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122- Visage
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Base abilities: Grave Chill, Soul Assumption, Gravekeeper's Cloak, Summon Familiars
Shard ability: Upgrade Gravekeeper's Cloak to have Familiar's Stone Form, which stuns around him, heals him for 35% of his max health, and makes him invulnerable for 4 seconds.
Scepter ability: New ability Silent as the Grave, which stealths Visage and his familiars, letting them deal extra damage for four seconds after attacking, and gives Visage flying movement until broken.

Right from the get-go I'm going to concede that Visage isn't a bad hero, but I really, really don't like him. He's been a goddamn mess of design since... forever. He's been listed as every role at least once in his lifetime, and he's also gone through a bunch of kit changes throughout the years. Even his current iteration can be played as any role, and he's a common fixture on banlists in pro play as a tanky, ganky support, but he's just... ugh. You will almost never see one in a pub game unless someone is smurfing, because he just has too slow a start if you're going to carry, he feeds way too much gold early on if you aren't careful with your familiars, and if you *are* careful and/or build to support your familiars early, you won't deal any damage, since familiars are affected by his passive. (At least it's better than years past, where his familiars used to have their damage decay with every attack until refreshing it with Stone Form.)

Also, by design, he's got negative starting armor and the lowest base magic resistance in the game, to encourage building into his Cloak, which detracts from any threat he has early game. People will run right over him, and frequently do.

He just... feels so gross to play as, he looks unpleasant, and with all that complexity, he's pretty damn boring to play on average, and way too frustrating to play well, not to mention boring to watch when he gets in a pro game; for a generalist hero, there are better choices. I want to like him, and again, he's got a niche in professional play, but he has no place in the game otherwise - and I'm completely discounting his current Shard and Scepter upgrades, which gives him and his familiars assassination, too? Pick a damn role, Visage.