Razor

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This article is mostly accurate for the latest version of the game (7.38), in which this hero/item was changed.
It has no changes in the current game version — 7.38b.

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Razor

#15

22 + 2.8

24 + 2.8

21 + 2.2

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+61.6HP and +0.28HP regeneration
	+0.47 armor and 2.8 attack speed +2.8 Main Attack Damage
	+26.4MP and +0.11MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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604 +3.2

327 +1.05

4 Armor (748.96 EHP)

27.1% Magic Resist (828.53 EHP)

47 ‒ 49 ▶️ Damage (48 Avg)

2000 Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

475 Attack Range (800)

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

0.3 + 0.4 Animation

280 / 310 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Electric Gib Type

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2010-11-01 Released

2004-02-03 (v0.60)

Competitive Span 2010-11-01 — Present

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Steals enemy damage to add to his own.
The whip that ushers the dead through the Narrow Maze brings just as much pain on the battlefield. Razor deploys a sweeping ring of Plasma Field to fry his enemies, he Links his foes to drain them of their power and use it against them. The Lightning Revenant is accompanied by an extraordinary Storm Surge. With a deadly lightning storm at his command, often times his foes found themselves entangled within the Eye of the Storm before even realizing it, as Razor watches and delights in his work as bolts of lightning reduce his foes to charred remains.
Roles:	Carry Durable Nuker Pusher
Adjectives	Blue, Flying Legs ( 0 )

Facets

Thunderhead

While Eye of the Storm is active, Storm Surge procs more often and affects all enemy units within in the storm radius.

x2 Storm Surge Proc Chance

Additionally reduces the Storm Surge downtime.

-2.5s Downtime

Dynamo

Grants bonus spell amplification per current attack damage.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Creates two eyes within the storm to strike two different units at the same time, and it may now damage buildings.

When scalding buildings, the jolts of the eye will only target towers, barracks, and the Ancient.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Now additionally applies a percentage-based movement speed slow corresponding to the attack damage steal value.

Increases cast range.

Talents

Static Link Steals Attack Speed	25	Secondary Plasma Field
-0.1s Eye of the Storm Strike Interval	20	+25% Storm Surge Damage/Slow
+12 Strength	15	+5 Static Link Damage Change
10% Spell Lifesteal	10	+0.75s Plasma Field Slow Duration
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Bio

I bring my lightning whip not to punish souls, but only to hasten them toward the inevitable exit.

▶️  Razor, the Lightning Revenant

Lore:

Among the emblematic powers that populate the Underscape, Razor the Lightning Revenant is one of the most feared. With his whip of lightning, he patrols the Narrow Maze, that treacherous webwork of passages by which the souls of the dead are sorted according to their own innate intelligence, cunning and persistence. Drifting above the Maze, Razor looks down on the baffled souls below, and delivers jolts of scalding electricity that both punish and quicken the souls as they decide their own fates, hurrying on toward luminous exits or endlessly dark pits. Razor is the eternal embodiment of a dominating power, abstract and almost clinical in his application of power. Yet he has a lordly air that suggests he takes a sardonic satisfaction in his work.

Voice:

Eric Newsome (Responses)

Innate

Unstable Current

Unstable Current

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants movement speed bonus per hero level.

Move Speed Bonus per Level: 1%

This ability levels up with Razor.

The innate returns as a powertrain for the Lightning Revenant — keeping him between the lines, lanes, and helps him shift between them.

Status Effects

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Hidden Modifier

Dynamo

  Dynamo

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants bonus spell amplification per current attack damage.

Attack Damage to Spell Damage Amp: 0.05%

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• Selecting the   facet unlocks this ability.

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Hidden Modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

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

He may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.

Details

Hidden Innate Abilities

Tap on the innate abilities for more details.

Abilities

Plasma Field

Q

F

Plasma Field

▶️ ▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Releases a wave of energetic plasma that grows in power as it expands, but also zaps on contraction, slowing and dealing damage to enemy units caught in its path.

