Undying

Stats

These are the base values written in the game files. Totals derived from attributes (HP, mana, armor) depend on engine-side formulas, so no estimated values are shown.

Recommended items

Items the in-game shop recommends for this hero (curated by Valve). These are not win-rate statistics.

Magic Wand460Arcane Boots1500Guardian Greaves4450Stout Shield100Aghanim's Scepter4200Blade Mail2400Pipe of Insight3725Glimmer Cape2150Mekansm1775Soul Ring805Spirit Vessel2725Urn of Shadows825

Abilities

Decay

Cooldown 13 / 10 / 7 / 4sMana 110Range 650MAGICAL

ActiveCooldown 13 / 10 / 7 / 4sMana 110Range 650

Undying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself. Deals 2.0x damage to creeps.

Raw values (from the game files)（7）

BASE DAMAGE	20 / 60 / 100 / 140
STRENGTH STEAL	4
STEAL DURATION	35
RADIUS	325
str_scale_up	2
creep_damage_multiplier	2.0
shard_buff_duration	40

• The strength stolen stacks, but can't cause a hero to have strength below 1.
• The strength steal takes effect before the damage is dealt.
• Affects invisible units.

Patch history

7.41f2026-09-15

• Mana Cost increased from 100 to 110

Soul Rip

Cooldown 15 / 12 / 9 / 6sMana 80 / 90 / 100 / 110Range 750MAGICAL

ActiveCooldown 15 / 12 / 9 / 6sMana 80 / 90 / 100 / 110Range 750

Undying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy. Soul Rip can also be used to heal Tombstone.

Raw values (from the game files)（6）

DAMAGE/HEAL PER UNIT	14 / 26 / 38 / 50
MAX UNITS	10
RIP RADIUS	1300
TOMBSTONE HEAL	4 / 8 / 12 / 16
%STRENGTH GAIN	0
DURATION	0

• Can heal Tombstone, but can't heal or damage other buildings.
• Does not rip from invisible units, invulnerable units, units in the fog of war, or spell immune enemies.
• Does rip from spell immune allies, including zombies.

Patch history

7.402025-12-15

• Cooldown decreased from 18/14/10/6s to 15/12/9/6s

Tombstone

Cooldown 80sMana 125 / 150 / 175 / 200Range 500PHYSICAL

ActiveCooldown 80sMana 125 / 150 / 175 / 200Range 500

Summons a tombstone at the target point. Zombies will frequently spawn next to every enemy unit in the area around the Tombstone, and attack them. Zombies have the Deathlust ability, which causes their attacks to slow the target, and if the target reaches below a certain amount of health, increases the attack and movement speed of the zombie.

Raw values (from the game files)（12）

tombstone_health	20 / 24 / 28 / 32
ATTACKS TO DESTROY	5 / 6 / 7 / 8
TOMBSTONE DURATION	30.0
ZOMBIE SPAWN RADIUS	1200
health_threshold_pct_tooltip	40
ZOMBIE SPAWN INTERVAL	4.0 / 3.6 / 3.2 / 2.8
ZOMBIE ATTACK DAMAGE	34
zombie_health	2
bunker_units	1
tombstone_grab_radius	350
tombstone_bunker_cd	2
tombstone_stun_penalty	2

• Tombstone is Spell Immune, but can be healed by Soul Rip.
• Zombies and Tombstone are Spell Immune.
• If their initial target dies or goes out of vision, the Zombie will die.

Ceaseless DirgeInnatePassive

Cooldown 480s

Passive

When Undying dies he will instantly respawn in the fountain. Begins the game on cooldown. Cannot be refreshed.

Raw values (from the game files)（1）

respawn_delay	2.0

Flesh Golem

Cooldown 140sMana 100 / 125 / 150MAGICAL

ActiveCooldown 140sMana 100 / 125 / 150

Undying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem. While in this state, he gains a percentage increase to strength, bonus movement speed, and causes attacks to slow, apply damage amplification, and spawn Tombstone zombies.

Raw values (from the game files)（9）

%SLOW ON ATTACK	30 / 35 / 40
%DAMAGE AMPLIFICATION	25 / 30 / 35
DAMAGE AMP DURATION	3
%STRENGTH MULTIPLIER	40 / 50 / 60
DURATION	40
BONUS MOVESPEED	25
spawn_zombie_on_attack	1
zombie_duration	15
zombie_spawn_padding	36

Patch history

7.41e2026-07-30

• Bonus Movement Speed increased from 20 to 25

7.412026-03-24

• Attacks now spawn the current level of Tombstone Zombie

Talents

One of the two per level is chosen. They appear in the order registered in the game files.

Patch history (hero and talents)

Background

How long has it been since he lost his name? The torn ruin of his mind no longer knows. Dimly he recalls armor and banners and grim-faced kin riding at his side. He remembers a battle: pain and fear as pale hands ripped him from his saddle. He remembers terror as they threw him into the yawning pit of the Dead God alongside his brothers, to hear the Dirge and be consumed into nothingness. In the darkness below, time left them. Thought left them. Sanity left them. Hunger, however, did not. They turned on each other with split fingernails and shattered teeth. Then it came: distant at first, a fragile note at the edge of perception, joined by another, then another, inescapable and unending. The chorus grew into a living wall of sound pulsing in his mind until no other thought survived. With the Dirge consuming him, he opened his arms to the Dead God and welcomed his obliteration. Yet destruction was not what he'd been chosen for. The Dead God demanded war. In the belly of the great nothing, he was granted a new purpose: to spread the Dirge across the land, to rally the sleepless dead against the living. He was to become the Undying, the herald of the Dead God, to rise and fall and rise again whenever his body failed him. To trudge on through death unending, that the Dirge might never end.

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