Hero Discussion of this Day: Lanaya, Templar Assassin (18 October 2013)

Lanaya, the Templar Assassin

Where mind meets matter, those are the temple steps from which the mysteries may be glimpsed.

Lanaya uses deceit to conquer her foes. With Refraction she can negate a small number of damage instances, and have a few enhanced attacks of her own. She can Meld into the shadows at any time, but must remain still to keep hidden. If she strikes from the shadows, she will deal additional damage and lower her target's armor. The Templar Assassin's Psi Blades can be thrown from moderate range, and actually pierce her targets to deal damage further in a line. Her ability to place Psionic Traps from great distances, which slow nearby targets on activation, makes her nearly impossible to escape from. While she is able to create a number of disadvantages for her opponents, if caught with her guard down she will quickly fall.

Lore

Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws--peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners. As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed.

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Roles: Carry, Ganker, Semi-escape

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Strength: 18 + 2.1

Agility: 23 + 2.7

Intelligence: 20 + 2

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Damage: 53-59

Armour: 4.22

Movement Speed: 305

Attack Range: 140

Base Attack Time: 1.7

Missile Speed: 900

Sight Range: 1800 (Day) / 800 (Night)

Turn Rate: 0.7

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Spells

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Refraction

Manipulating her psionic veil, Templar Assassin becomes highly elusive, avoiding damage while gaining a bonus to her damage. These effects are separate, and have a limited number of instances.

Level	Manacost	Cooldown	Casting Range	Area	Duration	Effects
1	100	17	N/A	N/A	17 (OR 3 attacks)	Causes Lanaya to absorb 3 attacks (instances of damage) taking no damage as well as deal 20 bonus damage for 3 attacks
2	100	17	N/A	N/A	17 (OR 4 attacks)	Causes Lanaya to absorb 4 attacks (instances of damage) taking no damage as well as deal 40 bonus damage for 4 attacks
3	100	17	N/A	N/A	17 (OR 5 attacks)	Causes Lanaya to absorb 5 attacks (instances of damage) taking no damage as well as deal 60 bonus damage for 5 attacks
4	100	17	N/A	N/A	17 (OR 6 attacks)	Causes Lanaya to absorb 6 attacks (instances of damage) taking no damage as well as deal 80 bonus damage for 6 attacks

• Physical Damage

• Direct HP Removal does not trigger the damage block

• Only instances of more than 5 damage (after all reductions) will remove a charge

• While Refraction's damage block is active, Lanaya and her allies will see a visual effect around her (a white "forcefield"). This is not visible to the enemy

• Whenever Refraction blocks an instance of damage, a small visual effect will occur. This is visible to both allies and enemies

• While Refraction's self-damage bonus is active, Lanaya gains a visual effect (her psi-blades will be longer and glow more). This is visible to both allies and enemies

• Refraction bonus damages add to Lanaya's raw attack damage bonus. Thus, it can be multiplied when a critical procs

• The disable part of a skill will go through Refraction

• Two different buffs will show on Lanaya's status bar indicating bonus damage charges and damage absorption charges

Manipulating her psionic veil, Lanaya bends nature's law to her will.

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Meld

Templar Assassin conceals herself, gaining invisibility while remaining still. On the next attacked enemy unit, Lanaya will reduce its armor and deal bonus damage to it.

Level	Manacost	Cooldown	Casting Range	Area	Duration	Effects
1	50	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lanaya instantly goes invisible, if she attacks out of this invisibility she will deal 50 bonus damage and reduce the enemy target's armour by 2 for 10 seconds. Doing any other action will break invisiblity
2	50	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lanaya instantly goes invisible, if she attacks out of this invisibility she will deal 100 bonus damage and reduce the enemy target's armour by 4 for 10 seconds. Doing any other action will break invisiblity
3	50	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lanaya instantly goes invisible, if she attacks out of this invisibility she will deal 150 bonus damage and reduce the enemy target's armour by 6 for 10 seconds. Doing any other action will break invisiblity
4	50	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lanaya instantly goes invisible, if she attacks out of this invisibility she will deal 200 bonus damage and reduce the enemy target's armour by 8 for 10 seconds. Doing any other action will break invisiblity

• Physical damage

• Doesn't work against towers

• Meld is broken by any action, including moving. Thus, to use it as a nuke, you need to immediately attack right after Melding

• The bonus damage and armor reduction is only applied if Meld is broken by attacking a unit

• The armor debuffs don't stack with each other

• The invisibility has a fadetime of 0.001 seconds

• Meld places a buff on the Templar Assassin rendering her invisible. It is not channeling spell, and will therefore not be broken by stuns or silence. On the other hand, it will be broken by any abilities that change the Meld posture, such as Knock-back of Greater Bash or Tornado

• An attack using Meld consists of 2 separate parts of damage; normal and Meld bonus damage. Only normal damage part can be multiplied when a critical strike ability procs

• Only Meld bonus damage benefits from Meld armor reduction. Normal damage part does not benefit from Meld armor reduction

Lanaya is as elusive as her covenant with the Hidden Temple.

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PSI Blades

Passive

Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked unit, spilling and damaging enemy units directly behind it, while gaining bonus attack range.

Level	Manacost	Cooldown	Casting Range	Area	Duration	Effects
1	-	-	-	-	-	Increases Lanaya's attack range by 60, also causes Lanaya's attack to spill 590 range behind the attacked target, damaging any enemies behind that target
2	-	-	-	-	-	Increases Lanaya's attack range by 120, also causes Lanaya's attack to spill 630 range behind the attacked target, damaging any enemies behind that target
3	-	-	-	-	-	Increases Lanaya's attack range by 180, also causes Lanaya's attack to spill 670 range behind the attacked target, damaging any enemies behind that target
4	-	-	-	-	-	Increases Lanaya's attack range by 240, also causes Lanaya's attack to spill 710 range behind the attacked target, damaging any enemies behind that target

• Pure damage (spilled damage)

• Damage spills in a cone shape

• Spilled damage hits invisible units

• Attack effects (like Unique Attack Modifiers) will only will be applied to the primary target

Her blades pierce the skin as much as the mind, furthering her understanding of the mystery that is reality.

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Psionic Trap

Ultimate

Templar Assassin places mystical traps that invisibly monitor enemy movement. When sprung, at her command, they exert a slowing influence of 30% in the area. Traps charge up to slow more by 5% for each second up to 50%

Level	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Casting Range	Area	Duration	Effects
1	15	11	2000	375	N/A	Creates a trap which gives 400 vision in the targeted area. Upon activation, traps slow enemies in the surrounding area up to 50% for 5 seconds. A maximum of 7 traps can be created
2	15	9	2000	375	N/A	Creates a trap which gives 400 vision in the targeted area. Upon activation, traps slow enemies in the surrounding area up to 50% for 5 seconds. A maximum of 7 traps can be created
3	15	7	2000	375	N/A	Creates a trap which gives 400 vision in the targeted area. Upon activation, traps slow enemies in the surrounding area up to 50% for 5 seconds. A maximum of 7 traps can be created

• Traps are magic immune and have 100 HP

• Traps do not prevent neutral creeps from spawning

• Traps have 400/400 vision range

• Psionic Trap has a gold bounty of 1

• It will take 4 seconds after the trap is placed to reach the maximum slow of 50% from the trap

• When sprung, at her command, they exert a slowing influence of 30% in the area. Traps charge up to slow more by 5% for each second up to 50%

• An extra ability is learnt upon leveling this skill, this allows Lanaya to set off the nearest trap

Calling upon the reach of the Hidden Temple, none escape the eye of the Templar.

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Recent Changes from 6.78/6.78b/6.78c

• None

Recent Changes from 6.77/6.77b/6.77c

• Refraction manacost increased from 75 to 100

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Tips:

Activate your traps manually by clicking on the trap and pressing the hotkey. The focus then goes back onto the hero after the trap is activated. This allows you to avoid using Lanaya's casting animation when activating the trap and slowing her down, possibly missing a kill or dying.

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cooluc has some Lanaya tips

Previous Templar Assassin discussion.

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Important Meepo tip of last thread by italldude:

"Each Meepo gets individual experience, so split them up to farm jungle camps and lanes at the same time, or send one to another lane for a gank without the main one leaving lane. You can stack hard camps when you hit 6 with one Meepo and take them when you hit 7, to get some good gold and EXP. Aghanims is a must because it makes the stats share 100% rather than 30%, as well as giving another Meepo. Keep in mind that damage from agility is multiplied by 5 on Meepo, so the most effective damage items are Agi items."