Visage
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Visage
22 + 2.8
11 + 1.3
22 + 2.9
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +61.6HP and +0.28HP regeneration | |
| +0.22 armor and 1.3 attack speed | |
| +34.8MP and +0.145MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
| +3.15 Main Attack Damage | |
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1400 Projectile Speed
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110 (121)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.4 + 0.54
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0.6
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Ethereal
Gib Type | ||
2012-07-26
Released | ||
2004-02-03
(v0.60) | ||
Competitive Span
2012-07-26 — Present |
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| Scouts and attacks with his familiars. | |
|---|---|
| Perched atop the Narrow Maze was Visage, a dreadful gargoyle form to which the eternal spirit Necro'lic was bound. Tasked with hunting down those who escape the afterlife, Visage instills Grave Chill in his prey, impairing them while augmenting his speed. He reaps their essence with Soul Assumption, gathering energy from the anguish they felt before releasing it in a devastating attack. Protected by the Gravekeeper's Cloak, the gargoyle's ablative layers deflect both steel and spells. His deadly Familiars scout the land for runaways as Silent as the Grave. On his command, they harass their prey, dropping down to earth as Stone Statues to restrain the captive for their master's impending arrival. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Blue, Flying, Wings, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Sepulchre
Grave Chill is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units within the radius.
Secondary targets within the radius grants a lesser portion of speed bonus to Visage and its Familiars.
Secondary targets within the radius grants a lesser portion of speed bonus to Visage and its Familiars.
×0.5 Secondary Targets Ability Factor
Faithful Followers
Issues an attack command to Visage's faithful followers upon Familiars cast, the Familiars attempts to attack the unit-targeted enemy within its attack range.
Summon Familiars will automatically attack Visage's last-attacked target, and returns if that enemy unit is out of Visage's attack range, or when Visage issues a cancel current action or hold position command.
+200 Familiar Attack Search Range
+170 Familiar Attack Range
+20 Familiar Move Speed
x0.5 Familiar Gold Bounty
+170 Familiar Attack Range
+20 Familiar Move Speed
x0.5 Familiar Gold Bounty
Death Toll
Soul Assumption now applies a debuff that grants additional unreliable gold per charge upon the affected enemy unit's death.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Grants the Silent as the Grave ability.
Grants Visage and its Familiars bonus movement speed and invisiblilty for the duration.
Upon losing the invisibility buff in any way, the ability now grants Visage and its Familiars bonus attack damage.
Grants Visage and its Familiars bonus movement speed and invisiblilty for the duration.
Upon losing the invisibility buff in any way, the ability now grants Visage and its Familiars bonus attack damage.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Grants Visage the properties of Stone Form after an effect delay, granting invulnerability and bonus health regeneration.
While Visage turns into stone, it deals damage and stuns all enemy units within the radius centered around the itself.
While Visage turns into stone, it deals damage and stuns all enemy units within the radius centered around the itself.
Talents[edit]
| +1 Summoned Familiars | 25 | +10 Gravekeeper's Cloak Armor |
|---|---|---|
| +1 Armor Corruption to Visage and Familiars | 20 | +25 Soul Assumption Damage per Charge |
| Soul Assumption Multishot | 15 | +2s Grave Chill Duration |
| +6 Attack Damage to Visage and Familiars | 10 | +4 Lurker Max Stacks |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
It is one thing to animate a corpse from beneath the ground. It is another to rip a soul from beyond the veil.▶️Visage, the Bound Form of Necro'lic
Alias:
Necrolic
Lore:
Perched atop the entrance to the Narrow Maze sit the looming shapes of sneering gargoyles, the paths into the hereafter forever in their gaze. Beasts and birds, men and monsters, all creatures that die and choose to travel beyond must someday pass beneath their sight. For an untethered spirit, the decision to journey through the veil of death is irrevocable. When chance comes, and by craft or cunning some restless soul escapes their hells and heavens, it is the dreaded gargoyle Visage, the bound form of the eternal spirit Necro’lic, who is dispatched to reclaim them. Ruthless and efficient, unhindered by the principles of death and fatigue, Visage stalks its prey without mercy or end, willingly destroying all which may give shelter to the fugitive essence. That which flaunts the laws of the afterlife may never rest, for while it is true that the dead may be revived, it is only a matter of time before Visage finds and returns them to their proper place.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Lurker[edit]
Lurker 
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants cooldown acceleration stacks when Visage is not taking damage.
