Damage
42-46
79-83
106-110
Movement Speed Amp
1.2%
3.1%
4.4%
Sylla, the Lone Druid[edit]
Long before the first words of the first histories there rose the druidic Bear Clan. Wise and just they were, and focused in their ways to seek an understanding of the natural order. The arch forces of nature saw this, and so sought the most learned among them. Wise old Sylla, clan justiciar and seer, stepped forward for his kin, and to him was given the Seed with these words: 'When all of the world has dimmed, when civilization has left these lands, when the world is slain and wracked by the endless deserts at the end of ages, plant the Seed.' As he grasped his trust, Sylla felt his years recede and his vitality returned. Vast knowledge burst into his mind. He found himself able to project his very will into reality and, with some concentration, alter his own physical form as well. Yet subtle whispers and cruel ears brought word of the Seed and its power to other peoples, and a terrible war crashed upon the Bear Clan. As his ancestral home burned, Sylla took his burden and fled to the wild places. Ages passed, and time and myth forgot the Bear Clan, forgot Sylla and the Seed, forgot wondrous civilizations that rose and fell in Bear Clan's wake. For millennia Sylla has waited, waited for word from his deities, waited for peace to come to the ever warring realms, waited in exile and in secret for the end of all things and for the conclusion of his sacred commitment, preparing himself always to face and destroy whatever would dare threaten his purpose.
Abilities[edit]
Summon Spirit Bear
Summons a powerful
Spirit Bear companion that can equip items. When the Spirit Bear moves too far from Lone Druid, it cannot attack. If the Spirit Bear dies, the Lone Druid suffers damage as backlash. As the bear increases in levels, it can learn the abilities
Return,
Entangling Claws, and
Demolish. Spirit Bear does not benefit from
attributes.
Upgradeable by
Aghanim's Scepter. Removes the leash range and prevents it from dying with Lone Druid.
| Backlash Damage: | 10% of maximum HP |
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| Ability: | No longer dies when Lone Druid dies |
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Sylla's lifelong companion is symbiotic with his spirit and heart, coming to aid him in any time of need.
Notes
- Spirit Bear cannot be Returned if it has taken damage from a hero within the last 3 seconds.
- Backlash damage is dealt as Pure damage, with the unit that killed the Spirit Bear as the source.
- If the Spirit Bear is denied, Lone Druid will not take backlash damage.
- When the Spirit Bear uses Hand of Midas, Lone Druid receives the Midas experience.
Rabid
Increases the attack and movement speed of Lone Druid and the Spirit Bear.
| Bonus Movement Speed: | 10%/15%/20%/25% |
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| Bonus Attack Speed: | 20/30/40/50 (90 ) |
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Bears are not commonly seen as being agile creatures, but can actually move rather quickly, especially when enraged.
Savage Roar
Lone Druid roars fiercely causing nearby enemies to flee towards their base in terror.
| Fear Duration: | 1.2/1.6/2/2.4 |
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38/32/26/20
(26/20/14/8 ) Sylla studies and masters the arts of the lost Bear Clan, enhancing his attunement with the wild.
Notes
- The Spirit Bear can also cast this ability, but the cooldown is shared with your hero.
- Blocked by Spell Immunity.
- Can be dispelled.
Battle Cry
Adds damage and armor to the Lone Druid and his Spirit Bear.
| Spell Immunity Duration: | 5 |
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When Syllabear cries in the forest, the reverberations are felt for a great distance.
Talent Tree[edit]
Summon Abilities[edit]
Spirit Bear[edit]
Return
Teleports the Spirit Bear back to the Lone Druid. The Spirit Bear gains this ability at level 2.
Notes
- Spirit Bear cannot be Returned if it has taken damage from a hero recently.
Entangling Claws
Attacks have a chance to cause roots to burst from the ground, immobilizing the attacked enemy unit, dealing damage per second. The Spirit Bear gains this ability at level 3.
Savage Roar
Spirit Bear roars fiercely causing nearby enemies to flee towards their base in terror.
| Fear Duration: | 1.2/1.6/2/2.4 |
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38/32/26/20
(26/20/14/8 ) Sylla studies and masters the arts of the lost Bear Clan, enhancing his attunement with the wild.
Demolish
Increases the power of the Spirit Bear, causing it to deal more damage to buildings and have additional spell resistance. The Spirit Bear gains this ability at level 4.
| Bonus Building Damage: | 40% |
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Summon Stats[edit]
Basic
Basic
Hit Points
1500 / 2000 / 2500 / 3000
Armor
3 / 4 / 5 / 6
13 / 14 / 15 / 16
Movement Speed
320 / 330 / 340 / 350
Base Attack Time
1.65 / 1.55 / 1.45 / 1.35
Magic Resistance
0.0% / 0% / 0% / 33
Notes
Has an item inventory. Is targeted by spells as a hero.
Recommended Items[edit]
Lone Druid[edit]
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General Strategy[edit]
Battling alongside his powerful spirit bear, Lone Druid demolishes enemy forces and structures. Switching as needed between ranged and melee attacks with his transformation, should he have enough time to arm and strengthen both himself and his companion, there is little that can stop them.
