Harpoon – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.39d]

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A perfect solution for the flight of foes.

Aye Captain!!! There goes the big blue whale said the pudge fan boy who in turn get's the chance to play this magical spear that claws their opponents closer to them, as the saying goes keep your friends close but your enemies closer!

Base Combat Stats

+ 25 Damage

+ 25 Strength

+ 10 Agility

+ 10 Intelligence

+ 2.0 Mana Regeneration

Recipe

Abilities

Active: Draw Forth

When targeting an enemy, fire a harpoon at them, that pulls you and the target closer together, up to 35% of the distance between you and your target. If the caster is melee, the hero and target are always pulled to within melee distance of each other.

Mana: 50

Cooldown: 19

Passive: Echo Strike

Causes melee attacks to attack twice in quick succession. The double attacks apply a 100% movement slow for 1.0 seconds on the first strike. Echo Strike cooldown: 5s

Additional Insights

Projectile base so you can dodge it
The harpoon is a wonderful new item that has been introduced lately, a gap closer that gives significant advantage to melee users to keep them at bay with their targerts or foes.

Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Harpoon as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Itemization Strategy

Oftenly built by offlaners who wanna engage and target a specific opponent but this doesn't conclude that Midlaners cant also built this item as it mainly initiates post laning stages to bring in the tempo that favors them, A solid item for heroes like Magnus, Slardar and Lycan.

Heroes with Harpoon as Core Item

A core item to close the gap on an enemy hero and follow up with your lockdown and right click damage to burst them down.

Allows you to close the gap to the enemies and follow up with attacks and Hammer of Purify if you play Omniknight on a core position.

An upgrade for {echo-sabre} that gives you gap closure on enemy heroes while boosting your right click damage through stats.

An upgrade for {echo-sabre} on your Spirit Bear to bring it closer to an enemy hero and burst them down with right clicks and a potential root.

A core item for another form of gap close on enemy heroes to follow up with Reverse Polarity and right click freely.

An upgrade for {echo-sabre} that acts as another gap close on enemy heroes.

Trivia

Rumor has is it that Harpoon was suppose to be neutral item but instead became an upgrade path for Echo Sabre