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Dark Seer
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Dark Seer
20 + 2.6
19 + 1.5
23 + 2.7
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration | |
| +0.25 armor and 1.5 attack speed | |
| +32.4MP and +0.135MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +2.7 Main Attack Damage | |
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Instant Projectile Speed
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100 (119)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.59 + 0.58
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-04-30
Released | ||
2007-06-10
(6.44) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-04-30 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.41d) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Pulls and manipulates his enemies' positions. | |
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| A cunning tactician, the Dark Seer excels at manipulating positions of his enemies. Vacuuming and Punching foes into the attacks of his allies, drawing them into the prismatic thorns of his Ion Shell. Armed only with his intellect, he Surges across the land to survey every point of conflict. At strategic locations Ish'Kafel places his Wall of Replica, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks as an army of duplicates emerge to do battle against their own likenesses. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Bearded, Parent, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio
[edit]If your enemy is equal, prepare for him. If greater, elude him. If weaker, crush him.▶️Ish'Kafel, the Dark Seer
Alias:
DS
Lore:
Fast when he needs to be, and a cunning strategist, Ish'Kafel the Dark Seer requires no edged weapons to vanquish his enemies, relying instead on the strength of his powerful mind. His talent lies in his ability to maneuver the fight to his advantage. Hailing from a place he calls 'The Land behind the wall,' Dark Seer remains an outsider here—a warrior from a realm beyond the veil of this reality.
Once a great general among his people, and a valiant defender of the god-king Damathryx, Dark Seer's army was wiped out by a much larger force in the final days of the Great Boundaries War. Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls. At the last moment, just before capture, he crossed over—then sealed the walls forever in an explosive release of dark energy. When the dust settled, he saw that he had saved his people but found himself blinking at the sun of a different world, with no way to return. Now he is committed to proving his worth as a military strategist, and vows to show that he's the greatest tactician this strange new world has ever seen.
Once a great general among his people, and a valiant defender of the god-king Damathryx, Dark Seer's army was wiped out by a much larger force in the final days of the Great Boundaries War. Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls. At the last moment, just before capture, he crossed over—then sealed the walls forever in an explosive release of dark energy. When the dust settled, he saw that he had saved his people but found himself blinking at the sun of a different world, with no way to return. Now he is committed to proving his worth as a military strategist, and vows to show that he's the greatest tactician this strange new world has ever seen.
Voice:
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
[edit]Grants the Normal Punch ability.
The next attack on an enemy hero has True Strike, damages, and stuns based on Dark Seer's recently moved distance.
The punch knocks a replica of the affected enemy hero that deals additional damage and receives additional incoming damage.
The next attack on an enemy hero has True Strike, damages, and stuns based on Dark Seer's recently moved distance.
The punch knocks a replica of the affected enemy hero that deals additional damage and receives additional incoming damage.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
The charged-up allied unit leave behind a trail that damages and slows enemy units around it.
Does not create the Surge trail on the affected unit.
Talents
[edit]| +350 Surge Radius | 25 | 2 Ion Shell Charges |
|---|---|---|
| +50 Ion Shell Damage | 20 | -40s Wall of Replica Cooldown |
| -1.5s Surge Cooldown | 15 | +75 Vacuum Radius |
| +65 Ion Shell Radius | 10 | +15% Wall of Replica-based Illusion Damage |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Quick Wit
[edit] Quick Wit 
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants self flat bonus attack speed per current 
intelligence.
Attack Speed Bonus per Int: 
1
Innate Properties
Self-heals and self-mana restores every time the Dark Seer levels up.
The higher the Dark Seer's level, the greater the heal and mana restore value.
Self-heals and self-mana restores every time the Dark Seer levels up.
The higher the Dark Seer's level, the greater the heal and mana restore value.
Max Health as Heal: 
10%
Max Health as Heal Increase: 
1.5%
Max Mana as Mana Restore: 
10%
Max Mana as Mana Restore Increase: 1.5%
Both the max health as heal and max mana as mana restore is non-functional for created illusions.
