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Nyx Assassin assets / Aghanim explorer

Nyx Assassin: what changes?

Compare the official snapshot’s Aghanim upgrades. Affected abilities and newly granted skills stay separate.

Not a current-game guarantee, best build, win-rate recommendation or damage/cooldown simulator.

Base mode

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Base abilities

Abilities not explicitly granted by an upgrade. Unknown grant flags are not proof of base availability.

Impale

Impale

nyx_assassin_impale · #5462

Rock spikes burst from the earth along a straight path. Enemy units take damage, then are hurled into the air and stunned.

Mind Flare

Mind Flare

nyx_assassin_jolt · #1104

Deals damage equal to a percentage of the target's Max Mana and burns part of it away. Deals additional damage equal to a percentage of the damage the target has taken from Nyx Assassin in the last %damage_echo_duration%s. Resets accumulated damage before applying damage.

Spiked Carapace

Spiked Carapace

nyx_assassin_spiked_carapace · #5464

When activated while above ground, Spiked Carapace reflects and negates damage dealt to Nyx Assassin (max once from each source), as well as stunning the source of the damage. Activating Spiked Carapace will not break Vendetta invisibility. While Burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast.

Mana Burn

Mana Burn

nyx_assassin_neuro_sting · #1767

Nyx Assassin's damage on enemies also burns mana as a percentage of the damage dealt.

Vendetta

Vendetta

nyx_assassin_vendetta · #5465

Nyx Assassin becomes invisible and gains a speed bonus. If Nyx Assassin attacks to break the invisibility, massive bonus damage is dealt with the attack that applies a break to the target. Nyx Assassin has %attack_range_bonus% additional attack range and a %attack_animation_bonus%%% faster attack animation for this attack.

Source evidence

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