Bane
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This article is mostly accurate for the latest version of the game (7.38), in which this hero/item was changed.
It has no changes in the current game version — 7.38b.
This article is about the hero. For other uses, see Bane (disambiguation)
Bane
Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
+59.4HP and +0.27HP regeneration | |
+0.45 armor and 2.7 attack speed | |
+32.4MP and +0.135MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
+3.65 Main Attack Damage |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (123)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.3 + 0.7
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0.6
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Ethereal
Gib Type | ||
2012-03-01
Released | ||
2004-10-15
(v5.75) | ||
Competitive Span
2012-03-08 — Present |
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Puts his enemies to sleep, incapacitating them. | |
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Formed from the ichor of Nyctasha, Atropos is the vaporous embodiment of pure fear. Sheer terror Enfeebles his enemies, diminishing their efficiency on the battlefield. The Bane Elemental puts heroes to sleep, sending them into a restless and contagious Nightmare as he feeds on their vital energies by Sapping their Brains. Some will never wake. Caught in the Fiend's Grip, Bane's victims can only swing at imagined phantoms as fear chokes the life from their bodies. | |
Roles: | |
Adjectives | BadTeeth, Flying Legs ( 4 ) |
Facets[edit]
Causes the affected unit to now moves toward Bane's targeted direction uncontrollably over the total Nightmare debuff duration.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Talents[edit]
+3s Fiend's Grip Duration | 25 | +275 Brain Sap Damage/Heal |
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+30 Move Speed | 20 | -3s Nightmare Cooldown |
+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain | 15 | +13 Enfeeble Damage per Second |
+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction | 10 | +125 Brain Sap Cast Range |
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All |
Bio[edit]
I dreamt a field of war…and woke to find myself upon it.▶️Atropos, the Bane
Lore:
When the gods have nightmares, it is Bane Elemental who brings them. Also known as Atropos, Bane was born from the midnight terrors of the goddess Nyctasha. A force of terror too powerful to be contained by sleep, he surfaced from her slumbers, fed upon her immortality, and stole his vaporous form from her inky blood. He is the essence of fear. Mortals who hear his voice hear their darkest secrets whispered in their ear. He calls to the hidden fear in every Hero's heart. Wakefulness is no protection, for Bane's black blood, continuously dripping, is a tar that traps his enemies in nightmare. In the presence of Bane, every Hero remembers to fear the dark.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Ichor of Nyctasha[edit]
Passive
Affects
Self
Attribute Factor: 0.33
Hero Model[edit]
Passive / Channeling
Affects
Self
Bane is considered a ground unit, despite its hero model showing otherwise.
He also has the following hidden
innate abilities and may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
He also has the following hidden
The ability to attack Nightmare affected units without transferring Nightmare to itself is innate to Bane's hero model and its illusions.
Abilities[edit]
Enfeeble[edit]
Deals damage per second while reducing the affected enemy unit's total attack damage and cast range.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.57
Cast Range:
800/900/1000/1100
Attack Damage Reduction: 55%/60%/65%/70%
Duration: 9
Each tendril of fear that Atropos weaves increases the vulnerability of his victims to arcane and unknown arts.
Brain Sap[edit]
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.5
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Brain Sap is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units within the radius.
Secondary targets within the radius heals Bane for a portion of the damage.
Reduces cooldown.
Brain Sap is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units within the radius.
Secondary targets within the radius heals Bane for a portion of the damage.
Reduces cooldown.
Atropos finds no greater pleasure than to harvest the fear he creates.
Nightmare[edit]
Unit / Vector
Affects
Units
Puts the affected unit to sleep. Units affected are awaken when damaged.
If the affected unit was directly attacked, the Nightmare is passed to the attacking unit.
If the affected unit was directly attacked, the Nightmare is passed to the attacking unit.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0.57
Cast Range:
550/600/650/700
Set Vision Range: 200
Sleep Duration: 3.5/4.5/5.5/6.5
Invulnerablity Duration: 1
The affected unit is either affected by Nightmare or Fiend's Grip, not both.
A stolen prowess from the goddess Nyctasha is to put his prey into forever sleep.
Nightmare End[edit]
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Affects
Units
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
Releases its victims from their Nightmare, anytime as it wishes, regardless of its source.