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACKSPEED_BONUS_CONSTANTHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ABILITY_SPECIALMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ABILITY_SPECIAL_VALUEHero Model
[edit]Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
Abilities
[edit]Vacuum
[edit]Creates a vacuum within the area-targeted location that sucks in all enemy units within the radius, interrupting and dealing damage.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0.4
Cast Range: 
450/500/550/600
Effect Radius: 
325/400/475/550 (
400/475/550/625)
Damage: 70/130/190/250
Pull Duration: 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6
60/50/40/30
60/90/120/150
Ish'Kafel modifies the center of gravity to a place of his choosing.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Can affect enemy units at max
- Applies the following ability effects on the debuff-affected enemy units:
Stun
- An offensive
forced movement on all affected enemy units within the radius, pulling them toward point
, the center of the
area-targeted location over 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6 seconds.
Phase movement.
Unobstructed movement.
- Affects the following units:
Invisible units.
- Does not affect the following units:
Ancient creeps.
Creep-heroes, except the Spirit Bear.
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
- Trees within 150 radius at the area-targeted location are destroyed upon cast.
dark_seer_vacuum- Despite both the
- Hence, the stun duration continues once the forced movement is interrupted.
- Despite both the
- Can affect enemy units at max
- The
magical
spell damage.
- When interrupted, Vacuum prematurely applies the spell damage component at the
- When interrupted, Vacuum prematurely applies the spell damage component at the
The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune enemy unit.
Vacuum: Being pulled
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATIONIon Shell
[edit]Surrounds the target unit with a bristling shield that damages enemy units in an area around it.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.9
Cast Range: 800
Damage Radius: 275 (
340)
Damage per Second: 30/50/70/90 (
80/100/120/140)
Duration: 20/22/24/26
(
Cooldown)
( 2)
9 ( 0)
100/110/120/130
The Dark Seer slices holes into the 'Land Behind the Wall,' causing prismatic energy to seep forth.
- The
dark_seer_ion_shell-affected unit is not damaged.- Can be cast on both enemy and allied units.
- Cannot be cast on
Couriers.
- Only damages enemy units.
- Affects the following units:
- However, the ability effects indicating the damage intervals applied do not visually appear.
- Disable Help on Dark Seer prevents Ion Shell from affecting the allied hero.
Doubletap casts the ability on Dark Seer.
dark_seer_ion_shell- The applied modifier of different sources works independently of each other.
or
- Reapplying the ability on the same unit refreshes its duration, update all ability values, and continue applying its
- The latest ability cast on the affected unit updates the modifier, and damage enemy units of the latest caster.
- However, the modifier status does not update.
- Whether the applied modifier is considered a buff or debuff is determined upon the first cast, and is not updated on refresh.
- Reapplying the ability on the same unit refreshes its duration, update all ability values, and continue applying its
- Deals 6/10/14/18 (
- Leveling up the ability does not update the ability values of the current instance.
- Deals 6/10/14/18 (
-
- Most Ion Shell
talents do not immediately update the current instance, except the damage increasing
- Most Ion Shell
Can be applied on debuff immune enemy units.
Does not proc Empower Spell on the 
unit-targeted enemy.
Ion Shell: Doing damage to nearby enemies
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_EXTRA_HEALTH_BONUSIon Shell: Doing damage to nearby enemies
- Deals up to 600/1100/1680/2340 (
- Acquiring the charges
Surge
[edit]
Charges an allied unit with power, granting a brief max movement speed burst and phase movement. The allied unit cannot be slowed.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0.57
Cast Range: 600
Haste Speed: 550
Duration: 3/4/5/6
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
The charged-up allied unit leave behind a trail that damages and slows enemy units around it.
The charged-up allied unit leave behind a trail that damages and slows enemy units around it.
