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Windranger
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Windranger
18 + 2.6
20 + 2.1
18 + 3.2
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration | |
| +0.35 armor and 2.1 attack speed | |
| +38.4MP and +0.16MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance | |
| +3.56 Main Attack Damage | |
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1250 Projectile Speed
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90 (110)
(1.5 BAT) | ||
0.4 + 0.3
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0.8
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2010-11-01
Released | ||
2008-10-07
(6.55) | ||
Competitive Span
2010-11-01 — Present | ||
Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.41c, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for. |
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| Fires swift flurry of arrows at a single target | |
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| 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: | |
| Adjectives | Cape, Cute, Female, Green, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio
[edit]If at first you don't succeed, stand closer, shoot again.▶️Lyralei, the Windranger
Alias:
WR
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.
Voice:
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
[edit]Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Each of Lyralei's successful attacks now grants Tailwind stacks.
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Lyralei's death, rather than any dispel.
Increases buff duration.
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Lyralei's death, rather than any dispel.
Increases buff duration.
Grants the Gale Force ability.
Summons a strong wind that pulls all enemies in the area-targeted location toward the vector-targeted direction.
Summons a strong wind that pulls all enemies in the area-targeted location toward the vector-targeted direction.
Talents
[edit]| -16s Focus Fire Cooldown per Kill | 25 | Powershot |
|---|---|---|
| -10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction | 20 | +0.75s Shackleshot Duration |
| -15% Powershot Damage Reduction | 15 | +40 Tailwind Max Move Speed |
| +0.75s Windrun Duration | 10 | +1s Powershot Slow Duration |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Tailwind
[edit] Tailwind 
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants self bonus movement speed upon ability casts.
The bonus movement speed value decays linearly after a fixed duration.
The bonus movement speed value decays linearly after a fixed duration.
Max Stacks: 
Move Speed Bonus per Stack: 35%
Duration: 2.5 (
3.5)
Decay Duration: 1
Innate Properties
Lyralei has a greater max movement speed value.
Lyralei has a greater max movement speed value.
Set Max Move Speed: 600 (
640)
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Each of Lyralei's successful attacks now grants Tailwind stacks.
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Lyralei's death, rather than any dispel.
Increases buff duration.
Each of Lyralei's successful attacks now grants Tailwind stacks.
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Lyralei's death, rather than any dispel.
Increases buff duration.
Stack Gain per Attack: ( 1)
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The original ability cast.
windranger_tailwind (x)- The following sources have precedence over min movement speed sources:
Leash sources.
Shadow Walk
- Reapplying the buff creates an independent instance.
- The following sources have precedence over min movement speed sources:
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_MAX_OVERRIDEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_LIMITTailwind: Riding the Wind
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEHidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEHero Model
[edit]Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
Abilities
[edit]Shackleshot
[edit]Unit
Affects
Enemy Units
Shackles the targeted-unit to another enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it.
Cast Animation: 0.15 + 0.45
Cast Range: 
800
Shackle Search Range: 575
Shackle Search Angle: 46°
Max Shackle Targets: 2
Stun Duration: 1.75/2.25/2.75/3.25 (
2.5/3/3.5/4)
The Shackleshot is considered a failed one, if there are no secondary unit or tree present within the search range.
Fail Stun Duration: 0.6
16/14/12/10
70/80/90/100
Windranger's variety of bow skills includes an arrow with thick ropes attached to encumber any escaping target.
- The projectile searches for a valid and furthest enemy unit or furthest
tree within 46° at the
unit-targeted enemy's opposite side where Shackleshot was cast.
- Hence, when Windranger
teleports away after casting the ability, the projectile may latch on valid enemy units corresponding to the cast location and not her new location.
- Hence, when Windranger
- The search area-of-effect is triangle-shaped, with line
having a 575-height.
- Has the following secondary target targeting priorities:
Enemy unit
- Affects the following secondary units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- The projectile searches for a valid and furthest enemy unit or furthest
windrunner_shackle_shotstunned- Utilizes this debuff on a failed Shackleshot attempt.
- The stun duration increasing
Does not proc Spell Block sources on secondary affected targets.
Tangled: Gaining x bonus damage from units hit by Shackleshot.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PREATTACK_BONUS_DAMAGEShackleshot: Bound by thick ropes from Windranger's ensnaring arrow.
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDEDStunned
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_OVERRIDE_ANIMATION- Has a 1650-
projectile speed.
- Has a 1650-
- The area-of-effect is a isosceles triangle and has the following properties:
- Line
and line
are the two sides with 624.66-length.
- EXPR
FQ or FS = √ ( (575 × tan(46°) / 2 × (π / 180°) )^2 + 575^2 )
- The third side, line
- EXPR
QS = 2 × (575 × tan(46° / 2 × (π / 180°)))
- Line
- The area-of-effect is a isosceles triangle and has the following properties:
Powershot
[edit]Charges her bow up briefly for a single powerful shot. The longer the charge, the potent the arrow fired.
