100
: 0
: 8
: ±2

LVL 1

: 604
: 2.45
: 339
: 1.35
: 116
: 2.67
: 48.6
: ±2

Movement
Magic res
Turn rate
Vision range
Attack range
Projectile Spd.
Attack Ani.
B.A.T.
Collision
Legs

: 290
: 25%
: 0.6
: 1800/800
: 350
: 1000
: 0.25 + 0.3
: 1.7
: 24
: 2

PRoS

Powerful lane support: Three of her spells provide healing, and two spells deal damage based on healing. She can win most trades against other lane enemies and gank encounters.
Deals damage without losing out on healing: Between healing, utility, and damage; Most healing supports will choose healing and utility. Fauna on the other hand, can still deal significant damage while healing.
Good selection of stats and talents: Fauna boasts high strength and intelligence both in base and growth. While her talents are on the unusually strong side that gives her much needed crowd control and mobiity.

CoNS

No mobility and escape: If caught alone in the midst of enemy blades, she will have no way to protect herself. This is especially noticeable considering she needs to be close to enemies if she wants to deal damage.
Slow-acting heals: Despite healing being her claim to fame, she has no significant burst heals, meaning she'll have to be careful against assassins and nukers with high front-load damage.
Literally doesn't do anything other than heal: Fauna is a very specialized hero who pretty much only does healing. She has no saves, no disables, and no other utility.

Primary Abilities

Healing Grove

Passive: A new sapling is planted on set interval at a random location within 425 units from Fauna. The sapling will take between 1.0~1.6 seconds to fully sprout. Allies who pick up a sprouted sapling gets an initial heal and a heal over time based on their MaxHP. While under the effect of

Mother Nature, the passive interval is reduced.
Active: Fauna immediately plants 3 saplings at random around her.

ABILITY

CAST POINT
CAST RADIUS

: NO TARGET
/ PASSIVE
: 0.01 + 0.6
: 425

Passive Spawn Radius
Passive Spawn Interval

Spawn Interval
Sapling Pick-up Radius
Sapling Ground Duration
Sapling Initial Heal
Sapling Heal Duration
Sapling MaxHP as Heal/sec
Active Number of Saplings
MANA
COOLDOWN

: 425
: 18 / 15 / 12 / 9
: 6 / 5 / 4 / 3
: 40
: 20
: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
: 5
: 1.0%(2.0%

25)
: 3
: 140
: 35 / 30 / 25 / 20

Once you enter her forest, you won’t want to leave.

NOTES / ADVANCED DISCUSSION

Induce Saplings

All saplings near Fauna will be pulled to herself or passed to an ally. Has an alternate cast that only pulls the closest sapling, instead of all at once.

ABILITY
CAST POINT
CAST RANGE

: TARGET ALLY
: 0 + 0
: 1200

Sapling Detection Radius
Sapling Pull/Throw speed

: 325
: 900

"Saplings, come here..."

NOTES / ADVANCED DISCUSSION

Life-Giving Whisper

Fauna plants a rejuvenating spell on a target ally. Every 2 seconds, a leaf snake will be unleashed from the ally to a random enemy hero (prioritizes who last dealt damage to the ally). Leaf snake damage is based on how much healing the ally is received between each 2s intervals. (including overheals)

ABILITY
DAMAGE TYPE
CAST POINT
CAST RANGE

: TARGET ALLY
: MAGICAL
: 0.01 + 0.2
: 400 (600

)

Heal per Second
Leaf Snake Intervals
Number of Instances
Base Damage
Heal Received as Bns Dmg
Leaf Snake Attack Range

Movespeed Bonus

Charges

Charge Restore Time
MANA
COOLDOWN

: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20
: 2
: 4(5

10)
: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40
: 60%(90%

20)
: 400
: 12%
: 2
: 16
: 100 / 120 / 140 / 160
: 16

"Nature is kind of dark and beautiful at the same time, right?"

