Deckard Cain Talents

Level	Choices
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Scroll of Identify is a decent Quest-based Talent which slightly increases the damage of Scroll Of Sealing when hitting enemy Heroes with it. Unlock the first Reward to reduce the Armor of enemy Heroes hit and to Reveal them for a few seconds. Unlock the second Reward to slightly empower the amount and duration of the Armor reduction.

Field Study is a good Talent that provides Deckard with a respectable healing power increase as well as a bit of offensive power, particularly when combined with Scroll of Stone Curse at Level 16.

Sapphire is a strong Talent that can be activated to make your next cast of Horadric Cube apply a better Slow and, like for any other Gem, deal double damage.

We recommend this Talent because it allows you to easily engage or peel for your team as well as connect Scroll Of Sealing.

Potion of Shielding is a strong Talent which provides a decent Shield to allied Heroes healed by Healing Potion.

While it does not increase your sustain healing, Potion of Shielding is still a powerful addition to your kit as Deckard struggles against burst damage.

Shields generated by different instances of Healing Potion do not stack, but only refresh the duration. As a consequence, you and allied Heroes should ideally wait for the Shield to be almost destroyed or expired before picking another Healing Potion, unless relatively low on Health.

Rejuvenation Potion is a good Talent that makes each Healing Potion heal over time for a few seconds and restore Mana to whoever picks them.

Consider going for this Talent when you want to further empower your already good sustain healing, something which is useful on Battlegrounds where the Objective is powerful and takes a while to be contested (such as Braxis Holdout).

Ruby is a good Talent that can be activated to make your next Horadric Cube generate 3 Lesser Healing Potions for each enemy Hero hit and, like for any other Gem, deal double damage. Contrary to Healing Potion, they disappear after 10 seconds and heal for a bit less.

The way this Talent works make it more valuable when your team has one or more diving Heroes or when your team is trying to contest a Capture Point, because in those situations it will be easier for you to hit multiple Heroes with Horadric Cube and for allied Heroes to collect Lesser Healing Potions.

The fact each Lesser Healing Potion spawns in a random location nearby makes Ruby weak against crowd control effects that can impair movement because it will be harder or even impossible to catch them.

Cube Mastery is a decent Talent which reduces cooldown and Mana cost of Scroll Of Sealing, allowing you to Root enemy Heroes more often, sometimes even in quick succession if you manage to hit enough enemy Heroes with Horadric Cube.

The cooldown reduction provided has synergy with Scroll of Identify at Level 1 because it can be helpful to stack the Quest faster and with Scroll of Stone Curse at Level 16 because it can drastically increase your damage done, especially if combined with Field Study at Level 1.

Kanai's Cube is a good Talent that turns Horadric Cube into a defensive Ability, allowing you to reduce the damage done by enemy Heroes hit.

We find this Talent particularly good when playing against Heroes who can deal high but predictable damage in a short time frame (for example The Butcher).

Even if not a Gem, this Talent can be combined with Perfect Gems at Level 20 to constantly reduce the damage done by enemy Heroes during team fights, with about 80% uptime.

Emerald is a strong Talent that can be activated to make your next Horadric Cube drastically reduce the healing received by enemy Heroes hit and, like for any other Gem, deal double damage.

The healing reduction provided by this Talent is great on a Hero like Deckard because he has access to crowd control which can be used to lock down enemy Heroes for your team to burst damage them while the enemy Healer cannot do much.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Stay Awhile and Listen is a strong Heroic Ability which can be picked in most if not all situations, however, it has clear weaknesses you have to play around when facing Heroes who have access to interrupts, Unstoppable effects, and/or mobility tools.

Lorenado is a good Heroic Ability that you can use to peel from melee Heroes, to push enemy Heroes inside Scroll Of Sealing, or to contest a Capture Point—this last point makes it valuable on Battlegrounds with a Boss Camp.

Super Healing Potion is a good Talent that empowers Healing Potion in two ways: increases by 25% their healing when used by allied Heroes below 50% Health and doubles their healing after staying on the ground for 2 seconds.

