Leshrac
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Leshrac
20 + 2.8
17 + 2.5
22 + 3.5
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +61.6HP and +0.28HP regeneration | |
| +0.42 armor and 2.5 attack speed | |
| +42MP and +0.175MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +3.5 Main Attack Damage | |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (117)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.4 + 0.6
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-05-26
Released | ||
2004-04-08
(v4.0beta2) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-07-16 — Present |
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| Can deal heavy damage in an aura around himself. | |
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| Once a worldly philosopher, the hideous truth at the heart of existence emanated Nihilism and twisted Leshrac into the vile being he is today. The Split Earth beneath his hooves opens to consume the unsuspecting, while Lightning Storms strike down entire fields of foes. He pronounces a Diabolic Edict, saturating the air with bouts of magical explosions. Warping the structure of spacetime, Leshrac emits a continuous Pulse Nova, disintegrating and scouring nearby foes without ever lifting a finger. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Blue, Horns, Nose Legs ( 4 ) |
Facets[edit]
Chronoptic Nourishment
The nihilist's attacks restore his mana corresponding to the attack damage dealt.
Misanthropy
Diabolic Edict has a shorter explosion interval, but no longer affects buildings.
×0 Building Damage Factor
-4s Duration
-4s Duration
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Grants the Nihilism ability.
Leshrac and all enemy units within the radius turns ethereal. They cannot attack, have their movement speed slowed, and reduces all affected enemy units' magic resistance.
Leshrac and all enemy units within the radius turns ethereal. They cannot attack, have their movement speed slowed, and reduces all affected enemy units' magic resistance.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Causes Split Earth to echo in the same location with a delay duration, increasing its effect radius per instance. The echo location is visible to everyone.
Talents[edit]
| +20 Diabolic Edict Explosions | 25 | Pulse Nova Procs Lightning Storm |
|---|---|---|
| +30 Pulse Nova Damage | 20 | +1 Diabolic Edict Max Affected Units |
| +10% Pulse Nova Active Damage Reduction | 15 | +80 Lightning Storm Damage |
| +4 Armor | 10 | +1.5 Mana Regen |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
Imbalance demands it.▶️Leshrac, the Tormented Soul
Lore:
Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in another. His penetrating intelligence is such that he can never ignore for a moment the agonizing horror at the heart of all creation. Once a great philosopher who sought the meaning of existence, he plumbed the depths of nature with the haunted Chronoptic Crystals, and was forever altered by the hideous mysteries thereby revealed to him. Now the darkest depths of his enlightenment are illumined only by the fitful glare of his arrogance. Like other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his case it is a nature lurid and vile. He alone sees the evil truth of reality, and has no use for those who believe the cosmos reserves a special reward for those who practice benevolence.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Defilement[edit]
Defilement 
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants flat bonus area-of-effect per current 
intelligence.
Radius Bonus per Int: 
0.7
- Has the following radius bonus values:
- LEVEL 115.4 radius bonus.
- Additionally grants 2.45 radius bonus per hero level.
On hidden entity
Chronoptic Nourishment[edit]
Passive
Affects
Self
The nihilist's attacks restore his mana corresponding to the attack damage dealt.
Attack Damage to Mana Restore Factor: 
0.14/0.21/0.28/0.35
Chronoptic Nourishment is less effective on creeps.
Creep Mana Restore Factor: 0.5
This ability levels up with Pulse Nova.
- Selecting the
facet unlocks this ability.
- Considers
clones,
illusions, and
creep-heroes as heroes.
- Does not affect units without
mana.
On hidden entity
Abilities[edit]
Split Earth[edit]
Splits the earth under enemies. Deals damage and stuns for a short duration.
Cast Animation: 0.7 + 0.67
Cast Range: 
650
Base Radius: 
135/160/185/210
Number of Instances: 1 (
4)
Effect Delay: 0.35
Damage: 115/170/225/280
Stun Duration: 1.7
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Causes Split Earth to echo in the same location with a delay duration, increasing its effect radius per instance. The echo location is visible to everyone.
Causes Split Earth to echo in the same location with a delay duration, increasing its effect radius per instance. The echo location is visible to everyone.
Radius Increase per Instance: ( 55)
Radius Increase Interval: ( 5)
9
80/100/120/140
Twisting nature to his vile will, the shifting earth consumes those unlucky enough to cross Leshrac's path.
Trees within the effect radius are destroyed.
