Waveform
21 / 18 / 15 / 12s115
Morphling dissolves into liquid and surges forward, damaging enemy units in his path. Morphling is invulnerable during Waveform.
Agility · Ranged
Morphling
Rides the waves to flank enemies
CarryNukerDisablerDurableEscapeComplex to play
Win rate
47.8%
C across all ranks
Pick rate
3.7%
of public matches
Public picks
125.4K
in the sample
Pro scene
6
2 bans · 67% win rate
Win rate by rank
- Herald47.3%
- Guardian48.1%
- Crusader47.1%
- Archon47.8%
- Legend47.7%
- Ancient48.2%
- Divine+48.5%
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 2.6K · Guardian 8.6K · Crusader 16.7K · Archon 28K · Legend 33.1K · Ancient 20.5K · Divine+ 15.9K.
Last 6 days
47.9%
Popular item build
Starting items
Bought before the horn
- 1
55gIron Branch
- 2
155gCirclet
- 3
460gMagic Wand
- 4
90gTango
- 5
65gFaerie Fire
Laning
The first minutes
- 1
500gBoots of Speed
- 2
52%1,400gPower Treads
- 3
900gMorbid Mask
- 4
54%2,200gVladmir's Offering
Mid game
Core items
- 1
55%4,650gManta Style
- 254%2,200g
Vladmir's Offering
- 3
58%2,000gDragon Lance
- 4
1,350gClaymore
- 5
66%2,800gEaglesong
- 6
1,300gTalisman of Evasion
Late game
The full build
- 1
70%5,450gButterfly
- 2
4,050gBlack King Bar
- 3
2,200gDemon Edge
- 4
5,900gHydra's Breath
- 5
5,900gEye of Skadi
- 6
5,050gSatanic
Most-bought items for Morphling in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,725 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Morphling bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Morphling’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
- 58%
Vladmir's Offering
259 games
- 53%
Power Treads
479 games
Bought 12–15 min
63%Yasha
173 games
- 48%
Vladmir's Offering
92 games
Bought 15–20 min
- 63%
Manta Style
246 games
- 46%
Yasha
212 games
Bought 20–30 min
70%Ultimate Orb
184 games
- 69%
Butterfly
179 games
- 65%
Eaglesong
210 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.
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.
Circlet
155
- +2 All Attributes
Magic Wand
460
- +3 All Attributes
Active: Energy Charge: Instantly restores 15 health and mana per charge stored. Max 20 charges. Gains a charge whenever a visible enemy within 1200 range uses an ability.
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15s
Active: Energy Charge. Instantly restores 15 health and mana per charge stored. Max 20 charges. Gains a charge whenever a visible enemy within 1200 range uses an ability.
- Gains charges for spells cast by visible enemies in 1200 range.
- Certain abilities and item abilities will not add charges.
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.
Faerie Fire
65
- +2 Damage
Use: Imbue: Instantly restores 85 health.
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5s
Use: Imbue. Instantly restores 85 health.
Boots of Speed
500
- +45 Move Speed
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
Power Treads
1,400
- +25 Damage
Active: Switch Attribute: Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
Win rate when bought52.4% · 483 games
- ≤ 12 min53%479
- 12–15 min–4
- 15–20 min–0
- 20–30 min–0
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Active: Switch Attribute. Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
- Power Treads can be built using a Belt of Strength, Band of Elvenskin, or a Robe of the Magi.
Morbid Mask
900
- +18% Lifesteal
Passive: Lifesteal: Heals the attacker for a percentage of physical damage dealt.
Vladmir's Offering
2,200
- +1 Armor
- +0.75 Mana Regen
Passive: Vladmir's Aura: Grants 20% lifesteal, 18% bonus damage, 1 mana regeneration, and 2 armor to nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought53.7% · 380 games
- ≤ 12 min58%259
- 12–15 min48%92
- 15–20 min–22
- 20–30 min–7
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Passive: Vladmir's Aura. Grants 20% lifesteal, 18% bonus damage, 1 mana regeneration, and 2 armor to nearby allies. Radius: 1200
- Lifesteal on attacks against creeps is reduced to 12%.
Manta Style
4,650
- +10 Strength
- +26 Agility
- +10 Intelligence
- +15 Damage
- +10% Move Speed
Active: Mirror Image: Creates 2 images of your hero that last 18 seconds. Melee images deal 33% damage, while Ranged images deal 25%. Illusions take 300% damage.
Win rate when bought55.3% · 423 games
- ≤ 12 min–2
- 12–15 min–11
- 15–20 min63%246
- 20–30 min41%164
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Active: Mirror Image. Creates 2 images of your hero that last 18 seconds. Melee images deal 33% damage, while Ranged images deal 25%. Illusions take 300% damage. Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
- Has a 0.1 second cast time during which you are invulnerable.
