Ringmaster
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Ringmaster
21 + 2.1
13 + 1.4
25 + 3
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +46.2HP and +0.21HP regeneration | |
| +0.23 armor and 1.4 attack speed | |
| +36MP and +0.15MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +3 Main Attack Damage | |
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1200 Projectile Speed
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100 (113)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.5 + 0.93
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0.6
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Motor
Gib Type | ||
Competitive Span
2025-02-19 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.38c) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Directs the battle with fear and mesmerism. | |
|---|---|
| All the battlefield's a stage, and Ringmaster is the gleeful director standing in the Spotlight. Controlling the stage with a showman's flare, Cogliostro tames beasts with a fearsome crack of his whip, displays his Impalement Arts with knives flying to and fro, and performing his famous Escape Act, getting allies and himself out of impossible situations unharmed. Now to the highlight of the show, Cogliostro conjures the Wheel of Wonder, leaving the entire crowd mesmerized. Oh and don't forget your souvenir! With fun choices such as a wacky Funhouse Mirror to create an mirror image, an invigorating Strongman Tonic, and the all-time classic Whoopee Cushion that sends you flying! | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Carny Classics
Sideshow Secrets
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Deals damage and releases Impalement Art daggers of its corresponding level with reduced range in all directions, centered around the affected allied unit.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Grants Ringmaster the Spotlight ability.
Talents[edit]
| Escape Act Applies Escape Act Grants | 25 | +100 Wheel of Wonder Radius/Distance |
|---|---|---|
| +75 Tame the Beasts Min Damage +300 Tame the Beasts Max Damage | 20 | +1s Impalement Arts Debuff/Slow Duration |
| Tame the Beasts Grants | 15 | +1 Impalement Arts Penetrate Target |
| +200 Escape Act Cast Range | 10 | +75 Tame the Beasts Radius |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
Dress rehearsal is over -- now it's showtime.▶️Cogliostro Kettle, the Ringmaster
Aliases:
RM, Marionetto, Cogliostro
Lore:
Welcome, welcome, one and all — to a stage-lit extravaganza for the ages! Prepare to have your senses shattered! Your expectations demolished! Your Ancients smashed to ruins!
Witness the impossible feats and derring-do of the one and only clockwork marvel, the Great Cogliostro Kettle — Ringmaster, torture artist, genius in his own time — here now for the sole agony and entertainment of any hero bold enough to draw back the crimson carnival curtain and behold what mysteries await inside.
The mistake most maestros make is waiting for the public to come to them. The Ringmaster knows you need to go out and find your audience! Drag them to you. And make them watch.
Witness the impossible feats and derring-do of the one and only clockwork marvel, the Great Cogliostro Kettle — Ringmaster, torture artist, genius in his own time — here now for the sole agony and entertainment of any hero bold enough to draw back the crimson carnival curtain and behold what mysteries await inside.
The mistake most maestros make is waiting for the public to come to them. The Ringmaster knows you need to go out and find your audience! Drag them to you. And make them watch.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Dark Carnival Barker[edit]
Passive
Affects
Self
The Ringmaster receives a random single-use souvinir ability whenever an enemy hero dies within certain proximity of him.
Additional souvenirs are held as charges.
Additional souvenirs are held as charges.
Enemy Death Radius: 925
Grants a charge whenever Ringmaster respawns, including Reincarnation sources, if he does not have a Souvenir.
Charge per Respawn: 1
Grants one of three souvenirs per enemy hero death — the Funhouse Mirror, the Whoopee Cushion, or the Strongman Tonic.
- The Souvenir pseudo-item abilities are in the fourth ability slot.
- Grants charges for the following pseudo-item abilities, with its current charges displayed on Ringmaster's HUD:
- Funhouse Mirror
- Whoopee Cushion
- Strongman Tonic
- The first granted ability of the next cycle cannot be the same as last granted ability of the previous cycle.
- The aformentioned abilities have the following properties:
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Reduces the current charges by 1 upon a souvenir ability cast.
