Techies
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Techies
19 + 2.6
14 + 1.8
25 + 2.8
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration | |
| +0.3 armor and 1.8 attack speed | |
| +33.6MP and +0.14MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
| +3.24 Main Attack Damage | |
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900 Projectile Speed
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90 (104)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.5 + 0.5
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2014-09-04
Released | ||
2004-04-08
(v4.0beta2) | ||
Competitive Span
2014-12-17 — 2016-12-12 2018-04-26 — Present |
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| Surprises enemies with invisible landmines and explosive attacks. | |
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| Techies Demolitions was not so much a business as it was an excuse for Squee, Spleen, and Spoon to practice their favorite hobby: Blowin' stuff up. For them, battle is a matter of mischief. Giggling while they place misleading Minefield Signs, lob Sticky Bombs around the battlefield, hiding their renowned Proximity Mines they buried beneath Toterin that collapsed the town into a heap of rubble, testing their latest invention — a disarming zaps firing Reactive Tazer, and much more. Techies Demolitions handles dissatisfied customers with unexpected cheer. Their last words 'Blast Off!' can be heard just before an epic and reckless explosion delivers enough to leave most enemies dead. Or at least enraged. Often both. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Fiery, Potbelly, Steed, Nose Legs ( 6 ) |
Facets[edit]
Squee's Scope
Grants Techies both attack range bonus and attack projectile speed bonus per point of current attack speed.
Spleen's Secret Sauce
The recipe for Spleen's Secret Sauce is sacrificing more health for more Blast Off! damage.
Spoon's Stash
Techies stack all previously selected Enchantments onto newly crafted Neutral Items.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Deals damage per moved distance to enemy heroes within the Minefield Sign radius. The sign is destroyed after the ability effect ends.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Reactive Tazer can now be ally-targeted, and now deals damage to the enemy unit attacking the affected ally.
Talents[edit]
| -0.8s Proximity Mines Activation Delay | 25 | +252 Attack Damage |
|---|---|---|
| -15s Blast Off! Cooldown | 20 | +125 Sticky Bomb Latch/Explosion Radius |
| +3 Mana Regen | 15 | +200 Blast Off! Damage |
| -3s Proximity Mines Cooldown | 10 | +20% Magic Resist |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
Measurements made." "Bombs built." "Powder's dry." "Okay, let's blow something up!▶️Squee, Spleen, and Spoon, the Techies
Aliases:
Squee, Spleen, Spoon
Lore:
In the storied saga of Dredger's Bight, no business has ever been more reviled than Techies Demolitions. Then again, Dredger's Bight no longer exists. Nor does Toterin. Or even Trapper Town. In fact, if one were to track the history of Techies Demolitions they might notice that shortly after Techies appear, towns tend to disappear.
Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.
Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.
Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.
Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?
Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.
Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.
Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.
Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Minefield Sign[edit]
Places a warning sign! Proximity Mines are invulnerable and, along with Sticky Bombs, deal more damage within the sign radius.
Cast Animation: 1.25 + 0.4
Cast Range: 
150
Effect Radius: 
500 (
1000)
Max Signs: 1
Hit Count: 1
Duration: 60 ( 240)
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Bombs/Mines Damage Factor: 1.15
This ability unacquirable and is off limits for the Grand Magus.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Deals damage per moved distance to enemy heroes within the Minefield Sign radius. The sign is destroyed after the ability effect ends.
Deals damage per moved distance to enemy heroes within the Minefield Sign radius. The sign is destroyed after the ability effect ends.
Moved Distance Threshold: ( 200)
Damage per Proc: ( 300)
Distance Check Interval: ( 0.25)
Minefield Duration: ( 10)
60
0
Watch your step!
1
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Only one sign can exist at at time, planting a second sign causes the previous one to immediately disappear.
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Lvl
1
0
0%
0
This unit does not attack.
0
0 (x̄)
All Proximity Mines within the Minefield Sign radius are invulnerable.
This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.
- This ability is in the fourth ability slot and has the following properties:
- Cannot be placed inside the Fountain area.
- The sign is visible to everyone, it neither blocks unit pathing nor blocks
neutral creep camps.
- Creates an
aura upon cast that grants
invulnerability to all Proximity Mines within the radius.
- Does not affect other
ward-type units.
- Does not affect other
- Creates a negative
- Does not deal
magical
spell damage to the affected enemy units in the following conditions:
- When the unit did not move.
