Shackleshot
на цельShackles the target to an enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it. If no unit or tree is present, the stun duration is reduced to 0.6.
Pros max it by level 15
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Windranger
Windranger: Ranged, position 4 (soft support), position 1 (carry), Disabler, Escape, Nuker. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 48.5% win rate in pubs and a 16.7% pick rate.
Evasive and swift, the nimble Windranger is always seeking the right angle to attack. Whether she's clearing the way with a draw of her deadly powershot, or shackling enemies together to pepper them with arrows, she's always on the move.
Rangedposition 4 (soft support)position 1 (carry)DisablerEscapeNuker
48.5%Win rate · all pubs
16.7%picked in 1 of 6 games
48.0%Turbo · 324,826 games
Complexity: medium
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Windranger
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
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3′6′7′8′Core
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16′18′25′Core items in order: Essence Distiller (around minute 16), Mjollnir (around minute 18), Black King Bar (around minute 25).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+0.75s Windrun Duration16-15% Powershot Reduction18-10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction
Max Powershot, then Windrun, then Shackleshot.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Meepo, Leshrac and Bane; easiest: Shadow Fiend, Chen and Huskar.
All 126 opponents →4How much to farm?
449average610good756great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 449 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 756.
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 Windranger 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 Windranger 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 Windranger benchmark: 449 GPM for an average player, 610 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Essence Distiller by minute 16, 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.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′40′Starting
3′30%
6′68%
7′32%
8′28%
9′89%16′58%18′27%25′35%
25′29%
27′51%
34′31%
36′20%
3′30%6′68%7′32%8′28%9′89%16′58%18′27%25′35%25′29%27′51%34′31%36′20%Skill build
28% of 91 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+0.75s Windrun Duration
- Lvl 16-15% Powershot Reduction
- Lvl 18-10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction
Powershot
на точку, поддерживаемаяCHANNELED - Windranger charges her bow for up to 1 second for a single powerful shot, which deals more damage the longer it is charged. The arrow damages and slows enemies' movement speed along its path. For each enemy that Powershot hits, its damage and slow is reduced.
Pros max it by level 7
Windrun
без цели, мгновеннаяIncreases movement speed and adds evasion from all physical attacks.
Pros max it by level 10
Focus Fire
на цельWindranger channels the wind to gain 350 / 425 / 500 additional attack speed against a single enemy unit or structure, though with a reduction to her attack damage. Extra damage from secondary item effects is not reduced.
Pros max it by level 17
Tailwind
пассивная · innateUsing an ability conjures a stacking Tailwind that gives Windranger a brief burst of movement speed. Movement speed bonus gradually starts fading halfway through the Tailwind duration. Passively increases Windranger's max movement speed.
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Tailwind.
Aghanim's ShardGrants a new ability, Gale Force.
Powershot Executes Enemy Heroes Under 16% Max HP25Focus Fire Kills Advance Cooldown by 16s
+0.75s Shackleshot Duration20-10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction
+40 Tailwind Max Movespeed15-15% Powershot Reduction
+1s Powershot Slow Duration10+0.75s Windrun Duration
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 Windranger: 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 449good 610great 756
Experience per minute
average 648good 852great 1,090
Last hits per minute
average 4.5good 7.4great 9.4
Hero damage per minute
average 520good 745great 1,038
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Pro matches: 30.0% wins, 30 games.
Hero at a glance
Complexity: mediumIt does best in Divine (48.9% wins) and wins 48.0% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 4 (soft support) in 63% of games and position 1 (carry) in 24% of games. Pros usually build Essence Distiller, Mjollnir and Black King Bar by minute 25. It struggles most against Meepo, Leshrac and Bane and has the easiest time against Shadow Fiend, Chen and Huskar.