DOTA IDEAS A DOTA 2 INTERACTIVE FORUM

Nosferatu is a melee agility hero with large amounts of spell lifesteal. He has large amounts of life leech built in while also being quite evasive with his ability to transform into a Swarm of Bats. And while he's quite tanky himself due to all the healing he's also an anti-tank, dealing % current HP damage with Blood Claws and % Max HP damage with his scepter.

Nosferatu's gameplay style is mostly similar to the old Bloodstone Razor build. But it is designed to be a little less toxic. Cursed Bloodline is potentially a lot of more powerful than old Bloodstone razor, but it has built in counterplay due to its limited range and delay.

Nosferatu is agility for balance reasons. He'd be too strong as a strength or universal hero.

Portrait art by Andrea Piparo.

Change log: Removed Blood Boil and changed it with Blood Claws (inspired by u/60and80's suggestion). Blood Boil was a single target DOT anti-healing ability that made the target explode on death. Blood Claws fits the design of the hero better and also makes better use of him being an agility hero.
Cursed bloodline now has a little delay before the jet of blood shoots out. Making it a little more manageable.

Innate and facet ideas for when this website allows for it:

Innate:
Reinvigorate: Nosferatu temporarily gains a reinvigoration stack whenever he gains health from damaging an enemy hero. For each stack he gains bonus attack speed. Stacks have a short duration (2 seconds), but can stack infinitely.

Facets:
Night Wind: Nosferatu gains movement speed during Swarm of Bats.
Famished: If Nosferatu is below 50% of his maximum HP the damage threshold for Cursed Bloodline procs is reduced by 100.

Vampires, the aristocracy of the night. Wealthy, vain, arrogant, and highly dangerous. Often alluringly beautiful. Except for the Nosferatu clan. Their vampiric curse leaves them horribly hideous. But that is the price they pay for their unnatural resilience, being hard to take down even by vampire standards. Count Verdock Alexander Nosferatu has been the patriarch of the Nosferatu clan for six centuries. Sick of being ridiculed by the other vampires, he challenged count Vladmir of the Toreador clan to a duel. The Toreador's beauty did nothing to protect him. Vladmir was unable to regenerate from his wounds fast enough. As a message to all other vampires, Verdock bound Vladmir's malice to a mask he now proudly hangs above his castle's hearth fire.