- When the unit moves
< 1300-distanceper check interval. - Sets the distance to nil for
Upward movement sources, except Pulverize.
- Does not deal
- The Minefield Sign is destroyed once the
- Acquiring the ability upgrade immediately update the current Minefield Sign.
- Acquiring
- This ability is not
innate to Techies.
- This ability is not
On hidden entity
On hidden entity
On hidden entity
Active Minefield: You will take damage magic damage when moving!
- Has a min 150-
- The Minefield Sign has no death animation, it visually lingers for a few seconds and then sinks into the ground.
Squee's Scope[edit]
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants Techies both attack range bonus and attack projectile speed bonus per point of current attack speed.
Attack Speed to Attack Range Bonus: 1
Attack Speed to Attack Projectile Speed Bonus: 1
- Selecting the
facet unlocks this ability.
- Grants bonus
attack range based on the caster's attack range type.
Hidden Modifier
Spoon's Stash[edit]
Passive
Affects
Self
Techies stack all previously selected Enchantments onto newly crafted Neutral Items.
- Selecting the
facet unlocks this ability.
- This allows Techies to have two Tier 5 Enchantments by recrafting a tier 5 item.
Hidden Modifier
Abilities[edit]
Sticky Bomb[edit]
Lobs a Sticky Bomb toward the area-targeted location. Once the bomb latches itself to an enemy hero within proximity, it applies a movement speed slow.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.7
Cast Range: 1000
Latch Radius: 300 (
425)
Latch Move Speed Slow: 25%/35%/45%/55%
After an effect delay, the latched bomb explodes and deals damage within the radius, applying a secondary movement speed slow.
Explosion Radius: 350 ( 475)
Explosion Delay: 2
Damage: 80/160/240/320
Move Speed Slow: 15%/25%/35%/45%
Slow Duration: 3
If the Sticky Bomb does not latch onto an enemy hero within the area-targeted radius, it also detonates after its explosion delay duration.
100/115/130/145
13/11/9/7
Such revolutionary brilliance was meant to be shared.
200
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The Sticky Bomb is uncontrollable.
Although the ability does not grant vision itself, the Sticky Bomb does.
Although the ability does not grant vision itself, the Sticky Bomb does.
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-
-
Lvl
1
0
0%
700
This unit does not attack.
6
10 (x̄)
This unit ignores collision size and may pass through other units.
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 Sticky Bomb has the following properties upon cast:
- Has a fixed 1.2-second travel time to the area-targeted location regardless of distance.
- Chronosphere nullifies the ability cast and the Sticky Bomb instantly disappears upon entering its radius.
Trees within ≈100-radius are destroyed upon landing.
- The explosion
- The Sticky Bomb searches for enemy heroes to latch on, upon landing on its area-targeted location.
- The latch search happens once upon landing.
- Considers
clones,
illusions and
creep-heroes as heroes.
- Affects the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- Does not affect the following units:
Hidden units.
- If a valid unit is found, the bomb starts moving toward its target after a 0.1-second delay.
- The Sticky Bomb now moves at 500-speed, and accelerates up to 2000-speed until reaching the target without a speed cap.
- Once the bomb starts moving, the latching cannot be disjointed in any way except upon the Sticky Bomb's
death.
- The Sticky Bomb then latches itself when it comes within 100-distane of the affected unit, and keep that distance throughout.
- Upon latching to a unit, the Sticky Bomb cannot be removed in any way, and detonates after its explosion delay duration.
- The
movement speed slow
debuff is independent of the latch component.
- Multiple Sticky Bombs may latch onto the same enemy unit.
- However, reapplying the
- However, reapplying the
- Cannot be disjointed once the Sticky Bomb latches.
On hidden entity
On hidden entity
On hidden entity
Sticky Bomb: Movement speed reduced by x%.
Missing tooltip
- The circling animation when there are no valid enemy heroes within the area-targeted location is purely vision and has gameplay influence on the
projectile's current coordinates.
- The Sticky Bomb can be selected by with Tab ↹.
- Although it has Pinpoint Detonate, it is permanently inactive.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The latch
- The
- The explosion
- The latch
Reactive Tazer[edit]
Triggers an electric charge, granting the Techies team bonus movement speed for a short time.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.5
Move Speed Bonus: 18%/22%/26%/30%
Buff Duration: 6
Applies an offensive basic dispel and disarms enemy units attacking the Techies team.