Trail Width: (
150)
Damage Interval: ( 0.5)
Damage per Second: ( 40)
Move Speed Slow: ( 35%)
Duration: ( 7)
Aura Linger Duration: ( 1)
Talent Upgrade
Surge is now an area-targeted ability and applies the buff to allied units within the radius.
Surge is now an area-targeted ability and applies the buff to allied units within the radius.
Radius: 350
24/19/14/9 (
22.5/17.5/12.5/7.5)
50
Ish'Kafel once used his speed of mind to navigate the maze between the walls.
- Has the following targeting functionalities:
- When unit-targeted, applies the
dark_seer_surgeon the affected allied unit.
- When unit-targeted, applies the
- The
talent upgrade changes the ability targeting functionality from unit-targeted to area-targeted.
- Can affect allied units at max
- The ability now considers
ground-targeted cast, and centers the radius around Dark Seer.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Can affect allied units at max
- The
- Grants the affected allied unit the following bonuses:
Haste movement.
- 0.1 seconds after casting, creates a trail cell per ≈110-distance moved on the allied unit's current location, in 0.5-second intervals.
- Affects the following units:
- Allied
- Allied
- Grants the affected allied unit the following bonuses:
-
- Acquiring the
Alt-Cast is disabled by default.
- The trail cell's damage is sourced to Dark Seer.
- Acquiring the
dark_seer_surge_trail- Each created cell has its own independent duration, and provides a negative aura that applies the debuff on affected enemy units within its radius.
- Hence, the first created cell disappears earlier than the trail cell created at the end location.
- The trail deals 20
Surge: Movement speed increased to x.
MODIFIER_STATE_UNSLOWABLEMODIFIER_STATE_NO_UNIT_COLLISIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_ABSOLUTE_MINMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERSSurge Trail: Movement speed slowed by x% and taking periodic damage.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE-
- Upon the affected allied unit's
death, the existing trail cell remains for its entire duration.
- Upon the affected allied unit's
- Deals up to 320
- Deals up to 320
Normal Punch
[edit]The next attack on an enemy hero has True Strike, damages, and stuns based on Dark Seer's recently moved distance.
Movement Timer: 3
Max Values Distance: 1100
Min Knock Distance: 10
Max Knock Distance: 350
Min Damage: 10
Max Damage: 400
Min Stun Duration: 0.2
Max Stun Duration: 1.25
The punch knocks a replica of the affected enemy hero that deals additional damage and receives additional incoming damage.
Number of Illusions: 1
Spawn Delay: 0.25
Damage Dealt: 
70%/80%/90% (
85%/95%/105%)
Damage Taken: 
200%
Duration: 6
Innate Properties
Teleport sources may only add a certain distance to the distance counter, regardless of the teleport distance.
Teleport sources may only add a certain distance to the distance counter, regardless of the teleport distance.
Counter Bonus: 600
10
This ability levels up with Wall of Replica.
As a young soldier, long before he became a leader of his people, Ish'Kafel was known amongst his fellow recruits as quite the pugilist.
Normal Punch Ability Effects
The ability effects corresponding to the distance.
Left: 0-365 distance
Middle: 366-732 distance
Right: 732-1100 distance
Left: 0-365 distance
Middle: 366-732 distance
Right: 732-1100 distance
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Grants the next attack
True Strike when off-
cooldown.
- The distance accumulation counter never resets.
- Checks and adapts the ability values accordingly per
server tick per 100 distance Dark Seer moved.
- The following sources do not increase the distance counter:
Upward movement sources.
- The cooldown starts upon a successful attack on the attacked enemy hero.
- The
- Both the
- The
- The
- Considers enemy
clones,
illusions and the Spirit Bear as heroes, and other
- Grants the next attack
- The created illusion appears 0.25 seconds later behind the affected enemy's final
- Issues an attack order on the affected enemy hero upon creation.
- Hence, if the knockback duration is
> 0.25, the illusion may attack the affected unit before the knockback ends. - Successive Normal Punches applied creates another illusion with an independent duration.
