Universal · Ranged
Traps and damages enemies in a black hole
Win rate
51.3%
A across all ranks
Pick rate
4.1%
of public matches
Public picks
138.5K
in the sample
Pro scene
21
62 bans · 52% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 3.2K · Guardian 10.4K · Crusader 19.6K · Archon 30.6K · Legend 33.9K · Ancient 20.5K · Divine+ 20.2K.
Last 6 days
50.6%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Tango
Ring of Regen
Faerie Fire
Magic Stick
Circlet
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Drum of Endurance
Tranquil Boots
Core items
Blink Dagger
Aghanim's Shard
Black King Bar
The full build
Shiva's Guard
Black King Bar
Octarine Core
Refresher Orb
Boots of Travel
Aghanim's Blessing
Most-bought items for Enigma in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,497 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Enigma bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Enigma’s average). Teams that are ahead buy items sooner, so a high number shows the item goes with winning games, not that it causes the win. Items with fewer than 100 games show no percentage. Cheap components are hidden from the mid and late game.
Blink Dagger
166 games
Drum of Endurance
616 games
Mithril Hammer
136 games
Aghanim's Shard
394 games
Blink Dagger
197 games
Ring of Tarrasque
66 games
Octarine Core
65 games
Soul Booster
77 games
Final items compared within the same purchase window (at least 60 games each), so they are not simply ranked by how late or expensive they are. Still a correlation: a team that is far ahead can buy anything sooner.
55
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
90
Use: Devour: Consumes a target tree to gain 7 health regeneration for 16 seconds. Consuming an Ironwood Tree doubles the heal duration. Comes with 3 charges.
175
65
Use: Imbue: Instantly restores 85 health.
5s
Use: Imbue. Instantly restores 85 health.
200
Active: Energy Charge: Instantly restores 15 health and mana per charge stored. Max 10 charges. Gains a charge whenever a visible enemy within 1200 range uses an ability.
17s
Active: Energy Charge. Instantly restores 15 health and mana per charge stored. Max 10 charges. Gains a charge whenever a visible enemy within 1200 range uses an ability.
155
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
1,625
Active: Endurance: Gives +35 attack speed and +13% movement speed to nearby allies for 6 seconds. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought59.2% · 647 games
45s
Active: Endurance. Gives +35 attack speed and +13% movement speed to nearby allies for 6 seconds. Radius: 1200
Passive: Swiftness Aura. Grants 15 movement speed and 2.5 health regeneration to allies. Radius: 1200
900
Passive: Break: Whenever you attack a hero or are attacked by any unit, the bonus 14 HP regen is lost and the movement speed bonus is reduced to 40 for 13 seconds.
13s
Passive: Break. Whenever you attack a hero or are attacked by any unit, the bonus 14 HP regen is lost and the movement speed bonus is reduced to 40 for 13 seconds. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
2,250
Active: Blink: Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
Win rate when bought56.2% · 758 games
15s
Active: Blink. Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
1,400
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades an existing ability or adds a new ability to your hero.
Win rate when bought60.7% · 532 games
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought57.9% · 503 games
95s50
Active: Avatar. Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect. Duration: 9 / 8 / 7s Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
4,500
Active: Arctic Blast: Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
27s75
Active: Arctic Blast. Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
Passive: Freezing Aura. Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by -40. Radius: 1200
5,100
5,000
Active: Reset Cooldowns: Resets the cooldowns of all your abilities. Shares a cooldown with Refresher Shard.
180s325
Active: Reset Cooldowns. Resets the cooldowns of all your abilities. Shares a cooldown with Refresher Shard. This item's cooldown only progresses in your hero's main inventory.
2,500
Upgrade: Town Portal Scroll: Upgrades your Town Portal Scroll, allowing it to target units, reduces cooldown and does not consume a charge on usage.
Upgrade: Town Portal Scroll. Upgrades your Town Portal Scroll, allowing it to target units, reduces cooldown and does not consume a charge on usage. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
5,800
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
Focuses Enigma's power on a target, causing it to take damage and become repeatedly stunned for multiple instances. An instance strikes every 2 seconds.
Aghanim’s ShardIncreases Malefice stun duration by 0.3s and creates an Eidolon next to the target every instance of Malefice stun. These Eidolons will not multiply further.
Summons three fragments of Enigma himself at the cost of health. The eidolons health is increased by 3% of Enigma's current health. These eidolons are all under Enigma's control, and repeated successful attacks cause them to multiply. When this happens, the eidolons have their health restored.
Steeps an area in dark resonance, dealing 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 + a percentage of the enemies current HP as damage.
Units in a 600 radius moving away from Enigma have a movespeed penalty.
CHANNELED - Summons a vortex that sucks in nearby enemy units. Enemies affected by Black Hole cannot move, attack, or cast spells.
Aghanim’s ScepterBlack Hole deals additional damage equivalent to 4% of the unit's Max Health per second and does a non-interrupting pull towards it in a 1000 AoE. Pulls at a rate of 150.
+4 Malefice Instances
25+4 Demonic Summoning Eidolons
+200 Midnight Pulse Radius
20+30 Eidolon Damage
+250 Health
15+100 Event Horizon Radius
+10 Eidolon Attack Speed
10+50 Black Hole Damage Per Second
Strength21+2.5/lvl
Agility14+1/lvl
Intelligence19+3.6/lvlUniversal heroes get bonus damage from every attribute.
Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes. There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified--a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient--his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.
Win rates come from public Dota 2 matches (OpenDota), 3.4M matches counted, refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Tiers use the win rate in the chosen rank: S 52.5%+, A 51%+, B 49%+, C 47.5%+, D below; heroes with too few games are left unrated. Hero data and patch notes are Valve’s. Builds Forge is an unofficial fan site, not affiliated with Valve.