- Grants a random souvenir, with its corresponding icon displayed above Ringmaster's head upon proc.
- The new granted ability goes on a 3-second shared
cooldown.
- Grants a charge in the following
on-death effects:
- Upon the enemy hero's
death, including from
denies, within the death radius.
- Considers the Spirit Bear and Meepo Clones as heroes;
illusions,
The Double and other
creep-heroes as creeps.
- Ringmaster has to be credited for the kill to gain charges outside the death radius, excluding Ringmaster's
player-controlled units.
- Upon the enemy hero's
- Does not grant charges in the following conditions:
- Killing an allied hero.
- From
reincarnation sources.
- Although there is no limit to the pseudo-item abilities Ringmaster can gather, the ability visually displays a max 99 charges of all three selected souvenir abilities.
Souvenir Slot[edit]
Souvenir Slot
Passive
Affects
Self
This ability slot is empty by default. The Ringmaster gathers souvenirs from kills and assists.
Details
- The Souvenir Slot is empty by default and is in the fourth ability slot while Ringmaster has no souvenirs.
Funhouse Mirror[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Creates an imperfect, proportionally distorted image of the Ringmaster.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Split Time: 0.2
These images are illusions that deals a portion of Ringmaster's damage and receives additional incoming damage.
Number of Illusions: 1
Damage Dealt: 
28%
Damage Taken: 
300%
Duration: 18
Only the Ringmaster's Funhouse-based illusions will have a different proportions.
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
- Only available with the
Carny Classics facet selected.
- The ability has the following properties:
- Affected by
mute sources, but not
silence sources.
- Interrupts Ringmaster's
channeling abilities upon cast.
- Affected by
- Grants the following bonuses during the split time:
- Grants a
1000-radius
flying vision centered around Ringmaster.
- Ringmaster is
hidden and
invulnerable.
- Grants a
- The Funhouse-based illusion is visually distinguisable from Ringmaster for everyone.
- Spawns in the following sequence following Ringmaster's
facing angle:
- South
East
- South
- The illusion bounty is defined as:
- EXPR
2 × IllusionLVL
- Recasting the ability does not replaces all Funhouse-based illusions from the current instance.
- Creates one out of three types of illusion-based hero model proportions:
- Large head with small legs.
- Large arms with small head.
- Large legs with small arms.
Illusion
- Has a 33%
melee hero.
- The spawn distance from Ringmaster has the following properties:
- EXPR
Distance = 108 , if CasterColSize = 27 - EXPR
Distance = 72 , if CasterColSize = 18
- The health bar ratio corresponds to the create illusion's proportion.
- Has a 33%
- The Funhouse-based illusion that has large legs with small arms has the following properties:
- Grants a 0.2-second
buff that accelerates the model's animation.
- Has a
1.5model size factor.
- Grants a 0.2-second
Whoopee Cushion[edit]
No
Affects
Self / Enemy Units
Leaps forward and leaves behind a whoopsie-cloud that applies movement speed slow on affected enemy units for a period of time.
Cast Animation: 0 + 1.1
Leap Distance: 400
Effect Radius: 200
Move Speed Slow: 30%
Slow Duration: 3
Aura Linger Duration: 0
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
- Only available with the
- The ability has the following properties:
- Affected by
- Does not disjoint incoming
projectiles upon cast.
- Affected by
- Applies an
upward movement, and leaps at 1300-speed over 0.31 seconds, with a ≈ 110-height.
- Leaps forward, and locks Ringmaster's
facing direction while leaping.
- The leap duration varies corresponding to the terrain.
- Can leap over other units and impassable terrain.
- During Whoopie Cushion, Ringmaster can attack, use item abilities, cast abilities.
- However, since he cannot turn, targeted abilities and items may only be used in the direction he is facing.
- Applies an
- Creates a negative
aura centered around the ability cast location upon cast, that applies
movement speed slow to affected enemy units within the radius.
- This immediately affects enemy units upon the
debuff application.
- This immediately affects enemy units upon the
Whoopee Cushion: Movement speed reduced by x%.
