Mars

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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.

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Mars

#117

23 + 3.7

20 + 1.7

21 + 2.2

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+81.4HP and +0.37HP regeneration +3.7 Main Attack Damage
	+0.28 armor and 1.7 attack speed
	+26.4MP and +0.11MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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626 +2.55

327 +1.55

2.33 Armor (713.51 EHP)

27.1% Magic Resist (858.71 EHP)

49 ‒ 57 ▶️ Damage (53 Avg)

Instant Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

250 Attack Range (600)

100 (120) Attack Speed (1.8 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.4 + 1.38 Animation

310 / 340 ▶️ Move Speed

0.8 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.131s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_mars

2019-03-05 Released (v7.21c)

Competitive Span 2019-05-24 — Present

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Traps his foes in an inescapable arena.
The warrior deity Mars thrives in the heart of strife, guarded by the bulk of a deadly shield, an impenetrable Bulwark that guards against all assault. Using divine strength, he skewers enemies with his Legendary Spear, and Rebukes attackers back with his shield. He revels in facing opponents in an Arena of Blood, ringed with loyal undead spearmen of the Ash Legion — who guarantee that no one escapes and that whatever odds he's facing, the god of war can dictate the terms of battle knowing the crowd is forever on his side.
Roles:	Carry Initiator Disabler Durable
Adjectives	Bearded, NicePecs, Red, Parent, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Facets

Victory Feast

Grants Mars and his allies inside the arena attack damage bonus for a short duration, additionally heals and restores mana, when an enemy hero dies within the Arena of Blood radius. The effect is lesser for ally heroes.

Blood Sport

The Arena of Blood now obscures vision outside the arena radius.

Enemy units within the radius do not have shared vision with their allied units.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

When activated, Bulwark creates invulnerable soldiers on both sides of Mars. These soldiers move alongside Mars, deal damage based on Mars' attack damage, knockback, and slow affected enemies' movement speed.

An enemy can only be attacked by one soldier at a time.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Spear of Mars automatically toggles Bulwark upon cast.

Talents

+180 Arena of Blood Ally Health Regen	25	+65% God's Rebuke Critical Damage
+0.4s Spear of Mars Stun	20	-20s Arena of Blood Cooldown
+100 Spear of Mars Damage	15	-2s God's Rebuke Cooldown
+10% Dauntless Health Regen Amp	10	+100 God's Rebuke Cast Range/Effect Radius
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Bio

To those behind, rally! To those ahead, kneel.

▶️  Mars, the First Son of Heaven

Lore:

Mars, first son of Heaven, spent a long existence waging endless war, and saw countless more crusades waged beneath the banner of his old name. Wars of conquest and of vengeance. Just and unjust... Always cruel. So much like his father, Mars indulged his basest impulses--with inclinations much more monstrous than those of Zeus--and he inflicted suffering untold.

But as the epochs vanished behind him, the selfish ways of his father--the ways of many amongst his godly kin, they who judged him despicable--eventually began to ring hollow. War for its own sake was no longer enough to satisfy his desires. For the first time in his ageless days, the god of war began to question to what ends he swung his glorious spear.

As the Fates would have it, his solution came easily: he must wage war for a larger purpose, and inspire more than mere savagery and sorrow at the sight of his crest. He must at last lay claim to the mantle of leadership that is his birthright, for the time has come to burn down the pantheon of the old age and build a just new empire atop the ashes of his kin. Only then might he find satisfaction, and make the glory of Mars evident to all.

Voice:

Trevor Devall (Responses)

Innate

Dauntless

Dauntless

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Never outnumbered, Mars gets bonus health regeneration amplification the more enemy heroes are close to him.

Radius: 900

Max Stacks:

Health Regen Amp per Enemy: 50% ( 60%)

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• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The checks for valid enemy heroes per server tick within the radius.
  2. Grants a bonus health regeneration amplification stack per outnumbered enemy heroes within the radius, and is defined as:
     • EXPR
       BonusHPRegenAmp = 1 + (0.5 + 0.1) × Count(EnemyHero - Self)

• Considers enemy clones and creep-heroes as heroes, illusions as creeps.

modifier_mars_dauntless

Hidden Modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

Mars' hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

He may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.

