Frogboy

As for balance, it depends heavily on the range of the abilities/cooldowns/damage, all of which we don't know.

Looks very good and original.  Can't wait to play it.

sweet

wat? he has 3 warps? am i reading this right?

So I'm guessing "Demon Assassin" is his code name. Any chance of a real name sometime before he's released?
(Unless I'm mistaken in my guess of course.)

Also this guy&Rook.

Pulling enemies directly under a Hammer Slam - Oh yes.

i was thinking about this most of the day and i don't really see the point of the Spine Attack.  if u split up the abilities they go:

Warp Strike (Nuke, Chase)

Spline Attack (Nuke, Finisher)

Warp Area (solo finisher, AoE)

Shadow Swap (Excape, Gank)

so Spine Attack is the one move that already has roles filled by his other abilities.  also none of his abilities have any support/buff (like heal or slow or something).  my suggestions would be to replace Spline Attack with either something that slows (which IMO would make him imba) or maybe a targetable ability that increases Demigod Regen by say 200% or something.  it can still be a Spike coming from his tail animation but this way its not so much another nuke in his arsonal but more a quick escape and heal tactical move.

this might also open up more builds for him like going Shadow Swap and Healing Spline (warping a UB into the middle of a few demigods then increasing his regen so he can survive and kill them all with ooze?)  just saying... whats the point of all these nukes if he can't be a team player?

Hopefully there is a shadow-swap immunity for a few seconds after a demigod gets tele-switched. This would stop the chain tele-switching people have been worried about.

The mana cost i think will be massive, but we need to remember that HE switches too. He could easily get put in a bad situation if used at the wrong time AND has to run back from where he teleported. He is in danger too when he uses this ability. It will be game changing, but if the mana cost is high, and there is a kind of Tele-IMMUNITY cooldown then it should be fine.

I am more worried about crits and evasiveness. The guy could stack some serious damage and be able to run into anything really if he stacked hp.

IF they make magic damage do 1.2X damage then maybe this will balance out? It seems like they are hinting at this? Could this be a new game mechanic  to balance out what some people think of as overpowered lategame unclean builds?(not saying i agree he is OP...maybe a little late game...poor queen).

I see shadow swap needing serious restrictions to be balanced if possible at all. Immunity to Stuns/Roots/Warps for some time after it to prevent chain warping and to lower the mass gank ratio, though even then unless you are an EB with mass charm or TB with frost, you're likely not getting back away again.

It would need to have quite limited range, so that you can see it coming when the shadow assassin runs up to you, rather then as soon as he sees you. It seems worse then a stun to me since it can be done over what seems to be quite a bit of range, allowing you to pull people into traps. Though I'd like to see a reg sitting on 12-18 mines get swaped with an assassin, oh the LOLs.

Based on the rest of his abilities, very low hp and mana would be required.

I guess we just see how it plays out and what the cooldowns/cast time/mana costs/range will be.

actualt if u look at Nether Swap as an example:  the whole functionality of it is based on range, being able to gank a target before they see u if whats its all about.  tghe limit comes in cool down and mana cost.  Nether Swap has like a 45 sec cool down and costs (roughly)  a lot of mana.  this means that in order to exicute probably u will get one chance to pull it off... and if u pull it off too soon or too late then ur left with little to no mana. 

on another note who ever is testing this manke sure to thourghly test it with other blink abilities like say the cloak of Elfinskin.  thoughs who played dota might remember the days of Nether Swap + Blink Dagger = Stuck.  like blinking into the trees and swapping them in to they get stuck.

And someone has the EXACT same thought as I do. Putting together all those DotA heroes in one is quite an undertaking. I dont like the idea of this guy, his EXACT idea. The concept is awesome, now those Totems are gonna get spammed, woo love those. But as the use of them, its such a sad thing in my eyes to see so many things Cloned into this guy... And due to leaked pictures during Beta I already know who the General is...

I just hope shadow swap has at least a 1.0 second cast time. I really think that clutch interrupts on this guy to save your team would add a neat level of depth, not to mention you could artificially increase the range of the ability this way (since it would counter movement during the cast time) without giving it a crazy base range. Also it would give the person being teleported time to move somewhere clever, like onto mines.

jizzed in mah pants just now.  do we get an origin story?  also. i bet 500 favor points on it being like QoT in the sense that it is gonna be weak without mana spamming abilities (i.e wont take alot of hits unless u have shield or in this case, warping)

also, i can see rooks running up to enemy towers to "transfer structure" but all of a sudden get interrupted and teleported deep behind enemy lines.  muhahha, run u slow rook, run.

quick question to Frogboy:

is this threat to show off the Demigod in development? or is it to discuss our thoughts on the concept of this Demigod?

AKA r we support to be praising the work or discussing the problems?