Marci

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Marci

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23 + 3

20 + 1.8

19 + 1.9

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+66HP and +0.3HP regeneration
	+0.3 armor and 1.8 attack speed
	+22.8MP and +0.095MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance
	+3.02 Main Attack Damage

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626 +2.55

303 +0.95

3.33 Armor (751.07 EHP)

26.9% Magic Resist (856.36 EHP)

56 ‒ 60 ▶️ Damage (58.9 Avg)

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

150 Attack Range (600)

100 (120) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.3 + 0.5 Animation

315 / 345 ▶️ Move Speed

0.9 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.116s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

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2021-10-28 Released (v7.30e)

Competitive Span 2022-06-08 — Present

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Dashes around pummeling enemies with rapid attacks.
Proving that undying loyalty yields unrivaled power, Marci always marches into battle ready to raise fists in defense of her companions. Effortlessly Disposing friends and foes around the battlefield. With a friendly or brazen boost, she happily finds her way into the midst of any fight. Using allies as an anchor, she Rebounds into and out of any brawl with deadly speed, dauntlessly deterring against harming any she deems friend. Those who attempt to undermine her stature, or as Princess Mirana's rookie Bodyguard, will be single-targetly crushed as she Unleashes a hidden power strong enough to make even gods reconsider the wisdom of a hostile path.
Roles:	Support Carry Initiator Disabler Escape
Adjectives	Cape, Cute, Female, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

Whistle

▶️  Marci

Lore:

Admired by many, Marci's origins are known to nameless few. She travels mostly in the company of the Princess Mirana, but the roots of their friendship are entwined in secrets neither would ever needlessly reveal. To allies, she serves as fierce and honest companion. To enemies, she acts as dauntless deterrence against harming any she deems friend. Though unwise opponents may consider her size unremarkable, Marci possesses an inner power that imbues her strikes with incredible might. She'll decimate those who think to test her, but those who earn her favor will have an unflappable confidant for life.

Voice:

Herself (Responses)

Facets

Buddy System

Additionally, while Bodyguard is active, Marci's lifesteal heals her ally and the ally's lifesteal heals Marci.

Pick-Me-Up

Enables Rebound (Alt-Cast) Alt-Cast functionality.

Marci carries the unit-targeted ally with her to the landing radius after the leap component.

Fleeting Fury

Upon landing with Rebound, Marci gains a Fury combo.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Applies a basic dispel on Marci upon cast. While Unleash is Active, all of Marci's abilities unleash pulses when cast. Unleash pulses now also silence units within the radius.

Reduces cooldown.

While Unleash is active, Dispose releases pulses centered on the affected target while landing.

While Unleash is active, Rebound releases pulses centered on Marci's landing radius.

While Unleash is active, Bodyguard releases pulses centered around the affected ally upon cast.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Adds enemy targeting functionality, and Marci applies the movement speed boost on herself upon cast.

Increases damage.

Talents

+20% Bodyguard Damage	25	+6s Unleash Duration per Hero Kill
+10% Unleash Move Speed	20	+0.75s Rebound Stun Duration
+10% Rebound Move Speed	15	+100 Dispose Damage
+75 Rebound Landing Radius	10	+1.5s Dispose Slow Duration
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Innate

Special Delivery

Special Delivery

Ability

No

Affects

Self / Courier

Marci whistles and instantly teleports her Courier to her.

Cast Animation: 1 + 0.4

Effect Radius: Global

Her faction starts the game with more robust Flying Couriers.

Courier Level Bonus: 3

Courier Max Level: 30

Hit Count Bonus: 1

Creeps attacks are less effective on the special delivered Courier.

Creeps Hit Count Bonus: 2

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  • This ability is in the      fourth ability slot.

• Courier notes apply.
  • Couriers on Marci's team reaches their max level on each allied heroes' respective .

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Hidden Modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

Marci's hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

She may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling, excluding passive innate abilities.

Details

Hidden Innate Abilities

Tap on the innate abilities for more details.

