Pizza, maybe?

I could see some of you seeing this picture and getting hungry because it looks like an oversized slice of pizza. But this in fact, a picture of a shockwave idea I have for dota. See a shockwave is in fact a nuke that spreads wider the longer it travels. Something like this could hit up to twenty characters. Lina’s shockwave can hit all five enemy players and many non-hero characters, if aimed right. I mean it has the potential to do some devastating damage. It’s a really neat ability that gives you a chance to counter characters like phantom lancer and naga siren because of their illusion abilities.

Anyway to the idea. The idea is to make this into an item that increases or decreases damage the more units the shockwave passes through.

So basically if green has this as armor, they are wearing. People and characters around that player will feel decreased damage. It doesn’t matter where the green player is located where ever the other players hit by the shockwave or aoe attack are hit, the damage will be lowered. As shown in each picture.

Or the flipside is that if you want this to be offensive, that this item will cause a shockwave to become more powerful the more units it passes through.

It could be a really good defensive item for durables and illusion
creators, or it could be a really offensive
item for characters like lina or windrunner. It all depends on what Ice wants to do with the idea inside the game. I think the defensive attributes is more interesting. Especially if you put it with something like whenever a heal is used near the player it doesn’t take effect except on the player with the special armor. There are tons of things that can be put with this.

Lets look at some hefty durables and see what they need during the game. Most durables need, heart, armlet, helm, Blademail, assault cuirass, so a final item that protects allies could be useful As to most of the other items benefit just you. Except maybe assault cuirass and possibly pipe.

Assault gives the most to allies, so something that compliments this item could prove useful. It gives decreased armor to enemies, increased armor to allies and attackspeed increase to allies. So it is a very useful item. So something that provides protection to allies from spells like great cleave and dragon slave would be insanely useful.

Then lets see what illusion character need. Basically health, more illusions and damage. So daedulus, Satanic or diffusel, and manta. Possibly other damage items such as abyssal. And possibly heart. This is what Illusion creators need. So something that would compliment them also.

Lets see what abilities and items this idea counters or boosts.