Sub-ability of Nightmare.
Fiend's Grip[edit]
Grips and disables an enemy unit. Deals damage and steals mana correspondingly of the affected unit's max mana per interval.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0
Cast Range:
625
Damage Interval: 0.5
Damage per Instance: 35/55/75
Self-heals and mana restores correspondingly to the damage dealt and enemy mana loss value respectively.
The affected unit is either affected by Nightmare or Fiend's Grip, not both.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Creates illusions of itself alongside that are capable of gripping the affected enemy unit, dealing the same damage instance at the same time instantly.
Fiend's Grip now is interrupted when Bane and its illusions are no longer channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
Creates illusions of itself alongside that are capable of gripping the affected enemy unit, dealing the same damage instance at the same time instantly.
Fiend's Grip now is interrupted when Bane and its illusions are no longer channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
These illusions are uncontrollable, receives additional incoming damage, and are instant killed upon being interrupted.
Victims of Atropos are frequently torn apart by vivid conjurations of their own nightmares.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Bane/Matches
Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
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Mar 15, 2025 - 14:00 CST | Qualifier | ACL X ESL China OQ2 | 1 : 0 | |||||
Mar 14, 2025 - 16:50 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 0 : 1 | |||||
Mar 14, 2025 - 15:40 CST | Qualifier | ACL X ESL China OQ2 | 1 : 0 | |||||
Mar 10, 2025 - 21:30 SAST | Tier 4 | SEL: Major 1 | 0 : 1 | |||||
Mar 09, 2025 - 21:30 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 |
The International[edit]
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Increased base attack damage from (-1)‒5 to 24‒30.
- Nightmare
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
Bane's Relics | Voice Lines | |
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Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
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Master |
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Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- In greek mythology, Atropos was the eldest of the three Moirai sisters.
- Specifically, she was the goddess of fate and destiny, responsible for cutting the "Thread of Life, deciding the end of mortals' lifes.
- The name Atropos translates to "not turning" from greek: a- (negating prefix) and tropos ("turned"), in the sense of, referring to the irreversible and inevitable destiny of death.
- Bane's rivalry line towards Tinker ▶️ "Do Tinkers dream of electric sheepsticks?" is a reference to the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". "Sheepstick" is also a commonly used name for the Scythe of Vyse.
- His movement line ▶️ "Sleep no more!" is a reference to Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in particular, his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Hamlet reasons over whether to take his own life or carry on: "To die, to sleep-. No more-and by a sleep we say to end..."
- His last hit Response "▶️ "The wages of fear." is a reference to the film of the same name, The wages of fear.
- Fiend's Grip ▶️ sound effect makes use of one of Bane's voice file, ▶️ "The bane of your existence".
- Since his release, Bane's strength, agility, and intelligence have always been equal. Although coindicental at first, this is now being kept that way intentionally; Whenever his attributes get changed, all three of them get changed equally.
- Bane's concept is inspired by the game Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis.
- Bane and Virtue are two of the 6 elements within the game, with Bane being the dark element, and virtue being the light element.
- All of Bane's abilities would fall under the Bane category within the game, hence his Dot a 2 title, Bane.
- In DotA, Bane's full title is "Bane Elemental", being even more direct than his Dota 2 title.
- All of Bane's abilities are named and partially themed after existing spells in Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis:[1]
- Enfeeble takes a percentage of an enemy's max health and grants it to the caster.
- Brain Sap takes a percentage of an enemy's max mana and grants it to the caster.
- Nightmare drifts the target into unconscousness, putting them asleep and dealing damage over time.
- Fiend's Grip Deals heavy area of effect damage "by the hand of an evil spirit"
- Bane's Brain Sap is based on Enfeeble from Tactics Ogre.
- Bane's Nightmare is conceptually identical to the Nightmare from Tactics Ogre.
- Bane's Fiend's Grip combines the theme of Fiend's Grip and the mana steal of Brain Sap from Tactics Ogre.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Bane uses the model of the Voidwalkers, a medium neutral creep.
Gallery[edit]
Low Violence model
Bane on the Spring Cleaning 2014 splash art on the update page.
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
- ↑ Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis - spell guide (CTRL+F for Bane's ability names to find their source)