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Li-Ming
Li-MingArt
Basic Info
Title Rebellious Wizard
Role Ranged Assassin Ranged Assassin
Difficulty Medium
Franchise Diablo (franchise) Diablo
Price Gem625 / Money7,000
Release Date February 2, 2016
Base Stats
Attack Type Ranged
Health 1270
Health Regen 2.6458
Resource 500 Mana
Unit Radius 0.625
Attack Speed 1.00
Attack Range 5.5
Attack Damage 63
Data Page

Li-Ming, the Rebellious Wizard, is a ranged assassin hero from the Diablo franchise.[1] It’s a generally agreed upon fact of life among the denizens of Sanctuary that wizards and magical mayhem are never far apart. Although she understands people’s concerns, Li-Ming is entirely unapologetic for the destruction in her wake. She delights in unleashing devastating spells on her foes from afar, then teleporting away to frustrate her enemies’ attempts at striking back. Small minds may fear this kind of power, but Li-Ming wields the arcane forces of the universe with confidence and unmatched skill.[2]

Li-Ming is a burst damage mage who can reset her abilities upon getting a takedown.

Background

Diablo (franchise) This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Li-Ming was born in Xiansai and brought to the Yshari Sanctum by the sorceress Isendra at the age of seven. Archmage Valthek decided to train her personally after he caught her studying forbidden spells. Li-Ming refused to ignore the needs of people around Caldeum, and saved the city of Lut Bahadur from drought by bringing water back. However, the attention of the Mage Clans was focused on Isendra.

Li-Ming discovered Isendra's mangled body shortly after the sorceress was assassinated in the eastern desert. She concluded that Isendra died unnaturally, and confronted Valthek. Even though he tried to stop Li-Ming, she left the Sanctum after besting him in combat. Li-Ming ventured to New Tristram, pursuing a sighting of a fallen star.

Abilities

Critical Mass Icon
Critical Mass

Getting a Takedown will refresh the cooldown on all of Li-Ming's Abilities.


  • This includes all Basic, Heroic and Activatable Abilities, unless otherwise noted.
Magic Missiles Icon
Q
Magic Missiles
20 Mana Cooldown: 3 seconds

Fire three missiles toward an area, each dealing 147 damage to the first enemy hit. These missiles do 50% damage to Structures.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 3.49121094%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Clamping, Skillshot
Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds
Range: 12.0
Hitbox: 0.5 x 1.6
Missile speed: 13.0
Initial missile spacing: 3.0
Initial delay: 0.1875 seconds

  • Damage reduction against Structures stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers.
Arcane Orb Icon
W
Arcane Orb
40 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Fire an orb that powers up as it travels, dealing 135 damage to the first enemy hit. Damage is increased the farther it travels, up to 270 more damage.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 3.00292969%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Clamping, Skillshot, Splash
Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds
Range: 13.5
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius:
- Hitbox (initial): 0.25
- Splash: 3.0
Missile speed: 9.0

  • Upon hitting a target the Orb explodes, dealing area damage.
  • Units that are immune to skillshots cannot trigger the explosion, but can be damaged by it.
  • Hit detection radius is increased by 0.09 and damage is increased by 16.875 every 0.0625 seconds the orb travels.
  • Arcane Orb's damage can increase up to 16 times, causing it to reach its maximum damage after travelling for 1.0 second (9.0 range).
Teleport Icon
E
Teleport
30 Mana Cooldown: 5 seconds

Teleport a short distance instantly.


Type: Movement: Teleport
Affects: Self
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Clamping
Cast time: Instant
Range: 4.0

Disintegrate Icon
R
Disintegrate
80 Mana Cooldown: 20 seconds

Channel a powerful beam, dealing 480 damage over 2.6 seconds to enemies while they are in it. The direction of the beam changes with your mouse cursor position.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 5.00488281%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target / Cursor tracking
Cast time: Instant
Area of Effect: Rectangle
Width: 1.0
Height: 16.0
Tickrate: 16.0 per second (x40)
Damage per tick: 12
Wave Of Force Icon
R
Wave of Force
80 Mana Cooldown: 30 seconds

Knock away all enemies from an area and deal 160 damage.


Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control
Scaling: 5.00488281%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Cast time: Instant
Range: 8.5
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.0
Impact delay: 0.25 seconds
Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds
Knockback speed: 18.0

Talents

1
Force Armor Icon
Force Armor

When Magic Missiles damages an enemy Hero, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability, reducing the damage taken by 50%. Can only gain 1 charge per cast, up to 4 charges maximum.

Passive: Li Ming's Mana regeneration is increased by 100% while below 35% Mana.