After the buff duration ends, the charge explodes, applying all negative effects onto enemy units within the radius.
After the buff duration ends, the charge explodes, applying all negative effects onto enemy units within the radius.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Reactive Tazer can now be ally-targeted, and now deals damage to the enemy unit attacking the affected ally.
Reactive Tazer can now be ally-targeted, and now deals damage to the enemy unit attacking the affected ally.
30/25/20/15
60
A steady bomb hand prefers an abundance of personal space.
- Upon cast, the ability effects on Techies intensify, indicating its remaining duration.
- Applies the
- To all enemy units who successfully attacked Techies.
- Does not proc on
missed attacks.
- Does not proc on
- To all enemy units within the effect radius centered around Techies upon the debuff duration expiring.
- Upon the Detonate Tazer
sub-ability cast.
- To all enemy units who successfully attacked Techies.
- The
Instant attack sources that does not proc
attack modifiers.
- Allied units.
Buildings
- The ability effects are applied as follows per proc:
- Applies an offensive
basic dispel on the affected unit.
- The
disarm
The
- Applies an offensive
- Enables Reactive Tazer casting on allied units.
- All ability effects are now centered on the affected unit, and follows it as it moves.
Doubletap casts the ability on Techies.
- Cannot be cast on the following units:
- Acquiring the
- Other ability notes apply.
- Reactive Tazer now procs on any damage instance sourced from enemy units, including
- Does not apply the
- However, the
buff ending duration ability component still applies regardless.
- Does not apply the
Reactive Tazer: Movement speed increased by x% and zapping attackers.
Missing tooltip
- If the attacking unit becomes
- However, the impact effects appear at their last known location.
Detonate Tazer[edit]
No
Affects
Self / Allied Units
Instantly detonates Reactive Tazer and apply all its ability effects.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Max Duration: 6
0.5
Details
- Replaces Reactive Tazer until the
- Interrupts Techies's
channeling abilities upon cast.
Blast Off![edit]
Hurtle themselves into the enemy's midst, deals massive area damage and stuns enemy units within the radius upon landing.
Cast Animation: 1 + 0.9
Cast Range: 1000
Landing Radius: 400
Damage: 200/300/400/500 (
400/500/600/700)
Leap Duration: 0.75
Stun Duration: 0.8/1/1.2/1.4
The detonation upon landing also applies a non-lethal self-damage on Techies corresponding to a portion of their current health.
Current Health as Self Damage Factor: 0.2
40/35/30/25 (
25/20/15/10)
100/125/150/175
Where we going?
Spleen's Secret Sauce
The recipe for Spleen's Secret Sauce is sacrificing more health for more Blast Off! damage.
Max Health as Self Damage Factor: 0.15
Self Max Health to Damage Bonus Factor: 0.15
Self Max Health to Damage Bonus Factor: 0.15
- Has a fixed 0.75-second leap duration.
- Hence, the
forced movement applied varies between 0 ‒
- Can be interrupted by the following sources, but not other
disable sources:
- Chronosphere
- When interrupted, the ability cast is nullified.
- Affects enemy units up to
- The total ability area-of-effect is shaped like a cone.
- The
current health as self-damage has the following properties:
- Non-lethal.
- Has a unique flag that does not interact with generic damage manipulation sources.
- The self-damage interacts with the following mechanics:
Damage barrier sources.
Damage negation sources.
- All self-damage notes apply to
Spleen's Secret Sauce component.
- Trees within the
- Trees within the
- The
-
Root sources do not interrupt the ability if already leaping.
- Has the
DOTA_ABILITY_BEHAVIOR_NORMAL_WHEN_STOLENtag.- This ability's cast point is not modified when acquired.
Hidden modifier
Silenced
Stunned
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
Proximity Mines[edit]
Plants an invisible mine that cannot be detected by certain True Sight sources. The mine is visible to enemy units within the mine proc radius, and detonates if an enemy unit is standing within the proc radius for a period of time.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.47
Cast Range: 400
Min Plant Distance: 350
Proc Radius: 500
Activation Delay: 1 (
0.2)
Detonation Delay: 1
Hit Count: 1
Ward Duration: 
The mines reduces the affected enemy unit's magic resistance while dealing damage.
The explosions deals more damage the closer the affected unit to the proximity radius.
The explosions deals more damage the closer the affected unit to the proximity radius.
