Chronos
The greatest inventors of the Human Legion
dreamed of making an army of machine warriors
to spare humans the bloody cost of war. Only
one was ever created, for no one could ever
find a way to quicken him. When the Hellbourne
fed a stolen soul into its mechanical shell,
they brought the Chronos to life and gained the
benefit of this artificial monster’s mastery
over time itself.
Stats
Attack Type=Melee
Attack Damage=58-65
Attack Range=128
Movementspeed=300
Turnrate=320
Armor=3.94
MagicArmor=5.5
Strength=23
Agility=21
Intelligence=15
Strength per level=1.4
Agility per level=2.65
Intelligence per level=1.5
Spells
Timeleap
Chronos teleports himself through space
and time to a target location. Any nearby
enemies are slowed.
Level 1 : Range 700, 10% Movement slow for 3 seconds, 25 damage upon impact.
Level 2 : Range 900, 20% Movement slow for 3 seconds, 75 damage upon impact.
Level 3 : Range 1100,30% Movement slow for 3 seconds, 125 damage upon impact.
Level 4 : Range 1300, 40% Movement slow for 3 seconds, 175 damage upon impact.
Mana cost 135
Cooldown 13 seconds
Rewind
Chronos steps back through time when damaged,
giving him a chance undo damage taken quickly.
Level 1 : 10% chance to heal back damage at a rate of up to 50% of maximum health per second
Level 2 : 15% chance to heal back damage at a rate of up to 50% of maximum health per second
Level 3 : 20% chance to heal back damage at a rate of up to 50% of maximum health per second
Level 4 : 25% chance to heal back damage at a rate of up to 50% of maximum health per second
Mana cost n/a
Cooldown 2 seconds
Curse of Ages
Chronos can steal time from any enemy hero he hits,
stealing agility and eventualy locking them in time for a
brief moment.
Level 1 : Steals 1 Agility per hit, debuff lasts 8.5 seconds
Level 2 : Steals 2 Agility per hit, debuff lasts 8.5 seconds
Level 3 : Steals 2 Agility per hit, debuff lasts 8.5 seconds
Level 4 : Steals 3 Agility per hit, debuff lasts 8.5 seconds
Mana cost n/a
Cooldown 1 seconds
8/7/6/5 consecutive hits on the same target will stun target for 0.25/0.5/0.75/1 second and deal 20/40/60/80 Magic damage.
While someone is stunned by Curse of Ages, Chronos can not build charges towards another stun or steal any agility
Ultimate
Chronofield
Chronos creates a field of energy that exists outside of time.
Enemy units caught inside the field are frozen, while Allied units are allmost slowed to a stop. Chronos is immune to the rift’s effects and may move freely.
Level 1 : Range 500 lasts for 3 seconds
Level 2 : Range 550 lasts for 4 seconds
Level 3 : Range 600 lasts for 5 seconds
Mana Cost 150/175/200
Cooldown 120 seconds
Radius 400
Chronofield is boosted by Staff of the Master
My favorite. Faceless Void.
void
Liked him better when he was a squid.
I like him more now that him moves are made to be relevant to his theme.
sorry sparta he was not a squid he was a
“faceless one”
hey his storyline is taken from clockwerk’s sort of.
Void is unique no one can be compared with him!
isit correct that wingows evasion stacks with his passive?
t y in advance
@duschgras
It does stack. His rewind is pseudoevasion, its not real evasion.
Say you’re fighting pest, if he gores u, with rewind u’ll avoid the damage, but u will still be stunned.
whereas true evasion avoid being stunned AND damaged as well.
HOWEVER, rewind can evade ALL types of damage, including spell damage (eg. pyro’s ulti)
evasion from windbow cannot evade spells.
Yeah, Chronos rewinded my Ult as Pyro. I rage for about ten minutes after that. :/
Yes, chronos is the best !1on1 hero..!
he kills devourer and sandwraith lategame easily, when farmed.
i found out that the pseudo evasion works as a heal.. effects still work when he evade spells, because he only heal the amount of dmg done by the evaded spell.