- Many effects are removed upon using Manta.
- Yasha based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack.
Dragon Lance
2,000
- +15 Agility
- +10 Strength
- +130 Attack Range
Win rate when bought57.7% · 201 games
- ≤ 12 min–3
- 12–15 min–8
- 15–20 min66%41
- 20–30 min55%149
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- Attack Range bonuses from Monkey King Bar and Dragon Lance and its upgrades do not stack.
Claymore
1,350
- +20 Damage
Eaglesong
2,800
- +25 Agility
Win rate when bought66.3% · 246 games
- ≤ 12 min–1
- 12–15 min–1
- 15–20 min71%34
- 20–30 min65%210
Talisman of Evasion
1,300
- +15% Evasion
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- Stacks diminishingly with other sources of Evasion.
Butterfly
5,450
- +30 Agility
- +35% Evasion
- +30 Damage
Win rate when bought69.8% · 182 games
- ≤ 12 min–0
- 12–15 min–1
- 15–20 min–2
- 20–30 min69%179
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- Stacks diminishingly with other sources of Evasion.
Black King Bar
4,050
- +10 Strength
- +24 Damage
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
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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
- Purchasing another Black King Bar will not reset its immunity duration.
- Avatar duration is not affected by increases to buff duration.
Demon Edge
2,200
- +40 Damage
Hydra's Breath
5,900
- +15 Strength
- +30 Agility
- +25 Damage
- +150 Attack Range
Passive: Miasma: Attacks poison enemies, dealing 2.5% of the target's Max HP as Magical Damage per second for 3 seconds.
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Passive: Miasma. Attacks poison enemies, dealing 2.5% of the target's Max HP as Magical Damage per second for 3 seconds.
Passive: Polycephaly. Ranged attacks have a 30% chance to fire additional projectiles at up to 3 nearby enemies with 150 extra range and within a 120 degree angle in front of the attacker. The additional projectiles deal 20 + 75% damage of a normal attack and do not trigger on hit effects except for Miasma. The primary attack deals 20 + 100% damage of a normal attack.
- Attack Range bonuses from Monkey King Bar and Dragon Lance and its upgrades do not stack.
Eye of Skadi
5,900
- +35 All Attributes
Passive: Cold Attack: Attacks lower enemy movement by -25% if they are melee and -50% if they are ranged.
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Passive: Cold Attack. Attacks lower enemy movement by -25% if they are melee and -50% if they are ranged. Attacks also lower enemy attack speed by -25% and Health Restoration by 50%. Lasts for 3 seconds.
Satanic
5,050
- +25 Strength
- +25 Damage
- +25% Lifesteal
Active: Unholy Rage: Increases Lifesteal percentage to 175% for 6 seconds. Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
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40s
Active: Unholy Rage. Increases Lifesteal percentage to 175% for 6 seconds. Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
Passive: Lifesteal. Heals the attacker for a percentage of physical damage dealt.
Abilities
Adaptive Strike
17 / 14 / 11 / 8s40 / 50 / 60 / 70
Launches a surge of water toward an enemy unit, stunning them, knocking them back, and dealing base damage plus additional damage based on Morphling's agility times a multiplier. If Morphling's agility is 50% higher than strength, the maximum agility multiplier is used. Knockback distance and stun duration are based on Morphling's strength. If his strength is 50% higher than his agility, the maximum knockback distance and stun duration is used.
- BASE DAMAGE
- 50 / 70 / 90 / 110
- DAMAGE MIN AGI MULTIPLIER
- 0.5
- DAMAGE MAX AGI MULTIPLIER
- 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5
- STUN MIN
- 0.5
- STUN MAX
- 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6
- KNOCKBACK MIN
- 50
- KNOCKBACK MAX
- 350
- Projectile moves at 1150 speed.
Attribute Shift (Agility Gain)
Morphling shifts its form, pulling points from Strength and pouring them into Agility at a rate of 4 / 8 / 12 / 16. The process is reversible.
- MANA COST PER SECOND
- 10
- Attribute Shift can't convert stats from items.
- Leveling up Agility Gain will also level up Strength Gain.
Aghanim’s ShardMorphling can shift attributes while stunned. Reduces mana cost.
Attribute Shift (Strength Gain)
Morphling shifts its form, pulling points from Agility and pouring them into Strength at a rate of 4 / 8 / 12 / 16. The process is reversible.
- MANA COST PER SECOND
- 10
- Attribute Shift can't convert stats from items.
- Leveling up Strength Gain will also level up Agility Gain.
