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Pudge build & guide (7.41)

Hooks and pulls enemies towards him

Pudge Soft Support build

Divine – Immortal · 49.0% win rate · 17,483 matches · Tier C · Sep 11 – Sep 17

Skill order

Skill priority Meat Hook › Rot › Meat Shield

Dismember at 6, 12 and 18

  1. Level 1: Meat Hook
  2. Level 2: Rot
  3. Level 3: Meat Hook
  4. Level 4: Rot
  5. Level 5: Meat Hook
  6. Level 6: Dismember
  7. Level 7: Meat Hook
  8. Level 8: Rot
  9. Level 9: Meat Shield
  10. Level 10: Rot
  11. Level 11: +5 Armor (talent)
  12. Level 12: Meat Shield
  13. Level 13: Dismember
  14. Level 14: Meat Shield
  15. Level 15: Meat Shield
  16. Level 16: Meat Hook Damage (talent)
  17. Level 18: Dismember
  18. Level 20: Dismember Duration (talent)
  19. Level 25: Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses (talent)

Items

Starting items

  • Blood Grenade 82% pick · 49.4% win rate
  • Tango 70% pick · 49.0% win rate
  • Sentry Ward 38% pick · 49.3% win rate
  • Enchanted Mango 33% pick · 49.8% win rate
  • Iron Branch 33% pick · 49.0% win rate

Early game

  • Magic Wand 7 min · 51% pick · 50.4% win rate
  • Bracer 6 min · 13% pick · 48.3% win rate

Boots

  • Tranquil Boots 6 min · 84% pick · 48.9% win rate
  • Phase Boots 12 min · 10% pick · 54.3% win rate
  • Arcane Boots 11 min · 5% pick · 47.6% win rate

Core build

  • Blink Dagger 19 min · 85% pick · 52.7% win rate
  • Aether Lens 24 min · 29% pick · 53.8% win rate
  • Glimmer Cape 25 min · 24% pick · 49.1% win rate
  • Aghanim's Scepter 33 min · 19% pick · 62.0% win rate
  • Black King Bar 36 min · 18% pick · 59.7% win rate

Situational

  • Eul's Scepter of Divinity 29 min · 17% pick · 57.1% win rate
  • Lotus Orb 34 min · 14% pick · 58.6% win rate
  • Force Staff 28 min · 14% pick · 53.6% win rate
  • Spirit Vessel 20 min · 10% pick · 52.7% win rate
  • Blade Mail 25 min · 8% pick · 50.8% win rate
  • Pipe of Insight 32 min · 8% pick · 62.7% win rate

Talents

  • Level 25: Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses 51% pick · 66.5% win rate or Dismember Damage/Heal 49% pick · 63.0% win rate
  • Level 20: Dismember Duration 52% pick · 59.8% win rate or Meat Hook Cooldown 48% pick · 63.1% win rate
  • Level 15: Meat Hook Damage 77% pick · 56.2% win rate or +8% Spell Lifesteal 23% pick · 57.4% win rate
  • Level 10: +5 Armor 65% pick · 49.5% win rate or Rot Slow 35% pick · 50.9% win rate

Matchups

Strong against

  • Venomancer +4.4% advantage · 57.6% win rate · 661 games
  • Medusa +4.1% advantage · 55.0% win rate · 311 games
  • Batrider +4.0% advantage · 59.1% win rate · 159 games
  • Phantom Assassin +4.0% advantage · 53.6% win rate · 1,048 games
  • Tiny +3.7% advantage · 57.8% win rate · 822 games
  • Chaos Knight +3.7% advantage · 53.5% win rate · 490 games

Weak against

  • Beastmaster -6.8% advantage · 44.1% win rate · 401 games
  • Elder Titan -5.1% advantage · 41.0% win rate · 222 games
  • Ursa -4.4% advantage · 44.5% win rate · 1,419 games
  • Broodmother -4.3% advantage · 46.8% win rate · 269 games
  • Clockwerk -4.1% advantage · 46.2% win rate · 666 games
  • Bristleback -4.1% advantage · 49.4% win rate · 496 games

Builds from 12,217 parsed games

Pudge counters & matchups

  • Strength: 25 +3
  • Agility: 13 +1.4
  • Intelligence: 16 +1.8
  • Damage: 70–76
  • Armor: 2.1666667
  • Move speed: 280
  • Attack range: 175

Pudge abilities

Meat Hook

Launches a bloody hook toward a unit or location. The hook will snag the first unit it encounters, dragging the unit back to Pudge, killing it if it's a non-ancient creep and dealing damage if it is an enemy otherwise.

Aghanim's Shard: When Meat Hook hits an enemy, it deals bonus damage based on the distance pulled. When Meat Hook hits an ally, Meat Hook's cooldown is reduced by 50%.

Rot

A toxic cloud that deals intense damage and slows movement--harming not only enemy units but Pudge himself.

Aghanim's Scepter: Increases Rot radius by %bonus_rot_radius%, damage by %bonus_rot_damage%, and causes it to reduce enemy Health Restoration by 20%.

Meat Shield

Pudge covers himself with a layer of flesh that blocks damage of any type taken from any source.

Flesh Heap

Pudge's skin thickens permanently every time he kills an enemy Hero, gaining 2 bonus Strength for each stack.

Dismember

CHANNELED - Pudge chows down on an enemy unit, disabling it and dealing damage over time. Damage is increased by Pudge's Strength and heals him for the total amount. Pudge pulls the unit at a rate of 75 units, up to a minimum of 125 range.

Each carefully aimed throw of Pudge's signature hook strikes fear into his foes. Pulling his enemies near to carve them with his cleavers, he gains additional health and damage with every kill, and soon becomes an unstoppable killer.