NOTES / ADVANCED DISCUSSION

Wild Roots

Active: Erupts the earth with impaling roots to all enemies around her that slows movement speed and attack speed.
Passive: Whenever Fauna heals herself or her allied heroes by a certain amount (including overheals), one random enemy unit (heroes prioritized) will be impaled by an erupting root. Does not apply (Will apply

15) the slow from the active.

ABILITY

DAMAGE TYPE
PIERCES IMMUNITY?
CAST POINT
CAST RADIUS

: NO TARGET
/ PASSIVE
: MAGICAL
: NO
: 0.5 + 0.4
: 700 (1200

20)

Radius
Heal Threshold
Damage

Atk Spd Slow
Mv Spd Slow
Slow Duration
MANA
COOLDOWN

: 700 (1200

20)
: 150
: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150
(150 / 180 / 210 / 240

25)
: 100
: 100%
: 0.8
: 40
: 15 / 12 / 9 / 6

Fauna's healings extend to the soil. Causing unintended overgrowths that Fauna learned to use for her advantage.

NOTES / ADVANCED DISCUSSION

Ultimate Abilities

Mother Nature

Fauna manifests a spirit of the World Tree, healing all allies near it every second. Additionally, so long as Fauna is within its blessing, the passive saplings from

Healing Grove will be planted at a much shorter interval.

ABILITY
CAST POINT
CAST RANGE

: TARGET AREA
: 0.01 + 0.6
: 575

Radius
Duration
Heal per second

Hero Linger Time
Creep Linger Time
MANA
COOLDOWN

: 600
: 15
: 30 / 45 / 60
(45 / 60 / 75

15)
: 1 (4

)
: 1 (40

)
: 150 / 225 / 300
: 120 / 110 / 100

Often imbued in her Golden Apple, the blessings of the World Tree can reach its healing to the spirits.

NOTES / ADVANCED DISCUSSION

Other Abilities

AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Upgrades

Mother Nature

Increases Heal Linger Duration to 4s for Heroes, and 40s for creeps. Summons an uncontrollable lesser kirin every 3 seconds that will prioritize attacking enemy heroes and pushing lanes.

Lesser Kirin

Category
Duration
Health
HP Regen
Mana
Mana Regen
Armor
Resistance

: Creep
: 90
: 550
: 0
: 500
: 0
: 4
: 25%

Attack
Atk Range
B A T
Move Speed
Day Vision
Night Vision
Bounty
Experience

: 32 ±4
: 550 (ranged)
: 1.2
: 325
: 750
: 750
: 50
: 60

[Q] Nature Shear

If the unit has not attacked in the last 3 seconds, the next attack will fire an additional projectile to another target. Max of +2 additional targets.

ABILITY

: PASSIVE

Trigger Timer
Search Range Buffer
Bonus Attack Targets per Trigger
Max Bonus Attack Targets

: 3
: 225
: 1
: 2

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Upgrades

Life-Giving Whisper

Becomes a 2-charge ability as well as increasing cast range by 200 and providing allies with +12% movement speed.

Hero Talents

+90 Wild Roots Damage

+1.0% Sapling MaxHP as Heal/sec

+500 Wild Roots Radius

+30% Life-Giving Whisper Heal as Damage

Wild Roots Slows apply to passive

+15 Mother Nature Heal per Second

+5 All Stats

+1 Life-Giving Whisper Instance

Playstyles

BUILD

Playing Fauna is very simple, just and to further bolster her healing.

Life-Giving Whisper and

Wild Roots counts healing that comes from items as part of their damage. So building them is quite mandatory.

ALLIES

Fauna is best played on a very aggressive line-up. This can range from aggressive casters, like ; brawlers like ; and tanks like . Her consistent heals allows her team to be as aggressive as they want without fear of low HP. Not to mention that Fauna can add-in her own damage in the form of

Wild Roots.

You know what's better than one healer? more healers!

Life-Giving Whisper is different from

Wild Roots in such a way that it counts heals from other allies. This means that an ally , , or can heal a unit affected by Life-Giving Whisper and it will deal a much, much more significant damage that can go up to the thousands!