Artillery

Artillery
Legion
Attributes
18 24 13 (+2.0) (+2.6) (+1.5)
Stats
Level	1	16	25
Health	492	1100	1784
Mana	169	481	897
Damage	44-48	85-89	126-130
Armor	2.5	8.24	13.98
Attack Speed	0.71	0.95	1.18
Movement Speed 295 Magic Armor 5 Base Health Regen 0.25 Attack Range 600 (Ranged) Missile Speed 2000 Base Attack Time 1.7 Attack Animation 0.35/0.65 Turn Rate 540

Information

Role:		Ranged 3 Carry 5
Lore:		He looked down at the gear that the Engineer had salvaged from the dig. It was amazing how much destructive power the Ancients could pack into something so small. He oiled the barrels of the gun, loaded the rockets in their launchers and strapped them down to his back. He lit his cigar and strode towards the battlefield. Let those demons have their electricians - they don't stand a chance against this new breed of soldiers raining death from above - Artillery!

Abilities

LRM [ Q ] Cast Time: 0.25 / 0 seconds Target Position Enemy Units Type - Physical Artillery channels to release several rockets in a direction dealing damage to enemies they hit. Range: 1200 Radius: 100 Mana Cost: 10 Cooldown: 6 seconds Channeling Time: 4.5 seconds Target a direction to channel, firing a barrage of rockets over the duration hitting the first enemy they touch. Consumes 4 mana per rocket fired. Each rocket deals 12 + 7/14/21/28% of your Attack Damage in Physical Damage in a 200 radius on impact, plus a bonus 1% Damage Multiplier for each rocket fired after the first in a given channel instance. Deals half the damage to non-hero units. Each charge grants 1 rocket, with a max of 20 charges. Charges are refreshed every 0.5s, even while channeling. Activate mid-channel to Turn toward your cursor while firing your LRM. Shoot first, aim later!

Notes

LRM has a 0.25 second delay before firing. While channeling, a rocket is fired every 0.15 seconds. Missiles do not travel in a perfectly straight line, and arc slightly left or right and end in approximately at the center of your line of fire at its maximum range. Missiles have a touch radius of 60 and deal damage in a 200 radius on impact or expiration. Damage dealt from each rocket scales down linearly over 200 units, based on the distance from the unit hit by the rocket. Missiles reach their maximum distance over 0.6 seconds. With 20 charges stored, you can fire up to 29 missiles per cast.

Turn [ Q ] Cast Time: 0 / 0 seconds Target Cursor Activate to turn while firing your LRM Cooldown: 0.2 seconds Activate to turn toward your cursor while firing your LRM.

Mortar Strike [ W ] Cast Time: 0.3 / 0.4 seconds Target Position Type - Magic Artillery lobs a mortar into the air dealing damage and slowing enemies in a large area. Range: 1400 Radius: 350 Mana Cost: 75 Cooldown: 15 seconds Lobs a mortar at target area, impacting after a 1.5 second delay. Targets in radius take 100/140/180/220 Magic Damage and have Mortar Shot applied for 4 seconds. Can be activated while channeling. Fireworks went wrong.

Mortar Shot Effects 15% Movement Slow

Special Ammunition [ E ] Passive Artillery passively gains an increase of Cast Range and an added Slow to all abilities. Your abilities have an increased 200/400/600/800 Cast Range and applies Special Ammunition to enemies hit for 3 seconds.

Special Ammunition Effects 15% Movement Slow

Homing Missile [ R ] Cast Time: 0.3 / 0.7 seconds Target Unit Enemy Units Type - Magic Launch a tactical missile to seek out and destroy your foes! Range: 1200 Radius: 225/250/275 Mana Cost: 125/150/175 Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds Target an enemy to launch a missile at them. The missile starts out slow but accelerates rapidly towards the target. On impact, deals 200/250/300 Magic Damage and stuns for up to 4 seconds in a 225/250/275 radius area around the target. Stun duration is calculated by a base of 1 second + 0.1 second for every 100 units the missile has traveled. I think this one likes you!

Notes

Missile speed starts at 100 initially and accelerates by 150 per second. While the missile is traveling to its target, a visual marker will appear on the target. This marker can only be seen by allies.

Alt Avatars

Artillery Alt Avatars
Heavy Artillery EA Only Gunnar the Artillerist 390 2500 Gorilla Warfare Artillery 450 3500 Apollo 600 Rock God Apollo 390 2500 Boggus 400 3000 Srikandi 450 3500 Ravus 400 3000 Ascension Artillery Codex Only Huang Zhong   700 Huang Zhong (EN) 350 3000 Cyber Artillery 550
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Changelog

Version 4.4.0

Ability 1: LRM

Range: 1200

Radius: 100

Mana cost: 10

Cooldown: 0 seconds.