- The spawn delay is not affected by
status resistance sources on the affected enemy unit.
- The illusion bounty is defined as:
- EXPR
2 × IllusionLVL
- Learning the illusion damage increasing
- The created illusion appears 0.25 seconds later behind the affected enemy's final
The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune enemy unit.
Requires drafting Wall of Replica to unlock this ability.
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_STARTMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERSOn hidden entity
Normal Punch Illusion
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_IS_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MODEL_SCALEIllusion
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_DAMAGEOUTGOING_PERCENTAGE_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_FIXED_DAY_VISIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_FIXED_NIGHT_VISIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_IS_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ILLUSION_LABELMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_DEATHMODIFIER_PROPERTY_LIFETIME_FRACTIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_INCOMING_DAMAGE_ILLUSIONHidden Modifier
Stunned
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATIONGreater Bash: Stunned
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNED- Directly uses Wall of Replica's
- The ability effects starts upon Dark Seer's attack point.
- Both the ability visual and sound effects upgrade 2 times based on its distance counter:
- Dark Seer's left hand has certain ability particles when Normal Punch has max ability values.
- Although ability effects are applied upon a successful attack, the pink punch ability animation is played upon Dark Seer's attack point.
invulnerable- Applies the ability effects upon knocking back an enemy unit.
- Has no gameplay impact.
- The ability effects duration is defined as:
- EXPR
EffectsDuration = IllusionSpawnDelay
- The ability values changes per 100-distance moved per
- 35.455
- 30.909-distance
- 0.048-second knock duration.
- 0.095-second
- 35.455
Wall of Replica
[edit]Raises a wall of light that slows and creates replicas of any enemy hero who crosses it.
These replicas serve at the Dark Seer's will, they last until destroyed or until the wall duration ends.
These replicas serve at the Dark Seer's will, they last until destroyed or until the wall duration ends.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.73
Cast Range: 1000
Number of Walls: 1
Wall Length: 1300
Wall Width: 50
Damage Upon Illusion Creation: 25/40/55
Move Speed Slow: 40%
Slow Duration: 1
Wall Duration: 30
These replicas deals additional damage and also receives additional incoming damage.
Number of Illusions per Hero: 1
Damage Dealt: 70%/80%/90% ( 85%/95%/105%)
Damage Taken: 200%
Max Duration: 30
100 (
60)
125/250/375
The Dark Seer, while unable to return to his natural realm, can channel part of the prismatic wall with powerful strength of mind, sowing confusion amongst enemy ranks.
- All ability components considers enemy
- Leveling up the ability does not update the ability values of the current instance.
- Learning the illusion damage increasing
- This ability has three main components:
- Creates illusions of affected enemy heroes with the following conditions:
- A singles wall instance may only create 1 illusion per enemy player's first player-controlled hero-based unit within the wall radius.
- The ability can only create another illusion of affected enemy heroes upon the created illusion's
- Hence, the following conditions will create 1 illusion combined:
- Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear.
- The Enchanted Wall of Replica-based illusion.
- Affects the following units:
- However, the created illusion remains invisible.
Untargetable units.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Wukong's Command Soldiers.
- The Parting Shot Clone.
- Creates illusions of affected enemy heroes with the following conditions:
- Issues an attack order and auto-attack the corresponding enemy heroes the created illusion are based on.
- The Wall of Replica-based illusion is visually distinguisable for everyone.
- Spawns in the following sequence regardless of the enemy hero's
facing angle:
.
or
- Has a static 5
and 5
bounty.
- The illusions duration is defined as:
- EXPR
Duration = WallRemainingDuration
- Creates a negative aura that applies the
movement speed slow to enemy heroes within the wall's area-of-effect per
- This ability component is independent of the illusion creating component.
- Multiple overlapping wall area-of-effects do not stack.