Type: Defensive damage modifier
Affects: Self

  • Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Aether Walker Icon
Aether Walker

Teleport costs no Mana. If Li-Ming hasn't taken damage in the last 3 seconds, Teleport's cooldown is decreased by 2 seconds. Casting Teleport causes Li-Ming's next cast of Magic Missiles to deal 10% bonus damage.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Ability

  • Does not stack with itself.
  • Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Magic Missiles's damage.
Power Hungry Icon
Power Hungry

Regeneration Globes restore 100% more Mana and grant 10% Spell Power for 20 seconds.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Spell Power

  • Does not stack with itself. Subsequent Globes refresh the duration.
  • Stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers affecting Li-Ming's Spell Damage.
  • Only increases Spell Damage, not healing dealt, despite the tooltip.
4
Charged Blast Icon
Charged Blast

Basic Attacking a target recently hit by a Magic Missile does an extra 87 damage.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00390625%
Affects: Enemies
Properties: Debuff

Triumvirate Icon
Triumvirate

If Arcane Orb hits an enemy Hero after traveling at least 50% of its base range, the cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds and 40 Mana is refunded.


Distance threshold: 6.75

  • Distance threshold is unaffected by the range increase from Arcane Orbit.
Dominance Icon
Dominance

Takedowns restore 30% of Li Ming's missing Health.


Type: Healing
Scaling: -
Affects: Self
7
Seeker Icon
Seeker

If three Magic Missiles hit the same target, the third one deals an additional 140 damage.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00390625%
Affects: Enemies

  • Damage is dealt in a separate instance of Spell Damage.
Zeis Vengeance Icon
Zei's Vengeance

Increase Arcane Orb's damage increase for distance traveled by 30%. Additionally, reduce its cooldown by 1 second.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Ability

  • Cooldown reduction is permanent.
  • Only affects the distance-based portion of Arcane Orb's damage, effectively increasing Arcane Orb's total damage by up to 20%.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Arcane Orb's damage.
Calamity Icon
Calamity

Teleport does 300 damage to enemy Heroes near your destination.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 3.00292969%
Affects: Enemy Heroes
Properties: Area of Effect
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 2.5
10
Disintegrate Icon
Disintegrate

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Channel a powerful beam, dealing 480 damage over 2.6 seconds to enemies while they are in it. The direction of the beam changes with your mouse cursor position.

Wave Of Force Icon
Wave Of Force

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Knock away all enemies from an area and deal 160 damage.

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Illusionist Icon
Illusionist

If Li-Ming loses more than 20% of her Health at once, Teleport's cooldown is instantly refreshed.
This effect has a 4 second cooldown.
Passive: Increases Teleport's range by 50%.


Bonus range: 2.0

  • Based on Li-Ming's maximum Health.
  • This cooldown is not reset by Critical Mass.
Cannoneer Icon
Cannoneer

When Li-Ming uses an Ability, her next Basic Attack's damage is increased by 75% and deals Spell Damage instead of Physical. Stacks up to 3 times.


Type: Spell Damage / Offensive damage modifier
Scaling: -
Affects: Enemies / Ability
Properties: Attack Modifier

  • Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Li-Ming's Spell Damage.
Glass Cannon Icon
Glass Cannon

Increase Li-Ming's Spell Power by 20%, but decrease her maximum Health by 15%.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Spell Power

  • Stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers affecting Li-Ming's Spell Damage.
  • Only increases Spell Damage, not healing dealt, despite the tooltip.
16
Fireflies Icon
Fireflies

Drastically increases Magic Missiles's speed. Its cooldown is reduced by 1 second and its Mana cost is reduced by 5.


Missile speed: 20.0
Mirrorball Icon
Mirrorball

Magic Missiles fires an additional 2 missiles, but its Mana cost is increased by 5.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 3.49121094%
Affects: Enemies

  • Additional missiles from Mirrorball benefit from all talents affecting Magic Missiles.
Arcane Orbit Icon
Arcane Orbit

Arcane Orb travels 25% farther, increasing its maximum distance damage bonus from 270 to 371.


Bonus range: 3.375

  • Raises the cut-off point of the damage increase by 6 ticks. The distance scaling rate remains the same, causing only long range Arcane Orbs to be affected.
Diamond Skin Icon
Diamond Skin

Teleport grants a Shield equal to 25% of Li-Ming's maximum Health for 4 seconds.


Type: Shield
Scaling: -
Affects: Self
20
Temporal Flux Li-Ming Icon
Temporal Flux

Disintegrate gradually Slows enemies caught in its beam, to a maximum of 60%.


Type: Crowd control
Affects: Enemies
Properties: Slow
Slowing rate: 1.5% per tick
Slow duration: 0.1875 seconds

  • Stacks additively with itself, but not with other Slow effects.
Repulsion Icon
Repulsion

Increases Wave of Force's knockback distance by 150% and increases its cast range by 100%.


