A way to make Crystal Maiden shine

16 + 1.7 16 + 1.6 21 + 2.9

38-44 295 1.24

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Crystal Nova

Ability Type: Targeting Type: Damage type:

Active Enemy unit Magical

A burst of damaging frost slows enemy movement and attack rate in the targeted area.

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Notes:

• Provides vision within the target area.

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Frostbite

Ability Type: Targeting Type: Damage type:

Active Enemy unit Magical

Encases an enemy unit in ice, prohibiting movement and attack, while dealing damage per second. Lasts 10 seconds on creeps level 6 or lower.

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Notes:

• True blink abilities cannot be used while under the effects of Frostbite.
• Frostbite does not prevent Phantom Strike, Duel, or Sun Ray's toggled movement. It interrupts Icarus Dive during its effect, but does not prevent it from being cast.
• Unique Attack Modifier abilities cannot be manually cast while Frostbite is active.
• Units that turn invisible during Frostbite are still revealed for its duration.
• Always lasts 10 seconds when cast on creeps, no matter the ability level.
• Damage is done in 1 second intervals starting at 0, dealing 140/210/210/280 total damage (or 700 damage on creeps).
• Applies an initial mini-stun to the target before the rest of Frostbite's effects.

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Arcane Aura

Ability Type: Targeting Type:

Passive N/A

Gives additional mana regeneration to all friendly units on the map.

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• The bonus is doubled on Crystal Maiden herself.
• Stacks with Ring of Basilius Aura.

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Freezing Field

Ability Type: Targeting Type: Damage type:

Active Instant Magical

CHANNELED - Surrounds Crystal Maiden with random icy explosions that slow enemies and deal massive damage. Lasts 7 seconds.

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Notes:

• Slow affects both movement and attack speed.
• The slow is applied on all enemies in the radius, even if they aren't hit by an explosion (lasts 1 second).
• Every 0.1 second an explosion occurs, for a total of 70 explosions.
• If an enemy remained in the radius for the entire duration they would take an average of 1317/2133/3137 (2133/3137/3889*) damage.
• The explosions occur around Crystal Maiden, and aren't based on the place of initial cast. The area of damage of the spell can thus be modified by using Force Staff on Crystal Maiden.

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Crystal Maiden is one of my favorite supports and I really like her to be seen picked but under picked (currently). The base INT nerfs really hit her hard so I wanted to post my changes about her. These changes are intended for her. Her base INT is 21 default. The other changes is to make her spells better. The mana cost and damage reduction is really needed for Crystal Nova and Frostbite. And a big buff to her Freezing Field which is really underwhelming.

When I sometimes support I always wonder what kind of a support to pick. I really want to pick Crystal Maiden but somehow she's really weak. But for me she's one of the best support that a team can offer. She's currently in oblivion and I think that these changes can make her shine. Not OP but she will be picked. I know someone like Bunkansee will like to see Crystal Maiden get these changes :D.

OMG YES!

Okay a couple of things...

The movespeed.... YES PLEASE!
The stats are good too, her stats atm suck.

As for Crystal Nova, I like the fact the mana cost doesn't change but the damage scales too well for the mana cost to stay the same.

The Frostbite seems good.

And the Freezing Field nerfed mana seems nice, I think the cooldown seems good too.

I think the Crystal Nova needs to slightly scale with mana costs, but not too much.

Volvo pls add this, I do really like these ideas, I really want cm to get a buff soon, she doesn't have good stats at all and considering she has such a low movement speed it really negates her use slightly.

Buff or no she's still my favourite hero!