Night Stalker
Patch 7.41e31.07.2026-0.40 (0.40)
Abilities
Crippling Fear
- NERFRadius decreased from 375 to 350-7%
Patch 7.41d05.06.2026-0.34 (0.34)
Talents
- NERFLevel 25 Talent: Dark Ascension Cooldown Reduction decreased from 40s to 35s-12%
Patch 7.41b07.04.2026-1.02 (1.02)
GENERAL
- NERFBase Health Regen decreased by 1.25?Now it's 0.25. Before this patch it was changed in 7.36a (2 years 5 months ago)-83%
Patch 7.4124.03.2026+2.55 (6.89)
Abilities
Heart of Darkness→Hunter in the Night
- NERFMove Speed bonus changed from 22/28/34/40% to 24% + 2% per 3 levels+9%start-25%L9+10%end
L1 L3 L6 L9 L12 L15 L18 L21 L24 L27 L30 old 22 28 34 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 new 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 Δ% +9% -7% -18% -25% -20% -15% -10% -5% 0% +5% +10% - BUFFAttack Speed bonus changed from 20/40/60/80 to 38 + 2 per level+100%start+22%end
L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 L10 L11 L12 L13 L14 L15 L20 L25 L30 old 20 20 40 40 60 60 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 new 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 78 88 98 Δ% +100% +110% +10% +15% -20% -17% -35% -32% -30% -28% -25% -22% -20% -18% -15% -2% +10% +22% - NEWNew innate ability.
Passive
At night, Night Stalker's Health Regen is increased by 20%.
Health regen increase
+20%
Passive – scales with level
Activates only at night.
Bonus Move Speed: 24% + 2% per 3 levels.
Bonus Attack Speed: 38 + 2 per level.
Bonus movespeed
24%
Movespeed per 3 levels
2%
Bonus attack speed
38
- NEWAghanim's Scepter: Increases bonus Movement Speed by 15% and bonus Attack Speed by 50. Killing an enemy hero resets cooldowns of all basic abilities
- DELRemoved Aghanim's Shard.
- NEWAdded Aghanim's Scepter.
Crippling Fear: Reduces cooldown to 25/20/15/10s of Crippling Fear and it becomes a toggled ability that takes a percentage of max mana per second to maintain after the initial duration time. Mana cost
6%
Cooldown
25/20/15/10s
Hunter in the Night: Increases bonus movement speed and attack speed. Killing an enemy hero resets all basic ability cooldowns. Attack speed
+50
Move speed
+15%
Void
- NEWAghanim's Shard: Now affects all units within 400 radius around the target
- NEWAdded Aghanim's Shard.
Hunter in the Night: Hunter in the Night may be cast on a creep, instantly killing it and restoring some of Night Stalker's maximum health and mana. Cannot target ancients during the daytime. Max health restore
25%
Max mana restore
25%
Mana cost
50
Cooldown
35s
Cast range
125
Void: Void now affects all units in a radius (400) around the target.Radius
400
Crippling Fear
- DELRemoved Aghanim's Scepter.
Midnight Feast
- NEWNew ability.
Passive
Night Stalker heals himself when attacking enemy units. At night, the ability can be activated to instantly destroy a non-ancient creep and restore a percentage of Night Stalker's maximum health and mana.
Cast range125
Cooldown39/36/33/30s
Lifesteal
12/16/20/24%
Max health restore
10/15/20/25%
Max mana restore
10/12/14/16%?Attacks on allied units and buildings will not heal Night Stalker.Can't be cast on allies.
