Windranger

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Windranger #22 18 + 2 19 + 1.4 21 + 2.4
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 20 416 1032 1736 2000 +0.25 +2.05 +4.85 +8.05 +9.25 Mana 80 332 728 1160 1328 +0.25 +1.3 +2.98 +4.78 +5.48 Armor 0 3.17 6.43 10.77 12.27 Magic Resist 25% 27.1% 30.46% 34.06% 35.46% Damage Block - Damage 7 13 47 53 104 110 170 176 194 200 Attack Rate 0.6/s 0.73/s 0.86/s 1.03/s 1.09/s Attack Range 600 (750) Attack Speed ▶️ 90 (1.5s BAT) Attack Animation 0.4 + 0.3 Projectile Speed 1250 Move Speed ▶️ 290 ( 320) Turn Rate 0.8 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal npc_dota_hero_windrunner

Fires swift flurry of arrows at a single target
Born in the midst of a ruinous tempest, Lyralei has always been one with the Elemental Wind. Swift of foot, and true of aim, she Windruns across the battlefield, avoiding attacks as she draws a Powershot to pierce foes from a far. Armed with both quiver and rope, the Windranger binds enemies together with a handy Shackleshot. Honing her concentration, Lyralei launches a relentless sequence of arrows, Focus Firing on a single target until it resembles little more than an oversized pincushion.
Roles:	Carry Support Disabler Escape Nuker
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Cape, Cute, Female, Green, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

Lyralei, the Windranger

▶️ "If at first you don't succeed, stand closer, shoot again."

Lore:

The western forests guard their secrets well. One of these is Lyralei, master archer of the wood, and favored godchild of the wind. Known now as Windranger, Lyralei's family was killed in a storm on the night of her birth--their house blown down by the gale, contents scattered to the winds. Only the newborn survived among the debris field of death and destruction. In the quiet after the storm, the wind itself took notice of the lucky infant crying in the grass. The wind pitied the child and so lifted her into the sky and deposited her on a doorstep in a neighboring village. In the years that followed, the wind returned occasionally to the child's life, watching from a distance while she honed her skills. Now, after many years of training, Windranger fires her arrows true to their targets. She moves with blinding speed, as if hastened by a wind ever at her back. With a flurry of arrows, she slaughters her enemies, having become, nearly, a force of nature herself.

Alias:

WR

Voice:

Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Shackleshot

▶️▶️▶️QE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Shackles the target to an enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it. If no unit or tree is present, the stun duration is reduced to 0.6.

Cast Animation: 0.15+0.45

Cast Range: 800

Shackle Search Range: 575

Shackle Search Angle: 46°

Max Shackle Targets: 2

Success Stun Duration: 1.6/2.1/2.6/3.1 ( 2.35/2.85/3.35/3.85)

Fail Stun Duration: 0.6

 16/14/12/10 ( 14/12/10/8)

 70/80/90/100

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Blocked fully only when primary target.

Blocked upon impact.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_windrunner_shackle_shot

Strong

modifier_stunned

Strong

Windranger's variety of bow skills includes an arrow with thick ropes attached to encumber any escaping target.

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1650 and searches for enemies or trees within 46° at the opposite side of the target from where Shackleshot was cast.
  • This means when Windranger teleports away after cast, it latches on targets based on the cast location, not her new location.
  • The complete search area is shaped like a triangle, with 575 being the triangle's height.
  • Therefore, the triangle has two sides with a length of 624.66, and the third side has a length of 488.15.

• Shackleshot always prioritizes units over trees as its secondary target, and picks the furthest suitable unit or tree.
  • If the primary target dies before Shackleshot reaches it, the projectile can still latch to a secondary unit and stun it.
  • It can also latch on invisible units and units in the Fog of War.

• If the target is not shackled, it is stunned for 0.6 seconds using the default stunned debuff.
  • If the target is shackled to a unit, both of them are stunned for 1.6/2.1/2.6/3.1 ( 2.35/2.85/3.35/3.85) seconds using the shackleshot debuff.
  • The stun persists, even when the primary or the secondary unit dies, or if the tree is destroyed earlier.
  • The stun also persists when one of the targets is freed from the stun earlier.

• TALENT
  The stun duration increasing talent only increases the success stun duration.

Powershot

▶️▶️WR

Ability
Target Point / Channeled

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

Windranger charges her bow for up to 1 second for a single powerful shot, which slows and deals more damage the longer it is charged. The arrow damages enemies along its path. For each enemy that Powershot hits, its damage and slow power is reduced.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Cast Range: 2600

Travel Distance: 3000

Damage Radius: 125

Max Channel Time: 1

Max Damage: 170/270/370/470

Damage Multiplier per Unit Hit: 0.85 ( 1)

Tree Destruction Radius: 50

Flying Vision Radius: 400

Move Slow %: 20/25/30/35 ( 40/45/50/55)

Slow Duration: 4

 12/11/10/9

 90/100/110/120

Modifiers [?]

modifier_projectile_vision

Undispellable

During her early years of training, Lyralei learned to fire powerful arrows that cleaved even trees to reach their targets on the other side.

• Powershot travels at a speed of 3000, taking 1 seconds to reach the max distance.
  • The arrow provides 400 radius flying vision while traveling forward, and the vision sticks at its final location for 3.34 seconds.
  • With the travel distance and damage radius, the arrow can damage units up to 3125 range away.
  • Powershot destroys trees within 50 radius around it while traveling. Trees destroyed do not reduce the arrow's damage.

• The max damage is done after the fully channeling for 1 second. Each channeled server tick increase its damage by 8.5/13.5/18.5/23.5.
  • The sound of a bow getting stretched during channeling time is audible to allies only.

• Every time Powershot hits an enemy, its current damage is reduced by 15%.
  • For how much damage a fully channeled arrow deals (before reductions), please refer to the chart below.
  • To reach 1 damage, the arrow needs to hit 32/35/37/38 targets.
  • TALENT
    The Powershot damage reduction reducing talent no longer reduces its current damage per hit unit, and causes Powershot to deal 100% damage to all hit targets.

Windrun

▶️EW

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self / Enemies

Increases movement speed and adds evasion from all physical attacks.

Cast Animation:  0+0

Evasion: 100%

Move Speed Bonus: 60%

Move Speed Duration: 3/4/5/6

Duration: 3/4/5/6

 Fade Time: 0.2

 Damage Reduction: 0.45

 15/14/13/12 ( 12.5/11.5/10.5/9.5)

 50

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Reduces physical damage taken by 0.45, and grants invisibility that is not broken by attacking or casting spells.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_windrunner_windrun_passive

Undispellable

modifier_windrunner_windrun

Any

modifier_windrunner_windrun ()

Death

modifier_windrunner_windrun_invis

Death

modifier_windrunner_windrun_slow

Any

Lyralei enchants gusts of winds to flight incoming attacks.

• Interrupts Windranger's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Grants 100% evasion for its duration.

• SCEPTER
  Now grants phased movement for its duration. Its invisibility is also not broken upon casting her own abilities, using items or attacking.
  • A visual effect will indicate Windranger's attacks and ability casting, showing the source of the projectile.
  • Acquiring Aghanim's Scepter does not update the current active instance.
  • The invisibility is provided by a second buff, independent of the Windrun buff, so breaking it prevents Windranger from going invisible again.
  • Windranger can pick up or drop items without breaking the invisibility.

• SCEPTER
  Also applies generic incoming damage reduction on Windranger that only reduces physical attack damage for its duration. Stacks additively with other sources of generic incoming damage manipulation.
  • Neither reduces nor reflects damage flagged as HP removal.

• TALENT
  With the undispellable windrun talent, Windrun is only dispellable by death.

Gale Force

▶️DG

Ability
Target Point / Vector Targeting

Affects
Enemies

Summons a strong wind that pushes all enemies in the target area towards the target direction. Vector Targeted.

Cast Animation: 0.2+0.47

Cast Range: 1500

Radius: 1000

Push Speed: 240

Duration: 3.5

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

 30

 100

Modifiers [?]

modifier_windrunner_gale_force_aura

Undispellable

modifier_windrunner_gale_force

Undispellable

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting Focus Fire to be unlocked.

At last Lyralei has learned to call upon the might of her true birthright.

• Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.

• Recasting Gale Force while a previous cast is still active immediately ends the previous cast.

• Pulls enemies within the radius at a speed of 240 towards the selected direction.
  • The pulling effect is provided by an aura, its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
  • With the duration and aura linger duration, Gale Force can push enemies for a total distance of 960.
  • Affects the Tree Dance unit, but does not unperch it.

• Does not pull affected enemies over impassable terrain.
  • Does not pull affected enemies when they are affected by other disabling forced movement sources.
  • Does not impede affected enemies at all and they can still turn, attack, and cast abilities.

Focus Fire

▶️RF

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Self

Windranger channels the wind to gain 350/425/500 additional attack speed against a single enemy unit or structure, though with a reduction to her attack damage. Extra damage from secondary item effects is not reduced.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Cast Range: 600

Attack Speed Bonus: 350/425/500

Attack Damage Multiplier: 0.70 ( 0.82)

Duration: 20

 Cooldown Skip on Target Death: 18

 70/50/30

 75/100/125

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Gale Force ability.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_windrunner_focusfire

Death

Lyralei's ability to bombard opponents with a flurry of arrows is unparalleled - even at the expense of accuracy.