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Hidden Innate Abilities

Tap on the innate abilities for more details.

Abilities

Spear of Mars

Q

E

Spear of Mars

▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Enemy Units

Throws his spear and damages each enemy unit it strikes.

The first enemy hero it hits is skewered on the spear, pushing it back.

If a skewered hero hits a tree, building, or cliff, they will be impaled to it and stunned.

Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0.15

Cast Range: Global

Max Travel Distance: 900/1000/1100/1200

Impale Search Radius: 125

Number of Impaled Units: 1 ( 2)

Damage: 100/175/250/325 ( 200/275/350/425)

Knock Distance: 75

Knock Duration: 0.25

Stun Duration: 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2 ( 1.7/2/2.3/2.6)

Spear of Mars automatically toggles Bulwark upon cast.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
As the Spear of Mars travels, it leaves a fire trail behind that deals damage over time and slows movement speed.

Increases the amount of units impaled.

Radius: ( 200)

Damage per Second: ( 40)

Move Speed Slow: ( 20%)

Trail Duration: ( 10)

Debuff Linger Duration: ( 2)

14/13/12/11

100/110/120/130

The legendary Spear of Mars still glows with the heat of the forge god's fires.

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  • The spear projectile is created on Mars' current location and travels in a straight line accordingly to Mars' facing angle.
  • Does not affect enemy heroes behind Mars upon cast.
  • 
    • Has a 1400- projectile speed, with a 0.64/0.71/0.79/0.86-second max travel distance time when no heroes are impaled.
    • A spear may only impale 1 ( 2) valid enemy heroes at any given time.
  • 
    • Applies the following ability effects onto the heroes dragged:
      • The magical spell damage.
      • 
        • Grants a 1-second 300-radius flying vision as the spear travels.
        • When an enemy hero is impaled,
          EXPR
          VisionLingerDuration = StunDuration
        • Grants True Sight over the affected heroes.
      • impale
        • The offensive forced movement.
        • Stuns the affected heroes for the remaining travel distance.
        • Offensively turns affected heroes' facing angle toward the direction the spear originated from.

• 
  • Applies the impale_stun debuff when the affected heroes are impaled onto the following objects:
    • Arena of Blood
    • Both trees and planted trees.
    • Buildings
    • Cliffs from lower elevation.
    • Map edges walls.
    • Pathing blocker sources.
  • Does not impale heroes onto the following terrains:
    • Item shops.
    • The border walls of both faction's bases.
    • Fissure segments.
    • Random statues.
    • Stair arches.
    • Watchers
  • The impale_stun additionally has the following properties:
    • 
      • Trees within 100-radius around the impaled heroes are destroyed after the debuff expires.
    • The following knockback components have no effect when the debuff is active:
      • God's Rebuke
      • Bulwark
      • Arena of Blood

• All ability components considers clones and illusions as heroes, creep-heroes and non-impaled heroes as creeps.
  • The spear does not interact with the following units:
    • Hidden units.
    • Invulnerable units.

• For creeps:
  • Deals the magical spell damage.
  • Applies a non-disabling knockback correspondingly to the angle between the affected units and the spear projectile.
  • 
    • Trees within 100-radius around that the affected units come in contact with are destroyed.

• SHARD NOTES
  The spear now creates multiple 10-second 200-radius fire cells as it travels forward.
  • 
    • ...
      • PP' = 140
      • OP = 46.67
  • 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 fire cell created at the end location.
  • Deals 20 magical spell damage in 0.5-second intervals.
    • This immediately affects enemies upon applying the damage per second debuff.
  • Other ability upgrade effects are applied in 0.1-second intervals instead.
  • Multiple overlapping fire cell radius do not stack.

• DBF IMMUNITY
  True Sight affects debuff immune units.
  • The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune enemy target.
  • If the spear connects with an obstacle, the debuff is applied as if the unit was pushed along.

modifier_projectile_vision

Hidden modifer

modifier_special_mars_spear_burning_trail_thinker

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_spear_impale

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_spear_stun

Spear of Mars: Stunned for x seconds.

modifier_knockback

Hidden modifier

modifier_special_mars_spear_burning_trail_burn

Spear of Mars: Movement speed reduced by x% and taking damage every second.

