UPDATE: Hero Spotlight added.
Trample (Q) - Cthulhuphant is a melee tanky initiator, and this ability gets him into the thick of it. He charges forward in a direction, dealing damage and stunning any enemy heroes he connects with. If there are any creeps in his path, they are blasted away like projectiles, also dealing damage and stunning enemy heroes they hit.
Hook 'Em (W) - With Hook 'Em, Cthulhuphant uses his mighty tusks to skewer and immediately kill an enemy non-hero unit. The corpse creates a shield which blocks a large portion of damage coming at Cthulhuphant from the front. Strength of the shield is proportional to the target's max health.
Mortifying Presence (E) - This is a passive aura of fear and madness. Nearby enemy heroes have their attack and movement speeds slowed. When Cthulhuphant kills an enemy unit, the effect doubles for ten seconds. If he kills an enemy hero, the effect triples for ten seconds!
Obliterate (R) - Cthulhuphant draws on all of his awesomeness to fire raw, brutal energy blasts from his many trunks. Obliterate causes five pulses of devastating area of effect damage in front of Cthulhuphant.
Hook 'Em (W) - With Hook 'Em, Cthulhuphant uses his mighty tusks to skewer and immediately kill an enemy non-hero unit. The corpse creates a shield which blocks a large portion of damage coming at Cthulhuphant from the front. Strength of the shield is proportional to the target's max health.
Mortifying Presence (E) - This is a passive aura of fear and madness. Nearby enemy heroes have their attack and movement speeds slowed. When Cthulhuphant kills an enemy unit, the effect doubles for ten seconds. If he kills an enemy hero, the effect triples for ten seconds!
Obliterate (R) - Cthulhuphant draws on all of his awesomeness to fire raw, brutal energy blasts from his many trunks. Obliterate causes five pulses of devastating area of effect damage in front of Cthulhuphant.
Tim Buckley, creator of the web-comic Ctrl+Alt+Del, was given the opportunity to help design a new hero with S2 Games. He started a contest, calling for his readers to submit concepts; the Cthulhuphant hero concept was one of eight chosen by Buckley and went on to receive the most votes in a reader poll.
Visually, Cthulhuphant looks more "cute" than "terrifying." But looking at his skill descriptions, he could become a force to be reckoned with.
Trample is the skill that sounds the most interesting, combining a nuking-and-stunning charge with sort of a skill-shot. By using the charge with creeps nearby, one could send creeps flying in different directions, allowing you to hit targets that a normal line-based charge could not.
Hook 'Em could make Cthulhuphant a decent counter to Ophelia, on the same level as Parasite. At worst, it's a defensive skill against front-facing damage, which is very relevant when charging into a fight.
The power of Mortifying Presence will largely depend on the radius of the effect and the base values. Hook 'Em at least gives Cthulhuphant an easy way to get to 2x.
With only a description of "five pulses of devastating area of effect damage," we can't exactly judge Obliterate yet. It simply sounds like a huge directional nuke. Hopefully, the pulses are rapid, and it won't require something like a Keeper of the Forest ult to set up.
[S2] Maliken has assured us that this multi-trunked elephant will be available to everyone:
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He is a really fun hero. It has been awesome working with CAD on this. It is S2 showing great community support after finally releasing Geomancer. Most important to many of you though............Ctuluphant will NOT be Early Access!”
Look for Cthulhuphant to possibly be released next Friday, which would mean a spotlight video sometime during the week. Until then, go to cad-comic.com to see more in-game screenshots!
Links
cad-comic.com - Source
forums.heroesofnewerth.com - Source
