Warlock
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Warlock
22 + 2.4
10 + 1
25 + 3.1
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +52.8HP and +0.24HP regeneration | |
| +0.17 armor and 1 attack speed | |
| +37.2MP and +0.155MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +3.1 Main Attack Damage | |
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1200 Projectile Speed
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90 (100)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.3 + 0.3
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-11-11
Released | ||
2006-08-25
(v6.36) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-11-17 — Present |
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| Summons powerful demons to fight at his side. | |
|---|---|
| In the endless pursuit of rare texts, Demnok Lannik found it necessary to learn the magics that would help him reach the most inaccessible tomes. In short time, his obsessive study made him the most powerful Warlock in the academy. As he whispers a versatile Shadow Word to heal fellow adventurers, or damage hostile creatures. Fatally Bindings his foes together forcing them to share their agony. Demnok Lannik brings a Chaotic Offering and Eldritch Imps to every fight. Mired in a dimensional Upheaval, not even an army can hold long against his dark spells, especially his Permanently Immolated Golems. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Bearded, Cape, Red, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Champion of Gorroth
Warlock Permanent Immolation deal damage per second bonus correspondingly to both the sum of Warlock's current health and current mana regeneration values.
+0.9× Hero Health Regen to Damage Factor
+0.9× Hero Mana Regen to Damage Factor
+0.9× Hero Mana Regen to Damage Factor
Black Grimoire
Grants Warlock the item Black Grimoire, which can be consumed to gain experience for each kill Warlock participated in.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Now summons an additional Golem with reduced base attack damage.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Creates uncontrollable Minor Imps corresponding of Eldritch Summoning's current ability level per certain Upheaval channeled interval.
Increases both Eldritch Summoning's current and max ability level.
Increases the summoned Minor Imps' level.
Increases the summoned Minor Imps' level.
Increases Eldritch Explosion's current and max ability level.
Talents[edit]
| +80% Warlock Golem Magic Resist | 25 | +20 Warlock Golem Armor |
|---|---|---|
| +40 Upheaval Damage Increment +40 Upheaval Max Damage | 20 | Chaotic Offering on Death |
| +150 Shadow Word Radius | 15 | +10 Upheaval Attack Speed per Second +70 Upheaval Max Attack Speed |
| +50 Upheaval Radius | 10 | +4% Fatal Bonds Damage |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
Chaos comes at my command!▶️Demnok Lannik, the Warlock
Aliases:
Demnok Lannik, WL
Lore:
As Chief Curator and Head of Acquisitions for the Arcane Archives of the Ultimyr Academy, Demnok Lannik was tireless in his pursuit of lost, rare and forbidden tomes. No cursed temple was so foreboding, no cavern path so treacherous, that any concern for his own survival could dissuade him from entering if rumors hinted that some pamphlet of primordial lore might still survive in its depths. However, so often did his investigations trigger the wrath of protector entities, that he finally found it necessary to master the arts of magic. He bent himself to learning sorcery with the same thorough obsessiveness that marked his quest for incunabula, becoming the most powerful Warlock of the Academy in less time than most practitioners required to complete a course of undergraduate work. Almost as an afterthought, he carved a staff of Dreadwood and summoned into it a captive spirit from the Outer Hells. And anticipating the day when he will have recovered every last lost spellbook, he has commenced writing his own Black Grimoire. It will undoubtedly be instructive.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Eldritch Summoning[edit]
Eldritch Summoning 
Passive
Affects
Units
Whenever a unit dies under effect of any of Warlock's abilities, an uncontrollable Minor Imp is spawned in their place, and chases after nearby units.
Max Ability Level: 4 (
5)
Attack Search Radius: 1200
Health Bonus: 0/80/160/240/320
Attack Damage Bonus: 0/2/4/6/8
Move Speed Bonus: 0/15/30/45/60
Duration: 15
The summoned Minor Imps chases after Fatal Bonds-affected enemy units, prioritizing enemy heroes.
