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Elder Titan
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Elder Titan
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +66HP and +0.3HP regeneration +3 Main Attack Damage | |
| +0.3 armor and 1.8 attack speed | |
| +19.2MP and +0.08MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
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Instant Projectile Speed
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100 (116)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.35 + 0.97
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2013-05-02
Released | ||
2009-06-10
(6.60) | ||
Competitive Span
2013-08-23 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.41d) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Damages and disables with his Astral Spirit. | |
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| Even the greatest of Titans err in their work. Trapped in his own flawed creation, the Worldsmith seeks forever to repair the fissured planes. His Natural Order reduces all to its base, disintegrating whatever defenses his foes layer themselves with. From a hidden plane, the Elder Titan draws aspects of himself, summoning his Astral Sprit, sending this ghostly form through bodies and past defenses. Once positioned, an Echo Stomp rings out from both Titan and Spirit, knocking unconscious all in its wake. The battlefield cracks under the Titan's forge hammer, and a glimpse of creation is seen as the Earth Splitter rends the ground asunder. For what the Worldsmith makes, he can also unmake. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | NicePecs, Horns, Parent, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio
[edit]It is only right that I am cast into this world, for I had a hand in breaking it.▶️Elder Titan, the Worldsmith
Aliases:
TC, Cairne
Lore:
Well may you ask, "How did this world take its form?" Why of all the worlds in creation, has this one its strange properties, its diverse and motley collection of creatures, cultures and lore? "The answer," One whispers, "lies with the Titans."
These original progenitors were there near the Beginning—if not actual witnesses to the creation, then born with it still echoing in their ears. Stamped with the earliest energies of the universe, they wished nothing more than to continue as creators themselves. Thus they bent to the task of shaping matter to their will: hammering and heating, bending and blasting. And when matter proved less challenging than they liked, they turned their tools upon themselves, reshaping their minds and reforging their spirits until they had become beings of great endurance. Reality itself became the ultimate object of their smithing. Yet, along the way, they sometimes erred. In cases of great ambition, mistakes are unavoidable.
The one we know as the Elder Titan was a great innovator, one who studied at the forge of creation. In honing his skills, he shattered something that could never be repaired, only thrown aside. He fell into his own broken world, a shattered soul himself. There he dwelt among the jagged shards and fissured planes, along with other lost fragments that had sifted down through the cracks in the early universe. And this is why the world we know resembles an isle of castaways, survivors of a wreck now long forgotten. Forgotten, that is, by all but the One who blames himself. He spends his time forever seeking a way to accomplish the repairs, that he might rejoin the parts of his broken soul, that we and the world alike might all be mended. This is the One we know as Elder Titan.
These original progenitors were there near the Beginning—if not actual witnesses to the creation, then born with it still echoing in their ears. Stamped with the earliest energies of the universe, they wished nothing more than to continue as creators themselves. Thus they bent to the task of shaping matter to their will: hammering and heating, bending and blasting. And when matter proved less challenging than they liked, they turned their tools upon themselves, reshaping their minds and reforging their spirits until they had become beings of great endurance. Reality itself became the ultimate object of their smithing. Yet, along the way, they sometimes erred. In cases of great ambition, mistakes are unavoidable.
The one we know as the Elder Titan was a great innovator, one who studied at the forge of creation. In honing his skills, he shattered something that could never be repaired, only thrown aside. He fell into his own broken world, a shattered soul himself. There he dwelt among the jagged shards and fissured planes, along with other lost fragments that had sifted down through the cracks in the early universe. And this is why the world we know resembles an isle of castaways, survivors of a wreck now long forgotten. Forgotten, that is, by all but the One who blames himself. He spends his time forever seeking a way to accomplish the repairs, that he might rejoin the parts of his broken soul, that we and the world alike might all be mended. This is the One we know as Elder Titan.
Voice:
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
[edit]Talents
[edit]| +100% Cleave | 25 | -60s Earth Splitter Cooldown |
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| +150 Natural Order Radius | 20 | +30 Astral Spirit Bonus Damage per Hero |
| x0.2 Momentum Move Speed to Attack Speed Factor | 15 | +75 Echo Stomp Damage |
| +150 Echo Stomp Wake Damage | 10 | +2.5% Astral Spirit Move Speed per Hero |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Momentum
[edit]Passive
Affects
Self
Grants bonus armor corresponding to the Titan's bonus movement speed values above the Titan's base movement speed.
