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Roshan

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For Roshan as he appears in holiday events, see Roshan (Diretide 2012) and Roshan (Diretide 2013)
Roshan
Ancient Neutral Creep
6000
+20
This unit has no mana.
Level 30
Armor 30
Magic Resistance 55%
Status Resistance 25%
Slow Resistance 25%
Attack Damage Default
75
Attack Range MeleeMelee 150
Acquisition Range 150
Attack Speed 1 attack(s) per second. 200 • 2s BAT
Attack Animation 0.6+0.3
Projectile Speed 1000
Move Speed 270 (100)
Turn Rate Takes 0.105s to turn 180°. 1
Collision Size 27
Bound Radius 24
Vision Range (G) 1400
Bounty Gold
+ 		200–290
135 Team Bounty
Experience 400 + 20/min
Model Scale 1
Abilities Roar of Retribution
Slam
Bash
Spell Block
Throw
Strength of the Immortal
On The Move
Intern
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Roshan, the Immortal is a powerful neutral creep boss who can be found within dedicated lairs within the center river. Roshan's strength grows as time passes, continuously growing stronger throughout the match. As his name implies, he is immortal; When killed, he respawns after a while.

The team that kills Roshan is generously rewarded with gold and experience, as well as several powerful items that cannot be acquired in any other way. As such, Roshan is highly contested, and taking him down requires team coordination.

Abilities

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Roar of Retribution

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Q
Q
Roar of Retribution
Affects
Enemy Units
Damage
Spell / Magical
When facing the team that last killed him, Roshan releases an angry roar that can be heard everywhere on the map, damaging and disarming everyone around him, and increasing the damage they take.
Effect Delay: 0.5
Radius: 600
Damage: 50
Incoming Damage Amplification: Affects the incoming ability value negatively of the affected unit. 25%
Disarm Duration: 2
Aura Duration: 12
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
The roar's damage increases as time passes.
Damage Growth per Minute: 10
Roshan only casts this when his health is below the threshold, and when he is damaged by an enemy hero of the team that slayed the last time, within a certain radius around him.

Roshan can roar even while disabled or silenced, and has a strong dispel applied on him when doing so.
Search Radius: 800
Health Threshold: 85%
60
Mana Cost
0
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  • Roshan casts Roar of Retribution if he has been aggroed by the hero from the same team that last killed him and is below 85% health.
  • On cast, Roshan receives a modifier that lasts for 0.5 seconds.
    • The modifier fully disables Roshan, preventing him from moving and attacking.
    • Upon losing the modifier, the damage is applied, and a 25% range aura around Roshan is created, that applies the debuff.
    • The aura lasts 12 seconds and lingers for 0.5 seconds.
  • When cast, a message appears on screen for all players:
    • Roshan has roared! He is being attacked by The Radiant/Dire!
  • Roar of Retribution first creates the aura, then applies the damage.
Buff modifier_roshan_revengeroar_windupOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Missing tooltip
Buff modifier_roshan_revengeroar_auraOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Hidden modifier
Debuff modifier_roshan_revengeroar_disarmOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Roared: Disarmed by Roar of Retribution. Cannot attack.
Debuff modifier_roshan_revengeroarUndispellable.
Roared: Taking increased damage.

Slam

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W
W
Slam
Affects
Enemy Units
Damage
Spell / Magical
Roshan slams the ground, damaging and slowing all nearby enemies.
Cast Animation: 0.47 + 0.57
Radius: 350
Base Damage: 70
Move Speed Slow: 50%
Attack Speed Slow: 50
Duration: 4
The roar's damage increases as time passes.
Damage Growth per Minute: 10
Slam deals significantly more damage against creeps.
Creep Damage Factor: 2
Roshan only casts this when a certain amount of enemies are within its area of effect. At least one of them has to be a hero.
Radius: 350
Number of Units: 3
10
Mana Cost
0
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  • Slam first applies the debuff, then the damage.
  • Damage increases by 10 every minute since the first creep spawn. The first increase happens just as the first wave spawns.
  • This is how much damage the Slam deals (before reductions) at certain game times:
    • 10 Minutes: 170 damage
    • 20 Minutes: 270 damage
    • 30 Minutes: 370 damage
    • 40 Minutes: 470 damage
    • 50 Minutes: 570 damage
    • 60 Minutes: 670 damage
    • 80 Minutes: 870 damage
    • 100 Minutes: 1070 damage
  • Considers Creep-Heroes as heroes.
Debuff modifier_roshan_slamDispellable by any Dispel sources.
Slam

