Unused Revenant Concept by S2Ari
Remember about Idejder talking about night and day hero? This one is Nigma's Hero, come discuss what do you guys think about this.
Rouen the Gargoyle
Hero Concept by Nigma
Lore: Originally a Hellbourne Cultist that practiced forbidden magic, Rouen fell victim of his own dark power when he accidentally transferred his spirit into a Gargoyle statue in an attempt to animate it. Afflicted by an ancient curse, Rouen is forced to tread the battlefield encased in stone skin. Only during the night, when all is dark, is Rouen free to unleash his true unholy power.
Primary Attribute: Strength
Allegiance: Hellbourne
Roles: Disabler /Teamfighter/Ganker
Movespeed: 290
Skillset
Q – Petrify
Rouen curses a target, friend or foe, causing them to be petrified. Petrified units are Stunned but take less incoming damage and receive increased HP regeneration. Petrify counts as a buff.
Petrify lasts 1/2/3/4 Seconds
700 Range
Status Effects:
Stunned
-90% Damage Taken
+10 HP/s
W –Demonic Ritual
Rouen casts a dark ritual on a target enemy hero, dealing damage, purging and slowing it.
300 Range
Deals 100/150/200/250 Magic Damage and slows the target by 25%. For every Buff purged, Demonic Ritual deals 50 bonus Magic damage and 5% additional slow, up to 400 Magic Damage and 40% slow.
E – Being of the Night
During the Day, Rouen’s skin turns to stone, making him slower but less vulnerable to attack. During the Night, Rouen moves much faster and deals bonus magic damage, but is much more vulnerable.
Passive bonuses:
Day (Stoneskin): +2/4/6/8 Armor and Magic Armor, -35% attack speed
Night (Dark Hunt): +8/16/24/32% Movespeed, +20% damage taken, Rouen deals +10/20/30/40 bonus Magic damage every time he attacks.
F – Unholy Evening
Rouen unleashes his most powerful black magic, vanquishing the sun and causing Newerth to be engulfed in darkness. Turns day to night and empowers his entire team.
Creates an artificial night for 8/12/16 Seconds.
Very low Mana cost (if any), 120/90/60 second cooldown
Rouen and his team receive +15% bonus Increased movement speed and 2/3/4 Magic Armor penetration for the duration of the artificial night.
Hero Conclusion:
Rouen is sort of like what you would get if you took Night Stalker, kept is ganking power by night but removed his semi-carry component. Rouen doesn’t have a steroid skill, and only has static damage bonuses to help him gank in the early game, intentionally making his weaker in the later game. In exchange for this, Rouen has more lategame teamfight and disabler potential than Night Stalker. His ultimate empowers his team during teamfights, and gives him more control of his ganking power. Petrify would no doubt be a strong single cast long range disable similar to Succubus’ mesmerize when not to generate bonus damage for Demonic Ritual. People would put 1 point into Petrify early and max his passive and nuke first to make use of his ganking potential, then later in the game transition into a more disable-oriented hero.
Although Rouen is a powerful ganker early, he is also vulnerable. He takes bonus damage and other than his high speed, has no means of defending himself. He is easily nuked down and killed quickly, having less survivability than the average strength hero during the night- and he will be teamfighting by night since that’s when he maximizes his advantage.

43 comments:
hi nightstalker
only question i have, does HoN really needs another Dota port?
I hate it. S2 needs to stop making heroes that have no impact on the meta game, because they are going to be wasted picks. This hero will only be picked to pub stomp noobs, and will never be taken seriously in an upper tier bracket. It just doesn't make sense to me...
They can't try to make all heroes that are going to be upper tier. That being said, some heroes that probably were thought to never make it to upper tier are probably their now.
I think it is interesting to add different style heroes to the game, it adds to the variety of what you can play and that is a huge draw to this game
Indeed, nice "improvization" of night stalker! :)
this isnt nightstalker, oO not a lonely skill is like him :X this is Night supporter or Night Ganker! but not the unique dota one ...
I am not saying that every hero needs to be designed to fit competitive level meta game. However, When was the last hero that mattered... Rhapsody is too easily countered, and his gimmick skills make him questionable at best. MoA is just bad. Monkey King is worse than MoA. Drunken Masters design just doesn't fit, hes not tanky enough to tank, and not dps enough to gank. Parasite is probably ranked as the worst hero in the game. (Took the place of engineer when he got buffed.) Ra is pubstomp master, gets stomped in real games.
Silhouette might be the last hero that is legitimately good at something. Then Aluna. All of these other S2 Heroes are good at nothing more than beating the shit out of players that don't know how to counter them.
I forgot to mention Emerald Warden. Possibly the best carry in all of pub history. But truly is nothing more than a flaming sack of shit when it comes to real games.
Sorry Nigma,but you must be fucking kidding me,who would even touch a hero that has mask of madness debuff on himself,i guess you never tried your own game,he will get a fucking shitstorm from pyro or tb and he's down.Pointless to release that hero,improve it or abandon this idea,seriously.
Lol @ No impact on the metagame. NS in dota 2 was a top pick/ban worthy hero. This hero seems like it would be a pubstomp hero though. Get in, do damage, get out.
I'd rather see a day/night hero that has different skills during both periods, that way you could be useful during both times and not have to have a skill reliant on Night-time ganking, since you've got less vision during the night and therefore it's harder to gank.
What a shitty move on S2's part to release this when Night Hunter is on top of dream. Use fucking dream like you said you would
That night hunter on dream is also utter crap.
