Что они и как их убить

That Tormentor is so dangerous.

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Want an Aghanim’s Shard, but don’t want to pay for it? There’s only one way to do so in Dota 2 — and it’s through taking down the Tormentor.

Dota 2 patch 7.33 introduced several new objectives on the map, which includes the Tormentors. These neutral creeps can be found right outside each base’s offlane. That means one is on the southwest side of the map, and the other is on the northeast side of the map.

What are Dota 2 Tormentors?

These powerful creeps have only one health, but has a powerful, regenerating shield that reflects damage back at whoever damages it. This damage is evenly spread out among everybody in a set radius, ally or foe alike, and will even reflect globally if you are the source of damage.

With risk, comes reward. Taking down the Tormentor rewards an Aghanim’s Shard to the team that defeats it, as well as a 250 gold bounty. One of the two lowest net worth heroes without a Shard will obtain the effect for free.

If everybody on the team already has a Shard, everybody on the team gets 280 gold and experience instead.

Bring your team to take down the Tormentors

It’s hard to think of a functioning team composition that doesn’t have the damage to go through a Tormentor.

Some sort of sustain will help — a Mekansm or healing spells, or even Tranquil Boots — will make the Tormentor relatively trivial. The hardest part will be bringing all your teammates there, of course. You can try and get away with lesser people, and it’s definitely a tightrope you can walk — but be careful, since the Tormentor can wipe out anybody ill-equipped to challenge them.

But what if you want to do it all by yourself, without any reliance on your teammates? Tormentors are unique creeps in that it’s almost impossible to kill them by oneself. Of course, as is the case in Dota 2, some heroes can ignore that restriction.

Solo tormentor? You can outtank it

Another hero good at outtanking a Tormentor is Ursa. With his flat damage reduction ability — Enrage — he can quite easily go through the neutral creep. To be extra safe, you can stack up the Fury Swipe stacks with Earthshock, then use your ultimate to completely take it down.

Troll Warlord can also use his Battle Trance to prevent himself from dying, completely negating the Tormentor’s high damage return.

Juggernaut’s Healing Ward is also excellent at regaining lost health when dealing with the miniboss.

Reduce its armor

Due to how Tormentors’ damage reflection works, it’s much more effective to debuff it, than try to amp up your damage. This means armor reduction abilities and items like Solar Crest, Assault Cuirass, and Desolator are amazing against it, along with some spells that can even open up some heroes to solo the neutral creep.

This includes heroes like Razor with his ultimate Eye of the Storm, Weaver with The Swarm and Time Lapse, and Slardar’s Corrosive Haze.

Why not both?

Some uniquely powerful heroes in the game can abuse the Tormentors as soon as they spawn.

One such example is Dazzle, whose Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade means he can easily take down Tormentors — provided your teammate send some air support with their couriers.

This means you barely lose health and don’t need to reset to the base, and can instead continuing to farm the map.

Another such hero is Bristleback, whose unique combination of tankability and armor reduction on his Vicous Nasal Goo means he can slowly stack up his Goos, then use his Scepter-upgraded Bristleback to quickly fire Quills and take down the creep.

• Tormentor
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Creep
This unit has no mana. Level 30 Armor 20 Magic Resistance 55% Turn Rate 1 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range 1400 Bounty Experience Model Scale 0.7 Abilities Notes Cannot have negative armor Intern

Tormentors are powerful neutral creep bosses that, unlike other neutral creeps, are incapable of moving or attacking. Despite this, they are difficult to take down due to their quickly regenerating barriers and their very potent damage reflection. Also, each time they get defeated, they come back stronger.

Defeating a Tormentor rewards one hero with an Aghanim’s Shard, or with team gold and experience if all heroes have their upgrades already, making it quite worthwhile to take them on. However, doing so takes team coordination and planning due to their unique way of defending themselves.

Passively grants a 2500 All Damage Barrier that regens 100HP/s

Base Damage Barrier:

Barrier Increase per Death:

Base Barrier Regen:

Barrier Regen Increase per Death:

Reflects damage received evenly to all heroes.

Damage Reflected:

Damage Reflect Increase per Death:

Illusion Reflected Damage Multiplier:

• Reflects all damage dealt, including damage of non-hero units.
  • Reflects incoming damage before all manipulations. However, damage manipulation on the enemy still affects the damage normally.
  • Reflects the same damage type as received.
  • Reflected physical damage is affected by damage block as well.
  • Does not affect .

• The reflecting damage hits all heroes within 1200 radius of the Tormentor.
  • Treats illusions, clones and creep-heroes as heroes.
  • The reflecting damage also always hits the unit dealing the original damage, regardless of distance and regardless of unit type, except for wards.
  • The reflecting amount dealt to each eligible target is reduced by a factor equal to the number of targets except illusions.
    • In other words, nearby illusions do not reduce the reflecting amount while also taking damage. Moreover, this ability deals 2 times as much damage to illusions.
  • If the damage source is not a hero and there is no hero among all reflected targets (including creep-heroes, illusions, and clones), it gets instantly killed.
    • This includes all summons, wards, dominated creeps, and lane creeps.

Deals 30 damage to all units within 1200 range every second.

Damage Per Second:

Area of Effect:

• Damage is split evenly between all valid units in the area of effect.

• Deals damage in 0.2 second intervals starting 0.2 seconds after the debuff is placed.

The Tormentors’ location on the minimap

The Tormentors spawn from pits with lens shutter gates. The pits are located on the west and east edges of the map, directly on the side paths next to the off lanes, on the same height as the Tier 2 Towers. The side paths can be accessed directly through the bases via the Defender’s Gates by the respective teams. A Watcher is located right in front of the Tormentor pits.

The pits themselves are visible through the fog of war at all times, and reveal the Tormentors’ current alive status, closing when they die, and opening again once they respawn. The spawn and death sound effects are audible through the fog of war as well.

Spawning and Respawning

The Tormentors initially spawn at the 20:00 minute mark, and then respawn 10 minutes after being killed. Unlike with other neutral creeps, their respawning cannot be prevented by any means. Since the pit is visible through the fog of war, players can easily check when the Tormentor has respawned without requiring vision.

When a Tormentor is killed, one of the two lowest net worth players within that team who don’t already have Aghanim’s Shard is granted an Aghanim’s Shard — Roshan for free. This gets announced in all chat. The Aghanim’s Shard is instantly applied and does not need to be activated, it does not appear as an item in the player’s inventory. When selecting a Tormentor, the Aghanim’s Shard is visible in its inventory. can also be granted the Aghanim’s Shard.

If all players of that team already have their Aghanim’s Shard upgrade, the whole team gains and _XP instead. The player who gets the last hit also gets its regular kill bounty, effectively gaining . The experience is directly granted to all players of the team regardless of distance, it does not work other regular experience bounties. The team gold and experience are granted even when the player’s hero is dead.