• The ability specifically checks for the bound radius of valid objects upon projectile impact.

• Plays a 1.7-second ability animation upon a successful Spear of Mars impale cast.

• The ability checks if Bulwark is toggled
  ON
  upon cast, and automatically toggles Bulwark
  OFF
  before its cast point.
  • If Spear of Mars is not successfully cast, Bulwark automatically toggles
    ON
    again.
  • This indirectly causes Mars to turn toward the point-targeted location despite Bulwark being toggled
    ON
    .

• SHARD NOTES
  Deals up to 480 magical spell damage (before reductions) within the radius, over 120 damage instances with the aura linger duration.

God's Rebuke

W

R

God's Rebuke

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Physical / Instant Attack

Mars smashes enemies in front of him with his shield, knocking them back and damaging them with a critical hit based on his attack. Has True Strike.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 1.07

Cast Range:  500 ( 600)

Effect Radius: 500 ( 600)

Circle Sector Angle: 140°

Crit Damage: 150%/200%/250%/300% ( 215%/265%/315%/365%)

Knock Distance: 150

Knock Duration: 0.3

Move Speed Slow: 40%

Slow Duration: 2.5

God's Rebuke is more effective when hitting enemy heroes.

Attack Damage Bonus: 10/15/20/25

When Bulwark is activated, God's Rebuke is applied at the locked facing direction.

16/14/12/10 ( 14/12/10/8)

90

There isn't a warrior alive who can stand unmoved by the sting of Mars' rebuke.

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  • Immediately applies all ability effects within the 140° 500 ( 600)-radius circular sector area-of-effect, correspondingly to Mars' current facing angle, regardless of the ability's cast range.

• The ability has three main components:
  • The instant attack with an ensured critical strike.
  • The bonus conditional attack damage applied on enemy heroes.
  • The knockback.

• 
  • Procs any attack modifiers and on-cast effects as per normal, except cleave.
    • 
      • God's Rebuke is an ensured critical strike source.
      • Sources with lesser critical values have no effect if they proc as the higher factor takes precedence.
  • Have True Strike.
  • Not affected by disarm sources.

• 
  • God's Rebuke is a bonus conditional attack damage source and has the following properties:
    • The enemy hero bonus attack damage values are directly added to Mars' attack damage in the combat log and not displayed on the HUD.
    • Considers enemy clones, illusions, and the Spirit Bear as heroes; other creep-heroes as creeps.
  • Does not interact with the following sources:
    • Allied units.
    • Percentage-based bonus attack damage sources.
  • Interacts with the following sources:
    • 
      • Lifesteal sources.
    • 
      • Damage block sources.

• Applies a non-disabling knockback and movement speed slow on enemy units.
  • Both debuffs do not apply on affected enemy units that die from the damage instance.
  • Does not apply the knockback on enemy units impaled by Spear of Mars.
  • 
    • Trees within 100-radius that the affected unit come in contact with are destroyed.

• Affects the following units:
  • Couriers

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune unit.

• SPELL STEAL
  Has the DOTA_ABILITY_BEHAVIOR_NORMAL_WHEN_STOLEN tag.
  • This ability's cast point is not modified when acquired.

modifier_mars_gods_rebuke_crit

Hidden modifier

modifier_knockback

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_gods_rebuke_slow

God's Rebuke: Movement speed decreased by x%

• 
  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The instant attack.
    2. The knockback and movement speed slow.
    3. The bonus conditional attack damage instance.

Bulwark

E

W

Bulwark

▶️ ▶️ ▶️

Ability

Passive / No / Toggle

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Instant Attack

Mars wields his massive shield to block a portion of each physical attack when hit from the front or sides.

Front Angle: 140°

Side Angle: 240°

Front Damage Reduction: 40%/50%/60%/70%

Side Damage Reduction: 20%/25%/30%/35%

When activated, Bulwark removes Mars' ability to attack, and locks the direction he is facing.

