Strength · Melee
Chases down his enemies to weaken and bash them
Win rate
49.1%
B across all ranks
Pick rate
6.5%
of public matches
Public picks
218.4K
in the sample
Pro scene
8
1 bans · 63% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 5.7K · Guardian 19K · Crusader 35.2K · Archon 52.2K · Legend 56K · Ancient 31.4K · Divine+ 19K.
Last 6 days
49.4%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Gauntlets of Strength
Tango
Circlet
Observer Ward
Faerie Fire
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Power Treads
Bracer
Soul Ring
Bottle
Core items
Blink Dagger
Aghanim's Shard
Black King Bar
The full build
Black King Bar
Nullifier
Aghanim's Scepter
Assault Cuirass
Harpoon
Heart of Tarrasque
Most-bought items for Slardar in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,613 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Slardar bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Slardar’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
257 games
Power Treads
1,245 games
Aghanim's Shard
65 games
Blink Dagger
637 games
Echo Sabre
108 games
Mithril Hammer
110 games
Aghanim's Shard
748 games
Hyperstone
98 games
Platemail
81 games
Aghanim's Scepter
75 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.
140
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.
155
0
Use: Plant: Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes.
1s
Use: Plant. Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes. Hold Control to give one Observer Ward to an allied hero.
65
Use: Imbue: Instantly restores 85 health.
5s
Use: Imbue. Instantly restores 85 health.
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
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 bought48.5% · 1,337 games
Active: Switch Attribute. Switches between +10 Strength, +10 Agility, or +10 Intelligence. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
505
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.
675
Active: Regenerate: Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.
0.5s
Active: Regenerate. Consumes a charge to restore 110 health and 60 mana over 2.7 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost. The Bottle automatically refills at the fountain. Hold Control to use on an allied hero.
Passive: Store Rune. Runes can be stored in the Bottle for later use by right-clicking them. Unused runes will automatically activate after 90 seconds. Using a stored rune fully refills the Bottle.
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 bought48.8% · 1,347 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 bought51.5% · 1,175 games
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought58.7% · 702 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
4,350
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
4,200
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
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
4,700
Active: Draw Forth: When targeting an enemy, fire a harpoon at them, that pulls you and the target closer together, up to 35% of the distance between you and your…
19s50
Active: Draw Forth. When targeting an enemy, fire a harpoon at them, that pulls you and the target closer together, up to 35% of the distance between you and your target. If the caster is melee, the hero and target are always pulled to within melee distance of each other. Targeting a tree always pulls you all the way to that tree.
Passive: Echo Strike. Causes melee attacks to attack twice in quick succession. The double attacks apply a 100% movement slow for 1 seconds on the first strike. Echo Strike cooldown: 5s
5,300
Passive: Behemoth's Blood: Your health regeneration is increased by 1.5% of your missing health.
Passive: Behemoth's Blood. Your health regeneration is increased by 1.5% of your missing health.
Slardar slithers ahead, moving significantly faster and passing through units. Slardar has 100% slow resistance for the first 2.5s. The slow resistance gradually fades over the remaining sprint duration.
Slams the ground, leaving a puddle of water, and stunning and damaging nearby enemy units. After the stun, the affected units are slowed.
Aghanim’s ScepterIncreases Slithereen Crush puddle radius and duration.
Aghanim’s ShardSlithereen Crush now applies Corrosive Haze for a short time to units affected.
After 3 attacks, your next attack will bash the target.
Slardar gains bonus movement speed, health regeneration, attack damage, and armor while in a puddle, trail, or river.
Aghanim’s ScepterProvides additional HP Regen, Armor and Status Resistance while in a puddle, trail, or river. Increases puddle/trail radius by 75% and puddle/trail duration by 5s.
Reduces enemy armor to amplify physical damage and provides True Sight and vision of the targeted unit, revealing invisibility. The enemy unit leaves a trail of water behind it.
-3s Slithereen Crush Cooldown
25Corrosive Haze Undispellable
+125 Slithereen Crush Damage
20+16% Seaborn Sentinel Bonus Attack Damage
+250 Health
15-3 Corrosive Haze Armor
+2s Guardian Sprint Duration
10+30 Bash of the Deep Damage
Strength21+3.4/lvl
Agility17+2.1/lvl
Intelligence15+1.5/lvlSlardar is a Slithereen, one of the Deep Ones, guardian of a vast network of sunken cities and the ancient riches buried within them. In the lightless gulf of the deepest ocean abysses, the Slithereen Guard patrols secret treasure rooms, ever vigilant against the subaqueous thieves sent into the deeps by covetous dryland sorcerers. He is utterly loyal, and his taciturn nature hides deep knowledge of the most secret places of the sea. He rises to the shallows in spite of the pain caused him by brightness, to commit reconnaissance, to make sure no one is conspiring against the depths, and sometimes in relentless pursuit of the rare few who manage to steal off with an item from the Sunken Treasury. Because he has spent his whole life at great pressure, under tremendous weight of the sea, Slardar the Slithereen Guard is a creature of immense power.
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.