Dota Quiz - Round 9

D

Rubick's Null Field provides up to 20% magic resistance to nearby allies, while the others skills only increase it for themselves.

B

Razor's Eye of the Storm can strike buildings once you have an Aghanim's Scepter upgrade.

B

Living Armor can heal buildings as well as allies!

A

Glimpse can potentially move an enemy all the way back to their fountain if they have just teleported in.

ii) D

The biggest return of 75% is from 10 to -10.

i) D
ii) A

It's worth noting however that Liquid Fire has a 20 second cooldown at level 1, while all of the others can be used almost every attack, albeit some have health/mana costs. Once we get to level 3 and beyond, Poison Sting is easily the most damaging, maxing out at 300 damage. Viper might seem to have by far the weakest orb, but he has the longest range and Nethertoxin to go with it!

Values:

Poison Sting 30/90/180/300
Burning Spear 40/80/120/160
Poison Attack 20/32/44/56
Liquid Fire 75/100/125/150

CBAD

1. Bane 1857.5 ( Brain Sap and Nightmare aren't effected by magic resistance) 300 + 140 + (1890 x 25% resistance) = 1417.5.
2. Lina 1357.5 (280 + 280 + 1250 x 25%r)
3. Lion 963.75 (260 + 1025 x 25%r)
4. Tiny 855 (600 + 540 x 25%r)

A1-B6
A2-B3
A3-B5
A4-B4
A5-B1
A6-B2

1. D, Rubick.

2. B, Razor, but only with an Agh's as you said.

3. B, Treant Protector. Does Omni's ulti with the Agh's upgrade heal towers, too? I've never tried it.

4. A, Glimpse on a TPed enemy is one of the most hilarious things you can do with him.

5. I don't know, maybe iB iiD? 15% seems too low, while 95% is definitely too high. It's just a random answer though, I'd be very lucky if I got it right.

6. iC, it could also be Liquid Fire but I'll go for the Poison Attack. Also, for number 2, either Burning Spear or Poison Sting, iiB is my answer.

7. That's a tricky one: by level 25 with an Agh's, Tiny has probably the lowest impact while Bane is somewhere near the top of the list; also, since Lion only has one nuke besides his ulti, I'd put him straight under Lina. The question is, does Bane deal more or less damage than Lina? Considering that Fiend's Grip is a channeling spell, I'd say it does more damage in a longer amount of time. Oh, obviously, I'm considering single target damage, otherwise Lion would be on top of the list. So:
Bane
Lina
Lion
Tiny

I'd be surprised if Tiny wasn't the last one.

8.
Huskar - Dazzle
Bristleback - Tusk
Skywrath Mage - Vengeful Spirit
Crystal Maiden - Lina
Shadow Demon - Doom Bringer
Tidehunter - Kunkka

To be fair, #3, Omniknight with an Aghanim's Scepter does heal buildings too AFAIK - which is annoying! However, 250 max heal every 150 seconds ain't much or really the point of the ability. Fair enough, anyone who chooses this out as the answer still gets the point!

1: D - Rubick

Only Null Field provides AoE Magic Resistance, the rest only provide them to one Hero

2: B - Razor

His Ult allows him to attack buildings, though technically, can't Juggernaut Auto Attack Buildings during Omnislash?

3: B - Treant Protector

I could have sworn that Aghanim's Scepter allowed Omniknight to heal all buildings though.

4: A - Disruptor

There is no upper limit to how far he can send someone back, it's simply where they were 4 seconds ago.

5i: A - 15%, ii: C - 75%

This lowest increase is when Armour is already below 0 and the largest effect -20 Armour will have is at 10 Armour, since Armour scales harder at the lowest values, i.e. between -10 and 10 and falls off a higher values, e.g. 20 - 40%.

Eventually, you get less than 1% Damage Reduction/Amplification for each point of Armour, I know that 10 Armour gives about 37.5% as well, so these values are what I'll go with.

6: A - Poison Sting, ii: D - Liquid Fire

I'm pretty sure A and C have terrible scaling and that Liquid Fire eventually deals the most damage. I'm pretty sure that Poison Sting has the longest Duration and it does about 11 Damage, so something like 44 Damage in the end?

7: C, B, A, D

My guesses on the numbers:-

• Lion = 900 + 250 = 1150 Magic Daamge
• Lina = 1050 + 280 + 280 = 1410 Magic Damage
• Bane = (175 * 7) + 300 + (20 * 7) = 1225 Magic + 300 Pure Damage + 140 HP Removal Damage
• Tiny = (300 * 2) + 550 = 1150 Magic Damage

8: Huskar x Dazzle, Bristleback x Tusk, Skywrath Mage <3 Vengeful Spirit, Crystal Maiden - Lina, Shadow Demon x Doom Bringer, Tidehunter x Kunkka

There's no cap on how far armour can scale, so A is the closest answer, since while Armour can scale linearly to infinity, Physical Damage Reduction plateaus as it reaches 100%, so you can end up getting even less than 15% from Amplify Damage if the target's Armour is low enough, e.g.

lvl1 Io has basically 0 Armour, while under Shallow Grave, he gets hit by

Meld with Desolator, 5 seconds of Eye of the Storm (with Aghs), Full Duration of Weave, etc. etc. etc.

...basically, he's going to end up at around -lots of Armour, Amplify Damage won't have much effect on it.

e.g. At -40 Armour, you take 70.59% increased Damage, at -60 Armour, you take 78.26% extra Damage. That's an increase less than 8%

1)D
Rubick's Null Field it's an aura.

2)B
Razor's Eye of the Storm with Agh's.

3)B
Without items, only Treant Protector. With Agh's, I think Omniknight can do the same with the ultimate.

4) A
Disruptor can make a hero come back from the fountain with Glimpse.

5 - i) 15% (?)
ii)75% - from 10 to -10 (?)

6 - i) Liquid Fire
ii) Burning Spear (?)

7)
Bane
Lina
Lion
Tiny - (600 {double damage from Toss} + 540) - 25% = 855.

Too lazy to do the damage calculation, I only did of Tiny because I remember the full damage.

8) Huskar and Dazzle, Kunkka and Tidehunter, Shadow Demon and Doom, Bristleback and Tusk, Skywrath Mage and Vengeful Spirit, Crystal Maiden and Lina.

It's not hard for an Axe with a [[Platemail] to reach 60 Armour, which again, gives a reduction of less than 8%

If you want the answer to be B: 35%, then I'd ammend it again, so it says "on a target with 25 Armour"