Bloodseeker stats, abilities and strategy [7.40]
Chases down low health enemies with increased speed
Bloodseeker forces difficult decisions on his enemies. Able to drive his foes to a retreat by bathing a large area with a damaging ritual, his gruesome ultimate asks his opponents to hold still, or die.
Win Rate 51.5%
Pick Rate 4.0%
Attributes
648 +59.4/lvl
279 +24.0/lvl
24 +2.7/lvl
24 +3.1/lvl
17 +2.0/lvl
Stats
Damage:
59 - 65 + 3.1/level (162 - 168 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
6.0 + 0.5/level (23.3 at level 30)
Movement:
285
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Arterial Spray
Win Rate: 52.0%
Pick Rate: 80.5%
Ruptured units are pushed when attacked by Bloodseeker.
Old Blood
Win Rate: 49.5%
Pick Rate: 19.5%
Bloodrage silences the target and can be applied to enemies. Bloodrage increases base attack damage instead of spell damage.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Bloodseeker restores some life when he kills a unit, equal to 30 health plus a percentage of the units max health.
Restores for half values if an ally kills a nearby enemy hero.
Creeps lifesteal is reduced by 40%.
MAX HEALTH HEAL: 1.5%
HALF HEAL RADIUS: 300
Patch 7.40
- Base heal increased from 25 to 30
- No longer upgraded with neither Aghanim's Shard or Aghanim's Scepter
Bloodrage
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
Drives Bloodseeker or an allied hero into a bloodthirsty rage which causes them to attack faster and deal more spell damage at the cost of a percentage of their health per second. Provides half attack speed to allied heroes.
Damage dealt to Bloodseeker or allies is non-lethal and can never kill a hero.
DURATION: 8
ATTACK SPEED: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150
SPELL AMPLIFICATION: 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%
MAX HEALTH DAMAGE PER SECOND: 1.4%
14 / 12 / 10 / 8
800
FACET: Old Blood
Bloodrage can be cast on enemies, and increases the target's base attack damage instead of spell damage. Silences the target for the duration of the spell and has decreased cast range. When cast on units other than Bloodseeker himself, the spell has a 0.3 cast point.
Aghanim's Shard
Bloodseeker's Bloodrage attacks now deal 2% of the target's max health as Pure damage.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: -0.7% Bloodrage Max Health DPS For Allies
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +30 Bloodrage Attack Speed
Patch 7.40
- Aghanim's Scepter effect moved to Aghanim's Shard
- Aghanim's Shard target's max health as pure damage decreased from 3% to 2%
Strygwyr shares his animalistic thirst for bloodshed.
Blood Rite
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Bloodseeker baptizes an area in sacred blood. After 2.9 seconds the ritual completes, causing any enemies caught in the area to take damage and become silenced.
Total time is a 2.6 second delay plus a 0.3 second cast time.
RITUAL AREA: 600
SILENCE DURATION: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
DAMAGE: 100 / 155 / 210 / 265
15 / 14 / 13 / 12
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
1500
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +2.5s Blood Rite Silence Duration
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +100 Blood Rite Damage
The Flayed Twins are ever willing to aid those who spill blood upon the field of battle.
Thirst
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Bloodseeker is invigorated by the wounds of his enemies, gaining bonus movement speed when an enemy hero's health falls below 100%, with the bonuses increasing as their health falls further. If an enemy hero's health falls below 25%, he will also gain vision and True Sight of that hero. Bonuses stack per hero. Unlocks max movement speed for Bloodseeker.
Not triggered by Illusions.
Max movement speed bonus occurs when an enemy's health is at or below 25%.
Effects linger for 4 seconds if a target dies.
THIRST HEALTH THRESHOLD: 100%
MAX THIRST MOVE SPEED: 10% / 20% / 30% / 40%
VISIBILITY HEALTH THRESHOLD: 25%
15
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +18% Max Thirst MS
Strygwyr becomes frenzied when blood is spilled.
Rupture
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DEBUFF: Yes
Causes an enemy unit's skin to rupture, dealing initial damage based on its current health. If the unit moves, it takes damage based on the distance moved.
DURATION: 9 / 10 / 11
MOVE DAMAGE: 35% / 45% / 55%
HEALTH DAMAGE: 10%
75 / 70 / 65
100 / 150 / 200
800
FACET: Arterial Spray
Ruptured units are pushed when attacked by Bloodseeker.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +425 Rupture Cast Range
Patch 7.40
- Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter
- Increases current health as initial damage by 3%. Replaces cooldown with 2 charges with the same charge restoration time
When the Bloodseeker hunts you, injuries become fatalities.
Talents
+18% Max Thirst MS
+ 0.0%
+2.5s Blood Rite Silence Duration
+20 Agility
+ 0.0%
+425 Rupture Cast Range
+100 Blood Rite Damage
+ 0.0%
-0.7% Bloodrage Max Health DPS For Allies
+30 Bloodrage Attack Speed
+ 0.0%
+175 Health
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.40
- Level 10 Talent +15% Bloodrage Spell Amplification replaced with +30 Bloodrage Attack Speed
- Level 15 Talent +8% Rupture Initial Damage replaced with -0.7% Bloodrage Max Health DPS For Allies
- Level 20 Talent -0.7% Bloodrage Max Health DPS For Allies replaced with +20 Agility
- Level 25 Talent 2 Rupture Charges replaced with +2.5s Blood Rite Silence Duration
Strategy
Use Blood Rite to secure range creep and damage the opponents at the same time if they decide to contest.
Keep an eye on your movement speed. If you are fast, it means someone is very low and you can play more aggressively.
Max out your bloodrage by level 7 as this is your main tool for flash farming with items like maelstrom.
The opponents will often attempt to teleport out when you Rupture them. Call for an ally to help you out if you don't have a way of securing the kill yourself.
Make sure to Rupture high priority targets in the fights, usually mobile cores, especially with 
Black King Bar.
With 
Aghanim's Scepter and 
Aghanim's Shard, it is often better to stand your ground and fight back when you are low as kills and right clicks will heal you.
Counter Strategy
Bloodseeker's innate sustains him by last hitting or denying creeps. Deal burst of damage to keep him low HP so he cannot last hit creeps with ease and regain HP.
Stay high on HP so that Bloodseeker doesn't gain additional move speed or see you.
When Ruptured by Bloodseeker, don't move too far and consider teleporting to base if possible.
Lotus Orb, 
Linken's Sphere and status resistance items are good at countering Rupture.