When there are no nearby valid enemy units, the Minor Imps start attacking buildings.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases both Eldritch Summoning's current and max ability level.
Increases the summoned Minor Imps' level.
Increases both Eldritch Summoning's current and max ability level.
Increases the summoned Minor Imps' level.
This ability levels up with Chaotic Offering.
50
-
Minor Imps are smaller Golems and are uncontrollable.
Has the Eldritch Explosion ability.
Has the Eldritch Explosion ability.
1/2/3/4/5
0%
17
3 (x̄)
Eldritch Explosion deals damage to all enemy units within the radius upon this unit's death.
This ability is less effective on creeps. The unit instant kills itself when it reaches its chased target.
Eldritch Explosion procs cannot further spawn Minor Imps.
This ability is less effective on creeps. The unit instant kills itself when it reaches its chased target.
Eldritch Explosion procs cannot further spawn Minor Imps.
Effect Radius: 400
Effect Delay: 0.2
Damage: 30/60/90/120/180
Current Health as Self-Damage: 100%
Eldritch Explosion does not proc when the Minor Imp is attacking buildings.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Increases Eldritch Explosion's current and max ability level.
Increases Eldritch Explosion's current and max ability level.
- Has the following unit additional properties:
- Each summoned unit has its own independent duration.
- Automatically issues an attack order in 0.1-second intervals according to the following chase priorities:
Fatal Bonds-affected Enemy Units
Buildings
- Hence, the Minor Imps continue chasing its target when affected by dominated sources.
- Targets the following units:
Debuff immune units.
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
Untargetable units.
- Does not target the following units:
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
- Targets the following units:
- Automatically issues an attack order in 0.1-second intervals according to the following chase priorities:
- Eldritch Explosion
- The
magical
spell damage component is sourced to Warlock.
- The
- Has two proc conditions to summon Minor Imp of the corresponding level upon the unit's
death:
- Checks if the caster has this
innate ability to summon the units. Hence, it does not consider the following sources.
- Debuffs applied sourced to the Warlock Golem
- Debuffs applied from
Spell Reflection sources.
- Checks if the caster has this
- Only the following abilities' first applied buff or offensive debuffs are considered valid:
- Fatal Bonds
- Shadow Word
- Upheaval
- Explicitly upon the Chaotic Offering
modifier_stunnedapplied.
- Shadow Word
- Upheaval
The ally bonus
attack speed component.
- Procs in the following death sources:
Reincarnation sources.
Instant kill sources, except Ice Blast.
- Does not proc in the following death sources:
Forced kill sources.
- Being killed by
neutral creeps.
- Upon
Denies.
- Procs in the following death sources:
- Only the following abilities' first applied buff or offensive debuffs are considered valid:
- Warlock Golem
talents do not apply to Minor Imps.
- Acquring the
Hidden Modifier
- Utilizes the same unit model as the Warlock Golem.
- COSMETICUtilizes the same cosmetic items as well.
Black Grimoire[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Starts the game with a neutral consumable item — the Black Grimoire.
This can be consumed anytime to grant Warlock experience per accumulated charge.
This can be consumed anytime to grant Warlock experience per accumulated charge.
Init Charges: 0
Experience per Charge: 
200
Gains a charge for each hero kill that Warlock participates in.
Base Charge Count: 1
Charge Gain per Kill Participation: 1
419
- Selecting the
facet grants the neutral item with the following properties:
- Starts with 0 charges and grants charges from the following sources:
- Kill credits.
- Assist credits.
- Starts with 0 charges and grants charges from the following sources:
- The ability starts on cooldown at -01:30 in-game time.
Hidden Modifier
Hero Model[edit]
Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
Abilities[edit]
Fatal Bonds[edit]
Binds several enemy units together, causing a portion of the damage taken to one of them to be felt by the others.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0
Cast Range: 
1000
Bounce Distance: 
700
Number of Bounces: 6
Damage Shared: 15%/18%/21%/24% (
19%/22%/25%/28%)
Duration: 18
The summoned Minor Imps chases after Fatal Bonds-affected enemy units, prioritizing enemy heroes.
Roshan is innately immune to this ability and is not a valid bounce target.
42/34/26/18
120/130/140/150
An ancient incantation that links the vital energies of multiple lifeforms into one collective body.
- All ability effects, including the shared damage distance, are applied immediately within the bounce distance despite the visual effects, and cannot be disjointed.
- The ability has two main components:
warlock_fatal_bonds- Has the following bounce distance properties:
- The first bounce distance is centered around the
unit-targeted enemy and searches for an unaffected enemy unit.
- Subsequent unit searches are centered around the affected enemy unit.
- The first bounce distance is centered around the
- Has the following bounce distance properties:
- Has the following enemy search priorities:
- The debuff can be reapplied on the same enemy units if no other previously affected enemy units are within the bounce distance.
- Each applied debuff works independent of each other.
- Affects the following units:
- Does not affect the following units:
- Shares the same damage type as the source damage (before reductions), with the following flags:
HP Removal
No-reflection
- Shared
physical damage is explicitly not affected by
damage block sources.
- The damage value interacts with the following sources:
- On-damage effects.
Outgoing damage manipulation sources on Warlock.
Incoming damage manipulation on the affected enemy unit.
- Does not share
- Shares the overkill damage value, if the damage source exceeds the affected unit's
current health.
- The following units do not react to the shared damage:
- Non-player-controlled units.
- Shares the same damage type as the source damage (before reductions), with the following flags:
Does not proc Spell Reflection sources on secondary affected targets.
Fatal Bonds: Distributing x% of all damage to linked units
- Utilizes the
projectile bounce mechanic instead of search radius.
- The debuff applies an
undispellable 18-second hidden flag onto all affected units that tracks the current affected enemy units.
- Utilizes the
- Increases the total damage output all damage instances by 75%/90%/105%/120% (
- Increases the total damage output all damage instances by 75%/90%/105%/120% (
Shadow Word[edit]
Either heals allied units or damages enemy units within the radius over time.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.4
Cast Range: 650/700/750/800
Radius: 300 (
450)
Damage per Second: 
15/25/35/45
Heal per Second: 15/25/35/45
Duration: 10
15/14/13/12
110/120/130/140
Warlock arcane arts have a myriad of uses, allowing them to be powerful friendly enchantments or damaging curses.
- Can affect units of all factions at max
- Affects the following units:
- Does not affect the following units:
- Affects the following units:
- However, the ability must still be
.
Doubletap or
portrait-casting casts the ability on Warlock, and centers the radius around Warlock.
- Can affect units of all factions at max
warlock_shadow_word- Applies all ability effects in 0.5-second intervals, starting 0.5 second upon either buff or debuff application, over 20 instances.
- Successive casts applies an independent instance and works independently of each other.
Does not proc Spell Reflection sources on secondary affected targets.
Shadow Word: Taking periodic damage if an enemy, and periodic heal if a friend.
Shadow Word: Taking periodic damage if an enemy, and periodic heal if a friend.
- Deals 150/250/350/450
- Utilizes ▶️ this sound effect for enemy units.
- Deals 150/250/350/450
Upheaval[edit]
A powerful current that grows stronger per channeled second.
All ability effects lingers for a short duration after exiting the effect radius.
All ability effects lingers for a short duration after exiting the effect radius.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0
Cast Range: 800
Effect Radius: 575/600/625/650 (
625/650/675/700)
Max Channel Time: 10/12/14/16
Damage Increment per Second: 10 (
50)
Move Speed Slow Increment per Second: 11%/14%/17%/20%
Linger Duration: 1
Ally Attack Speed Increment per Second: (
10)
As Warlock channels up to a certain time, Upheaval reaches its max power and its ability values no longer increases.
All ability values stop increasing at the last 0.1-second of the channeling.
All ability values stop increasing at the last 0.1-second of the channeling.