Innate Properties
The higher the Titan's level, the greater the movement speed to armor bonus value.
The higher the Titan's level, the greater the movement speed to armor bonus value.
Talent Upgrade
Additionally grants attack speed bonus corresponding to the Titan's bonus movement speed values above the Titan's base movement speed.
Additionally grants attack speed bonus corresponding to the Titan's bonus movement speed values above the Titan's base movement speed.
This ability levels up with Elder Titan.
Hero Model
[edit]Passive / Channeling
Affects
Self
The Titan's hero model has the following hidden
innate abilities.
He may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
He may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
Innate Properties
The Spirit always moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
The Spirit always moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
Talent Upgrade
Grants the Titan's attack cleave properties, dealing damage within a distance in front of him whenever he attacks.
Grants the Titan's attack cleave properties, dealing damage within a distance in front of him whenever he attacks.
Abilities
[edit]Echo Stomp
[edit]
The Titan stomps and deals physical spell damage within the radius.
Additionally applies a brief stun duration, and causes enemy units to become unconscious.
Additionally applies a brief stun duration, and causes enemy units to become unconscious.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Channel Time: 1.3
Stun Duration: 0.2
Sleep Duration: 2/2.8/3.6/4.4
After the brief stun duration, affected enemy units regain conscious after collectively taking a certain amount of damage.
Innate Properties
The Spirit always moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
The Spirit within stomps and deals magical damage within the radius.
The Spirit always moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
The Spirit within stomps and deals magical damage within the radius.
The summoned Spirit stops in its tracks when the Titan casts Echo Stomp.
Both the Titan and the Spirit then simultaneously casts its respective Echo Stomp ability.
Both the Titan and the Spirit then simultaneously casts its respective Echo Stomp ability.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Channel Time: 1.3
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Reduces cooldown.
Reduces cooldown.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
With Alt-Cast Enabled
When enabled with the Spirit summoned, the Titan takes the place of the Spirit and reunites as both completes the Echo Stomp.
With Alt-Cast Enabled
When enabled with the Spirit summoned, the Titan takes the place of the Spirit and reunites as both completes the Echo Stomp.
The force of creation still echoes in the stomp of the Titan.
Astral Spirit
[edit]Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Cast Range:
1200
When the Spirit rejoins the Titan, it grants the Titan various bonuses per enemy hero it passed through.
Max Move Speed Bonus: 40%
Buff Duration: 10
The Spirit passing through creeps grants less effective bonuses for the Titan.
Move Speed Bonus per Creep: 1.5%
Attack Damage Bonus per Creep: 3/7/11/15
Innate Properties
The Spirit moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
When summoned, grants the Spirit bonus movement speed correspondingly to the difference of the Titan's current movement speed.
The Spirit has no movement speed cap.
The Spirit moves along with the Titan when not summoned.
When summoned, grants the Spirit bonus movement speed correspondingly to the difference of the Titan's current movement speed.
The Spirit has no movement speed cap.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants Elder Titan magic resistance, and debuff immunity per affected enemy hero when the Spirit rejoins the Titan.
Grants Elder Titan magic resistance, and debuff immunity per affected enemy hero when the Spirit rejoins the Titan.
Like the four fundamentals, Elder Titan exists across all planes at once and can draw other aspects of himself to assist in times of need.
Return Astral Spirit
[edit]No
Affects
Astral Spirit / Self
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
Spirit Return Speed: 900
Innate Properties
Casting Echo Stomp while the Spirit returns forces it to pause on its track, and simultaneously cast its part.
The Spirit continues returning once the cast completes.
Casting Echo Stomp while the Spirit returns forces it to pause on its track, and simultaneously cast its part.
The Spirit continues returning once the cast completes.
Details
- Does not interrupt the Titan's other
channeling abilities.
- Can be cast while being affected by the following sources:
Stun sources.
- Does not interrupt the Titan's other
- Replaces Astral Spirit until the following conditions:
- Once the Astral Spirit returns fully to the Titan.
- Until this sub-ability is used.
- Upon the Titan's
death.
- This sub-ability appears in the second ability slot.
Move Astral Spirit
[edit]Point
Affects
Astral Spirit
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
Details
- Appears in the fourth ability slot upon Astral Spirit cast.
- Does not interrupt the Titan's other
channeling abilities.
- Can be cast while being affected by the following sources:
Stun sources.
- Does not require the Titan to turn to cast.