• Target a direction to channel, firing a barrage of rockets over the duration hitting the first enemy they touch.
• Consumes 4 mana per rocket fired. Each rocket deals [12 + 7/14/21/28% of your Attack Damage] in Physical Damage in a 200 radius on impact, plus a bonus 1% Damage Multiplier for each rocket fired after the first in a given channel instance.
• Deals half the damage to non-hero units.
• Each charge grants 1 rocket, with a max of 20 charges. Charges are refreshed every 0.5s, even while channeling.
• Activate mid-channel to Turn toward your cursor while firing your LRM.

Ability 2: Mortar Shot

Range: 1200

Radius: 400

Mana cost: 65

Cooldown: 20/18/16/14 seconds.

• Target an area to lob a mortar which impacts after a 1.5 second delay.
• Targets in radius take 100/140/180/220 Magic Damage and have a 15% Movement Speed Slow applied to them for 4 seconds.
• Can be activated while channelling.

Ability 3: Special Ammunition

• Passively grants your abilities 200/400/600/800 extra Cast Range and causes them to apply a 15% Movement Speed Slow to enemies hit for 3 seconds.

Ability 4: Homing Missile

Range: 1200

Mana cost: 125/150/175

Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds.

• Target an enemy to launch a Homing Missile. The missile starts out slow but rapidly accelerates towards the target.
• On Impact, deals 200/250/300 Magic Damage and Stuns for up to 4 seconds in a 225/250/275 radius around the target.
• Stun duration starts at 1 second and increases by 0.1 seconds for every 100 units the missile has travelled.

Version 4.0.0

• Attack range increased from 400 to 600.
• Magic Armor decreased from 5.5 to 5.
• LRM
  • Damage per rocket changed from [12 + 7/14/21/28% of your Attack Damage] to [10/15/20/25 + 15% of your Attack Damage].
  • No longer deals extra damage the longer you channel.
  • Now has a 6 second cooldown when the channel ends.
  • Range increased from 1200 to 1400.
• Mortar Shot
  • Renamed to Mortar Strike.
  • Damage rescaled from 100/140/160/220 to 60/120/180/240.
  • Now applies a stacking 15% Movement Speed Slow for 3 seconds. Stacks up to 6 times.
  • Now fires an extra mini-mortar for each enemy hero in the target area upon cast. Fires up to 5 mini-mortars at 0.5 second intervals.
  • Mini-mortars deal 20/30/40/50 Magic Damage and apply the Movement Speed Slow as well.
  • Cooldown rescaled from 20/18/16/14 seconds to 15 seconds at all levels.
  • Mana cost increased from 65 to 75.
  • Cast range increased from 1200 to 1400.
  • Radius decreased from 400 to 350.
  • Now has a 300ms cast action time (can still be cast while channelling).
• Special Ammunition
  • Reworked completely. Now called Precision Targeting Protocols.
  • Passively grants Artillery a 20% chance to fire a 20/40/60/80 Magic Damage missile at enemies which slows their Movement Speed by 15% for 1 second whenever he deals non-DoT Damage.
  • Can not affect the same unit more than once a second.
  • The chance is doubled if the target is stunned or has the Mortar Strike slow.
• Homing Missile
  • Reworked completely. Now called Artillery Barrage.

    Action type: Target position

    Cast Range: 800

    Radius: 250

    Mana Cost: 100/140/180

    Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds

  • Deals 200/350/500 Magic Damage to enemies in the target area and stuns them for 2/2.5/3 seconds.
  • Pushes you back 500 distance.

Version 3.9.9

• Attack Range lowered from 450 to 400.

Version 3.8.5

• LRM:
  • Mana Cost increased from 15 to 20

Version 3.7.10

• LRM:
  • Mana Cost increased from 10 to 15

Version 3.7.0

• Intelligence per level increased from 1.4 to 1.5
• LRM:
  • Implemented a charge system on his LRM
  • Each rocket equals one charge; maximum of 20. Charges are refreshed every 0.5s (even during channelling)
  • Mana cost: 10 base mana cost, 4 per rocket fired
  • The spell can be channeled until there is no ammo left or until Artillery runs out of mana (cooldown is removed)
  • Grants 1% bonus damage for each rocket fired after the first one for a given channel instance
• Homing Missile
  • Mana cost decreased from 150/175/200 to 125/150/175

Version 3.4.0

• LRM:
  • Touch radius increased from 40 to 60
  • Lifetime lowered from 800 to 600 (reaches its max distance sooner)
  • Mana Cost lowered from 80/90/100/110 to 70/80/90/100

Version 3.3.1

• LRM
  • Damage is now based on center of enemy rather than the rocket

Version 3.3.0

• LRM
  • Each rocket now deals less damage the farther away you are from the center of the rocket impact