Reduces Mars' movement speed and redirects a percentage of the attack projectiles aimed at allied units toward Mars instead.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Attack Redirect Proc Chance: 70%

Front Redirect Range: 200

Back Redirect Range: 900

Self Move Speed Slow: 18%

Self Turn Rate Factor: 0

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
When activated, Bulwark creates invulnerable soldiers on both sides of Mars. These soldiers move alongside Mars, deal damage based on Mars' attack damage, knockback, and slow affected enemies' movement speed.

An enemy can only be attacked by one soldier at a time.

Number of Soliders: ( 4)

Soldiers Distance: ( 150)

Attack Radius: ( 275)

Instant Attack Factor: ( 1)

Attack Interval: ( 1)

Attack Damage Bonus: ( 75)

Enemy Move Speed Slow: ( 30%)

Slow Duration: ( 1)

Knock Duration: ( 0.2)

0.2

Only the very foolish dare to fight fair with the god of war.

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Bulwark's angles visualized.

• Toggle does not interrupt Mars' channeling abilities.
  • The toggle state does not persist death.
  • The ability cooldown starts upon toggle .

• The ability has three components:
  • The passive / incoming damage reduction.
  • 
    • The offensive attack projectile redirection from ranged units.
    • The Mars Soldiers summons.

• 
  • Checks the damage source's current coordinates upon a sucessful offensive attack and Mars' facing angle, then applies a generic incoming attack damage reduction on Mars correspondingly to either the front values or the side values.
  • Stacks additively with other incoming damage manipulation sources.
  • Does not affect HP Removal sources.
  • The damage reduction has the following additional properties:
    • Procs on certain spell damage sources that reacts on damage block.
    • Procs on the Jinada application on Shuriken Toss.
    • Certain instant attack sources do not interact with this component.
    • Affects attack damage sources of the following units:
      • Buildings
      • Ward-type units, except Death Ward.
  • The incoming damage reduction component is applied after reductions, and before damage block calculations.
    • Despite using the same mechanic visuals and animations, both Bulwark and the damage block mechanic are independent of each other.

• 
  • Applies the following ability effects on Mars:
    • The offensive incoming ranged attack damage-based projectile redirection component.
    • Movement speed slow.
    • A turn rate factor, effectively locking Mars' facing angle and is defined as:
      • EXPR
        CurrentTurnRate = 0.8 × 0
    • Does not disable Mars.
    • All of Mars' abilities, including item abilities, do not require facing the enemy unit to cast, as long as the unit-target enemy or point-targeted location is within the cast range.

• 
  • The redirection proc chance is determined upon the attack damage-based projectile launch, and is immediately launched toward Mars instead of the intended attack target upon proc, with the following properties:
    • 
      • The attacking unit has to be in front of Mars.
      • The affected allied unit has to be within 200-distance around Mars, or within 900-distance behind Mars.
      • Considers the following projectile types:
        • Regular attack damage-based projectiles.
        • Instant attack-based projectiles, this includes instant attacks sourced to ranged units without projectiles.
        • Ward-type units.
    • Redirect projectiles when Mars is affected by the following sources:
      • Within the Fog of War.
      • Invisible sources.
  • 
    • Does not redirect projectiles when Mars is affected by the following sources:
      • Attack immune sources.
      • Hidden sources.
      • Invulnerable sources.
    • Does not automatically toggle when affected by the following sources:
      • Disable sources.
      • Hidden sources.
      • Silence sources.

• 
  • 
    • SCEPTER NOTES
      Additionally summons 4 Mars Soldiers with the same facing angle as Mars.
      • The soldiers have unobstructed movement and are considered as valid units.
      • Acquiring the ability upgrade does not update the current instance.

Mars Soldier (Summoned Creep-Hero)

15000

150

The soldiers always spawn 150-distance parrallelly apart from each other on Mars' left and right.

The ability itself do not grant vision. However, the uncontrollable Soldier does.

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0

Lvl

1

3

0%

800

This unit does not attack.

0

0 (x̄)

Unit Phase Movement

This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.

Unit Invulnerability

This unit is completely immune to all status effects and damage sources. It neither can be unit-targeted by attacks nor abilities and has its health bar hidden.

• 
  • The soldiers and Mars are on the same line, with Mars in the middle at point , and the soldiers at point and point .
    • OQ = OQ' = PQ = PQ' = 150

• 
  • All the soldiers' instant attack are synchronized in 1-second intervals, regardless if there is an enemy unit within the attack radius.
  • 
    • Affects the following units:
      • Buildings
      • Couriers
  • The soldiers can attack the same enemy units once per attack interval, with the following attack radius properties:
    • 
      • Attack any valid enemy units within 275 radius centered around itself, without priorities.
    • 
      • 
      • Does not attack enemy units within 150 and 60 radius centered around Mars and the soldiers respectively.

• 
  • The instant attack damage is sourced to Mars and has the following properties:
    • Grants unique bonus attack damage upon the soldier's attack interval.
    • Procs any attack modifiers and on-cast effects as per normal.
    • Do not have True Strike.
  • Affected by the following sources:
    • While Mars cannot act.
    • Cyclone sources.
    • Other offensive disarm sources.
    • Fear sources.
    • Sleep sources.
    • Stun sources.
  • Other disable sources do not affect the instant attack component.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  The soldiers applies a non-disabling 0.2-second knockback to affected enemy units.
  • Although both the knockback distance and knockback speed corresponds to the distance between the Mars Soldier and the affected enemy unit, the final knockback distance will always be 325-distance.
  • Can knock enemy units over impassable terrain.
  • 
    • Trees within 100-radius of the affected enemy units come in contact with are destroyed upon landing.

• BREAK
  Does not disable the toggle on attack projectile redirection component, but disables the following components:
  • Incoming damage reduction of both front damage and side damage.
  • The Soldiers' instant attacks.

modifier_mars_bulwark

Bulwark: Blocking x% of each physical attack from the front, half from the sides.

modifier_mars_bulwark_active

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_bulwark_soldier_bonus

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_bulwark_soldier_thinker

Bulwark Soldiers: Soldiers deal full damage +x and apply procs. Attacks slow enemies by x% for x second. An enemy can only be attacked by one soldier at a time.

modifier_mars_scepter_damage

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_scepter_damage_tracker

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_scepter_damage_slow

Bulwark: Movement speed decreased by x%.

• Increases Mars' effective health to the following values:
  • 
    EXPR
    Front EHP = CurrentHP × 1.67/2/2.5/3.33
  • 
    EXPR
    Side EHP = CurrentHP × 1.25/1.33/1.43/1.54

• The ability animations and sound effects has the following properties upon an incoming damage reduction proc:
  • Considers attacks from clones, illusions and the Spirit Bear as heroes, other creep-heroes as creeps.
  • 
    • For heroes: Plays a larger attack-block animation with ▶️ sound effect.
    • For creeps: Plays a smaller attack-block animation with ▶️ sound effect.
  • 
    • For heroes: Plays a smaller attack-block animation with ▶️ sound effect.
    • For creeps: Nothing.

• Spear of Mars checks if Bulwark is toggled
  ON
  upon cast, and automatically toggles Bulwark
  OFF
  before its cast point.
  • If Spear of Mars is not successfully cast, Bulwark automatically toggles
    ON
    again.
  • This indirectly causes Mars to turn toward the point-targeted location despite Bulwark being toggled
    ON
    .

• For Death Ward:
  • Bulward redirects its attack projectile, but does not apply the incoming damage reduction.
  • Does not redirect Death Ward projectiles, since it is now spell damage-based upon acquiring its ability upgrade.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  For melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will miss regardless.
  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The instant attack damage.
    2. The knockback.
    3. The movement speed slow.

Arena of Blood

R

B

Arena of Blood

▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️

Ability

Area / Aura

Affects

Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

After a short formation time, Mars summons an arena lined with the undead warriors of the Ash Legion, who blocks enemy attacks and movement.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.97

Cast Range:  400

Arena Radius: 550

Wall Width: 100

Effect Delay: 0.1

Arena Duration: 5/6/7

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Health Regen Bonus: ( 180)

Enemy heroes near the inside edge of the arena will be attacked by spears of his undead warriors, dealing damage and knocking them back.

Proc Distance: 160

Damage: 80/160/240

Attack Interval: 1

Knock Distance: 160

Knock Duration: 0.2

Applies a movement speed slow aura to enemy units without flying movement while they are facing the arena's walls.

Slow Radius: 750

Facing Angle: 90°

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

90 ( 70)

150/200/250

The long-dead members of the Ash Legion, assembled from the finest warriors to ever test the might of Mars, still revel in the thrill of combat, gladly beholden to the hand that fell them for as long as he so commands.

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Victory Feast

Grants Mars and his allies inside the arena attack damage bonus for a short duration, additionally heals and restores mana, when an enemy hero dies within the Arena of Blood radius. The effect is lesser for ally heroes.

Max Health to Heal: 30%
Max Mana to Mana Restore: 30%
Attack Damage Bonus: 20%
Buff Duration: 20
Ally Effect Factor: 0.5

Blood Sport

The Arena of Blood now obscures vision outside the arena radius.

Enemy units within the radius do not have shared vision with their allied units.

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• 0.1-seconds after cast, the 550-radius arena is created with a fixed formation at the point-targeted location.
  • Trees within 1100-radius are destroyed.

• The arena does not consider flying movement units as valid enemy units.

• 
  • The arena walls blocks and negates offensive ranged, attack-damage based projectiles, within the 100 wall width of the following sources:
    • From outgoing projectiles originating inside the arena.
    • From incoming projectiles outside the arena.
    • Ranged instant attack projectiles.

• Within the arena:
  • Grants a 5.5/6.5/7.5-second 550-radius flying vision centered around the arena.
  • Deals magical spell damage and applies a non-disabling knockback to enemy units within 160-distance from the wall.
    • Both the spell damage and knockback component can only affect the same enemy units once per 1-second interval.
    • Does not apply the knockback on enemy units impaled by Spear of Mars.
  • Creates a negative movement speed slow aura centered in the arena that applies to enemy units without flying movement facing the arena walls.
    • The movement speed slow becomes exponentially stronger as the unit approach the walls, coming to a full stop when coming in contact with the walls.
    • The HUD does not reflect the affected unit's actual movement speed.
  • The following forced movement sources cannot make an enemy unit leave the arena radius:
    • Toggle Movement.
    • Force Staff-based items.
    • Skewer.
    • God's Rebuke.

• Has the following priority among knockback sources:
  1. Pulverize
  2. Arena of Blood
  3. Other forced movement sources.

• TALENT NOTES
  The ally health regeneration talent creates an aura centered around the arena.
  • Does not affect the following units:
    • Buildings
    • Ward-type units.
    • Invulnerable units.
    • Hidden units.

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune enemy target.

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_thinker

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_marker

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_animation_aura

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_animation

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_buff_aura

On hidden entity

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_buff

Arena of Blood: +x Health Regen

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_leash

Hidden modifier

modifier_mars_arena_of_blood_spear

Hidden modifier

• Mars is always in a straight line with and facing the first two soldiers.
  • Subsequent soldiers are placed 25.71° left and right respectively, up to 6 soldiers per side forming a circle.

• Within the arena:
  • Trees within 100-radius the knockback enemy unit come in contact with are destroyed.

• 
  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The knockback
    2. The magical spell damage

Recent Matches

Main Article: Mars/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Mar 16, 2025 - 17:00 CST	Qualifier		ACL X ESL China OQ2			1 : 0
Mar 15, 2025 - 16:00 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 15, 2025 - 18:30 CST	Qualifier		ACL X ESL China OQ2			0 : 1
Mar 15, 2025 - 10:00 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 14, 2025 - 17:00 PET	Tier 3		EPL World AM S15			1 : 0

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Dauntless
  • Now only affects self.
  • Reduced radius from 2000 to 900.
  • Increased health regeneration amplification per enemy from 30% to 50%.
• Increased Arena of Blood Victory Feast ally ability effects factor from 0 to 0.5.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  10%/+5% Bulwark front/side damage reduction ➜  +10% Dauntless health regeneration amplification per enemy.

