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Nightcrawler - Dota 6.65 New Hero?

IceFrog has just post a Dota 6.65 teaser on his blog today. And inside, there's only a video without any comment. But the title is enough to explain everything, that the new hero inside this video is named Nightcrawler. The hero is somehow invisible and has a brown cloud above his head. Geez, i'm curious what kind of hero is that. If you wanna find out, watch below video! ;)


Curious? For your information, Nightcrawler is taken from X-Men character. His ability is able to turned himself into a cloud/smoke. Watch below Nightcrawler video, maybe IceFrog will take the original character into the model :)

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65 Comment:

Anonymous said...

im first huhuhu!!! hehe new hero ;)

Anonymous said...

seriously it looks 1mb4 from the way it killed viper + sniper.

Anonymous said...

yay, 3rd xD

Anonymous said...

I wonder what skills the hero has, we know that the hero has chain lighting-ish skill

Anonymous said...

If having a Mael/MJ is a skill then yes lighting is one of his skills.

Ya and it does totally look imba.. from not knowing a single ability except he seems to have perma invis at night that shows smoke so its not really invis since you can easy mode dust him. Im sure their be tons of awfuls calling him imba thou.

Anonymous said...

If it has perma-invis at night,with night stalker in your team it will be more imba

EseQueL said...

no!!! the blood and lightning is not his skills!!!
he is just attacking while invisible and sange/maelstorm procs.

robin de parker said...

new hero? first is rupture. And second is ulti's razor + lothar edge (enemy sight+slow motion).

raz44 said...

i think he has mjolnir against viper..against kardel i dunno what is it..what i saw is a backstab animation..correct me if im wrong..it is also i think he has the ability jaz like blur of mort which he is semi-invi but w/ faster movement speed buff..

Anonymous said...

how to target it I wonder...looks kinda blur...IMBA by the way

Anonymous said...

cnt wait for a new hero...xD

Tigran said...

I think the hero will be added instead of rikimaru and will have same figure us riki. Also I think he will have one of riki's abilities - backstab damage, and maybe this abilities:
slow enemies, move faster and the ulti - go invise with night.

Nickfreak said...

Commment:
Sniperkill: While using sange or sny.
Viperkill: While using Mael/Mjol
Well he hasnt got blur, just look: Theres no healthbar.
And he wont be permainvis @night. Theres Riki for that.The only way he could use that is Riki being replacd by NC.
Most interesting: Ne doesnt get revealed when attacking, like Zero fading time. Might be interesting. He ill be overpowered though. Its Icefrogs usual behaviour^^

Dreamerlol said...

could it be a new invulnerable boss who just wanders the map and if it cathes you bye-bye ?

Frozen_Hunter said...

Good looking hero and great music! I can't wait for its release.

I remember something similar in a past beta map, so I did a little searching in this blog. I quote a poster.

"Anonymous said...
I´ve got another new Hero named Slark.

I made the mode -sd and got this hero. I uploaded some screenshot. A murloc!?!?!?

http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wc3scrnshot091308155045ns8.jpg

http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wc3scrnshot091308155103qo4.jpg

http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wc3scrnshot091308155110du7.jpg

http://img399.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wc3scrnshot091308155307ju3.jpg

September 13, 2008 9:04 PM"

After doing some quick tests, I found that hero. His name is Slark, the Murloc Nightcrawler. As far as I can tell, he had two skills in the beta.

Skill 1) Like Charge of Darkness. Except you become invisible and leave a dark trail behind. Cast range is around 700 maybe,

Skill 2) I didn't get to test it out, but I recall it being something like Track. You gain sight of the hero and the hero loses sight of everything except you. I'm not sure if this is correct, but that's what I remember reading.

I can't be sure if this hero is anything like the one Icefrog showed in the trailer, but its something to keep you thinking :D

Anonymous said...

This update means that dota 6.65 is coming closer!
Yay! =D

Anonymous said...

dudes, first off
Nightcrawler`s ability in X-men is teleportation[disappears in black smoke and appears somewhere else kinda like QoP blink].

most probably not a new boss since IceFrog puts then on X.X9 versions [6.49 for invoker 6.59b for TC]

anyways seems easy to counter, when you see a trail of smoke , dust or ward it , if all else fails TP is your friend

Anonymous said...

http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=261372&hl=nightcrawler
=D 1 min search *-*

Ricardo Rebelo said...

he doesn't turn into smoke... he just phases out and phases in on another place with a smoke effect, so i really hope he has some sort of teleport or blink ability

Rain said...

i think his skill increase the percentage of orb effect from item happening becoz if the maim and lighting is part of his abilities it will be super imba

CungPowCow said...

http://www.dotastrategy.com/hero-idea-9087-SicariusTheNightcrawler.html

? I'm not sure if Icefrog based anything off of this but the name makes me think. Hmm =^)

Frozen_Hunter said...

