Every Illusion Skill in DOTA 2 Explained

What's going on gamers! As a follow up to our previous video covering Manta Style, Illusion Runes and the items which make illusions stronger; here's the full breakdown of every hero skill that also makes illusions and how they differ. Sit back, relax and enjoy.

As always, shout out to @zzadrianzz who popularised this style of DOTA 2 content.

00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Anti-Mage
02:41 - Bane
03:41 - Dark Seer
05:08 - Hoodwink
05:33 - Shadow Demon
08:36 - Spectre
09:33 - Grimstroke
10:15 - Morphling
10:50 - Vengeful Spirit
12:22 - Chaos Knight
14:21 - Terrorblade
17:25 - Naga Siren
19:55 - Phantom Lancer
25:27 - Arc Warden
26:42 - Meepo
29:13 - Outro

[beneaththeveil]

Gamers! Thank you so much for 6K! You lot are wild.
Quick correction for 7.36c: Dark Seer illusion damage rescaled from 70/85/100% without talent to 70/80/90% - talent still increases by 20% (and now actually works lol)

As mentioned: here's the exceptions to the rules regarding Arc Warden and Meepo with items.
As mentioned for Arc Warden: every item except Divine Rapier will fully translate over to the Clone.

Items that don’t work for Illusions but work for Meepo Clones with the item in Neutral Slot through Pack Rat:

Abyssal Blade Active Stun cast
Battle Fury Cleave and Quell Active
Blight Stone and Desolator Armor Corruption Effects (and Desolator Damage charge increases)
Eye of Skadi Cold Attack
Harpoon Active Cast
Infused Raindrops (Charges on Clones independent to Meepo Prime)
Linken’s Sphere (individual single-layer protection. Putting shield on another clone does not provide 2 layers of protection to them. Only benefit is putting it on an ally)
Mjollnir Active Effect

Items that don’t work for either Illusions nor Meepo Clones:

Abyssal Blade and Skull Basher passive Bash chance
Divine Rapier
Echo Sabre and Harpoon Echo Strike
Gleipnir, Maelstrom and Mjollnir Chain Lightning

Hope this helps! If you think we missed anything as always let us know and we'll make amendments with credit. Happy Gaming!

[guidemonkey]

The einz and zwei tip is mad. Thank you.

[tomweather]

These videos are so good. So much detail. Great channel. I'd really like to see a video on the various types of damage block/damage resist. Not just armor and spell resist and different damage types, but the nuance of things like Aphotic Shield, Enrage, Refraction, Fire Shield, Meat Shield, etc.

[guidemonkey]

Here is a video idea to get you ripping your hair out.

Disperser. It can dispel you, your allies and your enemies.

What are moments where you might really consider this? The item is also interesting in how it builds and who it builds on and against who as well.

You may also discuss things like the item timing vs what items to expect on your allies and enemy team and how this might affect dispelling them or yourself. Since the more the game goes in the more dispels and disables there are.

[RoyMk-xknj]

You forgot the broken Bane aghs khanda. When he ults someone, the Khanda effect is applied by Bane and his illusions to the target. So basically a one shot combo

[dobrynskyxd]

I think you have very clear and pleasant speech, but subtitles are nice addition nonetheless.
I enjoy this amount of info, too bad I forget it all the second I q into the game and space the fuck out

[Котейка-кы]

3:41 By the way, dark seer's lvl10 talent +20% wall illusions damage simply does not work. Neither with ulti illusions, nor aghs normal punch illusions, they just dont get that bonus damage from talent.

[ГрафМакдакула]

This video is good, but I would start it with describing common mechanics of illusions. Like which items work on them, which not, etc.

[Thepieslicer]

currently the dark seer level 10 talent to increase wall of replica damage doesnt work

[davisjasis]

Great video, can you explain how lich frost shield dmg reduction work ? I saw in game it doent work for my lane creep, so it works only for heroes and buildings? Do it reduces all dmg times? These things arent specified in spell..

[Котейка-кы]

No need to worry about ur accent, its pretty much understandable ^^

[joshuabrunetti]

lol the accent is fine, it's just a hard g for Mordiggian

[giant_ak]

Please consider too add Persian language in caption