Abilities

Dispose

Q

D

Dispose

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Grabs an allied or enemy target and throws it effortlessly behind her, damaging and slowing the unit if it's an enemy.

Damages and applies a movement speed slot to all enemy units within the landing radius.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 1.04

Cast Range:  175

Facing Angle: 115°

Landing Radius: 300

Throw Distance: 250

Landing Damage: 75/150/225/300 ( 175/250/325/400)

Throw Duration: 0.5

Move Speed Slow: 20%/30%/40%/50%

Slow Duration: 3 ( 4.5)

Roshan and the Tormentor are innately immune to all forced movement sources.

All ability effects are applied immediately at their current position.

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
While Unleash is active, Dispose releases pulses centered on the affected target while landing.

Number of Unleash Pulses: ( 1)

Pulse Radius: ( 800)

16/14/12/10

80

Marci excels at removing obstacles from Princess Mirana's path.

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    • Can Dispose units up to 230° of a circular segment in front of Marci's facing angle without turning, within the cast range.

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  • Applies the following ability effects to the affected thrown unit:
    • A disabling forced movement, with a max 150-arc height over Marci, and lands 250-distance behind Marci.
    • Cannot act.
    • The Dispose landing distance varies correspondingly to the unit's location upon cast.
  • Can only be interrupted by the following sources:
    • Either Marci's or the affected hero's death.
    • Applying another forced movement source on the affected unit during the throw.
  • When interrupted, Dispose prematurely applies the landing effects at the affected unit's current location.

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  • Applies all ability effects to all enemy units within the landing radius, centered around and including the affected enemy unit, upon landing.
  • 
    • Trees within the landing radius are destroyed.

Interactions: Debuff Immunity

Instantly overrides the unit-targeted enemy's current forced movement source.

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Hidden modifier

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Hidden modifier

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The movement speed slow.
    2. The magical spell damage centered around the affected enemy.
    3. The pulse magical spell damage centered around the affected enemy.
    4. The pulse silence debuff.

Rebound

W

R

Rebound

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Unit / Vector

Affects

Self / Unit

Damage

Spell / Magical

Marci bounds to the targeted unit, choosing a direction and distance she will spring away from it. Grants the targeted ally a short duration movement speed bonus.

Upon reaching the unit, Marci leaps to her final destination, damaging and stunning enemies in the area.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0

Cast Range:  450/550/650/750

Max Leap Distance: 450/550/650/750

Leap Distance Buffer: 700

Ally Move Speed Bonus: 15%/20%/25%/30% ( 25%/30%/35%/40%)

Landing Radius: 275 ( 350)

Self Position Offset: 64

Damage: 75/150/225/300 ( 90/180/270/360)

Stun Duration: 0.8/1.1/1.4/1.7 ( 1.55/1.85/2.15/2.45)

Buff Duration: 4

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
While Unleash is active, Rebound releases pulses centered on Marci's landing radius.

Number of Unleash Pulses: ( 1)

Pulse Radius: ( 800)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Adds enemy targeting functionality, and Marci applies the movement speed boost on herself upon cast.

Increases damage.

Self Buff Duration: ( 3.9)

24/20/16/12

75/90/105/120

With a friendly or brazen boost, Marci can find her way into the midst of any fight.

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Fleeting Fury

Upon landing with Rebound, Marci gains a Fury combo.

Pick-Me-Up

Enables Rebound Alt-Cast functionality.

Marci carries the unit-targeted ally with her to the landing radius after the leap component.

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Rebound's vector-targeting interface.

