Overall
Ivan is a puppeteer who hides in darkness and channels his power through the ally with the highest attack rating. He sacrifices allied health to generate a massive spirit shield on the puppet, granting them bonus attack, haste, and crit rating that scales with his own energy. Allied damage intake fuels his energy generation, creating a feedback loop where the team getting hit makes the puppet stronger. Skeletal squires spawn periodically to taunt enemies and explode on death, with enhanced versions appearing when allies fall and energy-granting versions when enemies die. His disappearance also forces the nearest enemy into panicked flight with shredded defense. If the shield breaks, he re-sacrifices ally health to rebuild it once, and leftover shield value converts back into team healing when manipulation ends.
Skills
Spellbound
UltimateHides and becomes untargetable, manipulating the highest-ATK ally as a Puppet with a Spirit Shield fueled by sacrificed allied health. The Puppet gains Attack Rating and Haste. Leftover shield converts to healing; if broken, rebuilds once per battle.
Art of Agony
PassiveIvan gains energy whenever allies take damage proportional to their max health. The manipulated Puppet gains Crit Rating scaling with Ivan’s current energy.
Skeletal Squire
PassivePeriodically summons a Skeletal Squire that inherits his stats, taunts nearby enemies, and explodes on death for area damage. Enhanced Squires spawn when allies die. Enemy deaths also spawn Squires and grant Ivan energy.
Captive Audience
PassiveWhen Ivan hides, he forces the nearest enemy to flee in panic with reduced Defense Rating and Haste. Enemies stunned and drained of energy when the panic ends.
Signature Item
Soulcarver
While hidden, Ivan sacrifices allied health to replenish the Puppet’s Spirit Shield. Allied health sacrifices also restore energy to the Puppet.
Furniture
Furniture
While hidden, Ivan also sacrifices Audience health to fuel the Puppet’s shield. During manipulation, the Puppet takes reduced damage.
Engravings are not listed here because they upgrade existing skills directly. See the Skills tab for engraving effects alongside each skill.
lvan hides into the darkness and becomes untargetable, while manipulating the allied hero with the highest initial Attack Rating as a Puppet for 16 seconds. He sacrifices 10% of the current health of other allied heroes, granting the Puppet a Spirit Shield equal to 2000% of lvan’s Attack Rating and the total health sacrificed. The Spirit Shield cannot be dispeled and can protect the Puppet against control effects while under manipulation. The shield disappears when the manipulation ends. If the shield is broken, lvan will manifest early and stop manipulating the Puppet, while losing 20% his max health. While hiding in the darkness, Ivan can acquire up to 800 Energy points. When no allied hero can be chosen as a Puppet, Ivan instead receives a Spirit Shield equaling 2000% of his Attack Rating.
Each time an allied hero other than a Puppet receives damage equal to 5% of their max health, they recover 20 Energy points for lvan.
lvan sculpts 1 Skeletal Squire in the allied half of the battlefield every 5 seconds. The Squire inherits 100% of Ivan’s initial Attack Rating, health equaling 300% of his initial Attack Rating, and 50% of his other attributes. The Squire dies when its health is exhausted or 4 seconds after it is sculpted. The Squire actively attacks the nearest enemy with 100% of its Attack Rating, while taunting nearby enemies for 1 seconds during its first attack. When the Squire perishes, it deals damage for 300% of its Attack Rating to nearby enemies. When an allied hero dies, lvan immediately sculpts a Skeletal Squire where the hero dies.
Each time lvan hides into the darkness, he selects the nearest enemy hero as the Audience. The selected Audience then flees erratically in panic for 3 seconds.
Soulcarver
Enhances: Soul BoosterWhen Ivan hides into the darkness, he sacrifices 2% of the current health of all allied heroes every 2 seconds and replenishes the Shield for 90% of the total health sacrificed.
Increases the proportion for which a Spirit Shield is replenished to 120%.
Increases the proportion for which a Spirit Shield is replenished to 150%.
When other allied heroes sacrifice their health, a Puppet recovers 100 Energy points.
When other allied heroes sacrifice their health, a Puppet recovers 120 Energy points.
When lvan hides into the darkness, he sacrifices 8% of the current health of the Audience every 2 seconds to replenish a Puppet’s Spirit Shield for an equal value. The health sacrificed each time will not exceed 200% of Ivan’s Attack Rating.
During manipulation, damage received by a Puppet is reduced by 50%.
All Squires’ Haste is further increased. When a Squire dies, the enemies damaged lose 300 Energy points and are stunned for 3 seconds.
When control ends, the enemy hero released from the Panicked Audience state has their Haste reduced by 35 points for 8 seconds.
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