- The ability has neither a visual nor an audio indicator during its effect delay.
- Split Earth now applies its effect 4 times at the area-targeted location.
- All Split Earth instances now happen at 0.35/5.35/10.35/15.35 seconds after cast.
- The ability's visual effect for the echo location is visible to everyone.
On hidden entity
Stunned
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
stun
debuff.
- The
magical
spell damage.
- The
- radius math
Diabolic Edict[edit]
Saturates the area around Leshrac with magical explosions that deal pure damage to enemy units. The fewer units available to attack, the more damage those units will take.
Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.87
Radius: 450
Number of Explosions: 40 (
60)
Max Affected Units: 1 (
2)
Damage Interval: 0.25 ( 0.17)
Damage per Explosion: 
10/18/26/34
Building Damage Factor: 1
Duration: 10
22/21/20/19
90/120/150/180
Chronoptic energy bursts from one plane to the other, evaporating anything it touches.
Misanthropy
Diabolic Edict has a shorter explosion interval, but no longer affects buildings.
Building Damage Factor: 0
Damage Interval: 0.15 ( 0.1)
Duration: 6
Damage Interval: 0.15 (
Duration: 6
- The ability has the following properties:
- Centered on Leshrac upon cast for the entire duration.
- Creates a negative
aura that deals
pure
- Hence, the explosion continues upon Leshrac's
death location.
- Hence, the explosion continues upon Leshrac's
- Randomly selects nearby valid enemy units, without priorities, and applies a damage instance per explosion.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- Does not affect the following units:
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
- Recasting the ability creates another independent instance.
Diabolic Edict: Inflicting Damage to nearby enemy units
- When there are no valid enemy units nearby, the explosions randomly appear within a 500-side length square.
- These explosion are purely visual and does nothing.
Lightning Storm[edit]
Summons a lightning storm that blasts the target enemy unit, then jumps to nearby enemy units. Struck units have their movement speed slowed.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 1.04
Cast Range: 600
Jump Radius: 450
Storm Instances per Unit: 1
Number of Jumps: 5/7/9/11
Effect Delay: 0.25
Damage: 90/140/190/240 (
170/220/270/320)
Move Speed Slow: 75%
Slow Duration: 0.45/0.7/0.95/1.2
As the Pulse Nova pulsates, it applies a single-strike Lightning Storm of its corresponding level within a larger radius.
Storm Radius: (
700)
Number of Targets: ( 1)
Applies a single-strike Lightning Storm after a fixed duration and is not affected by any cooldown manipulation sources.
Downtime: ( 2)
4
80/100/120/140
The Tormented Soul's mastery of the elements is evident in the massive storms that strike down armies before him.
- The
- The lightning hits the primary target after the effect delay.
- Jumps to other enemy units within the radius in 0.25-second intervals after affecting the primary target.
- Hence, Lightning Storm takes 1.25/1.75/2.25/2.75 seconds to hit all valid targets.
- The lightning
projectile can be avoided by the following sources:
Spell immune sources.
- However, the aforementioned sources do not prevent Lightning Storm from jumping.
- Neither
jumps nor
- Recasting the ability creates another independent instance.
- Adds a passive component to Lightning Storm.
Pulse Nova
- Procs a Lightning Storm strike on a random enemy unit, prioritizing heroes, within 700 radius when toggled on.
- The auto-strike considers
- Has the following properties upon proc:
- Works independently of Lightning Storm's
cooldown, and does not cost
- Does not proc on-cast effects.
- Works independently of Lightning Storm's
- The ability is completely nullified when it procs
Spell Block upon impact on the primary target.
- Procs
Spell Reflection only on the primary target.
- Other
- Other
Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
Lightning Storm Slow
- All jumps deals up to 450/980/1710/2640 (
450/980/1710/2640) damage (before reductions) per storm instance.
- All jumps deals up to 450/980/1710/2640 (
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
movement speed slow
- The
Nihilism[edit]
No
Affects
Enemy Units / Self
Leshrac and all enemy units within the radius turns ethereal. They cannot attack, have their movement speed slowed, and reduces all affected enemy units' magic resistance.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Effect Radius: 500
Magic Resist Reduction: 30%
Move Speed Slow: 30%
Ethereal Duration: 4
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Grants Leshrac bonus movement speed, without reducing his magic resistance.
Self Move Speed Bonus: 30%
25
75
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Creates a negative
- Applies the following ability effects on affected units:
- Attack immune
Disarm
Ethereal
- Grants 100%
physical damage resistance as a secondary effect.