Bash

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Ability
Passive
Affects
Enemies
Damage
Attack / Physical
Roshan's attacks have a chance to stun and deal increased damage.
Proc Chance: 15%
Damage: 50
Stun Duration: 1.65
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  • The bonus damage is considered as a conditional attack damage bonus.
    • Although the attack damage bonus values are not displayed in the HUD, it is still considered and directly added to Roshan's attack damage.
    • The attack damage bonus values are not considered by critical strike and cleave.
    • However, it is considered by lifesteal, and it can be reduced only by flat reductions (e.g. damage block).
    • Since it is considered bonus attack damage, it is not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions.
Buff modifier_roshan_bashUndispellable.
Hidden modifier
Debuff modifier_bashedDispellable by Strong Dispel sources.
Bash: Stunned by bash.
  • The proccing attack first applies the debuff, then the damage.
  • Adds an average of 7.5 damage to every attack.

Spell Block

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Spell Block
Ability
Passive
Affects
Self
Roshan blocks and completely negates most single-target abilities targeted at him.
15
Mana Cost
0
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  • Does not block abilities cast by allies.
  • For a list of blocked abilities and abilities untargetable against Roshan, see Spell Block.
Buff modifier_roshan_spell_blockUndispellable.
Spell Block: Roshan will block one targeted spell every 15 seconds.

Throw

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N/A
N/A
Throw
Pierces Debuff Immunity sources. This ability is blocked by Spell Block sources. This ability ignores Spell Reflection sources.
Affects
Enemy Heroes
Damage
Spell / Pure
Roshan grabs the target hero and violently throws them away, dealing damage and stunning them.
Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0.53
Cast Range: 400
Grab Duration: 0.84
Throw Distance: 1500
Max Throw Duration: 0.8
Landing Base Damage: 200
Landing Current Health as Damage: 0.5%
Landing Stun Duration: 1
With each throw, the landing damage is increased. This resets when Roshan reaches his pit.
Landing Damage Growth per Throw: 100
The health-based landing damage increases as time passes.
Current Health as Damage Growth per Minute: 0.5%
Roshan only casts this when an enemy comes within range of him while he travels between his pits.
Grab Radius: 300
1
Mana Cost
0
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  • The grabbed hero is fully disabled while grabbed.
    • After 0.75 seconds, the hero is hit by the knockback of On The Move.
    • However, the knockback gets instantly canceled, so that only the damage is applied.
  • After 0.84 seconds, the hero is The unit is forcefully moved in the x-axis accordingly to its facing direction. thrown in the direction Roshan is facing.
    • Since this is a unit-targeted ability, he will be facing towards the target upon cast.
    • The hero is fully disabled during the throw.
  • The landing deals 200/300/400/500/600 damage on the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th throw.
    • This is how much current health as damage the landing deals at certain game times:
      • 10 Minutes: 5.5% of current health as damage
      • 20 Minutes: 10.5% of current health as damage
      • 30 Minutes: 15.5% of current health as damage
      • 40 Minutes: 20.5% of current health as damage
      • 50 Minutes: 25.5% of current health as damage
      • 60 Minutes: 30.5% of current health as damage
      • 80 Minutes: 40.5% of current health as damage
      • 100 Minutes: 50.5% of current health as damage
  • Upon landing, the hero first takes the landing damage, and is then stunned.
Buff modifier_prevent_tauntsOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Hidden modifier
Buff modifier_roshan_grab_selfOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Missing tooltip
Debuff modifier_roshan_grabDispellable by Strong Dispel sources.
Grabbed: Stuck in Roshan's grasp.
Debuff modifier_roshan_grab_thrownDispellable by Strong Dispel sources.
Throw: Recently thrown by Roshan.
Debuff modifier_stunnedDispellable by Strong Dispel sources.
Stunned

