Watcher

Watcher
Building
Health 100 +0 This unit has no mana. Level 0 Armor 0 Magic Resistance 0% Collision Size 18 Bound Radius 8 Vision Range (G) 800 • 450 Bounty 0 Experience 0 Abilities Lantern of Sight Notes Minimap icon Intern npc_dota_lantern

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Abilities

Lantern of Sight

Lantern of Sight

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Ability

Passive / Channeled

Affects

Self

Right-click the Watcher to intiate channeling, in order to capture it. Captured Watchers grant the team vision for a fixed duration, after which they become disabled for a while, and neutral again.

An already captured Watcher can be disabled by the opposing team prematurely, by channeling it again.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Capture Distance: 200

Channel Time: 1

On Duration: 420

Off Duration: 120

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• The channeling must succeed to capture the Watcher and has the following properties:
  • The channeling can be initiated while being affected by the following sources:
    • Disarm sources.
    • Silence sources.
  • Has a fixed channeling time, and does not adapt when multiple units channel it at the same time.

• The Watcher has three states:
  • Neutral
    • A successful channeling turns the Watcher on for the duration.
    • Grants vision within the radius to the faction that captured it.
    • Once this time elapses, the Watcher becomes neutral and can be immediately captured again.
  • Captured
    ON
    • Channeling an already captured Watcher turns the Watcher
      OFF
      for 120 seconds.
  • Captured
    OFF
    • The Watcher is now untargetable and unselectable.
    • Once this time elapses, the Watcher becomes neutral and can be immediately captured again.

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Hidden modifier

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Lit

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Deactivatead

• The Watcher's current states can be determined from its animations.
  • While neutral, it floats and wobbles in place, with all eyes closed.
  • While captured
    ON
    , it spin clockwise with particle effects coming out from all of its opened eyes.
  • While captured
    OFF
    , it sits on the ground motionless, with all eyes closed.

Invulnerability

Invulnerability

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

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.

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• Both the ability and its modifier are displayed in-game conditionally.
  • Damage instances are not registered in the combat log for invulnerable units.

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Invulnerable

Trivia

• The model and textures of the Watcher are all named "Lantern of Sight", which probably was an early name for the Watcher during development.
• Watcher can be seen inside of the Ageless Ancient during Zet's and Dragonus' visit towards the Nomad Star impact crater.