Ancient Black Dragon

Ancient Black Dragon

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**Ancient Black Dragon** is a neutral creep found in:

* Dragon Camp

## Abilities

Fireball ▶️

**Ability**
Target Area
**Affects**
Enemies
**Damage**
Magical

The Black Dragon hurls a fire blast on the ground, igniting the area in a 300 radius for 8/9/10/12 seconds. Enemies caught in the fire will take 85 damage per second.

**Cast Animation:** +**Cast Range:**  1000**Radius:**  300**Damage per Second:** 85**Debuff Duration:** 8/9/10/12

 15
 200
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

 Holy Persuasion increases the level of certain persuaded creeps' ability by 1 and unlocks the 4th ability level.

Modifiers []

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* Deals 42.5 damage in 0.5-second intervals, immediately upon cast, resulting in 17/19/21/25 damage instances.

* Can deal up to 722.5/807.5/892.5/1062.5 damage to a single unit (before reductions).

* Multiple instances of Fireball on the same area stack, with each cast dealing damage to units within range.

* Provides 300 radius flying vision at the targeted area for its duration. The vision does not linger.

* As a neutral unit:
	+ The dragon never uses this spell.

* As a player-controlled unit:
	+ No restrictions.

* Has a cast backswing of 0.8 when cast by  Doom (acquired through  Devour).

* Has a cast backswing of 1.07 when cast by  Rubick (acquired through casting  Spell Steal on Doom).

* Fireball has 4 levels by default, but the 4th level can only be unlocked by the following sources:
	+ Holy Persuasion
	+ Helm of the Overlord's Dominate

Splash Attack

**Ability**
Passive
**Affects**
Enemies
**Damage**
Physical

The Black Dragon's explosive attacks are felt by all nearby enemies.

**Splash Radius:**  250**Splash Damage:** 100%Modifiers []

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* When the attack misses or is disjointed, no splash damage is dealt.

* Splash damage is affected by Damage Block.

Dragonhide Aura

**Ability**
Aura
**Affects**
Allies

The Ancient Black Dragon's dreaded presence grants nearby allies additional armor. This bonus can stack with itself.

**Neutral Radius:** 800**Player-Controlled Radius:** 1200**Armor Bonus:** 3**Aura Linger Duration:** 0.5Modifiers []

NOTES 5681
`black_dragon_dragonhide_aura`

* Multiple instances of the aura fully stack.
	+ When player-controlled, all neutral creep auras have a 1200 radius.
	+ Does not affect invulnerable units.
	+ The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

### Innate

Neutral Upgrade

**Ability**
Passive
**Affects**
Neutral Units

Neutral creeps now increase their stats as time passes by.

**Max Stack:** 30**Upgrade Interval:** 450**Health Bonus per Interval:** 30**Armor Bonus per Interval:** 0.5**Base Attack Damage Bonus per Interval:** 3**Attack Speed Bonus per Interval:** 5**Gold Bounty Increase per Interval:** 1**Experience Bounty Increase per Interval:** 5Modifiers []

NOTES

* Each upgrade interval is at 7.5 mins after the game horn.
	+ Instantly updates all existing neutral creeps upon each upgrade interval.

* Grants the following total permanent bonuses at max stacks during the 225th minute (3:45:00 game-time):
	+ 900 health bonus.
	+ 15 armor bonus.
	+ 90 base attack damage bonus.
	+ 150 attack speed bonus.
	+ Additional **30**  and **150XP** bounty.

* The total values on each upgrade cycle can be seen in each of the camps' articles.

* Additionally, certain neutral creeps' abilities instantly update their ability level every 15 mins, up to 2 times, after the game horn.

## Recent Changes

VersionDescription

7.33

* Rescaled  Fireball debuff duration from 10 to 8/9/10/12. []

7.31

* Rescaled attack damage from 48‒81 to 62‒68.
* Reduced magic resistance from 50% to 30%.
* Increased base attack time from 1.5 to 2.
* Increased attack speed from 100 to 135.
* Reduced attack point from 0.94 to 0.5.
* Reduced attack backswing from 0.56 to 0.5.
* Increased turn rate from 0.5 to 0.9.
* Reduced gold bounty from **108‒137** to **78‒82**.
* CHANGED defense class from Basic to Default. []
* Dragonhide Aura is now a 800 radius aura when unit is not player-controlled. []

7.30c

* Increased  Fireball mana cost from 100 to 200.