Ring Master: Ranged, position 5 (hard support), position 4 (soft support), Nuker, Escape, Disabler. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 48.4% win rate in pubs and a 4.6% pick rate.
All the battlefield's a stage, and Ringmaster is a gleeful director. Controlling fights with a showman's flair, Ringmaster tames enemies with his fearsome whip and endless knives, ushers allies away from danger with his cunning escape act, and always draws a crowd to unwillingly witness the wonders of his mesmerizing wheel.
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
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16′Core items in order: Wind Lace (around minute 13), Arcane Boots (around minute 13), Essence Distiller (around minute 16).
Full build by minute →
Max Tame the Beasts, then Impalement Arts, then Escape Act.
Abilities and talents →Toughest opponents: Naga Siren, Leshrac and Bloodseeker; easiest: Lone Druid, Clinkz and Drow Ranger.
All 125 opponents →Half of the players on this hero farm under 336 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 450.
Fewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
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35′21%23% of 97 pro matches
CHANNELED - Ringmaster twirls his whip for up to 1 second then cracks it. Whipped enemies are damaged and flee in fear from Ringmaster. Channel time exponentially increases damage and extends the fear duration, but reduces the radius.
Pros max it by level 7
Ringmaster packs himself or an allied hero into a mobile, extradimensional box. Boxed units gain phased movement, slow resistance, bonus magic resistance, and bonus movement speed. They are also untargetable, muted, silenced, and disarmed. The box will pop open after the effect expires or it moves out of the initial area.
Pros max it by level 15
Ringmaster throws one of his daggers to a precise point of his choosing. If he strikes an enemy, the dagger deals impact damage, briefly slows the unit hit, and causes them to bleed. The bleeding deals a percentage of the victim's maximum health in damage every second to heroes and flat damage per second to creeps.
Pros max it by level 10
Ringmaster rolls the Wheel of Wonder to the targeted location, knocking aside enemies along the way. After it reaches its target, enemies in range of the wheel take damage over time and are slowed by -50%.Enemy heroes who face the wheel for more than 0.5 seconds are mesmerized and drawn towards it. The first enemy to be mesmerized triggers a timer for the wheel to explode. If the timer is not triggered, it will automatically explode after 4 seconds.
Pros max it by level 17
Ringmaster receives a random single-use Dark Carnival Souvenir whenever an enemy hero dies within 925 units of him. Additional Souvenirs are held as charges.If Ringmaster does not have a Souvenir when he dies he will be granted one.
Use: Proportion DistortionCreates 1 imperfect image of your hero that lasts 18 seconds. Your illusion deals 100% and takes 300% damage.
Use: Forcefully ImbibeTemporarily increases an allied hero's Strength by 5 plus 1 per Ringmaster's level for 8 seconds. The effect holds for 4 seconds and then deteriorates over the duration.
Use: WhoopsiePropels your hero forward 400 units. Leaves a 250 radius stink cloud behind for 3 seconds that slows enemies by -30%.
Use: Saddle UpSummons a speedy unicycle to ride around on for 10 seconds. 1.5s after mounting the unicycle, taking damage from enemy hero sources greater than 20 dismounts the rider. Crashing into trees destroys them and slows the unicycle. Attacking, using channeled abilities, or crashing into units and other obstacles also dismounts the rider.
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 Ring Master: counter picks →Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
It does best in Divine (50.1% wins) and wins 46.1% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 5 (hard support) in 60% of games and position 4 (soft support) in 40% of games. Pros usually build Wind Lace, Arcane Boots and Essence Distiller by minute 16. It struggles most against Naga Siren, Leshrac and Bloodseeker and has the easiest time against Lone Druid, Clinkz and Drow Ranger.
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