• The ability has two main components:
  • Rebound is nullified if the ability is interrupted at any point.
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    • 
      • Cannot be cast on the following units:
        • Buildings
        • Couriers
        • Invulnerable units.
        • Ward-type units.
    • 
      • Launches a 1700-speed projectile upon cast.
      • 
        • Applies a disabling forced movement that stuns and moves Marci periodically with the projectile, utilizing the same projectile speed upon cast.
        • Can move over impassable terrain and over trees.
      • 
        • The max dash distance is defined as:
          • EXPR
            MAXDash = CastRange + 700
          • If the distance between Marci and the targeted unit exceeds this value at any time during the dash, the dash stops.
          • Since the projectile component is independent of the dash component, the projectile does not stop.
        • Recasting Rebound before the projectile reaches the targeted unit causes the leap component to happen earlier.
        • The dash component is interrupted by the following sources:
          • Other forced movement sources.
          • Upon Marci's death.
  • 
    • Has the following targeting functionalities:
      • 
        • Grants the movement speed bonus to the Rebounded allied unit, not to Marci.
      • 
        • SHARD NOTES
          Enables Rebound casting on enemy units.
          • Grants the movement speed bonus to Marci, with a 3.9 max buff duration, upon the ability cast on the enemy unit.
    • 
      • The ability effects are applied as follows on Marci:
        1. Leaps, turns and faces toward the vector-targeted direction, once she reaches the targeted unit.
           • Can be interrupted by other forced movement sources.
        2. FACET NOTES
           Applies a
        3. Lands 64-distance away from the center, towards where she leaped from.
        4. The landing ability effects applied centered around Marci and is always located 64-distance in front of her upon landing.
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             • Trees within the landing radius are destroyed.

Interactions: Disjoint Sources

Nullifies the ability cast on the unit-targeted enemy upon being disjointed.

Marci then stops at the enemy unit's last known location.

Interactions: Root Sources

Cannot cast ability while being affected by Root sources.

However, the Root source application does not nullify the ability once it is cast.

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Hidden modifier

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Hidden modifier

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Hidden modifier

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Rebound: This unit has bonus movement speed.

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  • The ability visual effects around Marci corresponds to the projectile launched upon cast.

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  • Has a 0.1 ‒ 0.2-second min and max duration, and a 200 ‒ 250-height respectively.
  • With the position offset and leap distance, the actual min and max distance is 64 – 386/486/586/686.

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The magical spell damage centered around the affected enemy.
    2. The stun debuff.
    3. The pulse magical spell damage centered around the affected enemy.
    4. The pulse silence debuff.

Bodyguard

E

C

Bodyguard

Ability

Unit / Passive

Affects

Allied Heroes / Self

Damage

Spell / Physical / Magical

Grants a target ally hero a portion of Marci's lifesteal and attack damage bonuses.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0.54

Cast Range:  1000

Attack Damage Bonus: 9%/13.5%/18%/22.5% ( 24%/28.5%/33%/37.5%)

Lifesteal: 9%/13.5%/18%/22.5%

Duration: 6

Whenever the ally attacks or is attacked by an enemy, Marci counter-attacks that target within a certain distance.

Counter-Attack Radius: 275

Instant Attack Factor: 1

Passively grants Marci lifesteal and bonus attack damage.

Self Attack Damage Bonus: 12%/18%/24%/30% ( 32%/38%/44%/50%)

Self Lifesteal: 12%/18%/24%/30%

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
While Unleash is active, Bodyguard releases pulses centered around the affected ally upon cast.

Number of Unleash Pulses: ( 1)

Pulse Radius: ( 800)

The counter-attack component has a fixed duration downtime. Neither can be reset with cooldown reset sources, nor affected by percentage-based cooldown reductions.

Downtime: 0.45

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Marci learned at a young age that the best asset in a scrap is a steady companion.

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Buddy System

Additionally, while Bodyguard is active, Marci's lifesteal heals her ally and the ally's lifesteal heals Marci.

Lifesteal as Heal Factor: 1

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  • Grants flat unique bonus attack damage.
  • Cannot self-target.

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  • Cannot be cast on the following allied units:
    • Hidden units.
    • Invulnerable units.

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    • Stacks additively with other lifesteal sources.
    • Considers attack on enemy clones and creep-heroes as enemy heroes, illusions as creeps.
    • Can only restore as much as the attacked enemy unit's max health.
    • Cannot lifesteal off the following units:
      • Allied units.
      • Ward-type units.
        • However, Sidekick can lifesteal off of health-based ward-type units.

