Faceless Void
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Faceless Void
20 + 2.6
19 + 3.3
15 + 1.5
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
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+57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration |
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+0.55 armor and 3.3 attack speed +3.3 Main Attack Damage |
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+18MP and +0.075MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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Instant Projectile Speed
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100 (119)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.5 + 0.56
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0.9
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2011-02-19
Released | ||
2004-02-03
(v0.60) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-02-19 — 2015-12-16 2015-12-20 — Present |
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| Can freeze his enemies in time. | |
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| Darkterror is a being for whom the laws of spacetime do not apply. He fast-forwards Back and Forth through space, Time Walking past obstacles, manipulating it to dodge any damage taken and Pausing his enemies in place momentarily. Enemies near him feel his gravitational presence and experience Time Dilation, slowing not only their movement, but also the rate at which spells can be cast. He rips open a rift, bringing all but himself to a complete standstill. Frozen in Time, enemies can only stand oblivious as the Faceless Void dismantles them from within. | |
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| Roles: |  Carry  Initiator  Disabler  Escape  Durable |
| Adjectives | NicePecs Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Chronosphere
Chronosphere is Faceless Void's ultimate ability with the selected facet.
Trap all units caught within the radius and causes Faceless Void to move very quickly inside it. Reveals invisible enemies within the sphere.
Trap all units caught within the radius and causes Faceless Void to move very quickly inside it. Reveals invisible enemies within the sphere.
Time Zone
Time Zone is Faceless Void's ultimate ability with the selected facet.
Alters the speed of various properties for both allied and enemy units within the square zone.
Alters the speed of various properties for both allied and enemy units within the square zone.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Applies Time Lock of the corresponding level onto all units at the landing destination.
Grants the Reverse Time Walk ability.
Available for a short time after landing Time Walk. If used in a certain time period, Faceless Void will reverses time walk back to the previous cast location.
Available for a short time after landing Time Walk. If used in a certain time period, Faceless Void will reverses time walk back to the previous cast location.
Increases max travel distance.
Talents[edit]
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| +140 Chronosphere Radius +200 Time Zone Radius | 25 | +20% Backtrack |
| -1s Time Walk Cooldown | 20 | +80 Chronosphere/ Time Zone Self Attack Speed |
| +12% Time Dilation Move Speed Slow +12 Time Dilation Attack Speed Slow | 15 | +30 Time Lock Damage |
| +0.5s Time Walk Damage Timer | 10 | +7 Time Dilation Damage per Second |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Bio[edit]
From a place beyond time, and time beyond counting.▶️Darkterror, the Faceless Void
Alias:
FV
Lore:
Darkterror the Faceless Void is a visitor from Claszureme, a realm outside of time. It remains a mystery why this being from another dimension believes the struggle for the Nemesis Stones is worth entering our physical plane, but apparently an upset in the balance of power in this world has repercussions in adjacent dimensions. Time means nothing to Darkterror, except as a way to thwart his foes and aid his allies. His long-view of the cosmos has given him a remote, disconnected quality, although in battle he is quite capable of making it personal.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Distortion Field[edit]
Distortion Field 
Passive / Aura
Affects
Units
Applies an attack projectile speed factor on offensive and incoming enemy attack projectiles within the radius, centered around the time master.
Affects projectiles even if Faceless Void isn't the attacked target.
Affects projectiles even if Faceless Void isn't the attacked target.
Radius: 
600
600 Projectile Speed Factor: 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5
This ability levels up with Chronosphere.
Details
- Does not affect
spell 
projectiles.
- Stacks additively with other attack
projectile speed factor sources.
Hero Model[edit]
Hero Model 
Passive
Affects
Self
Other Bash sources are passively disabled on Faceless Void.
Darkterror brings all but himself and his likeness to a complete standstill within the Chronosphere.
Darkterror reigns within spacetime. Him and his likeness are immune to the Time Zone effects.
- For Chronosphere:
Backtrack[edit]
2
2
Backtrack Passive
Affects
Self
The time manipulator has a chance to avoid damage entirely.
Proc Chance: (
20%)
20%) Darkterror sees what has yet to be seen.
- LEVEL 25Learning the talent unlocks this ability.
- This ability has the following properties:
- Fully negates damage (after all reductions), causing on-damage effects to not trigger.
- Does not negate any other ability effects other than damage and/or damage instances.
- Has a lower priority than
evasion sources.
- When evasion procs, Backtrack cannot proc on that attack.