- Does not interrupt the Titan's other
- Issues a movement order to the Astral Spirit, moving it toward the
point-targeted location upon cast.
- Does nothing after casting Return Astral Spirit.
- Issues a movement order to the Astral Spirit, moving it toward the
Natural Order
[edit]Passive / Aura
Affects
Enemy Units
Reduces all elements to their basic levels, removing base armor and base magic resistance from nearby enemy units.
The magic resistance reduction is centered around the Titan when the Spirit is not summoned.
Innate Properties
The base armor reduction aura is centered around the Titan at all times.
The base armor reduction aura is centered around the Titan at all times.
Innate Properties
The base magic resistance aura is centered around the Spirit by default.
The base magic resistance aura is centered around the Spirit by default.
As it was at the beginning, Elder Titan makes it so again.
Earth Splitter
[edit]Sends forth a jagged crack in front of the Titan that implodes after a slight delay.
The implosion applies movement speed slow, deals both magicial and physical spell damage corresponding to the affected enemy units' max health.
The implosion applies movement speed slow, deals both magicial and physical spell damage corresponding to the affected enemy units' max health.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0.73
Cast Range:
2400
Effect Delay: 2.7182
Max Health as Magical Damage: 15%/20%/25%
Max Health as Physical Damage: 15%/20%/25%
Move Speed Slow: 40%/45%/50%
Slow Duration: 3/4/5
That which he created, the titan tears asunder.
Recent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Elder Titan/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | Patch | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 - 14:35 CEST | Tier 1 | BLAST SLAM VII - May 26-A | 0 : 1 | 7.41 | |||||||
| May 23, 2026 - 23:25 MSK | Showmatch | BB Streamers Battle 13 - Playoffs | 1 : 0 | ||||||||
| May 20, 2026 - 19:55 CEST | Tier 1 | DreamLeague S29 - Playoffs | 0 : 1 | 7.41 | |||||||
| May 17, 2026 - 11:55 CEST | Tier 1 | DreamLeague S29 - May 17-A | 1 : 0 | 7.41 | |||||||
| May 16, 2026 - 13:00 CST | Tier 4 | PWAAL 2026: Alumni | 1 : 0 | ||||||||
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
- Increased Natural Order radius from 350 to 375.
- Increased Earth Splitter movement speed slow from 30%/40%/50% to 40%/45%/50%.
- Echo Stomp
- Increased physical spell damage from 60/100/140/180 to 65/110/155/200.
- Increased magical spell damage from 60/100/140/180 to 65/110/155/200.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
Root sources on Elder Titan now completely disables the Echo Stomp (Alt-Cast) teleport component.
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.
| Elder Titan'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]- Elder Titan is voiced by "Jim French", a prominent voice actor and radio personality; he is best known for voice-acting Bill in the "Left 4 Dead" series and Father Grigori in "Half Life 2", two titles also made by "Valve".
- In the splash artwork, a faint image of what looks to be Legion Commander can be seen.
- The effect delay time of Earth Splitter is a reference to Euler's number (e), a mathematical constant.
- In DotA, Astral Spirit is named "Ancestral Spirit". It was changed to Astral Spirit in Dota 2 for thematic reasons.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Elder Titan's hero concept is originally based on Cairne Bloodhoof, a campaign-only variant of the Orc Tauren Chieftain hero.
- In DotA, Elder Titan used that title and name as well, along with the model. The name was changed in Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with "Blizzard Entertainment", since the Tauren are an existing race in the "Warcraft" universe.
- Echo Stomp is based on the Tauren Chieftain's War Stomp.
- Earth Splitter is loosely based on the Tauren Chieftain's Shockwave.
- In DotA, Astral Spirit is named "Ancestral Spirit", which is within the theme of the Taurens as well.
- In fact, Ancestral Spirit is an ability of the Spirit Walkers another Tauren unit. However, only the ability name was used in DotA, as an inspiration for the ability, as the two spells share no similiarities otherwise.
- Tauren Chieftain has a 1/12 chance to spawn in with the name "Taur Thunderhorn" or as Kez Stonebul. This is the result of a poll IceFrog did for Tauren Chieftain's name. Cairne Bloodhoof won the poll, but the two runner-ups were added as rare names as well.
- Elder Titan's hero concept is originally based on Cairne Bloodhoof, a campaign-only variant of the Orc Tauren Chieftain hero.
Gallery
[edit]- Bone Harvest sprite - alive