Assassin

Difficulty 3/3

Fast and fragile. Slashes up close, poisons and vanishes into shadow.

Unlock the Assassin with the achievement Elite Terror: Defeat 100 elites in total.

Base stats

Health	105
Armor	1
Move speed	6.05
Health regen / s	0
Mana	70
Mana regen / s	2.2
Critical chance	20%
Pickup range	2.9
Damage multiplier	×1

At a glance

105 health, armor 1
Fastest hero, +20% crit
Combo: consecutive hits hit harder and harder
Ambush: after 1.2 s without a hit, the first slash ×2.5
Weapon: Daggers
Ultimate: Shadow Dance

Starting weapon: Daggers

Ultimates

Pick one of the two before a run, on the class card.

Shadow Dance

Leap through the horde: invulnerable, you slash and poison everything along the way, and for 4 s you slash with double crit chance.

Available from the start.

Death Mark

You mark the strongest enemy: it slows, gets stabbed by shadow daggers, and after 2.4 s the mark explodes. It kills a regular enemy and takes almost half an elite's health. A slain target returns part of the ultimate.

Unlock this ultimate with the achievement Assassin: Second Ultimate: Survive 8 minutes as Assassin on any map. Unlocks ultimate: Death Mark.

Class weapons and skills

Class passives

Feint (defense)
Venomous Blood (defense)
Cloak of Night (defense)
Pickpocket (support)
Contract (support)
Shadow Run (support)

Evolutions for this class

Weapon	Passive	Evolution	Super-evolution
Daggers	Vampirism	Viper's Kiss	Fangs of Night
Smoke Bomb	Evasion	Veil of Night	–
Shadow Strike	Precision	Shadow Dance	–
Death Mark	Elite Hunter	Sentence	–
Steel Wire	Boots	Razor Web	–
Fan of Knives	Duplicator	Blade Storm	–
Void Blade	Precision	Moon of Nothingness	–
Shadow Clone	Echo	Theater of Shadows	–

Talent tree

Talents are bought with points earned by playing the class. The trunk is open to every path; past the trunk you commit to one of the three paths.

Trunk

Open to every path.

Tier	Talent	Effect	Ranks	Cost
1	Fortitude	+5% health per level.	3	1
1	Practice	+4% damage per level.	3	1

Shadow

Vanish after a strike and leap through the horde.

Tier	Talent	Effect	Ranks	Cost
1	Elusive	+10% dodge chance, but −10% health.	1	1
2	Swiftness	+5% speed per level.	2	1
3	Vanish	After being hurt you vanish: 1.2 s of invulnerability and +30% speed for 2 s. Once per 6 s.	1	2
4	Shadow Steps	Every 15th kill: a shadow explodes around you (radius 3), dealing heavy damage and knockback.	1	3

Venom

Every wound spreads: poison leaps further.

Tier	Talent	Effect	Ranks	Cost
1	Poisoner	+30% poison, fire and explosion damage, but −10% regular damage.	1	1
2	Lingering Venom	Poisons and burns last 12% longer per level.	2	1
3	Epidemic	A poisoned monster passes its venom to everyone in a 2.5 radius on death.	1	2
4	Toxic Breath	Every 1.5 s you poison everything in a 3 radius around you.	1	3

Blade

Kill and crit frenzy after the ultimate.

Tier	Talent	Effect	Ranks	Cost
1	Precision	+10% crit chance, but −10% health.	1	1
2	Sharpness	+5% damage per level.	2	1
3	Bloody Frenzy	Each kill: +3% speed and +2% attack speed (up to 10 times), fades after 2 s without a kill.	1	2
4	Guillotine	After Shadow Dance for 6 s: +40% crit chance and +20% damage.	1	3