Enfeeble
на цельDeals damage every second and lowers the enemy's total attack damage and cast range.
Pros max it by level 12
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Bane
Bane: Ranged, position 5 (hard support), Disabler, Nuker, Durable. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 48.5% win rate in pubs and a 2.7% pick rate.
Bane brings terror to his enemies with his arsenal of disabling abilities. Whether trapping a foe within a contagious nightmare, or gripping an enemy in place, he gives allies all the time they need to slay their enemy.
Rangedposition 5 (hard support)DisablerNukerDurable
48.5%Win rate · all pubs
2.7%picked in 1 of 37 games
46.8%Turbo · 48,616 games
Complexity: medium
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Bane
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
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6′6′9′10′Core
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14′22′22′Core items in order: Arcane Boots (around minute 14), Ogre Axe (around minute 22), Point Booster (around minute 22).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 12
lv 15
lv 17
11+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction16+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain18-3s Nightmare Cooldown
Max Nightmare, then Enfeeble, then Brain Sap.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Meepo, Omniknight and Lycan; easiest: Shadow Fiend, Storm Spirit and Muerta.
All 115 opponents →4How much to farm?
334average372good419great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 334 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 419.
5Common mistakes by role
Late to fightsSaw the threat and stayedWards dewarded fastFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
Compare your Bane match with this cheat sheet
The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.
Review my matchMistake guides for the support role
- Late to fightsJoined a fight more than 10 seconds after it started, and it cost the team.
- Saw the threat and stayedThe enemies were visible in advance, but you stayed and died.
- Wards dewarded fastThe enemy removed half or more of your observer wards.
- Caught while smokedYour team smoked up and lost more heroes than it killed.
Picked by the hero's role. Once the hero has 20 reviews, its real common mistakes show up here.
AI coach
A review of your Bane game
Sign in with Steam and pick a match: the coach reads the replay second by second and in a couple of minutes shows where the game slipped.
- Every death and fight becomes a moment on the map: the fog of war as you saw it, and what the enemy saw that second.
- Your pace against the Bane benchmark: 334 GPM for an average player, 372 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Arcane Boots by minute 14, and the coach shows where you lose time.
- Five-game homework the coach checks in your next review, plus a chat with the coach about the match.
Review my matchA month of subscription as a gift, no card and no auto-renewal.How a match review works
Pro build by minute
Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′40′Starting
6′38%
6′67%
9′90%
10′52%
10′23%14′28%22′22%22′34%
24′34%
28′35%
33′55%
36′37%
6′38%6′67%9′90%10′52%10′23%14′28%22′22%22′34%24′34%28′35%33′55%36′37%Skill build
21% of 96 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction
- Lvl 16+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain
- Lvl 18-3s Nightmare Cooldown
Brain Sap
на цельFeasts on the vital energies of an enemy unit, healing Bane and dealing damage.
Pros max it by level 15
Nightmare
на цельPuts the target enemy or friendly Hero to sleep. Sleeping units walk in Bane's chosen direction and are awakened when damaged. If the target was directly attacked, the Nightmare passes to the attacking unit. Bane can attack and damage Nightmared targets freely. Can be put on alt-cast to have the target stand still.
Pros max it by level 7
Fiend's Grip
на цель, поддерживаемаяCHANNELED - Grips an enemy unit, disabling it and causing heavy damage over time, while stealing mana every 0.5 seconds based on the unit's maximum mana.
Pros max it by level 17
Ichor of Nyctasha
пассивная · innateEvery time Bane kills an enemy hero or they die under the effect of Bane's debuff, they receive a Terror for the rest of the game that decreases their status resistance to Bane's subsequent debuffs.
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Fiend's Grip.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Brain Sap.
+275 Brain Sap Damage/Heal25+3s Fiend's Grip Duration
-3s Nightmare Cooldown20+30 Movement Speed
+13 Enfeeble Damage Per Second15+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain
+125 Brain Sap Cast Range10+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction
Matchups
Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games
Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.
Who to pick against Bane: counter picks →Benchmarks on the hero
Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
Gold per minute
average 334good 372great 419
Experience per minute
average 502good 606great 713
Last hits per minute
average 0.9good 1.3great 3.2
Hero damage per minute
average 323good 434great 574
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: mediumIt does best in Divine (50.6% wins) and wins 46.8% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 5 (hard support) in 96% of games. Pros usually build Arcane Boots, Ogre Axe and Point Booster by minute 22. It struggles most against Meepo, Omniknight and Lycan and has the easiest time against Shadow Fiend, Storm Spirit and Muerta.