- Multiple ethereal-based
magic resistance reduction sources do not stack, the higher multiplier takes precedence.
- However, it stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
- Grants 100%
- Applies the following ability effects on affected units:
Dispelling the buff on Leshrac ends the ability prematurely.
- Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.
- Acquiring
Nihilism: Movement speed increased by x%.
Nihilism: Slowing movement by x% and increasing spell damage by x%.
- Affected enemy heroes now has 2.5%
- Nihilism reduces the total
- Affected enemy heroes now has 2.5%
Pulse Nova[edit]
Creates pulse of damaging energy that affects enemy units around Leshrac once per second. Drains Leshrac's mana per pulse.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Effect Radius: 500
Damage per Second: 80/135/180 (
110/165/210)
Damage Reduction: (
10%)
As the Pulse Nova pulsates, it applies a single-strike Lightning Storm of its corresponding level within a larger radius.
Toggling Pulse Nova off puts the ability on a fixed downtime. Can be reset with cooldown reset sources, but it is not affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.
Downtime: 1
1
70
The current mana loss per second is fixed and cannot be affected by mana loss manipulation sources.
If necessary, the Tormented Soul can manipulate space time itself, ravaging lesser beings.
- Toggle does not interrupt Leshrac's
channeling abilities.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- Loses 25/45/65
- The
- Grants the following bonuses:
- Applies generic
incoming damage reduction on Leshrac while active.
- Stacks additively with other incoming damage manipulation sources.
- Does not reduce
HP Removal sources.
- Applies generic
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Affects the following units:
- Affects the following units:
- Automatically toggles off if Leshrac does not have enough mana for the next instance.
Pulse Nova: Inflicting Damage to nearby enemy units
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Leshrac/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 16, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 16, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 15, 2025 - 12:55 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 14, 2025 - 10:00 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Increased
Chronoptic Nourishment attack damage to mana restore factor from 0.1/0.18/0.26/0.34 to 0.14/0.21/0.28/0.35.
- Increased Diabolic Edict mana cost from 90/110/130/150 to 90/120/150/180.
- Lightning Storm no longer applies a 50-attack speed slow.
- Increased Defilement flat area-of-effect bonus per
- Increased
Talents:
- LVL 15 +10% movement speed during Pulse Nova ➜ +10% damage reduction during Pulse Nova . [?]
- LVL 20 +20% damage reduction during Pulse Nova ➜ +1 Diabolic Edict max targets.
- Reduced Split Earth damage from 120/180/240/300 to 115/170/225/280.
- Reduced Diabolic Edict
Misanthropy duration from 7 to 6.
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.
| Leshrac'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 | |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Head | |
| Taunt | |
Trivia[edit]
- The name Leshrac comes from a Planeswalker from the "Magic: the Gathering" multiverse.
- Diabolic Edict is the name of an iconic black card in that game; much like the Dota 2 spell, the Magic card was more effective when there were fewer targets, as your opponent got to choose which target got hit.
- When meeting Leshrac as an enemy or an ally, Spirit Breaker (who also happens to be a planeswalker or planeshifter in Dota 2's lore) will reference this in his lines towards Leshrac.
- Leshrac is an anagram of "Charles", a reference to the middle name of early Magic playtester Chris Page. An ultimately unpublished Armada comic would have expanded on Leshrac's story, tying him to the magic of Estark and confronting Taysir in the "Magic: the Gathering" universe.
- Leshrac's response ▶️ "An evil wind rises." is a reference to the real-life mazuku, which is Swahili for "evil wind". A mazuku is a toxic pocket of air that is rich in carbon dioxide which is lethal to anyone inside the pocket. It originates from vents in the earth such as lava tunnels where it rises into the low lying areas on the surface, or beneath lakes rich in CO2 where it rises into the air of the surrounding area via limnic eruptions.[1]
- Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Leshrac uses a special ghost version of the model of Keeper of the Grove, a campaign-only variant of the Night Elf hero.
- In DotA, Leshrac's full name is Leshrac the Malicious. It was shortened to just Leshrac in Dota 2.
- Split Earth may have been inspired by the Far Seer's Earth Quake.
- Lightning Storm original iteration is based on the Far Seer's Chain Lightning.
- Pulse Nova's original iteration is based on the Demon Hunter's Immolation.
Gallery[edit]
Model
Ability icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead