Phantom Lancer

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Phantom Lancer

#75

21 + 2.2

26 + 2.8

21 + 1.8

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+48.4HP and +0.22HP regeneration
	+0.47 armor and 2.8 attack speed +2.8 Main Attack Damage
	+21.6MP and +0.09MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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582 +3.6

327 +1.05

4.33 Armor (733.2 EHP)

27.1% Magic Resist (798.35 EHP)

52 ‒ 62 ▶️ Damage (57 Avg)

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

225 Attack Range (600)

110 (136) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.5 + 0.5 Animation

285 / 285 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

18 Collision Size

8 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_phantom_lancer

2012-05-03 Released

2005-03-01 (6.00)

Competitive Span 2012-05-10 — 2014-09-25 2015-02-12 — Present

Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.38b, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for.

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Creates illusions of himself to trick or attack foes.
As Azwraith drove his pike through Vorn, the Dread Magus shattered into innumerable shards of light, saturating his killer with a strange new power. Once a humble fisherman, the Phantom Lancer Spears targets from afar, spawning a fragment of the Phantom Lancer himself as they Dash ahead while cutting foes apart in a breathtaking flurry of attacks. When cornered, he vanishes briefly from the battlefield, reappearing at a nearby spot while leaving behind Doppelgangers to mislead and elude pursuers. The sheer number of his army are often Juxtaposed with his foes, overwhelming them before their eyes can scarcely distinguish the Phantom Lancer from his army of clones.
Roles:	Carry Escape Pusher Nuker
Adjectives	Bearded, Blue, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Facets

Divergence

Juxtapose spawns uncontrollable illusions on random nearby units.

Increases illusion damage dealt.

+2% Illusion Damage Increase

Lancelot

The spell projectile of all Spirit Lance-based illusions sourced to Phantom Lancer now deals a portion of spell damage corresponding to its ability level.

×0.25 Illusion Spell Damage Factor

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Increases Spirit Lance illusion damage. Spirit Lance now bounces on enemies, prioritizing heroes.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Renders Phantom Lancer invisible for a duration while generating a duplicate image to confuse enemies. Increases movement speed while active.

Talents

+20% Illusory Armaments Bonus Damage	25	-4s Doppelganger Cooldown
+10% Juxtapose Damage	20	+300 Phantom Rush Distance
-1s Spirit Lance Cooldown	15	+2.5s Phantom Rush Duration
+10 Phantom Rush Agility	10	+1.25s Spirit Lance Slow Duration
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Bio

We outnumbered you. We outnumber them all!

▶️  Azwraith, the Phantom Lancer

Aliases:

Azwraith, PL

Lore:

The remote village of Pole had no knowledge of the wars raging in the heart of the kingdom. For them, the quiet of spear fishing, and a family meal were all that a full life required. Yet war came for them nonetheless. Joining the able-bodied conscripts as they filed passed their homes, the humble lancer Azwraith vowed to bring peace to his kingdom, and in so doing, his people. Placed with his kin in the vanguard of the final assault against the Dread Magus Vorn, the cost to his fellows was absolute. As the charging force battled toward the fortress, Azwraith alone among his kind remained standing, and he alone was able to infiltrate the keep.

Focused and infuriated by the slaughter of his brothers, Azwraith bested each of the wizard's deadly traps and conjured guardians. Soon the simple fisherman arrived at Vorn's tower sanctum. The pair dueled through the night, pike to staff, as chaos raged below, and with a deafening cry Azwraith pierced his enemy. But the wizard did not simply expire; he exploded into uncountable shards of light, penetrating his killer with power. As the dust settled and the smoke of combat began to clear, Azwraith found himself standing among a throng of his kin. Each seemed to be dressed as he was, each seemed armed as he was, and he could sense that each thought as he did. Aware that his allies were approaching, he willed these phantoms to hide themselves, and one by one they began to vanish into nothingness. As the soldiers came upon the sanctum, they found the warrior that had bested the wizard. When they approached their champion, the lancer vanished. The pikeman who had stood before them was no more than another phantom.

Voice:

Barry Dennen (Responses)

Innate

Illusory Armaments

Illusory Armaments

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Items that grant bonus attack damage to Azwraith now grant base attack damage instead.

Attack Damage Bonus to Base Damage Factor: 1 ( 1.2)

Grants a lesser base attack damage factor to his illusions instead.

Illusion Factor: 0.7 ( 0.9)

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  • Azwraith only utilizes the base attack damage mechanic, and does not utilize bonus attack damage at all.

phantom_lancer_illusory_armaments

Hidden Modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

Azwraith's 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

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Abilities

Spirit Lance

Q

T

Spirit Lance

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Sends a magical spirit lance to a target enemy unit that damages and slows its movement speed.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.73

Cast Range:  600/650/700/750

Damage: 70/140/210/280

Move Speed Slow: 14%/21%/28%/35%

Slow Duration: 3.75 ( 5)

Summoning an illusory fragment with a different hue to attack the unit per lance upon impact.

Number of Illusions: 1

Damage Dealt: 20% ( 50%)

Damage Taken: 400%

Duration: 3.5/5/6.5/8

All Azwraith's illusions casts a fake lance within a certain distance of the affected enemy unit.

Enemy Distance: 675

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Increases Spirit Lance illusion damage. Spirit Lance now bounces on enemies, prioritizing heroes.

Bounce Distance: ( 750)

Number of Bounces: ( 1)

10/9/8/7 ( 9/8/7/6)

120

Azwraith's proficiency at spearing his family's meal of fish is proving quite useful in the battlefield.

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Lancelot

The spell projectile of all Spirit Lance-based illusions sourced to Phantom Lancer now deals a portion of spell damage corresponding to its ability level.

Spell Damage: 17.5/35/52.5/70

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
The facet spell damage does not apply to the projectile bounce component.

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Illusion Texture Type

The created illusion texture is distinguishable ally-only.

• 
  • Creates a Spirit Lance-based illusion upon a successful projectile impact.
  • SCEPTER NOTES
    
    • The projectile now bounces to another enemy unit, utilizing the same projectile speed, prioritizing heroes.
    • Can only hit the same enemy unit again per ability cast when all other valid targets within the bounce distance are hit.
      • However, a lone target is still affected once per cast.
    • Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
    • Does not affect the following units:
      • Fogged units.
      • Invisible units.
    • Does not bounce off the following units:
      • Hidden units.
      • Invulnerable units.
  • 
    • Has a fixed 5 and 5 illusion bounty.

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  • All of Azwraith's illusions within 675 range of the unit-targeted enemy also casts a visual-only Spirit Lance with the following properties:
    • If they have no orders or standing still, the illusions turn, face the target, then cast the ability.
    • If they have move orders or attack orders, the orders continue until Spirit Lance's cast point, then overrides their current orders upon the ability's cast backswing.
    • When canceling the ability cast, they play the full cast animation but do not release the projectile.

• SPELL BLOCK
  Spell Block sources nullifies the ability upon projectile impact, either as the primary or secondary target.
  • Stop bouncing upon Spell Block proc.

• SPELL REFLECT
  Spell Block notes apply.

• SOULBIND
  A total of 12 illusions and 12 damage instances are applied.

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose_illusion

Hidden modifier

modifier_illusion

Illusion

modifier_invulnerable

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_spirit_lance

Spirit Lance: Movement speed reduced by x%

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  • Has 1000- projectile speed.

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  • The spawn distance from the affected enemy unit has the following properties:
    • EXPR
      Distance = 58 , if CasterColSize != TargetColSize
    • EXPR
      Distance = 58 , if CasterColSize = 27 AND TargetColSize = 18
    • EXPR
      Distance = 58 , if TargetColSize = 27 AND CasterColSize = 18
    • EXPR
      Distance = 87 , if TargetColSize > CasterColSize

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The movement speed slow debuff.
    2. The magical spell damage.

Doppelganger

W

D

Doppelganger

▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Self / Illusions

Briefly vanishes from the battlefield.

After a delay, Phantom Lancer and any of his nearby illusions reappear at a random position within the targeted location, along with two additional doppelgangers with different properties, while extending all current illusions' duration.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0

Cast Range:  575

Illusion Gather Radius: 900

Reappear Radius: 325

Reappear Time: 1

Gathered Illusion Bonus Duration: 2

Nummer Eins deals no damage and does not receive additional incoming damage. This illusion's duration is not extended.

Number of Illusion One: 1

Damage Dealt: 0%

Damage Taken: 100%

Duration: 8

Nummer Zwei deals a portion of Phantom Lancer's damage and receive additional incoming damage. This illusion's duration is not extended.

Number of Illusion Two: 1

Damage Dealt: 20%

Damage Taken: 600%

Duration: 8

22/18/14/10 ( 18/14/10/6)

50

Dread Magus Vorn's death imbued the Phantom Lancer with the ability to blend with all spectrums of light.

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Illusion Texture Type

The created illusion texture is distinguishable ally-only.

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  • Applies the following ability effects on Azwraith and all of his current illusions:
    1. Hidden and disjoints incoming projectiles upon cast.
       • Creates the additional illusions.
    2. The 1-second reappear time.
    3. All affected units now cannot act, any order given is queued as the next order.
    4. Applies a basic dispel.
    5. 
       • Reappears with Ilusion Eins and Illusion Zwei facing the same direction as Azwraith.
       • Other illusions keep their previous facing angle.
  • 
    • Illusion Eins is brighter and distinguishable ally-only.
  • 
    • Doppelganger cannot be interrupted, except upon Azwraith's death.
  • 
    • The illusion duration extension is applied upon cast, effectively increasing all gathered illusions' duration by 1 second with the reappear time.
    • 
      • Both Eins and Zwei have a fixed 5 and 5 illusion bounty.

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  • All affected units reappear randomly within a +-shaped formation, with a bit of variation.
  • Illusions that were moving or attacking a target continue to move or attack their target after reappearing.
  • 
    • Trees within a 200-radius of Azwraith and every affected illusion upon reappearing are destroyed.

modifier_phantomlancer_dopplewalk_phase

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose_illusion

Hidden modifier

modifier_illusion

Illusion

modifier_invulnerable

Hidden modifier

Phantom Rush

E

R

Phantom Rush

▶️

Ability

Toggle

Affects

Self

When activated, the Lancer quickly charges into range, gaining a temporary agility boost when targeting an enemy unit for an attack.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Min Proc Distance: 200

Max Proc Distance: 600/675/750/825 ( 900/975/1050/1125)

Agi Bonus: 10/20/30/40 ( 20/30/40/50)

Agi Duration: 2 ( 4.5)

Azwraith's fragments has Phantom Rush always toggled on and are ready to rush into the battle upon an order.

Grants Azwraith and his fragments both haste and phase movement upon proc.

Haste Speed: 800

Max Haste Duration: 5

13/10/7/4

Azwraith knows that on the field of battle, speed can mean everything.

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• Procs on either an
  A
  attack command or on a unit-targeted enemy, except the following:
  • Ground-targeted commands.
  • Auto-attacks.
  • On allied units.

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  • Has the following buff durations, whichever happens first:
    • Upon a successful attack.
    • Upon Azwraith receiving another order.
  • 
    • Grants the following ability effects upon proc:
      • Haste movement.
      • Phase movement.
      • The bonus agility.
    • The following actions do not cancel Phantom Rush:
      • Non-targeted ability casts.
      • Doubletap or self-targeted ability casts.

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  • The following offensive disable sources dispels the buff:
    • Cyclone sources.
    • Hex sources.
    • Hidden sources.
    • Sleep sources.
    • Stun sources.
  • For other disable sources:
    • 
      • Taunt sources causes Azwraith to rush toward the taunting unit.
      • Forced attack of taunt sources do not dispel the buff.
    • 
      • Rushes toward the unit-targeted enemy's last known location when the enemy is affected by the following sources:
        • Fog of War.
        • Hidden sources.
        • Invisible sources.