Each enemy unit can be hit twice, once each upon expanding and contracting. The further the distance, the stronger the effect.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Max Effect Radius: 700

Damage Width: 100

Min Damage: 35/40/45/50

Max Damage: 80/115/150/185

Min Move Speed Slow: 5%

Max Move Speed Slow: 25%/30%/35%/40%

Slow Duration: 1.5 ( 2.25)

Talent Upgrade
Now reactivate itself within the Plasma Field upon cast.

Secondary Activation Delay: 0.8

Damage Factor: 0.7

13/12/11/10

125

The Lightning Revenant rules the Underscape with plasmatic power.

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• The ability has the following properties:
  • Has a total 2.2-second expand and contract time.
  • 
    • Interrupts Razor's channeling abilities upon cast.
    • Centered on Razor upon cast for the entire duration.
    • 
      • Grants a 2.2-second 700-radius flying vision following Razor upon cast.
      • The vision component neither expands nor contracts, and has a 2-second trail linger duration.
  • 
    • Both the magical spell damage and movement speed slow component can affect the same enemy units twice, once per expanding, once per contracting.
      • The total expanding and contracting area-of-effect, ring is a 100-distance wide annulus.
      • 
        • The ring starts 105-distance away from Razor (OB), expands up to the max radius , covering a total 805-distance.
      • 
        • The ability's visual effects start at Razor's location, centerpoint and expands correspondingly.
        • Hence, the ability effects are 105-distance behind the damaging ring, and not centered on it.
    • 
      • Both ability components' value corresponds to the ring travel distance, reaching max values at 805 radius, and is defined as:
        • EXPR
          Values(MAX - MIN) / (800 + 105)
    • Does not affect the following units:
      • Invisible units.
    • 
      • The movement speed slow debuffs of expanding and contracting stack, with their duration independent of each other.
    • 
      • Teleport sources heading toward Razor may avoid the Plasma Field ring.
      • Plasma Field applies its ability effects with a 100-wide ring, which expands and centers around Razor's cast location with 636-speed toward the max effect radius.

• TALENT NOTES
  0.8 seconds after cast, Plasma Field releases a secondary instance with the following properties:
  • Works independently of Plasma Field's cooldown, and does not cost mana.
  • Does not proc on-cast effects.

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Plasma Field: Movement speed reduced by x%.

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  • With the max radius, and both the expanding and contracting speed, enemy units within 477 is affected by the movement speed slow twice.
  • The ability values changes per 100-expanded or contracted distance as follows:
    • 
      • 5/8.33/11.67/15 magical spell damage.
      • 2% movement speed slow.

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The magical spell damage.
    2. The movement speed slow debuff.

Static Link

W

C

Static Link

▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemy Heroes / Self

Creates a charged link between Razor and an enemy unit, the enemy unit loses attack damage incrementally while being linked to Razor.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Cast Range:  550 ( 700)

Link Max Duration: 10

Link Break Distance: 800 ( 950)

Attack Damage Loss per Second: 5/10/15/20 ( 10/15/20/25)

Debuff Duration: 12/14/16/18

Allows Razor to attack while moving with the link active. Grants Razor bonus attack damage incrementally while being linked to the enemy unit.

Attack Damage Bonus per Second: 5/10/15/20 ( 10/15/20/25)

Buff Duration: 12/14/16/18

Talent Upgrade
The link now also transfers attack speed from the target to Razor.

Attack Speed Transfer per Second: 5/10/15/20 ( 10/15/20/25)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Now additionally applies a percentage-based movement speed slow corresponding to the attack damage steal value.

Increases cast range.

Attack Damage Value to Move Speed Slow Factor: ( 1)

50/40/30/20

65

Razor's polarity channels electricity into his being, draining the power of his opposition.

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• Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.

