How Oracle's False Promise Actually Works 

Another tip for False Promise: - A ticking Vessel, Urn or Salve will NOT be dispelled when used on a target under False Promise. Having a spare Salve for False Promise in the early game can be a gamechanger even with the nerf to using it on other people. - Axe is not able to Chop through False Promise if you are above the HP threshhold on cast. So be sure to Promise early against Axe. - AA Ult will not prevent Healing during False Promise if it wears off before False Promise ends. If you are too low HP before the cast however, you will still shatter.

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I played oracle for the first time yesterday and really enjoyed it but knew I needed to deep dive on this hero. Coincidentally this is recommended to me today. Killin’ it my guy, please keep up your good work, it’s seriously helpful, I subbed to you after your CM video and I will attribute my mmr climb to them!!

Great content! Note that the final False Promise damage is a form of HP removal, so it can't be avoided by e.g. Borrowed Time.

Here are some heroes I didn't quite understand how some of their spells work: Undying second spell (Soul rip), Shadow Demon second spell (Disseminate) Bounty Hunter ultimate (Track) how does the gold bonus really works? And Earth spirit ultimate (Magnetize)

Magnetize would be an amazing next video. A) Some people think there's aoe damage from the aoe visual, there isn't, the visual is if it hits another remnant. B) if one unit under magnetize gets silenced/slowed from earth spirits other abilities, ALL magnetized units get silenced/slowed. C) magnetized remnants can still be used by earth spirit, before they break. D) this is one im not even sure about, but it spreading is weird. Sometimes, it spreads no issue, sometimes you cast your ult, and nothing happens. Would be interesting to see what you can come up with

Very great video! Oracle is one of my fav hero and I didn’t know that, actually I didn’t even realised the icon in top of the hero is changes

Hello! Love these videos! Can you do OD ultimate next? I never really understood how it works.

There's some ability/Mechanic dota 2 that you should cover. - NP's Nature's Wrath Bounce to target - How Crit works (sometime playing PA with Daedalus crit twice maybe there's more in other heros) - Earthshaker's Echo Slam ability, The amount of Unit damage Multiplayer and more - Juggernaut's Omnislash, amount of slashes = to Attack speed - and BB's Passive proc 10 times for some reason This all I come up with, maybe one of it are interesting to cover.

I love this series you are making. One correction: the piercing spell immunity is a non-factor. It clears stuns because it is a HARD DISPEL. Abaddon and Legion commander are similar examples that can clear stuns.

Oracle is a hero that I don't mind playing, as its quite fun, so this knowledge is very much appreciated. I main SF, Legion, Earthspirit, Magnus So if you ever made any insight content on any of this hero, that'll be very exciting for me.

As always, amazing content thanks for the effort. Love knowing how the spells work on a deeper level.

Amazing, very interesting to watch. Thanks for this.

Thank you bro. Mekanism seems great with this ulti.

What a great video! That was pretty didactic. Most people just play Dota without fully knowing the skills and items aspects, not least because there is so much to know. This type of content gives us a certain specialization. Thank you very much!

One of the most useful things I have seen Thanks

If possible, I would ask you to pick every hero for one video and explain all of there abilities. This channel would become one-stop shop to learn about heroes. In this aspect, I liked LoL releasing videos of every heroes about the skills and what can be done with that.

Your videos are so fun and unique to watch. Thank you for creating content for us.

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Explain very nicely, good information, good job. This is what I call a clean job with clarity.

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I love it! Mathematical calculations. I knew it all, but it was fun to watch. I definitely subscribe and look forward to more videos.

I like how you explain stuff, you're really talented bro. I would love a video on magnetize next

have been sharing your video with my guys everytime i see one...great job

Really great breakdown of Oracle's False Promise. Thank you for the informative video.

These explanation videos are so fascinating to watch

Ok so this video explains something quite important: Purifying Flames cannot kill an ally, but it can drop them to 1hp. If you False Promise an ally, and then cast Purifying flames (without Fate's Edict) on them, it will take 4.5 seconds before the heal is greater than the damage. So any PF you cast while there's more than 4.5 seconds left on the duration is always a net positive. BUT in that final 4.5 second window it's more complicated: If you False Promise an ally, and in the last few seconds of the duration you cast PF on them. That will drop their "simulated" health pool to 1. If no more enemies hit them, then they will survive and benefit from the healing. But if a single enemy attack deals damage after the PF damage then it will kill them from 1hp. So as Oracle, you can only spam PF on your ally in the first half of the duration, and then in the last 4.5 seconds only if you're sure that the enemy won't hit them after you do. (Or use Fate's Edict to disarm them if they're not fighting)

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Loving the vids. Didn't notice the orb interaction until this vid. Keen for plenty more

Dude, again, these are absolutely amazing. Love it!

Thank you for another amazing explanation video. You have just earned a new subscription!

Great video, keep on doing more of them!

Thank you for making this. As an Oracle main, this helps.

Amazing contents. Thanks. False Promise does heal or does damage information is veryo good. I enlightenmented. It explains Winter Curse, False Promise deny interaction.

All these details done so good, thanks 👌

ty man i thought dota wiki 100% true about the red orb but you amazed me wich make me a fan from the first video

6:10 but Lina wasn't the one to deal enough damage to bring Ursa's health to 0. She only did enough to bring it to -22 from 46, so down to 24. Bounty Hunter was the one to deal enough damage to take him to 0... Going into negative results doesn't mean that's what made Ursa die, it just means it's what started making False Promise deal damage rather than heal.

We need more of this

Thank you 4 interesting video! It was really useful

Keep it up mate, you're gonna get lots of views.

Interesting is also that you shouldnt use PF(lvl4) in the last 5 seconds of FP. 360-25%mr=270 || 44hps*2=88 || 88*3 seconds=264 so PF takes 4 ticks in FP to amortize itself +1 second for the first healtick to happen otherwise you will add onto the damage if used without FE.

Keep em coming, Great videos teaching valuable knowledge in a great way :D

loving these videos! Keep going!

Hey man my friend showed me this channel and its pretty cool. I know a buncha my dota folks would be down to watch more so Im hoping to keep finding cool stuff. for a video suggestion can you explain Tiny's Aghs sceptre? tree grab range and aoe calcs thanks!

Here let me summarize it for you: false promise delays all damage and healing to when its duration ends. The end

Your videos reminds me of my engineering lectures but in a good fun way. Hope to get my diploma in dotaterminology from you. More like these please.

This will help players to be good mechanically. Appreciate this a lot!

This explains that one time I false promised a Huskar at low hp, put a bunch of heals on him as he continues fighting, orb above him turns fire red with cracks on the side but he is still healed to full HP at the end of the spell.

Easy sub and like for each of these vids. And I don't do either very often!! Can't wait for the next one!

Ahh... A fellow oracle main... The orb thing was a bit new to me... Thanks

No way? A new new zzADRiANzz explanation just dropped?? And it is about my favourite hero??? Thanks for your work!

you forgot or didn't know about 1 more feature which is sometimes oracle's teammates can deny when false promise ends and idk how they do it either but never looked it up tbh.

up, deserve more sub. 1 question. does lifesteal counts as heal?

Great content! Would love to see more! Much much more!

great vids bro, I wish to know things about reaper scythe, mainly the % of current hp for me to fire up the ult

We need more of this! I guess... items?

Would you consider to cover the difference between damage, healing and direct HP change (like Ice Blast debuff which is, iirc, not really dealing damage but rather just removing HP, or Time Walk which doesn't heal you but straight-up sets your HP back on previous value). There is a surprising amount of abilities which are not considered by DOTA as healing/damaging but they look like they are, at face value

Would love to see a video about how Dazzle's new ult works and how best to use it

We need an elder titan version. Some people still don't get how Natural Order works and how his ulti works.

Would be good to know how other factors affect the ult. For example, Ursa ult mitigates damage. If it is used during oracle ult, does it reduce the total incoming damage at that point? Or does it only mitigate damage at the end calculation of oracle's ult? What about spirit vessel from an enemy - does it reduce healing from all sources during the ult duration, or does it only reduce the heal at the end calculation of oracle's ult?

Damn, by watching this video gives me an understanding on how the amounts of lines of codes needed to properly execute this, no wonder why balancing tends to be difficult. It's basic math maybe but like, damn.

Thank you host.

Great review to a very tough hero to play but

Hey i didn't understood something at 5:58, could you clarify it if not difficult please ? So the sum of healing is 230, with the negative -22, without taking into account the last shuriken, the ursa will be damaged by false promise for 22, but he have 46 hp, so he wouldn't die, but if so then why does the kill goes to Lina and not Bh? You said Lina brought the hp of Ursa to 0, but in reality Lina brought up the heal sum to 0, and without the next damage instance of Bh, Ursa would have lived. Then the kill goes to whoever brought the heal sum to 0, even if later damage instances killed the hero rather than the one that canceled the heal sum. You haven't mentioned this in your video, but i may be utterly wrong, please correct me if so, and explain if not difficult again, how it really works. Or am i the right one here ? (god let it be me :D)

Actually insanely helpful and I at least understand what I'm looking at now lmao

Another tip for False Promise: - because damage is received at the end of the duration only buffs that are present at the end are counted. Use Glimmer Cape at the end to reduce damage taken. - since damage is applied at the end in single instance, Borrowed Time will not trigger by itself, but will transfer this damage into heal if used manually.

Keep making these!!

I never realized that the attack that brought the "figurative" health to 0 was rewarded with the kill. Very interesting. I almost never have Oracles in my game so I never got much chance to notice anything weird.