Version 3.2.0

• Reduced starting attack range from 550 to 450
• LRM
  • Range decreased from 1500 to 1200
  • Damage changed from 15 plus 7/14/21/28% of Attack Damage to 12 plus 7/14/21/28% of Attack Damage
  • Increased missiles shot per second from 4 to 6. Missiles no longer shoot in a perfectly straight line and deal AOE damage on impact
• Fragmentation Shells Completely reworked. Now called Mortar Shot
  • Mortar Shot: Shoots a Mortar in a targeted area that deals 100/140/180/220 Magic damage and slows. This ability can be used while channeling LRM
• Bunker Down Completely reworked. Now called Special Ammunition
  • Special Ammunition: Increases cast range of all abilities by 200/400/600/800 and adds an additional 15% move speed slow to all abilities
• Artillery Barrage Completely reworked. Now called Homing Missile
  • Homing Missile: Now single target ability that will follow its target no matter what. On impact, deals 200/250/300 Magic damage and stuns for a duration determined by how far the missile has traveled, up to a max of 4 seconds

Version 3.1.0

• LRM
  • Reduce damage from 15+10/17/24/31% to 15+7/14/21/28%
  • Increased Mana cost from 80/85/90/95 to 80/90/100/110
• Artillery Barrage
  • Cooldown increased from 90/80/70 to 120/100/80 seconds

Version 3.0.1

• LRM
  • Cast Time reduced from 500 to 250
  • Now fires off the proper 16 rounds instead of 17
  • Total time it took to fire off 17 rounds was 4.5 seconds, now it's 4 seconds to fire off 16 rounds
  • Now does full damage to creeps

Version 2.5.19

• Hero Added

Legacy Abilities

Mortar Strike (Pre-4.4.0) [ W ] Cast Time: 0.3 / 0.4 seconds Target Position Type - Magic Artillery lobs a mortar into the air dealing damage and slowing enemies in a large area. Range: 1400 Radius: 350 Mana Cost: 75 Cooldown: 15 seconds Lobs a mortar at target area, impacting after a 1.5 second delay. Targets in radius take 60/120/180/240 Magic Damage and receive a stacking 15% Movement Speed slow for 3 seconds. Fires an additional mini-mortar for each enemy hero in radius at 0.5 second intervals, up to a max of 5. Mini-mortars deal 20/30/40/50 Magic Damage and apply the slow as well. Fireworks went wrong.

Notes

Can cast while channeling. Mini-mortars land in the same position as the main mortar. Mini-mortars have a radius of 350 as well.

Precision Targeting Protocols [ E ] Passive Passively grants Artillery a 20% chance to fire a 20/40/60/80 Magic Damage missile at enemies that slows their movement speed by 15% for 1 second whenever he deals non-DoT damage. This chance is doubled if the target is stunned or has the Mortar Strike slow. Same unit cannot be affected more than once every second. The secret to slowing you down? Lots of missiles.

Special Ammunition Effects 15% Movement Slow

Notes

Removed in Version 4.4.0. Missiles travels toward its target over 1 second.

Artillery Barrage [ R ] Cast Time: 0.3 / 0.7 seconds Target Position Enemy Units Type - Magic Barrage an area with a massive burst of firepower! Recoil knocks you back when used! Range: 800 Radius: 250 Mana Cost: 100/140/180 Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds Target an area to deal 200/350/500 Magic Damage and Stun enemies for 2/2.5/3 Seconds. The barrage launches you 500 units backwards into the air.

Notes

Removed in Version 3.2.0, then re-added in Version 4.0.0, then removed in Version 4.4.0. Artillery is pushed back at 2000 speed over 0.25 seconds.

LRM (Pre-3.2.0) [ Q ] Cast Time: 0.25 / 0 seconds Target Position Enemy Units Type - Physical Artillery charges up and fires his Long Range Missiles at a rapid pace! Range: 1500 Radius: 250 Mana Cost: 80/90/100/110 Cooldown: 12 seconds Channeling Time: 3.75 seconds Target a location to charge up for 0.25 seconds then fire missiles at the location for 4 seconds. Fires 4 missiles per second that deal 15 plus 7/14/21/28% of attack damage in Physical Damage and travel 1500 units. Activate again to Turn toward your cursor while firing your LRM.

Fragmentation Shells [ W ] Passive Attacks and LRM hits slows your enemies. Passively adds a stacking 7% Movement Speed Slow to your attacks and LRM hits for 3 seconds. Stacks up to 2/3/4/5 times.

Notes

Removed in Version 3.2.0.

Bunker Down [ E ] Cast Time: 0 / 0 seconds Target Self Grants Artillery bonus attack damage and range in an area. Radius: 300 Mana Cost: 10 Cooldown: 10 seconds Activate to place a 350 radius ring on the ground for 8 seconds. When you are within the ring you gain a bonus 5/15/25/35% Base Damage and 100/150/200/250 Range. May be cast while channeling.

Notes

Removed in Version 3.2.0.

Trivia

• Heavy Artillery was originally intended to be the default Artillery and the current Artillery as the EA Avatar, but was changed due to community feedback.
• Artillery's lore was also changed on release. Below is the original teaser lore:

The engineer looked at his masterpiece. The turrets were mounted, the rockets loaded, the cannons oiled and tested on the range. It was time to test his mechanical beast against the demonic hoards of the Hellbourne. They would know no quarter when he found them within range and death reigned down from above. The explosions deafened both man and beast, and Artillery stood alone among the craters and carnage.

Heroes
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