Bramble Mechanics

[MacroHard]

Bramble - Melee Strength
http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/heroes.php?hero_id=221

Basic Hero Info

Str 24 + 2.5 (primary)
Agi 15 + 1.6
Int 18 + 2.0

Attack Range 128
Movespeed 300
Turnrate 540

Base Armor 1.50
Base Attack Cooldown 1.7
Base Damage 31-33 + 24 (str)

Level 1 Health 606
Level 1 Mana 234
Level 1 Armor 3.6

Level 25 Health 2126
Level 25 Mana 1118
Level 25 Armor 11.776

«game/resources0.s2z/heroes/plant/»

hero.entity


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<recommendeditem name="Item_MinorTotem" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_RunesOfTheBlight" />
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<recommendeditem name="Item_HomecomingStone" />

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<recommendeditem name="Item_Bottle" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_PlatedGreaves" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_PowerSupply" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_LifeSteal5" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_Replenish" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_BarrierIdol" />
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<recommendeditem name="Item_Summon" />
<recommendeditem name="Item_Damage10" />
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Ability 1 - Spore Breath

Damages enemies within a cone directly in front of Bramble. After the effect ends, stuns enemies within the cone.

Mana 100
Cooldown 14
Cast action time 0

Starts a cone-shaped affector that has 400 range and 100 degrees
This cone persists in front of Bramble for 2.5 seconds

Affector applies a debuff that deals 33.34/58.34/83.34/108.34 magic damage per second
This damage DOT lingers for 0.5 seconds if the target leaves the cone
Maximum of 100/175/250/325 magic damage over full duration

After 3 seconds from when ability begins (0.5 seconds after damage cone ends), stuns enemies in the cone
The stun affector persists for 0.5 seconds, and applies a stun every 0.1 seconds
Stun lasts for 0.50/0.75/1.00/1.25 seconds
Total stun duration of 1.00/1.25/1.50/1.75 seconds if enemy is within the stun affector for entire duration

Effect type and damage type is Magic
DOT debuff is of type Magic and can be purged or transferred

«game/resources0.s2z/heroes/bramble/ability_01/»

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Ability 2 - Ensnaring Shrubbery

Puts a buff on target ally that slows nearby enemies and heals allies when damaged.

Mana 60
Cooldown 14
Cast range 700
Cast action time 0

Applies buff to target ally for 3/4/5/6 seconds

Buffed targets have an aura that slows nearby enemies within 275 radius
Slows for 25%/30%/35%/40%
Slow lingers for 0.5 seconds after leaving range

If a buffed target is damaged by a non DOT, heals all allies within 400 radius
Heals for 40% of damage taken (after reductions)
Heal applies to self (equivalent to 40% damage reduction)

Effect type is magic

«game/resources0.s2z/heroes/plant/ability_02/»

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Ability 3 - Combat Vigor

Passively gives nearby allies bonus movement speed when they attack.

Mana n/a
Cooldown n/a
Cast range n/a
Cast action time n/a

Aura radius 900
Aura applies to all allies (both heroes and creeps)
Does not apply to gadgets

Units affected by aura gain bonus movespeed for 3 seconds when they attack anything

Melee units gain 25/50/75/100 movespeed for 1.5 seconds
Ranged units gain 12.5/25/37.5/50 movespeed for 1.5 seconds
Movespeed bonus decreases to 0 over next 1.5 seconds

Movespeed bonus applies to base movespeed, so percentage based movespeed effects benefit accordingly

This ability is an exclusive attack modifier that does not stack with itself
No effect type

«game/resources0.s2z/heroes/plant/ability_03/»

ability.entity


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Ability 4 - Entangling Vine Wall

Summons a wall of vines at target vector. The vines will attack and slow nearby enemies.

Mana 100/150/200
Cooldown 90/80/70
Cast range 800
Cast action time 0

Gives 200 day and night clearvision at cast location (not entire vine wall) for 3 seconds

Summons 26 vines at target location
Vines are arranged in a 2 x 13 pattern
Vine wall is 600 units long by 60 units thick

Wall lasts for 6/8/10 seconds

Each vine has a 16 radius unit size that is impassible
Effective wall size is 632 long by 92 thick

Each vine does 20/30/40 damage with a 1.0 second attack cooldown and 250 attack range
Vine attacks slow for 30%/40%/50% for 1.5 seconds

Each vine has 30 health, 0 armor, and 0 magic armor (but has gadget immunity from AOE spells)
Each killed vine gives a 10 to 15 gold bounty and 15 experience bounty
Vines leave corpses

Vines have 600 day and night vision

Damage type is physical
Movement slow has no effect type and cannot be purged or transferred

«game/resources0.s2z/heroes/plant/ability_04/»

ability.entity


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[Assassine]

Tooltip says 100/170/240/310 damage on Spore Breath. Which ones right?

