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 49.0%
Pick Rate 14.3%
Attributes
374 +44/lvl
252 +34.8/lvl
17 +2/lvl
24 +3.6/lvl
21 +2.9/lvl
Stats
Damage:
22 - 29 + 3.6/level (126.4 - 133.4 at level 30)
Range:
575
Armor:
0 + 0.6/level (17.4 at level 30)
Movement:
310
Roles
Carry
Escape
Nuker
Initiator
Durable
Disabler
Support
Pusher
Facets
Go Nuts
Win Rate: 46.9%
Pick Rate: 34.1%
Scurry also provides bonus attack and cast range.
Scurry
Scurry also provides bonus attack and cast range.
ACTIVE CAST RANGE:
50/100/150/200
ACTIVE ATTACK RANGE:
50/100/150/200
Treebounce Trickshot
Win Rate: 50.1%
Pick Rate: 65.9%
Acorn Shot can bounce once on trees.
Acorn Shot
If there are no bounce targets within range of Acorn Shot, it can bounce off a nearby tree and set the remaining number of bounces to 1.
Abilities
Mistwoods Wayfarer
Hoodwink has a chance to redirect enemy attacks to a nearby tree.
TREE SEARCH RADIUS: 275
REDIRECT CHANCE: 15%/20%/25%/30%
Acorn Shot
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.
AFFECTS:unit
PASSIVE:No
bonus range:75 / 150 / 225 / 300
acorn shot damage:55 / 90 / 125 / 160
base damage pct:75
bounce count:2 / 3 / 4 / 5
bounce range:525
debuff duration:0.35
movement slow:100
bounce delay:0.1
projectile speed:2200
+2 Acorn Shot Bounces
16 / 14 / 12 / 10
70 / 75 / 80 / 85
Bushwhack
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.
AFFECTS:area
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:strong
trap radius:265
debuff duration:1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2
projectile speed:1300
total damage:90 / 180 / 270 / 360
animation rate:0.3
visual height:50
+60 Bushwhack Damage
14
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Scurry
Hoodwink gains bonus movement speed, phased movement, and tree-walking for a brief time.
PASSIVE:No
movement speed pct:20 / 25 / 30 / 35
duration:3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5
decoy duration:6
decoy detonate radius:250
decoy stun duration:1.6
images take damage percent:100
projectile speed:1200
movement speed:15
+1s Scurry Duration
35
Mistwoods Wayfarer
Hoodwink has a chance to redirect enemy attacks to a nearby tree.
PASSIVE:Breakable
radius:275
redirect chance:15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Decoy
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.
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:basic
duration:6
decoy detonate radius:250
decoy stun duration:1.6
images do damage percent:100
images take damage percent:100
projectile speed:1200
movement speed:15
sharpshooter damage pct:60
30
60
Hunter's Boomerang
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 Hunter's Mark that causes affected enemies to be slowed and be more vulnerable to spell damage.
AFFECTS:unit
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:basic
DEBUFF:yes
speed:900
radius:150
damage:200
mark duration:7
slow pct:20
spell amp:20
spread:400
min throw duration:0.5
max throw duration:1.2
18
125
Talents
+1s Scurry Duration
-2s Bushwhack Cooldown
+60 Bushwhack Damage
+2 Acorn Shot Bounces
+125 Sharpshooter Max Damage
-4 Armor Corruption
2 Acorn Shot Charges
Sharpshooter Pierces Debuff Immunity
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.
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.
Lore
Hoodwink's earliest years were spent in the idyllic expanse of green that once filled the edges of Krimwohl. But as that kingdom grew, and the needs of both her citizens and her armies became ravenous, rival ore and timber barons scratched and clawed to outpace each other in devouring the natural beauty of the border forests, gorging themselves to meet the demands of the changing land. To those living in the ancient timberlands, the choice came down to following the line of refugees into the pacified zones, falling to Krimwohl's black powder and steel while defending their homes, or fleeing further north to tempt fate in the haunted glens and groves of the misty Wood Tomo'kan. So it was in those treacherous northern mistwoods that Hoodwink came of age, dodging the horrific predators of the Tomo'kan, ingratiating herself with some of the local banditry whilst antagonizing others, and finding absolutely every which way to be underfoot whenever some interesting mischief arose--often allegedly the cause of it. But when the faintest whiff of Krimwohl's fires eventually drifted into her adopted home, Hoodwink's thoughts turned to any family and friends who might have survived the invasion--now made to eke out lives in the razed lands whose wounds scarred her very soul--and she couldn't help but approach the edges of civilization to get a glimpse of the devils that had destroyed her old life. There, she saw that the monsters from her childhood weren't monsters at all. They were just...people. Soldiers, laborers, merchants...and refugees. And the soldiers, even with their black powder and steel, were nothing compared to the dangers of the Tomo'kan--real dangers with tentacles and teeth--dangers she danced around like a twirling maple seed. Knowing she can always find safe passage in the tangles of the Tomo'kan, where most warm-blooded folk wisely fear to tread, Hoodwink now strikes out against those who dare try to further pacify the wilds, happily taking what she likes from their belongings, destroying what she has no use for, and helping guide any kindred survivors back to a life in the green once again.