• WHILE ROOTED
  Root sources temporary holds Phantom Lancer in place.

modifier_phantom_lancer_phantom_edge

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_phantom_edge_boost

Phantom Rush: Charging the enemy!

modifier_phantom_lancer_phantom_edge_agility

Agility Boost: Gaining Agility from Phantom Rush.

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  • Grants the bonus agility immediately in the following conditions:
    • EXPR
      | TargetDistance - PhantomLancerLocation | ≤ 200
    • Azwraith neither receives the phantom_edge_boost buff nor rushes to the target in this case.

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Juxtapose

R

X

Juxtapose

Ability

Passive / No

Affects

Self

Has a chance to create an illusion of himself per attack.

Proc Chance: 40%/45%/50%

Max Illusions: 6/8/10

Duration from Hero: 8

Illusions also have a chance to fracture further. These images last for a shorter duration.

Illusion Proc Chance: 9%

Duration from Illusions: 4

The illusory fragment has a different hue when juxtaposed with regular images of Azwraith's self.

Damage Dealt: 15%/17%/19% ( 25%/27%/29%)

Damage Taken: 600%

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Renders Phantom Lancer invisible for a duration while generating a duplicate image to confuse enemies. Increases movement speed while active.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Fade Time: ( 0)

Number of Illusions: ( 1)

Self Move Speed Bonus: ( 15%)

Duration: ( 8)

( 15)

( 75)

Each of Azwraith's lance attacks feels like two from a normal warrior; or three; or four...

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Divergence

Juxtapose spawns uncontrollable illusions on random nearby units.

Increases illusion damage dealt.

Search Radius: 700
Illusion Damage Dealt: 17%/19%/21% ( 27%/29%/31%)

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• The proc chance neither has a mana cost nor has a cooldown despite visually having one.
  • The mana cost and cooldown are for the ability upgrade.

Illusion Texture Type

The created illusion texture is distinguishable ally-only.

• Juxtapose procs has the following properties:
  • 
    • Works for any illusions that have this passive ability.
  • 
    • Procs upon a successful attack, including instant attack sources.
    • Procs on all units, except buildings.
    • Uses pseudo-random distribution.
  • 
    • Juxtapose-based illusions attack the enemy unit that it was proc'd from.
    • Hence, the created illusion procs Phantom Rush of its corresponding level within the ability's min and max proc distances.
    • Spawns in the following sequence following Azwraith's facing angle:
      • South East North West South.
      • or
    • Has a fixed 5 and 5 illusion bounty.

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• SHARD NOTES
  Adds an active component to Juxtapose, with two main components.
  • Neither affects Azwraith's current movement orders nor attack orders upon cast.
  • 
    • Creates the Juxtapose-based illusion at Azwraith current location.
    • Issues a point-targeted attack command 1000-distance away, accordingly to Azwraith's current facing angle.
  • 
    • The invisibility applied has an instant fade time.
    • Grants phase movement while fully invisible.
    • Interrupts Azwraith's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • 
    • Both the invisibility buff and illusion buff duration are independent of each other.
    • Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.

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  • The invisibility buff disappears in the following conditions:
    • Upon reaching the cast point of abilities, including item abilities.
    • Upon Azwraith's attack point.
    • Upon a successful attack.
  • Does not break invisibility in the following conditions:
    • Items being picked up and dropped.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  The Vengeance Illusion uses the hero proc chance, instead of the illusion proc chance.

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose_illusion

Hidden modifier

modifier_illusion

Illusion

modifier_invulnerable

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose_cache

Hidden modifier

modifier_phantom_lancer_juxtapose_invisibility

Juxtapose: Invisible, movement speed increased.

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  • The spawn distance is defined as:
    • EXPR
      Distance = 108, if TargetColSize = 27
    • EXPR
      Distance = 72, if TargetColSize = 18
      • Hence, for Azwraith, the illusion has a 72-spawn distance.

