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99 - Lifestealer (melee Strength)
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Basic Abilities: Rage, Feast, Ghoul Frenzy, Infest
Shard Ability: "New" ability "Open Wounds," which massively slows an enemy hero and causes all damage dealt to that target to steal life (including spells.) The target will take 2% of their maximum health every attack.
Scepter Ability: Upgrades Infest to lower its cooldown, improve its cast range, and allow it to target enemy heroes. Lifestealer's regeneration is doubled if inside an enemy hero, and he will attack the target once every 1.25 seconds from the inside. He will automatically burst out after five seconds if used in this way.

How to make one of the most badass-looking (despite the hideousness) heroes the avatar of Boring But Effective - Step One: Pick N'aix.

It's really quite peculiar to me how little LS has changed over the years. He's always been a potent autoattacker - and I am very much remembering the Dota 1 days of the mass gauntlet start - despite the stat growths, and he typically winds up a tanky monster that eats other tanky monsters. This is in part due to his passives - Feast giving personal lifesteal and percentage max health damage (calculated independently of one another) and Ghoul Frenzy's bonus attack speed and slow-on-hit. He crutches very hard on these passives, which turn him into a "turn off brain, hit face" hero *very* early in the game - about the only cerebral thing you'll be doing is pressing Rage to dodge an incoming stun/purge a dispellable debuff/self-haste further. And that's *all he does* until 6, where he gets to leap into a jungle or lane creep, use its abilities, heal while inside it, and, oh - EXPLODE IT IN A FOUNTAIN OF GORE.

Between this gigantic blood shower and one of the best taunts in the game, N'aix reeks of style, but he lacks *substance.* I want to be able to press more buttons than "Rage on occasion" and "explode every other minute" - hell, even Wraith King has more APM with summoning skeletons. Part of this was because of the shift of Open Wounds from active basic ability to the shard ability, and part of this was shuffling around some of the bonuses it provided to his passives, but I really don't have much to say about him beyond "hits very hard, tanky through passives, neutered if hit by Break, can't autoattack beyond Infesting, has a great escape if Infest is ready."

Except for. Y'know. His taunt is amazing.

Next hero hint: Useless on their own, completely broken in combination with a select few other heroes.