Min Damage Radius: 500
Max Damage Radius: 150
Min Damage: 200/287.5/375
Max Damage: 400/575/750
Magic Resist Reduction: 15%/20%/25%
Debuff Duration: 5
Proximity Mines are less effective on buildings.
Damage Factor: 
0.3
15 (
12)
3
0
110/140/170
The bane of Toterin!
1
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The Proximity Mine is an immobile unit. However, it does not block neutral creep camps.
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Lvl
1
0
0%
64
This unit does not attack.
0
15 (x̄)
The Proximity Mine is immobile, permanently invisible and permanently phased, it ignores collision size and other units may pass through it.
Proc Radius: 500
Fade Delay: 1 ( 0.2)
- The ability has the following properties:
- Grants all 3 charges upon learning Proximity Mines.
- Cannot be placed within the
- Upon selecting the ability, all Proximity Mines owned by Techies display a red circle, indicating its detonation proc radius.
- The area-targeting indicator upon selecting the ability indicates the placement radius and not the detonation proc radius.
- The Proximity Mine has the following properties during the activation delay:
- Does not proc the detonation during this time.
- During the activation delay, the mines are visible to enemies.
- The Proximity Mine becomes Permanently Invisible after the activation delay.
- Does not have
True Sight immunity against the following sources:
- Chronosphere
- The following sources reveals the mines, but they are still not attackable:
- Does not have
- Hence, the Proximity Mine takes 2 (
- The Proximity Mine detonates when an enemy unit is within the proc radius for the full detonation delay duration.
- Upon entering the proc radius, the mine emits a sound.
- Both the warning and mine explosion ability sound effects is audible to everyone and through the
- The following units procs the mines:
- Units with
flying movement.
- Units with
- The following units do not proc the mines:
- If the enemy unit exits the proc radius, or becomes
- The unit cannot be revealed by
- However,
spell immune units reveals the Proximity Mine, but do not proc the explosion.
- However,
- The Proximity Mine damages and applies the
- Does not detonate when being destroyed by attacks.
- The
- All ability values correspond to the current level as it detonates.
- Grants a 1-second 300-radius
flying vision centered around its current location upon detonating.
- Stacks multiplicatively with other
magic resistance sources.
Hidden modifier
Proximity Mine: Magic resistance reduced by x%.
- magres math
- building math
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
- The
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Techies/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 - 16:50 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 06, 2025 - 21:30 SAST | Tier 4 | SEL: Major 1 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 04, 2025 - 13:00 CET | Tier 3 | CCT Series 7 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 01, 2025 - 19:45 CET | Tier 1 | DreamLeague S25 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 01, 2025 - 19:45 CET | Tier 1 | DreamLeague S25 | 0 : 1 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Increased
strength gain from 2.5 to 2.6.
- Increased
agility gain from 1.3 to 1.8.
- Decreased
intelligence gain from 3 to 2.8.
- U Increased base attack damage from 5–7 to 20–22.
- REWORKED
Spoon's Stash .
- OLD Can use and benefit items in their backpack.
- NEW
- Now stacks all previously selected Enchantments onto newly crafted neutral items .
- Techies can have two TIER Enchantments by recrafting a TIER neutral item.
- Minefield Sign
- Reduced cast point from 1.5 to 1.25.
- The following abilities now has a 1.15 damage factor within the radius:
- Reduced Proximity Mines charge restore tiem from 19/17/15 to 15 on each level.
Squee's Scope now also grants 1 attack projectile speed bonus per attack speed.
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.
| Techies's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
Suicide Kills Creep Tower Damage Roots Leading To Kills Triple Kills Mega Kill Streak Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills |
Bronze |
|
Silver |
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Gold |
||
Platinum |
| |
Master |
| |
Grandmaster |
| |
Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Taunt | |
Trivia[edit]
- Before their release, Techies were showcased at the All-Star match of The International 2014, used by Artour "Arteezy" Babaev.
- Techies makes a lot of references to other titles from Valve.
- Techies makes several references to Team Fortress 2, mainly to the Demoman.
- His kill response for Lion ▶️ "They're going to have to glue you back together! Yeah, in Hell!" quotes the Demoman's kill taunt.
- His defeat response ▶️ "We're a sorry buncha losers. You said it" quotes the Demoman's sudden-death response.
- The flavor text of Pinpoint Detonate "Kablooey!" quotes the Demoman's response for destroying structures.
