Shuriken Toss
на цельHurls a deadly shuriken at an enemy unit, dealing damage and slowing the target's movement speed. The shuriken will bounce to any Tracked units who are within a 1200 radius of each other.
Pros max it by level 10
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Bounty Hunter
Bounty Hunter: Melee, position 4 (soft support), Escape, Nuker. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 51.6% win rate in pubs and a 6.6% pick rate.
Sneaking invisibly at the heels of his enemies, Bounty Hunter is always keeping track of his foes. Whenever one of his targets falls in battle, he and his allies stand to make quite a profit.
Meleeposition 4 (soft support)EscapeNuker
51.6%Win rate · all pubs
6.6%picked in 1 of 15 games
46.9%Turbo · 124,548 games
Complexity: easy
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Bounty Hunter
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
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6′8′8′10′Core
17′
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17′24′26′Core items in order: Essence Distiller (around minute 17), Eul's Scepter of Divinity (around minute 24), Force Staff (around minute 26).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+0.35s Shuriken Toss Slow16-30% Damage Taken in Shadow Walk18+190 Shuriken Toss Damage
Max Shadow Walk, then Shuriken Toss, then Jinada.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Meepo, Lycan and Enigma; easiest: Shadow Fiend, Chen and Treant Protector.
All 126 opponents →4How much to farm?
391average462good530great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 391 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 530.
5Common mistakes by role
Caught while smokedDied on a rotationToo few wardsFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
Compare your Bounty Hunter 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
- Caught while smokedYour team smoked up and lost more heroes than it killed.
- Died on a rotationLeft your lane to help another one and died without getting a kill.
- Too few wardsA support placed fewer than 1.5 observer wards per 10 minutes.
- Death without informationKilled by enemies nobody could see, with no wards nearby.
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 Bounty Hunter 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 Bounty Hunter benchmark: 391 GPM for an average player, 462 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Essence Distiller by minute 17, 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′Starting
6′31%
8′36%
8′87%
10′35%
12′76%17′41%24′51%26′49%
33′39%
6′31%8′36%8′87%10′35%12′76%17′41%24′51%26′49%33′39%Skill build
26% of 90 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+0.35s Shuriken Toss Slow
- Lvl 16-30% Damage Taken in Shadow Walk
- Lvl 18+190 Shuriken Toss Damage
Jinada
на цель, автоприменение, Attack ModifierBounty Hunter plans his next hit, dealing bonus damage and stealing some unreliable gold.
Pros max it by level 15
Shadow Walk
без цели, мгновеннаяBounty Hunter becomes invisible and gains bonus movement speed and the ability to move through other units until he attacks or casts a spell. If he breaks the invisibility with an attack, that attack will stun the target for a short duration.
Pros max it by level 7
Big Game Hunter
пассивная · innateBounty Hunter receives 20% more kill and assist gold if the dying enemy hero is Big Game. An enemy hero is considered Big Game if they are one of the top 3 net worth heroes on the enemy team.
Track
на цельTracks an enemy hero, granting True Sight of the target, increasing the damage they take and providing information on how much gold it is carrying. If the target dies, Bounty Hunter and nearby heroes collect a bonus bounty of gold. Casting Track does not take you out of invisibility.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Shuriken Toss.
Aghanim's ShardGrants a new ability, Friendly Shadow.
+190 Shuriken Toss Damage25No Cooldown on Jinada
+50 Jinada Gold Steal20Track Grants Shared Vision
-30% Damage Taken in Shadow Walk15+50 Track Gold
+0.35s Shuriken Toss Slow10+30 Damage
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 Bounty Hunter: 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 391good 462great 530
Experience per minute
average 533good 696great 864
Last hits per minute
average 0.8good 1.3great 2.0
Hero damage per minute
average 267good 367great 534
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: easyIt does best in Divine (54.9% wins) and wins 46.9% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 4 (soft support) in 82% of games. Pros usually build Essence Distiller, Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Force Staff by minute 26. It struggles most against Meepo, Lycan and Enigma and has the easiest time against Shadow Fiend, Chen and Treant Protector.