Decay
по области, на точкуUndying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself. Deals 2x damage to creeps.
Pros max it by level 7
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Undying
Undying: Melee, position 5 (hard support), position 3 (offlane), Durable, Disabler, Nuker. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 50.0% win rate in pubs and a 11.0% pick rate.
Shambling into battle, Undying forces enemies to decide whether to flee his wrath or be torn apart by it. He drains strength from his foes, and summons a horde of clawing undead. When he finally becomes a hulking flesh golem, his enemies may already be overwhelmed.
Meleeposition 5 (hard support)position 3 (offlane)DurableDisablerNuker
50.0%Win rate · all pubs
11.0%picked in 1 of 9 games
49.1%Turbo · 165,942 games
Complexity: easy
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Undying
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
4′
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4′5′7′7′Core
14′
20′
21′
14′20′21′Core items in order: Arcane Boots (around minute 14), Octarine Core (around minute 20), Aghanim's Shard (around minute 21).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+30 Decay Damage16+12 Soul Rip Damage/Heal18+4 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
Max Decay, then Tombstone, then Soul Rip.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Medusa, Meepo and Visage; easiest: Underlord, Beastmaster and Nature's Prophet.
All 125 opponents →4How much to farm?
379average447good552great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 379 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 552.
5Common mistakes by role
Wards dewarded fastCaught while smokedDied on a rotationFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
Compare your Undying 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
- 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.
- 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.
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 Undying 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 Undying benchmark: 379 GPM for an average player, 447 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′Starting
4′38%
5′32%
7′33%
7′30%
8′40%
9′80%14′37%20′26%21′79%
26′65%
29′23%
30′24%
4′38%5′32%7′33%7′30%8′40%9′80%14′37%20′26%21′79%26′65%29′23%30′24%Skill build
15% of 94 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+30 Decay Damage
- Lvl 16+12 Soul Rip Damage/Heal
- Lvl 18+4 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
Soul Rip
на цельUndying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy. Soul Rip can also be used to heal Tombstone.
Pros max it by level 15
Tombstone
на точкуSummons a tombstone at the target point. Zombies will frequently spawn next to every enemy unit in the area around the Tombstone, and attack them. Zombies have the Deathlust ability, which causes their attacks to slow the target, and if the target reaches below a certain amount of health, increases the attack and movement speed of the zombie.
Pros max it by level 10
Ceaseless Dirge
пассивная · innateWhen Undying dies he will instantly respawn in the fountain. Begins the game on cooldown. Cannot be refreshed.
Flesh Golem
без цели, мгновеннаяUndying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem. While in this state, he gains a percentage increase to strength, bonus movement speed, and causes attacks to slow, apply damage amplification, and spawn Tombstone zombies.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Decay.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Tombstone.
+50% Flesh Golem Strength Bonus25Tombstone On Death
-2s Decay Cooldown20+4 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
+12 Soul Rip Damage/Heal15+20 Zombie Damage
+30 Decay Damage10-15s Tombstone Cooldown
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 Undying: 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 379good 447great 552
Experience per minute
average 549good 690great 850
Last hits per minute
average 2.1good 3.6great 5.9
Hero damage per minute
average 322good 476great 645
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: easyIt does best in Crusader (50.5% wins) and wins 49.1% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 5 (hard support) in 58% of games and position 3 (offlane) in 31% of games. Pros usually build Arcane Boots, Octarine Core and Aghanim's Shard by minute 21. It struggles most against Medusa, Meepo and Visage and has the easiest time against Underlord, Beastmaster and Nature's Prophet.