Grimstroke Mobile Legends Hero Guide
- Role: Support, Nuker, Disabler, Escape
# Grimstroke A masterful painter whose ambitions led to catastrophic consequences, Grimstroke commands the corrupted essence of ink itself as both weapon and curse. ## Origin Grimstroke was once the chosen guardian of Ashkavor, selected to perform the sacred ritual of ascension—a binding ceremony that would fuse his soul with those of his people, granting him immense protective power. However, his pursuit of strength beyond conventional limits proved his undoing. In his preparations, he augmented his ritual inks with droplets of ichor to amplify their potency, violating ancient prohibitions in the process. ## The Corruption As Grimstroke inscribed the final strokes upon the ascension runestone, the contaminated ink unleashed catastrophic consequences. The binding spell spiraled beyond his control, and a dark corruption erupted from the runestone, consuming his body in an overwhelming tide of tainted ink. Desperate to contain the corruption consuming him, Grimstroke instinctively drew upon the nascent bond linking him to his people, draining their collective life force in an attempt to resist the spreading darkness. Facing certain death, Grimstroke discovered an desperate solution: the bidirectional nature of the ascension bond. In a final act of desperation, he reversed the flow, channeling the entire corrupted ink torrent through the connection and into his people themselves. While this act saved his life, it transformed the Ashkavoran people into grotesque, ink-formed entities—no longer human, but creatures of living shadow and viscous darkness. Now bound to these twisted remnants of his people through the corrupted bond, Grimstroke wields his brush as an instrument of shadow, forever marked by the price of his forbidden knowledge.
Grimstroke Skills
- Stroke of Fate (Passive): Grimstroke paints a curved path of ink with his brush, damaging and slowing enemies. The damage is increased with each enemy the ink hits.<br><br> Can be put on alt-cast to have the path be straight.
- Phantom's Embrace: Summons a phantom that moves quickly towards the target, latching to it when she arrives. Once latched, the phantom damages and silences. If she survives the full latch duration she rends her victim for heavy damage and refreshes Phantom's Embrace's cooldown. Hero attacks against the phantom count as 3 attacks each.
- Ink Swell: Grimstroke shrouds an allied unit in ink, increasing its movement speed. Enemies in range of the allied unit are damaged with inky tendrils over time. After %buff_duration% seconds it applies damage and stun in an area around the unit in proportion to how long ink tendril was near any hero.
- Dark Portrait: Creates an ink illusion of a target enemy hero. Illusion is debuff immune, has %immunity_resist%%% magic resistance, and has bonus movement speed and attack damage.
- Soulbind: Binds a targeted enemy hero to its nearest allied hero within the bind radius, preventing both from moving away from each other. Any unit-targeted ability that either bound hero receives also gets cast on the other hero. If the bind is broken before the duration expires, the initial target will be bound to its nearest allied hero in the radius.
- Ink Trail: Grimstroke's attacks and spells cause affected enemy heroes to leave a trail of Ink behind them and deal less damage to Grimstroke for %debuff_duration%s.