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  • Procs the instant attack instance within the counter-attack radius, upon a successful normal attack from either the affected allied unit to enemy or vice versa.
    • 
    • 
  • The instant attack component procs attack modifiers and on-cast effects as per normal.
    • Do not have True Strike.
    • Affected by disarm sources.
    • 
      • Does not apply to the following units:
        • Allied units.
        • Hidden units.
        • Invulnerable units.

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  Marci releases Unleash pulse of the corresponding level centered at the affected allied hero's location only upon cast.

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  • 
    • Has a visual effect representing the counter-attack radius while active.
  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. Marci's instant attack instance.
    2. The downtime.

Unleash

R

E

Unleash

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Marci taps a hidden power, increasing movement speed while gaining flurry charges that allow her to deliver a rapid sequence of strikes.

Unlocks max attack speed upon cast.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.34

Max Attack Charges per Flurry: 5

Move Speed Bonus: 15% ( 25%)

Duration: 16

Duration Increase per Kill: ( 6)

All Flurry attacks must be excecuted within the combo time window, otherwise, the combo fails and dispels the Flurry buff.

Self Attack Speed Bonus: 700/975/1325

Combo Time Window: 1

In between flurry combos, Marci has a short downtime and is unable to attack.

Downtime: 1.5

Set Attack Time During Downtime: 2

The last strike in every flurry combo unleashes a damaging pulse around the target, and slows the target's movement speed and its base attack speed.

Radius: 800

Pulse Damage: 50/100/150

Target Move Speed Slow: 30%

Target Attack Speed Slow: 60/80/100

Debuff Duration: 2

Silence Duration: ( 1)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Applies a basic dispel on Marci upon cast. While Unleash is Active, all of Marci's abilities unleash pulses when cast. Unleash pulses now also silence units within the radius.

Reduces cooldown.

90/75/60 ( 80/65/50)

100/125/150

Though some have sought to understand its origins, Marci rebuffs all attempts to divine the source of her power.

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  • Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
    • Unlocks max attack speed and removes the 700 attack speed cap for Marci.
    • The Flurry buff.
    • Applies a basic dispel on Marci.

• The ability has two components:
  • The Flurry buff.
  • The downtime debuff.
  • Both ability components repeats indefinitely while Unleash is active.

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  • A buff charge is consumed upon Marci's attack point.
    • Each attack apply the effects as follows:
      1. Both the movement speed slow and the attack speed slow debuff.
      2. Marci's attack instance.
  • The Flurry combo has the following properties:
    • Grants the flat attack speed bonus.
    • All Flurry attacks must be excecuted within the 1-second combo time window, otherwise, the combo fails and self- dispels the Flurry buff.
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    • Upon the 5^th attack, the combo succeeds.
    • Unleash releases a pulse centered around the attacked target, and self- dispels the Flurry buff.

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  • Applies the 1.5-second downtime debuff once Marci loses the Flurry buff in any way.
  • Marci now has a 2-second attack rate if the combo succeeds.
    • This prevents Marci from attacking after the last attack order executed.
    • 
      • The downtime resets upon the next Flurry buff applied on Marci.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  Unleash release pulses only with the following abilities:
  • Dispose
  • Rebound
  • Bodyguard

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Unleash: Gains attack Fury combos.

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Unleash - Fury: This unit has greatly increased attack speed.

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Unleash - Fury Cooldown: Waiting for the next Fury strikes.

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Unleash - Pulse: This unit has slowed movement and attack speed.

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Unleash - Pulse Silence: This unit is silenced.

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  • The pulse effects are applied as follows:
    1. The pulse debuff.
    2. The magical spell damage.
    3. The silence debuff.
    4. Marci's attack instance.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Marci/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Mar 15, 2025 - 12:55 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			1 : 0
Mar 15, 2025 - 10:00 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 13, 2025 - 18:45 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 12, 2025 - 10:00 EET	Tier 1		PGL Wallachia S3			0 : 1
Mar 10, 2025 - 21:30 SAST	Tier 4		SEL: Major 1			1 : 0

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38b
(2025-03-04)

• Reduced Rebound landing damage from 80/160/240/320 to 75/150/225/300.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Rebound landing damage bonus from 1.2 factor to a flat 15/30/45/60 .