7.37d
(2024-10-01)

• Talents:  

  LVL 20  +0.6s Spear of Mars stun duration reduced to +0.4s.

7.37b
(2024-08-14)

• Increased Arena of Blood Victory Feast buff duration from 15 to 20.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +30% Bulwark active projectile redirect chance ➜  10%/+5% Bulwark front/side damage reduction.  

  LVL 20  +14%/+7% Bulwark front/side damage reduction ➜  -20s Arena of Blood cooldown.

Dota Plus Progress

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.

Mars's Relics	Voice Lines
Heroes Stunned by Spear Heroes Killed in Arena Heroes Impaled on Arena by Spear God's Rebuke Kills Arena Damage Blocked Arena Damage Dealt Multi Hero God's Rebuke Damage Blocked by Bulwark Crit Damage Blink leading to kills Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Huh huh. Aha ha hahah ah ahaha! ▶️ My thanks will come later, when you least expect it.
	Silver	▶️ Ugh, that's no good. ▶️ Ha ha ha! I'll always remember how foolish you looked...
	Gold	▶️ The only one surprised by this is you. ▶️ FIIIGHT MEEE!
	Platinum	▶️ DADADA DA DA DA-DA-DA! DADADA DA DA DA-DA-DA!
	Master	▶️ THIS IS DOOOOTAAAAA!
	Grandmaster	▶️ WITNESS MEEEE!

Trivia

• Despite being Zeus' son, Mars is named after the Roman god of war, instead of the Greek equivalent, Ares, who is the son of the Greek god Zeus.
  • However, lines from Mars ▶️ "I don't answer to that name anymore, you old fool." and Zeus themselves ▶️ "Change your name all you want, you can't fool me." hint that Mars has changed his previous name of Ares, possibly to avoid association with his father.
  • He also refers to himself as "Mars Ultor". In real life, this is the same name given to the Roman god Mars by the emperor Caesar Augustus when he created a cult of the same name. Mars Ultor means "Mars the Avenger" in Latin.
  • Mars' Immortal Off-hand item, God's Mercy, references elements from the Greek Myth as well, namely Perseus and Medusa. Perseus (who is another one of the Greek god Zeus' sons) uses a polished shield to act as a mirror to approach and behead the sleeping Medusa without looking directly at her eyes, thereby avoiding her infamous stone gaze. Perseus also used Medusa's head as a weapon to turn King Atlas into stone.
• Mars carries a Greek-style Boeotian shield, but its decorative thunderbolts are more common on Roman shields.
• ▶️ Arena of Blood's sound comes from the "Mars" movement of Gustav Holst's musical suite, "The Planets". Mars also ▶️ hums the music when ordered to move or after killing an enemy in the Arena of Blood.
• Mars' response on pinning an enemy against the walls of Arena of Blood ▶️ "Are you not entertained?!" is a reference to a scene from the film "Gladiator".
• ▶️ "What is this madness?!" and Dota Plus chat wheel line ▶️ "THIS IS DOOOOTAAAAA!" are references to the famous "THIS IS SPARTA!" scene from the film "300"
• ▶️ "Mars the Impaler!")is a reference to Vlad the Impaler, the Wallachian Voivode who was the inspiration behind Bram Stoker's Count Dracula.
• Mars' rare Arena of Blood cast response ▶️ "WITNESS MEEEE!" is a reference to a War Boy's suicide attack using grenade-tipped spears from the film "Mad Max: Fury Road".
• Files related to Mars were leaked on January 03, 2018, but were deleted later that day. The leaked abilities were called "Spear Wall/Spear" and "Phalanx/Phalanx Cancel".
• God's Rebuke's slow debuff does not have its own particle system and uses the particle effects of Thunder Clap's slow debuff instead.

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Bulwark's active component has a similar base concept to the Defend ability of the Footmen, which both are toggle abilities raising their shields up to assume a defensive state.

Gallery

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  In-game model

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  In-game model

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  Shield model

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  Splash art

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  Hero icon progress

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  Previous Ability Upgrade Bulwark's soldier total attack area.

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead

External links

• Trailer
• Introduction
• Blog post