Agility · Ranged

Hoodwink

Shackles her enemies to trees

SupportNukerDisablerEscapeModerate to play

Win rate

47.0%

D across all ranks

Pick rate

11.1%

of public matches

Public picks

375.8K

in the sample

Pro scene

34 bans · 45% win rate

Win rate by rank

Herald46.0%
Guardian46.7%
Crusader46.6%
Archon46.9%
Legend47.2%
Ancient47.3%
Divine+47.4%

Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 7.9K · Guardian 26.2K · Crusader 52.1K · Archon 84.7K · Legend 98.3K · Ancient 60.6K · Divine+ 45.9K.

Last 6 days

46.8%

Popular item build

Starting items

Bought before the horn

1
Iron Branch
55g
2
Observer and Sentry Wards
50g
3
Tango
90g
4
Blood Grenade
50g
5
Faerie Fire
65g
6
Sentry Ward
50g

Laning

The first minutes

1
Boots of Speed
500g

Mid game

Core items

1
Essence Distiller
49%1,775g
2
Arcane Boots
50%1,500g
3
Blink Dagger
60%2,250g
4
Aghanim's Shard
55%1,400g
5
Force Staff
50%2,200g

Late game

The full build

1
Blink Dagger
60%2,250g
2
Force Staff
50%2,200g
3
Scythe of Vyse
5,200g
4
Glimmer Cape
50%2,150g
5
Aeon Disk
3,000g
6
Consecrated Wraps
2,600g

Most-bought items for Hoodwink in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,231 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Hoodwink bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Hoodwink’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.

Best win rate by purchase time

Bought ≤ 12 min

Essence Distiller
169 games
59%
Arcane Boots
774 games
53%

Bought 12–15 min

Essence Distiller
450 games
54%
Arcane Boots
655 games
51%

Bought 15–20 min

Blink Dagger
85 games
71%
Rod of Atos
141 games
57%
Aghanim's Shard
178 games
56%

Bought 20–30 min

Tiara of Selemene
61 games
69%
Perseverance
76 games
59%
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
352 games
59%

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.