• The cast range of Focus Fire is based on the attack range of the caster.
  • It can only be further increased by attack range bonuses of the same range type as the caster. However, it is not affected by cast range bonuses.
  • However, this does not include the unlimited range while Hurricane Pike is active.

• Upon cast, Focus Fire orders Windranger to attack the target and allows her to move while attacking the target.

• Windranger automatically attacks the Focus Fire target whenever she is in attack range unless she is given an order that is not a move or attack order.
  • The automatic attacking can be paused by ordering her to stop (S) or hold position (H) once. When paused, she no longer attacks the target while moving.
  • To resume the automatic attacking, a new attack order ( Right Click) on target or (A) must be given to her.

• Reduces the Windranger's main and bonus attack damage when attacking the affected target. This can be defined as:
  • expr
    (MainAtk + BonusAtk) × 0.70 ( 0.82)
  • Does not reduce conditional attack damage bonuses (e.g. Pierce or Shadow Walk).
  • Stacks additively with other total attack damage reduction sources.

• Windranger can switch attack targets without losing the buff against the Focus Fire target.

• When switching attack targets, the attack speed and damage adapt as soon as the attack begins.

• Casting Focus Fire on multiple targets only grants the attack speed and damage reduction against the most recent target.

• Focus Fire ends prematurely when Windranger dies but persists through the target's death.

• Can be cast on any enemy unit, including buildings and Couriers, excluding wards, invulnerable or hidden units.

• TALENT
  The Focus Fire cooldown advance talent cause Focus Fire to skip 18 seconds of its current cooldown if the targeted enemy hero dies.
  • Treats clones as heroes, illusions and creep-heroes as creeps.
  • The cooldown skip always triggers and it does not matter how the enemy target dies or to whom the death is credited.
  • This effect can be triggered multiple times per cast, with Reincarnation sources, BUYBACK, or against a resummoned Tempest Double.
• SOULBIND
  Does not affect the secondary target at all.

Powershot Calculations

Level	Fully Charged Powershot Damage Reduction/ Hit Target
	Base	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Level 1 ()	170	144.5	122.8	104.4	88.7	75.4	64.1	54.5	46.3	39.4
	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170
Level 2 ()	270	229.5	195.1	165.8	140.9	119.8	101.8	86.6	73.6	62.5
	270	270	270	270	270	270	270	270	270	270
Level 3 ()	370	314.5	267.3	227.2	193.1	164.2	139.5	118.6	100.8	85.7
	370	370	370	370	370	370	370	370	370	370
Level 4 ()	470	399.5	339.6	288.6	245.3	208.5	177.3	150.7	128.1	108.9
	470	470	470	470	470	470	470	470	470	470

Talents

Hero Talents
Focus Fire Kills Advance Cooldown by 18s.	25	Windrun Cannot Be Dispelled
-12% Focus Fire Damage Reduction	20	+0.75s Shackleshot Duration
-15% Powershot Damage Reduction	15	-2.5s Windrun Cooldown
-2s Shackleshot Cooldown	10	+20% Powershot Slow

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.35b

• Increased base attack damage from 5-11 to 7‒13.
• Powershot
  • Movement slow increased from 15/20/25/30% to 20/25/30/35%.

7.35

• Powershot
  • Now slows the target for up to 15/20/25/30%, decreasing based on time charged and enemies already hit, similarly to damage dealt. Slow Duration: 4s.
  • Mana Cost rescaled from 90/100/110/120 to 100.
  • U
    Reduced tree destruction radius from 75 to 50.
• Windrun
  • No longer slows enemies. Corresponding Aghanim's Scepter effect was also removed.
  • Aghanim's Scepter Damage Reduction increased from 35% to 45%.
• Gale Force
  • Duration increased from 3s to 3.5s.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +225 Windrun radius replaced with +20% Powershot Slow.

7.34d

• Reduced Powershot damage multiplier per unit hit from 0.8 to 0.85.

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango regenerates health for Windranger to stay in lane.

• Healing Salve also restores health.

• Clarity supplies mana for Windranger to use Powershot for last hits.

• Iron Branch gives cheap attribute bonuses to increase damage, mana, and health.

Early game:

• Power Treads can toggle between Strength for health and Intelligence for mana as the situation demands, giving Windranger attack damage in either mode.

• Magic Wand gives burst healing and mana regen in the middle of fights.

• Bracer gives cheap attributes, damage, and health regen, making Windranger stronger in lane.

• Bottle helps Windranger manage runes, as well as restoring her health and mana.

Mid game:

• Blink Dagger allows Windranger to instantly reposition for her abilities, especially Shackleshot, or escape incoming enemies when combined with Windrun.

