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Riki/Old Abilities
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Permanent Invisibility (6.82-6.85b)
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Permanent Invisibility (6.82-6.85b)Passive
Affects
Self
Riki fades into the shadows, becoming invisible and gaining additional health regeneration. If Riki attacks an enemy, he will become visible.
Fade Delay: 8/6/4/2
Invis Health Regen: 6/8/10/12
Riki comes for you.
- This ability got replaced by Cloak and Dagger in the 6.86 gameplay patch.
- Riki does not auto attack enemies while invisible.
- Riki turns instantly invisible after respawning, causing him not to be visible right after using Aegis of the Immortal.
- Restores health in the form of health regeneration, so it regenerates 0.6/0.8/1/1.2 health in 0.1 second intervals, which is 6/8/10/12 health per second.
- Can restore up to 360/480/600/720 health in one minute.
- The regeneration is disabled whenever he breaks out of his invisibility, not when he is revealed.
- Casting spells or using items does not break the invisibility.
- The ability icon shows a cooldown whenever the invisibility is broken, to show the player when he turns invisible again.
Illusions do not get the HP regeneration.
Hidden modifier
Invisible
Blink Strike (Pre 6.82)
[edit]Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Cast Range: 700
Damage: 30/60/90/120
20/15/10/5
50
The Stealth Assassin's agile movement makes him impossible to escape.
- This ability got reworked into the following Blink Strike (6.82-6.85b) in the 6.82 gameplay patch.
- The bonus damage is independent from Riki's attack damage and is instantly dealt to the target.
- Always Teleports Riki behind the target.
- When targeting an enemy, Riki receives the Blinkstrike buff.
- This buff makes his next attack apply an ensured Backstab, regardless of angle.
- This means when the target manages to turn around before Riki's attack hits, it still applies the backstab.
- The buff lasts for 1 attack, or for up to 1 second, whichever happens first.
- The buff is used up upon starting an attack, not upon landing it, so canceling or missing the attack wastes it.
- The 1 second duration allows Riki to use the ensured backstab against other units than the Blink Strike target if quick enough.
- Riki is ordered to attack the target if it is an enemy.
- Can be cast on allies without damaging them.
Hidden modifier
Permanent Invisibility (Pre 6.00)
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Permanent Invisibility (Pre 6.00)Passive
Affects
Self
Hero becomes permanently invisible when not attacking.
Fade Delay: 3/2.3/1.6
- This ability got reworked into the following Permanent Invisibility in the 6.00 gameplay patch.
- Can only be leveled on level 5/10/15.
- Riki does not auto attack enemies while invisible.
- Silence disables Permanent Invisibility. Once the silence fades, Riki has to go through the fade delay again.
- Beginning to cast spells or using items, or beginning an attack immediately breaks the invisibility.
Blink (Pre 6.00)
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BlinkPoint
Affects
Self
Short distance teleportation that allows one to move in and out of combat.
Cast Animation: 0.33 + 0.51
Cast Range: Global
Max Blink Distance: 1000/1075/1150/1150
12/9/7/5
60
Details
- This ability got replaced by Blink Strike in the 6.00 gameplay patch.
- Disjoints projectiles upon cast.
- Does not blink for the full distance when targeting closer than the max distance.
- When targeting beyond the max blink distance, Riki blinks for the max distance towards the targeted point.
Sleeping Dart (7.28-7.32e)
[edit]Fires a dart at the target enemy, putting them to sleep. The target will wake up at the end of the duration or if they take too much damage. Upon waking up, the target takes damage and is slowed.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.57
Cast Range: 600
Wakeup Damage Threshold: 200
Damage: 150
Move Speed Slow: 30%
Slow Duration: 4
Sleep Duration: 3
15
75
- Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.
- The projectile travels at a speed of 1600.
- Applies sleep on affected units, preventing them from acting, until woken up.
- The target wakes up only after cumulatively taking 150 damage.
- The counter counts damage after all reductions.
- Sleeping units are never automatically attacked, regardless of auto attack settings.
- This means that sleeping units are never attacked by lane creeps, neutral creeps, towers and fountains.
- Players can still force an attack order on the target (
Right Click or A).
- Both the damage and the movement speed slow are applied upon losing the sleep debuff, no matter how.
- This means dispelling it applies the effects as well.
