Impale
на точкуRock spikes burst from the earth along a straight path. Enemy units take damage, then are hurled into the air and stunned.
Pros max it by level 7
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Nyx Assassin
Nyx Assassin: Melee, position 4 (soft support), Disabler, Nuker, Initiator, Escape. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 52.7% win rate in pubs and a 10.0% pick rate.
Nyx Assassin is always hunting for fragile targets. Sneaking invisibly through the forest, when he spots his prey, he swipes them with his deadly claws and impales them on stunning spikes, then reverses any counterattack with his reflecting carapace.
Meleeposition 4 (soft support)DisablerNukerInitiatorEscape
52.7%Win rate · all pubs
10.0%picked in 1 of 10 games
53.2%Turbo · 221,913 games
Complexity: medium
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Nyx Assassin
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
5′5′
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5′5′9′10′Core
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17′25′28′Core items in order: Essence Distiller (around minute 17), Blink Dagger (around minute 25), Eul's Scepter of Divinity (around minute 28).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+25% Spiked Carapace Damage Reflect16-3s Mind Flare Cooldown18+0.6s Spiked Carapace Stun Duration
Max Impale, then Spiked Carapace, then Mind Flare.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Meepo, Enigma and Oracle; easiest: Bristleback, Shadow Fiend and Timbersaw.
All 125 opponents →4How much to farm?
352average429good516great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 352 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 516.
5Common mistakes by role
Too few wardsDeath without informationCaught aloneFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
Compare your Nyx Assassin match with this cheat sheet
The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.
Review my matchMistake guides for the support role
- Too few wardsA support placed fewer than 1.5 observer wards per 10 minutes.
- Death without informationKilled by enemies nobody could see, with no wards nearby.
- Caught aloneThe fight started on you while no ally was nearby.
- Late to fightsJoined a fight more than 10 seconds after it started, and it cost the team.
Picked by the hero's role. Once the hero has 20 reviews, its real common mistakes show up here.
AI coach
A review of your Nyx Assassin game
Sign in with Steam and pick a match: the coach reads the replay second by second and in a couple of minutes shows where the game slipped.
- Every death and fight becomes a moment on the map: the fog of war as you saw it, and what the enemy saw that second.
- Your pace against the Nyx Assassin benchmark: 352 GPM for an average player, 429 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Essence Distiller by minute 17, and the coach shows where you lose time.
- Five-game homework the coach checks in your next review, plus a chat with the coach about the match.
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Pro build by minute
Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′Starting
5′28%
5′27%
9′36%
10′31%
10′27%
11′62%17′37%25′73%28′38%
31′40%
5′28%5′27%9′36%10′31%10′27%11′62%17′37%25′73%28′38%31′40%Skill build
28% of 96 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+25% Spiked Carapace Damage Reflect
- Lvl 16-3s Mind Flare Cooldown
- Lvl 18+0.6s Spiked Carapace Stun Duration
Mind Flare
на цель, по областиDeals damage equal to a percentage of the target's Max Mana and burns part of it away. Deals additional damage equal to a percentage of the damage the target has taken from Nyx Assassin in the last 15s. Resets accumulated damage before applying damage.
Pros max it by level 15
Spiked Carapace
без цели, мгновеннаяWhen activated while above ground, Spiked Carapace reflects and negates damage dealt to Nyx Assassin (max once from each source), as well as stunning the source of the damage. Activating Spiked Carapace will not break Vendetta invisibility. While Burrowed, Spiked Carapace instantly stuns nearby enemies when cast.
Pros max it by level 10
Mana Burn
пассивная · innateNyx Assassin's damage on enemies also burns mana as a percentage of the damage dealt.
Vendetta
мгновенная, без целиNyx Assassin becomes invisible and gains a speed bonus. If Nyx Assassin attacks to break the invisibility, massive bonus damage is dealt with the attack that applies a break to the target. Nyx Assassin has 75 additional attack range and a 70% faster attack animation for this attack.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterGrants a new ability, Burrow.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Vendetta.
600 Mind Flare Radius25+80 Agility
+0.6s Spiked Carapace Stun Duration20+140 Impale Damage
+50 Vendetta Damage15-3s Mind Flare Cooldown
+25% Spiked Carapace Damage Reflect10+0.2s Impale Stun Duration
Matchups
Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games
Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.
Who to pick against Nyx Assassin: counter picks →Benchmarks on the hero
Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
Gold per minute
average 352good 429great 516
Experience per minute
average 584good 775great 928
Last hits per minute
average 1.5good 2.5great 3.9
Hero damage per minute
average 549good 726great 872
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: mediumIt does best in Divine (53.2% wins) and wins 53.2% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 4 (soft support) in 78% of games. Pros usually build Essence Distiller, Blink Dagger and Eul's Scepter of Divinity by minute 28. It struggles most against Meepo, Enigma and Oracle and has the easiest time against Bristleback, Shadow Fiend and Timbersaw.