What these items do

Iron Branch
55
- +1 All Attributes
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
Observer and Sentry Wards
50
Use: Plant: Plant the currently active ward. Double-Click to switch the currently active ward.
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Use: Plant. Plant the currently active ward. Double-Click to switch the currently active ward.
- Hold Control to give one ward to an allied hero.
Tango
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.
Blood Grenade
50
- +50 Health
Use: Throw Grenade: Throw a grenade at the target area. Enemies in the area will take 50 damage on impact, and be slowed by -15% and take 15 damage every 1s for 5…
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10s
Use: Throw Grenade. Throw a grenade at the target area. Enemies in the area will take 50 damage on impact, and be slowed by -15% and take 15 damage every 1s for 5 seconds. Radius 300.
Faerie Fire
65
- +2 Damage
Use: Imbue: Instantly restores 85 health.
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5s
Use: Imbue. Instantly restores 85 health.
Sentry Ward
50
Use: Plant: Plants a Sentry Ward, an invisible watcher that grants True Sight, the ability to see invisible enemy units and wards, to any existing allied vision within a…
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1s
Use: Plant. Plants a Sentry Ward, an invisible watcher that grants True Sight, the ability to see invisible enemy units and wards, to any existing allied vision within a 1050 radius. Lasts 7 minutes. Does not grant ground vision. Hold Control to give one Sentry Ward to an allied hero.
Boots of Speed
500
- +45 Move Speed
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
Essence Distiller
1,775
- +1.5 Mana Regen
- +3 All Attributes
- +6 Armor
- +150 Mana
Active: Soul Release: Provides 40 health regeneration when cast on allies.
Win rate when bought49.1% · 1,531 games
- ≤ 12 min59%169
- 12–15 min54%450
- 15–20 min47%694
- 20–30 min36%218
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10s
Active: Soul Release. Provides 40 health regeneration when cast on allies. Can be ground targeted to lie dormant for up to 15s and attach to the first enemy that comes within 450 radius. When on enemies, deals 25 damage per second and provides True Sight over them and shares their vision with the wearer's team. Lasts 8 seconds. Gains charges every time an enemy hero dies within 1500 units.
- Empty distillers gain 2 charges.
- Only the closest Essence Distiller to the dying hero will gain a charge.
- If the allied unit is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.
- Does not trigger spell block or spell reflect.
- While dormant, provides vision in 450 radius. Vision lingers for 0.5s after latching.
Arcane Boots
1,500
- +45 Move Speed
- +0.25 Mana Regen
- +125 Mana
Active: Replenish: Restores 150 mana to all nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought50.2% · 2,157 games
- ≤ 12 min53%774
- 12–15 min51%655
- 15–20 min47%519
- 20–30 min48%209
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55s
Active: Replenish. Restores 150 mana to all nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Passive: Basilius Aura. Grants 1 mana regeneration to allies. Radius: 1200 Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
- Does not work on Meepo clones.
Blink Dagger
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 bought59.6% · 555 games
- ≤ 12 min–1
- 12–15 min–5
- 15–20 min71%85
- 20–30 min58%464
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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.
- Self-casting will cause you to teleport in the direction of your team's fountain.
Aghanim's Shard
1,400
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades an existing ability or adds a new ability to your hero.
Win rate when bought54.5% · 710 games
- ≤ 12 min–5
- 12–15 min–10
- 15–20 min56%178
- 20–30 min54%517
Force Staff
2,200
- +10 Intelligence
- +175 Health
Active: Force: Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing.
Win rate when bought50.3% · 459 games
- ≤ 12 min–0
- 12–15 min–2
- 15–20 min63%38
- 20–30 min49%419
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19s150
Active: Force. Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing.
- Self-cast will cause you to use Force on yourself.
- Force Staff doesn't interrupt the target's actions.
- Will not work on a unit inside Chronosphere, Duel, or Black Hole.
- Force Staff has 850 cast range when cast on enemies.
Scythe of Vyse
5,200
- +30 Intelligence
- +8.5 Mana Regen
Active: Hex: Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 2.8 seconds. The target has a base movement speed of 140 and will be silenced, muted, and disarmed.
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20s250
Active: Hex. Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 2.8 seconds. The target has a base movement speed of 140 and will be silenced, muted, and disarmed. Instantly destroys illusions.
- The target will have a base movement speed of 140, but buffs granting maximum movement speed won't be disabled.
Glimmer Cape
2,150
Active: Glimmer: After a 0.5 second delay, grants invisibility, 20 movement speed and a magic damage barrier that absorbs up to 375 damage to you or a target allied unit…
Win rate when bought49.9% · 547 games
- ≤ 12 min–0
- 12–15 min–4
- 15–20 min55%74
- 20–30 min49%469
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15s125
Active: Glimmer. After a 0.5 second delay, grants invisibility, 20 movement speed and a magic damage barrier that absorbs up to 375 damage to you or a target allied unit for 5 seconds. Can be cast while channeling.
Aeon Disk
3,000
- +250 Health
- +300 Mana
Passive: Combo Breaker: When you take damage and your health falls below 70%, a strong dispel is applied and you gain a 2.5 second buff that provides +75% Status…
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105 / 125 / 145 / 165s
Passive: Combo Breaker. When you take damage and your health falls below 70%, a strong dispel is applied and you gain a 2.5 second buff that provides +75% Status Resistance and causes all damage you deal and are dealt to be reduced to zero. Only triggers on player based damage. Cooldown increases every time it triggers. Dispel Type: Strong Dispel
Consecrated Wraps
2,600
- +5 All Attributes
- +250 Health
Passive: Hallowed: Gain a charge every 4s, up to a maximum of 3 charges. Upon gaining a charge, your movement speed is increased by 15% for 5s.
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Passive: Hallowed. Gain a charge every 4s, up to a maximum of 3 charges. Upon gaining a charge, your movement speed is increased by 15% for 5s. Whenever you take damage from a player-controlled source or Roshan, consume all charges to gain an all damage barrier for 5s that absorbs 120 damage per charge (360 max).
- Charges cannot be gained for 4s after you take damage from a player-controlled source or Roshan.
- Self-damage and HP Loss damage cannot remove charges.
- Movement speed buff does not stack.

Abilities

Acorn Shot

19 / 16 / 13 / 10s70 / 80 / 90 / 100

Fires Hoodwink's attack with an acorn at the target unit. The acorn bounces to nearby targets, slowing them and dealing a percentage of Hoodwink's attack with bonus damage. If point targeted, a tree is created at the target position and the acorn will bounce to nearby targets. The ability may be placed on alt-cast to force this behavior.

