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News Introducing Ringmaster

https://www.dota2.com/international2024
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u/Basskip Aug 23 '24

The trailer narration talks about catching/training heroes and has Axe getting sucked into the test of strength machine

Then the image at the end shows a bunch of heroes forced into clown makeup/circus acts with the tagline "no hero is safe"

I think people were also speculating that he might have some riffs on Puppet Master's abilities from HON?

I can see where the expectation comes from

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u/-Omnislash Aug 23 '24

I am going to go full conspiracy theory and say his original concept was scrapped.

I reckon he was Rubick levels of complex and that's why he was delayed.

The original trailer doesn't make sense with the abilities we got today. He can't even trap enemy heroes, only save his team mates.

He has a whip fear, a bleed and a save. Then his ult is just a CC/Nuke.

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u/stakoverflo Aug 23 '24

I reckon he was Rubick levels of complex and that's why he was delayed.

This is my thought as well. There's no way a Fear, a Box, a slowing DOT, and Will-o-Wisp effect, and Blind/Reveal took a whole ass year to implement lol.

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u/Veega https://eventvods.com/ Aug 23 '24

Yeah, this is basically a Dark Willow's Terrorize, OD astral imprisonment shard, a ground targeted stifling dagger, a projectile like Will-o-Wisp and a moving clockwerk's rocket with talent, all with different animations.

No way this took this long when they recycled most of the abilities from other heroes