- Squee's design resembles that of the Soldier, both wearing an oversized helmet, and wielding a rocket launcher.
- Sticky Bomb's ability name is a reference to the Demoman's secondary stock weapon, which is a Stickybomb Launcher.
- Techies also makes several references to Counter-Strike with his voice lines.
- His defeat response ▶️ "Counter-Techies Win" references the victory announcement in Counter-Strike: "Counter-Terrorists win".
- His Sticky Bomb cast response ▶️ "Bomb has been planted" quotes the bomb planted annoucement.
- His unused fail response ▶️ "Bomb has been defused. Darn!" quotes the bomb defused announcement.
- His last-hit response ▶️ "Continue testing." is a catch phrase from GLaDOS from Portal, specifically from the Co-Op trailer of Portal 2.
- Techies rare line ▶️ "Who said we couldn't count to three, huh?" is references a long-running gag that Valve cannot release a game with the number 3 in its title, as they yet have to release a third installment for any of their titles.
- Techies makes several references to Team Fortress 2, mainly to the Demoman.
- Techies' attack response ▶️ "See! Fore!" is a pun on the plastic explosive C-4.
- Techies' purchase response ▶️ "Claymore! But not that kind of claymore." is a reference to the M18 Claymore mine.
- Techies' kill response ▶️ "Loud noises!" is a to a scene of Brick Tamland from the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
- Techies' names are making several pop culture references.
- The name Squee is taken from Squee, the Immortal, an immortal goblin from Magic the Gathering.
- The name Spleen is likely taken from the flavor text of Goblin Soothsayer, which reads:
- "I see a great victory and rivers of blood. And . . . hmm, looks like a spleen.".
- Spoon's name has a bit of a history within DotA.
- Originally, Techies was just named Squee and Spleen, as everyone thought the model included two goblins.
- However, some time later, people realised there is a third goblin hiding in the barrel; Only their feet are visible.
- Once this was found out, the name was updated to Squee Spleen and Spoon.
- The name Spoon is a reference to a scene from The Matrix film, where a boy bends a spoon with his mind and then says to Neo: "Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realise the truth." ... "There is no spoon."[1]
- The name was chosen because, the third goblin effectively did not exist until the third goblin was discovered. There was no Spoon.
- This reference is expanded on in Dota 2. Squee and Spleen think Spoon is dead, so they think there is no Spoon anymore.
- ▶️Squee: "Spoon was in the workshop when it exploded, right?"
- Splee: "I think so."
- Spoon: "No I wasn't."
- Squee: "You know, sometimes I can still hear his voice."
- In the past, there was some confusion as to who is Spleen and who is Squee. According to the game files and their lip syncing:
- Squee is riding the cart and wielding the rocket launcher, while smoking a cigar. He has the lower voice.
- Spleen is pushing the cart and carrying Sploon on his back. He has the high voice.
- The mix-up was commonly caused by their voices, as the smaller of the two has the lower voice, and the bigger the higher voice.
- Even the developers were affected by the mix-up several times, mislabling their cosmetic items.
- Although their slots were fixed, the names are still switched up in the Bombtrails and Boomsticks and Powdersled Rookery sets.
- Spoon's design — fingers and long nose sticking out the barrel — may be a reference to Kilroy, a meme that was popular in World War II.
- There is a hidden "trollface" in Remote Mines' ability icon.
- Sticky Bomb's slow debuff does not have its own particle system and uses the particle effects of Thunder Clap's debuff instead.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Techies' hero concept is originally based on the Goblin Sappers, a single-use unit that can be hired from the Goblin Laboratories.
- In DotA, Techies's full title was Goblin Techies. In Dota 2, the Goblin race got replaced by the Keen folk.
- Techies' old ability, Suicide Squad, Attack! was inspired by the Goblin Sappers' Kaboom!.
- Proximity Mines are inspired by the Goblin Land Mines, an item that can be used to place mines.
- Techies' old ability, Stasis Trap was inspired by the Witch Doctors' Stasis Trap Ward.
- Techies has a 1/6 chance to spawn in with the name "Double Joker", which may be a reference to the Double Joker in Rummikub.
- Techies' hero concept is originally based on the Goblin Sappers, a single-use unit that can be hired from the Goblin Laboratories.
Gallery[edit]
Concept art
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Ability icon progress [?]
Hero icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead