Professor Putricide is the Scourge genius behind the development of all forms of blight, plague, ooze, scourge and death delivery. His trip to the Nexus promises great discoveries that will help achieve his ultimate goal: the destruction of all life on Azeroth.
Putricide is a disruptive Support who floods the battlefield with deadly creatures... and can turn into one himself!
Note
This concept has been overhauled as of 06/04/2026. Comments are outdated.
Stats
Health: 1920
Health Regen: 4
Attack Damage: 80
Attack Range: 5.5
Attack Speed: 1
Unit Radius: 0.75
Combat Trait
1
Slime Plague (Trait)
Good news, everyone! Enemy Minions and Heroes damaged by Putricide's Abilities or Summons become Infected for 5 seconds. Upon dying, Infected enemies release a Slime with 420 Health that attacks for 30 damage and lasts 10 seconds.
Slime
Attack Range: 0.75
Attack Speed: 1
Movement Speed: 100%
Sight Radius: 8
Unit Radius: 0.625
Subsequent application of Infection refresh its duration.
Slime targets nearby enemies, prioritizing Heroes. If no enemies are found, it travels to the nearest lane to push it.
Primary Abilities
1
Malleable Goo (Q)
Mana: 30 Cooldown: 9 seconds
Toss a ball of green goo at the target location. After 1 second of landing, the ball will bounce to your current location if you are nearby. If you are out of range, it will instead bounce back to its original cast location.
Every time the ball lands, it deals 120 damage to nearby enemies.
Can hit the same enemy multiple times.
Search range is visible only to Putricide.
Search range is centered at the initial impact location.
The Ability button indicates the countdown before the bounce.
The Ability button glows red while Putricide is within the search range.
2
Ooze Tank (W)
Mana: 60 Cooldown: 12 seconds
Roll a leaking tank forward, creating a trail along its path that lasts for 4 seconds and Slows enemies that come into contact with it by 30%.
Upon reaching maximum range or hitting terrain or an enemy Hero, the tank breaks, releasing an Ooze with 360 Health that attacks for 60 damage and lasts 10 seconds.
Ooze
Attack Range: 0.75
Attack Speed: 1
Movement Speed: 100%
Sight Radius: 8
Unit Radius: 0.625
Trail consists of puddles the tank emits every 0.25 seconds.
Tank can Infect an enemy Hero upon hitting them.
Tank disappears upon releasing the Ooze.
Ooze targets nearby enemies, prioritizing Heroes, or the nearest lane if there are no enemies in sight.
3
Gas Bomb (E)
Mana: 30 Charge Cooldown: 9 seconds
Drop a vial at your feet that explodes for 90 damage to nearby enemies.
Enemy Heroes hit have their vision greatly reduced for 1 second.
Stores up to 2 charges. Has a 2 second cooldown between uses.
Explosion Radius: 3
Reduced Vision Radius: 2
Heroic Abilities
1
Rotface (R1)
Summon the beloved Rotface at the Hall of Storms. He needs to be reanimated.
Only Putricide can reanimate, requiring a 1.5 second cast while near the body.
If Rotface dies, he will be resummoned at the Hall of Storms after 10 seconds.
Every time Rotface is resummoned, he needs to be reanimated by you again.
Your own death will cause him to flee back to the Hall of Storms and wait for you.
Rotface has 2520 Health, attacks for 150 damage, follows you, and prioritizes attacking the last enemy you targeted with a Basic Attack.
Reactivate while Rotface is alive to call him to your current location.
Rotface
Attack Range: 2
Attack Speed: 1
Movement Speed: 100%
Sight Radius: 8
Leash Radius: 12
Unit Radius: 1.0625
While Rotface awaits reanimation, right click on him or press the Ability button to target his body.
Reanimation begins once Putricide is within 2 range of the body.
Rotface has no collision until he is reanimated.
2
Wicked Experiment (R2)
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Begin to brew an extraordinary potion, channeling for 5 seconds.
Moving while channeling slows the process of brewing by 100%.
Being interrupted or manually canceling the channel resets the progress.
Once finished, Wicked Experiment is replaced with the Plague Potion Ability. Warning: You only have 30 seconds to use it!
Wicked Experiment can be cancelled manually like any other command.
Interrupting or cancelling the cast refreshes the cooldown.
Cooldown starts only after the potion is successfully created.
3
Plague Potion (R2R)
Mana: 90
Throw the potion at the target location, dealing 300 damage to enemies on impact.
Enemy Heroes hit lose 30 Armor and are Slowed by 30% for 5 seconds.
Range: 10
Radius: 6
Missile Speed: 24
Plague Potion is visible on Putricide to all players while ready.
Plague Potion is replaced with Wicked Experiment upon expiration.
LEVEL 1
Flowing and Growing
Malleable Goo ball increases its radius by 5% every 0.1 second it travels, up to 50% bonus radius per ball.
Weight Off My Belt
Hitting an enemy Hero with Gas Bomb grants 30% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
Test Subjects Infection deals 10 damage per second to Minions. ❢Quest: Every time an Infected enemy dies, permanently increase the damage of Infection by 2%.
LEVEL 4
Sticky Puddle
When the Malleable Goo ball bounces, any Minion inside it is pulled along with it to the landing location. ❢Quest: Gather 20 Regeneration Globes to increase the damage of Malleable Goo by 50%.
Reinforced Tank
Ooze Tank travels 25% faster and can now ricochet off of terrain.
This effect does not extend its maximum travel distance or duration.
Oozing Results
Every time an Infected enemy dies, reduce the cooldown of your Healing Fountain by 3 seconds.
While Healing Fountain is available, this effect restores 3% of your maximum Health instead.
LEVEL 7
(In)edible Goo
Malleable Goo ball can hit Putricide and his Summons, healing for 90 on impact. Passive: While below 50% Health, receive 10% more healing.
Hazardous Friends Ooze and Slime deal 15 damage per second to nearby enemies.
This effect cannot Infect.
Radius: 1.75
Noxious Bomb
Gas Bomb creates a noxious cloud for 3 seconds that deals 15 damage every 0.25 seconds to enemies inside.
Radius: 3
LEVEL 13
Bouncy Ball
Malleable Goo ball can bounce up to 3 additional times as long as you stay near its initial landing location.
Malleable Ooze
Increase the delay before the Malleable Goo ball bounces to 2 seconds.
Enemies that come into contact with the Malleable Goo ball are Slowed by 30% for 1 second.
Mutated Strength
Attack Range is decreases to 2, but Basic Attacks deal 50% bonus damage and cleave for 100% damage.
Cleave Radius: 2
Cleave Arc: 180 degrees
LEVEL 16
Ooze Adhesive
Ooze Tank Roots enemies it hits or passes through for 1 second. Ooze attacks Slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Tear Gas
Gas Bomb deals 100% more damage and Stuns enemies hit for 0.75 seconds.
Parasitic Plague Infected enemies now release 2 Slimes upon dying. Slime attacks deal 50% more damage to non-Structures.
Mutated Frenzy
Gain 10% Movement Speed and 25% Attack Speed.
While below 50% Health, these bonuses are doubled.
Requires Mutated Strength
LEVEL 20
...and Festergut!
Summon Festergut at the Hall of Storms. He needs to be reanimated now and every time he is resummoned. Festergut has the same stats as Rotface and acts just like him, but can only change targets once every 3 seconds.
While Festergut is alive, you can press your Trait button to call him to your current location.
Death Delivery
Enemy Heroes hit by Plague Potion also deal 30% less damage and receive 60% less healing for the duration.
Mad Science Cooldown: 65 seconds Active: Activate to gain 50% Spell Power and recharge Basic Ability cooldowns 100% faster for 5 seconds. Passive: Press the Trait button while near an allied Slime or Ooze to consume it, healing you for 180. Tastes like... Cherry!
Range: 3
Total Transformation
Basic Attacks deal 50% bonus damage and Infect enemies. Passive: Gain 25 Armor and 50% maximum Health.
Requires both Mutated Strength and Mutated Frenzy
This concept is a little broken right at the starting line, because a 30 second DoT means that Fenix, Samuro, Zeratul, Muradin, Nova, Valeera, Falstad, and Olaf effectively lose access to their traits if they dare try to interact with Putricide, which is just unacceptable. Given the low damage, it might as well just be a Mark, but then you run into problems where hoard summons aren't particularly fun to play against and tend to have fairly low room for meaningful skill expression and/or have "sit the whole game out" playstyles.
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