Defense of the Ancients/Characters/The Dire: Difference between revisions

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]/[[Spin Attack]]: Counter Helix

* [[Finishing Move]]: Culling Blade will kill any hero below a certain amount of health.

* [[I Call It Vera]]: He calls his axe...um...[[Shaped Like Itself|Axe]].

* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]

''"In the Fields of Endless Carnage, far to the south of Quoidge, a corpulent figure works tirelessly through the night--dismembering, disembowelling, piling up the limbs and viscera of the fallen that the battlefield might be clear by dawn. In this cursed realm, nothing can decay or decompose; no corpse may ever return to the earth from which it sprang, no matter how deep you dig the grave. Flocked by carrion birds who need him to cut their meals into beak-sized chunks, Pudge the Butcher hones his skills with blades that grow sharper the longer he uses them. Swish, swish, thunk. Flesh falls from the bone; tendons and ligaments part like wet paper. And while he always had a taste for the butchery, over the ages, Pudge has developed a taste for its byproduct as well. Starting with a gobbet of muscle here, a sip of blood there...before long he was thrusting his jaws deep into the toughest of torsos, like a dog gnawing at rags. Even those who are beyond fearing the Reaper, fear the Butcher."''

 

* [[Damage Sponge]]: One of Pudge's skills slowly increases his Strength stat each time he kills an enemy. A well-played Pudge can therefore end up with a preposterous hitpoint total before long.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Pudge is a [[Mighty Glacier]] with mostly close-range skills and coded to be unable to use Blink Dagger for [[Dynamic Entry]]. To make good use of him, one must master Meat Hook, which newbies are liable to snag on mooks instead. An experienced player, though, can catch his victim through gaps in the mook line or even the [[Fog of War]], dragging them into traps and thus being a valuable supporter.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Possibly as a result of his cannibalism.

* [[Flesh Golem]]

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Team Fortress 2|Snipin']]...err, butcherin's a good job, mate.

* [[Hooks and Crooks]]/[[Knife Nut]]: He uses a butcher's knife in one hand and a meat hook in the other.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: Just look at him.

* [[Noun Verber]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: His Rage ability, wherein he becomes immune to magic and gains increased attack speed for a few seconds.

* [[Casting a Shadow]]: His ultimate skill Darkness.

* [[Dark Is Evil]]

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Crippling Fear causes the victim to have a chance to miss.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Hunter in the Night gives him dramatic movement and attack speed boosts.

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

* [[Badass Cape]]: A torn one.

* [[BFS]]

* [[Super Senses]]: Not only that he can sense bleeding enemy heroes, he can also share their vision.

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: His name. Fan theories as to how Icefrog came up with the name range from the influence of drugs to Icefrog just rolling his face on the keyboard.

* [[Vampiric Draining]]: His motivation is to obtain [[Human Sacrifice|blood sacrifices]] for his gods.

 

* [[The Archmage]]: Sutherex, who inadvertently made Clinkz a monster.

* [[Arrows on Fire]]

* [[Ballistic Bone]]: They don't call him the Bone Fletcher for nothing.

* [[Dem Bones]]

* [[Poisonous Person]]

* [[Rip Van Winkle]]: He was in a coma for seventeen years.

* [[Technicolor Toxin]]

* [[Whatevermancy]]

''"Krobelus was a Death Prophet--which is one way of saying she told fortunes for the wealthiest of those who wished to look beyond the veil. But after years of inquiring on behalf of others, she began to seek clues on her own fate. When death refused to yield its secrets, she tried to buy them with her life. But the ultimate price proved insufficient. Death disgorged her again and again, always holding back its deepest mysteries. Her jealousy grew. Others could die for eternity--why not she? Why must she alone be cast back on the shores of life with such tiresome regularity? Why was she not worthy of the one thing all other living creatures took for granted? Still, she would not be discouraged. Each time she returned from the grave, she brought a bit of death back with her. Wraiths followed her like fragments of her shattered soul; her blood grew thin and ectoplasmic; the feasting creatures of twilight took her for their kin.. She gave a little of her life with every demise, and it began to seem as if her end was in sight. With her dedication to death redoubled, and no client other than herself, Krobelus threw herself ever more fervently into death's abyss, intent on fulfilling the one prophecy that eluded her: That someday the Death Prophet would return from death no more."''

 

* [[Death Seeker]]

* [[Glowing Eyelights of Undeath]]

* [[Canis Latinicus]]: Some of the responses for his spells.

* [[Confusion Fu]]: The Invoker hero has three "reagents", which grant minor buffs life increased speed or damage or regeneration, and Invoke, which grants a skill based on which reagents are active. Since there are ten possible combinations and the effects include [[Summon Magic|summoning]], [[Status Buff|buffing]], disabling, creating temporary walls, four different attack spells ([[Kill Sat|one with unlimited range]]), and turning [[Invisibility|invisible]], it's very difficult to tell what an Invoker will do next. Since the Invoker is limited to having two skills readied at a time, it also makes him [[Difficult but Awesome]].

* [[Death From Above]]: Chaos Meteor and Sun Strike. The latter is a beam that [[Kill Sat|can be fired anywhere on the map]].

* [[Elemental Powers]]: He is perhaps the most glorious user of such powers.

* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]: He's based on one in appearance.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]

* [[Nature Hero]]: An unusual villainous example.

* [[Power Glows]]: His entire body.

* [[Tribal Face Paint]]

 

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