The delayed effect is particularly effective on Battlegrounds where the Objective is stationary and powerful, allowing you and your team to get there a dozen of seconds before it starts to safely cast Healing Potion multiple times in the area and prepare them for later use.

We recommend this Talent because it is quite easy to get value from it, especially if you are new to the Hero or playing ARAM, as it heavily increases your sustain healing during the game.

Super Healing Potion has synergy with Bottomless Flask at Level 20. When picked together, Healing Potions will refill like usual and then become bigger after 2 more seconds.

Potion of Revival is a decent Talent which makes each Healing Potion heal for 75% value all Heroes around the main target who gets 100% healing instead.

You may consider going for this Talent when your team features a lot of melee Heroes and the enemy team has ways to deal area of effect damage.

Ancient Blessings is a strong Talent that, once every 45 seconds, can be used to boost allied Heroes for 8 seconds. Heroes affected by this buff can deal additional damage in an area with their Basic Attacks and heal themselves based on the number of Heroes hit.

This effect has an internal cooldown of 1 seconds, so it has no synergy with Heroes who have high Attack Speed and works just fine with most Heroes, unless they cannot really expose to use Basic Attacks (notably Probius).

Scroll of Stone Curse is a good Talent which drastically increases the damage done by Scroll Of Sealing, but only if you manage to hit multiple Heroes with it.

Due to how it works, we recommend combining it with Sapphire at Level 1 and/or Stay Awhile and Listen, unless you can rely on your Tank to hit more than a single Hero with Scroll Of Sealing.

Safety in Numbers is a good Talent which improves Fortitude of the Faithful in various ways when there is more than one allied Hero within range: further reduce the cooldown of your Basic Abilities, give you more Armor, and increase your Mana Regeneration.

You may consider going for this Talent when you want to improve your sustain healing. That said, we think that going for Super Healing Potion at Level 13 should be always enough to cover that aspect.

Horadric Staff is a good Talent that, once every 5 seconds, Stuns the next enemy Hero you hit with a Basic Attack. You cannot toggle it, so be careful not to waste it when you need it as a counter for a specific enemy Hero (such as Sonya using Whirlwind).

When playing against melee Heroes who play aggressively, you can use Horadric Staff to keep them inside Scroll Of Sealing while it goes off. Due to your short Attack Range, ranged and/or high-mobility Heroes will not be easy to catch with this, unless they misplay.

Respect the Elderly is a strong Talent which makes Stay Awhile and Listen apply a long-lasting Silence and Blind when its Sleep ends, gets removed, or is canceled by damage.

We recommend this Talent because it has huge playmaking potential in team fights, something that is extremely valuable in the late game. If it connects, the team fight will immediately shift in your team's favor.

Morenados! is a good Talent that gives you a second charge of Lorenado and makes it reduce its cooldown by 10 seconds when hitting enemy Heroes.

This kind of Talent helps you to peel for your team—especially in narrow areas—and to Knockback enemy Heroes out of Capture Points (such as a game-ending Boss).

Bottomless Flask is a situational Talent that changes the way you can use by making Healing Potion refill after a few seconds. Even if empty, they still count for the cap and thus get replaced when exceeding it.

This kind of effect increases your healing output during prolonged team fights and is particularly effective when your team wants to control a given area, even if your team decided to split for some reason and you are not there anymore.

Bottomless Flask has synergy with Super Healing Potion at Level 13. When picked together, Healing Potions will refill like usual and then become bigger after 2 more seconds.

Perfect Gems is a situational Talent that allows you to use Gems ( Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald) as well as Horadric Cube more often.

A single Gem is enough to get value from Perfect Gems because, after picking it, having more Gems will only increase your versatility and not help to have a Gem ready every time that Horadric Cube is available.

In addition to Gems, Kanai's Cube has synergy with Perfect Gems as well because it allows you to constantly reduce the damage done by enemy Heroes, up to around 80% uptime.