I doubt those two links give much information about the new hero. We have only seen his smokey skill and that isn't reflected in any of the suggestions.
Also, do remember that dota-allstars.com is no longer official, and Icefrog probably only takes ideas from Playdota nowadays. After some searching, I have not found anything that fits. Therefore, assume Icefrog came up with it himself.

The trailer is out. Let's hope 6.55 comes out soon!

Anonymous said...

i would like to see what this 'new hero' is in 6.65...but with the mysteriousness of this video and the music and how it's just a 'smoke monster' thing would it be more suitable for 6.66?
also maybe its not a new hero, but a new type of item?

Fire_Fogs said...

http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=261372&hl=nightcrawler

Look at this link look like IceFrog got idea from here maybe who know..
coz look like the abilities is the nearest to the video..

Fire_Fogs said...

He is imba..look it kill viper and sniper so fast because of sniper and viper less hp gain..if no vanguard..

Anonymous said...

Wel..at that link icefrog firsts suggests a double butterfly double mkb build and then clearly says that butterfly shouldn't be part of his build...so i am a bit confused overall , and even more by his abilities

Anonymous said...

hey guys, check the link below.. its about the new dota 6.65 hero..
http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=261372&hl=nightcrawler
i think the hero is imbalance..
and if u wanna face balanar, u can use this hero because it will became invisible just in the night.. :D

Anonymous said...

oops, correction for my post above..
balanar ulti will make this hero visible.. thanks..

Anonymous said...

mistake again. =.=a

balanar ulti can make this hero INvisible (sorry not visible :p) and balanar can't see nightcrawler in the night time..

Anonymous said...

mistake again. =.=a

balanar ulti can make this hero INvisible (sorry not visible :p) and balanar can't see nightcrawler in the night time..

Anonymous said...

will you fucktards stop linking to those hero suggestions on the forums? they have literally nothing to do with the hero and any asshole can figure that out really easily, its just that you all have down syndrome or some shit and think we all care about your inability to figure shit out

Anonymous said...

@above : calm down man.. u fucking moron shit face.. the people who give the link bcoz they just wanna share the information..

Anonymous said...

almost everyone says it's IMBA, just w8 for the hero then judge it if its IMBA

Anonymous said...

What no one is taking care about is that in the last scene that creep got more than 250 dmg just meeting his path, that's the only very scary thing imo.

Anonymous said...

What about balanar with scepter? this nightcrawler still IMBA? ;P

Anonymous said...

yes, of course.

Anonymous said...

Attacking without being seen in the night, maybe. It's the result of permanent invisibility stacking.

Anonymous said...

It looks liken in the video, that nightcrawler is semi-ranged, like Templar Assassin.

Anonymous said...

its just in a beta mode, for sure icefrog will balance him.. looks like a definite end game hero like riki but who knows..

aside from the new hero i also wish a hero remake, like pudge, he is almost useless at 5v5 aside from his hook, at least change his ulti, like regenerating his life when using dismember coz he's actualy eating the flesh right?

Anonymous said...

thats what aganism does..
-.-

Renegade.CtrL said...

Very interesting news!!
I guess the model is same as that of the neutral creep camp murloc.

I would also like to see a QoP buff, nessaj buff, return the speed buff to Krobelus. moreover , agi hero's lack a Core AGI item unlike for str and int (HoT,Satanic : Orchid, shiva, Hex.

Regards

Anonymous said...

isnt butterfly a core agi item?
or perhaps even manta

Anonymous said...

now that mjolnir has been reworked, there's only 1 core agi item, which uses the eaglehorn

Anonymous said...

i think he use sange and yasha on sniper and mjolnir on viper. i dont think its his skills

Anonymous said...

LOL @ people getting worked up at how imba the new hero is. This is a mere teaser so the hero was intended to be imba just to showcase a little of his abilities. The finished product will definitely be toned-down, and won't be as overly imba as what you've seen in this teaser video (but still imba, though, as Ice has this habit of releasing new heroes with imba skill mechanics to collect feedback from players and later on tweak and balance the hero's skills with the rest of the roster.)

Mik said...

I've tried to read the comments but there are too many retarded ones so I didn't make it. That's why I apologize if I don't say anything new.

But the thing is that if you were with this blog for some time you should remember info about nightcrawler - it's the murloc hero who was implemented in map code long ago but wasn't finished at that time. He had ability making him charge his prey rendering the target hero blind (he could only see a murloc) and some other ability (only two at that time). Now IceFrog apparently finished him and intends to add him into 6.65 or maybe later.

And the blood/lightning are obviously orb effect animations from sange/s&y and maelstrom/mjolnir, duh.

Mik said...

and btw, gotta add that the way he killed sniper/viper doesn't say anything about his being any sort of imba - you know absolutely nothing about items/levels difference between nightcrawler and sniper/viper, they can have no items at all and 1lvl and he can have anything (like s&y/maelstrom minimum, judging from orb effect animations).
duh.

Anonymous said...

