Magic-damage marksman who fights alongside a Reverse-Clone of himself
Natan is a Gold Lane marksman who deals Magic Damage instead of the usual physical carry output, scaring off characters expecting only auto-attack range. His passive, Theory of Everything, stacks Entanglement every time he or his Reverse-Clone lands a skill, ramping his Attack Speed and Movement Speed the longer he stays in the fight, and Entropy?'s clone can be swapped with at any moment to escape or reset a trade.
Landing Superposition and Interference! at the right range while managing the Reverse-Clone's position and swap timing takes real practice.
Max Superposition first for the burst poke damage, level Interference! second for the utility and cooldown, and take Entropy? at levels 4, 8 and 12.
Natan gains a stack of Entanglement each time he or his Reverse-Clone hits an enemy with a skill (up to 6 stacks). Each stack lasts 2.5 seconds and grants 7.5% extra Attack Speed and 7.5% Movement Speed.
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“Time is nothing more than a descriptor of space…”
Always active — no cooldown
Natan shoots a dense mass of energy, dealing 225–400 (+100% Total Physical Attack) (+130% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to enemies along its path.
“There is no "collapse".”
Natan launches a Gravitational Attractor which carries enemies on contact along the path and deals 150–300 (+50% Total Physical Attack) (+65% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to them. The attractor explodes upon reaching the end, knocking back nearby enemies, stunning them for 0.1 second, and dealing 30–55 (+10% Total Physical Attack) (+13% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to them.
“There is only "decoherence".”
Natan summons a Reverse-Clone at a target location 6 units away that lasts 10s, inherits 35% / 37.5% / 40% of his attack attributes (and 35% of Natan's attack effects), and will copy his moves and attacks in reverse. Use Again: Natan switches places with the Reverse-Clone. Cooldown: 12 seconds. Each cast reduces other skills' remaining cooldowns by 50%. The Reverse-Clone will disappear if Natan is too far away.
“Entropy can decrease.”
Signature combo
Core items in buy order, with the emblem, talents and battle spell that go with them.
6,990g total
Default pick for a normal game where you farm to a full six items.
Battle spell
Flicker120s CDThe 'Flicker combo' — blinking in right as a hook or stun lands, or blinking out the instant an enemy ultimate is cast — is the single most common high-elo outplay moment in the game.
Swap in when needed
Sea Halberd — Against enemy lifesteal or sustain fighters who out-heal your poke.
Blade Armor — Against enemy crit marksmen punishing you in extended auto-attack trades.
Queen's Wings — Against dive comps once you become the priority kill target.
Wind of Nature — Two full seconds of physical damage immunity to survive a dive before Entropy?'s clone-swap is ready.
7,690g total
Against a stacked-defense tank line walling off your raw basic-attack DPS.
Battle spell
Purify90s CDPurify does not clear suppression (e.g. Franco's Bloody Hunt or Khufra's ultimate) — a common mistake is trusting it to escape a hook combo it can't actually cleanse.
Swap in when needed
Ice Queen Wand — Against dash-heavy assassins closing the gap on your ramp-up.
Winter Crown — As insurance against burst combos before Entropy?'s clone-swap is ready.
Queen's Wings — Against dive comps focusing you down early.
The heroes that make this matchup hard, and the mechanic that does it.
NolanAssassinHardNolan's Gauge dash and backward-dash ultimate close distance faster than Natan can kite, and Fracture's burst can kill him before Entropy?'s 12-second clone-swap cooldown is ready to bail him out.
ArlottFighter · AssassinHardDauntless Strike stuns Natan for a full second at the edge of its area, and Demon Gaze then Marks him so Vengeance charges in for double damage and refreshes itself — all before Entropy?'s 12-second swap is back.
BaxiaTankHardBaxia Mark cuts a flat amount off every single instance of damage he takes, and Natan's kit lands in exactly that pattern — Superposition, Interference! and the Reverse-Clone's mirrored shots all arrive as separate small hits.
KarinaAssassinHardShadow Combo's third consecutive hit adds True Damage off his lost HP and Shadow Assault resets outright on a kill, so she can delete a squishy Natan before Entanglement stacks or the Reverse-Clone escape matter.
NataliaAssassinHardAssassin Instinct teleports her behind an isolated Natan with a silence attached, and she can sit in a bush and re-enter Camouflage the moment he repositions with Entropy?.
SaberAssassinHardSaber's Triple Sweep locks its target in place for the full duration, and against a hero with no hard CC-breaking tool like Natan, that's a guaranteed kill window regardless of Entropy?'s cooldown.
GrangerMarksmanSoftRhapsody's guaranteed-crit sixth shot out-trades Natan's basic-attack ramp-up in a direct lane duel, and Rondo's dash refunds Gun Energy on the way out, so he leaves the trade faster than Entanglement stacks build.
