I let myself group myths into several categories. SPOILERCEPTION!
PASSIVE ITEM BONUSES ON ILLUSIONSAny stats and raw armor bonuses from items like blademail are fully transferred to illusions.
*Applies to all bonuses from hero skills as well*
Illusions get bonus raw hp (and mana) from all Booster items and their upgrades.
Illusions get bonus raw damage from items like Divine rapier.
Illusions get raw Increased Attack Speed (IAS) bonus from items like hyperstone.
*Only bonus agility and some auras work*
Illusions can't use orbs, like Corruption from Stygian Desolator or any Lifesteal.
*In certain cases, Feedback from Diffusal Blade and frost attack from Eye of Skadi doesn't follow this rule*
Ranged illusions can break mana with Diffusal Blade.
*Visual and sound only create illusion of Feedback, full effect is exclusive only to melee illusions.*
Tryhard pun.
Ranged illusions maintain frost attack from Eye of Skadi (because it's not orb on ranged heroes).
*Melee illusions cannot achieve this, however*
All illusions benefit from Critical strikes and evasion from items like Crystalys or Butterfly.
*All Crit and Evasions sources apply, including hero passives*
Illusions benefit from bonus hp/mana regeneration from items like Perserverance.
*Regeneration can't be increased in any way beside increasing strenght or intelligence.*
Illusions can't Cleave with Battle Fury.
*Applies to hero passives as well*
Illusions maintain bonus Strength (and therfore health) from activated Armlet of Mordiggian, without suffering health degeneration.
*It can be very effective for Strenght illusion heroes like Chaos Knight*
Illusions can maim with Sange, Sange and Yasha, or Heaven's Halberd.
Damage block from Vanguard protects illusions.
*All damage reducing passives follow this rule*
Monkey King Bar's Truestrike works on illusions.
*Minibash however, is fake, and deals bonus damage only on ranged heroes*
Quick summary.
Illusions benefit from:
-Stats (str/agi/int) - special mention to Armlet
-Raw HP / mana from boosters
-Armor
-Crits and Evasion (Truestrike included)
-Melee Feedback
-Ranged Frost attack from Skadi
Illusions will not be granted any bonuses from:
-IAS items
-+dmg items
-All remaining orbs
-cleave
-Damage Block (vanguard and all passives)
ILLUSIONS AND AURASIllusions can carry any aura, and grant it's benefits to allies.
*Exceptions are Essence Aura and Heartstopper aura, which benefits are triggered*
Illusions can benefit from any aura.
*Auras leave fake buffs and visuals on illusions. Damage and armor will not increase, Lifesteal won't work either.*
Illusions can benefit from all Endurance auras, like Janggo.
tip: check for ms bonus from janggo, easiest to notice
*Other examples: Inner beast, Centaur Khan Endirance aura, all Yasha buffs*
Illusion can carry Radiance AoE burn aura.
*It works fine since it is aura based as well.[/b]
Quick summary:
-Illusions carry all auras including less obvious ones like Radiance, except Essence and Hearstopper aura (triggered)
-Illusions will only benefit from Endurance aura based buffs.
-Any aura-oriented visuals on illusions are fake.
ILLUSIONS AND CERTAIN HERO ABILTIESIllusions can bash with Void's Timelock or Slardar's Bash.*Bash is fake, there is only visual. Cranium basher and Greater bash will never work on illusions.*
Conuter Helix on works completely on Axe's illusions.Centaur's illusions Return damage when attacked.*Returned damage, however, is reduced according to illusion Damage Reducion, unlike in Helix case.*
Goblin's greed allows illusions to generate bonus gold, however counter is independant from main hero.Transformed (Example: Shapeshifted Lycan) heroes will spawn transformed illusions via illusion rune.Manta Style will dispel all timed transformations (except Chemical Rage) before spawning illusions, unless shiftqueued right after using transformation.Will batrider's illusions have permanent firefly(not the flame but the ability to go thru cliffs and stuff like that) if you are using batriders firefly when you take illusion rune?
- Looks really funny with scouting and stuff =)))
Ursas illusions will not increase Fury Swipes buff counter. However, they can refresh buff duration, and deal bonus damage based on current counter (unreduced).All toggleable transformations, like Troll Warlord's Berserker rage keep it's benefits on illusions from any source.*Other heroes are Syllabear and Medusa*
TIPS AND TRICKS WITH ILLUSIONSIssuing Move command on Roshan will prevent illusions from disappearing instantly*You can use them to tank Roshan for you*
You can not take agro from creeps when u put attack on illusions
You can use manta with courier if u have mana(from bloodstone or soul booster)... Useless but fun! :D
Druids bear can use manta if he has mana(Bloodstone or soul booster).
Voids illuisons can move and attack under chronosphere...
Using manta with windrunner after using ulti on some1 her ulti continues if you don't change the target...
Using manta with luna after using ulti the sentinel(at least I think it's called sentinel xD ) over her head dissapears so they can't tell by your ulti which one is not an illusion...(I think I've posted this already but nvm)
Mirror image (applies also to Manta Style) can dodge Thrall's Glimpse.
*Only if relocation happens during split time.*
Razor will get bonus damage if he casts Static Link on enemy illusions.
I'd turn this one into:
Certain abilties like Static link will instantly kill illusions*Other examples: Hex, Mana drain (After 1 second), Life drain*
Just to make it bit more informative. Yeah I like excess of info :P
If warlock uses fatal bonds on some1 and there are illusions in that bond you can deal greater dmg to the hero(es) by attacking illusions cause illusions recieve more dmg...
Illusions don't take increased damage from hp removal, like Heartstopper aura.*Other examples: Wave of terror, Urn of Shadows (nuke), Nightmare*
Using Manta Style or Mirror Image close to cliff around Roshan's den will reveal it for a moment*It's because Mirror image grants flying vision during split time.*