Like People Say This Hero is kinda similar to Night Stalker But Since There are so Many Dota Heroes in Hon in Changed names and models let Their be More ^_^ . if They want it They will play it if not some one else Plays it i say GO s2
this isnt nearly as good as the NS from dota, just port NS straight up if u want a hero like this to fit in to HON
+20% damage taken? passive debuff? is this joke?
we all know S2 fails, but i still dont understand why people complain. its simple, just dont play hon. Dota 2 beta is almost upon us :)
well i think everything is perfect for this hero, just some buffing numbers will be fine... just look at the lore.. his skill sets are based on the lore making him a unique hero and at the same time you will have that Night Stalker Feel from Dota but in a different hype...
S2Games lost ideas and are now going for more DotA concepts and making them overpowered?
Night Stalker semi-port buffing his entire fucking team during night?
Cya HoN, going down the drain while Dota2 will take 70% of your "Legacy customers".
He doesn't have any AoE damage or disables. As a result his meta game value will be very low, and only picked for his Magic Pen/ Speed boost ult which is a global assister just like MoA. His First skill has potential to cause entire abilities to be wasted on a target that could cause fights to be lost. He already loses 8 armor and Magic armor in night, so why the extra damage taken boost? Very punishing. Ult CD is too high early.
Guys, friendly reminder: This Hero isn't actually happening, it's just a concept for fun I made. Don't take it too seriously, especially the numbers.
He should just loose the extra armor, not add any dmg taken
But Nigma the extra Damage taken is redundant.
Wow how idiotic can people be destroying this blog? Do none of you realise concepts? This is just a concept, not even any concept art. If you guys can think up one concept hero gj, bet how many S2 has come up with. People ask for dota ports and i have seen so many times asking for NS.
IF you didnt realise S2 isnt allowed to do full ports because valve put out a cease and desist. If you dont know what that is, search it on google.
I like the concept, especially sticking to a theme/lore of a hero and its back ground, I think hon needs more mythical creatures and using there background stories I.e a werewolf, unfortunatly clashes with lycan but still.... also the day night feature needs to be used more... does night even limit vision in hon?
I agree that 20% additional damage taken is too much, I would probably put it down to 10% at most.
Keep in mind that Rouen is a Strength hero- the goal of the additional damage taken is to put him more into an Agility ganker's shoes for the duration of the night. The damage taken is meant to off-set his ridiculous movement speed.
He is cool if you remove the 20% additional damage and revamp the first skill that is pretty much useless in early game.. cool idea though abou nighttime characters hon needs some.
Hi Nigma !
This concept is a cool version of NS ! But with few defaults to my mind...
Q W combo is rather cool, but no one will fear this hero, as long as it is single targeteable(perhaps W as Plague Rider Nuke targeting style / something rather easy to inflict) or it has a high cooldown(> 10) give it a low cooldown like 8 or 9 secs.
Ok, You removed the Carry Factor OF NS in E skill but the increased damage taken is very dangerous to use, to my mind remove the +20% Increased damage taken and just put him a standard very low or negative standard armor and magic armor, and a great armor bonus on day...
I'm sorry for all the ragey comments and I hope people will just relax a little with the hate, I like the idea of a semi port but does need a bit of tweaking I think
I don't really like this hero as it is now. Nighttime only benefits his passive buff and not any of his other skills and that's why you had to add all this unnecessary stuff to his ultimate.
IMO you should remove that stuff from his ultimate and change it to only change day into night or night into day for limited time. Then add some other effects to Q and W. Good way to do this would be something like in day he would be tanky and hard to kill and maybe emphasis on AoE. In night he would be mobile, more squishy and emphasis on single target damage/chasing.
Oh... literally nightstalker plus crappy skills in return for his good and balanced ones. I knew S2 had zero creativity but to call this Nigma's work is an insult
I wouldn't even call this hero a night/day hero. The Cycle only effects a single skill which you might not even level over stats because it makes you really easy to kill at night. The suggestions section had an exercise for night/day heroes that were much more involved with the mechanic then this.
-Drasha
Gee, I wonder how you came up with this concept. Tired of players hating on your original heroes? Make a DotA port and problem solved! Except, it's a shitty version of a DotA port. GG not WP S2.
its ok guy, its ok...
Dota2 will fix everything :)
the true balanar shines in Dota2, not this crappy rip-off..
S2 Left us in the dark for way too long with the "why no more dota ports" question and all the heroes they have been coming up with lately is crap, i totally agree with u guys..
soooo
don't worry, be happy :)
DOTA2 Will save us!
Can some of you guys really stfu about S2 Failing and how DotA 2 will destroy HoN? S2 does not need your put down. Very immature guys... Just quit HoN and stop browsing the HoN forums if you have no faith in S2
I don't think some of you have caught on that nigma was asked to make a concept BASED on night stalker, they have no plans on making it, it is wat it is, a good CONCEPT Of a day night gargoyle, numbers are always gonna be out since its just a concept to build off/around, its not ment to be a Dota semi port. If only this community could learn how to constructively criticise things instead of flaming at an idea then blaming the company.
P.s I can't wait for Dota 2 to be released, it'll be this brand new bridge for the trolls to live under
Hon needs more dota ports, just not bad dota ports
The only reason NS was a fun hero was his carry potential. Stripping him of that makes him undesirable to play, because there are much better heroes to gank with or team support with. Honestly I'd rather have a warbeast on my team, because his damage buff does a better job in teamfights than this guy, plus he has a definite role. I'm all for not directly porting him, but it should be done similarly to Fayde/NA.
cant wait for him.
pls make hero like balanar.
i want balanar port to HoN.
maybe semi port balanar.
when this hero release in HoN?
need night and day hero like night stalker.
he's my favorite hero in dotA.
please port him, maybe semi port.
still no night and day hero.
very sad.
pls port this hero with original skill.
Port this hero Newerth need NIGHT AND DAY HERO!
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