The arrow damages and slows all enemy units along its path. Reduces damage by a factor per enemy unit hit.
The arrow damages and slows all enemy units along its path. Reduces damage by a factor per enemy unit hit.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
Cast Range: 3000
Travel Distance: 3000
Damage Radius: 
125
Max Channel Time: 1
Max Damage: 170/270/370/470
Damage Factor per Hit: 0.85 (
1)
Max Move Speed Slow: 22%/28%/34%/40%
Slow Duration: 3 (
4)
Talent Upgrade
The Powershot arrow instant kills enemy heroes below a certain max health threshold corresponding to its channel time.
The more units the Powershot hits, the less effective the instant kill threshold.
The Powershot arrow instant kills enemy heroes below a certain max health threshold corresponding to its channel time.
The more units the Powershot hits, the less effective the instant kill threshold.
Min Health to Kill Threshold: 10%
Max Health to Kill Threshold: 15%
12/11/10/9
90/100/110/120
During her early years of training, Lyralei learned to fire powerful arrows that cleaved even trees to reach their targets.
- Affects units up to
- Grants the following flying vision bonuses:
- A non-lingering
OP. - A 3.34-second
- A non-lingering
- Grants the following flying vision bonuses:
- Trees within
OP.
- Trees within
- Affects units up to
- The ability values have two components:
- The values increase incrementally per
channeling
server tick, over 30 instances.
- Increases the total
magical
spell damage by 5.67/9/12.33/15.67 per interval.
- Increases the total
movement speed slow by 0.7%/0.9%/1.1%/1.3% per interval.
-
- Increases the enemy max
health as
instant kill threshold value by
10% + 0.167%per interval. - Therefore, the ability no longer instant kills after hitting 43 to 45 units.
- Increases the enemy max
- Increases the total
- The values increase incrementally per
The damage applied per unit is defined as:
- EXPR
PowershotDmg = MaxDmg × (0.85 + 0.15) ^ perEnemyHit- Hence, the Powershot damage reducing
- Hence, the Powershot damage reducing
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- Checks and applies an additional
CurrentHealth = SpellDmgdamage instance if the affected enemys'- The following sources prevent affected enemy units from being instant killed:
- Barrier sources.
- Explicitly Refraction, if the current hp + barrier is higher than the damage.
- The following
damage negation sources:
- Min health sources.
- The following sources prevent affected enemy units from being instant killed:
windrunner_powershot_slow
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
On Hidden Entity
Powershot: Movement speed reduced by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE- Has 3000-
- Has 3000-
- The stretching bow sound effects are audible ally-only.
- To reach 1-spell damage, the arrow needs to hit 32/35/37/38 enemy units.
Windrun
[edit]No
Affects
Self
Grants self movement speed bonus and absolute evasion, evading all incoming physical attacks.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Evasion: 100%
Move Speed Bonus: 60%
Duration: 3/4/5/6 (
3.75/4.75/5.75/6.75)
14/13/12/11
50
Lyralei enchants gusts of winds to fight incoming attacks.
- Interrupts Windranger's
windrunner_windrun- Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.
- Grants the following ability effects upon cast:
- Absolute
evasion.
- Bonus
- Absolute
Windrun: Movement speed increased by x% and evading all physical attacks.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_EVASION_CONSTANTMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS- While active, a visual effect now indicates Windranger's attacks
projectile and ability casting.
- While active, a visual effect now indicates Windranger's attacks
Gale Force
[edit]Point / Vector
Affects
Enemy Units
Summons a strong wind that pulls all enemies in the area-targeted location toward the vector-targeted direction.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.47
Cast Range: 1200
Radius: 900
Push Speed: 240
Duration: 3
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
25
125
At last Lyralei has learned to call upon the might of her true birthright.
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Creates a negative
aura that applies a non-disabling
pull on all enemy units within the radius toward the
vector-targeted direction.
- Does not grant
unobstructed movement.
- Has the following ability interactions:
- Affects the Tree Dance unit, but does not unperch it.
- Does not grant
- Does not affect enemy units affected by the following sources:
- Can pull affected enemy units affected by the following sources:
- Creates a negative
- Recasting the ability while a previous cast is still active immediately ends the previous cast.
Requires drafting Focus Fire to unlock this ability.
On hidden entity
Gale Force: Buffeted by gale force winds.
- Pulls all affected enemy units up to a max 840-distance for the entire duration if they remain stationary.
Focus Fire
[edit]Unit
Affects
Self / Enemy Unit
Grants self a massive attack speed bonus against a single enemy unit or enemy building, while sacrificing a portion of her own attack damage.
Does not reduce the potency of attack modifier sources or on-hit effects.