- NEWNew basic ability with both passive and active components — passively, Night Stalker heals himself 6/8/10/12 health when attacking enemy units. Actively at night, eats a non-ancient creep to restore 10/15/20/25% max health and 10/12/14/16% mana. Cast Range: 125. No Mana Cost. Cooldown: 39/36/33/30s
Talents
- SWAPLevel 10 Talent: +5s Dark Ascension Duration replaced with +10 Crippling Fear DPS?TalentLevelValueCrippling Fear DPS20 → 10+40 → +10 −75%
- SWAPLevel 20 Talent: +40 Crippling Fear DPS replaced with +75 Crippling Fear Radius ?TalentLevelValueCrippling Fear DPS20 → 10+40 → +10 −75%
- SWAPLevel 25 Talent: +100 Hunter in the Night Attack Speed replaced with +100 Midnight Feast Lifesteal
Patch 7.4016.12.2025+1.87 (1.87)
Facets
Voidbringer
- BUFFNo longer has decreased number of +2 All Attributes bonuses
Abilities
Heart of Darkness
- BUFFNo longer reduces Night Stalker's health regeneration by 20% during the day
Talents
- BUFFLevel 20 Talent: Crippling Fear DPS increased from +20 to +40+100%
Patch 7.39b29.05.2025
Abilities
Void
- NERFNight Duration decreased from 2/2.5/3/3.5/4s to 1.6/2.2/2.8/3.4/4s-20%0%
Patch 7.3922.05.2025+0.87 (1.63)
Facets
Voidbringer
- BUFFLevel 5 now also increases Move Slow from 50% to 60%+20%
- BUFFLevel 5 now also increases Attack Slow from 50 to 60+20%
Talents
- NERFLevel 20 Talent: Strength decreased from +20 to +15-25%
Patch 7.38c27.03.2025-2.02 (2.02)
Abilities
Heart of Darkness
- NERFBonus health regen at night decreased from 40% to 20%-50%
Talents
- NERFLevel 15 Talent: Hunter in the Night Status Resistance decreased from 30% to 20%-33%
Patch 7.38b06.03.2025+0.66 (1.00)
Facets
Night Reign
- NERFMove Speed decreased from 16/22/28/34/40% to 10/22/28/34/40%-38%0%
Voidbringer
- BUFFAoE on level 5 increased from 300 to 350+17%
Talents
- NERFLevel 10 Talent: Dark Ascension Duration decreased from +6s to +5s-17%
Patch 7.3819.02.2025-0.34 (5.73)
Facets
Voidbringer
- NEWNew facet
Active: Void
Increases the max level of Void to 5
Level 5 deals 400 damage, has 4s Night Duration, and becomes a Point Target ability with 300 AoE during the nightMax level
5
Damage
400
Night duration
4s
Night radius
300
- NERFNumber of times +2 All Attributes can be skilled decreased from 7 to 6-14%
Blinding Void
- DELRemoved
Night Reign
- REWORKChanges Roshan's first move to the Top Pit to be at 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes.
- BUFFIs now granted for free on level 1. Max level is increased to 5
- BUFFMove Speed rescaled from 22/28/34/40% to 16/22/28/34/40%?By skill points spent: the free level adds 16% before the first point, the rest is unchanged+160%
- BUFFAttack Speed rescaled from 20/40/60/80 to 15/35/55/75/95?By skill points spent: the free level adds 15 before the first point, and every level is 15 higher+15+19%
Abilities
Void
- NERFNight Duration decreased from 2.5/3/3.5/4s to 2.0/2.5/3/3.5s?With Voidbringer facet rescaled from 2.5/3/3.5/4s to 2/2.5/3/3.5/4s — -20%-17%-14%-12%-20%-17%-14%-12%
- DELNo longer reduces vision
Talents
- SWAPLevel 10 Talent: +80 Void Damage replaced with -1s Void Cooldown
- NERFLevel 15 Talent: Hunter in the Night Status Resistance decreased from +35% to +30%-14%
- NERFLevel 25 Talent: Dark Ascension Cooldown Reduction decreased from 50s to 40s-20%
Patch 7.37b14.08.2024-0.90 (0.90)
Abilities
Hunter in the Night
- NERFAghanim's Shard Cooldown increased from 30s to 35s+17%