Max Damage per Second: 35/60/85/110 ( 75/100/125/150)
Max Move Speed Slow: 55%/70%/85%/100%
Ally Max Attack Speed Bonus: ( 70)
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Creates uncontrollable Minor Imps corresponding of Eldritch Summoning's current ability level per certain Upheaval channeled interval.
Creates uncontrollable Minor Imps corresponding of Eldritch Summoning's current ability level per certain Upheaval channeled interval.
Number of Imps per Summon: ( 1)
Summon Channel Interval: ( 2)
60/50/40/30
100
Demnok manipulates space-time, impairing entire armies.
- Can affect enemy units at max
- Can affect enemy units at max
- Creates a negative aura upon cast at the
area-targeted location with incrementing ability values per Warlock's channeling
server tick, starting 0.033 seconds upon cast, up to its respective max values.
- In short, the max ability values are achieved in the following Nth second:
- The
- The
movement speed slow at the 5th second on each level.
- The ally
- Now summons 1 Minor Imp corresponding to Eldritch Summoning's current level per 2-second channel time.
- Hence, it can summon a max 4/5/6/7 Minor Imps for the entire duration per cast.
- The
- Creates a negative aura upon cast at the
- Has an effective 9.9/11.9/13.9/15.9-second max channel time.
- The
MaxChannelTime - 1th second ability value is not applied. However, the aura has a 1-second linger duration.- All ability value calculations below factors the last missing 0.1-second interval.
- For wiki calculation purposes, the LEVEL 4ability values are represented in seconds as follows:
Nth Second 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DPS
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 (MAX) 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% (MAX) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 (MAX) Minor Imps +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
warlock_upheaval- From the same source, the debuff values are applied or reapplied, and refreshed in the same intervals.
-
- This is also applied to the
warlock_upheaval_ally- Hence, it immediately updates the current instance.
- Does not update the current instance.
- This is also applied to the
- Acquiring the
Upheaval: Attack speed increase by x.
Upheaval: Movement Speed reduced.
- The ability values increases per
channeling
- 0.333
- 0.367%/0.467%/0.567%/0.667%
- 0.333
- The ability values increases per
- Multiple overlapping Upheaval
- However, reapplying the
- Multiple overlapping Upheaval
Chaotic Offering[edit]
Summons a Golem and stuns enemy units within the radius.
Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.7
Cast Range: 900
Stun Radius: 600
Effect Delay: 0.5
Stun Duration: 0.8
Golem Spawn Interval: (
0.5)
The conjured Golem is partially immune to movement speed slow sources.
Number of Golems: 1 ( 2)
Slow Resistance: 60%
Golem Duration: 60
Magic Resist Bonus: (
80%)
Armor Bonus: (
20)
Talent Upgrade
Passively summons a Golem on Warlock's death location, excluding Reincarnation sources.
Passively summons a Golem on Warlock's death location, excluding Reincarnation sources.
Number of Golems: (
1)
Duration: ( 60)
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Now summons an additional Golem with reduced base attack damage.
Now summons an additional Golem with reduced base attack damage.
Set Attack Damage: ( 80/120/160)
160
200/400/600
Demnok unleashes the captive spirit in his Dreadwood staff, causing destruction in enemy ranks.
Champion of Gorroth
Permanent Immolation deal damage per second bonus correspondingly to both the sum of Warlock's current health and current mana regeneration values.
Hero Health Regen as Damage Bonus Factor: 
0.9
Hero Mana Regen as Damage Bonus Factor:
0.9
Hero Mana Regen as Damage Bonus Factor:
1400/2300/3200
-
The Golem from the depths is both an ancient creep and a creep-hero. Certain abilities may react differently on this unit.
8/12/14
33%
98
100/150/200 (x̄)
This unit's attacks deal pure damage to enemy units within the radius.
Radius: 300
Damage: 40/50/60
Enemy units getting too close will be immolated.
Radius: 300
Base Damage per Second: 30/45/60
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
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.
