Hero Animations

Hero animations are the way a Hero moves in game, these animations vary based on situation. Heroes can have different animation for the same scenario.

Aggressive

Animations used when a hero is near an enemy. Aggressive animation exists for Idle and Walk/Jog/Run animation sets. Not all heroes have a aggressive animation.

To trigger aggressive animation hero must meet the following conditions:

• Have vision over the enemy.
• Be within a certain range of the enemy hero.

Melee

Most melee heroes have an aggressive animation trigger range of 600.

Melee Heroes	Range
	600

Ranged

Ranged Heroes	Range
	800
	850
	900

This can be useful against enemies with aggressive animations, to know if they have vision over the hero. For invisible Heroes, the animations trigger once they are exposed by True Sight, and/or when the enemy has high-ground vision over them (e.g. via a high-ground Observer Ward or etc.).

Attack

Heroes can have multiple attack animations when attacking a unit. The attack animation may change based on the hero's max health, current attack speed, or enemy proximity.

Heroes with varying attack animations based on attack speed are tagged with AttackSpeedActivityModifiers in their hero attributes, and may have the following attack animations:

Base < Fast < Faster < Fastest < Super Fast < Mega Fast Animation

Heroes with varying Attack Animations based on Attack Speed	Fast	Faster	Fastest	Super Fast	Mega Fast
	180	300
	170	275	375
	170
	200
	150	190	220	300	420
	200	300
	140
	180	250	350
	150	240	330
	150
	170	275	350
( and )	150	250
	170	250	300
	140	180	230	300
	180	250
	145	195	350
	190	300
	200	350
	175	275	360
	170	320
	266	376	487
	130	200
	200	320	430
	142	275	350
	150	200
	155	205	300
	175	250	350
These values triggering attack animations are the actual attack speed, not the attack speed displayed on HUD assuming with the BAT of 1.7. Not all heroes listed above have a unique animation present for different attack speeds.

Heroes with varying attack animations based on attack range are tagged with AttackRangeActivityModifiers in their hero attributes, and may have the following attack animations:

Closest < Close/Short < Medium/Normal < Long

Not all heroes tagged have a unique animation present for different attack ranges. Heroes that have a unique animations are listed below.

Heroes with varying Attack Animations based on Attack Range	Closest	Close/Short	Medium/Normal	Long
		0-79		>80
			0-199	>200
	0-89	90-149	150-249	>250

Channel

Main Article: Channeling

These are a set of animations played when a hero is channeling an ability for which no specialized animation exists.

Teleport

Main Article: Teleport

Used when teleporting using Town Portal Scroll, Boots of Travel, Boots of Travel 2. At the teleport destination, the Hero hovers in it's Idle animation.

Chase

These are a set of animations played when a hero is chasing a unit with low health. The target chased can be an enemy, neutral or an allied unit in deny range.

Heroes with Chase Animations

Critical Strike

Main Article: Critical Strike

Certain heroes have a different attack animation when they land a critical strike, this is usually true for heroes with a built in critical strike ability.

Heroes with Critical Strike Attack Animations

Death

Animation played when a hero dies. Heroes can have multitple death animations.

Overkill

The Overkill animation is played when a hero dies by a damage instance that is greater than 33% of the heroes' max health.

Heroes with Overkill Animations

Defeat

Animation played at the end game when the player loses the game.

Flail

The following abilities trigger the Flail animation:

Flail Animation Triggering Sources

• Eul's Scepter of Divinity – Cyclone
• Wind Waker – Cyclone
• Invoker – Tornado
• Storm – Cyclone
• Force Staff – Force
• Hurricane Pike – Hurricane Thrust
• Force Boots – Force
• Psychic Headband – Psychic Push
• Bane – Nightmare
• Bane – Fiend's Grip
• Batrider – Flaming Lasso
• Batrider – Flamebreak
• Clockwerk – Power Cogs
• Dark Seer – Vacuum
• Dark Seer – Normal Punch
• Drow Ranger – Gust
• Enigma – Black Hole
• Havoc Hammer – Havoc
• Hoodwink – Bushwhack
• Marci – Dispose
• Magnus – Skewer
• Magnus – Horn Toss
• Primal Beast – Pulverize¹
• Pudge – Meat Hook
• Pudge – Dismember
• Snapfire – Spit Out
• Storm Spirit – Electric Vortex
• Keeper of the Light – Blinding Light
• Kunkka – Torrent
• Kunkka – Tidal Wave
• Rubick – Telekinesis
• Queen of Pain – Sonic Wave
• Spirit Breaker – Greater Bash
• Spirit Breaker – Nether Strike
• Tiny – Toss
• Underlord – Fiend's Gate