BONUS DAMAGE: 45 / 90 / 135 / 180
BASE DAMAGE: 80%
BOUNCE COUNT: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
SLOW DURATION: 0.3
MOVEMENT SLOW: 100%

The same target can be hit more than once.
Bounces will seek units in the fog of war in a 525 radius, but not invisible units.
The planted tree lasts for 20 seconds.

Bushwhack

15 / 14 / 13 / 12s90 / 100 / 110 / 120

Tosses a net trap that stuns enemies if they are near a tree in the area. Affected enemies take damage over time and are pulled towards the tree nearest to them within the target area, and have their vision reduced to 0 for the duration of the stun.

RADIUS: 265
STUN DURATION: 1.5 / 1.7 / 1.9 / 2.1
TOTAL DAMAGE: 90 / 180 / 270 / 360

Units can be freed from the stun by destroying the tree.
Bushwhack does not hit invisible units.

Scurry

Hoodwink gains bonus movement speed, phased movement, and tree-walking for a brief time. While active, the redirect chance of Mistwoods Wayfarer is multiplied by 2.

BONUS MOVEMENT SPEED: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30%
BUFF DURATION: 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5

Decoy

Granted by Aghanim’s Scepter30s60

Hoodwink turns invisible, increasing her movement speed, and creates a decoy illusion that starts aiming a decreased damage Sharpshooter at the nearest enemy hero. If the illusion is attacked or hit by a targeted ability, it is destroyed and it throws a lesser bushwhack towards the enemy.

ILLUSION DURATION: 6
BUSHWHACK RADIUS: 250
BUSHWHACK DURATION: 1.6
MOVEMENT SPEED: 15%
SHARPSHOOTER DAMAGE: 60%

Hunter's Boomerang

Granted by Aghanim’s Shard20s125

Tosses a boomerang in an arc. Upon contact, it returns to Hoodwink. The boomerang will deal damage as it passes through or hits enemies, and apply a debuff that causes affected enemies to be slowed and be more vulnerable to spell damage.

RADIUS: 150
DAMAGE: 200
DEBUFF DURATION: 6
MOVEMENT SLOW: 25%
INCOMING SPELL DAMAGE AMP: 20%

Sharpshooter

Ultimate45s150 / 200 / 250

Hoodwink charges up and fires a deadly bolt from her crossbow, dealing heavy damage, break and slow to an enemy Hero. The damage and debuff duration scale up to max after 3 seconds, and the bolt is fired automatically after 5 seconds. Hoodwink is knocked backwards for a distance of 350 from the force of the shot. Creeps hit by the bolt are damaged for half the values.

ARROW SPEED: 2200
MAX WIND-UP TIME: 3
MAX DAMAGE: 600 / 975 / 1350
MAX DEBUFF DURATION: 5
MOVE SLOW: 30 / 40 / 50%
COOLDOWN: 45

Aghanim’s ScepterIncreases arrow speed and movement speed slow.

Mistwoods Wayfarer

Innate

Hoodwink has a chance to redirect enemy attacks to a nearby tree.

TREE SEARCH RADIUS: 275
REDIRECT CHANCE: 14.25%

Trees that take a redirected attack are destroyed.

Talents

+400 Sharpshooter Max Damage

2 Acorn Shot Charges

Sharpshooter Provides Vision While Charging

+2 Acorn Shot Bounces

+1 Scurry Ability Charge

+10 Agility

+50 Bushwhack Damage

+175 Health

Base stats

Attributes

Strength16+2/lvl
Agility22+3.6/lvl
Intelligence21+2.9/lvl

Damage: 47–54
Attack time: 2s
Attack range: 575
Move speed: 315
Armor: 3.7
Magic resistance: 25%
Health: 472 (+1.9/s)
Mana: 327 (+1.1/s)
Vision day / night: 1800 / 800

