Templar Assassin (Lanaya) is a high-skill ceiling Ranged Carry known for her exceptional burst damage and map control. Mastering her requires precise positioning and efficient use of her Refraction charges to dominate the mid-lane.
Templar Assassin Overview
Intelligence: 20 + 2.00
Agility: 23 + 2.70
Strength: 18 + 2.10
Damage: 30 - 36
Movespeed: 305
Armor: 4.22
Templar Assassin Abilities
Refraction - Lanaya’s primary defensive and offensive tool. It provides a set number of damage-blocking instances and bonus damage instances. Pro-tip: Activate this before engaging to ensure your survivability against high-burst heroes.
Meld - A stealth ability that serves as a powerful initiation tool. When you Meld, your next attack reduces the target's armor and deals bonus damage. Use this to secure kills or reposition during chaotic team fights.
Psi Blades - This passive ability is what makes Lanaya a lane dominator. It allows your attacks to pierce through the primary target, damaging enemies behind them. Skilled players use this to harass opponents while simultaneously securing last hits.
Trap - The manual activation command for your placed Psionic Traps, allowing you to trigger the slow effect at the perfect moment.
Psionic Trap - Essential for map control. These invisible traps provide vision and a 50% movement speed slow, allowing you to catch fleeing enemies or protect yourself from ganks.
Templar Assassin Biography
Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws--peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners. As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed.
Templar Assassin Abilities Detailed
Manipulating her psionic veil, Templar Assassin becomes highly elusive, evading damage while gaining a bonus to her damage for a limited number of instances. The instances of damage block and bonus damage are separate. Lasts 17 seconds.
MANA COST: 75 / 75 / 75 / 75
COOLDOWN: 17.0
ABILITY: NO TARGET
DAMAGE: PHYSICAL
INSTANCES: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
BONUS DAMAGE: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
Templar Assassin conceals herself, gaining invisibility while remaining still. On the next attacked enemy unit, Lanaya will reduce its armor and deal bonus damage to it.
MANA COST: 50 / 50 / 50 / 50
COOLDOWN: 7.0
ABILITY: NO TARGET
DAMAGE: PHYSICAL
BONUS DAMAGE: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200
ARMOR REDUCTION: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8
Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked unit, splitting and damaging enemy units directly behind it, while gaining bonus attack range.
ABILITY: PASSIVE
DAMAGE: PURE
BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 60 / 120 / 180 / 240
Springs a previously set trap, slowing nearby enemies.
COOLDOWN: 0.500000
ABILITY: NO TARGET
Templar Assassin places mystical traps that invisibly monitor enemy movement. When sprung, at her command, they exert a slowing influence of 50% in the area.
MANA COST: 15 / 15 / 15
COOLDOWN: 11.0 / 9.0 / 7.0
ABILITY: TARGET POINT
MAX TRAPS: 5 / 8 / 11