LolitaSupport · TankSoftGuardian's Reflection blocks and reflects projectiles for 3 seconds, which is most of what Natan throws, and Noumenon Blast's charged stun catches a hero whose only escape is on a 12-second cooldown.
BelerickTankSoftWrath of Dryad taunts Natan into attacking Belerick, and Deadly Thorns fires back off the damage he pours in, punishing his basic-attack-reliant kit either way.
KaleaSupport · FighterSoftKalea's kit is built around relentless close-range dueling pressure and gap-closing, letting her get on top of Natan and force a fight before his Entanglement stacks or basic-attack ramp-up can punish her from range.Winter CrownBlunts a full Superposition-into-Interference combo with a brief burst-negation window.
Tough BootsCuts the stun on Interference! and reduces how long you're locked out of repositioning.
Dominance IceIts 40 Magic Defense and 40 Physical Defense blunt both halves of his hybrid damage as Entanglement stacks.Blade ArmorReflects basic attack damage back at him, punishing his auto-attack-reliant playstyle directly.Heroes whose own counter list names Natan — the same matchup, read from the other side.
GlooTankSoftNatan's Reverse-Clone mirrors his attacks from a second angle, doubling his ranged output so he burns Gloo down before Gloo ever gets close enough to stack Sticky.
JohnsonTank · SupportSoftNatan's Interference! gravity pull can yank Johnson off his intended line the moment Full Throttle launches, and his long range lets him poke Johnson down before the car ever arrives.
SunFighterSoftInterference! pulls a whole cluster of targets together and Natan's follow-up damage hits everyone in that zone regardless of identity, so Sun's Doppelganger deception buys nothing once the group is yanked into one spot.
SuyouAssassin · FighterSoftEntropy?'s Reverse-Clone lets Natan pour Superposition damage from two angles at once from well outside Blade Surge's dash range, and swapping places with it removes him from Suyou's melee window entirely. His kit rewards kiting rather than trading in close.
ZhaskMageSoftNatan's Superposition out-ranges Zhask's poke and his Reverse-Clone doubles every shot back at him, so the Mind Eater trade never comes out ahead.Duo partners whose kit completes this one.
FannyAssassinInterference!'s knockback and Superposition's poke soften a target's HP, letting Fanny finish with Cut Throat's leap before they can react.
YinFighter · AssassinYin's ultimate isolates a single target away from their team's peel, giving Natan a safe window to land Superposition and Interference! without being punished for it.SaberAssassinSaber's Triple Sweep locks a target fully in place, giving Natan a guaranteed window to land his full magic burst combo without them moving out of Interference!'s knockback line.NataliaAssassinNatalia's stealth-ambush burst opens a fight cleanly, and Natan can follow up with Superposition on whatever survives while she resets for the next target.
ValentinaMageValentina can copy a key enemy ultimate and unleash it alongside Natan's own Superposition-into-Interference! combo, doubling the burst in a single engage window.ArlottFighter · AssassinDauntless Strike's one-second stun locks a target in place, giving Natan a free window to land Interference! and Superposition without any risk of them escaping.
NovariaMageNovaria's Astral Echo enlarges a target's hitbox and reveals them, making it far easier for Natan's Superposition and Interference! to land — and every landed skill is another Entanglement stack.
ChipSupport · TankCrash Course's shield covers Natan mid-combo and Overtime's charge knocks back anyone trying to punish his exposed basic-attack ramp-up, buying the time his kit needs to pay off.
ZhuxinMageLantern Flare and Crimson Beacon's field apply sustained AoE magic pressure that softens a target's HP, letting Natan finish them off with Superposition at full Entanglement stacks.
MathildaSupport · AssassinGuiding Wind's field shields Natan and pulls him along with Mathilda's own speed boost, letting him reposition into range for Superposition or chase a target down with Entropy?.Knock enemies toward your team with Interference! before following up with Superposition for the full combo
Use Entropy?'s Use Again swap defensively to escape burst combos, not just offensively to reposition
Stack Entanglement before a fight by poking with Superposition so the Attack Speed and Movement Speed buffs are active when it starts
Position the Reverse-Clone at a choke point so its reversed movement threatens an angle enemies aren't watching
He's moderately difficult — his damage output is straightforward, but managing the Reverse-Clone's position and timing Entropy?'s swap defensively takes real practice, and new players often forget the clone entirely.
Swift Boots into Golden Staff, Windtalker, and Berserker's Fury covers the standard hybrid path, since raw Physical Attack still scales his Magic Damage skills at a strong ratio. Switch to Genius Wand and Divine Glaive against stacked magic defense.
Baxia Mark's flat per-instance reduction punishes his multi-hit combo pattern, Saber's Triple Sweep locks him down with no way to escape, and Arlott's stun-into-Vengeance chain kills him before the clone-swap is back.
Marksman emblem with Fatal for crit, Weapons Master for scaling stats, and Weakness Finder to punish targets he's already tagged with his combo.
