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The Doorman

~44.3% WR ~4.0% pick

Easy Pistol DisorientingMap ControlMind Games

Signature abilities4

Call Bell →

Doorway →

Luggage Cart →

Hotel Guest ult at lvl 6

Ability 1

Call Bell

18s

Instant cast

Throw out a call bell that deals Spirit Damage on impact. After a short delay it explodes, dealing additional Spirit Damage and causing affected enemies to suffer reduced weapon accuracy and movement slow. Can be shot to detonate early.

Charges

Charge cooldown

Duration

5.5m

Radius

1AP +1 Charge — Charges +1

2AP +40 Impact Damage +55 Explosion Damage — Impact Damage +30, Explosion Damage +40

5AP +5.5m Radius +Bell Lifetimes Bell Lifetime Improved Scaling — Projectile Fuse +26, Radius +4.5m, Impact Damage +0.4, Explosion Damage +0.4

Ability 2

Doorway

40s

Press

Place two connected doors in the world. Players and most projectiles entering one door will exit out through the other. The doors will close at the end of the duration. The two doors must be placed within the doorway distance of each other.

50m

Cast range

20s

Duration

70m

Doorway Distance

1AP Duration +15s

2AP Grants a Barrier first time traveling through doors — Combat barrier +250, Barrier Duration +12s, Combat barrier +1.5

5AP +50m Cast Range. +70m Doorway Distance and scales with Spirit Power. — Doorway Distance +45m, Cast range +30m, Doorway Distance +0.15

Ability 3

Luggage Cart

30s

Instant cast

Send out a luggage Cart that deals Spirit Damage and Pulls enemy heroes along its path. Can be alt cast with Alt Cast to target friendly heroes instead.

0.25s

Cast delay

25m

Cast range

Duration

Cart Damage

1AP Cart Damage +60

2AP +25m Cast Range +0 Damage on wall impact — Cast range +20m, Wall Impact Damage +75, Wall Impact Damage +0.6

5AP 30s Cooldown and 0s Stun on wall impact — Stun duration +1.25s, Cooldown -15s

Ability 4

Hotel Guest

120s

Press

Send the target's physical body to be a guest at the Baroness Hotel. The guest is to promptly make their way to the exit elevator, where they'll be sent back to their original position. A stay at the Baroness Hotel is paid for in Spirit Damage. Failure to check-out on time costs additional Spirit Damage.

Channel time

Cast range

6.5s

Duration

Damage

1AP 0 Stamina Drain and 120s Cooldown — Cooldown -25s, Stamina Drain +1

2AP +75 Damage +0s Stun on Failure to Check Out — Damage +150, Late Checkout Damage +150, Late Checkout Stun +1.5

5AP Unstoppable while the Baroness is occupied. 0s Cooldown on Failure to Check Out. — Unstoppable While Hotel Occupied +1, Late Checkout Cooldown +13s

Guidehow to play

The Doorman is a spirit-scaling control and mind-games hero who wins fights by removing the enemy's best player from them — Luggage Cart pins them to a wall, Call Bell wrecks their accuracy and slows them, and Hotel Guest banishes a hero to turn the skirmish into 5v4. Doorway gives your whole team mobility, ganks and an escape, so you amplify a roster rather than carry it. With ~755 HP, no innate dash and the universal base-HP cut, he's fragile and decision-heavy — pick him for positioning and timing, not as a beginner brawler.

Early game

Your pistol hits hard but fires slow, so treat it as a last-hit and deny tool plus the occasional poke headshot — don't try to out-DPS the lane. The real harass is Call Bell: rush Mystic Expansion so the bell covers the whole creep wave and the slow + accuracy debuff lets you win every trade. Hold Luggage Cart as a panic button — its long cast time means it's a counter to a dive, not an opener. You have zero escape until Doorway is online and you're item-dependent, so prioritize farm, don't shove past river without vision, and grab early Spirit so every ability starts scaling.

Mid game

This is your spike: stack Spirit and cooldown until Call Bell is basically always up, then bell-spam every contest. In chokes, slam Luggage Cart into a wall to stun a clump and drop the bell on the pinned pile. Open skirmishes by ulting the enemy initiator or carry for a free 5v4 while your team collapses. Doorway is your rotation and rescue button — gank a side lane through it, or door a low teammate out of a gank. He's outstanding at the king-of-the-hill Urn capture: Bell plus Cart clear the circle, Hotel Guest removes a defender, and Doorway reinforces or bails.

Late game

You're the teamfight controller, and you're glass — survivability items are mandatory and you sit behind the frontline. The dream open is Vortex Web to clump the enemy team, Luggage Cart to drag and wall-stun the whole pile, then Call Bell on top of them. Echo Shard or Refresher lets you banish two priority targets or re-run the entire combo, swinging a 5v5 toward 5v3. Don't ult to chase a kill — Hotel Guest is removal, they come back; use it to delete the one hero who decides the fight.

Combos & tricks

Cart-into-wall plus Bell is your bread and butter: angle Luggage Cart so it slams enemies into geometry for the stun, then bell the pinned pile so they can neither move nor shoot straight. Scale it up with Vortex Web first — clump them, Cart the clump into a wall, then Bell and ult. Throw Call Bell through your own Doorway to land it around a corner from an angle they can't see, or place a door so the explosion catches chasers. Most projectiles pass through Doorway, so you can eat or send back a Bebop hook or charged shot and door out of ganks. Echo Shard on Hotel Guest banishes two, and alt-cast Cart yanks a dying ally to safety or launches a diver into the backline.

