How Ringmaster Actually Works 

another tip is, you can use souvenirs even while on silence.

Escape Act does not apply a dispel by default but it DOES stop channeled disables such as those of Pudge, Bane, Shadow Shaman and Primal Beast (wich you showed on the video) without the need of the talent. It also completely ignores any skill that is an instant attack like Monkey King's Boundless Strike and Pangolier's Swashbuckle. Casting multiple daggers doesn't stack, it just resets the effect of damage and slow. The Tonic stregth always heals and is considered as such (including IO's tether share) but is not affected by heal boost or reductions. However heal negating like AA and Doom Ult still nullifies it. All the souvenirs can be used while silenced but not while muted. Any angle under 90° counts as facing wheel. The wheel has a minimun cast range of 700 so you can't place it right in front of you, and it blocks movement like any other unit, wich can be ignored by phase movement.

For some players Ringmaster actually does have a hidden facet. While walking around, channeling Tame the Beast, or whenever a team fight starts, Ringmaster has the secret passive to completely freeze player's games for several seconds. It's an incredibly strong secret ability, but still inconsistent I hope they fix it so everyone can experience the slideshows I've been watching.

You know a stink cloud smells bad if Pudge of all people is slowed by it

My main takeaway tricks from this video: 1. Using tame the beasts to fear enemies towards the wheel. 2. Using wheel to gain vision during a fight. (The vision range is actually big enough to justify the manacost/cd). 3. Great support for providing long range vision/true sight in general. (Total of 3 abilities that give vision. 4 if you use the illusion for scouting.)

Sup. I will contribute with something I have. The amount of stabbing from "Impalement Arts" depends on the spell duration. Level 3 Spell Steal gives the spell 5 stabs instead of 4. If the enemy has Sange & Yasha or another source of status resistance, the ability's damage will be noticeably reduced. Turning the hero towards the "Wheel of Wonders" is not enough. The enemy must SEE that wheel. This means that, for example, if the wheel is on a hill where enemy can't see it but is looking in its direction, there will be no provocation. "Spotlight" circles on a trajectory, drawing an infinity sign, starting upwards to the right. Moreover, we do not just create light in the specified area, and throw it there from us. That means, the light can briefly illuminate the area on the way to the specified point. Spotlight do not show wards. Wheel of Wonders provocation can be briefly dispelled, but I guess only one hero can utilize that. Slark can time his Dark Pact and turn away from Wheel and Pounce, even if he triggered it. Enemies feared by Tame the Beast will destroy trees on their way. Which is kinda weird tbh in comparison with other sources of fear. If enemies are standing in the area of two wheels (Refresher Orb), they will trigger one at a time. The second wheel will not provoke until the first wheel's provocation is over. Just don't think of this tactic as a chain-stun. There will still be a 0.5 second window between the two wheels due to the mechanics of the ability. Hope this helps.

New dota hero means new Adrian video. That’s the only thing that makes me happy.

Hit ult is a physical object which can block movement. Got trapped by it as Veno yesterday.

8:42 the whip's fear direction is based on where Ringmaster is WHEN IT LANDS. If you have a blink dagger or similar utility you can cast the whip and blink to wherever you want the enemies to run away from. You could theoretically use this to cast wheel in front of them, channel a whip and blink behind them. This would mean they're all feared and taunted towards (hopefully) your team

1 - about "Spotlight" - it does damage only to 'weak' illusions - like Naga's ones and does not work against "strong" - like the illusions from Chaos Kinght ultimate; 2 - about triggering of wheel on hero, which just after that uses bkb - it works just as it should be as those are two different statements: yes, wheel will be triggered by the look into it and will turn to red, but as hero got Avatar - that hero does not get taunt - because taunt effect and activation of wheel - it's different things.

Love the L4D reference. Maybe Ringmaster and Undying are connected by voice lines due to the L4D parallels.

holy shit he was teased back on TI 2023 and we got to play him 2 weeks before TI 2024

so Aether is the most valuable item for ringmaster at the moment. even the dagger gives vision and spotlight is truly a huge vision advantage.

I was going to comment about a bug from yesterday where ringmaster would repeatedly start his attack animation if he tried to attack a unit that was revealed by Spotlight but they seem to have already fixed that. Great video

Oracle fortunes end can purgue escape act when it land

The classic title has come back 😢

What happens when u cast his ult on a hg ward spot, but the enemies have no vision on that spot. Wil his ult still trigger when enemies face it? Or just explode after the timmer?

That vision from the ult is absurd 5:29

You and allies can look into Mars' Arena and you can remove the darkness of Nightstalker.

Fantastic crash course on the new hero, thanks man!!

A support Hero I suppose, though I would love to see a facet centered around his Box spell, like when the box explodes it launches 3rd skill knives in different directions, the more the box is hit the more knives it would launch another facet would probably be a different spell that changes his 2nd skill, idk what would be a good spell but something that roots or increase spell amp. would be nice to give this hero some damage boosts

Though billed as a support, this hero is incredibly strong with a level advantage, and since his spells are overtuned right now, works as a decent mid hero that likes to gank and help other lanes more than he likes to sit and farm a lane. While Tame the Beast and Impalement Arts may be underwhelming spells on their own, Wheel of Wonder's 0.5 second "hypno" time is far too fast to react to (so far) at early levels, and combos incredibly well with other AOE (and some single-target) spells that want to force heroes to move in a specific direction. Stone Gaze + Wheel or KOTL's Will-o-Wisp + Wheel are pretty powerful combos. Wisp + Wheel because enemies who turn to hit the Wisp while not BKB'd will then be taunted by the wheel, and Gaze + Wheel because if you throw the wheel into an enemy team and have Dusa run at them, the enemy team is either forced to look at the wheel and be taunted, or look at Medusa and be stunned. It's very strong and will no doubt be nerfed soon in the future as all new heroes tend to be, but those are my 2 cents at the minute. Also, since Escape Art is a SUPER POWERFUL SAVE early, Ringmaster can build pretty much any items he wants to as far as utility goes. With a Kaya item and the talent, Tame the Beast is a devastating magic damage nuke at high levels, helping the hero scale a little bit if you want to build for damage. Things like a Gleipnir, however, feel way more situational, since he farms well with his spells and is not much of a right-clicker.

They bought back tumbler's toy and gave it to Ring master.

Cool. Great explanations and examples Adrian.

Although I won 10 out of 12 games with this hero, I wanted him to be a more unique hero, like he can mind control enemies as if he was orchestrating a performance with enemy heroes; he was more of a toy maniac rather than an actual ring master. And since he was teased to be like a kidnapper of heroes in the trailer, it would have been awesome if he could have a spell wherein he could like summon an unpicked hero (None of the 10 heroes in the game), that can be summoned in the game, since trailer-wise- he kidnapped other heroes before the game started and is using them as a performer. Might be op, but like the souvenir innate, it can be a random hero with no item.

The channel for q is up to 1 second

You can't trigger the ringmaster ult timer even if you're in the range and looking at it, if you don't have vision of it

they need to make the 3 souvenirs into separate facets. separating those will make him more balanced and consistent.

He's kinda op right now as a support, imo. Going strong with 3-1 doing rank games double down MMRs with no practice.

I love the fact that ringmaster ain't that pudge pick that the enemy team is also vying for. 3 Spamming the hero makes you better at it. 3 straight doubledowns, 2 MVPs

I noticed that his W stopes Bane ult even without 25 talent, even if Bane has aghs

whip fear should be originated from the center so that you can control which directions heroes will go.

seems like euls or atos is pretty mandatory unless you are a premade team with good coordination

Pudge can hook the box. Spotlight burns illusions very fast

very nice guide, thanks

With the pierce talent on his third skill, the projectile has a limited range it travels after passing through the first target. The spell has a 2400 range iirc, but if the spell first hits a unit close enough to Ringmaster it won't travel the full distance after the first impact

Quality content as always! Can you explain new venomancer ultimate next sir?

very cool hero design! + looks super broken atm, as every new hero does xd

Also if you queue blink after tame the beasts, you can control the direction of the fear!

nice video, no fillers

BTW for some reason allies also can see the aoe of the Q when casting

if you could make videos covering every heroes like this, it would be awesome to watch and learn.

HYPED ABOUT THIS NEW HERO

I think the Spell Immunity after the taunt is working as intended Imagine you step on a trap and then walk away. The trap was alredy set in motion. You may escape. But the contraption won't stop

First video of yours I’ve see . Solid video!! New follow 💯

Great review of the new hero, thank you!

Thanks for the detailed breakdown

Ringmaster's W works like that T5 neutral item but with MS bonus and Magic Resistance bonus.

spotlight will reveal wards too i think. I think. I'm not sure. he seems fine, played one game with him and got a bug where my sound went away. so that was unhelpful. but he seems useful. I can see his aghs making the save not have a restrictive aoe it works in.

Well detailed

great video sir!

when there are two wheels of fortune (refresher orb) the second one lays dormant until the first one finishes its animation

channelling tame the beasts up to 4 seconds? say what 0:11

Would be nice to know what the spotlight movement pattern is

If you use q then interrupt it with blink, you target will run away from blink location

The first skills seems broken. OMG imagine what it can do on the laning phase.

I haven't played dota in so long I totally forgot about him. Looks fun though.

here just hoping my future ringmaster teammate knows at least the basic of what this hero does and not just picking him just cause

I am a showman you are the circus I LOVE THIS HERO

can you explain witch spell that is trigger heal amplification, is health regen count or just insta heal from spell/item thanks~

yooo doesn’t this ult combo nastily well with kotl or phoenix? maybe you could cast it on tombstone even so they’ll trigger it as they try to kill the tombstone

finally a usefull new support hero for wombo combo

Very cool, interesting that all of Ringmaster's abilities are avoidable by the enemy.

THIS WAS SUPER POG

Escape act is more like book of shadows

When I played Ringmaster, I noticed that you can always cast the Dark Carnival Barker abilities while silenced. I dunno about hex, and they might have patched it since yesterday, but that's what my experience was.

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It seems difficult to do a rampage with this hero but I could be wrong.

His ult remind me "Release the kraken"

KOTL and him will be deadly.

i didnt see people mentioning the shard doesnt effect strong illusion so im gonna say it here, the shard doesnt work on strong illusion AKA ck illusion meaning ck illusion doesnt take any damage from the shard -1400 gold

Can you analyze my game with Ringmaster? I don't really know what are the best items for him atm but he's really good mid game support

fun fact u still can use souveniers when u got DOOM coz its count as item, not spell

I strongly believe this hero got completely scrapped and reworked from scratch and that's why his release got a MASSIVE delay. Not only his skills pulls nothing from the trailer we saw last year where he said he would "capture heroes" (dont give me that "his ultimate taunts" bullshit) but also compared to all the unique new heroes that we got in dota 2, he looks so... bland. He has literally nothing special, perhaps the most unique thing about him is his souvenirs which is "ok". I think Valve was making a too complex character and they thought he wasn't going to be popular enough.

Tomorrow gonna play ringmaster, seems fun ..

If i tried to attack an invisible riki with the shard showing him it didn't make the attack, only half the animation

can you toggle the souvenirs?

His ult is lazy, just Axe's 1 with more radius

It seems to me like he gets souvenirs if he dies as well?

Every time I decide to stop playing dota, they add a new hero. YOU GOT ME WITH HOODWINK GABEN, BUT NO MORE! Even if this guy gives major Bioshock Infinite vibes.

Is his 3rd skill really that useful? it seems like it barely has much impact.

it really feels like an ultimate support. Ring Master does everything you might need from a support. Damage/Disruption/Escape/Save/Vision

You can use his innate even if you are silented

Did you say 4 sec channels 0:14? Tame the beast it's just 1 sec my guy

Good video thanks for posting

Does the illusion ability dispell

how the dart gives vision if you cant see evemy that gets hit by it in the fog

second skill can get hit by ground targeted skills

Is illusion thing give dispell?

can you cliff people with the ult?

So this hero would be good with refresher isnt it? Cuz he can re-ulti his enemies which already facing certain direction

"D" can be use while hero is silenced

the channel on Q is only 1 second not 4 the 4x is the damage values

i thought ringmaster would taken control of enemy hero for set duration, you know since he is pupetter of some kind

I think this hero is very well design. It has a little bit of everything

the ult is going to be fun at low elo alright

I Enjoy your videos.

Ringmaster's shard vs strong illusion? what is the interaction?

That save is actually broken

All i see is BROKEN