Windranger stats, abilities and strategy
Fires swift flurry of arrows at a single target
Evasive and swift, the nimble Windranger is always seeking the right angle to attack. Whether she's clearing the way with a draw of her deadly powershot, or shackling enemies together to pepper them with arrows, she's always on the move.
Win Rate 47.2%
Pick Rate 11.3%
Attributes
516 +57.2/lvl
291 +38.4/lvl
18 +2.6/lvl
17 +1.9/lvl
18 +3.2/lvl
Stats
Damage:
61 - 73 + 5.4/level (246 - 258 at level 30)
Range:
600
Armor:
2.8 + 0.3/level (14.4 at level 30)
Movement:
290
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38c
- Base Damage increased by 3
- Damage on level 1 increased from 44–56 to 47–59
Patch 7.38b
- Agility gain increased from 1.7 to 1.9
Patch 7.38
- Base Damage increased by 14-20
- Base Intelligence decreased from 21 to 18
- Damage at level 1 rescaled from 46-52 to 44-56
- Strength gain increased from 2.0 to 2.6
- Agility gain increased from 1.4 to 1.7
- Intelligence gain increased from 2.4 to 3.2
- Damage gain per level decreased from +4.1 to +3.4
- Damage at level 30 decreased by 32-26 (from 193-199 to 161-173)
- Removed Focus Fire and Whirlwind Facets
Facets
Tangled
Win Rate: 45.7%
Pick Rate: 16.1%
Shackleshot affects more enemies and grants damage per unit shackled.
Patch 7.38
- Shackleshot: Shackleshot applies to all units and trees behind the target, each granting Windranger bonus attack damage for 6 seconds. Each shackled hero provides 12/20/28/36 damage, while trees and other units provide 50% less. Primary Shackleshot target doesn't provide any damage
Killshot
Win Rate: 47.4%
Pick Rate: 83.9%
Powershot executes low health enemy heroes.
Patch 7.38c
- Powershot: Execute no longer goes through any death denial effects (Dazzle's Shallow Grave, Oracle's False Promise, etc.)
Patch 7.38
- Powershot: The arrow instantly executes enemy heroes below a certain health threshold. Execute threshold linearly increases with the channeling time. Min Execute Threshold: 5%, Max Execute Threshold: 9/10/11/12%. Health for execution is calculated after the arrow hits
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Windranger's movement speed cannot be lower than 240 and can reach 600.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +25 Easy Breezy Min/Max Movespeed
Shackleshot
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Shackles the target to an enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it. If no unit or tree is present, the stun duration is reduced to 0.6.
This spell can shackle two enemies together, stunning them both.
Can shackle the target to an enemy unit or tree at most 575 behind the target.
Shackleshot can be disjointed.
SHACKLE DURATION: 1.75 / 2.25 / 2.75 / 3.25
BONUS DAMAGE PER HERO:
CREEP/TREE DAMAGE: %
DAMAGE BUFF DURATION:
16 / 14 / 12 / 10
70 / 80 / 90 / 100
800
FACET: Tangled
Shackleshot applies to all units and trees behind the target unit and grants Windranger bonus attack damage for each additional shackled unit and tree. Creeps and trees grant less bonus damage.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +0.75s Shackleshot Duration
Patch 7.38b
- Shackle Duration increased from 1.6/2.1/2.6/3.1s to 1.75/2.25/2.75/3.25s
Windranger's variety of bow skills includes an arrow with thick ropes attached to encumber any escaping target.
Powershot
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
CHANNELED - Windranger charges her bow for up to %abilitychanneltime% second for a single powerful shot, which deals more damage the longer it is charged. The arrow damages and slows enemies' movement speed along its path. For each enemy that Powershot hits, its damage and slow is reduced.
Powershot will destroy trees in its area of effect.
DAMAGE: 170 / 270 / 370 / 470
SLOW: 20% / 25% / 30% / 35%
SLOW DURATION: 4
REDUCTION PER UNIT: 15%
RANGE: 3000
MIN EXECUTE THRESHOLD: %
MAX EXECUTE THRESHOLD: %
12 / 11 / 10 / 9
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
2600
FACET: Killshot
Enemy heroes hit are executed if below a health threshold. The execute threshold is based on the arrow's power.
LEVEL 15 TALENT: -15% Powershot Reduction
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +1s Powershot Slow Duration
Patch 7.38
- Mana Cost rescaled from 100 to 90/100/110/120
During her early years of training, Lyralei learned to fire powerful arrows that cleaved even trees to reach their targets.
Windrun
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Increases movement speed and adds evasion from all physical attacks.
Activating Windrun will evade incoming projectiles.