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  • The link breaks in the following conditions:
    • Upon either Razor's or the affected enemy hero's death.
    • When either unit exceeds the link break distance.
      • The distance between both Razor and the affected enemy hero is checked before per attack damage loss interval.

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  • Grants self the following bonuses while linked and over the buff duration:
    • Shared vision over the affected enemy.
    • static_link_buff
      • Flat bonus attack damage.
      • Flat bonus attack speed.
  • 
    • Can attack the link-affected enemy while moving.
    • The ability orders Razor to attack the affected enemy upon cast, and upon each move order.
      • 
        • This does not changes Razor's facing angle while attacking, regardless of the attack animation.
    • The following orders allows to not attack the affected enemy while moving:
      • Unit-targeted orders.
      • Ground-targeted orders.
      • Either the
        S
        stop command or
        H
        hold command with auto-attack options set to ◎ Never.

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  • Cannot be recast on the link-affected enemy unit, except ability interactions between Soulbind.
    • However, the ability may affect different enemy units simutaneously, with Razor attacking the first unit-targeted enemy while moving.
    • All ability effects apply to link-affected enemy units of the following sources:
      • Hidden sources.
      • Invulnerable sources.
  • 
    • static_link_debuff
      • Reduces both main and bonus attack damage.
      • Reduces its attack speed.
    • link_vision
      • Eye of the Storm prioritizes damaging link-affected enemy units with this debuff, regardless of its current health values.

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• SHARD NOTES
  • Does not update the current instance.

• DBF IMMUNITY
  The slow component does not affect debuff immune units.

• SOULBIND
  Applies to both the primary and secondary targets.
  • If any of the targets die, or any of the Static Link instances are broken, Razor attacks the currently linked enemy unit.
  • Can be cast multiple times on the primary target, but not on the secondary target.
  • The link duration is independent of Soulbind's leash debuff.

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Hidden modifier

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Static Link: Stealing x attack damage.

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Hidden modifier

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Static Link: Losing x attack damage.

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  • Grants a maximum of 50/100/150/200 ( 100/150/200/250) flat bonus attack damage and attack speed while reducing the target's over its duration.

• For melee units, if the enemy target is 350 range farther than the attacker's range, the attack will miss regardless.

Storm Surge

E

N

Storm Surge

▶️

Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Spell / Magical

When attacked by an enemy, Razor has a chance to release a Forked Lightning that strikes the attacking source, prioritizing the attacker's unit-type.

Proc Chance: 18%

Effect Radius: 700

Max Targets: 3

Has an ensured proc chance with a Global proc radius on the enemy source, when affected by an offensive unit-targeted ability on Razor.

Proc Chance: 100%

Proc Radius: Global

Forked Lightning always searches for additional targets centered around the primary target, damaging and applying its movement speed slow independently to both the primary target and secondary targets.

Damage: 50/90/130/170 ( 62.5/112.5/162.5/212.5)

Move Speed Slow: 20%/25%/30%/35% ( 25%/31.25%/37.5%/43.75%)

Slow Duration: 1

Forked Lightning has a fixed downtime upon proc. Cannot be reset with cooldown reset sources.

Downtime: 3

Merely approaching the Lightning Revenant is rewarded with shock therapy.

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Thunderhead

While Eye of the Storm is active, Storm Surge procs more often and affects all enemy units within in the storm radius.

Proc Chance: 36%
Radius: 500

Additionally reduces the Storm Surge downtime.

Downtime: 0.5

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• The Forked Lightning ability effects are applied as follows:
  • 
    1. Applies its magical spell damage instance before the enemy's ability cast on Razor.
       • Deals spell damage before the ability is cast, if the enemy unit dies to the damage instance, the ability is unused.
       • Certain sources that usually prevents damage do not save the enemy caster if the damage instance is lethal. This includes the following sources:
         • Damage negation sources.
         • Spell immunity sources.
    2. The original ability cast.