Strongman Tonic[edit]
Unit
Affects
Allied Heroes
Grants bonus 
strength per Ringmaster's hero level.
The bonuses hold for a short time, and then decay over the duration.
The bonuses hold for a short time, and then decay over the duration.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.8
Cast Range: 
750
Base Str Bonus: 
5
Str Bonus per Hero Level: 1
Max Str Duration: 4
Buff Duration: 8
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
This ability levels up with Ringmaster.
- Only available with the
- The ability has the following properties:
- Affected by
- Grants the following ability bonuses upon
Doubletap casts the ability on Ringmaster, and utilizes the
projectile speed as well.
- The
current health and max health accordingly.
- False Promise considers this component as a valid heal instance.
- Affected by
- Considers
clones,
- The
- Has a 4-second max value
- Gradually decreases per
server tick after the max value buff duration, and is defined as:
- EXPR
Rate = Str × 0.0083% × f(ServerTick) - Reduces the max health of the affected allied unit while keeping the
- Has a 4-second max value
- Does not affect the following units:
- However, airborne
Strongman Tonic: Temporary gaining x Strength.
- Has a 1400-
- Has a 1400-
- Has a
1.3- Has no impact on the affected unit's
collision size.
- Can be cast on other
attributes.
- Has no impact on the affected unit's
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The bonus
- The
- The bonus
Crystal Ball[edit]
D
D
Crystal BallPoint
Affects
Enemy Heroes
Scans a targeted area and indicates whether there are enemy heroes in that area for the duration. Reveals invisible units and wards in the scanned area, but does not provide vision. The reveal effect lingers for a little while.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.8
Cast Range: Global
Scan Duration: 4
Linger Duration: 1
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
This ability levels up with Ringmaster.
Details
- Only available with the
Sideshow Secrets facet selected.
- TBD
Unicycle[edit]
D
D
UnicycleSelf
Affects
Enemy Units
After a short preparation, Ringmaster mounts a speedy unicycle to ride around on. Crashing into trees destroys them and slows the unicycle. Attacking, taking damage above a threshold or crashing into units and other obstacles dismounts the rider.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.8
Preparation Duration: 0.5
Min Duration: 1.5
Max Duration: 10
Dismount Damage Threshold: 20
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
This ability levels up with Ringmaster.
Details
- Only available with the
- The dismount damage component is ignored during the minimum duration.
- TBD
Weighted Pie[edit]
D
D
Weighted PieUnit
Affects
Enemy Units
Tosses a pie at a target enemy, knocking them back, slowing them and reducing their vision. Movement speed and vision recover over the effect duration during which the target's allies won't share their vision with them. The pie instantly kills any non-ancient creep.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.8
Cast Range: 750
Set Initial Vision: 50
Move Speed Slow: 45%
Effect Duration: 2
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
All three selected souvenir abilities shares the same cooldown.
Downtime: 3
This ability levels up with Ringmaster.
Details
- Only available with the
- TBD
Hero Model[edit]
Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
Abilities[edit]
Tame the Beasts[edit]
Twirls his whip up to a certain duration then cracks it.
The longer the channel time, the lesser the radius.
The longer the channel time, the lesser the radius.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Cast Range: 700
Max Channel Time: 1
Effect Delay: 0.2
Start Radius: 450 (
525)
End Radius: 200 ( 275)
Magic Resist Bonus: (
50%)
Max Debuff Immune Duration: ( 1)
Deals damage and applies a caster-fear on affected enemy units.
The longer the channel time, the greater the damage and the fear duration.
The longer the channel time, the greater the damage and the fear duration.
Min Damage: 45/70/95/120 (
45.25/70.25/95.25/120.25)
Max Damage: 180/280/380/480 ( 181/281/381/481)
Min Fear Duration: 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4
Max Fear Duration: 0.6/0.8/1/1.2
16/14/12/10
90/105/120/135
From unhappy crowds to unruly acts, nothing persuades a pack of animals quite like the crack of the Ringmaster's whip.
- The values change per
- The total
magical
spell damage is defined as:
- EXPR
ΣSpellDmg = MinDmg × 2 ^ (CurrentTick / 15)
- The
1x2x3x4xability effects above Ringmaster appear as follows per nth channeling intervals:- 2nd (
0.067s)0.5s)0.767s)0.967s).
- 2nd (
- The
caster-fear duration increases linearly per channel instance.
- The total
- The effect radius reduces linearly by per channel instance.
- The outer area-targeting reticule becomes smaller correspondingly to the
- The following conditions proc the current ability cast:
- Either upon reaching the max
disable sources.
- Upon Ringmaster's
- The Crack
sub-ability cast.
- Either upon reaching the max
- 0.2 seconds after the
- The effects applied do not utilize
-
Pure damage instances affect the self
debuff immunity granted while channeling.
- 0.2 seconds after the
- The
- Reapplying the fear
- Sets the fear-affected hero's current movement speed as its base movement speed.
- Grants the affected enemy
phase movement.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- The
Tame the Beasts: Running in fear.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
- The
- The
3xand4xintervals are values after reductions.
- The ability values changes per
- 2.13/3.31/4.49/5.68 (
- 0.017/0.02/0.023/0.027-second
- 2.13/3.31/4.49/5.68 (
- 8.333-radius.
- Grants the following bonuses while active:
- Has 62.5%
magic resistance.
- Tame the Beasts increases the total
intelligence points.
- Has 62.5%
Crack[edit]
Q
Q
CrackNo
Affects
Self
*CRACK*
The Ringmaster cracks his whip whenever he wishes while channeling.
The Ringmaster cracks his whip whenever he wishes while channeling.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Max Duration: 1
0.5
Details
- The Crack
- Replaces Tame the Beasts until the
- Cannot be
shift-queued.
- Replaces Tame the Beasts until the
Escape Act[edit]
Packs and transforms himself or an allied hero into a mobile, extradimensional box.
Boxed units gain phased movement, slow resistance, bonus magic resistance, and bonus movement speed. They are also untargetable, muted, silenced, and disarmed.
The untargetable box pops open after the effect expires or whenever the affected allied hero moves out of the radius.
Boxed units gain phased movement, slow resistance, bonus magic resistance, and bonus movement speed. They are also untargetable, muted, silenced, and disarmed.
The untargetable box pops open after the effect expires or whenever the affected allied hero moves out of the radius.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Transformation Time: 0.5
Ring Radius: 500
Move Speed Bonus: 5%/10%/15%/20%
Magic Resist Bonus: 50%/60%/70%/80%
Slow Resist Bonus: 100%
Duration: 2/2.4/2.8/3.2
Grants the volunteer within Ringmaster's Escape Act an animation speed bonus, both while being packed into the box, and while escaping from the box.
Buff Duration: 0.5
Talent Upgrade
Applies a strong dispel on the target on cast and grants them unobstructed movement during the spell duration.
Applies a strong dispel on the target on cast and grants them unobstructed movement during the spell duration.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Deals damage and releases Impalement Art daggers of its corresponding level with reduced range in all directions, centered around the affected allied unit.
Deals damage and releases Impalement Art daggers of its corresponding level with reduced range in all directions, centered around the affected allied unit.
Damage Radius: (
275)
Damage: ( 300)
Number of Daggers: ( 8)
Max Travel Distance: ( 1200)
( Cooldown)
( 2)
38/32/26/20
80
An adept assistant has nothing to fear within the confines of The Box. An amateur has...much darker prospects indeed.
- Considers
- The
transformation does not persist
- While transforming, the affected allied hero
- Hence, this ability has an effective 1.5/1.9/2.3/2.7-second duration on the affected allied hero.
- While transforming, the affected allied hero
- Has the following properties after the 0.5-second transformation time:
- Disjoint incoming
- Attack immune.
Disarm
Untargetable for both allied and enemy units.
- Applies a
strong dispel on the affected allied hero.
Unobstructed movement.
- Applies a
- Disjoint incoming
- Reapplying the
- Considers
- The
- For enemy units, attacks and targeted abilities on the affected allied hero which are already in its attack or cast animation is canceled.
