Lich

Unleashes a powerful attack that bounces between enemies

Ranged

Control the lane equilibrium with Lich by strategically sacrificing creeps for mana regeneration and lane dominance. He protects carries with Frost Shield and pesters foes with slowing frost, before dropping a devastating bouncing ultimate to wipe grouped enemies.

Lich abilities, talents and win rates on this page are from Dota 2 patch 7.41e.

1/3

Complexity

3/3

Support

2/3

Nuker

Lich Performance Summary

On patch 7.41e, Lich holds a 52.43% win rate across 393,272 ranked games. It holds steady across skill brackets (51.27% in Divine up to 52.81% in Archon), so Lich performs about the same at every level of play. In professional play Lich has been picked 17 times for a 64.71% win rate.

Base Stats

Health560+0.5 / s

Mana411

AttributeBase / Growth per lvl

Strength

20+2.1 per lvl

Agility

17+1.7 per lvl

Intelligence

28+3.4 per lvl

StatValue

Damage

52 – 61

Armor

1.8

Movement Speed

290

Attack Range

550

Win Rates by Rank

Patch7.41e

Public Win Rate52%393.3K matches

Pro Win Rate65%11W / 6L

Pro Bans419% of contests

RankPicksWin Rate

Herald

14.3K

52%

Guardian

44.6K

53%

Crusader

69.5K

53%

Archon

86.3K

53%

Legend

80.1K

53%

Ancient

53.4K

52%

Divine

44.9K

51%

Faces of Lich

Data Timeframe: Past 6 months

Innate Ability

Sacrifice

Unit Target

Sacrifice an allied creep to convert its current health into mana for Lich and give Lich its experience bounty.Begins the game on cooldown and with no charges.

Current Health Converted42%

Experience Bounty69%

Cast Range700

Cast Time0.4s

Max Charges2

Charge Restore Time120s

Talent Tree

Chain Frost Unlimited Bounces

Frost Shield Provides +50 HP Regen

Chain Frost on Death

2 Frost Shield Charges

-3.5s Frost Blast Cooldown

+0.3s Sinister Gaze Duration

+125 Frost Blast Radius and Area Damage

+10% Frost Shield Damage Reduction

Abilities

Frost Blast

MagicalDispellable

Unit Target, AOE

Blasts the target enemy unit with damaging frost, dealing area damage and slowing movement and attack rates for seconds. The primary target receives both base and area damage.

Radius200

Movement Slow-25%

Attack Slow-30 / -40 / -50 / -60

Base Damage40 / 80 / 120 / 160

Area Damage80 / 120 / 160 / 200

Cast Range575 / 600 / 625 / 650

Duration4s

Cast Time0.3s

110 / 120 / 130 / 140

Frost Shield

MagicalDispellable

Unit Target

Applies a magical frost shield around the target, reducing damage from attacks against it. While the shield is active, ice magic will affect nearby enemy units every 1 seconds, dealing minor damage and slowing them.

Damage Reduction45% / 50% / 55% / 60%

Slow20% / 25% / 30% / 35%

Slow Duration0.5s

Damage18 / 32 / 46 / 60

Interval1s

Radius600

Buff Duration4 / 5 / 6 / 7s

Cast Range800

Cast Time0.2s

Charge Restore Time30 / 25 / 20 / 15s

100 / 110 / 120 / 130

30 / 25 / 20 / 15s

Sinister Gaze

Dispellable

Unit Target, Channeled

CHANNELED - Hypnotizes an enemy unit, causing it to move towards a point between the two of you and drains a percentage of its current mana.

Channel Duration1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2s

Distance Moved32% / 38% / 44% / 50%

Mana Drain Per Second25%

Cast Range600

Channel Time1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2s

24 / 22 / 20 / 18s

Chain Frost

MagicalDispellable

Unit Target

Releases an orb of frost that bounces between nearby enemy units up to 10 times, slowing and damaging each time it hits. Each bounce increases the damage for the subsequent bounces. Chain Frost lingers on its last target if it fails to bounce and can bounce again if new targets become available.

Damage Each Bounce250 / 400 / 550

Incremental Damage15 / 20 / 25

Jumps10

Bounce Range550

Movement Slow-65%

Attack Slow-65

Slow Duration2.5s

Initial Projectile Speed1050

Projectile Speed850

Vision Radius800

Linger Duration2s

Cast Range750

Cast Time0.3s

180 / 300 / 420

100 / 80 / 60s

Aghanim's Upgrades

Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Sinister Gaze

Sinister Gaze becomes an Area of Effect ability, affecting units within a radius of 400 in the target area. Sinister Gaze allows Lich to cast other abilities while channeling it.

Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Ice Spire

Creates an Ice Spire at the target spot, slowing enemies around it. Can take 4 hero hits or 8 creep hits and when destroyed it will create a Frost Blast around it.Chain Frost can be cast on the Spire and can bounce to the Spire and damage the spire by 1 hero attack if there are no other enemies in range.Lich can cast Frost Shield on the Spire. Each Frost Shield tick will heal the spire by 1 hero attack.