Max Stacks: 8 (
12)
Damage Threshold: 0
Cooldown Rate per Stack: 2%
Bonus Linger Duration: 
2
The buff stack recovers itself over a fixed duration. Neither can be reset with cooldown reset sources, nor affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.
Downtime: 2
visage_lurker- Procs
visage_lurker_lingerupon taking≥ 0player-based damage (after reductions). - Applies cooldown acceleration on abilities that are currently on cooldown.
- Directly applies
cooldown reduction on off-cooldown abilities upon cast, and does not further apply cooldown acceleration to these abilities.
- Procs
Lurker: Gaining x% ability cooldown reduction.
Lurker: Gaining x% ability cooldown reduction.
- Grants up to 16% (
Stone Form[edit]
D
F
Stone FormThe nearest Familiar turns into stone and smashes into the ground after a short delay, granting invulnerability and bonus health regeneration.
After the duration ends, the Familiar automatically leaves Stone Form.
After the duration ends, the Familiar automatically leaves Stone Form.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Familiar Search Radius: 
Global
Effect Delay: 0.55
Health Regen Bonus: 150/175/200
Stone Form Duration: 6
Deals damage and stuns all enemy units within the radius centered around the Familiar.
Effect Radius: 375
Damage: 60/100/140
Stun Duration: 0.8/1/1.2
Enables area-targeting functionality with Alt-Cast toggled on.
Cast Range: Global
Summon Familiars reset this ability's cooldown upon cast.
The Grand Magus cannot acquire the Gargoyle's signature ability.
Has a limited cast range with the selected facet.
Cast Range: 
1200
This sub-ability goes on a downtime equal to the lowest cooldown among all current Familiars.
It is neither affected by cooldown reset sources nor affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.
It is neither affected by cooldown reset sources nor affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.
0
This ability levels up with Summon Familiars.
- This
sub-ability has the following properties:
- LEVEL 1Visage begins the game
innately with this sub-ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Does not interrupt Visage's
channeling abilities upon cast.
- The sub-ability is disabled if there are no Familiars summoned.
- The sub-ability checks for all Familiar's Stone Form
cooldown periodically and updates itself to match the lowest cooldown.
- Orders the closest Familiar to cast Stone Form automatically and immediately.
- Cannot
shift-queue this sub-ability.
Alt-Cast is disabled by default.
- When activated, Stone Form now has area-targeting functionality, and orders the nearest available Familiar to cast its Stone Form on the area-targeted location.
- Can be cast when Visage is affected by the following sources:
- However, Visage cannot use the sub-ability when affected by the following sources:
Cannot act.
- Hex sources.
- The Familiar cannot enter Stone Form when affected by the following sources:
Fear sources.
Hidden sources.
Silence sources.
- Sleep sources.
Stun sources.
Taunt sources.
- Familiars entering Stone Form via this
- Requires drafting Visage's hero model to be unlocked.
- Summon Familiars
instant kill all current Familiars and create new Familiars.
- Hence, it resets the
- Hence, it resets the
Hero Model[edit]
Hero Model 
Passive
Affects
Self / Familiars
Visage's hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.
It may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
It may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
Visage is considered a ground unit, despite its hero model showing otherwise.
Talent Upgrade
Grants certain talent bonuses to Visage and his Familiars.
Grants certain talent bonuses to Visage and his Familiars.
Attack Damage Bonus: 6
Talent Upgrade
Visage and his Familiars' attacks now reduce the affected enemy unit's armor.
Visage and his Familiars' attacks now reduce the affected enemy unit's armor.
Armor Reduction: (
1)
Debuff Duration: ( 10)
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
- Armor Corruption has the following properties:
- Each armor reduction source applies its own
debuff, and refreshes its own duration upon each successful attack.
- Affects the following units:
- Ally units.
Buildings
Ward-type units.
- Each armor reduction source applies its own
- Visage's
illusions bestow all
talent bonuses, except Armor Corruption.
Hidden modifier
Corruption: Armor reduced by x.
- The Armor Corruption ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The unit's attack instance.
- The
Abilities[edit]
Grave Chill[edit]
Unit
Affects
Self / Familiars / Enemy Units
Drains both the movement speed and attack speed of the targeted unit.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.57
Cast Range: 625
Move Speed Slow: 12%/16%/20%/24%
Attack Speed Slow: 25/40/55/70
Debuff Duration: 5 (
7)
Grants Visage a movement speed and attack speed buff independently from the debuff applied to the affected enemy unit.
Move Speed Bonus: 12%/16%/20%/24%
Attack Speed Bonus: 25/40/55/70
Buff Duration: 5 ( 7)
All ability bonuses are applied as a buff to each Familiars independently within the radius.
Familiar Search Radius: 
900
17/15/13/11
90
The warmth of the sun is never felt in the dark cold of the Narrow Maze.
Sepulchre
Grave Chill is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units within the radius.
Secondary targets within the radius grants a lesser portion of speed bonus to Visage and its Familiars.
Secondary targets within the radius grants a lesser portion of speed bonus to Visage and its Familiars.
Effect Radius: 300
Move Speed Bonus per Enemy: 6%/8%/10%/12%
Attack Speed Bonus per Enemy: 12.5/20/27.5/35
Move Speed Bonus per Enemy: 6%/8%/10%/12%
Attack Speed Bonus per Enemy: 12.5/20/27.5/35
Faithful Followers
Issues an attack command to Visage's faithful followers upon Grave Chill cast, the Familiars attempts to attack the unit-targeted enemy within its attack range.
Attack Search Range: 550
- All
buffs and
- The buff is applied to Visage and its Familiars even while they are
invulnerable.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Other
player-controlled units.
- The buff is applied to Visage and its Familiars even while they are
-
Sepulchre changes the ability targeting functionality from
unit-targeted to
unit and area-targeted.
- Fully affects the following enemu units within the radius:
Invisible units.
Fogged units.
- Fully affects the following enemu units within the radius:
Faithful Followers orders all current Familiars within the attack radius to attack the unit-targeted enemy.
-
Spell Block procs on the primary target nullifies the ability cast.
- The
Grave Chill: Movement speed increased by x% and attack speed increased by x.
Grave Chill: Movement speed decreased by x% and attack speed decreased by x.
Soul Assumption[edit]
Focuses all gathered soul essence to a single spell projectile, releasing it and deals damage corresponding to the gathered charges.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.57
Cast Range: 1000
Number of Targets: 1 ( 2)
Base Damage: 20
Damage per Charge: 70 (
95)
Secondary Target Range Buffer: ( 300)
Gathers soul essence charges each time nearby heroes takes a certain amount of damage.
Damage Gather Radius: 1800
Charge Gain Damage Threshold: 100
Max Charges: 3/4/5/6
Damage Timer: 6
The damage counter only considers damage instances of the following ranges, damage instance exceeding the defined value do not grant Soul Assumption charges.
Min Damage Threshold: 2
Max Damage Threshold: 3000
Death Toll on creeps are less effective by design.
Creep Gold Bounty Bonus Factor: 0.15
4
110
The collected souls of the dead reach out to bring another into their fold.
Death Toll
Soul Assumption applies a debuff on the affected enemy unit that grants gold bonus corresponding to the current charges upon the unit's death.
Gold Bonus per Charge: 30
Debuff Duration: 3
Debuff Duration: 3
- The damage counter has the following properties:
- Considers damage instance from all player-based damage types taken by heroes within the damage gather radius (after reductions) in the last 6 seconds.
- Considers
clones as heroes,
creep-heroes as creeps.
- Considers
- Requires 300/400/500/600 total damage to obtain the max amount of charges.
- Does not consider the following damage sources:
HP Removal sources.
- Self-damage sources.
- The number of charges is indicated above Visage as yellow bars visible ally-only.
- Grants a charge upon the damage counter exceeding
< 100damage.
- Considers damage instance from all player-based damage types taken by heroes within the damage gather radius (after reductions) in the last 6 seconds.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Sets the ability's
magical
spell damage upon cast.
- Resets the charge counter upon
projectile launch.
- Sets the ability's
- The ability's projectile also visually reflects the number of charges.
- The multishot
- Has a 1300 search range with the
- Considers
- Has a 1300 search range with the
- The
Death Toll facet is an
on-death effect.
- Grants
unreliable gold.
- Considers
- Grants
-
- Procs
- Procs
-
Hidden modifier
- Has a 1000-
projectile speed.
- math
Gravekeeper's Cloak[edit]
Generates a stone-layered buff that manipulates incoming damage. Removes a layer per player-based damage taken above a certain damage threshold.