Lone Druid (In-Game Description)
Overview
It would be beneficial to get used to using control groups when learning this hero. Have one for just your hero, one for just the bear, and another for both the hero and the bear.
While he may feel daunting to micro, Lone Druid is basically all about right clicking things. You will just need to manage your positioning and watching your health in fights.
In general, you want to keep your hero out of fights as it is your bear that will be doing all the work, however, make sure to keep the bear in range as a bear that can't attack doesn't do much!
Skill Build
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Early Game
Lone Druid is known as a very strong 1v1 laner as he has a tanky bear that can zone enemies out while the hero gets last hits. A quick Orb of Venom and Boots of Speed on the bear help it get more auto attacks on an enemy laner.
If you are in the offlane, you can pull the creep wave under your tower to get a fast level 2. Getting early levels is key to this hero as you get kill potential once you reach Level 5. An early Quelling Blade is also super useful (buy it from the side shop). In the Radiant offlane, you can use it to cut down the tree next to the large camp so you can pull the wave. For both sides, it helps with clearing the neutral camp near the secret shop for whenever the lane gets too hot to handle.
If you are on the safelane, you can use the bear to pull creeps to help you control your lane.
Mid Game
1. When you're in melee form, keep the boots on the hero. Otherwise, he'll be slow as a snail and your bear can't hit things.
2. Don't stay in melee form all the time. Your range form walks around a lot faster. In general though, it is safer to stay in melee form. Staying in range form allows you to move quicker and go from camp to camp in the jungle while farming. In fights though, it is often better to stay in melee form.
3. Get a casual Cloak if the enemy has a lot of nuke damage. Try to get it after your farming item cause that's usually when most nukes do their worst.
4. Tranq Boots are an option on the hero. They give you armor, HP regen, and you walk really fast too if they aren't broken! The HP regen also works on the bear if you pass the boots on to him.
5. A casual Ring of Basilius helps a lot with the needed mana to sustain the uptime of the Rabid buff. This also gives you the option of upgrading to a Vladimir's Offering later in the game.
6. If you opted for the Radiance build and you got a Quelling Blade earlier, pass it to the hero so you can farm the jungle with him a bit quicker while the bear is burning down creep waves.
7. Lone Druid has two timings when he is strong compared to other heroes: the midgame, and the very late game. His midgame strength comes from the power spike in your bear as he gets Entangling Claws, Demolish, and Battle Cry; you will be able to demolish towers and terrorize supports with your first big item (for example, Radiance). Later, while other carries may struggle to find use out of their gold past the sixth slot, Lone Druid can always get better items for either himself or the bear; remember that he is an agility hero, and without factoring in the bear he still has two powerful personal buffs, high hitpoints, and a low base attack time thanks to his ultimate. Certain item combinations for himself and the bear are also deadly, such as double Basher or double Scythe of Vyse.
8. Although you have 12 item slots, the bear's lack of stat gain makes Lone Druid fall flat in the late game, with significantly less scaling on the bear itself than other carries have. If the game goes really late, you'll find that the bear is easily brought down by enemy right clicks. Try to coordinate pushes with your team to really abuse the peak of your power, and as the game gets later you may have to protect the bear as much as, if not more than, the hero.
9. Get used to passing items between the hero and bear. For example, when pushing the enemy offlane tier 2 tower, pass the farming item (Maelstrom or Radiance) to the hero, walk the bear to the secret shop, buy a Hyperstone, recall the bear, and pass the farming item back to the bear. Be careful about dropping them on the ground though, especially if the enemy team has an invis hero.
Late Game
Try to keep the Rabid buff up constantly. Save your Battle Cry for when you're in teamfights, pushing towers, doing Roshan, or farming ancients.
