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Hoodwink build & guide (7.41)

Shackles her enemies to trees

Hoodwink Soft Support build

Divine – Immortal · 47.1% win rate · 15,215 matches · Tier D · Sep 11 – Sep 17

Skill order

Skill priority Bushwhack › Acorn Shot › Scurry

Sharpshooter at 6, 12 and 18

  1. Level 1: Bushwhack
  2. Level 2: Acorn Shot
  3. Level 3: Bushwhack
  4. Level 4: Acorn Shot
  5. Level 5: Bushwhack
  6. Level 6: Sharpshooter
  7. Level 7: Bushwhack
  8. Level 8: Acorn Shot
  9. Level 9: Acorn Shot
  10. Level 10: Scurry
  11. Level 11: +175 Health (talent)
  12. Level 12: Scurry
  13. Level 13: Sharpshooter
  14. Level 14: Scurry
  15. Level 15: Scurry
  16. Level 16: Scurry Ability Charge (talent)
  17. Level 18: Sharpshooter
  18. Level 20: Acorn Shot Bounces (talent)
  19. Level 25: Sharpshooter Max Damage (talent)

Items

Starting items

  • Tango 98% pick · 48.0% win rate
  • Blood Grenade 90% pick · 48.0% win rate
  • Iron Branch 80% pick · 48.3% win rate
  • Sentry Ward 55% pick · 47.8% win rate
  • Magic Stick 46% pick · 47.8% win rate
  • Circlet 44% pick · 48.0% win rate
  • Faerie Fire 43% pick · 48.6% win rate

Early game

  • Ring of Basilius 9 min · 82% pick · 49.3% win rate
  • Magic Wand 7 min · 73% pick · 48.5% win rate

Boots

  • Arcane Boots 13 min · 81% pick · 49.4% win rate
  • Guardian Greaves 35 min · 6% pick · 64.6% win rate

Core build

  • Essence Distiller 15 min · 41% pick · 49.0% win rate
  • Glimmer Cape 26 min · 25% pick · 46.3% win rate
  • Force Staff 27 min · 22% pick · 48.2% win rate
  • Blink Dagger 28 min · 26% pick · 57.4% win rate
  • Gleipnir 32 min · 19% pick · 61.2% win rate

Situational

  • Aether Lens 26 min · 18% pick · 54.8% win rate
  • Scythe of Vyse 41 min · 13% pick · 61.3% win rate
  • Aghanim's Shard 29 min · 12% pick · 49.1% win rate
  • Aghanim's Scepter 37 min · 11% pick · 60.4% win rate
  • Spirit Vessel 19 min · 10% pick · 49.5% win rate
  • Lotus Orb 35 min · 7% pick · 58.7% win rate

Late game

  • Rod of Atos 2/10 games
  • Ghost Scepter 2/10 games

Talents

  • Level 25: Sharpshooter Max Damage 77% pick · 60.5% win rate or Acorn Shot Charges 23% pick · 58.0% win rate
  • Level 20: Sharpshooter Provides Vision While Charging 59% pick · 59.0% win rate or Acorn Shot Bounces 41% pick · 56.9% win rate
  • Level 15: Scurry Ability Charge 88% pick · 54.7% win rate or +10 Agility 12% pick · 50.0% win rate
  • Level 10: Bushwhack Damage 63% pick · 48.8% win rate or +175 Health 37% pick · 48.2% win rate

Matchups

Strong against

  • Alchemist +8.4% advantage · 58.7% win rate · 218 games
  • Medusa +7.9% advantage · 56.3% win rate · 192 games
  • Bristleback +5.4% advantage · 57.1% win rate · 205 games
  • Ancient Apparition +5.2% advantage · 52.4% win rate · 464 games
  • Brewmaster +5.0% advantage · 50.7% win rate · 452 games
  • Beastmaster +4.9% advantage · 53.8% win rate · 212 games

Weak against

  • Broodmother -5.2% advantage · 43.1% win rate · 144 games
  • Bane -5.1% advantage · 44.0% win rate · 409 games
  • Visage -4.8% advantage · 36.3% win rate · 193 games
  • Puck -4.2% advantage · 44.9% win rate · 434 games
  • Treant Protector -4.1% advantage · 49.2% win rate · 187 games
  • Sand King -3.6% advantage · 47.2% win rate · 246 games

Builds from 11,622 parsed games

Hoodwink counters & matchups

  • Strength: 16 +2
  • Agility: 22 +3.6
  • Intelligence: 21 +2.9
  • Damage: 47–54
  • Armor: 3.6666667
  • Move speed: 315
  • Attack range: 575

Hoodwink abilities

Acorn Shot

Fires Hoodwink's attack with an acorn at the target unit. The acorn bounces to nearby targets, slowing them and dealing a percentage of Hoodwink's attack with bonus damage. If point targeted, a tree is created at the target position and the acorn will bounce to nearby targets. The ability may be placed on alt-cast to force this behavior.

Bushwhack

Tosses a net trap that stuns enemies if they are near a tree in the area. Affected enemies take damage over time and are pulled towards the tree nearest to them within the target area, and have their vision reduced to 0 for the duration of the stun.

Scurry

Hoodwink gains bonus movement speed, phased movement, and tree-walking for a brief time. While active, the redirect chance of Mistwoods Wayfarer is multiplied by 2.

Decoy

Hoodwink turns invisible, increasing her movement speed, and creates a decoy illusion that starts aiming a decreased damage Sharpshooter at the nearest enemy hero. If the illusion is attacked or hit by a targeted ability, it is destroyed and it throws a lesser bushwhack towards the enemy.

Hunter's Boomerang

Tosses a boomerang in an arc. Upon contact, it returns to Hoodwink. The boomerang will deal damage as it passes through or hits enemies, and apply a debuff that causes affected enemies to be slowed and be more vulnerable to spell damage.

Sharpshooter

Hoodwink charges up and fires a deadly bolt from her crossbow, dealing heavy damage, break and slow to an enemy Hero. The damage and debuff duration scale up to max after 3 seconds, and the bolt is fired automatically after 5 seconds. Hoodwink is knocked backwards for a distance of 350 from the force of the shot. Creeps hit by the bolt are damaged for half the values.

Aghanim's Scepter: Increases arrow speed and movement speed slow.

Mistwoods Wayfarer

Hoodwink has a chance to redirect enemy attacks to a nearby tree.

Always at hand when trouble's afoot, Hoodwink lives to tangle with the threats that fill the haunted forest she adopted as her home. Toting a massive crossbow while still able to scurry through the woodland with the greatest of ease, Hoodwink is nearly impossible to keep tabs on in battle. Lose track and she'll pop out behind you -- your stunned carcass already dangling in one of her nets.