Muerta stats, abilities and strategy
Blasts fearsome trickshots and unleashes ethereal ruin
Muerta is a master of death who stalks the lands of life, corralling targets with fearsome trickshots and summoning revenants to smother her foes. Always ready to pick off unwary targets with her spare gunhand, Muerta is at her most menacing when she crosses the veil of the dead to strike her enemies with the ethereal fury of the damned.
Win Rate 47.6%
Pick Rate 4.5%
Attributes
538 +44.0/lvl
351 +40.8/lvl
19 +2.0/lvl
20 +2.7/lvl
23 +3.4/lvl
Stats
Damage:
47 - 55 + 3.4/level (159 - 167 at level 30)
Range:
575
Armor:
3.3 + 0.5/level (18.7 at level 30)
Movement:
295
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Base Intelligence decreased from 24 to 23
- Intelligence gain increased from 3.3 to 3.4
- Removed Parting Shot ability
Facets
Dance of the Dead
Win Rate: 47.9%
Pick Rate: 83.6%
The Calling becomes stronger when heroes die inside it.
Ofrenda
Win Rate: 46.0%
Pick Rate: 16.4%
Muerta places a sacred altar at the targeted location that increases her attack speed when she is near it.
When respawning, Muerta will gain the benefits of Pierce The Veil's corporeal form for %pierce_the_veil_duration_pct%% of the duration and respawn at the Ofrenda.
Muerta can select the Ofrenda and force it to destroy itself. Only one Ofrenda can exist at a time.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Muerta can always attack when she is ethereal. Muerta can always attack ethereal targets. When attacking ethereal targets, all of her attack damage is dealt as magical damage.
Dead Shot
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Muerta fires a ghostly trickshot at an enemy unit or tree. When the bullet strikes, it damages and briefly slows, then ricochets in the targeted direction.
The ricochet damages all units that it passes through, stopping when it hits a hero. Heroes hit by the ricochet are feared away from the impact.
Feared enemies are phased and unslowable.
The ricochet will travel 1.5x Dead Shot's cast range.
Can ricochet off of magic immune targets.
DAMAGE: 100 / 175 / 250 / 325
RICOCHET FEAR DURATION: 0.8 / 0.95 / 1.1 / 1.25
IMPACT SLOW PERCENT: -100%
IMPACT SLOW DURATION: 1
16 / 14 / 12 / 10
100 / 120 / 140 / 160
1000
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +300 Dead Shot Cast Range
Patch 7.38
- Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter
- Increases damage by 125. Dead Shot AoE expands after it ricochets and pierces through enemy heroes as it fears them
A steady gunhand and an eternity of practice produce trickshots that defy the mortal mind.
The Calling
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Summons a group of 4 revenants that slowly circle the targeted location. Enemies within the area are slowed. Revenants deal damage and silence enemies as they pass through them.
DAMAGE: 45 / 90 / 135 / 180
DURATION: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
MOVEMENT SLOW: -20%
SILENCE DURATION: 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3
30
140 / 155 / 170 / 185
580
FACET: Dance of the Dead
Heroes killed inside The Calling refresh its duration, create another Revenant, and expand the radius of The Calling by 100.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: The Calling summons 2 additional revenants
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +3% Max HP Regen while inside The Calling
Patch 7.38b
- No longer slows attack speed
Muerta's family are forever beyond the spirit veil, but her deal with Death allows her to briefly call on them in times of want or need.
Gunslinger
PASSIVE: No
Toggleable. When toggled on, Muerta's attacks have a chance to fire a second shot at another target.
If no other units are in range, she fires both guns at the original target.
Secondary shots can hit units within Muerta's attack range plus 175.
The secondary shot can trigger attack modifiers.
Prioritizes heroes, then non-hero units, then buildings.
CHANCE: 18% / 27% / 36% / 45%
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +20% Gunslinger chance
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +55 Gunslinger Damage
Patch 7.38
- Secondary shot now prioritizes heroes, then non-hero units, then buildings
- Secondary shot chance decreased from 26/34/42/50% to 18/27/36/45%
Muerta offers all of her victims Mercy. Some are fortunate enough to also earn Grace.