Strength of the Immortal

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Strength of the Immortal
Neither affected nor disabled by Break.
Ability
Passive
Affects
Self
As time passes, Roshan grows in power, gaining permanent attack damage, health and armor bonus every minute.
Armor Bonus per Minute: 0.4
Max Health Bonus per Minute: 130
Attack Damage Bonus per Minute: 7
A increase in power also means an increase in rewards. Roshan's experience bounty increase every minute as well.
Experience Bounty Growth per Minute: 20
Illusions deal greatly reduced damage against Roshan.
Illusion Damage Reduction: Affects the incoming ability value positively of the affected unit. 80%
Roshan always prioritizes certain ward-type units if there are no other units within its attack range.
Attacks to Destroy Wards: 1
Roshan has permanent Allows units to pass through other units, ignoring collision size. phased movement and tree-walking.
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  • The first armor bonus is granted as the first creep wave spawns, and then every minute onward.
  • All other bonuses are granted every minute after the first creep wave spawns.
    • These bonuses persist through his death and keep on increasing while he is dead.
  • The armor bonus starts being granted at game time 00:00, as the first creep wave spawns.
    • All other bonuses start at game time 01:00, as the second creep wave spawns.
    • This is how much attack damage, health, armor, and ExperienceExperience experience bounty Roshan has at certain game times:
      • 10 Minutes: 7300 HP | 34.4 Armor | 145 AttackAttack dmg | 600 ExperienceExperience
      • 20 Minutes: 8600 HP | 38.4 Armor | 215 AttackAttack dmg | 800 ExperienceExperience
      • 30 Minutes: 9900 HP | 42.4 Armor | 285 AttackAttack dmg | 1000 ExperienceExperience
      • 40 Minutes: 11200 HP | 46.4 Armor | 355 AttackAttack dmg | 1200 ExperienceExperience
      • 50 Minutes: 12500 HP | 50.4 Armor | 425 AttackAttack dmg | 1400 ExperienceExperience
      • 60 Minutes: 13800 HP | 54.4 Armor | 495 AttackAttack dmg | 1600 ExperienceExperience
      • 80 Minutes: 16400 HP | 62.4 Armor | 635 AttackAttack dmg | 2000 ExperienceExperience
      • 100 Minutes: 19000 HP | 70.4 Armor | 775 AttackAttack dmg | 2400 ExperienceExperience
  • The damage resistance against illusions only applies to their AttackAttack attack damage.
    • This means Spell DamageSpell Damage spell damage dealt by illusions deals full damage.
Buff modifier_roshan_inherent_buffsUndispellable.
Hidden modifier
Buff modifier_roshan_devotion_auraUndispellable.
Hidden modifier
Buff modifier_roshan_devotionUndispellable.
Devotion: 55% magic damage resistance, 25% slow resistance, the ability to reduce damage from attacking illusions, and x bonus armor. The armor bonus increases over time.
Buff modifier_phasedUndispellable.
Phased: Collision turned off, able to move through units and wards.
  • The armor bonus is provided by an aura with a radius of 5 and a linger duration of 0.5.
    • This means the armor bonus technically can affect other neutral creeps, if they stand close enough to Roshan.
    • The aura does not affect This unit is immune to everything. Invulnerable units.
  • All other bonuses are provided by the passive buff, so only Roshan is affected.
  • Roshan's attacks count as hero attacks when attacking the Courier.