¹ Affected hero is upside down, so is the flail animation

Force Staff

Animation played when the hero is affected by ally-based forced movement sources from the following items:

• Force Staff
• Hurricane Pike
• Force Boots

Heroes with Custom ForceStaff Animation(Friendly)

Stun/Disable

Main Article: Stun

These animations trigger when the hero is being affected by stun sources listed on the stun mechanics page. Not all stun sources trigger the Stun animation, some trigger Flail.

Sources that don't trigger any animations, but instead the hero is frozen in place: Cold Feet, Enchant Remnant, Echo Stomp, Time Lock, Chronosphere, Cold Snap, Ice Path, Mystic Snake, Stone Gaze, Cold Embrace, Winter's Curse,

Haste

Main Article: Haste

Hastes increase a unit's minimum and maximum movement speed to a specific value. When a unit is hasted, the Run animation is replaced by Haste animation.

Heroes with Haste Animations

Idle

These are set of animation played when a hero is standing still. Heroes can have multiple Idle animation, and different idle animation based on enemy presence or low health.

Injured

These are set of animation used when a hero is below 25% max health. Injured animations exist for Attack, Idle and Walk/Jog/Run animation sets. Not all heroes have injured animation.

Heroes with Injured Animations

Spawn

Main Article: Death

Spawn animations are played when a hero respawns from death or Reincarnation sources.

Victory

Animation played at the end game when the player wins the game.

Walk/Jog/Run

Main Article: Movement Speed

Hero animations are played when a hero is moving. Heroes can have multiple move animation, these can vary depending on the heroes' movement speed, health, enemy presence, or chasing a low-health target.

Heroes with varying move animations based on movement speed are tagged with MovementSpeedActivityModifiers in their hero attributes, and may have the following move animations:

Walk < Run < Run Fast/Sprint < Haste

Heroes with varying Move Animations based on Movement speed	Run	Run Fast/Sprint	Haste
	340
	325
	320	345
	-	430
	345	373
	335
	-	385
	-	400
	360
	345	400
	375
	350	400
	350
	395
	390	440
	400
	350	440	540
Not all heroes listed above have a unique animation present for different move animations.

Spell Steal

Main Article: Spell Steal Interactions

Due to Rubick's nature of using the abilities of other heroes, he has custom animations for all abilities of the following heroes, and for the following individual abilities. All other abilities share 2 generic animations and 1 generic channeling animation.

Stolen Spell Animations of Other Heroes

Custom Ability Animations

Custom Ability Animations

• Axe – Culling Blade
• Bane – Brain Sap
• Bane – Fiend's Grip
• Batrider – Firefly
• Beastmaster – Wild Axes
• Beastmaster – Primal Roar
• Dark Seer – Wall of Replica
• Enigma – Black Hole
• Juggernaut – Blade Fury
• Juggernaut – Omnislash
• Lion – Earth Spike
• Lion – Mana Drain
• Lion – Finger of Death
• Mirana – Leap
• Night Stalker – Void
• Night Stalker – Crippling Fear
• Night Stalker – Dark Ascension
• Pangolier – Shield Crash
• Pangolier – Rolling Thunder
• Pudge – Meat Hook
• Pudge – Dismember
• Pugna – Life Drain
• Sand King – Burrowstrike
• Spirit Breaker – Charge of Darkness
• Spirit Breaker – Nether Strike
• Tidehunter – Ravage
• Tiny – Tree Grab
• Tiny – Tree Throw
• Viper – Viper Strike
• Windranger – Shackleshot
• Windranger – Powershot
• Windranger – Windrun
• Winter Wyvern – Arctic Burn
• Witch Doctor – Death Ward