Playstyle
Zweihaka would be a melee-assassin who uniquely can clone himself, however, there are many risks to doing so, but it can allow him to both surround and gather exp. Whether or not he has clones shifts his playstyle greatly, Zweihaka could be a quite beefy tank who can slow and chase a single target, or a swarmy mass, capable of controlling multiple points and surrounding enemies.
Stats
Hp - 1380 (+5%/level)
Hp regen - 4.21 (+2%/level)
Attack damage - 94 (+4%/level)
Attack Speed - 1.15
Range - Melee
Mana - Null
Mana Regen - Null
Speed - 1.5 units per second
Strengths
Control
Fighting Pushes
Chasing
Weaknesses
CC
Team fights
Damage
Complexity
Hard, this is due to you having to micro the entire field occasionally, similarly to the lost vikings, except you also will be garanteed to have to contend with abilities while doing this, however, for new players there is always the option to never clone, which this is not a terrible idea, there are a lot of upsides, however, if the player would be willing to play an over the top complicated micro build, it is a possibility, and will probably have more upsides then just sticking with the one in the longterm if played well. This is backed up by the fact that Zweihaka’s health regen growth is low, however, if you are split up in more then 2 clones, your health regen is more then the normal 4% gain per level (although you might get one shot) however, if you stay as a single Zweihaka, your health regen will stay at 2% increase per level.
Q - Mitosis
This ability would remove 1/5 of zweihaka’s max hp, and leave behind zweihaka’s severed arm, after 3 seconds, this would create a clone of zweihaka with 1/5 of his current maximum hp, Zweihaka would be able to move 5% faster for every 20% of its max health missing. If a clone dies, it returns the max hp back to the original Zweihaka. However, it also gives the percent of xp corresponding with the maximum hp amount to the enemy team. (a 3/5 max health Zweihaka gives 3/5 of a normal hero kill, a 1/5 gives 1/5 and so on). Additionally, these are summons and although they may be controlled like heroes (aka completely just rip off lost vikings controls) they cannot collect xp orbs, or capture objectives, additionally if they original dehaka dies all the clones will die aswell.
20 second cooldown
W -Tail Jab
The original Zweihaka casts this ability, It thrusts its tail over its head with a similar to snipe hitbox, it takes .25 seconds to actually use if it misses, if it hits, it continues channelling for half a second stunning whoever is hit, and dealing 30 damage a second (+5% per level).
8 second cooldown
3 Cast Range
.25 seconds of ability duration
E - Leaping Strike
Both Zweihaka and clones perform this ability, all of which move to the target location over the duration (if a clone or the original is not able to reach the target location when using this ability it does not use it). After landing it deals 50 damage (+5% per level) and all clones and the original fan out if hit by another Zweihaka or clone, ideally surrounding the target hero.
10 second cooldown
12 unit cast range
.1 second ability duration for each unit away the ability is casted
R1 Meat Shield
Select a nearby clone, your original Zweihaka will pick up said clone, lowering his movement speed by 10% but gaining the clones health in shield additionally, if any source of damage were to break the shield it cannot damage the health of the original Zweihaka with that attack or ability, if the shield were to break the clone would count as dying and you cannot recast the ability, and it returns to be on cooldown. Upon recasting you may throw the clone, which has the current health as that of your shield, this deals no damage.
Cooldown - 10 seconds
Original Cast Range - 2 units
Recast Cast range - 12 units
Recast Ability Duration - .1 second duration for each unit away the ability is recasted.
R2 - Scorching Breath
All Zweihaka shoot out a breath of fire, relative to the casting position from your original Zweihaka (if you shoot down even if the Zweihaka can hit the same location it will use the ability the same distance away and at the same angle). The breath of fire is horizontal, and will expand out over the course of the ability, the breath itself deals 200 damage (+5% per level) and leaves behind a trail of fire that deals 10 (+5% per level) damage per second to anyone that crosses it, it lasts 5 seconds.
Cooldown - 40 seconds
Cast Range - 8.5 units
Initial Cast Duration - .08 seconds
Expanding Out Duration - .8 seconds
Trait - Intimidation
For each Zweihaka that are in a radius of 3 of a hero, decrease that heroes armor by 5, if there is only 1 Zweihaka, instead reduce there movement speed by 10%, if there are 5 Zweihaka reduce there vision radius by 25%, if there are 3 Zweihaka, reduce there attack speed by 25%.
Possible Talents
Level 1
There can only be one - Quest: If Zweihaka doesnt use severed arm until level 10, replace severed arm with a second copy of tail jab, and the ultimate gets a 75% cooldown reduction aswell as a 50% damage boost
Consume - Active: Destroy a target Zweihaka, the enemy gets no xp for this (60 second cooldown)
Blacken the sun - Repeatable Quest: Hit 5 heroes with 1 leaping strike
Reward: Decrease leaping strike cooldown by .25 seconds (Never below 3 seconds)
Level 4
Pack Tactics - Intimidation also gives all Non-Zweihaka allies in the radius +1 armor per Zweihaka they are in the radius of, if there is only 1 Zweihaka on the field instead give them +3 spell armor
Sole Fear - If there are no Non-Zweihaka Allies in the radius of intimidation, increase the effectiveness of intimidation by 20%
Only the useful survive - If there are less then 3 Zweihaka’s on the field, Increase all there armor by 5 but reduce there movement speed by 5%
If there are more then 3 Zweihaka’s on the field, lower all there armor by 5 but increase there movement speed by 5%
If there are exactly 3 Zweihaka’s Increase movement speed by 10% and armor by 10
Level 7
Poison Tipped Adaptation - Tail jab deals a bonus 82 (+4% per level) poison damage, if you only have one Zweihaka on the field, also reduce the cooldown by 2 seconds.
Fight or flight - Whenever Zweihaka goes below 25% of his base maximum health, increase his movement speed by 5%
Head counting - Quest:Stay at 3 Zweihaka for 10 minutes, anytime you would would be over or under this, reset this quest, reward: +10% attack damage
Level 13
Delayed Shock Wave - Whenever you cast Leaping strike, deal 40 (+4% per level) after .5 seconds in a radius of 2 units from where the Zweihaka’s began, and where they ended up after they used the ability, any hero damaged by this is stunned for .25 seconds.
Unanimous Strike - Whenever you cast tail strike, Instead of your Original Zweihaka using it, all your Zweihaka use it at once.
Adaptability - Select all other level 4 talents.
Level 20
Alpha Predator - Reduce ultimate cooldowns by 8 seconds every time you hit an enemy with a basic ability.
Avenging - Whenever a zweihaka dies, all other zweihaka('s) in its “intimidation” radius, gain 10% extra speed, 10% extra damage for 5 seconds and all cooldowns are lowered by .5 seconds (stacks)
Visuals
The visuals of this character might pose a problem, as Zweihaka is literally dehaka’s clone, not to mention the fact you would have to seperate the clones from the base hero visually somehow, however, i think i have an idea to solve this, for the first part, distinguishing it from dehaka, maybe just do what starcraft did to distinguish the two, make zweihaka a contrasting color, in Starcraft’s case Zweihaka was a bright orange, contrasting the bright green of dehaka’s highlights, although, for heroes this may make Zweihaka just look like a dehaka skin, but perhaps greatly change his posture so hes more hunched over, or even perhaps on all fours. (idk) However, for the second part, i do have a definitive solution, screw with the sizing. In Starcraft, both Dehaka and Zweihaka could go from very small to godzilla like sizes depending on there level, perhaps the 20% max health clone would be at 60% the 40% max health at 70% and so on. Although the differentiation between Dehaka and Zweihaka would be tricky, but i do feel like there are solutions out there.
Background of the Hero
Zweihaka was introduced on Starcraft 2’s 10th anniversary update, where he is dehaka’s clone, who was created by dehaka’s severed arm regrowing, although there is not much lore to Zweihaka, i still think it both would be a really cool Starcraft hero and also be a really nice showoff of the anniversary