- However, this does not prevent
Spell Reflection source procs.
- However, this does not prevent
- Certain abilities do bypass unselectability conditionally. However, generally all other abilities treats the affected ally as if they were
- For enemy units, attacks and targeted abilities on the affected allied hero which are already in its attack or cast animation is canceled.
- The ring radius upon cast are visible to everyone.
- Does not affect the following units:
- The following mechanics stacks multiplicatively with other sources:
Escape Act: Slow Resistance increased by x%. Movement Speed increased by x%. Magic Resistance increased by x.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The bonus hero model animation speed.
The
- The
- Grants the following bonuses while active:
- Has 62.5%/70%/77.5%/85%
- Escape Act increases the total
- Has 62.5%/70%/77.5%/85%
Impalement Arts[edit]
Fires one of his daggers to a point-targeted location.
Applies a brief movement speed slow and deals max health as damage if he strikes an enemy hero.
Applies a brief movement speed slow and deals max health as damage if he strikes an enemy hero.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 1.07
Cast Range: 2400
Projectile Width: 130
Max Targets: 1 (
2)
First Damage: 75
Max Health as Damage per Second: 3.5%/4%/4.5%/5%
Move Speed Slow: 100%
Debuff Duration: 4 (
5)
Slow Duration: 0.8 ( 1.8)
Deals a flat damage per second to creeps instead.
Damage per Second: 100
17
1/2/3/4
1
80
Passed down through generations, it simply wouldn't be a Kettle Circus without the Great Cogliostro's signature trick.
- The ability has the following properties:
- Considers
- The projectile stops traveling forward upon impact on the 1st (
- Grants a non-lingering 200-radius
- The projectile stops traveling forward upon impact on the 1st (
- Considers
- Both the
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Applies the debuff upon
- Applies a 0%
- Applies the debuff upon
- The damage over time component deals damage in 1-second intervals, 1 second after debuff application.
- Reapplying the debuff applies the first damage, then refreshes the debuff duration.
- Both the
- The damage over time ability animations are visible to allied units if they have
vision over the affected enemy units.
Impalement Arts: Taking damage over time and slowed by x%.
- Deals the following
- For heroes: 75 + 14%/16%/18%/20% (
- For creeps: 475 (
- For heroes: 75 + 14%/16%/18%/20% (
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The first
- The
- The first
Spotlight[edit]
Shines a few spotlights that sweep over an area.
Enemy units within the spotlight have a chance to miss their attacks and are revealed if invisible.
Enemy units within the spotlight have a chance to miss their attacks and are revealed if invisible.
Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.67
Cast Range: 1500
Effect Radius: 275
Miss Chance: 30%
Duration: 8
Aura Linger Duration: 0.3
Number of Spotlights: 3
The lesser images fade away, losing a percentage of their max health per interval.
Damage Interval: 0.1
Max Health as Damage per Interval: 5%
The Spotlights' trajectory is a fixed figure-eight-like shape.
Centerpoint-to-Edge Distance: 450
Peak-to-peak Amplitude: 450
50
30
Are you ready for your fifteen seconds? The limelight draws no distinction between infamy and fame.
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the fifth ability slot.
- Creates a negative
Blind uses
pseudo-random distribution.
- Grants
True Sight over affected units.
- Applies 5% max
HP Removal to enemy
- Has the following damage flags:
- No-spell-amplification
- The flags prevent the
- Has the following damage flags:
- This immediately affects enemy illusions upon the
- Considers
strong illusions as heroes.
- Applies 5% max
-
- The max
- The max
Spotlight: x% miss chance.
Wheel of Wonder[edit]
Rolls the Wheel of Wonder to the point-targeted location, knocking aside enemy units along the way.
The wheel sets up as it reaches its target, dealing damage over time and applies a movement speed slow within its radius.
