Ambush Strike

Assassin skill · Shadow line · tier 3

Beta 0.7.2

Slides along a rope of light over the horde and drops on the other side.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 6 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Ambush Strike scales with Attack. Its value at each rank is 20 + 5.7 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	25.7	31.4	37.1	42.8	48.5	54.2	59.9	65.6	71.3	77

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Shadow skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Shadow Tier 1 of the Shadow line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Ambush Strike opens Smoke.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Shadow skills makes Ambush Strike 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Ambush Strike has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.