- When
- Does not negate the following mechanics:
Heal
HP Removal sources.
- Backtrack uses
pseudo-random distribution.
modifier_faceless_void_backtrack
Hidden modifier
- Increases Faceless Void's effective health on an average of Lua error in Module:Calculate at line 35: in expression "( 1/(1-v1)-1 round2 )*100". against all damage types.
Abilities[edit]
Time Walk[edit]
Rushes to a target location while healing up from any damage taken in the last few seconds.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0
Max Travel Distance: 
650/700/750/800 (
800/850/900/950)
650/700/750/800 ( 800/850/900/950) Damage Taken to Self-Heal Factor: 1
1 Damage Timer: 2 (
2.5)
2.5) 
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Applies Time Lock of the corresponding level onto all units at the landing destination.
Applies Time Lock of the corresponding level onto all units at the landing destination.
Radius: ( 400)
( 400) Effect Delay: ( 0.4)
0.4) Number of Instances: ( 1)
1) Landing Damage: ( 12/18/24/30) (
42/48/54/60)
12/18/24/30) ( 42/48/54/60)Instant Attack Factor: ( 1)
1) 
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases max travel distance.
Increases max travel distance.
21/16/11/6 (
20/15/10/5)
20/15/10/5)
40
Darkterror tears a hole in time, passing through Claszureme, and appearing back in an instant.
- Grants Faceless Void a 2 ( 2.5)-second damage counter that accumualtes all damage type Faceless Void receives, upon learning the ability.
- Does not accumulate HP Removal sources.
- Does not accumulate
- Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
- Turns
invulnerable while traveling. - Heals Faceless Void based on the accumulated damage counter value.
- Turns
- Does not disjoint projectiles upon cast.
- Time Walk utilizes the
forced movement mechanic, and has the following properties:
- EXPR
PointDistance < MaxDistanceTime Walk moves Faceless Void toward the point-targeted distance.
- 0.4 seconds upon cast, Time Walk applies
time_lock_force_proc
debuff to enemy units within the radius, which procs Time Lock of the corresponding level at the destination point.
- Time Lock applied this way cannot proc more than once.
Dispelling the time_lock_force_proc debuff prevents only the 
instant attack component from occurring.
- Affects the following units:
Ethereal units.
Fogged units.
Hidden units.
- Affect enemy units up to 1050/1100/1150/1200 ( 1200/1250/1300/1350) away with the travel distance and effect radius.
- Does not disable the Time Walk proc at the destination area.
- Requires drafting Time Lock for its corresponding component to work.
modifier_faceless_void_time_walk_trackerHidden modifier
modifier_faceless_void_time_walk
Hidden modifier
modifier_faceless_void_time_walk_shardbuffTime Walking: Ready to Reverse Time Walk.
modifier_faceless_void_time_lock_force_procMissing tooltip
- Despite not performing instant attacks, for
melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will always miss.
Reverse Time Walk[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Available for a short time after landing Time Walk. If used in a certain time period, Faceless Void will reverses time walk back to the previous cast location.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Reversal Time Window: 1.5
0.5
0
Sub-ability of Time Walk.
- Acquiring Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Reverse Time Walk only moves Faceless Void back to the position upon cast, using the same travel speed.
- This
sub-ability stays inactive until Time Walk is cast and turns inactive again once the reversal time window passes.
- Cooldown resetting sources immediately turns this sub-ability inactive.
- Cooldown resetting sources immediately turns this
- Replaces Time Walk while active as a regular sub-ability.
- Recasting Time Walk multiple times within 1.5 seconds moves Faceless Void back to the first point before Time Walk was cast, upon casting Reverse Time Walk.
Time Dilation[edit]
Traps all nearby enemies in a time dilation field, decelerating their cooldowns and slowing their movement and attack speed per cooldown extended.
Deals damage per second per ability currently on cooldown.
Deals damage per second per ability currently on cooldown.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.4
Radius: 775
775 Cooldown Rate Factor: 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6
Move Speed Slow per Stack: 7%/8%/9%/10% (
19%/20%/21%/22%)
19%/20%/21%/22%) Attack Speed Slow per Stack: 10 ( 22)
22) Damage per Second per Stack: 7/9/11/13 (
14/16/18/20)
14/16/18/20) Duration: 8/9/10/11
28/24/20/16
90
For those facing off against Darkterror, each moment seems to stretch into eternity.
- Affects the following units:
- Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable units.
-
- Applies the following formulas to the affected enemy units' current ability cooldowns:
- While the debuff is active:
- EXPR
DebuffedCD = CurrentCD / (1 - RateFactor)
- Once the debuff expires:
- EXPR
CurrentCD = AffectedCD × (1 - RateFactor)
- While the debuff is active:
- This affects the following aspects of ability cooldowns:
- Charged-based abilities' replenish time.
- Passive abilities' cooldown.
- Applies the following formulas to the affected enemy units' current ability cooldowns:
- Affects the following sources:
- Abilities acquired via Devour.
- Spirit Form abilities.
- Previously Invoked abilities.
- Abilities acquired from the Morphed targeted.
- Abilities acquired via Spell Steal.
- Losing already granted abilities by
ability upgrades.
- Does not affect item abilities' cooldown.
- Abilities' cooldown affected by Time Dilation can still be reset per normal.
- Applies a 0-damage instance, that procs on-damage effects, to affected enemy units if they do not have any abilities on cooldown.
- Reapplying the debuff applies a new independent stack debuff and does not refresh the existing stack duration.
- The slow component does not affect
debuff immune units, but reduces their cooldown rate.
modifier_faceless_void_time_dilation_slowTime Dilation Slow: Movement speed reduced by x% and attack speed reduced by x.
Time Lock[edit]
Adds a chance for an attack to lock an enemy unit in time while attacking it a second time.
Proc Chance: 12%/16%/20%/24%
Damage: 12/18/24/30 ( 42/48/54/60)
42/48/54/60) Second Attack Delay: 0.4
Instant Attack Factor: 1
Bash Duration: 0.5
The strike of the Faceless Void lands with dimension shifting force.
- 0.4 seconds upon proc, the
magical spell damage is applied and Faceless Void instant attacks the affected enemy unit.
- Procs any
attack modifiers and on-cast effects, including Time Lock, as per normal.
- For
cleave sources, their respective effects still corresponds to Faceless Void's current position, and not Time Lock's ability effects.
- For
- Do not have
True Strike. - Not affected by
disarm sources.
- Procs any
Death does not prevent the proccing attack from applying Time Lock on the affected unit.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Time Lock uses pseudo-random distribution.
- The damage increasing talent immediately updates already procced instances.
- Disables the
bash component.
- The Time Walk proc at the destination area is applied via a different debuff. Hence, it does not disable the ability upgrade component.
modifier_faceless_void_time_lockHidden modifier
modifier_faceless_void_timelock_freeze
Time Lock: You have been locked in time by Faceless Void!
- The ability effects are applied upon proc as follows:
- The bash debuff.
- The attack instance that procs Time Lock.
- The magical spell damage.
- Faceless Void's instant attack instance.
- The
- Procs an average of 0.1364/0.1905/0.25/0.3158 times on a single attack.
- The bash duration considers the following units as heroes:
Chronosphere[edit]
Area
Affects
Units
Trap all units caught within the radius and causes Faceless Void to move very quickly inside it. Reveals invisible enemies within the sphere.
Cast Animation: 0.35 + 0.35
Cast Range: 500
500 Radius: 500 (
640)
500 ( 640) Set Haste Speed: 1000
Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75
Aura Linger Duration: 0
Attack Speed Bonus: (
80)
80) 160/150/140
125/200/275
When a rift opens to Claszureme, all poor souls caught within will likely never return.
- Applies the following ability effects on units within the radius:
- Freezes all units which are not owned by Faceless Void.
- This overrides most forced movement sources on the unit upon the
faceless_void_chronosphere_freezeapplication.
- This overrides most
Leash
Stun- Also applies the aformentioned effects for the remaining duration on units entering the effect radius.
- Grants self and
player-controlled units the following bonuses:
Phase movement.
Haste movement.- The flat attack speed immediately update all current Chronosphere instances.
- Grants self and
- Freezes all units which are not owned by Faceless Void.
- Grants the following vision bonuses centered around the radius for its duration:
- Radius
, 475-radius flying vision. - Radius
or Radius 
, 500 ( 640)-radius 
True Sight.
- Radius
- Reveals the following units:
- Despite its visual effects, the effective area-of-effect is a
cylinder and not a sphere. - Affects the following units:
- Invulnerable units, except certain units mentioned below.
- Instantly unperch a Tree Dance Monkey King.
- Instant kills the following units:
- The Homing Missile unit.
- The Swarm Beetles:
- Only latched Beetles are destroyed.
