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Bad against...[]
- Storm Spirit can easily make his way to Hoodwink with his ultimate Ball Lightning, and coupled with Hoodwink's low health and magic resistance, she can be nuked easily.
- Additionally, Ball Lightning can destroy a small amount of trees in its destination. Combined with Storm Spirit's frequent usage of his ultimate, he can clear out an area of trees while simultaneously attacking him and dodging incoming attacks.
- Timbersaw’s reliance on nearby trees means he’ll usually be close to Hoodwink.
- More significantly, Timbersaw's tree destroying abilities cut off Hoodwink's escape options, passive and easily foil Acorn Shot or Bushwhack combos.
- While channeling Sharpshooter, Timbersaw can simply sit his Chakram on top of her and unleash his full combo, forcing her to cancel and disengage.
- Timber Chain can be used to dodge Sharpshooter.
- Treant can give chase should Hoodwink attempt to Scurry away, and Nature's Grasp can slow her down so Treant Protector's teammates can pin Hoodwink down.
- Nether Swap can forcibly reposition Sharpshooter.
- Wild Axes destroys large amounts of trees specially upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter,
Beastmaster can easily remove trees quickly and faster and is a threat to Hoodwink, due to her reliance on trees.
- Chaotic Offering's vast area-effect can destroy trees and stun Hoodwink.
- Upheaval makes retreating with Scurry difficult.
- Slark's Pounce can be used to dodge Hoodwink's abilities or lock her down.
- Shadow Dance makes Slark unhittable from Acorn Shot.
- Dark Pact removes all slows from Hoodwink's abilities.
- Hoodwink's already low health output is a great target for Slark's Essence Shift.
- Powershot can destroy the trees to prevent Scurry's passive as well as end Bushwhack prematurely or prevent it completely.
- Acorn Shot does not grant True Strike, thus making it easy for Windranger to evade it with Windrun.
- Shackleshot stuns Hoodwink for a lengthy duration due to her often reliance on positioning with trees.
- Due to Hoodwink's low health and Zeus's high magic damage from Arc Lightning, Lightning Bolt and Static Field as well as global abilities from Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Thundergod's Wrath". and Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Nimbus"., he can easily kill her throughout the game and also reveal where Hoodwink is positioned or when she's in trees.
- Remote Mines are frequently placed in trees, and can thus kill an unwary Hoodwink should she Scurry away due to her low HP pool.
- Blast Off! can clear out trees, denying the tactical advantages from Scurry.
- Clinkz's item build often counters Hoodwink, including Black King Bar, Monkey King Bar, Heaven's Halberd, and Scythe of Vyse.
- Skeleton Walk can quickly escape Hoodwink abilities.
- Nyx's Spiked Carapace can reflect the damage of Sharpshooter, instantly killing hoodwink. Nyx can also use Vendetta to position himself in such a way to screen allies from Sharpshooter and catch Hoodwink by surprise.
Others[]
- Abilities that can destroy trees can give Hoodwink a disadvantage: Timbersaw, Windranger, Lina.
- Heroes that can negate Hoodwink's mobility: Kunkka, Disruptor, Mars.
Items[]
- Sentry Ward, Gem of True Sight and Dust of Appearance detects Hoodwink with true sight, should she pick her passive talent.
- Force Staff or its upgrade, Hurricane Pike, forcibly repositions Hoodwink or the user, making it much harder for her to land Sharpshooter.
- Monkey King Bar grants accuracy against Hoodwink's evasion from Scurry.
- Silver Edge disables Scurry's evasion.
- Blade Mail reflects Sharpshooter damage, and can be possible to be killed by her own Ultimate. It can be a traded kill or she herself killed if not aware enough.
Good against...[]
- Abaddon can be killed without triggering his ultimate Borrowed Time due to the break applied by Sharpshooter.
- Bristleback and Warpath can be disabled by Hoodwink's Sharpshooter ability for a long period of time, reducing his both offense and defense.
- Scurry and Bushwhack can be used to kite bristleback.
- Huskar’s low health play style put him at extreme risk to Sharpshooter's extreme damage. In addition, it breaks Berserker's Blood, nullifying Huskar's power source.
- Hex and Earth Spike do not cancel Sharpshooter, making those two abilities ineffective against her.
- Although Hoodwink should be wary of his Finger of Death, as it can possibly kill her.
- Monkey King often hides in trees, where he can be easily caught with Bushwhack.
- Acorn Shot can target enemies in the fog, including Monkey King when he is on a tree.
- Sharpshooter provides flying vision along the cast indicator while charging, which can be used to scout the trees for Monkey King.
- Sharpshooter disables both Blur and Coup de Grace, especially with the level 25 talent.
- Because Phantom Assassin is often reliant on critical strikes, Hoodwink can have enough time to simply move near a tree and escape with Scurry.
- Bushwhack will stun and make a quick work of Phantom Lancer and his illusion when he's near a tree.
- Sharpshooter breaks Juxtapose and deals hefty damage.
- Sharpshooter ignores Illusions and will only damage and breaks the real phantom lancer, when used right, this will allow you to reveal the real phantom lancer amongst his Illusions
- Sharpshooter can kill easy when Morphling is going on full agility strategy (Only in early and mid game).
- Scurry can help to catch up Morphling when using Waveform or for escape.
- Bushwhack can tear through Refraction as it does multiple intervals of damage.
Others[]
- Durable heroes relied a lot on their main passive effects and items' effects such as Bristleback, Underlord, Spectre and Dragon Knight can be disabled easily with Sharpshooter's break, reducing their potential in teamfights.
Works well with...[]
- Echo Stomp puts the enemy to sleep, giving Hoodwink time to charge up her ultimate.
- Earth Splitter is able to reposition enemies and can be used with Hoodwink’s ultimate.
- Acorn Shot gives Monkey King a tree to jump onto, and combined with Bushwhack allows Monkey King to land a fully channeled Primal Spring.
- Bushwhack can keep several heroes inside Wukong's Command at once and prevent said heroes from interrupting Monkey King.
- Acorn Shot slows enemies, allowing Monkey King to gain Jingu Mastery stacks.
- Sprout's trees can be used with Bushwhack to stun the trapped enemy inside and it also give a certain amount of time to channel Sharpshooter if the enemy doesn't have any mechanism to break through the trees.
- Shackleshot and Bushwhack combine to make a very long chain stun, allowing Windranger and Hoodwink to land both Powershot and Sharpshooter, respectively. Be sure not to destroy the tree early with Powershot, as doing so will end Bushwhack's stun.
- Chaos Meteor, Deafening Blast and many of his spells which needs a good positioning work well with Bushwhack.
- Acorn Shot can deal extra damage to the enemies caught inside Kinetic Field and Bushwhack also grants a small AOE stun after Kinetic Field's duration.
- Decrepify can greatly reduce enemy's magic resistance and increase Hoodwink's Sharpshooter damage
- Sand King's Epicenter and Burrowstrike create a great set up for Sharpshooter and Bushwhack as well as being good laning partners, able to generate kill potential early with chainstuns and hard to mitigate magic damage.
Others[]
- Heroes that can disable enemies like Shadow Shaman and others can help Hoodwink charge up her ultimate