On The Move

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On The Move
Does not pierce Debuff Immunity sources. Neither affected nor disabled by Break.
Ability
Passive
Affects
Self / Enemies
Damage
Spell / Magical
As day turns to night and vice versa, Roshan moves towards the other pit. Stays in Dire's pit during daytime and in Radiant's pit during nighttime.
The current pit is highlighted on the minimap.
First Move at Game Time: 15:00
While moving, Roshan mercilessly caves open a path and smashes all units in his path aside, knocking them back, stunning and damaging them.
Collision Radius: 100
Damage: 200
Knockback Distance: 150
Knockback Duration: 0.6
Knockback Downtime: 2
While moving, Roshan may Slam and Throw enemy heroes that cross his path a few times before getting fed up and rushing to his pit. Whenever he stops to cast an ability, he gains movement speed.
Max Stops: 5
Move Speed Bonus per Cast: 70
Max Move Speed Bonus: 300
Slow Resistance Bonus: 25%
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  • Does not move for the initial 15 minutes of game time, staying in the Dire pit.
    • Turbo Mode uses the same timings as the default mode.
  • Triggers whenever a natural daytime switch happens. Artificial changes caused by abilities are ignored.
  • Roshan moves straight towards the pit, ignoring almost everything that happens around him.
    • He may only stop to cast Slam and Throw, if their cast criteria are met.
    • If Roshan is Units affected by Silence sources cannot cast abilities. Does not affect items. silenced, he still stops and attempts to cast, but fails to do so.
    • A failed cast attempt still counts towards the max stops.
    • After having stopped 5 times, Roshan ignores everything and tries to move to the pit.
    • Whenever Roshan stops to cast, he gains 70 movement speed, capped at 300.
    • This results in a total movement speed of 270/340/410/480/550/570 after 0/1/2/3/4/5 stops.
  • While moving, any enemy coming within 100 range of Roshan gets damaged and knocked back.
    • Affected units are knocked back at a speed of 250.
    • Also knocks affected enemies 50 units upwards, resulting in a small arc. This has only visual purposes.
    • Destroys trees within 100 radius enemies come in contact with during the knockback.
    • Can affect the same unit only once every 2 seconds.
    • Enemies are fully disabled during the knockback.
    • On The Move first applies the debuff, then the damage.
Buff modifier_roshan_movingOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Moving: While moving to a new location Roshan has x% bonus slow resistance. He gains bonus movement speed each time he's interrupted.
Debuff modifier_knockbackDispellable by Strong Dispel sources.
Stunned
Debuff modifier_roshan_moving_knockback_timeoutOnly dispellable by Death.Only dispellable by Death.
Hidden modifier

Behavior

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  • Roshan behaves similarly to other neutral creeps, not taking any action until provoked.
    • Roshan has a reduced aggro range of 140, compared to the 240 of other neutral creeps.
    • However, he uses the same aggro range of 1800 when damaged or when targeted by a spell.
  • Unlike other units, Roshan prioritizes attacking These summons are usually, but not necessarily, immobile and are immune to almost every ability.These summons are usually, but not necessarily, immobile and are immune to almost every ability. ward-type units.
    • If there is no other unit within his current attack range, he will prioritize attacking wards, instead of other units that attack it.
    • The player can prevent this by standing between Roshan and the wards, tanking his attacks.

Roshan Pit

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Roshan's location on the minimap
Roshan's pit on Faction Radiant's side.
Roshan's pit on Faction Dire's side.
  • Roshan has two pits on the map, both located with in the river.
  • One pit is located at the south-east end of the river, on Faction Radiant's side.
  • The other is located at the north-west end of the river, on Faction Dire's side.
  • The entries of both pits face towards the middle lane.
  • The pits's walls are U-shaped and have a length of about 1250 and a width of about 1050.
  • The pathable area inside the pits have a length of about 750 and a width of about 550.
  • Roshan initially spawns in the Faction Radiant pit an stays there up until game time 15:00.
  • After that, Roshan moves between the pits whenever the daytime changes naturally.

Limitations inside the pits

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  • The inside area of the pits are marked with skulls on poles on Radiant's side, and lit torches on Dire's side.
  • Units cannot attack Roshan unless they are within either pit.
    • This limit only applies to attacks. Abilities can be cast on him from anywhere.
    • Roshan himself does not have to be in a pit to be attacked, only the attacks do.
    • Roshan does not have to be in his pits to attack anyone.
  • Vision
    • The entry of both pits are lined with vision blockers, which completely block ground vision.
    • This means units and spells with ground vision from outside the pit cannot reveal the inside of the pit, and vice versa.
    • The vision blocker only affects ground vision. Flying vision is not affected.
    • Observer Wards and Sentry Wards cannot be placed inside the pits.
    • However, True Sight from outside the pit still affects the inside of the pit if it is within the True Sight radius.
    • Couriers and Psionic Traps have no vision while inside the pit.
  • Other abilities:

Roshan's death

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  • Roshan's death is announced to both teams with a message, as well as a ▶️ stinger.
    • The stinger is always played, regardless of music audio settings.
    • Roshan also lets loose a loud ▶️ roar, audible throughout the entire map.
    • Finally, the announcer also broadcasts this to all players with Roshan-specific lines.

Respawning

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Roshan's respawn timer, next to the minimap
Roshan's respawn timer within his pit (spectators only)
  • Roshan respawns within 8 – 11 minutes after being slain (4 – 5.5 minutes in Turbo Mode).
    • The respawn time is uncertain, and is not revealed to the players.
    • Spectators see the exact respawn time after the initial 8 minutes pass.
    • Templar Assassin's innate ability, Third Eye reveals the respawn time to her team as well.
  • Unlike other neutral creeps, Roshan's respawn cannot be prevented in any way.
  • The respawn location is based on the daytime, respawning in the Dire pit during the day, and the Radiant pit during the night.
  • Roshan's current status is visible within the HUD, through a display next to the minimap.
    • When alive, the icon is green. Pointing the mouse on it opens a tooltip that reveals Roshan's current pit location.
    • When slain, the icon turns red and a 480-second timer (240 seconds in Turbo Mode).
      • While this timer is running, Roshan is definitely dead.
    • Once this timer finishes, the icon turns yellow and a 180-second timer (90 seconds in Turbo Mode).
      • Roshan may already be alive while this timer is running.
      • For spectators and for Templar Assassin's team, this timer shows the exact respawn time.
      • Roshan is guaranteed to be alive when this timer expires.
    • The second timer can be skipped under the following situations:
      • Roshan already respawned, and the team gained vision over him, even if just briefly.
      • The enemy triggers Roar of Retribution (only possible if they have slain him the last time).
      • The enemy slays Roshan during the timer (turning it red again).
  • Spectators also see a clock within both pits that show his respawn time, similar to the HUD timer.

Kill Rewards

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  • Killing Roshan grants the killing player 200 – 290 Gold unreliable gold.
    • Additionally, the entire team gains 135 Gold unreliable gold, including the killing player.
    • This results in 335 – 425 Gold gold for the killing player.
    • Roshan also provides 400 + 20 ExperienceExperience experience nearby heroes of the killing team.
    • Unlike other neutral creeps, Roshan's experience bounty is only granted to the killing team.
  • Besides gold and experience, Roshan also drops the following items on death:
Consumable Drops
Items Deaths
1st 2nd 3rd+
Aegis of the Immortal 1 1 1
Roshan's Banner 0 1 1
Cheese 0 0 1
Refresher Shard 0 0 1
  • Aegis of the Immortal
    • Cannot be dropped, sold or shared once picked up.
    • The item expires within 5 after picking it up (4 minutes in Turbo Mode).
    • If picked up later, Roshan re-claims the item if it has not expired yet.
    • Has Reincarnation, bringing the wielder back to life when slain, or fully regenerating them upon expiring.
  • Cheese
    • Can be shared, or sold for 500 Gold, but only by the player that picked it up first.
    • Has Fondue, instantly restoring a huge amount of health and mana, consuming the item in the process.
  • Roshan's Banner
    • Can be shared, but cannot be sold.
    • Has Place Banner, placing a ward that turns nearby lane creeps damage immune, consuming the item in the process.
  • Refresher Shard
    • Can be shared, or sold for 500 Gold, but only by the player that picked it up first.
    • Has Reset Cooldowns, instantly resetting all ability cooldowns on the user, consuming the item in the process.


