Strength · Melee
Enpowered by the shadows of nightfall
Win rate
51.8%
A across all ranks
Pick rate
7.5%
of public matches
Public picks
252.2K
in the sample
Pro scene
5
11 bans · 80% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 3.3K · Guardian 12.5K · Crusader 27.3K · Archon 52K · Legend 71.8K · Ancient 48.1K · Divine+ 37.3K.
Last 6 days
51.4%
Bought before the horn
Gauntlets of Strength
Iron Branch
Tango
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Chainmail
Phase Boots
Bracer
Power Treads
Soul Ring
Core items
Blink Dagger
Aghanim's Shard
Drum of Endurance
Black King Bar
Echo Sabre
The full build
Black King Bar
Nullifier
Assault Cuirass
Abyssal Blade
Most-bought items for Night Stalker in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,490 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Night Stalker bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Night Stalker’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.
Echo Sabre
117 games
Blink Dagger
125 games
Drum of Endurance
245 games
Blink Dagger
295 games
Echo Sabre
309 games
Hand of Midas
61 games
Mithril Hammer
283 games
Aghanim's Shard
210 games
Blink Dagger
772 games
Nullifier
79 games
Hyperstone
96 games
Sacred Relic
118 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.
140
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.
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
500
1,450
Active: Phase: Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds.
Win rate when bought49.7% · 1,386 games
8s
Active: Phase. Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
505
1,400
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 bought54.7% · 243 games
Active: Switch Attribute. Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
805
Active: Sacrifice: Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds.
30s
Active: Sacrifice. Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds. If the mana gained cannot fit in your mana pool, it creates a buffer of mana that will be used before your mana pool.
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 bought51.8% · 1,447 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 bought55.2% · 388 games
1,625
Active: Endurance: Gives +35 attack speed and +13% movement speed to nearby allies for 6 seconds. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought53.6% · 330 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
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought58.4% · 951 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
2,700
Passive: Echo Strike: Causes melee attacks to attack twice in quick succession. The double attacks apply a 100% movement slow for 0.8 seconds on the first strike.
Win rate when bought52.4% · 839 games
5s
Passive: Echo Strike. Causes melee attacks to attack twice in quick succession. The double attacks apply a 100% movement slow for 0.8 seconds on the first strike.
4,350
Active: Nullify: Dispels the target and applies a debuff for 4 seconds. Continuously dispels and slows the target. Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
10s
Active: Nullify. Dispels the target and applies a debuff for 4 seconds. Continuously dispels and slows the target. Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
5,125
Passive: Assault Aura: Grants 30 attack speed and 5 armor to nearby allied units and structures, and decreases nearby enemy unit and structure armor by -5. Radius: 1200
6,250
Active: Overwhelm: Stuns a target enemy unit for 1.6 seconds. Pierces Debuff Immunity.
35s75
Active: Overwhelm. Stuns a target enemy unit for 1.6 seconds. Pierces Debuff Immunity.
Passive: Bash. Grants melee heroes a 25% chance on hit to stun the target for 1.2 seconds and deal 120 bonus physical damage. Bash chance for ranged heroes is 10%.
Creates a damaging void that slows an enemy unit and deals damage. At night, Void also mini-stuns, interrupting channeling abilities, and its effects lasts longer.
Aghanim’s ShardVoid now affects all units in a radius around the target.
Night Stalker horrifies all nearby enemies, causing them to become silenced and take damage over time while near him. The effect lasts longer at night.
Night Stalker heals himself when attacking enemy units. At night, the ability can be activated to instantly destroy a non-ancient creep and restore a percentage of Night Stalker's maximum health and mana.
Night Stalker is in his element at night, attacking and moving with great swiftness.
Aghanim’s ScepterKilling an enemy hero resets all basic ability cooldowns.
Aghanim’s ShardHunter in the Night may be cast on a creep, instantly killing it and restoring some of Night Stalker's maximum health and mana. Cannot target ancients during the daytime.
Night Stalker smothers the sun and summons instant darkness, so that he might use his powers at their fullest. Night Stalker gains flight and bonus damage during this time. Has unobstructed vision.
+100 Midnight Feast Lifesteal
25-35s Dark Ascension Cooldown
+75 Crippling Fear Radius
20+15 Strength
+25 Dark Ascension Damage
1520% Hunter in the Night Status Resistance
-1s Void Cooldown
10+10 Crippling Fear DPS
Strength23+3/lvl
Agility18+2.2/lvl
Intelligence15+1.6/lvlOf the Night Stalker, there is no history, only stories. There are ancient tales woven into the lore of every race and every culture, of an impossible time before sunlight and daytime, when night reigned alone and the world was covered with the creatures of darkness--creatures like Balanar the Night Stalker. It is said that on the dawn of the First Day, all the night creatures perished. All, that is, save one. Evil's embodiment, Night Stalker delights in his malevolence. He created the primal role of the Night Terror, the Boogeyman, and as long as there have been younglings, his is the specter summoned to terrify them. This is a role he relishes; nor are these empty theatrics. He does indeed stalk the unwary, the defenseless, those who have strayed beyond the lighted paths or denied the warnings of their communities. Night Stalker serves as living proof that every child's worst nightmare....is true.
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.