To all of you who say he's imba, here's the cold hard truth for you: He is NOT. Any hero with an invis skill is inherently weak to dust+disable and if you noticed, they don't really seem to have alot of hp, do they? Furthermore, his invis leaves a frigging black cloud FFS. This means that he virtually cannot sneak up/gank/ambush a hero unless you're that dumb as to not carry a tp. Which means you deserve to get killed, btw. So if you see nightcrawler coming what do you do? Simple. TP in his face. (Same thing goes for a bone that's dumb enough not to get MKB)

Anonymous said...

HERO ABILITIES


1)Nightcrawler's Flashbang
Casting this spell NC damages evbdy, slowing their movespeed by 35% and and prevents them from attacking, lasts 2.5 sec

Level 1 - Deals 120 damage and has a 200 AOE.
Level 2 - Deals 200 damage and has a 240 AOE.
Level 3 - Deals 280 damage and has a 270 AOE.


Level 4 - Deals 330 damage and has a 300 AOE.

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Mana cost: 100/110/120/130

The casting time is 1 second.
The casting range is 400


2)Creates a defense around himself giving him a chance to reflect the percentage of the damage taken.

Level 1 - 10% chance to reflect the 120% of the nightcrawler's received damage.
Level 2 - 10% chance to reflect the 150% of the nightcrawler's received damage.
Level 3 - 10% chance to reflect the 180% of the nightcrawler's received damage.
Level 4 - 10% chance to reflect the 200% of the nightcrawler's received damage.

3) Passive
Becomes invisible at night. If he starts to attack the opponent or use any skill he will again become visible. Just like Rikimaru ulti

Level 1 - The nightcrawler becomes invisible when night. Has 8 seconds fade time.
Level 2 - The nightcrawler becomes invisible when night. Has 7 seconds fade time.
Level 3 - The nightcrawler becomes invisible when night. Has 6 seconds fade time.
Level 4 - The nightcrawler becomes invisible when night. Has 5 seconds fade time.


4) Ulti

Death Stab


Attacking in face (sorry for my gram. >_<), he deals more damage. Attacking the enemy's back slows it by the 30%.

Level 1 - adds a bonus 25% of damage.
Level 2 - adds a bonus 50% of damage.
Level 3 - adds a bonus 75% of damage.

Orb Effects do not stack

Here is the link to the source (for those who know russian ^_^)
http://wc3gamer.com/news/dota_allstars_665/2009-11-14-358

@Naskool

Anonymous said...

ur info is same as here

http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=261372&hl=nightcrawler=D%201%20min%20search

w00t

Anonymous said...

However, he looks like another imba hero %)

@naskool

Anonymous said...

I have work about this new hero(a girL,ranged INT hero).
1rst spell:She have the ability to do mini stun at all attack
2nd spell: She active an aura give all ally heroes the ability to run more fast.( Same spell of Rylai but here its not mana regen, it is increased movement speed)
3rd spell: When an ally hero is dead, she have the ability : vengeance for move more fast,attack more fast, and have a mana regeneration incresed.
4th spell : She aims at a zone which will make tremble the earth and give to the enemy units the vertigo ( the screen will moved ).

Please, agree this hero

Anonymous said...

I have work about this new hero(a girL,ranged INT hero).
1rst spell:She have the ability to do mini stun at all attack
2nd spell: She active an aura give all ally heroes the ability to run more fast.( Same spell of Rylai but here its not mana regen, it is increased movement speed)
3rd spell: When an ally hero is dead, she have the ability : vengeance for move more fast,attack more fast, and have a mana regeneration incresed.
4th spell : She aims at a zone which will make tremble the earth and give to the enemy units the vertigo ( the screen will moved ).

Please, agree this hero

Anonymous said...

This blog is ridiculous at times. Good guides, good updates but bad community. Also, the bad english in articles are crap.

Anonymous said...

Finally a murloc hero in dota

Anonymous said...

this girlz hero is useless if ally all pro??
or it must sacrifies ally hero??
i think the third skill change to ally unit dead wll be better.
(but i think stll not suitable enough)
anyhow this is just my opinion.
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Anonymous said...

who has the map 6.65 here?

can i have the link??
is it released already?

Anonymous said...

what a shit looking hero hope it sucks ass

Anonymous said...

stupid azns dont even know how to properly speak english

Anonymous said...

heroes of newerth suck.........we still love dota....hope icefrog put more pro item

Anonymous said...

dota is becoming boring because it is so repetitive

wira said...

i think the nightcrawler is a murgul/murloc, as the name is nightcrawler. =D

Anonymous said...

w0w i think night crawler is melee/range?

Anonymous said...

what are the skills of night crawler?

Anonymous said...

i think of what we are seeing smokes in this video are just some sort of skills of Night Crawler i dunno the lightning thing but it might be a mael/mjor or its skills and by watching Nightcrawler Killing Sniper and Viper i think it will be or It is an Imba!!!!

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