• Maelstrom greatly increases Windranger's flash-farming speed, and Focus Fire will proc Chain Lightning repeatedly for area damage in teamfights.

• Diffusal Blade slows enemies and drains mana and deals extra damage per attack, synergizing excellently with Focus Fire and making it a good setup tool. The attributes also translate into a cost-efficient damage bonus.

• Black King Bar protects Windranger against magical damage and disables, making it an important carry item; combining Avatar with Windrun will make her nearly untouchable.

Late game:

• Gleipnir upgrades from Maelstrom and grants a powerful area root to set up Windranger's abilities.

• Disperser upgrades from Diffusal Blade, and in addition to better attribute bonuses, it also has a more powerful ability to manipulate movement speed in Windranger's favor.

• Eye of Skadi is an excellent damage item for Universal heroes and grants excellent stat bonuses, and the Cold Attack traps enemies in range of Focus Fire.

• Monkey King Bar greatly increases Windranger's damage output. Pierce can proc multiple times during the course of her ultimate, bypassing evasion and dealing bonus magical damage.

Situational items:

• Infused Raindrops shrugs off magical burst damage, which Windrun does not block, giving Windranger an easier time versus nukers in the early game.

• Eul's Scepter of Divinity is an excellent setup tool for a support Windranger that also gives useful bonuses to movement speed and mana regen.

• Mjollnir is an alternative upgrade to Maelstrom, trading Gleipnir's disable for more attack speed to make Windranger less reliant on her ultimate.

• Desolator can be picked up to deal with heavily armored enemy heroes or knock down buildings more quickly with the armor corruption.

• Linken's Sphere gives Windranger stats across the board and powerful mana regen. Its spellblock helps to make Windranger much more slippery when evading enemy ganks, or gives her a larger window of opportunity to cast her disables in a teamfight without being disabled herself.

• Nullifier gives bonus damage, prevents enemies from using defensive items like Ghost Scepter, Shadow Blade or Eul's Scepter of Divinity, and locks enemies down during Focus Fire.

• Bloodthorn silences enemies and disables evasion with Soul Rend while empowering each attack with a Pierce effect, making Focus Fire very powerful. Its passive bonuses also improve Windranger's spellcasting ability and let her deal damage outside of her ultimate.

• Hurricane Pike allows Windranger to engage enemies from a safer distance, while giving her an escape tool and attribute bonuses for more damage and all-round stats.

• Daedalus grants a huge damage boost with Critical Strike, allowing Focus Fire to shred most enemies very quickly.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics	Voice Lines
Double Shackleshot Powershot Kills Multi-Hero Powershot Shackleshot and Focus Fire Combo Kills Teleports leading to Kills Physical Damage Stuns leading to Kills Chain Lightning Damage Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Dusts leading to Kills Wards Placed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Hah-ha-ha-ha-ha! ▶️ Easy breezy.
	Silver	▶️ I don't think so. ▶️ Could be worse. Oh, wait, no it couldn't.
	Gold	▶️ You're not going anywhere. ▶️ If you weren't so damned dead, I'd shoot you again.
	Platinum	▶️ Tell me this did not just happen.
	Master	▶️ I blow you a kiss.
	Grandmaster	▶️ Buh-bye!

Equipment

Windranger Equipment (expand sets) Sets Aria of the Wild Wind Set Array of Tranquility Bindings of the Battleranger Compass of the Rising Gale Bundle Falconer's Design Set Falconside Armor Featherfall Featherswing Flight of the Sparrowhawk Set Flowersong Tempest Papillion Weald Roving Pathfinder Song of the Bluebird Songs of the Soulfinch The Northern Wind Set Wings of the Gilded Falcon Set Zaru'Kina Protector's Garb Set Weapon Pack Redwood Arms Set Weapon Bow of the Oyoloe Bow of the Sun Vine Iguana's Bow Lyralei's Breeze Makeshift Hornwood Bow Nature's Shortbow Peregrine Flight Rainmaker Stinger Quiver Barrel Quiver Iguana's Quiver Head Markswoman's Cap Mistral Braid Raider's Patch Style of the Grove Windweave Headband Shoulder Sylvan Vedette Back Sylvan Cascade Taunt Taunt: You Prefer Arrows? Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Sylvan Cascade!

Trivia

• In DotA, Windranger was known as "Alleria, the Windrunner". Alleria Windrunner is a character from the "Warcraft" universe. In the November 21, 2013 update, her name was changed to "Windranger", likely to avoid trademark issues with "Blizzard Entertainment".

• Windranger's current name, Lyralei, is a partial anagram of Alleria (one of the A's was replaced with the Y).

Gallery

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  Concept art

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Windranger on the Replay Takeover splash art in the New Bloom 2014 update.