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Increased intelligence gain from 1.5 to 1.9.
• Increased base attack damage from 7‒13 to 29‒33.
• REMOVED the following facets:
  • Sidekick
  • Bodyguard
• Special Delivery
  • This is now Marci 's          fourth ability.
  • ADDED an active component, teleports Marci's Courier next to her upon cast.
  • Has a 1 + 0.4 cast animation, with a 240-second cooldown.
• Rebound
  • Reduced ally movement speed bonus from 25%/30%/35%/40% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.
  • Increased mana cost from 70/80/90/100 to 75/90/105/120.
  • ADDED the Pick-Me-Up facet.
    • Adds Alt-Cast functionality, allows Marci to move the unit-targeted ally with her to the landing location.
    • Deals an additional 0.5 * LandingDmg upon the ally landing.
    • Cannot move the unit-targeted ally when being affected by root sources and leash sources.
  • ADDED the Fleeting Fury facet.
    • Grants self a short Unleash 3-attack flurry combo upon landing.
    • Extends Unleash duration by 3 seconds while active.
    • The ability upgrade does not upgrade this short flurry combo.
• REMOVED Sidekick .
• Bodyguard
  • This is still Marci 's          third ability.
  • No longer grants 4/8/12/16 armor bonus.
  • Now grants the affected allied unit 75% of the following ability values upon cast for the buff duration:
    • Flat attack damage bonus.
    • Percentage-based lifesteal.
• U MOVED Dispose from the          fourth ability to the          fifth ability.
  • ADDED the Buddy System facet.
    • Both Marci and the affected allied unit's attacks now applies a lifesteal-based heal on each other.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Rebound
    • No longer reduces cooldown by 3.
    • Now has a 1.2 damage bonus factor.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +10% Sidekick lifesteal ➜  +1.5s Dispose slow duration.  

  LVL 10  +100 Rebound cast/jump range ➜  +75 Rebound landing radius.  

  LVL 25  +20% Sidekick / Bodyguard attack damage ➜  +20% Bodyguard attack damage.

7.37d
(2024-10-01)

• Sidekick
  • Reduced attack damage bonus from 12%/18%/24%/30% to 10%/15%/20%/25%.
  • Reduced penalty radius from 2500 to 1750.

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.

Marci's Relics	Voice Lines
Dispose Multi-Hero Stuns Rebound Multi-Hero Impacts Sidekick Lifesteal Unleash Kills Unleash Pulse Damage Dispose Hero Stuns Physical Damage Stuns Leading to Kills Slows Leading to Kills Dusts Leading to Kills Mega Kill Streaks Triple Kills Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Laughing Whistle ▶️ Thankful Whistle
	Silver	▶️ Denying Whistle ▶️ Friendly Whistle
	Gold	▶️ Greeting Whistle ▶️ Mildly Impressing Whistle
	Platinum	▶️ Surprised Whistle
	Master	▶️ Sad Whistle
	Grandmaster	▶️ Impressed Whistle

Trivia

• Marci first debuted in the Dota: Dragon's Blood series and her appearance was designed in cooperation with Studio Mir, the producing studio behind the series.

• Within the internal game files, Marci's abilities are named differently:
  • Dispose is named Grapple.
  • Rebound is in some instances named Companion Run.
  • Sidekick is in some instances named Guardian.

• The symbol featured on her Sidekick spell resembles the one emblazoned on the Invoker's Cape of the Dark Magic. It's unknown what this similarity signifies.

• Marci performs a judo throw known as a tomoe-nage in one of the two animations of her Dispose ability.

Gallery

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  Marci on her first announcement page

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  Overhead Sidekick icon.

External Links

• Marci's first announcement article
• Official Trailer