Recent changes

latest 12 patches

7.41f2026-09-15
- Base Strength decreased from 17 to 16
7.41e2026-07-30
- Mistwoods Wayfarer:Redirect Chance decreased from 14% + 1% per level to 14.25% + 0.75% per level
- Sharpshooter:Mana Cost increased from 100/150/200 to 150/200/250
- Hunter's Boomerang:Cooldown increased from 18s to 20s
7.41d2026-06-04
- Acorn Shot:Cooldown increased from 16/14/12/10s to 19/16/13/10s
- Scurry:Bonus Movement Speed decreased from 20/25/30/35% to 15/20/25/30%
7.41c2026-05-06
- Base Damage increased by 3
- Base Agility decreased from 25 to 22
- Damage at level 1 unchanged at 47-54
- Sharpshooter:Knockback to Hoodwink won't be applied if Hoodwink is rooted
7.41b2026-04-07
- Hunter's Boomerang:Debuff Duration decreased from 7s to 6s
7.412026-03-24
- Mistwoods Wayfarer:No longer levels with Sharpshooter
- Redirect Chance changed from 14/21/28/35% to 14% + 1% per level
- Acorn Shot:Cast Range rescaled from (Hoodwink's attack range + 100) to 675/700/725/750
- Bushwhack:Cast Range increased from 1000 to 1100
- Scurry:No longer doubles all sources of evasion for the duration
- Now doubles redirect chance of Mistwoods Wayfarer for the duration
- Sharpshooter:Now treats creep heroes as creeps
- The projectile flies through creeps, dealing them damage for half value, but still applying Slow and Break at full force and duration
- Since Spirit Bear is considered a true hero, the projectile will stop on impact with it
- Talents:Level 10 Talent Health increased from +150 to +175
- Level 15 Talent +1 Acorn Shot Bounce replaced with +10 Agility
- Level 20 Talent -3 Armor Corruption replaced with +2 Acorn Shot Bounces
7.402025-12-15
- Mistwoods Wayfarer:Ability can no longer target trees affecting Acorn Shot or Bushwhack
- Talents:Level 10 Talent +1.5 Mana Regen replaced with +150 Health
- Level 10 Talent +1 Scurry Ability Charge replaced with +50 Bushwhack Damage
- Level 15 Talent +60 Bushwhack Damage replaced with +1 Scurry Ability Charge
7.39e2025-10-02
- Hunter's Boomerang:Incoming Spell Damage Amp decreased from 25% to 20%

Lore

Hoodwink's earliest years were spent in the idyllic expanse of green that once filled the edges of Krimwohl. But as that kingdom grew, and the needs of both her citizens and her armies became ravenous, rival ore and timber barons scratched and clawed to outpace each other in devouring the natural beauty of the border forests, gorging themselves to meet the demands of the changing land. To those living in the ancient timberlands, the choice came down to following the line of refugees into the pacified zones, falling to Krimwohl's black powder and steel while defending their homes, or fleeing further north to tempt fate in the haunted glens and groves of the misty Wood Tomo'kan. So it was in those treacherous northern mistwoods that Hoodwink came of age, dodging the horrific predators of the Tomo'kan, ingratiating herself with some of the local banditry whilst antagonizing others, and finding absolutely every which way to be underfoot whenever some interesting mischief arose--often allegedly the cause of it. But when the faintest whiff of Krimwohl's fires eventually drifted into her adopted home, Hoodwink's thoughts turned to any family and friends who might have survived the invasion--now made to eke out lives in the razed lands whose wounds scarred her very soul--and she couldn't help but approach the edges of civilization to get a glimpse of the devils that had destroyed her old life. There, she saw that the monsters from her childhood weren't monsters at all. They were just...people. Soldiers, laborers, merchants...and refugees. And the soldiers, even with their black powder and steel, were nothing compared to the dangers of the Tomo'kan--real dangers with tentacles and teeth--dangers she danced around like a twirling maple seed. Knowing she can always find safe passage in the tangles of the Tomo'kan, where most warm-blooded folk wisely fear to tread, Hoodwink now strikes out against those who dare try to further pacify the wilds, happily taking what she likes from their belongings, destroying what she has no use for, and helping guide any kindred survivors back to a life in the green once again.

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.

Hoodwink

Win rate by rank

Popular item build

Best win rate by purchase time

Bought ≤ 12 min

Bought 12–15 min

Bought 15–20 min

Bought 20–30 min

What these items do

Iron Branch

Observer and Sentry Wards

Tango

Blood Grenade

Faerie Fire

Sentry Ward

Boots of Speed

Essence Distiller

Arcane Boots

Blink Dagger

Aghanim's Shard

Force Staff

Scythe of Vyse

Glimmer Cape

Aeon Disk

Consecrated Wraps