Also any buffs or debuffs to the heal (such as ice blast, spirit vessel or holy locket) seems to only matter when false promise resolves and not when the heal is cast.

Please do Lich's Chain Frost! I'm a Lich spammer. Love these videos!

Also: fate's edict magical immunity blocks magical damage when damage is received, but does not blocks, when false promise ends so you need to use it during of the duration of false promise

As a Grandmaster Oracle, let me add interesting facts above all that other's had comments regarding to using Refresher orb and refresh the duration of False Promise. Pre Update early last year, the interaction of stacking another False Promise on a targetted allies will Remove all damage and heal from the previous False promise. This is OP and can ensure 100% survivability even when the damage taken post False Promise should have killed your ally. Now, stacking another False Promise on top of another, will refresh the duration, remove the healing obtained BUT retain the damage taken from the previous False Promise. This is a big nerf and there is very little reason for an Oracle to grab a refresher now.

I just instinctively know that if the hero died on false promise

Not seeing it near the top so I'll tell you how the orb above the head worked on Oracle's release before it broke. The orb would go between being a Sun or Moon depending on how much damage or healing the unit would receive at the end of the duration. The fiery orb we see now is the only thing left from this mechanic and used to indicate very high damage would be taken.

there is a weird interaction between false promise and aeon disk 1 - if 1 hero damage you during it , aeon disk will proc and normally . 2 - if 2 heroes or more damage you during it , aeon disk will proc anyway and you will receive damage .

I would love to see you explain Skele- *ahem* Sorry. Wraith King's ultimate.

If so, then False Promise on Huskar & Timber would be monstrous:0

Awesome content. I'd love to see the explanation for Nature Wrath (NP's ult). Never fully understood the best place to click and trigger this spell.

I highly highly suggest shadow realm interactions. You can make a 30 min video out of all the variations, but maybe make a shorter one with like stuns/ silences/ and how it dodges spell damage like boundless strike even though the stun actually hits.

I wish i was this focused during math class back then

We need a vid on how a legend am brain works... why he pick it last and how he think afk farming and why his brain thinks tp back to the viper lane would not grief the game

you could just say, that orb doesnt take heal amp into account, but i guess seeing it all in game does help, as an oracle spammer i can say, that you can heal into ult with just 1 purifying flame as if you didnt damage with it, but 2 flames leave the health after the ult the same as before and only heal after the ult, also lvl 1 fate edict allows to cast 2 purifying flames exactly only if you use quickcasts and dont spend any time turning towards a teammate, it is most efficient to just purge disables with the ult, or to make puny damage dealer or control people live extra seconds like with wk scepter, or to heal spell lifestealers with fate edict, or to let satanic do all the healing

the hero affected by false promise sometimes get denied , I don't know how it really happen in real game but you can recreate it demo mode by removing (not killing) the hero who delivered killing blow. If you have any information about it , it would be appreciated

Great video bro, really aprecciate the effort in those, keep it up.

The very first thing you said about piercing spell immunity is wrong. It means that it goes thru BKB, just like the enemies spells. (For example old omniknight couldn't heal a target with spell immunity). What purges them is the strong dispell.

Informative! Thanks! Please do abaddon!

this is a great content bro, this is really usefull even for a pro player and team

such a cool explanation 🥺🥺

Would love a video about rupture and pucks’s phase shift. Sometimes you take damage, sometimes you dont. If I recall I’ve seen people move no problem while being ruptured. And for time if you got grabbed by primal beast while ruptured you took insane damage (I think they patched this one, not 100% sure)

If any of these viewers put this much effort to their studies or work, we would have thrived as a humans.

There's a lot more niche things with false promise, like being unable to cheat death with almost every spell in the game, besides shallow grave :) Health transfers like sunder too isn't affected by it and axe cull still kills your ally. Btw his worst matchup js against AA

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Can you do Ogre's Multicasted Bloodlust next ?

Can you make a video about techies too? What are the areas that need attention?

Awesome video, keep them coming

The who gets the kill part is seems to be inaccurate in wiki. Here's what i found in demo mode. Bring a hero to very low hp and cast false promise, hit the hero with an enemy just enough to kill him, then heal a bunch and dish out damage with different enemy. This should give the kill to 2nd enemy as per wiki but it gives it to the first each time i try this out in demo. If anyone has an explanation let me know.

tq it help me alot to understand oracle.❤

Can you explain why no matter how much I animation cancel my lightning stun combo on Leshrac my father won't love me?

One question, how is damage immunity/reduction taken into account when popped during taking damage as well as when the false promise is about to end? Does it just ignore damage reduction when the ult pops?

You mentioned damage is counted for killing blow, but in second example, killing blow was from bounty shuriken, because after lina´s spells, there was -22 and ursa had 47 life. But when false promise ended, kill was counted to lina