Aura Radius: 900
Max Layers: 4
Min Damage Threshold Proc: 40
Damage Reduction per Layer: 
8%/12%/16%/20%
Max Damage Reduction: 80%
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Armor Bonus: (
10)
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Grants Visage the properties of Stone Form after an effect delay, granting invulnerability and bonus health regeneration.
Grants Visage the properties of Stone Form after an effect delay, granting invulnerability and bonus health regeneration.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Max Health Restore: (
25%)
Duration: ( 150/175/200)
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
While Visage turns into stone, it deals damage and stuns all enemy units within the radius centered around the itself.
While Visage turns into stone, it deals damage and stuns all enemy units within the radius centered around the itself.
Effect Radius: ( 375)
Damage: ( 60/100/140)
Stun Duration: ( 0.8/1/1.2)
The stone-layered cloak recovers itself over a fixed duration. Neither can be reset with cooldown reset sources, nor affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.
Downtime: 7/6/5/4
( 65)
( 125)
Visage's tough scales share equal properties of ghost and stone, making it nearly impervious to blade and magical assault.
- This innate ability has two components:
- The passive
gravekeepers_cloakbonus armor.
- The
aura that only affects Visage's Familiars.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Other
- Does not affect the following units:
- The passive
- For Visage:
- Applies a generic
≥ 40player-based damage (after all other reductions).- Stacks additively with other incoming damage manipulation sources.
- Does not affect
- 4 floating stones orbits around Visage upon learning the ability, indicating the number of layers.
- A stone disappears per missing layer, damage taken by Familiars do not remove layers.
- Each layer has its own independent recharge downtime.
- Multiple layers can recharge at once if they are removed quickly enough.
- Applies a generic
- The
- The generic
- Ignores the minimum damage threshold proc.
- This aura component is applied to its Familiars even while they are
- The
- The generic
- Adds an active component to Hunter in the Night.
- Grants Visage all Familiar's Stone Form properties correspondingly, except the bonus
health regeneration values.
- Stone Form notes fully apply.
- Grants Visage all Familiar's Stone Form properties correspondingly, except the bonus
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
-
Break sources on Visage disables the
- Does not affect the layer recharge downtime.
- This ability only affects Familiars. Does not affect other
Gravekeeper's Cloak: Gaining bonus damage reduction per stack.
Hidden modifier
Gravekeeper's Cloak: Gaining damage reduction.
On hidden entity
Rooted
Stone Form: Invulnerable. Granting x bonus regen.
Hidden modifier
Stunned
- With 4 layers, the damage reduction has a capped value of 32%/48%/64%/80%.
- Directly uses Familiar's Stone Form ability values, it does nothing if Summon Familiars is not learned upon cast.
Silent as the Grave[edit]
No
Affects
Self / Familiars
Grants Visage and its Familiars bonus movement speed and invisiblilty for the duration.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Fade Time: 0
Move Speed Bonus: 20%
Invisibility Duration: 30
Upon losing the invisibility buff in any way, the ability now grants Visage and its Familiars bonus attack damage.
Attack Damage Bonus: 20%
Duration: 4
Only affects Visage and his Familiars.
Familiar Search Radius: Global
45
115
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- This ability has the following properties:
- Does not interrupt Visage's
- Does not affect the following units:
- Other
- Other
- Does not interrupt Visage's
- Grants Visage the following bonuses:
Flying movement, but not
flying vision.
- Upon cast, Visage's hero model and hitbox ascends 150-units above the z-axis.
- However, its
collision size is still on the ground. This does not change the current absolute coordinates of the model as well.
- However, its
- The
- Upon reaching the cast point of abilities, including item abilities.
- Upon a successful attack.
- Does not break
Missed attacks.
- Items being picked up, dropped, or attacked.
- Recasting the ability refreshes the
- The
bonus attack damage is granted by both ability
- Hence, the attack that breaks invisibility benefits from the bonus attack damage as well.
- Grants flat bonus attack damage correspondingly of the affected unit's current
main attack damage, values are periodically checked and the bonus values are updated immediately.
- Does not affect Visage's
- Rubick does not ascends above the z-axis.
- Acquiring
- The
- Grants
- The
Silent as the Grave: Grants invisibility, bonus movement speed, and flying movement.
Missing tooltip
Summon Familiars[edit]
Conjures blind and controllable Familiars to fight for Visage. Familiars have flying movement and can turn into Stone Form.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Number of Familiars: 2 (
3)
Duration: 
All current Familiars halts their movement and teleports over to Visage's side after an effect delay with Alt-Cast toggled on.