Version History[edit]
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Balance Changes
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| 7.10
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 Spirit Bear health regeneration increased from 4/5/6/7 to 5/6/7/8- Level 15 Talent increased from -8s Savage Roar Cooldown to -12s
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| 7.07c
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- Spirit Bear Health increased from 1400/1800/2300/2700 to 1500/2000/2500/3000
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| 7.07b
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- Spirit Bear HP regen increased from 2/3/4/5 to 4/5/6/7
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| 7.07
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 Base movement speed reduced by 5- Base HP regen increased from 0.25 to 1.75
- Turn rate improved from 0.4 to 0.5
- Battle Cry cooldown reduced from 60 to 45
- Battle Cry duration reduced from 6 to 5
 Reworked Talent Tree
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| 7.06c
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- Spirit Bear base attack time improved from 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45 to 1.65/1.55/1.45/1.35
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| 7.06
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- Rabid attack speed increased from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
 Rabid duration rescaled from 18/22/26/30 to 25- Rabid cooldown reduced from 45 to 35
- Replaced Respawn Talent: +50% Spirit Bear Magic Resistance (Level 20)
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| 7.04
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- Level 15 Talent increased from +30 Spirit Bear Damage to +50
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| 7.03
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- Base damage reduced by 4
- Rabid cooldown increased from 30 to 45
- Level 15 Talent reduced from +55 Damage to +50 Damage
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| 7.02
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- Level 10 Talent from +200 Attack Range to +175
- Level 15 Talent from +65 Damage to +55
- Level 20 Talent from +7 Spirit Bear Armor to +12
- Level 20 Talent from -50s Respawn Time to -40s
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- Returning from True Form to Druid Form reduced from 1.9 to 0.8
- Spirit Bear now has 0.5 Mana regen
- True Form no longer disjoints projectiles
 Added Talent Tree
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| 6.87
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- Spirit Bear's Entangle now uses Pseudo-Random Distribution
- Battle Cry damage reduced from 90/120/150 to 70/100/130
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- Savage Roar cooldown increased from 28/24/20/16 to 38/32/26/20
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- Enabled in Captains Mode
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- Temporarily removed from Captains Mode
- Replaced Synergy with a new ability for Lone Druid, Savage Roar
- Spirit Bear attack damage increased from 33 to 35/45/55/65
- Spirit Bear movement speed increased from 320/320/330/340 to 320/330/340/350
- Rabid duration increased from 10 to 18/22/26/30
- Rabid movement speed increased from 5/10/15/20% to 10/15/20/25%
- True Form Health Bonus increased from 250/400/600 to 300/600/900
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- Summon Spirit Bear cooldown reduced from 180/160/140/120 to 120
- Battle Cry bonus damage increased from 60/90/120 to 90/120/150
- Battle Cry bonus armor increased from 6/12/18 to 10/15/20
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- True Form is no longer removed on death
- Battle Cry armor increased from 5/10/15 to 6/12/18
- Battle Cry damage increased from 50/75/100 to 60/90/120
- Added Aghanim's Scepter upgrade to Lone Druid: Allows Spirit Bear to attack at any range from Lone Druid, and prevents Spirit Bear from dying if Lone Druid dies
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- Removed the cast time on Spirit Bear's Return
- Battle Cry cooldown increased from 30 to 60
- Battle Cry duration reduced from 8 to 6
- Battle Cry bonus damage increased from 20/40/60 to 50/75/100
- Battle Cry bonus armor increased from 2/4/6 to 5/10/15
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- Spirit Bear now has 300 mana
- Spirit Bear using Hand of Midas now grants the XP to Lone Druid
- Spirit Bear death now deals 10% max health as Pure damage instead of 100/200/300/400 composite damage
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| 6.81
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- Spirit Bear health regeneration increased from 2 to 2/3/4/5
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- Spirit Bear's Entangle is no longer an Orb Effect
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| 6.79
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- Base movement speed increased from 315 to 325 (still 280 in True Form)
- Spirit Bear XP bounty increased from 196 to 300
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| 6.78
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- Spirit Bear now has its HP drained by Armlet when active
- Spirit Bear bounty increased from 100 to 300
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- Spirit Bear can no longer be resummoned while it is taking damage
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- Spirit Bear can no longer use Return if it has taken damage from a player unit in the last 3 seconds
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| 6.72
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- Spirit Bear's Demolish decreased from 60% to 40% bonus damage versus buildings
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| 6.69
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 Fixed common scenarios where Spirit Bear would miss its attack as the target was moving
- Casting Summon Spirit Bear while the Bear is still alive will restore that Bear's health instead of not allowing you to cast
- True Form movement speed increased from 270 to 280
- Spirit Bear's leash range increased to 1100
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- True Form movement speed reduced from 305 to 270
- Spirit Bear's leash range reduced from 1500 to 925
- True Form transformation time increased from 1.45 to 2 seconds
- True Form's armor increased by 2
- Hero movement speed increased by 10
- Spirit Bear no longer returns to Lone Druid when he attacks out of leash range
- Instead the bear will not attack
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- Spirit Bear's Entangle no longer prevents the target from attacking
- Spirit Bear's Entangle damage increased from 40/sec to 60/sec
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- Added Battle Cry to all level of True Form and scaled the bonus damage/armor (20/2➜20/2, 40/4, 60/6) and lowered duration (10➜8 seconds)
- Changed Spirit Bear's ability progression (Lv1➜Adds Inventory, Lv2➜Adds Return, Lv3➜Adds Entangle, Lv4➜Adds Demolish and Spell Damage Reduction)
- Improved True Form's melee attack range (100➜150)
- Rabid now goes on both the Spirit Bear and Lone Druid when casted instead of requiring a target
- Removed One from True Form
- Spells now last the same duration on Spirit Bear as they do on heroes
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| 6.58
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- Improved Spirit Bear's Entangle chance from 16% to 20% and cooldown from 6 to 5 seconds
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- Improved cooldown progression on Spirit Bear
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- Minor bonus armor in True Form
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- Improved Spirit Bear's Demolish
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Notable Players[edit]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
Carry 
Pusher 
Jungler 
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