• Storm Surge uses pseudo-random distribution, and has two proc conditions:
  • 
    • Has a chance to proc Forked Lightning upon a successful attack on Razor, with the ability effects applied as follows:
      1. Applies the magical spell damage to the attack source, this component only affects enemy units.
      2. Applies the debuff to the attack source.
      3. Search for valid enemy units for the Forked Lightning component.
  • 
    • 
      • Has a Global proc radius and an ensure proc chance on every offensive unit-targeted ability cast on Razor, including certain unit and ground-targeted abilities.
      • 
        • Procs the Forked Lightning component upon the offensive projectile launch.
        • The offensive ability cast still takes effect even if the ability source dies to the spell damage applied.
      • Affects the following units:
        • Fogged units.
        • Invisible units.

• Does not proc from the following attack sources:
  • Buildings

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  • Does not apply to, and considers the primary target not a valid enemy unit when affected by the following sources:
    • Debuff immune sources.
    • Hidden sources.
    • Invulnerable sources.
  • On secondary targets:
    • The search radius is centered around the primary enemy unit that procs the Forked Lightning component.
      • If the primary target is not a valid enemy unit, Forked Lightning searches for 3 secondary targets upon proc based on the primary enemy unit.
    • Has no secondary target priorities.
    • Does not affect the following secondary targets when procced via an offensive attack:
      • Fogged units.
      • Invisible units.
      • Untargetable units.
  • The spell damage is considered reflection damage, which prevents it from benefitting from spell lifesteal.

• FACET NOTES
  The Thunderhead   facet now procs Forked Lightning within the Eye of the Storm radius.
  • An enemy unit may only be hit by one Thunderhead proc Forked Lightning strike at a time per proc.
    • A lone target is not hit multiple times per active Eye of the Storm strike instance.

• ILLUSIONS
  Razor's illusions fully benefit from the bonus movement speed component.
  • However, the illusions does not release Forked Lightning upon proc.

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Unstable Current: Movement speed increased by x%.

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Unstable Current: Movement speed slowed by x%.

Eye of the Storm

R

E

Eye of the Storm

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Physical

A powerful lightning storm strikes out at enemy units with the lowest health, dealing damage and reducing their armor.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Effect Radius: 500

Number of Targets: 1 ( 2)

Strike Interval: 0.7/0.6/0.5 ( 0.6/0.5/0.4)

Damage per Strike: 60/75/90

Armor Reduction per Strike: 1

Duration: 30

Does not affect Roshan.

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Creates two eyes within the storm to strike two different units at the same time, and it may now damage buildings.

When scalding buildings, the jolts of the eye will only target towers, barracks, and the Ancient.

Damage Factor: ( 1)

80/70/60

100/150/200

Ride the lightning.

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Thunderhead

While Eye of the Storm is active, Storm Surge procs more often and affects all enemy units within in the storm radius.

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  • Interrupts Razor's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Recasting the ability creates another independent Eye of the Storm, with their strike interval independent of each other.
  • Eye of the Storm ends upon Razor's death.
  • 
    • While invisible, the Eye of the Storm is still functional and its strikes are invisible as well.
    • 
      • The ability effects are now neither visible or audible to the enemy units.

• 
  • Has the following strike priorities within the radius:
    1. An enemy unit may only be hit by one strike at a time. A lone target is not hit multiple times per active instance.
    2. Enemy units with the Static Link link_vision debuff.
    3. Lowest current health.
    4. Chooses a random enemy unit, without priorities, if there are multiple units with the same lowest current health.
    5. Chooses a random enemy unit, without priorities, if there are multiple units with the Static Link link_vision debuff.
    6. Attackable buildings, ignoring filler buildings.
  • 
    • The bonus armor reduction debuff duration is defined as:
    • EXPR
      ArmorReductionDuration = StormDuration
    • SCEPTER NOTES
      Does not apply the debuff on attackable buildings.
  • Does not affect the following units:
    • Buildings
      • SCEPTER NOTES
        This restriction is removed upon acquiring the ability upgrade.
    • Courier
    • Fogged units.
    • Invisible units.
    • Ward-type units.
    • Buildings

• Can strike up to a max 42/50/60 ( 50/60/75) times per cast, while reducing the same amount of armor.