Best thing is when demented shaman babysits him
we won a whole day with that combi ;P
duschgras: that sounds kind of rational seeing as the tooltip in-game says that he kind of move back in time to avoid the incoming attack.
Rewind is simply gaaaaay. Its one of the best passives in the game and it makes chronos deadly late game.
wow galing nmn dati faceless void sa dota ngaun cronus sa hon wow na wow nmn taglaga tapos mas pinaganda pa ung graphics yeah!!!!! tapos hindi na rin time walk ung tawag timeleap na astig ung pag timeleap nya makikita mo talaga ung mabilis na pag lakad nya lupet at ung pinaka faveorite ko na chronosphere iba na rin ung tawag chrono field na ganda talaga yeah tapos mas unique pa ung ngayon kaysa dati yeah!!! un lng “GOOD LACK” sana madami ung maglaro kasi syng nmn ung ghraphics
Darkterror has just got a face.
Is the new Chronos a buff or a nerf? What do you think guys?
IMO, the new Chronos really, I mean really needs a nerf, especially on his 3rd skill. I mean come on, every attack steals 4 agi(lvl 4), Low armored heroes will easily get owned by this guy. Every four hits will stun for 1 second, and Chronos has imba attackspeed already. And 4 hits will result in a 1 or 1.25 second interval between stuns if he has right items. Better if you return the old 3rd skill..
wtf?!
chronos is waayyyy to imba now ?!
i mean: why buff the port? 200dmg as well as slow? cmon;
now the ulti: alli heros can cast in it while the enemy team is frozen for fucking 5 seconds?! WTH?!?
and then his new “rewind”; looks buggy too me, just had a chronos in enemy team, he healed like for half his HP instead of loosing some while he was in focus
and this curse fuck thing is lame as well:
take amor and buff dmg of chronos at the same time?!?
i mean rly guys, WTF????
go back to basics plz,chronos is instant win by now
The changelog says that the stun no longer propagates to illusions.
1. Does that means illusions, such as from geometers bane, no longer get the stun?
2. If so that means no more permabash
3. That makes me think of it as a nerf >:(
New Chronos is simply imba. 200dmg + aoe slow @1200 range teleport is too much for an ability. New rewind is more a buff than a nerf, if that was what they planned – now you do not know if the damage was or not rewinded untill a sec later u see him healed by 600hp and it’s too late to pull back. Time lock is simply imba – -x agi to enemy and +x agi (which means +x dmg, +x attack speed and +x/7 armor) to chronos + 1 sec stun every 4 attacks? Mid game that means almost perma stun – What I know: permastun IS imba. Last but no least: An aoe 5 – 6sec disable to enemies in large aoe means anhilation. You can not compensate all that imbaness with his low hp since every 850 dmg nuke out of 4 will miss. Please S2 games: do not make your own additions to already balanced heroes. Years of testing resulted in the perfect balance achieved in DOTA. We know it is a beta version but think rationally or do test updates a little bit before releasing them. Leave things as they were or make new heroes.
Honestly, just keep him a direct port of Faceless Void, he was great before, why make him so imbalanced? Don’t even get me started on Chronosphere…
New chronos is fine, and waay more balanced than the old one. The old one was downright useless early game, which made it almost impossible for him to get fed. Any decent team would gank him frequently leaving him underfarmed.
The new blink is a strong ability, but it’s the only thing keeping him decent early game. His stats are all mediocre,and he’s incredibly frail. The new rewind is definitely a nerf. You cannot rewind lethal damage now, as you will die before you can heal it. Also, you start regenerating immediately, so unless your opponent is blind, it will not be “too late to pull back”. Also, it’s impossible to perma stun, as the ability does not build charges when they are stunned.
