Types of Initiators:
- AOE damage (direct or over time)
- AOE lockdown (slows, stuns, movement restrictions, positioning)
- AOE debuffs (silences and debuffs)
- Isolation (separates a hero from their team for a pick-off)
Examples of Initiator by Type
AOE Damage:
- Earthshaker (Echo Slam)
- Sand King (Epicenter)
- Elder Titan (Earthsplitter)
AOE Lockdown:
- Enigma (Black Hole)
- Disruptor (Static Storm + Kinetic Field)
- Warlock (Chaotic Offering + Upheaval)
- Puck (Dream Coil)
- Medusa (Stone Gaze)
- Naga (Song)
- Faceless Void (Chronosphere)
- Magnus (Reverse Polarity)
AOE Slows
- Beastmaster (Roar)
- Brewmaster (Thunder Clap)
- Crystal Maiden (Nova, Blizzard)
- Wraith King (Ressurection)
- Gyrocopter (Call Down)
- Omniknight (aura)
- Invoker (Ice Wall, Ghost Walk)
- Lich (Frost Blast - small AOE)
- Medusa (Stone Gaze)
- Riki (Smoke Screen)
- Sand King (Epi)
- Timbersaw (Chakram)
- Tusk (Ward)
- Warlock (Upheaval)
- Ursa (Earthshock)
- Venomancer (Venomous Gale)
AOE Debuffs
- Dazzle (Weave)
- Warlock (Fatal Bonds)
- Elder Titan (Natural Order aura)
Isolation:
- Vengeful Spirit (Nether Swap)
- Batrider (Lasso)
- Magnus (Blink + Skewer)
- Clockwerk (Hook + Cogs = Isolate 1 hero, split enemy team around Cogs)