- If a Beetle latches on a unit inside the Chronosphere, it performs 1 attack before being destroyed. This can lead to multiple beetles latching on and attacking once a single unit in rapid succession.
- The Phantom's Embrace unit.
- Phantom latched returns to their casters, and freeze traveling Phantoms.
- Instant kills the following units:
- Grants the following vision bonuses centered around the radius for its duration:
- Does not affect the following units:
- Hidden units.
- Invulnerable heroes
- The following
clone sources:
- Does not stop Nimbus from casting Lightning Bolt.
- Faceless Void is still
innately immune to Chronosphere.
modifier_faceless_void_chronosphereOn hidden entity
modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_selfbuffOn hidden entity
modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_speedHidden modifier
- Most abilities or items can move units out of Chronosphere, except the following:
- Applies and reapplies the Time Dilation debuff in 0.1-second intervals within the Chronosphere radius, causing it to refresh its duration.
- COSMETICHas a 0.6- cast backswing with
Claszian Apostasy equipped.
Time Zone[edit]
Area
Affects
Units
Alters the speed of various properties for both allied and enemy units within the square zone.
Cast Animation: 0.35 + 0.35
Cast Range: 500
500 Effect Area: 700 ( 900)
700 ( 900) Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75
For allied units, the following values are increased.
Move Speed Bonus: 60%
Cast Animation Factor: 0.6
Turn Rate Factor: 0.6
Projectile Speed Factor: 1.4
For enemy units, the zone applies a leash onto them while reducing all aformentioned values.
Move Speed Slow: 60%
Cast Animation Factor: 1.4
Turn Rate Factor: 1.4
Projectile Speed Factor: 0.6
Leash Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75
All enemy unit ability and item cooldowns are frozen for the duration while ally unit cooldowns are sped up while in the .
Enemy Cooldown Freeze Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75
Ally Cooldown Acceleration Factor: 4
Time Dilation's duration applied is paused for Chronosphere's current duration.
Debuff Extend Duration: 3.75/4.25/4.75
130/125/120
125/200/275
-
- The area-of-effect is a square which ability radius describes the half diagonal.
- As a result, the square has a side length of 989 ( 1272).
and
- Affects the following mechanics:
- Current traveling
attack-based and spell-based projectiles.
- Stacks additively with other projectile speed factor sources.
- Both the ability's cast point and cast backswing.
- Current traveling
- Does not affect the following mechanics:
Channeling time.
Ward-type units' traveling speed.
- Does not affect the following units:
- Invulnerable units.
- Affects the following mechanics:
-
- Applies the following ability effects on affected enemy units:
- Leash
- Only an offensive Hurricane Thrust cast on enemy units can push the allied caster within the Time Zone.
- Grants a 700 ( 900)-radius True Sight centered around the area-of-effect for its duration.
- Reveals the following units:
- For
ranged attack projectiles:
- Projectiles with 0-speed are still launched per normal per attack point, but they do not travel.
- The attack projectiles are considered valid, and only damage Faceless Void when he is within the
bound radius of the attacking unit.
- Applies the following ability effects on affected enemy units:
The leash component affects debuff immune enemy units.
leash component affects debuff immune enemy units. modifier_faceless_void_chronosphere_freezeChronosphere: Trapped in spacetime. Unable to move or act.
- COSMETICHas a 0.6- cast backswing with Claszian Apostasy equipped.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Faceless Void/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 |   | EPL World AM S15 |      |  | 0 : 1 | |      |
| Mar 16, 2025 - 17:00 CST | Qualifier |  | ACL X ESL China OQ2 |     | | 0 : 1 | |      |
| Mar 15, 2025 - 17:30 CST | Qualifier | | ACL X ESL China OQ2 |     | | 1 : 0 | |      |
| Mar 15, 2025 - 16:30 CST | Qualifier | | ACL X ESL China OQ2 |    | | 1 : 0 | |  |
| Mar 13, 2025 - 10:00 EET | Tier 1 |  | PGL Wallachia S3 |  |  | 1 : 0 | |     |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Reduced Time Walk cooldown from 24/18/12/6 to 21/16/11/6.
- CHANGED Time Dilation ability operations.
- OLD Reapplying the debuff refreshes the stack duration.
- NEW Reapplying the debuff applies a new independent stack debuff, but does not refresh the stack duration.
- Chronosphere
- No longer pauses all ability's current cooldowns.
- No longer suspends the Time Dilation debuff duration.
- Reduced mana cost from 150/225/300 to 125/200/275.
- Time Zone
- No longer applies a 70/110/150 ally attack speed bonus.
- No longer applies a 70/110/150 enemy attack speed slow.
- Now pauses all ability's current cooldowns .
- Now suspends the Time Dilation debuff duration.
- Now applies a 4 ally
cooldown acceleration factor, affecting both item and ability cooldowns. - Reduced cast range from 625 to 500.
- Reduced radius from 900 to 700.
- Reduced duration from 5/5.5/6 to 3.75/4.25/4.75.
- Rescaled ally movement speed bonus from 50%/60%/70% to 60% on each level.
- Rescaled enemy movement speed slow from 50%/60%/70% to 60% on each level.
- Increased ally turn rate factor from 0.6/0.5/0.4 to 0.6 on each level.
- Increased enemy turn rate factor from 1.4/1.5/1.6 to 1.6 on each level.
- Increased ally cast point factor from 0.6/0.5/0.4 to 0.6 on each level.
- Increased enemy cast point factor from 1.4/1.5/1.6 to 1.6 on each level.
- Rescaled ally projectile speed factor from 1.3/1.4/1.5 to 1.4 on each level.
- Rescaled enemy projectile speed factor from 0.7/0.6/0.5 to 0.6 on each level.
- Increased cooldown from 130/120/110 to 130/125/120.
- Reduced mana cost from 150/225/300 to 125/200/275.
Talents:
- LVL 20 Chronosphere / Time Zone grants +80 attack speed ➜ Chronosphere / Time Zone grants +80 self attack speed.
- U Hero Model
- Now immune to all Time Zone sources.
- Now immune to all
- Time Walk
- ADDED the Chronosphere facet.
- This is Faceless Void 's ultimate ability with the selected facet.
- Talents:
- LVL 25 +140 Chronosphere / Time Zone radius ➜ +140/+200 Chronosphere / Time Zone radius.
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
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.
| Faceless Void's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
 Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills |
 Bronze |
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 Silver |
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 Gold |
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 Platinum |
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 Master |
| |
 Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Head | |
| Shoulder | |
| Arms | |
| Taunt | |
| Kinetic Gems | |
Trivia[edit]
- Enigma's rival line towards Faceless Void ▶️ "Even time may fail in the face of gravity." is a reference to the time dilating effect of gravity.[1]
- ▶️ "Unkind…Rewind" is likely a reference to the old saying, "Be Kind, Rewind", a saying used to remind customers to rewind rented VHS tapes before returning them to the store.
- ▶️ "In the land of time, the no-eyed man is king." refers to the famous adage by Desiderius Erasmus: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
- ▶️ "Steal your face!" is a reference to the popular lyrical phrase "Steal your face right off your head!" from the Grateful Dead song "He's Gone", often seen as an allusion to the band's wild and extensive jam sessions "blowing your mind".
- ▶️ "Foreseen is forearmed." is a modified version of the proverb "Forewarned is forearmed" which means having prior knowledge begets being prepared for future problems.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Faceless Void uses the model of the Faceless Ones, a type of neutral creeps.
- The Faceless Ones are a race within the Warcraft universe.
- Faceless Void's original abilities were all regular Warcraft 3 abilities.
- Carrion Swarm was identical to the Dreadlord's Carrion Swarm.
- Time Lock was identical to the Mountain King's Bash. The visual effects of freezing the target's model were added much later.
- Evasion was identical to the Demon Hunter's Evasion, before it was reworked into Backtrack
- Stop Time was identical to the Tauren Chieftain's War Stomp, with a global radius.
- Temporal Drag was identical to the Mountai King's Thunder Clap, with a global radius.
- Faceless Void has a 1/8 chance to spawn in with the name "Gorzerk". The origins of this name are unknown.
- Faceless Void's name, Darkterror is taken from the Demon Hunters, who have a 1/15 chance to spawn with that name.
- Faceless Void uses the model of the Faceless Ones, a type of neutral creeps.
Gallery[edit]
Model
Model and icons before March 19, 2015 Patch
![Ability icon progress [?]](/commons/images/thumb/c/c7/Faceless_Void_ability_icon_progress.png/120px-Faceless_Void_ability_icon_progress.png)
Ability icon progress [?]
Hero icon progress
Concept art
Concept art
Concept art
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead
![Ability icon progress [?]](/dota2/File:Faceless_Void_ability_icon_progress.png){kind=icon}