Ofrenda
PASSIVE: No
Muerta places a sacred altar at the targeted location that increases her attack speed when she is near it.
When respawning, Muerta will gain the benefits of Pierce The Veil's corporeal form for 50% of the duration and respawn at the Ofrenda.
Muerta can select the Ofrenda and force it to destroy itself. Only one Ofrenda can exist at a time.
ATTACK SPEED BONUS: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
EFFECT RADIUS: 400 / 450 / 500 / 550
60
50
300
Pierce the Veil
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PASSIVE: No
Muerta transforms, becoming immune to physical damage. All of her attack damage is dealt as magical damage and Muerta gains bonus attack damage and phased movement.
DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel
Muerta will dodge projectiles upon transformation.
Muerta cannot attack buildings while transformed.
Other ethereal effects will not stop Muerta from being able to attack.
DURATION: 8
TRANSFORM DURATION: 0.35
BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE: 70 / 100 / 130
75 / 60 / 45
150 / 250 / 350
Aghanim's Shard
Muerta gains %spell_lifesteal%% Spell Lifesteal during Pierce the Veil.
While Pierce the Veil is active Muerta permanently gains %spell_amp_steal%% spell amplification each time she kills an enemy Hero or they die in her vicinity. Bonus applies retroactively.
Muerta sheds her corporeal form, crossing the spirit veil and striking her enemies with the fury of the damned.
Talents
+25% Magic Resistance
+ 0.7 %
+20% Gunslinger chance
The Calling summons 2 additional revenants
2 Dead Shot Charges
+ 2.4 %
+55 Gunslinger Damage
+3% Max HP Regen while inside The Calling
+ 3.6 %
+150 Health
+300 Dead Shot Cast Range
+ 1.9 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent Dead Shot Cast Range decreased from +350 to +300
- Level 10 Talent +1.5% Max HP Regen while inside The Calling replaced with +150 Health
- Level 15 Talent +80 Dead Shot Damage replaced with +3% Max HP Regen while inside The Calling
Strategy
Use Dead Shot to secure last hits and damage enemy heroes.
Look for angles to fear enemies under tower with Dead Shot.
Use Dead Shot to fear enemy heroes into The Calling spirits.
Be careful not to use Pierce the Veil against debuff immunity and heavy magic resistance.
Pierce the Veil makes you immune to all physical damage. Use it to evade attacks.
You can dodge mid air projectiles like Vengeful Spirit stun with Pierce the Veil.
Be careful about your positioning in teamfights as your hero is slow and immobile without Blink or Hurricane Pike.
Look to keep enemy heroes within your attack range with the Dead Shot fear.
Be patient using Pierce the Veil when enemy heroes have BKBs.
Use Pierce the Veil to burst down high armor heroes with massive magic damage from your right clicks.
Use Ethereal Blade in combination with Pierce the Veil for massive magical burst damage.
Get Maelstrom in the early game to flash farm the map and scale better in the mid game.
Counter Strategy
Be careful about last hitting close to the enemy tower against Dead Shot fear.
Get some movement speed with Boots and Wind Lace to get out of The Calling AOE.
Try not to fight Muerta solo as she can hit you with double attacks with Gunslinger.
Get an early BKB against Muerta to reduce her spell damage from Pierce the Veil and Dead Shot.
Magic resistance items are incredible against Muerta's magical burst.
Get items like Mage Slayer and Heavens Halberd to severely reduce Muerta's damage output.
Buy mobility items like Blink and Force Staff to close the gap on Muerta.
Lore
There are as many stories about Muerta as there are graves in the Carrion Fields of Gorm. Some tell their children ghost stories of a young peasant girl returned from the dead to punish the bandits who killed her family. Others, drunk in dark taverns, slur conspiracy theories about kidnappings and phantom guilds of killers.
One constant bleeds through every tale: of a woman so consumed by hate for those who killed her that she refused to die. And of Death, so impressed by whatever hate-filled engine that drove this woman that he gave her Mercy and Grace — twin ethereal pistols — and made her his second in command. Now she hunts down wayward souls whose last grains have tumbled from their hourglass, and drags them kicking and screaming to their eternal reward.