Also, I have yet to see this “perfect balance” achieved in DotA. Half of the heroes were useless in serious play. Games are dominated by strong laners and huge aoe abilities.
Fact of the matter is, old chronos was downright awful. The new one is definitely a strong carry, but imba? Absolutely not.
i liked his older skills better
I love how ignorant it is to think that the old chronos was awful. His ult
(depending on your items) is like a free double kill or even hat-trick before the battle has started. And people say he was awful.
@Eclipse: Chronos, after he gets insanitarius, is stupid. You absolutely need shrunken head to even think about playing against him, because of him stunning you almost half of the time. Not to mention that he has one of the best blinks in the game, 25% damage reduction, stacking with evasion, and he steals over 8 agility per second late game.
And also he can stun an entire team for 5 seconds. They took the most imba hero in the game, buffed his blink, improved his stun, and added agility steal to his arsenal of damage. Noone can solo this hero without stun immunity, and hardly anyone can solo him with stun immunity. He dishes out a ton of damage, especially with agility steal, and is nigh impossible to kill with the damage taken 25% reduction and blink/slow. Anyone decent who picks this hero and lasts 30 minutes into the game usually guarantees gg. This guy is just stupid, nerf him for the love of god. He ruins games.
New scout any1?? Lol QQ he is so imba but don’t worry just as scout got nerfed I bet this new Void won’t last long, as things are now u should hex him to make his rewind useless
anothr FAIL update….
buffering an imba hero is so stupid :S
HON FAIL MORE PLEASE
about the new chronoss, yes, S2 screwed it a bit…, new chronoss ensures GG unless it’s used by a blind crybaby…, else, even a noob looks like an average player with it. I think chronoss shuld stay like dota’s FV unless icefrog does himself such sucking changes…
the ult should be single target the rewind should become evasion again, if those two things happened hed be close enough to balanced that i would deal
Is the new Chronos imba in competitive play? Probably not. In fact, based on preliminary data he still doesn’t see much play.
My problem, however, is that the new Chronos pwns way, way, too hard. Along with TDL and Zephyr, Chronos is one of the three “super-hard” carries in HoN. My opinion, is that they should improve Chronos’ early game ability, and tone down his carrying ability slightly. My suggestion would be to improve Chronos’ str gain slightly, and give him back his old bash and ultimate. I like the change to his blink, though. Improving his early game and slightly weakening his carrying ability would decrease the variance of his performances, which would be beneficial imo.
The new Chronos is the most played hero and has the 5th highest win rate in HoN. Pub games get bland when they repeatedly end with a Chronos who has been farming for 30 mins single-handedly scraping.
Yes, of course, a good team would gank the shit out of Chronos, but that doesn’t happen when you play with crappy pub teammates.
Cheers.
Fuck this guy, dumb him down!!! waaayyy to OP
The only nerf he has is his backtrack which now heals the damage over time. However, everything is a buff. His leap gives him stronger early game potential and by stealin agi and a for sure stun, he has become op in that sense. Lastly, his chronosphere now allows his allies to get off spells. much more damage potential.
… u guys cry too much most ppl are smart enuff to know they should completely destroy chronos early game even in pub unless ur playing with noobs. i mean are u guys serious they just buffed him so ppl like deadwood that’re op too have a dying chance. i mean yeah he owns but not a lot of ppl will play him correctly enuff to get that good. and in the meantime if ur gonna whine go talk about plague and mq’s ulti tell me those aren’t imba as shit on top of the fact that u got electrician and swiftblade combo. for the love of god u noobs its not who u pick its how u play strategically stop crying over retarded shit
nooblike heroe….
@abcdef actually, Chronos is seeing competitive play / bans.
So which heroes counter this guy? Or is the only way to mass disables / gank him early game?
Best way to counter Chronos is good teamwork and lots (read: LOTS) of stuns. A stun heavy team which focuses on disabling/killing Chronos first usually does well. I can’t think of any specific counters.