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• SHARD NOTES
  
  • Creates a Juxtapose-based illusion and caches it at Azwraith's fountain upon acquiring the ability upgrade.
  • The cached illusion is disabled and has the following properties:
    • Hidden
    • Uncontrollable
    • Sets its vision range to 0.
    • Toggles Burn .
  • The ability effects are applied as follows on the Juxtapose-based illusion:
    1. Teleports the created illusion to Azwraith's current position, and no longer disables it upon cast.
    2. Recaches the Juxtapose-based illusion at the fountain, or at (0, 0), for the next ability cast.
  • The cached mechanism affects the following things:
    • The illusion is not invulnerable during its split time.
    • The illusion's attributes and stats corresponds to whenever the ability was last cast.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Phantom Lancer/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
May 12, 2025 - 11:05 CEST	Tier 3		EPL Season 26			1 : 0
Apr 09, 2025 - 16:00 CEST	Tier 3		CCT Series 8			1 : 0
Apr 05, 2025 - 14:35 MSK	Tier 4		Cyber Empire			1 : 0
Apr 05, 2025 - 14:25 MSK	Tier 4		Cyber Empire			1 : 0
Mar 22, 2025 - 17:25 UTC	Qualifier		Cyber Empire: Qualifier			0 : 1

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38b
(2025-03-05)

• Increased Juxtapose illusion proc chance from 8% to 9%.

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Increased base strength from 19 to 21.
• Spirit Lance
  • ADDED the Lancelot facet.
    • Upon casting the ability, Spirit Lance-based illusion now deals a 0.25 spell damage factor on the unit-targeted enemy.
    • Does not affect the ability upgrade projectile bounce component.
• REMOVED the Doppelganger Convergence facet.
• Reduced Juxtapose illusion damage taken from 625% to 600%.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Spirit Lance
    • Reduced number of bounces from 2 to 1.
    • Increased illusion damage dealt bonus from 20% to 30%.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +35 Spirit Lance damage ➜  +1.25 Spirit Lance slow duration.  

  LVL 25  +15% Illusory Armaments damage factor bonus increased to 20%.

7.37e
(2024-11-19)

• Increased Phantom Rush agility bonus duration from 1.5 to 2.

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.

Phantom Lancer's Relics	Voice Lines
Spirit Lances Leading To Kills Doppelganger Spells Disjointed Phantom Rushes Leading To Kills Juxtapose Max Illusions Created Spells Disjointed With Manta Style Slow Duration Mana Reduction Teleports Leading To Kills Physical Damage Godlike Sprees Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ What an amazing thing!
	Silver	▶️ Such simple minds. ▶️ We come for you!
	Gold	▶️ Now this is just silly. ▶️ We have more where that came from.
	Platinum	▶️ Numbers have accomplished what strategy alone could not.
	Master	▶️ We outnumbered you. We outnumber them all!
	Grandmaster	▶️ From one: an army.

Trivia

• In DotA, Phantom Lancer uses the model of Grommash Hellscream, a campaign-only variant of the Orc Blademaster hero.
  • However, he had custom textures, a fan-made interpretation of Kimahri Ronso, a playable character in the RPG game "Final Fantasy X".
  • To stay true to the DotA model and skin, his Dota 2 design still captures several aspects of Kimahri: A humanoid feline with blue skin.
  • His default equipment was roughly kept as well, still wielding a halberd and wearing light leather armor with a single pauldron.
  • Besides Ancient Apparition and Enigma who have fully custom models, Phantom Lancer is the only hero with a custom skin.

• Before Monkey King was announced and released, Phantom Lancer was commonly thought to be the representation of Sun Wukong.
  • These rumors started through leaked content from older DotA maps, where codes related to a hero named Monkey King were found.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

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  Trading card art & Loading screen

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  Concept art

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  Phantom lancer sucker-punching some Veiled Sister

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  Artifact artwork of Phantom lancer

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  Artifact artwork of Phantom Lancer Illusion

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  Artifact artwork of Phantom Lancer using Doppleganger

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead