Strength

Pudge

Popularity: #2

Leaderboard: #40

Ban Rank: #5

KDA Rank: #104

Hero

Build

Matchup

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 50.8%

Pick Rate 24.7%

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

Fresh Meat

Win Rate: 51.2%

Pick Rate: 13.2%

Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.

Dismember

Dismember increases Strength when dealing damage to heroes.

STRENGTH INCREASE: 1 / 3 / 5

STRENGTH DURATION: 12

Flayer's Hook

Win Rate: 50.7%

Pick Rate: 86.8%

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%

DISTANCE AS DAMAGE: 12% / 18% / 24% / 30%

Abilities

Flesh Heap

LEVELS WITH: Dismember

Each time Pudge kills an enemy Hero, he permanently gains 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2 bonus Strength.

Enemy Heroes that die within 450 of Pudge grant bonus Strength 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

+150 Meat Hook Damage
-4s Meat Hook Cooldown

The Butcher's hook is a symbolic nightmare, its curved blade a frightening reminder of his slaughterous intent.

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

A foul odor precedes a toxic, choking gas, emanating from the Butcher's putrid, ever-swelling mass.

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

The Butcher gives new meaning to the words 'meat shield.'

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

MAX HP REGEN: 5%

ALLY CAST RANGE: 300

30 / 25 / 20

100 / 130 / 170

200

Aghanim's Shard

Decreases cooldown, and allows targeting an ally with bonus cast range to swallow them and heal them for a percentage of their max health per second.

+2s Dismember Duration
x1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal

'When I'm through with these vermin, they'll be fit for a pie!'

Eject

Ejects the swallowed allied hero inside of you.

Allies emerge forever changed.

Talents

n/ax Flesh Heap and Meat Shield bonuses

x1.5x Dismember Damage/Heal

+ 0.3 %

-4s Meat Hook Cooldown

+0.75s Dismember Duration

+ 0.7 %

+150 Meat Hook Damage

+8% Spell Lifesteal

+ 1.2 %

+10% Rot Slow

+ 2.8 %

+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.