Hoodwink

Popularity: #64

Leaderboard: #110

Ban Rank: #100

KDA Rank: #35

Hero

Build

Matchup

Hoodwink stats, abilities and strategy

Shackles her enemies to trees

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.

Win Rate 47.1%

Pick Rate 6.2%

Attributes

Hoodwink image

494 +44.0/lvl

327 +34.8/lvl

Strength Image

17 +2.0/lvl

Agility Image

25 +3.6/lvl

Intelligence Image

21 +2.9/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

47 - 54 + 3.6/level (165 - 172 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

575

Attack

Armor:

4.2 + 0.6/level (23.9 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

310

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Go Nuts

Win Rate: 47.4%

Pick Rate: 76.0%

Scurry also provides bonus attack and cast range.


Patch 7.39

  • Scurry: No longer increases Buff Duration to 3.5/4/4.5/5s
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Hipshot

Win Rate: 46.2%

Pick Rate: 24.0%

Sharpshooter has a greatly reduced cooldown. Damage, debuff duration, turn time, and wind-up times are also reduced.

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Mistwoods Wayfarer

ABILITY: Passive

PASSIVE: Breakable


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


Trees that take a redirected attack are destroyed.


TREE SEARCH RADIUS: 275

REDIRECT CHANCE: 14% / 21% / 28% / 35%

Q

Acorn Shot

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Physical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


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.


The same target can be hit more than once.

Bounces will seek units in the fog of war in a 525 radius, but not invisible units.

The planted tree lasts for 20 seconds.

Acorn Shot benefits from attack range bonuses.


BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 100

BONUS DAMAGE: 45 / 90 / 135 / 180

BASE DAMAGE: 80%

BOUNCE COUNT: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

SLOW DURATION: 0.3

MOVEMENT SLOW: 100%

Cooldown

16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Mana Cost

70 / 80 / 90 / 100

Cast Range

575


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LEVEL 15 TALENT: +1 Acorn Shot Bounce


Patch 7.39

  • Mana Cost decreased from 85/90/95/100 to 70/80/90/100

Though she'll make do with almost anything, Oak and Ironwood acorns make the most effective projectiles -- and the bulk of Hoodwink's stash.

W

Bushwhack

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only


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.


Units can be freed from the stun by destroying the tree.

Bushwhack does not hit invisible units.


RADIUS: 265

STUN DURATION: 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2

TOTAL DAMAGE: 90 / 180 / 270 / 360

Cooldown

15 / 14 / 13 / 12

Mana Cost

90 / 100 / 110 / 120

Cast Range

1000


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LEVEL 15 TALENT: +60 Bushwhack Damage


Hoodwink favors Ironwood groves for ambushes, but the wary step carefully in all areas of the mistwoods.

E

Scurry

PASSIVE: No


Hoodwink gains bonus movement speed, phased movement, and tree-walking for a brief time. All sources of evasion are doubled for the duration.


Redirect chance from Mistwoods Wayfarer is also doubled for the duration.


BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED: 20% / 25% / 30% / 35%

BUFF DURATION: 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5

Mana Cost

35

Cast Range

275


FACET: Go Nuts

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Scurry also provides bonus attack and cast range.


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LEVEL 10 TALENT: +1 Scurry Ability Charge


Patch 7.39

  • Buff Duration increased from 2/2.5/3/3.5s to 3.5/4/4.5/5s

There's not a nook or cranny in the Wood Tomo'kan out of reach of Hoodwink's paws.

R

Sharpshooter

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


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.


COOLDOWN: 45

ARROW SPEED: 2200

MAX WIND-UP TIME: 3

MAX DAMAGE: 600 / 975 / 1350

MAX DEBUFF DURATION: 5

MOVE SLOW: 30% / 40% / 50%

Cooldown

45

Mana Cost

100 / 150 / 200

Cast Range

3000


FACET: Hipshot

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Sharpshooter has a 50% reduced cooldown. Damage, debuff duration, and wind-up times are reduced by 25%. Turn rate is increased by 33%.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +400 Sharpshooter Max Damage

LEVEL 20 TALENT: Sharpshooter Provides Vision While Charging


While her first arbalest was a chance discovery, Hoodwink now takes great care in carving and caring for her own -- of course with some necessary components pilfered or otherwise cleverly procured.

R

End Sharpshooter

PASSIVE: No


Cast Range

999999


Fire!

Hunter's Boomerang

Shard grants new ability

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF: Yes


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.


RADIUS: 150

DAMAGE: 200

DEBUFF DURATION: 7

MOVEMENT SLOW: 25%

INCOMING SPELL DAMAGE: 25%

Cooldown

18

Mana Cost

125

Cast Range

1100


A precious last vestige of Hoodwink's childhood, converted into deadly distraction.

Decoy

Scepter grants new ability

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


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.


ILLUSION DURATION: 6

BUSHWHACK RADIUS: 250

BUSHWHACK DURATION: 1.6

MOVEMENT SPEED: 15%

SHARPSHOOTER DAMAGE: 60%

Cooldown

30

Mana Cost

60


The best traps trigger whether you touch them or not.

Talents

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+400 Sharpshooter Max Damage

+ 2.7%

2 Acorn Shot Charges

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-3 Armor Corruption

Sharpshooter Provides Vision While Charging

+ 2.4%

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+1 Acorn Shot Bounce

+60 Bushwhack Damage

+ 2.2%

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+1.5 Mana Regen

+ 1.1%

+1 Scurry Ability Charge

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Use Acorn Shot to secure range creep last hits and harass the opponents at the same time.

Opt to Bushwhack first if there is a tree to latch it without using Acorn Shot as the planted tree can be cut.

Play close to the trees to have a chance to dodge attacks from enemy heroes through your innate passive.

Acorn Shot provides vision. You can scout pillars for wards or Roshan pit.

You can use Sharpshooter defensively to propel yourself further back or up or down the cliff.

When not much is happening, you can push out sidelanes easily and escape in treeline if necessary.

You can keep Acorn Shot on autocast to always plant a tree on cast if you want to follow up with Bushwack.

You can consider turning into a carry build later on in the game with Items like Gleipnir, Daedalus etc.

Counter Strategy

Avoid playing around trees against Hoodwink's Bushwack.

You can break Acorn Shot into Bushwhack combo by cutting Acorn Shot's tree quickly.

Hoodwink's Sharpshooter can't be cancelled and applies break effect for up to 5 seconds.

Items that provide accuracy on right clicks, such as MKB, are great against Hoodwinks innate passive.

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