The wheel sets up as it reaches its target, dealing damage over time and applies a movement speed slow within its radius.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.83
Min Travel Distance: 700
Knock Radius: 100
Knock Distance: 100
Knock Duration: 0.35
Upon reaching the point-targeted location, the wonder-wheel exerts an aura that deals damage and applies a movement speed slow.
Effect Radius: 500 (
600)
Damage per Second: 50/75/100
Move Speed Slow: 50%
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Enemy heroes who face the wonder-wheel up to a certain amount of time are mesmerized, then drawn towards it.
The first enemy mesmerized starts a countdown timer for the wheel to explode.
The first enemy mesmerized starts a countdown timer for the wheel to explode.
Enemy Facing Timer: 0.5
Turn Rate Check: 0.25
Enemy Facing Angle: ≈85°
Pull Duration: 2.5/2.75/3
Explosion Damage: 300/450/600
Explosion Countdown: 3
Stuns pulled enemy heroes when at proximity distance for the remaining duration instead, and no longer pulls them toward the wonder-wheel.
Stun Distance: 185
The whell automatically explodes if nothing procs the timer within a set duration.
Max Set-up Duration: 4
90/80/70
175/275/375
No, brave friends, illusions are for charlatans and card sharks. What you witness today is the power of true magic. But only if you dare set your gaze upon...the mesmerizing wheel.
- All ability components have the following properties:
- Not affected by status resistance sources.
- Considers
- Multiple Wheel of Wonders independently apply its own
16
-
This unit is unselectable and untargetable.
The ability itself does not grant vision. However, the Wheel Decoy does, as it mesmerizes its opponents.
The ability itself does not grant vision. However, the Wheel Decoy does, as it mesmerizes its opponents.
-
-
-
Lvl
0
0
0%
1800 • 800
This unit does not attack.
0
0 (x̄)
This unit does not feel the effects from any damage sources.
It cannot be targeted by attacks or abilities and have its health bar temporarily hidden.
It cannot be targeted by attacks or abilities and have its health bar temporarily hidden.
- The Wheel Decoy has an 80-
bound radius and an 80-
- The
ward-type unit always rolls the full min travel distance, from Ringmaster's current position until it reaches the point-targeted location.
- When
CastDistance < PointDistance, the ability range indicator will always be centered at the final location of the roll.
- When
- Grants a non-lingering 400-radius
Trees within 150-radius are destroyed while traveling, centered around the unit.
- The Wheel of Wonder currently has all lightbulbs turned on.
- Applies a non-disabling
- Has a fixed knock distance, no matter how far the affected unit is from the center of the radius.
- Both the knock distance and duration is affected jumping up or down either a ramp or impassable terrain.
- Applies a non-disabling
- The
wheel_debuff- Creates a negative
- The
- Deals 25/37.5/50
- The
- Creates a negative
- The
- Both
wheel_mesmerize_facing- Can only be
dispelled in the following conditions:
- After the Wheel Decoy explodes.
- Upon the affected enemy unit's
- Upon the
wheel_mesmerize_pull
- Considers the enemy being in front of the Wheel, when the Wheel is within ≈170° of a circular segment of the affected enemy, regardless of the Wheel's
- Affected units have an over-head swirl indicator, indicating that it is current accumulating the facing time.
- The time accumulated clears once the affected unit faces away from the Wheel.
- Considers the enemy being in front of the Wheel, when the Wheel is within ≈170° of a circular segment of the affected enemy, regardless of the Wheel's
- Can only be
wheel_mesmerize_pull- Procs the following ability effects whenever an enemy hero within the radius
wheel_mesmerize_facingdebuff on enemy units, if any.- Applies the
wheel_mesmerize_pulldebuff. - Procs the explosion countdown duration.
- Applies the following ability effects on affected enemy heroes:
- A max
Stuns affected enemy units at
≤ 185-distancefrom the Wheel, the affected units no longer- Grants both
- A max
- Procs the following ability effects whenever an enemy hero within the radius
- Both
- The Wheel has a different animation for the 3-second explosion countdown duration, and cannot be stopped.
- During the countdown, the Wheel may still apply the
wheel_mesmerize_pull
- The cast range and effect radius increasing
-
wheel_mesmerize_facing- Does not apply the debuff on current
- Does not affect the enemy
wheel_mesmerize_pull, for current
- Does not apply the debuff on current
Wheel of Wonder: Slowed by x% and taking damage over time.
Wheel of Wonder: Becoming mesmerized while looking at the wheel.
Wheel of Wonder: Mesmerized by the wheel.
- Deals the following amount of
- 125/206.25/300 damage with the
- 425/656.25/900 total damage with the explosion damage.
- 125/206.25/300 damage with the
wheel_mesmerize_pull- Applies both the
≤ 185-distancefrom the Wheel once they accumulate the 0.5-second facing time. - The debuff can be applied to affected units at different point of the hypnotising-fear duration. However, it will always ends upon the Wheel's explosion.
- Applies both the
- The ability effects are applied as follows while traveling:
- The
- The
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Ringmaster/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 01, 2025 - 20:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 25 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Apr 01, 2025 - 20:00 CEST | Qualifier | DreamLeague S26 WEU CQ | 0 : 1 | |||||
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Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Crystal Ball now indicates the exact position of each enemy hero within the radius without revealing their identity.
- Unicycle
- Now has a 20-min damage threshold.
- Now has a 1.5-second min duration, and no longer gets knocked off from any damage for the duration after mounting the unicycle.
- Now can cast non-channeling abilities and Activate Runes without dismounting the unicycle.
- Weighted Pie now applies a 45% movement speed slow that gradually decreases over the debuff duration.
- ADDED to Captain's Mode.
- REMOVED
Center Stage.
- Dark Carnival Barker
- ADDED
- Has the following souvenirs items:
- ADDED
- Has the following souvenirs items:
- Crystal Ball
- Reveals invisible enemy units and Observer and Sentry Wards within 450 radius. Has a 1-second linger duration.
- Does not grant vision.
- Has
Global cast range.
- Unicycle
- Grants a 10-second movement speed bonus.
- Has a 0.5-second effect delay.
- Crashing into trees slows the unicycle.
- Dispels the buff upon attacking, using abilities, taking damage, picking up runes, or crashing into units and other obstacles dismounts the rider.
- Weighted Pie
- Unit-targeted ability with 750-cast range.
- Applies a 50-set vision radius. The debuff-affected enemy recovers its vision over 2 seconds.
- The target's allied units do not provide vision over them over the duration.
- Deals 100% * CurrentHP damage to non-ancient creeps.
- Crystal Ball
- Has the following souvenirs items:
- ADDED
- ADDED
- Escape Act
- Replaces the 38/32/26/20-second cooldown with 2 charges that have a 38/32/26/20-second replenish time.
- Releases 8 Impalement Arts daggers, and deals 300 magical spell damage within 275 radius to enemy units centered around the affected ally unit once the duration expires.
- Has a 0.5 travel distance factor.
- Escape Act
- Spotlight
- Reduced radius from 550 to 275.
- Now creates 3 separate spotlights each sweeping independently from each other.
- Spotlight
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.
| Ringmaster's Relics | Voice Lines | |
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Multi-Hero Whips Full Charge Whips Landed Multi-Hero Mesmerizes Mesmerized Hero Kills Long Range Dagger Hits Enemy Ward Kills Dusts Leading to Kills Smokes Leading to Kills Spells Disjointed Triple Kills Dominating Kill Streaks Wards Placed Kill Assists Kills |
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]
- Ringmaster currently has no equipment.
Trivia[edit]
- The first part Ringmaster's name "Cogliostro" may be a reference to Alessandro Cagliostro, who was an italian adventurer and magician, similar to Ringmaster now.
- The 'A' in Cagliostro was also changed into an 'O' to create a pun, since Ringmaster has visible cogs within his body.
- Impalement Arts's sound effects (▶️ cast sound, and ▶️▶️▶️ hit sounds) are direct samples from the song Sabre Dance.
- Several of Ringmaster's responses are pop culture references:
- Most lines are references to clowns, marionettes, and puppets of varying movies and other media.
