Drow Ranger

Traxex the Drow Ranger is a ranged Agility Hero who excels at laning and gains extremely large amounts of damage and Agility through her abilities. Traxex is most commonly played as a Carry, with her damage coming entirely from her autoattacks. Despite her lack of escape spells, Drow Ranger can keep herself relatively safe from enemy spellcasters and melee heroes using her Silence and her Frost Arrows, respectively. With her global Precision Aura, she assists ranged Heroes on her team by giving them a portion of her own agility as extra damage. Drow Ranger is amongst the most powerful midgame Hard Carries, largely due to the massive agility she gains from her passive ultimate, Marksmanship. With sufficient Gold, Drow Ranger's lategame power is magnified by items like Daedalus, Manta Style, Black King Bar, and Butterfly. Drow Ranger can be extremely powerful at any given point in the game, making her an ideal choice as a Carry.

Tips

 * Manually casting Frost Arrows (known as "orbwalking") will prevent you from drawing creep/tower aggro. This is also needed to kite and escape opponents in a bad situation.
 * An early level of Silence is crucial to defend against spellcasters, although it will still be maxed last.
 * It is not advisable to max Precision Aura early. As Drow Ranger has low natural agility growth. As the damgae from Precision Aura is drawn from this, getting one level before having one level of marksmanship will give so little damage that it isn't noticable (4.7 with first level aura at level 5.). This combined with the fact that Aura scales slowly, only increasing by 4% for each level after first, means that leveing up Precision Aura pre level 7 is hardly ever worthwhile. Let alone maxing it.
 * With the new Marksmanship, maintaining a distance is important for Traxex now, as this will help her deal great damage to enemies thanks to the additional Agility provided. Make sure you are more than 400 units away from your enemy and kite them to keep your distance so you will enjoy the full bonus effect of Marksmanship, as the extra Agility is halved when being close to your enemy heroes.

Trivia

 * Traxex's original design showed her with the same hood on her head but showing no hair and with completely white eyes.
 * Traxex's Ultimate, Marksmanship, was originally a chance to one-hit kill creeps; however, in a DotA Allstars update it was changed to be the passive agility buff she now has.
 * Traxex was featured in the comic "Are We Heroes Yet?"
 * In Dota 1 Precision Aura is called Trueshot Aura.