Windranger
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Windranger
18 + 2.6
17 + 2.1
18 + 3.2
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
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+57.2HP and +0.26HP regeneration |
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+0.35 armor and 2.1 attack speed |
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+38.4MP and +0.16MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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+3.56 Main Attack Damage |
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1250 Projectile Speed
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90 (107)
(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 has been updated to the latest version (7.40b) and is mostly accurate. |
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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. | |
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| Roles: |  Carry  Support  Disabler  Escape  Nuker |
| 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:
Tangled
Shackleshot now applies to all enemy units and trees behind the targeted enemy within the search range.
Each secondary target that Lyralei shackles temporarily grants her bonus attack damage.
Each secondary target that Lyralei shackles temporarily grants her bonus attack damage.
Killshot
The Powershot arrow instant kills enemy heroes below a certain max health threshold corresponding to its channel time.
Upgrades
[edit]Aghanim's
[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Grants Lyralei an invisibility that does not break by attacking or casting any abilities, and reduces incoming physical attack damage taken while active.
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
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| -18s Focus Fire Cooldown per Kill | 25 | Windrun Cannot Be  Dispelled |
| -10% Focus Fire Damage Reduction | 20 | +0.75s Shackleshot Duration |
| -15% Powershot Damage Reduction | 15 | -2s Windrun Cooldown |
| +4 all stats | 10 | +1s Powershot Slow Duration |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Easy Breezy
[edit] Easy Breezy 
Passive
Affects
Self
Increases the max movement speed cap, and Lyralei cannot be slowed below a minimum movement speed.
Set Min Move Speed: 240
Max Move Speed: 600
Leash sources have precedence over min movement speed sources.
modifier_windrunner_easy_breezy
Hidden Modifier
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_MAX_OVERRIDEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_ABSOLUTE_MINMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_LIMITHero Model
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Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
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
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)
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.
Tangled
Shackleshot now applies to all enemy units and trees behind the targeted enemy within the search range.
Each secondary target that Lyralei shackles temporarily grants her bonus attack damage.
Each secondary target that Lyralei shackles temporarily grants her bonus attack damage.
Max Shackle Targets: 
Attack Damage Bonus per Enemy Hero: 35
Buff Duration: 3/4/5/6
Attack Damage Bonus per Enemy Hero: 35
Buff Duration: 3/4/5/6
The Shackleshot bonus is less effective on creeps and trees.
Creep Damage Bonus Factor: 0.5
- 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 
Tree- Affects the following secondary units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- The projectile searches for a valid and furthest enemy unit or furthest
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windrunner_shackle_shot- Applies two independent successful stun debuff to both affected enemy units, with the following properties:
-
windrunner_shackle_shot_self_damage_buff- Grants flat
bonus attack damage per secondary Shackleshot-affected enemy hero. - Considers
clones, 
illusions, and 
creep-heroes as heroes. - Recasting the ability places a new buff on Windranger, with each buff duration independent of the other.
- Grants flat
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stunned- Utilizes this debuff on a failed Shackleshot attempt.
- The stun duration increasing talent does not increase the fail stun duration.
Does not proc Spell Block sources on secondary affected targets.
modifier_windrunner_shackle_shot_self_damage_buffTangled: Gaining x bonus damage from units hit by Shackleshot.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PREATTACK_BONUS_DAMAGE modifier_windrunner_shackle_shot
Shackleshot: Bound by thick ropes from Windranger's ensnaring arrow.
MODIFIER_STATE_STUNNEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDED modifier_stunnedStunned
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 , has a 488.15-length.
- EXPR
QS = 2 × (575 × tan(46° / 2 × (π / 180°)))
- Line
- The area-of-effect is a isosceles triangle and has the following properties:
Powershot
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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
0 + 0Cast Range: 3000
3000 Travel Distance: 3000
3000 Damage Radius: 
125
125 Max Channel Time: 1
Max Damage: 170/270/370/470
Damage Factor per Hit: 0.85 (
1)
1) Max Move Speed Slow: 20%/25%/30%/35%
Slow Duration: 3 (
4)
4) 12/11/10/9
100
During her early years of training, Lyralei learned to fire powerful arrows that cleaved even trees to reach their targets.
Killshot
The Powershot arrow instant kills enemy heroes below a certain max health threshold corresponding to its channel time.
Min Kill Enemy Max Health Threshold: 5%
Max Kill Enemy Max Health Threshold: 9%/10%/11%/12%
Max Kill Enemy Max Health Threshold: 9%/10%/11%/12%
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- Affects units up to 3125 range away with the arrow travel distance and damage radius.
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- Grants the following flying vision bonuses:
- A non-lingering 400-radius vision as the projectile travels in line
OP. - A 3.34-second 400-radius vision at the projectile's final location, point .
- A non-lingering
- Grants the following flying vision bonuses:
-
- Trees within 50-radius of the projectile are destroyed as it travels in line
OP.
- Trees within
- Affects units up to
- The ability values have two main 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%/0.8%/1%/1.2% per interval. -
- Increases the enemy max
health as kill threshold value by 0.133%/0.167%/0.2%/0.233% per interval.
- Increases the enemy max
- Increases the total
The damage applied per unit is defined as:
- EXPR
PowershotDmg = MaxDmg × (0.85 OR 1) ^ perEnemyHit- The Powershot damage reducing talent causes Powershot not to reduce its damage per enemy hit.
- The Powershot damage reducing
-
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The magical spell damage.