Also, if you have a good silencer, he can silence in mid-leap so Chronos can’t ult and just jumped into the entire team. Leaves him defenseless for 5 seconds during which your team should be able to kill him.
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Omg guys… i know lots of people got owned by some overfeeded chronos BUT like all good heroes he can be easily countered.
Just a little cc like witch slayer and hes gone in early game, gank a few times in the woods and win the game early..
For stupid noobs who see him in the end end game he will seem overpowered… use your brains!
He is VERY weak in the early game-> very low mana, manareg and low hp. If u wait until late game when the carry has its items and is feeded and complain about he’s owning is stupid! Bet half of u saw him in easy mode (more carry supportive) games too ^^
I hope so much that the Developers dont listen too much to the crowd
Personally i still am debating wether or not i like the new Chronos. The heal is definatly buff, but i find the CURSE OF THE AGES IS NOT A BUFF.
yea… it gives you agility… so after 4 hits you have gained 2 armor, 16 attack speed, and 16 damage.
Big whoop
The old Bash does !!!!70 DAMAGE!!!!!! on hit and it does PROPAGATES TO ILLUSIONS. I doubt you will be getting four attacks per second. But with the old bash, all you have to do is get geometers bane, and there you have a 75% chance to bash.
If chronos Isn’t OP then i must be retarded.
u can only kill this hero if u get heroes that can disable him. but always remember that a good player never goes alone. Needs nerf because even a team can’t take him down.
Even if u gank him. There are more players in the team. u need five guys to gank a mid-game chronos. But still got other four heroes to kill too. And then all of them enters in chrono’s ult and his allies cast stuff inside. then ONE is perma bashed, while the other get in the fight with the other four left.
Really…u guys are retarded or something?
Paying a game to play always with chronos and zephyr?
F*** Hon! i’m getting back to dota.
Id like to see somone own a cronos holding elder paracite, the only plausable way i can see is going with slayer and buying the damd book, stunn, book and ulti…. the only way i have made anything work
New Chronos is over-powered. Look at what anyone who says otherwise has written: ‘just get mass disables/stuns and gank him repeatedly early game’. In other words, if one player on the other team picks Chronos, that is supposed to dictate who/how your entire team has to play. Then the other team still has four other heroes to pick and play. True, his stun only locks down one player, but since you need a whole group to take him out, the other team will probably have at least one hero with AoE stun and can easily shut down your gank attempts. Even after he burns his ult to kill at least one hero, he just leaps away and your gank attempt was worthless.
I think adding the damage to his leap and letting allies cast/move in ult is insane – just makes him even more noob-friendly because now it doesn’t matter if you catch allies in the ult. I think HoN has really screwed the balanced mechanics that are in DotA, and it’s made HoN really boring (i.e., same rigged heroes every game). I’m just glad Banning Pick/Draft game options are available.
And to whomever said to get Shrunken Head to counter Chronos stuns, that’s a horrible waste of money. His stuns aren’t magic, so NOTHING can block them. The only thing you can do is avoid taking hits through either physical immunity (i.e., Void Talisman) or evasion (unless Chronos has Savage Mace, in which case his attacks will never miss).
@Anonymous
I agree you completely. Its enough said that chronos is just way to good. When i played against him, he got so many kills and I just thought my allies were feeding him until next game, i used him for the first time since the patch and then i finally understood.
Chronos is just too good. Him and zephyr are 2 heroes that got huge buffs in the patch, and its obvious that though zephyr requires some skill to use his gust attack to pull enemies and push them for ganks, chronos just has to leap in and hit them to death. Most of the time, nothing can be done since the damage from the leap couples with the stun and his ulti gaurantee a free kill on most non-str heroes. He still sort of needs a babysitter but now his carries abilities are god-like. From hard carry to just THE BEST CARRY is just op.