Does Shrubbery heal take place before or after the damage is actually taken (can it prevent an otherwise fatal hit by healing?)

You wrote cooldown 60/80/70 on vine wall, should probably be 80/70/60 or 90/80/70

Wall duration is 6/8/10 according to tooltip, not 4/5/6

Tooltip says 650 for Wall length

[MacroHard]

Tooltip says 100/170/240/310 damage on Spore Breath. Which ones right?

Does Shrubbery heal take place before or after the damage is actually taken (can it prevent an otherwise fatal hit by healing?)

You wrote cooldown 60/80/70 on vine wall, should probably be 80/70/60

Wall duration is 6/8/10 according to tooltip, not 4/5/6

Tooltip says 650 for Wall length

Maximum of 120/204/288/372 magic damage should be correct. The debuff deals 40/68/96/124 magic damage per second. The maximum duration is actually 3 seconds, since the cone lasts for 2.5 seconds and there is a 0.5 second linger. The tooltip multiplies the DOT by 2.5. I may be wrong, but I do not see anything in the script that would terminate the damage at 2.5 seconds. This may be worth testing but I am 92% certain its 372 max.

Shrubbery heals after the damage is applied, so it will not mitigate fatal damage. Had it been the other way around then it would not have worked at or near full health!

Thanks for the typos. They have been fixed.

The wall itself is 600 wide, as it spawns an affector for 300 distance in each direction from the point it was cast. This affector is then subdivided in 50 unit increments to spawn 13 vines. The first and last vines are 600 distance center to center. Once you include their size it is 632. Perhaps they put the tooltip at 650 to approximate the width of the vines? Or maybe it just multiplied the 50 units by 13 vines?

[Assassine]

Could make it work both ways by working similar to Nomes wisdom, but thats just balance i guess. Thanks

[JD`z]

does the entangling vine wall attack towers like pollywog's wards?

[man_guy]

How many vines do you have to destroy to fit into a gap in the middle of a vine wall? Vines are uncontrollable that A-click the ground?

[Dominare]

does the entangling vine wall attack towers like pollywog's wards?

Yes, but because of their very short attack range (not all vines can hit the tower no matter how the wall is placed) and low damage it isn't nearly as effective as polly ult. It certainly helps if you absolutely need to kill a tower fast though.

[JD`z]

yeah hehe thanks for answering :3

[Lhy]

Maximum of 120/204/288/372 magic damage should be correct. The debuff deals 40/68/96/124 magic damage per second. The maximum duration is actually 3 seconds, since the cone lasts for 2.5 seconds and there is a 0.5 second linger. The tooltip multiplies the DOT by 2.5. I may be wrong, but I do not see anything in the script that would terminate the damage at 2.5 seconds. This may be worth testing but I am 92% certain its 372 max.

I just tried the hero in practice mode. Q left a creep with 550 hp at 168 hp, so apparently it deals 382 damage.

[ElementUser]

Yeah DW Grasp has this problem too, it deals 2 more frames of damage than intended IIRC.

[IsmaelVera]

Hmmm...Why would a gadget leave a corpse? Not even Arachna's Spider does that. Possibly intended Balphagore combo?
:balp:

[Dominare]

Plant corpses for Balph eh? Well, he -is- trying to cut back on his cholesterol...

[MaXimillion0]

Hmmm...Why would a gadget leave a corpse? Not even Arachna's Spider does that. Possibly intended Balphagore combo?

They don't actually leave usable corpses.

[Dominare]

not all vines can hit the tower no matter how the wall is placed

Update: I'm full of crap apparently. After some more practice I've found you can in fact place the wall such that all 16 vines will hit the tower, and if you do it does rather a lot of damage. Still less overall than Polly's because of the vastly shorter duration, but certainly better dps while its active.

[Rkey]

Plant corpses for Balph eh? Well, he -is- trying to cut back on his cholesterol...
LOOOOOL XD

I can see tablet working on this guy, or just skilled turning. Knowing when the spore starts stunning and immidieatly turn to stun in a wider radius, or tablet to stun everything along a line -> Magmus stun yo.

Since the damage dot also lingers, seems like we can all finally put our "lol I'm swiftblade"-spinning to use =) You know, when you press move close enough to your hero for him to only turn but not move, and then contiually doing this in a small circle making him spin like swiftblade?

[MacroHard]

Maximum of 120/204/288/372 magic damage should be correct. The debuff deals 40/68/96/124 magic damage per second. The maximum duration is actually 3 seconds, since the cone lasts for 2.5 seconds and there is a 0.5 second linger.

The damage has been reworked as of v2.6.4 to do a total of 100/175/250/325 total over the full 2.5 second duration plus 0.5 second linger.
33.34,58.34,83.34,108.34 per second now.

=P