• FACET NOTES
  Storm Surge's Thunderhead notes apply.

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Eye of the Storm: Damaging and reducing armor to the target with each lightning strike.

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Eye of the Storm Armor: Armor reduced by x.

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  • Deals up to 2520/3750/5400 ( 3000/4500/6750) physical spell damage per enemy unit (before reductions).
  • The strike effects are applied as follows:
    1. The armor reduction debuff.
    2. The physical spell damage.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Razor/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Mar 23, 2025 - 20:30 CET	Tier 1		FISSURE Universe 4 GS			1 : 0
Mar 23, 2025 - 20:30 CET	Tier 1		FISSURE Universe 4 GS			0 : 1
Mar 22, 2025 - 21:15 MSK	Qualifier		Cyber Empire: Qualifier			0 : 1
Mar 22, 2025 - 12:25 UTC	Qualifier		Cyber Empire: Qualifier			1 : 0
Mar 22, 2025 - 12:15 UTC	Qualifier		Cyber Empire: Qualifier			0 : 1

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Storm Surge spell damage is now considered reflection damage.
• REWORKED Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Static Link
    • OLD
      • No longer pulls Razor and the linked target toward each other at 100 distance per second while active.
      • REMOVED Static Link (Alt-Cast) functionality. [?]
    • NEW Now applies a StackAmount as a percentage-based movement speed slow while active.

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +30 Plasma Field damage ➜  +0.75s Plasma Field slow duration.

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• Storm Surge Thunderhead
  • Now also reduces downtime from 3 to 2.5 while Eye of the Storm is active.

• Talents:  

  LVL 15  -1s Storm Surge strike downtime ➜  +12 strength .

7.36c
(2024-06-24)

• Increased Storm Surge damage from 40/80/120/160 to 50/90/130/170.

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.

Razor's Relics	Voice Lines
Three Hero Plasma Fields Kills During Static Link Static Link Max Drains Eye of the Storm Kills Eye of the Storm Building Damage Hurricane Pike Target Damage Slow Duration Physical Damage Kills During Black King Bar Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ▶️ I sense a connection between us!
	Silver	▶️ You can run. You should run. ▶️ You are dead. Dead.
	Gold	▶️ Your ashes will fall like rain. ▶️ Shocking.
	Platinum	▶️ This will only hurt forever.
	Master	▶️ Zapped your ass!
	Grandmaster	▶️ Ah ahaha ha! You forgot to ground me!

Trivia

• On the Perfect World client, Razor's name was literally translated into "Shaving Blade" - 剃刀 (tìdāo).
  • It was not until November 18, 2022 Patch that he was renamed to similar-sounding Chinese loanwords - 雷泽 (léizé).
• His attack response ▶️ "Ride the Lightning!" is also the name of a Metallica's album and song (which references execution via electric chair).
• Razor's response upon picking the Aegis of the Immortal ▶️ "There is a lightning that never goes out." is a reference to a song "There is a light that never goes out" by The Smiths.
• ▶️ "Conduct me where you will.' is also a line said by Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol".

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Razor uses the model of the Lightning Revenant, a neutral melee creep.
  • Razor's title is also directly taken from that unit.
  • Razor's old ability, Chain Lightning, was identical to the Far Seer's Chain Lightning.
  • Razor's old ability, Forked Lightning, was identical to the Naga Sea Witch's Forked Lightning.
  • Razor's old abilities, Fury and Frenzy, were to the Troll Berserker's Berserk.
  • Razor has a 1/8 chance to spawn in with the name "Gillette", a reference to the Gillette, known for their shaving razors.

Gallery

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  Trading card art

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead