Pudge stats, abilities and strategy
Hooks and pulls enemies towards him
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.
Win Rate 51.1%
Pick Rate 26.6%
Attributes
670 +66.0/lvl
267 +21.6/lvl
25 +3.0/lvl
11 +1.4/lvl
16 +1.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
70 - 76 + 3.0/level (171 - 177 at level 30)
Range:
175
Armor:
1.8 + 0.2/level (10.9 at level 30)
Movement:
280
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Fresh Meat
Win Rate: 51.8%
Pick Rate: 54.9%
Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.
Rotten Core
Win Rate: 50.2%
Pick Rate: 45.1%
While Rot is activated, Pudge gains bonus attack damage every second.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Pudge's skin thickens permanently every time he kills an enemy Hero, gaining 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2 bonus Strength for each stack.
Enemy Heroes that die within 450 of Pudge grant a stack regardless of its killer.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: 1.5x Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
Meat Hook
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
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.
Interrupts channeling spells of the primary target if it's an enemy.
Meat Hook hits invisible units.
Meat Hook can go through trees, cliffs, buildings, ancient units and Roshan.
Meat Hook can drag friendly units, but they won't be damaged.
Meat Hook can hit and drag runes to Pudge, refunding the Hook's mana cost.
DAMAGE: 150 / 220 / 290 / 360
CAST RANGE: 1300
18 / 16 / 14 / 12
110
1300
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%.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: -4s Meat Hook Cooldown
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +150 Meat Hook Damage
The Butcher's hook is a symbolic nightmare, its curved blade a frightening reminder of his slaughterous intent.
Rot
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
A toxic cloud that deals intense damage and slows movement--harming not only enemy units but Pudge himself.
Using Rot doesn't interrupt channeling.
Rot hits invisible units.
If Pudge is silenced, he can't deactivate Rot if it's activated.
Rot self-damage is non-lethal.
RADIUS: 250
MOVE SLOW: 14% / 20% / 26% / 32%
DAMAGE: 30 / 60 / 90 / 120
FACET: Rotten Core
While Rot is activated, Pudge gains NaN% bonus attack damage every second. Damage bonus decays rapidly over 1s while Rot is deactivated.
Aghanim's Scepter
Increases Rot radius and damage, and causes it to reduce enemy Health Restoration.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +10% Rot Slow
Patch 7.39
- Aghanim's Scepter instead of reducing Healing, Health Regen, Lifesteal, and Spell Lifesteal by 20%, now reduces Health Restoration by 20%
A foul odor precedes a toxic, choking gas, emanating from the Butcher's putrid, ever-swelling mass.
Meat Shield
PASSIVE: No
Pudge covers himself with a layer of flesh that blocks damage of any type taken from any source.
DAMAGE BLOCK: 8 / 14 / 20 / 26
DURATION: 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
20 / 19 / 18 / 17
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
LEVEL 25 TALENT: 1.5x Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
The Butcher gives new meaning to the words 'meat shield.'
Dismember
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
DEBUFF: Yes
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.
If a unit becomes invisible while Dismembered, it will still be under the effects of Dismember.
DAMAGE PER SECOND: 80 / 100 / 120
STRENGTH MULTIPLIER: 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.9
COOLDOWN: 30 / 25 / 20
30 / 25 / 20
100 / 130 / 170
200
FACET: Fresh Meat
Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: 1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +0.75s Dismember Duration
'When I'm through with these vermin, they'll be fit for a pie!'
Talents
1.5x Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal
+ 0.2%
-4s Meat Hook Cooldown
+0.75s Dismember Duration
+ 1.1%
+150 Meat Hook Damage
+8% Spell Lifesteal
+ 1.5%
+10% Rot Slow
+ 2.7%
+5 Armor
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
You can Hook runes without losing any mana. Try to Hook an enemy into your allies at the initial bounty rune. Worst case, you will still get the bounty rune with your Hook.
During the laning stage, don't play only around the Hook, also use your hero's tankiness and high base damage to trade with enemy heroes and deny creeps.
Pudge has very high base damage and you can use it to get last hits and deny a lot of creeps.
Try to keep the creep equilibrium close to your tower, so you can hook enemy heroes under the tower.
Consider leveling up Meat Shield when you reach level two in lane versus heroes with a lot of damage over time abilities.
Meat Hook kills creeps instantly, except for ancients. Protect your tower by hooking the catapult.
You can heal up signicantly by Dismembering a high HP creep.
Find a partner and use 
Smoke of Deceit to find pick offs.
Fight around vision so you can land your Hooks more easily.
Counter Strategy
Be aware of Pudge's camp spots and place 
Observer Ward to cover those spots
Be careful when playing close to enemy towers because a simple hook with tower damage can easily get you killed
Physical damage is strong against Pudge as he has low armor
Anti-magic damage items are good against pudge
Armor reducing items are great for bursting Pudge