Aghanim’s ShardMorphling can shift attributes while stunned. Reduces mana cost.
Morph
Ultimate125 / 90 / 55s50
Morphling changes his form to match the targeted enemy, gaining their basic abilities and changing his primary attribute based on his target. Can be toggled for the duration of the ability.
- DURATION
- 24
- ILLUSION OUTGOING DAMAGE
- 0%
- ILLUSION INCOMING DAMAGE
- 0%
- You can't target yourself with Morph.
- Morph won't copy Shard/Scepter abilities unless Morphling owns the respective item.
- Does not trigger spell reflect.
Aghanim’s ScepterAdds an alt-cast to Morph. When enabled, a strong illusion is created of the target hero that can cast all of the hero's basic abilities. If the illusion is alive when Morphling toggles the ability, he will take the place of the illusion, destroying it.
Ebb and Flow
Innate
Morphling receives bonus cast range and slow resistance based on his current Strength, and attack range and movement speed based on his current Agility. These bonuses persist if he is morphed into another hero.
- AGILITY TO ATTACK RANGE
- 25%
- AGILITY TO MOVEMENT SPEED
- 15%
- STRENGTH TO CAST RANGE
- 25%
- STRENGTH TO SLOW RESISTANCE
- 25%
- Attack range bonuses during morph only apply when morphed into a Ranged hero.
Talents
-40% Waveform Cooldown
25+35 Strength
-3s Adaptive Strike Cooldown
20+15 Agility
+250 Waveform Range
15+75 Attack Range
+15% Magic Resistance
10+12s Morph Duration
Base stats
Attributes
Strength16+2.6/lvl- Agility33+4.2/lvl
Intelligence19+1.8/lvl
- Damage
- 45–54
- Attack time
- 1.5s
- Attack range
- 350
- Move speed
- 285
- Armor
- 4.5
- Magic resistance
- 25%
- Health
- 472 (+2.1/s)
- Mana
- 303 (+1/s)
- Vision day / night
- 1800 / 800
At level 1
Recent changes
latest 12 patches
- Morph:Cooldown decreased from 140/100/60s to 125/90/55s
- Aghanim's Scepter illusion no longer has illusion vision penalty
- Base Strength decreased from 23 to 16
- Base Agility increased from 24 to 33
- Damage at level 1 increased by 9 (from 36-45 to 45-54)
- Ebb and Flow:Agility to Attack Range increased from 20% to 25%
- Strength to Cast Range increased from 20% to 25%
- Strength to Slow Resistance increased from 20% to 25%
- Morph:Aghanim's Scepter illusion incoming damage decreased from 300% to 200%
- Waveform:Will now be cast in the desired direction, if the target location is further than the cast range
- Agility gain increased from 3.9 to 4.2
- Hero model size now scales on his Agility/Strength ratio
- Removed Accumulation innate ability
- Ebb and Flow:New innate ability. Passive
- Strength and Agility provide Morphling with additional bonuses. His cast range and Slow Resistance are increased by a portion of his Strength. His attack range and movement speed are increased by a portion of his Agility. These bonuses are provided even while replicating, except for the extra attack range which is not provided when replicating a melee unit
- Strength to Cast Range: 20%. Strength to Slow Resistance: 20%. Agility to Movement Speed: 15%. Agility to Ranged Attack Range: 20%
- Waveform:Cast Range decreased from 700/800/900/1000 to 700/775/850/925
- Adaptive Strike:Base Damage increased from 25/50/75/100 to 50/70/90/110
- Base armor increased by 1
- Adaptive Strike:Cast Range decreased from 600/700/800/900 to 600/675/750/825
- Now stuns the target for 0.5s and up to 1.2/1.6/2.0/2.4s when Morphling's Strength is 50% higher than his Agility
Lore
For dark eons the comet circled. Held in thrall to a distant sun, bound by gravity's inexorable pull, the massive ball of ice careened through the blackness between worlds, made strange by its dark journey. On the eve of the ancient war of the Vloy, it punched down through the sky and lit a glowing trail across the night, a sign both armies took for an omen. The frozen ball melted in a flash of boiling heat, as below two forces enjoined in battle across the border of a narrow river. Thus freed from its icy stasis, the Morphling was born into conflict, an elemental power at one with the tides of the ocean, capricious and unconstrained. He entered the fight, instinctively taking the form of the first general who dared set foot across the water, and then struck him dead. As the motley warriors clashed, he shifted from form to form throughout the battle, instantly absorbing the ways of these strange creatures--now a footsoldier, now an archer, now the cavalryman--until, by the time the last soldier fell, Morphling had played every part. The battle's end was his beginning.
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.