Mysterious Challenger by Owler

Level 1

Pay Up (E)
Extort returns 10 mana for each enemy hit up to 50 mana.

Questionable Motives
Reduce the cooldown of Eye for an Eye, Sacred Trial, and Avenge by 10 seconds.

Concussion (Q)
Brow beat now stuns for .25 seconds.

Level 4

Anticipation (W)
Increase the duration of Conspire from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.

Shady Acquisition
Enemy Minions killed near Mysterious Challenger grant a stack of Bribe. Hero Takedowns grant 10 stacks of Bribe. Use 25 stacks to bribe a Mercenary, instantly defeating them. Does not work on Bosses. Maximum of 100 stacks. If a camp is defeated entirely with Bribe, the Mercenaries do not appear on the mini map.

Undercover Justice
Mysterious Challenger appears to enemies as a clone of the nearest hero.

Level 7

Eye for Eyes (1)
Eye for an Eye now triggers 2 times.

Super Secret
Mysterious Challenger gains stealth while a secret is active.

Vengeful Persistence (3)
Increase the duration of Avenge from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.

Level 10

Stop Asking Questions! (R)
Mysterious Challenger insults an enemy hero, teleporting them back to the Altar.

Repentence (R)
Mysterious Challenger gains a Repentence secret.
Trigger: An allied hero that "appears" to have 10% or less health takes damage from an enemy hero.
Effect: Set the enemy hero's health to 10% of their maximum health.

Level 13

Unfair Trial (2)
Sacred Trial now targets two enemies.

Brutal Verdict (2)
Increase the damage of Sacred Trial by 50%.

Decoy Troops
Activate near a mercenary camp to spawn a clone of the mercenary camp. The clones will act like a recently captured camp but deal no damage. Cooldown 60 seconds.

Level 16

Pacification (Q)
Enemy heroes hit by Browbeat now see all heroes as allied heroes for the duration.

Larceny (E)
Enemy heroes hit by Extort have 5% of their maximum mana drained. Restore mana equal to the amount drained.

Conspiracy (W)
Reduce the cooldown of Conspire by 3 seconds.

Level 20

Mind your own business! (R)
After the enemy hero is teleported back to the altar, reduce their movement speed by 20% for 30 seconds.

Exaggerated Judgement (R)
Set the enemy hero's health to 1.

It's Classified
Mysterious Challenger can now have up to 2 secrets active at a time.

Paranoia
Activate to make the enemy's Core "appear" to be taking damage. Cooldown 60 seconds.

Tips

The list below is a series of tips and tricks to help you master Mysterious Challenger.

• Mysterious Challenger is all about deception. Keep your secrets up as often as possible and keep the enemy team guessing as to what is reality.
• Conspire is a powerful ability and can make people believe that a hero has low health. Not only can you force a potential gank by the enemy team, but you can force an impulsive heal by the enemy team's healer, making them heal an already full hp hero. Make a Rehgar cry.
• You can combo Repentence Ultimate into Conspire into Sacred Trial secret to get a quick kill in a team fight on squishier enemy heroes. Cast Repentence to have the secret active. Cast conspire on an allied hero, tricking the enemy into damaging the hero. When they do, Repentence triggers, setting that enemy hero's health to 10%. Quickly cast the Sacred Trial secret and have it trigger dealing damage to the enemy hero with the least health, which will more than likely be the enemy hero with 10% health.
• Use Eye for an Eye secret when you expect an enemy hero to cast a high burst damage ability such as Pyroblast.
• Use Talents like Shady Acquisition and Decoy Troops to maximize the efficiency of Mercenary camps. These talents keep valuable information away from the enemy team.
• Use the Level 20 talent Paranoia to trick enemy teams into thinking their core is being destroyed to get the edge on lengthy games or timed objective events.

Design Comments

The Mysterious Challenger is all about keeping valuable information away from the enemy. Tricking your opponent's senses makes them behave differently and force them to think more carefully about their actions. This helps break the monotony of cookie cutter strategies and helps create a more interesting interaction. Is that really a Mercenary camp coming towards our core or is it just an illusion again? Is that enemy hero actually ready to be ganked or is it a trap? Wait we have 6 people taking this boss? Who is the impostor?! These types of thought will plague your enemy when you play Mysterious Challenger.

11/29/2017
- Added Tips and Design Comments section.