- The line ▶️ "What's in the box? Me!" is a reference to a specific scene from the movie Se7en, known as the box scene.[1]
- The line ▶️ "Time to cut a smile on some faces!" is a reference to the Joker from the movie "The Dark Knight", who is a twisted clown figure with the famous self-inflicted "glasgow smile".
- The line ▶️ "Like a real boy. Ha." is a reference to Pinochio, who is a marionette with the dream to become a real boy.
- The lines ▶️ "Three rings of torture!" and ▶️ "A master for each ring." are a reference to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, nodding to his title as the -Ring-master.
- In the lines ▶️▶️ and ▶️▶️, Ringmaster is singing the melody of the song "Pop! Goes the Weasel", a tune very commonly used by Jack-in-the-box toys.
- In the lines ▶️▶️ and ▶️▶️, Ringmaster is singing the melody of the song "Entrance of the Gladiators", a tune that is nowadays strongly associated with circuses.
- The line ▶️ "Should've stolen a little keen car." references clown cars, which are comically small cars from which an unbelievable amount of clowns emerge, as a common trick in circuses. In Dota, the Keen are a race of small humanoids.
- The line ▶️ "I don't use carrots -- only sticks." is a play on the carrot and stick metaphor.
- The line ▶️ "Where there's a whip..." is a reference to The Return of the King (1980 film), specifically to the song "Where There's a Whip (There's a Way)". [2]
- The lines ▶️ "Round and round she goes." and ▶️ "Where it stops, no one knows." are a reference to The Original Amateur Hour, an American radio and tv show.
- ▶️ "Ashes to ashes, dirt to dirt." is a play on the phrase "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" from the funeral service from the Book of Common Prayer.
- ▶️ "Exit, stage left" is an idiom, refering to an uneventful departure from the stage, as to make way for more interesting events.
- The line ▶️ "Sorry. Fairies only live if the audience claps." is a reference to the 1954 PeterPan musical, specifically the scene where Tinkerbell tells Peter Pan that if every boy and girl who believes in fairies would clap their hands, she would live. Peter Pan then breaks the 4th wall and asks the audience to clap their hands to save her, which they do.
- The line ▶️ "What do you do with a drunken sailor? Personally, I like killing them." is a reference to the widely known sea shanty "Drunken Sailor".
- The line ▶️ "You remind me of a monkey I once saw sewn to a fish. It was dead too." is a reference to the Fiji mermaid, which is the torso of a monkey sewn to the back half of a fish.
- The line ▶️ "Good night, moon." may be a reference to the childrens' book Goodnight Moon.
- The line ▶️ "If you prick me, will you not bleed?" is a reference to The Merchant of Venice, a play from William Shakespear. The original quote goes "... If you prick us, do we not bleed? ..."
- The line ▶️ "Santa Sangre!" may be a reference to the film Santa Sangre. Literally, "Santa Sangre" translates to "Holy Blood".
- The line ▶️ "Deus Ex Staff-ina" is a play on deus ex machina, which is a term for a plot device in shows and movies whereby a critical situation is somehow overcome through the means of the unexpected. The line is used upon purchasing Eul's Scepter of Divinity, which can be refered to as an in-game Deus Ex Machina, as it is commonly used as an escape tool.
- The line ▶️ "Where I come from, discord is high art. is a reference to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The line is used upon purchasing Veil of Discord. In the show, John de Lancie – the voice actor of Ringmaster – also voices Discord, one of the main antagonists of the show. His voice performance on both characters is also remarkably similar.
- The line ▶️ "You think you're a tragedy but, really, you're a comedy." is a reference to the 2019 film Joker. The original quote goes "I used to think that my life is a tragedy, but now I realize it's a fucking comedy."
- ▶️ "It's time. Play the music. Light the lights!" is a reference to the opening theme of The Muppet Show, where the first verse of the lyrics goes "It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights".
Gallery[edit]
Teaser During The International 12
Splashart from the release news
Ringmaster's release banner
Souvenir ticket item used in the HUD
Pop icons