We can understand that most games, the disables or stunners should aim for carries to stop them, but chronos is just on another level. Him with shrunken head makes him unkillable. I got shrunken head once with him and i felt so guilty because once i got that, i never died once. On another note, i’ve never been able to actually get off a spell while in his ulti when i was his ally so to that, i don’t think that’s unfair. 90% cast speed slow, not alot of heroes will get off spell until maybe lvl 3 where his ulti will last just enough time for allies to be able to do something in it and maybe i’ve gotten one hit on heroes on it with my normal attack but chronos did all the work.
He IS SO FUCKING OP, Its ridiculous. If your a caster, you have to get void talisman or to just get all tanking items. Its the only way to not get ass-raped by chronos.
-steamboots(str or agi but doesnt matter since he’ll pwn with either of them)
-Elder parasite
-Shrunken head
-wingbow
-savage mace
-behemoth’s heart
Even though these items aren’t the best for him, if he gets these 6 or even just 3-4 of them, there is no way any team will ever be able to stop him or kill him. He will then be able to take on 3-4 ppl at once. Too much health, too much evasion, magic immunity, %chance he’ll heal for damage, as well as never missing and by then, he’ll be able to attack so fast and be able to perma stun.
GG
Wow, this is the most crying i’ve seen about 1 hereo. Yeah, he’s pretty good late game, but so is any other carry. I’ve owned Cronos on numerous occations with Scout alone. I’ve seen Swift and Dark Lady do it. It all depends on the items and gameplay. Puppet can take him in less than 10 secs if u know what ur doing. Deadwood, Bloodseeker with his crazy long silence and ult. Dude, there are soo many different ways to counter this guy.
The problem is, u got too many noobs, farming lanes by themselves, or a noob team trying to push a lane right next to eachother, then yeah, Chron is going to pop out of the forest and bubble all 3 of them, taking 1.5 of them out (which would probably be the stun/disabler) and then they cry nurf…
If ur a noob team and decide to not get any stuns or disablers or my favorite, all melée, then that’s on u guys. Stop playing like noobs and actually talk about the characters ur going to pick. Otherwise play All Random or Banning Draft.
HON, please stop nerfing characters because players are noob and don’t know the strategy of the game or don’t communicate, or are just plain dumb. Thank You
What makes you think the chronos player is retarded? Do you honestly think if the team has alot of stunner/nukes, that he’ll just run around openly? ALl he needs to do is wait for a gank, whether his team fights or they initiate, and then he jumps in , ulti’s and kills of one of their disablers. That’s generally how chronos is played in that situation, and he almost always kills off a player. Not everyone plays ap and generally speaking, chronos in the hands of someone not retarded will carry the team no matter the circumstances.
Swiftblade > Chrono. if u spin before he chrono-fields, he takes damage inside his ulti… or has to walk away from u. Chronos is basically ALL attackspeed. and thats good cos swift’s Counter Attack deals a LOT of damage(provided swift and chronos are equally geared and the swift player has stacked damage not 4 attackspeed items…) and swift’s ulti chases chronos even when he timewalks, and deals enough damage w/o SotM to kill a close to full hp chronos(unless he went for a lot of HP items in which case he wouldnt deal enough damage to you in the first place…)
hope u had fun reading ^^
dark lady can pwn this guy because of her silence
chonos can’t blnk or chronofield
plus dark lady would also get boosted in her base attack
Idiots you’re a moron. Basically a farmed chronos cannot be killed by another farmed AGI hero even if they have a silence. He steals a 4 agi per hit, and stuns them after 4 hits…a DL or any AGI hero will get owned by him easily. Your only chance is to get a really farmed STR hero like Maliken with a Geometer’s bane to kill him (for a 1v1 that is).
I find Corrupted Disciple is one of the better heroes to use against Chron, firstly because you’re ranged and can attack outside of bubble, secondly because conduit can drain a lot of Chronos’ dps, and lastly because overload still works inside the bubble.
(This is all provided you are equally matched in terms of items)