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 49.4%
Pick Rate 27.3%
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 (171.0 - 177.0 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: 50.3%
Pick Rate: 48.1%
Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.
Dismember
Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.
STRENGTH INCREASE: 2 / 4 / 6
STRENGTH DURATION: 12
Flayer's Hook
Meat Hook deals bonus damage based on the distance pulled, but base damage is reduced.
Meat Hook
Meat Hook deals bonus damage based on the distance pulled, but base damage is reduced.
DAMAGE: =80 =120 =160 =200
CAST RANGE: +15%
Rotten Core
Win Rate: 48.6%
Pick Rate: 51.9%
While Rot is activated, Pudge gains bonus attack damage every second.
Rot
While Rot is activated, Pudge gains 4,8,12,16% bonus attack damage every second. Damage bonus decays rapidly over =1.0s while Rot is deactivated.
MAX BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE: 20% / 40% / 60% / 80%
TIME FOR MAX BONUS: =5.0
Abilities
LEVELS WITH: Dismember
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: x1.5x Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
Meat Hook
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.
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 undefined%.
- +150 Meat Hook Damage
- -4s Meat Hook Cooldown
Rot
A toxic cloud that deals intense damage and slows movement--harming not only enemy units but Pudge himself.
RADIUS: 250
MOVE SLOW: -14% / -20% / -26% / -32%
DAMAGE: 30 / 60 / 90 / 120
REGEN REDUCTION: 20%
Aghanim's Scepter
Increases Rot radius and damage, and causes it to reduce enemy health regen.
- +10% Rot Slow
Meat Shield
Pudge covers himself with a layer of flesh that blocks damage of any type taken from any source.
DAMAGE BLOCK: 8 / 14 / 20 / 26
20 / 19 / 18 / 17
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
- x1.5x Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
Dismember
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.
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
- +2s Dismember Duration
- x1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal
Talents
n/ax Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses
x1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal
+ 0.3 %
-4s Meat Hook Cooldown
+0.75s Dismember Duration
+ 1.1 %
+150 Meat Hook Damage
+8% Spell Lifesteal
+ 1.6 %
+10% Rot Slow
+ 2.5 %
+5 Armor
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
You can hook runes. Try to hook an enemy into your allies at the intial bounty rune.
During the laning stage don't play only around the Hook, also use your hero's tankiness and high base damage.
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 flesh heap 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 Smokes to find pick offs.
Blink Dagger and Aghanim's Shard combined allow you to save your allies instantly.
Fight around vision so you can land your Hooks more easily.
Counter Strategy
Be aware of Pudge's camp spots and place observer wards 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
Lore
In the Fields of Endless Carnage, far to the south of Quoidge, a corpulent figure works tirelessly through the night--dismembering, disembowelling, piling up the limbs and viscera of the fallen that the battlefield might be clear by dawn. In this cursed realm, nothing can decay or decompose; no corpse may ever return to the earth from which it sprang, no matter how deep you dig the grave. Flocked by carrion birds who need him to cut their meals into beak-sized chunks, Pudge the Butcher hones his skills with blades that grow sharper the longer he uses them. Swish, swish, thunk. Flesh falls from the bone; tendons and ligaments part like wet paper. And while he always had a taste for the butchery, over the ages, Pudge has developed a taste for its byproduct as well. Starting with a gobbet of muscle here, a sip of blood there...before long he was thrusting his jaws deep into the toughest of torsos, like a dog gnawing at rags. Even those who are beyond fearing the Reaper, fear the Butcher.