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Muerta

Muerta: Ranged, position 1 (carry), Nuker, Disabler. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 48.0% win rate in pubs and a 2.9% pick rate.

Muerta is a master of death who stalks the lands of life, corralling targets with fearsome trickshots and summoning revenants to smother her foes. Always ready to pick off unwary targets with her spare gunhand, Muerta is at her most menacing when she crosses the veil of the dead to strike her enemies with the ethereal fury of the damned.

Rangedposition 1 (carry)NukerDisabler
48.0%Win rate · all pubs
2.9%picked in 1 of 34 games
51.5%Turbo · 93,048 games
Complexity: easy
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f

How to play Muerta

Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms

1What to build?

Start
Faerie FireIron BranchMagic WandTangoCirclet
Laning
Null Talisman3′Infused Raindrops5′Falcon Blade5′Magic Wand6′
Core
Mask of Madness15′Maelstrom15′Mjollnir20′

Core items in order: Mask of Madness (around minute 15), Maelstrom (around minute 15), Mjollnir (around minute 20).

Full build by minute →

2How to skill?

Lv 1–4Dead ShotThe CallingDead ShotGunslinger
Maxed by level
Dead Shot
lv 7
Gunslinger
lv 10
The Calling
lv 15
Pierce the Veil
lv 17
11+20 Attack Speed16+15 Intelligence18+2s Pierce the Veil Duration

Max Dead Shot, then Gunslinger, then The Calling.

Abilities and talents →

3Who counters the hero?

Toughest opponents: Invoker, Night Stalker and Nyx Assassin; easiest: Drow Ranger, Io and Underlord.

All 110 opponents →

4How much to farm?

678774866

Half of the players on this hero farm under 678 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 866.

5Common mistakes by role

No buyback while the base fellWasted buybackHolding gold

Fewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the carry role.

AI coach

Compare your Muerta match with this cheat sheet

The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.

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Mistake guides for the carry role

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 Muerta 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 Muerta benchmark: 678 GPM for an average player, 774 for a good one.
  • Timings against pros: they have Mask of Madness by minute 15, 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.
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Pro build by minute

Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.

100 pro matches · 51.0% wins · OpenDota
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′40′
Faerie Fire · 81%Iron Branch · 67%Magic Wand · 59%Tango · 48%Circlet · 26%
Starting
Null Talisman3′20%
Infused Raindrops5′35%
Falcon Blade5′64%
Magic Wand6′34%
Robe of the Magi7′82%
Power Treads8′87%
Mask of Madness15′39%
Maelstrom15′42%
Mjollnir20′62%
Dragon Lance21′25%
Hurricane Pike26′57%
Black King Bar28′60%
Silver Edge32′25%
Daedalus36′32%

Skill build

16% of 55 pro matches

All abilities and talents →
  1. 1Dead Shot
  2. 2The Calling
  3. 3Dead Shot
  4. 4Gunslinger
  5. 5Dead Shot
  6. 6Pierce the Veil
  7. 7Dead Shot
  8. 8Gunslinger
  9. 9Gunslinger
  10. 10Gunslinger
  11. 11T
  12. 12The Calling
  13. 13Pierce the Veil
  14. 14The Calling
  15. 15The Calling
  16. 16T
  17. 17Pierce the Veil
  18. 18T
  • Lvl 11+20 Attack Speed
  • Lvl 16+15 Intelligence
  • Lvl 18+2s Pierce the Veil Duration
Dead Shot

Dead Shot

на цель

Muerta fires a ghostly trickshot at an enemy unit or tree. When the bullet strikes, it damages and briefly slows, then ricochets in the targeted direction.The ricochet damages all units that it passes through, stopping when it hits a hero. Heroes hit by the ricochet are feared away from the impact.

Pros max it by level 7

The Calling

The Calling

на точку, по области

Summons a group of 4 revenants that slowly circle the targeted location. Enemies within the area are slowed. Revenants deal damage and silence enemies as they pass through them.

Pros max it by level 15

Gunslinger

Gunslinger

без цели, мгновенная

Toggleable. When toggled on, Muerta's attacks have a chance to fire a second shot at another target.

Pros max it by level 10

Pierce the Veil

Pierce the Veil

без цели

Muerta transforms, becoming ethereal, gaining bonus base damage and phased movement.Passively allows Muerta to always attack ethereal targets and attack when she is ethereal. When either she or her target is ethereal, all of her attack damage is dealt as magical damage and her physical lifesteal is treated as spell lifesteal.DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel

Pros max it by level 17

Supernatural

Supernatural

пассивная · innate

Whenever an enemy hero dies within 925 units of Muerta, she gains a stack of 1% spell amplification. When Muerta dies she loses half the stacks, rounded down.

Aghanim's Scepter
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Dead Shot.
Aghanim's Shard
Aghanim's ShardGrants a new ability, Spectral Slug.
+20% Gunslinger chance252 Dead Shot Charges
+2s Pierce the Veil Duration20The Calling summons 2 additional revenants
+3% Max HP Regen while inside The Calling15+15 Intelligence
+300 Dead Shot Cast Range10+20 Attack Speed

Matchups

Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games

All opponents · 110 →

Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.

Who to pick against Muerta: counter picks →

Benchmarks on the hero

Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.

Gold per minute
678774866
Experience per minute
8371,1221,233
Last hits per minute
8.810.513.6
Hero damage per minute
6511,2121,449

Win rate by rank

The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank

pubs · OpenDota
464748495051525348.9Heraldpick 4%48.0Guardianpick 3%48.3Crusaderpick 3%47.7Archonpick 3%47.3Legendpick 3%47.8Ancientpick 3%47.0Divinepick 2%51.5Turbo

Hero at a glance

Complexity: easy

It does best in Herald (48.9% wins) and wins 51.5% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 1 (carry) in 79% of games. Pros usually build Mask of Madness, Maelstrom and Mjollnir by minute 20. It struggles most against Invoker, Night Stalker and Nyx Assassin and has the easiest time against Drow Ranger, Io and Underlord.

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