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Drow Ranger

Popularity: #15

Leaderboard: #30

Ban Rank: #57

KDA Rank: #23

Slows with her frost-tipped arrows

Not many can escape Drow Ranger once she's within range. After her foes have been silenced with a chilling blast, she finishes them off with a barrage of slowing, ice-tipped arrows that few can survive.

Win Rate 51.3%
Pick Rate 14.9%
Attributes
Drow Ranger Image

472 +41.8/lvl

255 +16.8/lvl

Strength Image

16 +1.9/lvl

Agility Image

22 +2.9/lvl

Intelligence Image

15 +1.4/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

51 - 58 + 2.9/level (149.1 - 156.1 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

625

Attack

Armor:

3.7 + 0.5/level (20.0 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

310

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Vantage Point

Win Rate: 49.9%

Pick Rate: 41.7%

Vantage Point

Sidestep

Win Rate: 52.3%

Pick Rate: 58.3%

Drow can move slowly and use items while casting Multishot.


Multishot

Drow can move slowly and use items while casting Multishot.

MOVEMENT SPEED PENALTY: 25%

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Precision Aura

BREAKABLE: Yes


Grants Drow and nearby ranged heroes with bonus agility based on Drow's current agility and level.


SELF AGILITY BONUS PER LEVEL: 2%

ALLIES AGILITY BONUS PER LEVEL: 1%

RADIUS: 1200


Q

Frost Arrows

Adds a freezing effect to Drow's attacks, slowing enemy movement and dealing bonus damage. Slow lasts %abilityduration% seconds.


BONUS DAMAGE: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25

Mana Cost

9 / 10 / 11 / 12

Cast Range

625


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Frost Arrows now apply a Hypothermia stack to enemies, increasing damage from Frost Arrows and reducing their regeneration per stack. If an enemy dies with Hypothermia stacks, they burst and deal damage per stack and slow in an area around it.


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  • +15 Frost Arrow Damage

Ice-encased arrows pierce the silence, chilling their victims to the core.
W

Gust

Releases a wave that silences and knocks back and reveals invisible enemy units. Knockback distance is relative to how close they are to Drow.


WIDTH: 250

KNOCKBACK MAX: 450

Cooldown

19 / 17 / 15 / 13

Mana Cost

70

Cast Range

900


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  • -3.5s Gust Cooldown
  • 50% Gust Self Movement Speed

Traxex is rather fond of the tranquility of physical combat, calling on her Drow heritage to end the incantations of opposing magi.
E

Multishot

CHANNELED - Drow releases a flurry of arrows in continuous salvos, hitting enemies for extra damage and applying Frost Arrows. Lasts up to %abilitychanneltime% seconds.


WAVE COUNT: 3

ARROWS PER WAVE: 4

ARROW BASE DAMAGE BONUS: 100% / 120% / 140% / 160%

ARROW RANGE MULTIPLIER: 1.75

Cooldown

24 / 21 / 18 / 15

Mana Cost

50 / 70 / 90 / 110


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  • -6s Multishot Cooldown
  • +25% Multishot Damage
  • +1 Multishot Wave

In the ranger's youth, learning to fire multiple arrows at once was considered a distracting frivolity. In the war of the Ancients, such technique has become strange necessity.

Marksmanship

Drow's experiences in battle grant her a chance to launch arrows with incredible accuracy and effectiveness. Pierces through the enemy's defenses, ignoring their base armor. This ability is disabled if there is an enemy hero within 400 range.


CHANCE: 30% / 35% / 40%


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  • +10% Marksmanship Chance

The Drow Ranger is the epitome of archery prowess.

Glacier

Drow creates a hill of ice beneath her. While standing on the hill, attackers gain bonus attack range and high ground advantage - they cannot miss and gain flying vision. Drow additionally gets bonus Multishot arrows per wave while on the hill. The front of the hill obscures vision and cannot be moved through except by Drow. Does not interrupt Multishot when cast.


DURATION: 8

ATTACK RANGE BONUS: 200

BONUS ARROWS PER WAVE: 1

Cooldown

20

Mana Cost

50

Cast Range

400


Talents

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+1 Multishot Wave

+10% Marksmanship Chance

+ 1.0 %

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50% Gust Self Movement Speed

+ 1.2 %

+25% Multishot Damage

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-6s Multishot Cooldown

+75 Attack Range

+ 0.3 %

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+15 Frost Arrow Damage

+ 2.6 %

-3.5s Gust Cooldown

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Use Frost Arrows frequently to harass as you don't pull creep aggro when manually casting it. Also, you can use it to secure lasthits with extra damage.

Be careful of allowing the enemies to get too close during laning stage. You are especially vulnerable when your support is pulling the lane. Keep a safe distance and learn to kite heroes down.

Multishot does the most damage when used point blank as all the arrows will hit the target. Try to cover maximal area of your targets when using the spell in the cast zone.

When in trouble, you can potentially Gust and teleport out. Gust will silence and push the enemies back, allowing you time to escape.

Drow loves agility stat as it gets further increased by her passive, Precision Aura. Look to spam Agility items to boost her damage and attack speed output.

Drow is all about positioning. Avoid showing yourself too early in the fight and maintain distance. Let your teammates be the frontliners instead.

Use Multishot to push waves while staying hidden in trees to avoid getting caught out when killing lane creeps. This is the only way she can clear waves without showing herself.

When you get your Aghanim's Scepter online, your single target damage increases dramatically. Your Multishot is also able to farm a lot faster.

Counter Strategy

Drow Ranger is slow and has low armor. Look to harass her as much as you can on early levels.

Avoid being in point target range of Drow Ranger when she starts channeling Multishot

Drow Ranger's Gust and Multishot have cone shaped area of effect. If you are on top of her look to side step or run past or through her when she uses those spells

Gap closing items are good against Drow Ranger as she is a glass canon hero. Note that her Marksmanship is disabled when you are within 400 range of her

Halberd's ability is amazing against Drow Ranger as it disarms her for 5 seconds. Keep in mind that Marksmanship procs pierce through evasion (true strike)

Drow Ranger should be a priority target in team fights as her team loses the Precision Aura when she dies.

Use Smoke, to wrap around Drow Ranger and kill her.

Lore

Drow Ranger's given name is Traxex--a name well suited to the short, trollish, rather repulsive Drow people. But Traxex herself is not a Drow. Her parents were travelers in a caravan set upon by bandits, whose noisy slaughter of innocents roused the ire of the quiet Drow people.

After the battle settled, the Drow discovered a small girl-child hiding in the ruined wagons, and agreed she could not be abandoned. Even as child, Traxex showed herself naturally adept at the arts they prized: Stealth, silence, subtlety. In spirit, if not in physique, she might have been a Drow changeling, returned to her proper home. But as she grew, she towered above her family and came to think of herself as ugly. After all, her features were smooth and symmetrical, entirely devoid of warts and coarse whiskers.

Estranged from her adopted tribe, she withdrew to live alone in the woods. Lost travelers who find their way from the forest sometimes speak of an impossibly beautiful Ranger who peered at them from deep among the trees, then vanished like a dream before they could approach. Lithe and stealthy, icy hot, she moves like mist in silence. That whispering you hear is her frozen arrows finding an enemy's heart.

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