Strength · Melee
Durable hero who shrugs off enemy damage
Win rate
49.3%
B across all ranks
Pick rate
12.9%
of public matches
Public picks
435.5K
in the sample
Pro scene
6
6 bans · 67% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 6.9K · Guardian 26.1K · Crusader 56.9K · Archon 101.4K · Legend 124.3K · Ancient 73.5K · Divine+ 46.4K.
Last 6 days
49.2%
Bought before the horn
Gauntlets of Strength
Iron Branch
Tango
Quelling Blade
Magic Stick
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Chainmail
Phase Boots
Bracer
Soul Ring
Core items
Blink Dagger
Aghanim's Shard
Aghanim's Scepter
Consecrated Wraps
Vladmir's Offering
The full build
Shiva's Guard
Aghanim's Scepter
Black King Bar
Scythe of Vyse
Refresher Orb
Reaver
Most-bought items for Tidehunter in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,672 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Tidehunter bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Tidehunter’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.
Vladmir's Offering
151 games
Perseverance
179 games
Phase Boots
1,455 games
Mage Slayer
106 games
Vladmir's Offering
243 games
Consecrated Wraps
122 games
Aghanim's Scepter
130 games
Perseverance
78 games
Aghanim's Shard
373 games
Shiva's Guard
120 games
Mithril Hammer
100 games
Platemail
317 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.
100
Active: Chop Tree: Destroy a target tree.
4s
Active: Chop Tree. Destroy a target tree.
Passive: Quell. Increases attack damage against non-hero units by 8 for melee heroes, and 4 for ranged.
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.
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 bought50.8% · 1,645 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
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 bought52.5% · 1,497 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 bought54.1% · 1,228 games
4,200
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
Win rate when bought61.7% · 645 games
2,600
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.
Win rate when bought53.0% · 347 games
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).
2,200
Passive: Vladmir's Aura: Grants 20% lifesteal, 18% bonus damage, 1 mana regeneration, and 2 armor to nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought57.7% · 652 games
Passive: Vladmir's Aura. Grants 20% lifesteal, 18% bonus damage, 1 mana regeneration, and 2 armor to nearby allies. Radius: 1200
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
Win rate when bought67.7% · 133 games
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
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
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
5,200
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.
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.
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.
2,800
Summons a gush of water to damage an enemy unit, reducing their movement speed and armor.
Aghanim’s ScepterGush becomes a ground targeted wave ability that affects enemy units in a line. Decreases cooldown.
Thickens Tidehunter's hide to passively block a portion of any incoming physical attack damage. Reduced block amount versus creeps. The hide also removes negative status effects if the damage taken crosses a threshold. Can be activated to double the block amount at the cost of 40% movement speed. Lasts 4s. DISPEL TYPE: Strong Dispel
Tidehunter swings his mighty anchor to attack and deal bonus damage to nearby enemies and reduce their attack damage. The radius of Anchor Smash is Tidehunter's attack range plus 225 units.
Tidehunter attaches a heavy anchor to an enemy hero. The hero is leashed while attached to the anchor. Attempting to move more than 350 units away from the anchor forces the hero to 100 move speed, dragging the anchor behind them. The anchor can be destroyed with 4 hero attacks.
Slams the ground, causing tentacles to erupt in all directions, damaging and stunning all nearby enemy units.
Whenever an enemy hero is killed by Tidehunter or dies under his debuffs, a fish appears in their place; Tidehunter can eat the fish to permanently gain 3 Health, 2 Attack Range, and 1 Bonus Damage Block. Tidehunter eats a free fish every time he reaches an even hero level.
+1s Ravage Stun Duration
25Anchor Smash affects buildings
Kraken Shell Cleanse triggers Anchor Smash
20-4 Gush Armor
+90 Gush Damage
15-15s Ravage Cooldown
+10% Anchor Smash Damage Reduction
10+20% Gush Slow
Strength25+3.7/lvl
Agility15+1.5/lvl
Intelligence20+1.7/lvlThe Tidehunter known as Leviathan was once the champion of the Sunken Isles, but his motives are as mysterious as those of his people. We all know the importance of the Drylanders' shipping lanes, how empires may rise and fall according to who controls the open water. Far less is known of the submarine lanes, and how the warring tribes of the Meranthic Diaspora have carved out habitations through endless undersea skirmishes. In the fragile treaties between the Mer and Men, we can glimpse the extent of the drowned empires, but their politics appear complex and opaque. It would seem that Leviathan tired of such petty strife, and set off on his own, loyal only to his abyssal god, Maelrawn the Tentacular. He stalks the shallows now in search of men or meranths who stray into his path, and with a particular loathing for Admiral Kunkka, who has long been his nemesis for reasons lost in the deepest trenches of the sea.
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.