- Has the following additional unit properties:
- Flaming Fists
- Applies
pure
- Applies
- Permanent Immolation
- Deals 15/22.5/30
- The
- Deals 15/22.5/30
- Flaming Fists
- Can affect enemy units at max
stun radius.
- The Warlock Golem is always summoned at point
, the center of the
facing
.
- The following sources do not update the current summoned instance:
- Leveling up the ability.
- Both the magic resistance increasing and the armor increasing
- Each ability cast summons an independent Warlock Golem instance.
- The following sources do not update the current summoned instance:
- Trees within the
- Trees within the
- Does not affect the following units:
- Can affect enemy units at max
- Summons a regular Golem upon Warlock's death passively with the following properties:
- Works independently of Chaotic Offering's
cooldown, lasts for its full duration, and does not cost
mana.
- Does not proc on-cast effects.
- Does not proc on
- All other Warlock Golem
- Works independently of Chaotic Offering's
- Summons a regular Golem upon Warlock's death passively with the following properties:
- Summons another Warlock Golem 0.5 seconds after the first golem.
- Has a total 1.3-second
- The
- Has a total 1.3-second
Hidden modifier
On hidden entity
Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
Hidden modifier
Stunned
- All ability effects during the cast point and effect delay are both visible and audible to everyone.
- Permanent Immolation
- Deals a max 1815/2722.5/3630
aura linger duration.
- Deals a max 1815/2722.5/3630
- Both Warlock Golems are summoned on the same coordinates.
- However, due to its
bound radius, they both are 48-distance apart.
- EXPR
UnitBoundRadius × NumberOfGolem
- However, due to its
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Warlock/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 2025 - 20:30 CET | Tier 1 | FISSURE Universe 4 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 22, 2025 - 20:30 CET | Tier 1 | FISSURE Universe 4 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 22, 2025 - 20:30 CET | Tier 1 | FISSURE Universe 4 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 22, 2025 - 21:15 MSK | Qualifier | Cyber Empire: Qualifier | 0 : 1 | |||||
| Mar 22, 2025 - 21:15 MSK | Qualifier | Cyber Empire: Qualifier | 1 : 0 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Reduced
- Increased base attack damage from 24-34 to 27-37.
- Reduced Upheaval linger duration from 3 to 1.
- Minor Imp
- Eldritch Explosion now no longer explode when killed by enemy heroes.
Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Lantern | |
| Head | |
| Golem | |
Trivia[edit]
- Warlock's death response ▶️ "Just for that, I'm unfiending you." is probably a play on "Unfriending you" a common action on social networks where a person removes another from their friend list.
- Warlock's respawn response ▶️ "Bloodied but unbowed." is a reference to William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus".[1]
- Warlock's respawn response ▶️ "Dark interval." is a reference to the song of the same name featured in the credits of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, another game by Valve.
- It is also a reference to the metaphor "interval of darkness" that the Vortigaunts of the Half-Life series use for death, which is implied to be temporary for them, hence the word "interval" to describe the period of death that comes after their reincarnation.[2]
- Some of Warlock's ability sound effects have some of his voice lines interpolated.
- ▶️ "Sha sha!" is used by ▶️ ▶️ Fatal Bonds.
- Shadow Word has several unused sound effects based on some of Warlock's incantations.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Warlock uses the model of Gul'dan, a character from the Undead campaign.
- Chaotic Offering is based on the Dreadlord's Inferno.
- In DotA, the ability is named Rain of Chaos, using the name of a much stronger version used by Archimonde, Balnazzar, and Detheroc within the campaign.
- The Warlock Golem uses the model and name of the Infernal, summoned by the Dreadlord's Inferno.
- Permanent Immolation is identical to the Infernals' Permanent Immolation.
- Flaming Fists is identical to the Taurens' Pulverize.
- Shadow Word's ability name may be inspired by the Shadow Word abilities.
Gallery[edit]
Model
Splash artwork
Warlock's ability icon progress
Warlock Golem's ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead