Morphling

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Morphling

#11

23 + 3.2

24 + 3.9

19 + 1.8

Grants the following bonuses per attribute point:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed +1 Main Attack Damage
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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626 +2.8

303 +1.45

2 Armor (701.12 EHP)

26.9% Magic Resist (856.36 EHP)

33 ‒ 42 Damage (37.5 Avg)

1300 Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

350 Attack Range (800)

124 Attack Speed (1.5 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.5 + 0.5 Animation

285 / 315 Move Speed

0.7 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.15s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Ethereal Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_morphling

2010-11-01 Released

2004-04-23 (v[[]])

Competitive Span Unavailable

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Rides the waves to flank enemies.
After eons of travel in the darkness of space, the icy comet plunged to earth, and from there rose an elemental being of sentient liquid. Unbound by any permanent shape, the Morphling Alters Attributes to match his needs and Morphs into a replication of his foes, mimicking their capabilities, making them fight against a copy of themselves. Shifting between potent attacker, and resilient survivor, Morphling can be as elusive as he is deadly. Assuming the form of a Wave to flank an enemy, he surges forward before performing Adaptive Strikes of water that either sting or bludgeon the victims depending on his composition.
Roles:	Carry Escape Durable Nuker Disabler
Complexity
Adjectives	Aquatic, Blue Legs ( 0 )

Upgrades

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Creates a strong illusion of the targeted enemy hero that can cast all of the affected enemy's basic abilities with Alt-Cast toggled on.

Upon the Morph Replicate sub-ability cast, Morphling takes the place of the illusion, instantly destroying it with Alt-Cast toggled on.

Grants the corresponding abilites acquired via Morph its ability upgrades.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Morphling can shift attributes while being affected by most disables.

Increases bonus agility .

Increases bonus strength .

Grants the corresponding abilites acquired via Morph its ability upgrades.

Bio

You only miss the water when the well runs dry.

Lore:

For dark eons the comet circled. Held in thrall to a distant sun, bound by gravity’s inexorable pull, the massive ball of ice careened through the blackness between worlds, made strange by its dark journey. On the eve of the ancient war of the Vloy, it punched down through the sky and lit a glowing trail across the night, a sign both armies took for an omen. The frozen ball melted in a flash of boiling heat, as below two forces enjoined in battle across the border of a narrow river. Thus freed from its icy stasis, the Morphling was born into conflict, an elemental power at one with the tides of the ocean, capricious and unconstrained. He entered the fight, instinctively taking the form of the first general who dared set foot across the water, and then struck him dead. As the motley warriors clashed, he shifted from form to form throughout the battle, instantly absorbing the ways of these strange creatures--now a footsoldier, now an archer, now the cavalryman--until, by the time the last soldier fell, Morphling had played every part. The battle's end was his beginning.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Innate

Accumulation

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Morphling receives half of the attribute gain per level, per half level, instead of full attribute gain per upon leveling up.

Level Experience Threshold: 50%

Attribute Gain Factor: 0.5

Grants additional all attribute bonus per level.

This ability automatically levels up at certain levels if all ability points are spent on the hero's respective abilities.

Attribute Bonus: 4/8/12/16/20/24/28

"Right now he gets more attributes because he cannot reasonably use anything else: more attack, defense, nuking, or superior farming, he doesn't need..." They decided more attributes are all he wants anyway.

Abilities

Waveform

Q

W

Waveform

▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Enemies / Self

Damage

Spell / Magical

Surges forward, damaging enemy units in Morphling's path. Morphling is invulnerable during Waveform.

Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0

Cast Range:  700/800/900/1000 ( 950/1050/1150/1250)

Max Travel Distance: 700/800/900/1000 ( 950/1050/1150/1250)

Damage Radius: 200

Damage: 75/150/225/300

Instant Attack Factor: ( 1)

21/18/15/12 ( 12.6/10.8/9/7.2)

130

A torrential flood takes enemies by force.

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• Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
  • Disjoints projectile.
  • Invulnerable while traveling.
  • Hero model cannot be directly selected. However, Morphling can still be selected through the hero icon.

• Morphling can turn, execute
  A
  attack orders, cast abilities, and use items during Waveform.

• Waveform utilizes the forced movement mechanic, and has the following properties:
  • EXPR
    PointDistance < MaxDistance Waveform moves Morphling toward the point-targeted distance.

• Affects the following units:
  • Fogged units.
  • Invisible units.

• Affect enemy units up to 900/1000/1100/1200 ( 1150/1250/1350/1450) away with the travel distance and effect radius.

• TALENT NOTES
  The Waveform attack targets talent instant attacks all affected enemy units of a Waveform hit.

• The instant attack component has the following properties:
  • Procs any attack modifiers and on-cast effects as per normal.
  • Do not have True Strike.
  • Not affected by disarm sources.
  • Specifically does not affect enemy Couriers.

• TALENT NOTES
  Stacks multiplicatively with other percentage-based cooldown reduction sources.

morphling_waveform (5052)

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The magical spell damage.
  2. The instant attack instance.

Adaptive Strike (Agility)

W

E

Adaptive Strike (Agility)

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemies

Damage

Spell / Magical

Launches a surge of water toward an enemy unit, dealing base damage plus additional damage based on Morphling's agility. If Morphling's agility is higher than strength, the max agility damage factor is used.

Also puts Adaptive Strike (Strength) on a fixed downtime.

Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0.67

Cast Range:  600/700/800/900

Base Damage: 55/65/75/85

Current Agi Threshold: 50%

Min Agi Damage Factor: 0.5

Max Agi Damage Factor: 1/1.5/2/2.5

Adaptive Strike Downtime: 3

Dexterity is right in Morphling's element.

Agi Bonus: 3/5/7/9 ( 9/11/13/15)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases bonus agility.

Casting this ability puts the linked ability on a fixed downtime. Can be reset with cooldown reset sources, but it is not affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.

Downtime: 3

16/14/12/10

40/50/60/70

This ability levels up with Adaptive Strike (Strength).

The Morphling calls upon his elements to crush his opponents with waves.

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• Grants flat bonus agility.

• Puts the other on a downtime.

• mech

• SPELL BLOCK
  The ability is blocked upon projectile impact.

• SPELL REFLECT
  Spell Block notes apply.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Both Adaptive Strikes are independent and draftable abilities.

morphling_adaptive_strike_agi (5053)

• Has a 1150- projectile speed.

Adaptive Strike (Strength)

E

T

Adaptive Strike (Strength)

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemies

Launches a surge of water toward an enemy unit, stunning and knocking back the target based on Morphling's strength. If Morphling's strength is higher than agility, the max stun and knockback duration is used.

Also puts Adaptive Strike (Agility) on a fixed downtime.

Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0.67

Cast Range:  600/700/800/900

Str Threshold: 50%

Min Push Distance: 100

Max Push Distance: 500

Min Stun Duration: 0.5 ( 1.5)

Max Stun Duration: 1.5/2/2.5/3 ( 2.5/3/3.5/4)

Durability is right in Morphling's element.

Str Bonus: 3/5/7/9 ( 9/11/13/15)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases bonus strength.

Casting this ability puts the linked ability on a fixed downtime. Can be reset with cooldown reset sources, but it is not affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.

Downtime: 3

16/14/12/10

40/50/60/70

This ability levels up with Adaptive Strike (Agility).

The Morphling calls upon his elements to crush his opponents with waves.

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• downtime mech

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The forced movement applied no longer affects the debuff immune enemy target.

• SPELL BLOCK
  The ability is blocked upon projectile impact.

• SPELL REFLECT
  Spell Block notes apply.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Both Adaptive Strikes are independent and draftable abilities.

morphling_adaptive_strike_str (7000)

• Has a 1150- projectile speed.

Attribute Shift

D

F

Attribute Shift

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Morphling pulls strength points and pours them into agility, and vice versa. The process is reversible.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Shift Interval: 0.2/0.1/0.0667/0.05

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Morphling can shift attributes while being affected by most disables.

Gains as much agility as strength attribute loss.

Agi Gain per Second: 5/10/15/20

Gains as much strength as agility attribute loss.

Str Gain per Second: 5/10/15/20

0

The fixed current mana loss per second is not affected by mana loss manipulation sources.

5/10/15/20 s^-1

Shifting water makes it difficult to discern the nature of Morphling.

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• Both Attribute Shift (Agility Gain) or Attribute Shift (Strength Gain) abilities has the following properties:
  • If Attribute Shift cannot shift anymore attributes due to insufficient attributes or mana, the toggled
    ON
    /
    OFF
    status remains, the process pauses until it can continue.
  • Does not interrupt Morphling's channeling abilities upon toggling either abilities
    ON
    or
    OFF
    respectively.
  • Toggling one Attribute Shift
    ON
    toggles the other
    OFF
    .
  • All shifted attributes persists death.
  • The abilities continue to shift attributes while its toggled
    ON
    , even while being affected by disable sources.

The custom HUD element for Attribute Shift, showing the current agility-strength ratio.

• Appears in the dedicated fourth and fifth dedicated ability slot and has the following hotkeys:
  • D
    D
    Attribute Shift (Agility Gain)
  • F
    F
    Attribute Shift (Strength Gain)

• However, Morphling cannot toggle either abilties
  OFF
  when affected by disable sources.
  • SHARD NOTES
    This restriction is removed upon acquiring the ability upgrade, and can be toggled while being affected by the following sources:
    • Cyclone sources.
    • Forced movement sources.
    • Hidden sources.
    • Sleep sources.
    • Stun sources.
    • Taunt sources.
  • Cannot be toggled while being affected by the following sources:
    • While cannot act.
    • Hex sources.
    • Silence sources.

• Attribute Shift can only convert Morphling's strength and agility specifically from the following sources:
  • Base attributes.
  • Attribute gain of levels.

• Grants bonus health utilizing the setting health mechanic.
  • Hence, Attribute Shift increases/reduces 22 health per strength to/from current health, and does not keep the current health percentages.
  • Health freeze sources keeps the current health values, but do not stop max health from increasing.

• ILLUSIONS
  The ability converts natural attributes. Hence, Morphling's illusions copy the shifted attributes.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Unavailable.

morphling_morph (5054)

Morph

R

R

Morph

▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemy Heroes

Changes Morphling's form to match the targeted enemy, gaining their basic abilities. Morph can be toggled between the Morph Replicate sub-ability for its duration.

Cast Animation: 0.25 + 0.1

Cast Range:  700/850/1000

Base Attributes Conversion Factor: 1

Duration: 24 ( 40)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Creates a strong illusion of the targeted enemy hero that can cast all of the affected enemy's basic abilities with Alt-Cast toggled on.

The morphed illusion is a strong illusion that deals as much damage as Morphling and receives additional incoming damage.

Number of Illusions: ( 1)

Damage Dealt: ( 100%)

Damage Taken: ( 300%)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants the corresponding abilites acquired via Morph its ability upgrades.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Grants the corresponding abilites acquired via Morph its ability upgrades.

140/100/60

50

Staring into Morphling produces a reflection that mimics the beholder.

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• Upon cast, Morph copies the affected enemy hero's model, hitbox, and current equipped cosmetic items.
  • The combat log still registers the copied model as Morphling.
  • Morphling neither acquires innate abilities nor traits, except the following abilities:
    • Stone Remnant
    • Mana Shield
    • Stone Form

• Morphling is visually distinguishable from the enemy hero for its duration.

• This ability considers clones and illusions as heroes, and creep-heroes as creeps.
  • Casting on illusions is considered as casting Morph on the hero who owns the illusion.
  • Therefore, Morph copies the hero who owns the illusion and not the hero the illusion is based on. Casting ability on an illusion-based on a dead hero does nothing.
  • An Enchanted Morphling illusion is still treated as its own illusion and can still not be targeted.

• The Morph Replicate sub-ability toggling functionality has the following properties:
  • Neither dispels buffs or debuffs.
  • Morphling retains its current health and current mana percentages on each form.
  • The affected enemy hero's icon is displayed as a debuff on Morphling's HUD.

• Applies the following effects on Morphling upon the sub-ability toggling:
  • EXPR
    Morphling PrimaryAttribute = Target Primary Attribute
  • EXPR
    Morphling CurrentNaturalAttribute = Target CurrentNaturalAttribute, specifically from the following sources:
    • Base attributes.
    • Attribute gain of levels.
  • EXPR
    Morphling AtkRange = Target AtkRange
  • Changes Morphling attack range-type of the affected hero's type.
  • Items that use different values for the wielder's attack range-type now adapt to Morphling accordingly.

• The following mechanics' values do not apply to Morphling:
  • All other base stats that not mentioned above.
  • Does not copy the affected target's transformed state (e.g. Pierce the Veil).
  • Does not copy the target's inventory.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  With ▣ Alt-Cast activated, the Morph strong illusion acquires all innate abilities and traits of the affected enemy hero, except the following:
  • Abilities acquired via Devour.
  • Invoked abilities.
  • The ability cooldown of the acquired basic abilities is shared between Morphling and the Morph Illusion.
  • However, it does not share the charges of Charge-based Abilities. Therefore, Morphling and the Morph Illusion both have independent charges for charged-based abilities.

• SPELL BLOCK
  Proc Spell Block sources on the primary hero when cast on its illusions.

• SPELL REFLECT
  Does no proc Spell Reflection sources.

• SPELL STEAL
  Not acquirable.
  • Spell Steal specifically cannot acquire any abilities from the Morphed illusion.

• SOULBIND
  Morphs into the primary target.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Unavailable.

morphling_replicate (5057)

• SCEPTER NOTES
  losing aghs

Morph Replicate

R

?

Morph Replicate

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Damage

Instant Kill

Toggles Morphling's form between his own and the replicated enemy.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Max Duration: 24 ( 40)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Upon the Morph Replicate sub-ability cast, Morphling takes the place of the illusion, instantly destroying it with Alt-Cast toggled on.

Current Health as Damage: ( 100%)

1

0

Sub-ability of Morph.

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• This sub-ability replaces Morph upon cast and until it expires.
  • The
    ?
    Legacy Key for Morph Replicate is the same as the affected enemy hero's ultimate ability.

• Interrupts Morphling's channeling abilities upon cast, except for the following sources:
  • Phase Shift
  • Upheaval
  • Item abilities.

• Casting this sub-ability does not end Morph. Instead, it shifts Morphling back to his hero model. When used again, it shifts Morphling back into the affected enemy hero.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The
  2. The

morphling_morph_replicate (5058)

Talents

+35 Strength	25	-40% Waveform Cooldown
+0.8s Adaptive Strike Stun Duration	20	+50% Waveform Attack Damage and applies On Hit Effects
+15 Agility	15	+16s Morph Duration
+250 Waveform Range	10	+15% Magic Resistance
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.36b
(2024-06-05)

• Increased Flow max cooldown ratio from 0.5 to 0.6.

• Talents:  

  LVL 20  +0.8s Adaptive Strike (Strength) stun duration reduced to +1s.  

  LVL 20  +50% Waveform instant attack damage/applies attack modifiers increased to +70%.

7.36a
(2024-05-26)

• Waveform
  • Now instant attacks all enemy units hit, does not apply attack modifiers.
  • Has a 0.5 instant attack factor.
  • Reduced mana cost from 130 to 115.

• Talents:  

  LVL 20   Waveform attacks enemies ➜  +50% Waveform instant attack damage/applies attack modifiers.

7.36
(2024-05-22)

• ADDED the Accumulation innate ability for Morphling :
  • Grants 0.5 * AttributeGainLVL per half level instead of full bonuses upon leveling up.
  • Increased Attribute Bonus all attribute bonus from 2 to 4.
• ADDED the Facet component:
  • Ebb
    • Sets primary attribute to agility .
    • Adaptive Strike (Strength) now pushes the affected enemy unit correspondingly to the current agility to strength ratio.
      • Has a min 100-push distance.
      • Has a max 500-push distance when CurrentAgi / CurrentStr ≥ 0.5 .
  • Flow
    • Sets primary attribute to strength .
    • The current agility to strength ratio now affects both Morphling's abilities and the Morph Replicate acquired abilities' cooldown rate and is defined as:
      • EXPR when CurrentAgi / CurrentStr ≥ 1.75 , CooldownRatio = 0.5
      • EXPR When CurrentAgi / CurrentStr ≤ 0.5 , CooldownRatio = 1
      • This affects the rate of the cooldown value, and does not utilizes the cooldown reduction mechanic.
    • The Morph Replicate acquired abilities' cooldown ratio corresponds to the current agility to strength ratio prior acquiring the abilities.
• Adaptive Strike (Agility) no longer grants 3/5/7/9 agility bonus.
• Adaptive Strike (Strength)
  • No longer grants 3/5/7/9 strength bonus.
  • No longer
  • No longer has a max 500-push distance.
• Morph now grants both innate ability and the Facet of the affected enemy hero.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Adaptive Strike (Agility)
    • No longer grants 6 agility bonus.
    • Now has a 0.5 mana cost factor.
  • Adaptive Strike (Strength)
    • No longer grants 6 strength bonus.
    • Now has a 0.5 mana cost factor.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Morphling's Relics	Voice Lines
Multi-Hero Waveform Max Adaptive Strike Stuns Ether Blast Adaptive Strike Combos Kills During Replicate Max Damage Adaptive Strikes Spells Blocked With Linken's Sphere Ether Blasts Leading To Kills Stuns Leading To Kills Spells Disjointed Channels Cancelled Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ I like what I see.
	Silver	▶️ You're in over your head. ▶️ Boiling rage.
	Gold	▶️ Always refreshing. ▶️ The tide has turned.
	Platinum	▶️ Didn't you see me waving?
	Master	▶️ You're washed up!
	Grandmaster	▶️ H two owned!

Trivia

• In DotA, Morphling was the only hero without a hero name, being named "Morphling the Morphling".

• The attack response ▶️ "Wave of mutilation!" is a direct reference to a Pixies song of the same name.

Gallery

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  Morphling's original artwork

• Morphling ability icon progress.png

  Ability icon progress

• Morphling hero icon progress.png

  Hero icon progress