MOVE SPEED BONUS: 60%
EVASION: 100%
RADIUS:
ALLY MOVESPEED BONUS: %
DURATION: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
15 / 14 / 13 / 12
50
FACET: Tailwind
Windrun grants additional bonus movement speed to Windranger and nearby allies.
Aghanim's Scepter
Windrun reduces physical damage taken by %physical_damage_pct%%, and grants invisibility that is not broken by attacking or casting spells.
RADIUS:
ALLY MOVESPEED BONUS: %
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Windrun Cannot Be Dispelled
Lyralei enchants gusts of winds to fight incoming attacks.
Focus Fire
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Windranger channels the wind to gain %bonus_attack_speed% additional attack speed against a single enemy unit or structure, though with a reduction to her attack damage. Extra damage from secondary item effects is not reduced.
Issuing a Hold Position command will pause Windranger's attacks.
Windranger can move while attacking.
BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 350 / 425 / 500
ATTACKS PER SECOND:
DAMAGE REDUCTION: -30%
BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 0
70 / 50 / 30
75 / 100 / 125
600
FACET: Whirlwind
Focus Fire no longer requires a target, instead firing at random enemies within Windranger's attack range + 125. Fires a fixed number of attacks per second, and can only hit the same enemy every 4 shots. Prioritizes Heroes.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Focus Fire Kills Advance Cooldown by 18s
LEVEL 20 TALENT: -10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction
Lyralei's ability to bombard opponents with a flurry of arrows is unparalleled - even at the expense of accuracy.
Focus Fire Cancel
PASSIVE: No
End your Focus Fire early.
Gale Force
Shard grants new ability
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Vector Targeted. Summons a strong wind that pushes all enemies in the target area towards the target direction.
DURATION: 3.5
WIND SPEED: 240
RADIUS: 1000
30
125
1500
Patch 7.38
- Mana Cost increased from 100 to 125
At last Lyralei has learned to call upon the might of her true birthright.
Talents
Focus Fire Kills Advance Cooldown by 18s
+ 1.7 %
Windrun Cannot Be Dispelled
-10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction
+0.75s Shackleshot Duration
+ 1.1 %
-15% Powershot Reduction
-2s Windrun Cooldown
+ 1.0 %
+25 Easy Breezy Min/Max Movespeed
+ 1.0 %
+1s Powershot Slow Duration
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent -2s Shackleshot Cooldown replaced with +25 Easy Breezy Min/Max Movespeed
- Level 10 Talent +20% Powershot Slow replaced with +1s Powershot Slow Duration
Strategy
Powershot provides brief vision and cuts trees in its path.
Windrun is dispellable, so be careful when playing against certain heroes and items.
Use powershot to secure ranged creeps and damage the opponents at the same time.
Proc items like Javelin, Maelstrom or Monkey King Bar work really well with Focus Fire.
Take your time in the fights to guarantee Shackleshot lands, as most of your impact comes from that.
Push out the side lanes when not much is happening around the map.
Pick up Aghanims Shard around minute 15 as it adds another control spell to your arsenal.
Consider turning your Maelstrom into Gleipnir to help lockdown enemy heroes and setup shackleshot.
You're easily killable after using Windrun. Be mindful of your cooldown and usage.
Counter Strategy
Windranger is susceptible to early game spell harass. Manage your mana and keep pressuring her
Windranger's Powershot does lots of damage. Avoid being hit or at least don't be the first unit being hit.
Windranger can easily kill most heroes with her ultimate and a single Javelin. Be mindful about that.
Blade Mail is a decent counter against Windrangers Focus Fire.
To counter Windranger's Shackleshot, try to stay away from trees and make sure you don't have creeps or heroes behind you. Linken's Sphere is also helpful against Shackleshot
Windranger's Windrun is countered by items that pierce through evasion. Several of the best ways to counter Windrun are Monkey King bar, Nulifier, Bloodthorne, Disperser. Notable mentions are Maelstrom and Witch Blade.
Lore
The western forests guard their secrets well. One of these is Lyralei, master archer of the wood, and favored godchild of the wind. Known now as Windranger, Lyralei's family was killed in a storm on the night of her birth--their house blown down by the gale, contents scattered to the winds. Only the newborn survived among the debris field of death and destruction. In the quiet after the storm, the wind itself took notice of the lucky infant crying in the grass. The wind pitied the child and so lifted her into the sky and deposited her on a doorstep in a neighboring village. In the years that followed, the wind returned occasionally to the child's life, watching from a distance while she honed her skills. Now, after many years of training, Windranger fires her arrows true to their targets. She moves with blinding speed, as if hastened by a wind ever at her back. With a flurry of arrows, she slaughters her enemies, having become, nearly, a force of nature herself.