Khern by Porco

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Khern

By: Porco
Last Updated: Sep 3, 2025
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Khern

the avenger

Rework of an old concept.

Khern is the barbarian from diablo 2. wearing a heavy two handed axe, this warior protects his team mates by making them more tanky thanks to his war cry, and making enemies flee away with his threatering shoot.
Leap attack can be used to attack and keep an enemy on your line, protect an ally by disengage his opponent, or just as escape.

Khern's trait makes him a real avenger and anti-snowball character, making him way more powerfull when an ally dies.
many talents affect this rage. they are shown in red.

Also has a summoner-like build with ancients.

Khern is globaly designed to return desperate situatios.


STATISTICS
HEALTH 1,925
MANA 490
ATK SPEED 0.67
DAMAGE 240

Combat Trait

1
Rage
When an allied hero dies in range, Khern enters in rage for 5 seconds
While in rage, khern gains 20% move speed, attack speed, and spell power.

Note : Range 20% smaller than auriel's bestow hope
2
Ancients
Some abilities summons ancients.
ancients have 700 hp and deals 140 damages per second. Last for 5 seconds.

Primary Abilities

1
Leap attack
Mana : 50, Cooldown 10 seconds, Medium range

Jump over targeted enemy, Deal him 150 damages. knocks him back on a short distance upon reaching ground.
2
War cry
Mana : 40, Cooldown 12 seconds, Medium radius

Grants khern and nearby allied heroes 30 armor, decaying over 3 seconds.
3
Threatening Shout
Mana : 60, Cooldown 20 seconds, Short range

Targeted enemy is feared for 1.25 seconds

Basic attacks decrease cooldown by 2 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

1
Call of the ancients
Mana : 70, Cooldown : 70 seconds

Summon three ancients. 0,2 seconds beetween each.

Passive effect : increase ancients duration by 3 seconds and theyr damages by 15%
2
Ignore Pain
Mana : 60, Cooldown : 60 seconds

Khern is immune to damages and unstopable for 2 seconds
Cooldown runs 100% faster when below 50% life.
And 200% faster when below 20% life.

Level 1 - tankyness

Clan's chief axe
Basic attacks heals for 10% of the damages dealt, and up to 20% while in rage.
Quest : deal basic attacks to heroes increase war cry duration by 0,1 second, up to 2 seconds.
Reward : increase war cry initial armor amount up to 40.

Hardened Wrath
decrease warcry cooldown by 0.5 seconds for each affected ally, and up to 0.75 seconds while in rage
Quest : collect 20 regen globes
Reward :increase warcry radius by 20%, and up to 30% while in rage.

Duty to the clan
Every third regen globe collected summons an ancient.
Summon an ancient heals khern for 5% of his maximum hp.
Quest : summon ancients increase those heals by 0,1%, up to 10% augmentation.
Reward : increase ancients hp by 20%

Level 4 - rage

Grudge
Enter rage stuns all enemies in range for 1.25 seconds

Smite
Enter rage silence all enemies in range for 2,5 seconds

Into the Fray
rage bonuses are increased up to 30%
Increase rage radius by 20%
Entering rage while allready in rage summons an ancient.

Level 7 - misc

Vanguard
Regen globes decrease all your cooldowns by one second.
Basic abilities cooldowns run 30% faster while in rage.

call of Arreat
While in rage, nearby allies benefits for half of its bonuses
Increase maximum hp by 10%

Terrify
Increase threatening shout fear duration by 0.5 seconds, and up to one second while in rage

level 13 - mobility/control

Death from Above
Increase leap attack range and knock back distance by 30%

Toppling Impact
Leap attack decrease ennemy's move speed by 30% for 2 seconds

Veteran's Warning
Allys affected by war cry have + 20% move speed for 3 seconds

level 16 - damages

Falter
Increase threatening shout range by 100%
Threatening shout decrease armor by 20 for 3 seconds

Bloodshed
Deals 45 damages per second to nearby enemies. Damages and range are doubled while in rage
ancients deals 20 damages per second to nearby enemies.

Iron impact
Leap attack deals 100% more damages and summons an ancient. This effect has a 30 seconds cooldown
ancients jumps to the nearest enemy hero upon summoning.

level 20 - storm

Together as One
Call of the ancients summons one more ancients
ancients have 30 spell armor and are affected by war cry.

Ignorance is Bliss
Ignore pain is freely casted when khern enters in rage. Increase its duration by 0,5 second.

Retribution
You can now manualy activate rage. 60 seconds cooldown.
Basic attacks decrease cooldown by 2 seconds.
Kill an enemy hero summons an ancient

Best Served Cold
rage duration is increase by 2 seconds.
When suffer fatal damages, gain a shield equal to 30% of maximum hp for 3 seconds and enters in rage. This effect has a 120 seconds cooldown.

Dreadnought
Removes Leap attack cooldown and mana cost.
Leap attacks marks the enemy for 10 seconds.
Cannot target a marked enemy with leap attack.

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