Saurfang was an almighty honourable Warrior who never backed down from a challenge and disliked dishonourable warfare. Through his passive trait Saurfang is a powerful duelist who will usually have the upper hand in 1 on 1 combat, however once they start to retreat, Saurfang will have trouble giving chase to finish them off.
Powerful duelist
Heavy cleave damage
Finisher
Fairly Tanky
Weaknesses:
Low CC
Difficult to lock down fleeing targets
Requires enemy to engage him
Combat Trait
1
Honourable Strikes
Saurfang deals 100% more damage to enemy heroes that face him, but deals 25% less damage to heroes who face away from him.
Primary Abilities
1
Overpower
Saurfang overpowers the enemy dealing 100 (+4% per level) damage, this cannot be blocked.
Basic attacks have a 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Overpower and increases its damage of your next Overpower by 25%.
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Range: 2
2
Sweeping Strikes
For 4 seconds, Saurfang gains 25% attacks speed. His basic attacks and abilities cleave in a cone in front of him for 75% of their original damage. Basic attacks refresh the duration up to 12 seconds total.
Saurfang charges towards and finishes off his injured foe dealing 220 (+4% per level) damage. Can only be used on heroes below 30% health.
Cooldown: 6 seconds
Range: 2.5
Secondary Abilities
1
Die by the Sword
Saurfang enters a defensive stance gaining 20 armour (reducing damage taken by 20%) for 6 seconds, he also parries the next 3 basic attacks negating their damage.
Cooldown: 60 seconds
2
Ravager
Saurfang throws a whirling axe at the target location dealing 70 damage every 0.25 seconds to all enemies in the area for 3 seconds. Honourable Strikes reduce the cooldown of this by 1 second.
Cooldown: 70 seconds
Radius: 3.5
Heroic Abilities
1
Mak'Gora
Saurfang charges towards an enemy hero and challenges them to Mak'gora. For 7 seconds they must duel becoming untargetable by all heroes and minions but each other. If either player leaves the battle arena they die (there will be no cowards).
Saurfang lets out a mighty yell. All friendly units within the radius gain 50% attack speed, 25% movement speed and 20 armour (reducing damage taken by 20%) for 8 seconds.
Cooldown: 80 seconds
Radius: 7
Level 1 Talents
Striking the Anvil: Quest: Reset the cooldown of Overpower. After resetting the cooldown of Overpower 20 times, increase the chance to reset to 50%. After Resetting the cooldown of Overpower 40 times, increase the damage bonus to 75%.
The Most Honourable: Quest: Honourably attack targets. Each honourable basic attack grants increases Saurfang's Honourable Strikes damage by 1%, each honourable spell increases Saurfang's Honorable Strikes bonus by 5%. Each dishonourable attack reduces Saurfang's honourable strikes bonus by 2%.
Execute them All: Quest: Use Execute on all enemy Heroes. After Executing each hero once increase the damage of execute by 100. After Executing each hero 3 times, Execute can now be used on any target under 60% health. (Does not include structures)
Level 4 Talents
Crippling Sweep: Sweeping Strikes now slow all targets' movement speed and attack speed by 50% for 1.2 seconds.
Collateral Damage: When your Sweeping Strikes hit a secondary target, your other basic ability cooldowns are reduced by 1 second.
Focus Target: The main target of Sweeping strikes takes 100% more damage from spells.
Level 7 Talents
Dreadnaught: Overpower gains a 2nd charge and basic attacks now just refresh 1 charge.
Thirsting Blade: Honourable strikes heal Saurfang for 30% of the damage dealt.
Stay Down: Execute roots the target in place for 1.5 seconds.
Level 13 Talents
Shockwave: Overpower now sends a straight line shockwave behind the target dealing 60 (+3% per level) damage to all targets in the area slowing their movement speed by 70% decaying over 3 seconds. Range: 4
Massacre: Execute reduces the target's armour by 10 (increasing damage taken by 10%).
Die by the Sword: Gain the Die by the Sword ability.
Level 16 Talents
Unmatched: Honourable strikes of Overpower stun all targets hit for 0.75 seconds.
Sudden Death: Honourable basic attacks have a 40% chance to reset the cooldown of Execute and make the next Execute within 8 seconds usable on any enemy hero regardless of their health.
Lost Honour: Attacking a crowd controlled target makes Saurfang gain the Honourable Strikes bonus regardless of which way the target is facing on his next attack.
Level 20 Talents
Another Challenge: Increase the duration of Mak'Gora to 12 seconds. If Saurfang kills the target the cooldown of Mak'Gora is reduced to 10 seconds
Inspiring Voice: Increase the duration of Rallying Cry to 12 seconds. Enemy Hero deaths during Rallying Cry reset the duration.
Ravager: Gain the Ravager ability.
The Best Defence: Honourable Strikes on heroes grant Saurfang 10 armour (reducing damage taken by 10%) stacking up to 3 times and deal an additional 1% of the enemy hero's maximum health in damage.
I love the idea of this hero and I think the flavor really comes through with the abilties and especially the passive. However, Varok is extremely weak. Having 0 way of locking down an enemy champion/engaging on them/gaining movement speed makes him really easy to play against. There is no reason for ranged heroes to ever be near him and he will be kited by them to death. Bruisers have to have some way to get on their enemies. Looking through the list of bruisers, they all have some way to get to their enemy. Thrall has a root and a movement speed increase, Rag has a movement speed increase, Xul has a root, etc. My recommendations would be to, baseline, give Overpower a slow and have Honorable Strikes give a movement speed increase when you hit an enemy facing you. There should also be some weak imitation increases in the talents, nothing big though.
Thanks for letting me know, I've added a small charge similar to Artanis' charge to execute so he can hopefully catch up to low health targets who are out of position and also I added a slow to one of his overpower talents. I think in general he shouldn't be too strong against ranged characters but you're right in saying that being too weak to them really hurts him.
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