- Checks and applies an additional
CurrentHealth = SpellDmgdamage instance if the affected enemys' current health is below the threshold.
- The following sources prevent affected enemy units from being instant killed:
- Certain
Damage negation sources, such as Borrowed Time, False Promise and Refraction. - Min health sources.
- Certain
- The following sources prevent affected enemy units from being instant killed:
-
windrunner_powershot_slow
- The
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
modifier_projectile_visionOn hidden entity
modifier_windrunner_powershot_slowPowershot: Movement speed reduced by x%.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE-
- Has 3000- projectile speed and takes 1 second(s) to reach the max distance.
- Has 3000-
- The stretching bow sound effects are audible ally-only.
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- 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
0 + 0Evasion: 100%
Move Speed Bonus: 60%
Duration: 3/4/5/6
Talent Upgrade
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Windranger's death, rather than any dispel.
The ability buff can now only be dispelled upon Windranger's death, rather than any dispel.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants Lyralei an invisibility that does not break by attacking or casting any abilities, and reduces incoming physical attack damage taken while active.
Grants Lyralei an invisibility that does not break by attacking or casting any abilities, and reduces incoming physical attack damage taken while active.
Fade Time: ( 0.2)
0.2) Damage Reduction: 
( 35%)
( 35%) Invisibility Duration: ( 3/4/5/6)
3/4/5/6) 15/14/13/12 (
13/12/11/10)
13/12/11/10)50
Lyralei enchants gusts of winds to fight incoming attacks.
- Interrupts Windranger's channeling abilities upon cast.
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windrunner_windrun
- Grants the following ability effects upon cast:
- Absolute
evasion. - Bonus movement speed.
- Grants the following bonuses additionally:
- Invisibility
Phase movement- Applies a generic
physical incoming 
attack damage reduction.
- Stacks additively with other incoming damage manipulation sources.
- Does not affect
HP Removal sources.
- Does not update the current instance immediately.
- Absolute
- Grants the following ability effects upon cast:
- The following actions do not break the invisibility:
- Attacking.
- Casting the following abilities:
- Item abilities.
- Picking up and dropping items.
modifier_windrunner_windrunWindrun: Movement speed increased by x% and evading all physical attacks.
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_INCOMING_PHYSICAL_DAMAGE_PERCENTAGEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_EVASION_CONSTANTMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS modifier_windrunner_windrun (
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Windrun: Movement speed increased by x% and evading all physical attacks.
modifier_windrunner_windrun_invisWindrun Invisibility: Unseen but for the hindering gust in your wake.
MODIFIER_STATE_NO_UNIT_COLLISIONMODIFIER_STATE_INVISIBLEMODIFIER_PROPERTY_INVISIBLE_LEVELMODIFIER_PROPERTY_INVISIBLE_ATTACK_BEHAVIOR_EXCEPTIONMODIFIER_PROPERTY_PERSISTENT_INVISIBILITYMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACKMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ABILITY_EXECUTEDMODIFIER_EVENT_ON_BREAK_INVISIBILITY modifier_windrunner_windrun_passiveHidden modifier
- 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
1200 Radius: 900
900 Push Speed: 240
Duration: 3
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
30
100
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.
Focus Fire to unlock this ability. modifier_windrunner_gale_force_auraOn hidden entity
modifier_windrunner_gale_forceGale 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
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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
600 Attack Speed Bonus: 350/425/500
Self Attack Damage: 0.75 (
0.85)
0.85) Duration: 20
Cooldown Skip on Target Death: 
(
18)
( 18) 70/50/30
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 attack range sources of the same range-type as the caster, except Hurricane Thrust.
-
- 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 unit-targeted enemy within her attack range.
- The following orders do not pause the auto-attack component:
- Movement orders.
- Attack orders on the unit-targeted enemy.
- 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 unit-targeted enemy while moving.
- 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 unit-targeted enemy in the following conditions:
- When issued a new Aattack order on the affected unit.
Right-click on the affected unit.
- When issued a new
- The auto-attack component resumes on the
- The cooldown advance talent skips 18 seconds of its current 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.
modifier_windrunner_focusfireFocus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 9, 2026 - 20:00 EET | Qualifier |   | EEU CQ DreamLeague S28 |      |  | 0 : 1 |  |      | |
| January 9, 2026 - 20:00 EET | Qualifier | | EEU CQ DreamLeague S28 |    |  | 1 : 0 |   |      | |
| January 9, 2026 - 20:00 EET | Qualifier | | EEU CQ DreamLeague S28 |   | | 1 : 0 | |    | |
| January 9, 2026 - 12:00 PET | Qualifier | | SA CQ DreamLeague S28 |    |  | 0 : 1 |  |   | |
| January 9, 2026 - 16:00 EET | Qualifier | | EEU CQ DreamLeague S28 |   | | 1 : 0 |  |     |
Recent Changes
[edit]Description
- Reduced Shackleshot Tangled bonus damage per hero from 40 to 35.
- Reduced Powershot slow duration from 4s to 3s.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Windrun physical damage reduction from 45% to 35%.
- Increased
agility gain from 1.9 to 2.1. - Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Gale Force duration 3.5 to 3.
- Talents:
- LVL 10 +25 Easy Breezy min/max movement speed ➜ +4 all
attributes .
- LVL 10 +25 Easy Breezy min/max movement speed ➜ +4 all
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 | |
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 Bronze |
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 Platinum |
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 Master |
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 Grandmaster |
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Equipment
[edit]| Sets | |
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| 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