Buildsbuy order matters

Laning1600

Mystic Expansion is the ~80% pick — a fat Call Bell radius that covers waves and harass. Extra Charge doubles your bell pressure, Mystic Burst and Extra Spirit pump early ability damage, and Enduring Speed patches the zero-mobility problem.

Mid game3200

Improved Spirit drives the bell-nuke curve while Rapid Recharge and Superior Cooldown keep Call Bell, Cart and Doorway on relentless uptime. Mystic Vulnerability and Slowing Hex chain off the bell's debuff to lock and amp a target; Fortitude buys you survival since you get dove.

Late game6400

Transcendent Cooldown

Boundless Spirit

Vortex Web is the playmaker — clump them for the Cart slam. Echo Shard double-banishes or double-Carts, Escalating Exposure and Mystic Reverb ramp the bell, Transcendent Cooldown gives near-permanent ability uptime and Boundless Spirit is the stat capstone.

Situational4000

Ethereal Shift is your panic invuln when there's no door out. Debuff Reducer answers heavy CC like Dynamo or Bebop, armor is picked to match the enemy's damage type, Knockdown locks a mobile target, and Refresher resets a second Hotel Guest plus Vortex teamfight.

Tips & tricks

→You can shoot the Call Bell to detonate it early — use it to time the explosion on a target who's about to peek.

→Luggage Cart has a long cast time. Don't open with it; save it to punish a dive by slamming the diver into a wall.

→Pre-place a Doorway toward safety before you commit — with no dash and the base-HP cut, your out has to be set up in advance.

→Hotel Guest is a 5v4 enabler, not a kill. Banish the enemy's initiator the instant a fight opens, not after they've already spent cooldowns.

→Alt-cast Luggage Cart targets a friendly — yank a low ally out of a gank or fling your diver into the enemy backline.

→Stack cooldown hard. A Doorman whose Call Bell is always up controls space; one waiting on cooldown is just a 755-HP body with a slow gun.

Common questions

Is The Doorman weapon or spirit?

Spirit by a wide margin. Call Bell, Luggage Cart and Hotel Guest all scale on Spirit and the meta build is the bell nuke. The pistol is for last-hits and poke headshots; gun-crit Doorman is a fringe, off-meta pick.

Is The Doorman good for beginners?

The buttons are simple to press, but he's fragile with no escape and a clunky Doorway and Cart cast, so he's easy to pick up and easy to feed. Treat him as a positioning and decision hero rather than a beginner carry.

What's his single best item?

Mystic Expansion early for the bell radius and Vortex Web late for the group-Cart combo. Rapid Recharge and Transcendent Cooldown keep the bells flowing, which is what makes the hero tick.

Who does The Doorman beat and struggle into?

He punishes immobile squishy carries like Vindicta, Grey Talon and Shiv, and Bebop — Doorway eats the hook and Cart pins him. He struggles into Dynamo, Mo & Krill and sustained dive like Haze that melts his low HP before he can set up.

Profilevs roster

Health 755

Regen 1/s

Move speed 7.9 m/s

Stamina 3

Burst DPS 46.5

Sustained 31.5

Range 58 m

Ammo 8

Primary weapon

Service With A Smile

Pistol

46.5

DPS

29.3

Bullet damage

1.6rps

Fire rate

Ammo

2.4s

Reload

31.5

Sustained DPS

Shots to down

23.55s

Time to kill

Weak-spot shots

234

Clip damage

vs 780 HP · body · no resist

Damage falloff100% → 10%

0m20m57.5m177.8m

Melee 50Light 116Heavy

Matchups

Plays well into

Struggles into

LoreSkins →

He's proper, he's polite, but the humble Doorman of The Baroness Hotel is more than meets the eye.

While he had only planned to experience life on this plane for a few weeks, The Doorman quickly discovered that the New York service industry was a great way to see the strange demands that please humans.

Win rate, skill order, builds and matchups are sample until the match API lands. Abilities, weapon math and the stat profile are real client data.

Update history3

You Can't Kill VictorAug 29, 2025

The Doorman and Paige was the closest contest, with only a 0.85% difference in favor of The Doorman

The Doorman, at your ServiceAug 22, 2025

Spotlight: The Doorman
He's proper, he's polite, but the humble Doorman of The Baroness Hotel is more than meets the eye. A brisk ring of his Call Bell leaves nearby enemies disoriented, and his high-speed Luggage Cart knocks them right off their feet. Do you find yourself getting lost easily in the streets of Manhattan? Don't worry, The Doorman is here to provide a shortcut with his Doorway whenever the need arises. And only the most special of enemies get to experience the trip of a lifetime to The Baroness Hotel.
You can check out The Doorman in game now. Keep your votes coming over the weekend as our next hero will be released on Monday August 25th at 2pm PST.

Six New HeroesAug 18, 2025

Cursed Apple: Mina the vampire, Billy the demonic goat, Paige who can bring books to life, The Doorman who's always at your service, Victor the monster who can't be stopped, and Drifter who terrorizes the city.

Raw data & APIopen JSON from the client

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