- The debuff first applies the movement speed slow, then the damage.
Blocked upon impact.
Requires drafting Cloak and Dagger to be unlocked.
Sleeping Dart: Knocked out by Riki's poison dart.
Missing tooltip
Backstab (Pre 6.86)
[edit]- This ability got replaced by Cloak and Dagger in the 6.86 gameplay patch.
- Backstab damage is applied when attacking and denying allies.
- A unit's back is considered to be within 105 degrees from the back.
- The bonus damage is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well.
- It can be lifestealed off of, but it is not considered by crit or cleave.
- It is also not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions, but can be reduced with flat reductions.
- The sound effect plays at the start of the attack, but the damage is applied on hit.
Illusions play the backstab sound upon attacking from behind, but do not deal any bonus damage.
Hidden modifier
Critical Strike (Pre 6.00)
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Critical StrikePassive
Affects
Enemies
Gives a chance to do more damage on an attack.
Proc Chance: 15%
Critical Damage: 150%/200%/250%/300%
- This ability got replaced by Backstab in the 6.00 gameplay patch.
Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.
Blink Strike (6.82-6.85b)
[edit]Teleports behind the target unit, striking for bonus damage if it is an enemy. Blink Strike charges restore every 35 seconds.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Cast Range: 800
Damage: 40/70/100
Number of Charges: 4/5/6
Charge Replenish Time: 35
40
The Stealth Assassin's agile movement makes him impossible to escape.
- This ability got reworked into the current Blink Strike in the 6.86 gameplay patch.
- When learning the first level of Blink Strike, Riki instantly has the 4 charges. However, leveling it up does not instantly grant the 5th or 6th charge.
- The bonus damage is independent from Riki's attack damage and is instantly dealt to the target.
- Always Teleports Riki behind the target.
- When targeting an enemy, Riki receives the Blinkstrike buff.
- This buff makes his next attack apply an ensured Backstab, regardless of angle.
- This means when the target manages to turn around before Riki's attack hits, it still applies the backstab.
- The buff lasts for 1 attack, or for up to 1 second, whichever happens first.
- The buff is used up upon starting an attack, not upon landing it, so canceling or missing the attack wastes it.
- The 1 second duration allows Riki to use the ensured backstab against other units than the Blink Strike target if quick enough.
- Riki is ordered to attack the target if it is an enemy.
- Can be cast on allies without damaging them.
- Can be cast on couriers.
Still loses a charge when blocked.
Blink Strike Charges: You may cast Blink Strike whenever there is a charge available.
Hidden modifier
Permanent Invisibility (Pre 6.82)
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Permanent Invisibility (Pre 6.82)Passive
Affects
Self
Riki fades into the shadows, staying permanently invisible except while attacking. While silenced, Riki will be visible.
Fade Delay: 3/2/1
Riki comes for you.
- This ability got reworked into the following Permanent Invisibility (6.82-6.85b) in the 6.82 gameplay patch.
- Riki does not auto attack enemies while invisible.
- Silence disables Permanent Invisibility. However, when the silence fades, Riki turns instantly invisible.
- Riki turns instantly invisible after respawning, causing him to be not visible right after using Aegis of the Immortal.
- Casting spells or using items does not break the invisibility.
Hidden modifier
Invisible
Death Ward (Pre 6.00)
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Death WardSummons a deadly trap to attack enemy heroes.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Cast Range: 600
Number of Attack Targets: 1/1/2/2
Damage per Attack: 65/85/125/180
Duration: 15
210/190/150/125
200/300/400/500
Details
- This ability got replaced by Permanent Invisibility in the 6.00 gameplay patch.
- Despite being an ultimate, this ability had 4 levels. Its level requirements were 6/11/16/21.
- This ability requires no channeling and the summoned ward is not invulnerable.
- The Death Ward automatically attacks the closest enemy hero within its attack range.
- It is possible to manually give the ward an attack target by just right-clicking an enemy hero in range.
- Can only attack heroes and illusions.
- At level 3 and 4, the ward can attack 2 enemies at the same time.
Splash Damage 
Passive
Affects
Enemies
Adds a splash damage to Death Ward.
Full Damage Radius: 50
Half Damage Radius: 75/100/100
Quarter Damage Radius: 150/200/200
Bounce Damage Reduction: 0%/20%/20%