Bonus cast range: 8.5
Bonus knockback duration: 0.25 seconds
Bonus knockback speed: 8.0
Tal Rasha's Elements Icon
Tal Rasha's Elements

Casting Abilities increases the damage of the next Ability by 5%, up to a maximum of 20%. This bonus is reset when the same Ability is used within a chain.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Self

  • Damage bonus is added and validated after the Ability has been cast. In case the bonus is reset, the Ability that reset the bonus still benefits from the damage increase.
  • Using any Ability twice within a 4 Ability chain resets the bonus.
  • Upon reaching 20% bonus, the next Ability used resets the bonus.
  • Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect the cast Ability's damage.
Archon Pure Power Icon
Archon: Pure Power

Cooldown: 10 / 1.0 seconds


Active: Activate to enter Archon form, allowing Li-Ming to repeatedly use Disintegrate, but be unable to cast other Abilities.

Type: Transformation
Affects: Self
Targeting: No target
Cast time: Instant
Transformation time: 0.75 seconds
Disintegrate toggle cooldown: 1.0 seconds

  • Archon form lasts indefinitely once cast and can be disabled by reactivating the Ability. Cooldown starts upon leaving Archon form.
  • Entering Archon form replaces Wave of Force and Disintegrate with Archon's Disintegrate, which has no Mana cost and can be freely toggled on and off.
  • Archon's Disintegrate has a separate cooldown from normal Disintegrate.
  • Li-Ming is unable to mount while in Archon form.

Skins

  • Rebellious Wizard
    • Backstory: The derogatory moniker "wizard" is often given to mages with rebellious attitudes or an obsession with power. Li-Ming displays a little of both and she's hardly ashamed of it. After all, who are they to judge a wielder of limitless arcane magic?
    • Price: Gem10,000 / Money9.99
  • Master Master
    • Backstory: Once, only wizards who had spent countless hours braving the inferno were able to attain the fabled archon armor. Those who adorned it were both respected and feared. Then came transmog...
    • Price: Gem10,000 / Money (requires Hero Level 10)
  • Epic Star Princess
    • Backstory: For eons, Earth has been protected by the magical Star Princesses. Together, they stand against the evil Eternal Empire and its Space Lords in the name of love and friendship.
    • Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
    • Skin Features: Themed Abilities. Magic Missiles and Arcane Orbs are shaped like stars. Teleport, Disintegrate, Wave of Force, and Hearthstone also create stars when used.
    • Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Eternal Empire skins.
  • Epic Striker
    • Backstory: Li-Ming is an avid student of magic, but it was her skills on the court that scored her a scholarship at the Yshari Sanctum. As team captain, she intends to lead the Vizjerei Fireflies to victory.
    • Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
    • Skin Features: Themed abilities. All her spells launch volleyballs, and she plays with a ball when hearthing.
    • Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of sports skins.
  • Epic Lunar
    • Backstory: To Li-Ming, the Lunar Festival of the Nexus was not so dissimilar from those of her homeland, Xiansai. Donning her favored finery, she joined in celebration with a nostalgic joy.
    • Price: Template:9
    • Skin Features: Themed abilities. All of her abilities make firework noises. Magic Missiles are red envelopes. Arcane Orb explodes into coins. Teleport leaves behind a small firework explosion. Disintegrate also launches red envelopes in addition to its beam.
    • Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.

Trivia

  • Li-Ming represents the wizard class from Diablo III (2012).
  • Li-Ming is the protagonist of the short story Firefly.[3]
  • Li-Ming is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
  • Her Star Princess skin seems to be a reference to both western female superheroes (with an appearance close to that of She-Ra) and Japanese magical girls (indicated in the description).
  • The second tint of Li-Ming's Star Princess skin may reference Sailor Jupiter from the Sailor Moon series.
  • The first tint of Li-Ming's Striker skin may reference the Chinese Olympic team's uniforms, while the second and third reference those of the United States and Brazil, respectively.
  • The fourth tint of Li-Ming's default palatte resembles the the Mariner's Dye pigment from Diablo III
  • Li-Ming is the the fourth spellcaster hero in the game, the first six being Jaina Proudmoore, Nazeebo, Kael'thas Sunstrider, Chromie, Medivh, and Gul'dan.
  • One of Li-Ming's quotes references the running joke about Darkness.
  • Li-Ming isn't sure how her mentor Isendra (the sorceress from Diablo II) was able to teleport so often and without a cooldown.
  • Li-Ming is the only hero who calls out her own kill streaks.
  • Li-Ming is 19 years old.
  • Li-Ming is the only hero with a max Damage scale of the official Heroes of the Storm website.

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