Familiars cannot act while preparing for the teleportation.
Familiars cannot act while preparing for the teleportation.
Effect Delay: 4
130/120/110
150
Guardians of the Narrow Maze, Necro'lic's Familiars stand watch over his domain.
Faithful Followers
Familiars will automatically attack Visage's last-attacked target, and returns if that enemy unit is out of Visage's attack range, or when Visage issues a cancel current action or hold position command.
The Faithful Followers teleport back to Visage when exceeding certain range.
The Faithful Followers teleport back to Visage when exceeding certain range.
Attack Search Range: 550
Teleport Distance: 3500
Teleport Distance:
All current Familiars halts their current active order and fly over to Visage's side if not already, and permanently follows Visage upon Alt-Cast toggled on.
500/600/700
-
The Familiars always spawn in the same formation, 200-distance in front of and facing the same angle as Visage, and with a 120-distance between the Familiars.
0/2/4
35%
41
100 (x̄)
The Faithful Followers can neither be controlled nor recieves attack orders, they have different stats from the regular summoned Familiars.
Set Move Speed: 440
Set Attack Range: 350
Set Gold Bounty: 50
Turns into stone and smashes into the ground after a short delay, granting invulnerability and bonus health regeneration.
After the duration ends, the Familiar automatically leaves Stone Form.
After the duration ends, the Familiar automatically leaves Stone Form.
The Familiars have an innate hidden modifier that manages the all talent bonuses for them.
Unit Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details. The unit may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.
- This ability has the following properties:
- Interrupts Visage's
- Both leveling up the ability or casting the ability now create new Familiars correspondingly.
- Visage's area-of-effect sources fully affects Familiar's Stone Form.
- Interrupts Visage's
- Casting Summon Familiars
- Visage is always at the center of the line of the first two spawned Familiars.
- The number of Familiars increasing
- The other Familiars are now place 120-distance to the left and right of the Familiar in the middle.
- The number of Familiars increasing
- When activated, Summon Familiars now
teleports all current Familiars to Visage's current position after the effect delay.
- The Familiars
- The Familiars
-
- Familiars can neither be given an attack order nor movement orders.
- When
- Does not grant the Stone Form
Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
- Applies the
summon_familiars_damage_chargehidden- This buff turns inactive whenever Stone Form is active. Hence, the Familiar is a ground unit while Stone Form is active.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Visage/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2025 - 10:00 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 10, 2025 - 14:50 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 08, 2025 - 16:30 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 07, 2025 - 14:00 CST | Qualifier | ACL X ESL China OQ1 | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 01, 2025 - 14:55 CET | Tier 1 | DreamLeague S25 | 0 : 1 |
The International[edit]
- Visage has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Grave Chill
- Reduced movement speed change from 15%/20%/25%/30% to 12%/16%/20%/24%.
- Reduced duration from 6 to 5.
- Increased
strength gain from 2.4 to 2.8.
- Increased
agility gain from 1 to 1.3.
- Increased
intelligence gain from 2.4 to 2.9.
- Reduced base attack damage from 4‒14 to 21‒31.
- Grave Chill
- Increased radius from 250 to 300.
- Increased ability values factor per secondary target affected from 0.25 to 0.5.
- Summon Familiars
- Familiars
- Reduced gold bounty from 70
- Reduced gold bounty from 70
- Familiars
Talents:
- LVL 10 -3s Grave Chill cooldown ➜ +4 Lurker max stacks.
- Reduced Soul Assumption
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.
| Visage's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
Bronze |
||
Silver |
||
Gold |
||
Platinum |
| |
Master |
| |
Grandmaster |
| |
Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Familiars | |
Trivia[edit]
- Visage's rivalry line towards Keeper of the Light ▶️ "You shall not pass!" is a direct quote from Gandalf: "You shall not pass!"[1]
- In DotA, Visage's full title is just Necro'lic.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Visage uses the model of the Spirit Wind Rider, a campaign-only unit.
- The model is essentially the Wind Rider, without the orc riding it, in its spirit form.
- The Familiars use the model of the Gargoyles, a flying Undead unit.
- The Familiars' Stone Form is based on the Gargoyles' Stone Form.
Gallery[edit]
Model
Familiar model
Splash artwork
Low Violence model
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Visage on the Spring Cleaning 2014 splash art on the update page.
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead