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
23 + 2.7
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| 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]
Sleepwalk
Causes the affected unit to now moves toward Bane's targeted direction uncontrollably over the total Nightmare debuff duration.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
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.
Fiend's Grip now is interrupted when Bane and its illusions are no longer channeling.
Reduces cooldown.
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.
Secondary targets within the radius heals Bane for a portion of the damage.
Reduces cooldown.
Talents[edit]
| +3s Fiend's Grip Duration | 25 | +275 Brain Sap Damage/Heal |
|---|---|---|
| +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]
Ichor of Nyctasha 
Passive
Affects
Self
Nyctasha has an obsession with making sure Bane's attributes are always evenly distributed.
Attribute Factor: 0.33
Hero Model[edit]
Hero Model
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.
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
- All damage instances applied from Bane and its
illusion does not wake up the Nightmare affected unit, except Fiend's Grip.
- Attacking units affected by Nightmare is bound to Bane's hero model.
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
Damage per Second: 12/18/24/30 (
25/31/37/43)
Attack Damage Reduction: 55%/60%/65%/70%
Cast Range Factor: 0.7 (
0.5)
Duration: 9
28/21/14/7
100/110/120/130
Each tendril of fear that Atropos weaves increases the vulnerability of his victims to arcane and unknown arts.
- Reduces both the
main and
bonus attack damage.
- Stacks additively with other total attack damage manipulation sources.
- Does not reduce bonus
conditional attack damage sources.
- Does not reduce any ability's cast range beyond the 150-min cast range.
- Stacks additively with other percentage-based cast range manipulation sources, after all flat cast range sources.
bane_enfeeble_effect- Reapplying the debuff refreshes the duration and update the ability values.
- Deals
pure
spell damage in 1-second intervals, starting upon debuff application.
Enfeeble
- Deals up to 120/180/240/300 (
Brain Sap[edit]
Feasts on the vital energies of an enemy unit, self-heals and deals pure damage.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.5
Damage: 90/160/230/300
Damage to Heal Factor: 
1
Secondary Damage to Heal Factor: (
0.3)
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.
Radius: 
( 550)
17/15/13/11 ( 14/12/10/8)
120/130/140/150
Atropos finds no greater pleasure than to harvest the fear he creates.
- The heal corresponds to the damage dealt (after reductions) and is roughly defined as:
- EXPR
ΣHeal = 90/160/230/300 + 27/48/69/90 × f(SecondaryTargets)
- Deals
- Deals
- The
- Can affect enemy units at max
1300)-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- Does not affect the following units:
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
- Affects the following units:
- However, the ability must still be
unit-targeted on enemy unit
.
- Can affect enemy units at max
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The self-
- The
- The self-
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.
24/21/18/15 (
21/18/15/12)
120/130/140/150
A stolen prowess from the goddess Nyctasha is to put his prey into forever sleep.
Dream Stalker
Grants Bane and his images the ability to attack the Nightmared unit with bonus attack speed.
Attack Speed Bonus: 40/60/80/100
Sleepwalk
Causes the affected unit now moves toward Bane's targeted direction uncontrollably over the total debuff duration.
Push Speed: 110
- Sleep causes the affected units to be
cannot act, until woken up.
- Affected units are never automatically attacked.
- Set the affected unit's base
vision.
- The Nightmare End
sub-ability does not wake up the affected unit while it is
-
Sleepwalk adds a vector-targeting functionality that applies
forced movement on the affected unit toward the vector-targeted direction upon cast.
- Sleep causes the affected units to be
- The affected unit wakes up in the following conditions:
- Upon another unit's attack point, other than the Nightmare caster.
- Upon Nightmare End
- Upon Fiend's Grip cast.
- Does not wake up from the following sources:
- Specifically from the following
instant attack sources:
HP Removal sources.
- Damage instances applied via
active attack modifier sources.
- Self-damage sources.
Ranged attack
projectiles after the Nightmare
- All damage instances applied from the Nightmare caster, except Fiend's Grip.
- Specifically from the following
- Upon a Nightmare instance transfer, all ability effects are reapplied and the ability duration is refreshed.
- The Nightmare duration transfered is defined as:
- EXPR
NightmareDuration × StatusResistance Factor
- The Nightmare duration transfered is defined as:
- Does not transfer to the following units:
Buildings
Spell immune units.
Ward-type units.
- Hence, the aforementioned units' attacks only wake up affected units.
Doubletap casts the ability on Bane.
-
Dream Stalker grants flat bonus
attack speed only to the caster and its
- Disable Help on Bane prevents Nightmare from affecting the allied hero.
Cannot utilize the 
Dream Stalker bonus attack speed component by design.
Other ability components are fully functional.
Other ability components are fully functional.
The drafting hero and their illusions can attack the Nightmare-affected units as per normal.
Invulnerable
Missing tooltip
Invulnerable
Nightmare: Sleeping
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-
Nightmare End[edit]
E
E
Nightmare EndToggle
Affects
Units
Releases the victim from its ongoing Nightmare.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Releases its victims from their Nightmare, anytime as it wishes, regardless of its source.
0
Sub-ability of Nightmare.
- This
as long as a unit is affected by Nightmare.
- Has the following properties upon cast:
- Does not interrupt Bane's
channeling abilities.
- Can be cast while being
- While Bane
- Hex sources.
Silence sources.
- While Bane
- Does not interrupt Bane's
- Bane cannot
shift-queue this ability.
Does not grant Nightmare if this sub-ability is the last cast ability.
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
Max Channel Time: 4.75/5.25/5.75 (
7.75/8.25/8.75)
Damage Interval: 0.5
Damage per Instance: 35/55/75
Max Mana Loss per Instance: 2.5% (
5%)
Self-heals and mana restores correspondingly to the damage dealt and enemy mana loss value respectively.
Damage to Heal Factor: 1
Enemy Mana Loss to Mana Restore Factor: 
1
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.
Number of Illusions: (
2)
Damage Taken: 
( 200%)
Current Health as Damage: ( 100%)
Duration: ( 20)
120/110/100 ( 75/65/55)
200/300/400
Victims of Atropos are frequently torn apart by vivid conjurations of their own nightmares.
bane_fiends_grip- Applies the following ability effects on the affected enemy unit while channeling:
- Grants
True Sight over the enemy unit.
- Grants a 4.75/5.25/5.75 (
- The vision radius do not follow the affected enemy.
- Grants
- Deals 35/55/75
- This immediately affects the enemy unit upon debuff application.
- The channeling is interrupted if the enemy unit is affected by the following sources:
- Applies the following ability effects on the affected enemy unit while channeling:
- Affects the following units:
- Creates 2
and point
on Bane's right and left side,
facing towards the
upon cast.
OP = OR = 400
- Have Fiend's Grip of its corresponding level with an
- Item abilities work on these created illusions.
- Can be given any order, except for item ability casts. Doing so interrupts the
- Neither have a
gold nor
experience bounty.
- Have Fiend's Grip of its corresponding level with an
If the unit-targeted enemy has both Spell Block and Spell Reflection sources, the Spell Reflection source has priority and the ability is reflected instead.
Can be cast on the Fiend's Grip Illusion. However, it does not acquire any abilities.
The ability cast has an independent duration for both the primary and secondary target.
Prematurely ending the
channeling only cancels Fiend's Grip on the primary target and does not affect the channeling on the secondary target, even with 
Prematurely ending the
grimstroke_soul_chain expiring.Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
Illusion
Hidden modifier
Fiend's Grip: Disabled and taking damage. Losing x% of max mana per x seconds.
Disabled.
- The ability effects are applied as follows per interval:
- The self-
- The self-
- The
- The enemy
mana loss.
- The
-
fiends_grip_cast_illusion- The illusions utilize the modifier that
stuns the affected enemy unit, and has the following properties:
- The debuff activates when Bane's
fiends_gripdebuff disappears, and continues applying the ability effects sourced to the created illusions. - This
- Hence, it does not work with
Spell Reflection source procs.
- The debuff activates when Bane's
- The illusions utilize the modifier that
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Bane/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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]
- Bane has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Increased base attack damage from (-1)‒5 to 24‒30.
- Nightmare
- Increased
- Increased
- Increased
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 | |
|---|---|---|
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]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Head | |
| Shoulder | |
| Taunt | |
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]
Model
Low Violence model
Pre-release icons and textures
Splash artwork
Concept art
Concept art
Beta model based on the previous concept art
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Bane on the Spring Cleaning 2014 splash art on the update page.
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead
- ↑ Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis - spell guide (CTRL+F for Bane's ability names to find their source)