Does not reduce the potency of attack modifier sources or on-hit effects.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Cast Range: 
600
Attack Speed Bonus: 350/425/500
Self Attack Damage: 0.75 (
0.85)
Duration: 20
Cooldown Skip on Target Death: 
(
16)
Innate Properties
Allows Lyralei to attack while moving with Focus Fire is active.
Allows Lyralei to attack while moving with Focus Fire is active.
50/40/30
75/100/125
Lyralei's ability to bombard opponents with a flurry of arrows is unparalleled - even at the expense of accuracy.
- This ability has two main components:
- The ability's cast range has the following properties:
- EXPR
CastRange = HeroAtkRange- Not affected by cast range sources.
- Affected by
- Cannot be cast on the following enemy units:
Hidden units.
Invulnerable units.
Ward-type units.
- Cannot be cast on the following enemy units:
windrunner_focusfire- Applies the following ability effects on self upon her attack point:
- Grants the bonus
attack speed.
- Allows Windranger to move while the ability issues auto-attack orders on the latest
- The following orders do not pause the auto-attack component:
- Movement orders.
- Attack orders on the
- Reduces both Windranger's
main and
bonus attack damage upon cast, and is defined as:
- EXPR
Current ΣAtk = (MainAtk + BonusAtk) × AtkDmgFactor- Does not affect bonus
conditional attack damage.
- Stacks additively with other total attack damage reduction sources.
- Does not affect bonus
- Allows Windranger to move while the ability issues auto-attack orders on the latest
- Grants the bonus
- No longer attacks the
- The auto-attack component can be paused in the following situations:
- With the following commands:
- Hold position.
- Stop.
- Changing attack targets.
- With the following commands:
- No longer attacks the
- The auto-attack component resumes on the
- When issued a new attack order on the affected unit.
Right-click on the affected unit.
- The auto-attack component resumes on the
- The cooldown advance
cooldown upon the affected enemy hero's
death, regardless of its kill credit.
- Considers enemy
clones as heroes,
illusions and
creep-heroes as creeps.
- Procs the cooldown skip on the following sources:
- Buyback
Reincarnation sources.
- Considers enemy
- Applies the following ability effects on self upon her attack point:
Does not affect the secondary target.
Focus Fire: Constantly attacking with greatly increased attack speed and x% reduced damage
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACKSPEED_BONUS_CONSTANTMODIFIER_PROPERTY_DAMAGE_OUTGOING_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_RECORDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_STARTMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ORDERMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_TAKEDAMAGEMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_DEATHMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_HEROKILLEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_BUILDING_KILLEDMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERSMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACK_WHILE_MOVING_TARGETRecent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Windranger/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | Patch | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2026 - 14:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 38 - June 8 | 1 : 0 | 7.41c | |||||||
| June 8, 2026 - 11:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 38 - June 8 | 0 : 1 | 7.41c | |||||||
| June 8, 2026 - 11:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 38 - June 8 | 0 : 1 | 7.41c | |||||||
| June 7, 2026 - 13:30 CST | Showmatch | Immortal Cup S2 - Playoffs | 1 : 0 | 7.41b | |||||||
| June 6, 2026 - 20:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 38 - June 6 | 1 : 0 | 7.41c | |||||||
| June 6, 2026 - 20:00 CEST | Tier 3 | EPL Season 38 - June 6 | 0 : 1 | 7.41c | |||||||
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
Talents:
- LVL 25 -18s Focus Fire current cooldown skip reduced to -16s.
- LVL 25 15% Powershot max health instant kill increased to 16%. [?]
- Increased base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.
- Increased Powershot max movement speed slow from 20%/25%/30%/35% to 22%/28%/34%/40%.
- Reduced Gale Force cooldown from 30 to 25.
- Increased base
agility from 17 to 20.
- Increased Tailwind duration from 2 to 2.5.
- Reduced Focus Fire cooldown from 70/50/30 to 50/40/30.
Dota Plus Progress
[edit]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.
| Windranger's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
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Master |
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Grandmaster |
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Equipment
[edit]| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Weapon Packs | |
| Weapon | |
| Quiver | |
| Head | |
| Shoulder | |
| Back | |
| Taunt | |
| Kinetic Gems | |
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Trivia
[edit]- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Windranger's hero concept inspired by Sylvanas Windrunner, a campaign-only hero variant of the Night Elf Archer.
- Windranger's full name and title are Alleria, the Windrunner, named after Alleria Windrunner, a character from the Warcraft universe.
- Both, the name and title were changed in Dota 2, to avoid copy right issues with Blizzard Entertainment.
- Her Dota 2 name, Lyralei is almost an anagram of the DotA name, with one of the A's replaced with Y.
- Windrun's ability name is left as a remaining reference to the DotA hero name.
Gallery
[edit]- Concept art
- Ability icon progress
- Hero icon progress
- Windranger on the Replay Takeover splash art in the New Bloom 2014 update.
- Bone Harvest sprite - alive
- Bone Harvest sprite - dead