- The aura does not affect the following units:
- Creates a negative aura that applies the
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Creates the
- The
dark_seer_wall_slow
- Creates the
On Hidden Entity
Wall of Replica Illusion
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_IS_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MODEL_SCALEIllusion
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_DAMAGEOUTGOING_PERCENTAGE_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_FIXED_DAY_VISIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_FIXED_NIGHT_VISIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_IS_ILLUSIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ILLUSION_LABELMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_DEATHMODIFIER_PROPERTY_LIFETIME_FRACTIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_INCOMING_DAMAGE_ILLUSIONWall of Replica Slow
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE- The
collision size:
Distance 18182758-distance27182758-distance<87-distance
Recent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Dark Seer/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | Patch | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 7, 2026 - 16:00 CEST | Tier 1 | BLAST SLAM VII - Playoffs | 1 : 0 | 7.41 | |||||||
| June 7, 2026 - 11:00 CEST | Tier 1 | BLAST SLAM VII - Playoffs | 0 : 1 | 7.41 | |||||||
| June 5, 2026 - 13:55 CEST | Tier 1 | BLAST SLAM VII - Playoffs | 1 : 0 | 7.41 | |||||||
| June 3, 2026 - 12:00 SGT | Qualifier | EWC 2026 SEA CQ | 0 : 1 | 7.41 | |||||||
| June 1, 2026 - 12:15 PET | Qualifier | EWC 2026 SA CQ | 1 : 0 | 7.41 | |||||||
- Dark Seer has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
- Increased base health regeneration from 1 to 1.5.
- Increased base
- Quick Wit
- MERGED Aggrandize into Quick Wit .
- Reduced max health as heal from 10% + (1.5% * HeroLvl) to 8.5% + (1.5% * HeroLvl) .
- Reduced max mana as heal from 10% + (1.5% * HeroLvl) to 8.5% + (1.5% * HeroLvl) .
- MERGED Aggrandize into Quick Wit .
- REMOVED Heart of Battle .
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.
| Dark Seer'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]| Sets | |
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| Head | |
| Shoulder | |
| Arms | |
| Taunt | |
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Trivia
[edit]- Dark Seer's response, ▶️ "Speed is the heart of battle." is an indirect quote of Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, who said "Quickness is the essence of war."
- Dark Seer's response, ▶️ "No, I will not calm my beard." is a response to Beastmaster's and Clockwerk's rival hero taunts, both voiced by Sam A. Mowry.
- Dark Seer's Vacuum's lore is based on the military term, center of gravity, which is a concept developed by Carl Von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, in his work On War.
- Normal Punch makes numerous references to the anime "One Punch Man".
- The name of the ability references the protagonist Saitama's move "Consecutive Normal Punches".
- The particle effects include a giant red fist striking the enemy, which looks like the Saitama's fists.
- The particle effect generally has an anime-style theme to it, with the static lines and whirls, the haloes, and the Japanese floating texts, which are the Japanese equivalents of "Pow!".
- ドゴン (do-go-n), the text upon knocking back an enemy unit, with ド (do) usually representing a really normal soft bang sound like lightly dropping something on a table, and トントン (ton ton) akin to a knocking sound.
- dogo-, dogon, dogoo- ( ドゴオッ ):
- Big punch, chop (karate), or kick, big impact; quick punch, impact, or emphasis [do] + hard impact [go].
- It is also used as a dramatic impact. (SFX: Kapow! Whomp! Wop! Chop!)
- dogo-, dogon, dogoo- ( ドゴオッ ):
- The effect of Normal Punch punching an illusion out of the body may be a reference to the scene in "Doctor Strange" in which Doctor Strange's "astral form" is getting separated from his physical form.[1]
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Dark Seer uses the model of the Draenei Seers, a unit of the highly corrupted Draenei race.
- Ion Shell's concept is based on the Orc Shaman's Lightning Shield.
- Surge's core ability is the Rune of Speed, affecting only the target.
Gallery
[edit]- Model
- Concept art
- Ability icon progress
- Hero icon progress
- Bone Harvest sprite - alive
- Bone Harvest sprite - dead