Spell interactions

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Roshan is an ancient creep, so that all ancient creep interactions apply, unless stated otherwise here. He also has 100% resistance to forced movement so that spells cannot move him at all. Roshan has no mana either, making him automatically immune to anything that works with mana, or null the effects of spells which are based on mana (e.g. Mana Void only stuns him). Furthermore, several spells have a unique behavior towards Roshan, treating him differently than any other unit.

Not affecting Roshan

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These spells cannot affect Roshan, regardless of the ancient unit tag he has (meaning, even if he was not an ancient creep, these spells still would not affect him).

Unique interactions

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These interactions are unique to Roshan

  • Ancient Granite Golem - Granite Aura
    Although affecting him, Roshan's health gets periodically set to his default health+ the time-based bonus he gains, overriding the effects of this aura.
  • Bloodseeker - Thirst
    Does not heal upon killing Roshan.
  • Faceless Void - Time Lock
    Uses the hero duration on Roshan, rather than the creep duration.
  • Lich - Chain Frost
    The bounces cannot slow or damage Roshan. Only the initial cast damage and slow.
  • Lion - Hex
    Roshan turns into a giant version of the critter he gets hexed into.
  • Scythe of Vyse - Hex
    Roshan turns into a giant version of the critter he gets hexed into.
  • Shadow Shaman - Hex
    Roshan turns into a giant version of the critter he gets hexed into.
  • Ursa - Fury Swipes
    Lasts shorter on Roshan than on any other unit.
  • Witch Doctor - Paralyzing Cask
    Uses the hero stun duration, but the creep damage against Roshan.

Forced movement interactions

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Forced movement and teleport spells react differently to forced movement immunity. All not-listed forced movement or teleport spells cannot affect Roshan due to his status.

The following spells completely apply all their effects except for the movement itself. This includes the disable coming along with the movement.

1 The damage is applied instantly, since it is queued to happen after the movement, which gets fully skipped.

2 Roshan gets stunned, instead of getting lifted. The AoE stun is applied instantly, since it is queued to happen after the lift, which gets fully skipped.

The following spells apply all effects as well, except for the disable along with the movement, so that they do not even interrupt Roshan.

  • Batrider - Flaming Lasso
    The lasso itself is immediately removed, so that Roshan is not even interrupted. Batrider is disabled for the full duration. When upgraded, although the damage modifier is applied for the full duration, it deals no damage when the lasso modifier is missing.
  • Beastmaster - Primal Roar
    As a secondary target, Roshan takes damage and is slowed. His facing direction is changed as well, but he is not interrupted at all.
  • Eul's Scepter of Divinity - Cyclone
    Since the damage is queued to happen after the lift, it is applied immediately.
  • Invoker - Tornado
    Since the damage is queued to happen after the lift, it is applied immediately.
  • Spirit Breaker - Greater Bash
    The bash is immediately removed, so that Roshan is not even interrupted. The damage is applied and Spirit Breaker receives the self-buff.
  • Storm - Cyclone
    Since Cyclone only lifts and disables, it effectively does nothing against Roshan.

Roshan damage interactions

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These spells react on damage dealt by Roshan, getting either disabled, interrupted or reduced.

1 Soul Assumption counts damage dealt by Roshan to heroes.

Trivia

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  • Roshan was named after Guinsoo's bowling ball.[1]
  • According to the Are We Heroes Yet? comic, Roshan killed a Shopkeeper, thus claiming the Aegis of the Immortal, and being cursed to have his treasure stolen from him again and again.
  • Roshan in Farsi means "Light", "On" or "Bright", and is also a common Persian and Indian name.
  • League of Legends' Baron Nashor is conceptually based on Roshan. The word "Nashor" is an anagram of "Roshan."
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References

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  1. ↑ http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3966/postmortem_defense_of_the_ancients.php
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