Pudge

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Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 670 1638 2606 3002 +0.25 +2.75 +7.23 +11.63 +13.43 Mana 75 243 495 819 927 +0 +0.7 +1.75 +3.1 +3.58 Armor 0.96 3.29 6.79 11.29 12.88 Magic Resist 25% 26.4% 28.5% 31.2% 32.15% Damage Block - Damage 1 1 26 26 70 70 114 114 132 132 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.67/s 0.79/s 0.95/s 1.01/s Attack Range U 128 ( ? ) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.5 + 1.17 Projectile Speed Move Speed 285 ( 315) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Pudge the Butcher is a melee strength hero feared for his incredible gank prowess. Though he may not look like it, he is one of the strongest solo-killing gankers in the entire game, with one combo of his three active abilities proving more than sufficient to kill fragile enemy heroes in the early and midgame. His signature ability, Meat Hook, which requires intuition, guesswork, and good timing to land, is thrown out in a straight line a long distance away. If it snags a unit, it will drag it back to Pudge, dealing enormous damage to it if it was an enemy. It thus serves as a powerful ganking and initation tool, and also has the utility of being able to save an endangered ally. He can then follow up with his ultimate, Dismember, which deals further damage to the target over a few seconds, as well as disabling it. During this period, he can toggle on his Rot to damage his enemy further while hurting himself as well, and use it to slow and finish off the hero if he or she survived the initial assault. To supplement his killing power is Flesh Heap, which provides him some magic resistance to reduce the damage he takes from Rot as well as from other enemy spells. The scariest aspect of Flesh Heap though is that it provides him permanent Strength with every kill that he participates in, giving him the potential to permanently increase his vitality (and physical damage) to monolithic proportions, thereby becoming a formidable tank. In the hands of a skilled player who can land his deadly Meat Hook with high accuracy, Pudge is both one of the most rewarding and fun heroes to play and one of the most fearsome opponents to be up against.

Bio

Pudge, the Butcher

▶️ "Oh, a battlefield is truly a wonderland!"

Lore:

In the Fields of Endless Carnage, far to the south of Quoidge, a corpulent figure works tirelessly through the night--dismembering, disembowelling, piling up the limbs and viscera of the fallen that the battlefield might be clear by dawn. In this cursed realm, nothing can decay or decompose; no corpse may ever return to the earth from which it sprang, no matter how deep you dig the grave. Flocked by carrion birds who need him to cut their meals into beak-sized chunks, Pudge the Butcher hones his skills with blades that grow sharper the longer he uses them. Swish, swish, thunk. Flesh falls from the bone; tendons and ligaments part like wet paper. And while he always had a taste for the butchery, over the ages, Pudge has developed a taste for its byproduct as well. Starting with a gobbet of muscle here, a sip of blood there...before long he was thrusting his jaws deep into the toughest of torsos, like a dog gnawing at rags. Even those who are beyond fearing the Reaper, fear the Butcher.

Voice:

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Gameplay

Pudge is a high health destructive tank that can finish off lone heroes easily and quickly. His first and trademark ability, Meat Hook, allows him to grab a solitary target, dragging it off to meet its doom in the ravenous form of the Butcher. One of the most iconic abilities of DotA, Meat Hook takes a vast amount of practice to perfect. It is also a hard ability to master due to its high versatility, like hooking for units hidden in the fog, hooking enemies with different movement speeds or pulling allied heroes out of potentially fatal situations. Pudge's second ability Rot is his primary source of damage over time, dishing out large amounts every second. Due to the first and second abilities, Pudge is a constant threat and distraction in the early levels, possessing one of the highest short term damage outputs in the game. Pudge's ultimate, Dismember, allows him to grasp a unit tightly and devour it, holding it within range of the noxious fumes of Rot. In mid to late game, Pudge's trademark combination includes hooking a foe away from its allies, Rotting and Dismembering. Pudge also has a passive Flesh Heap, which grants him both magic resistance to complement Rot and strength gain which is achieved passively upon enemy hero deaths in his vicinity. This hulking monstrosity is a force of gargantuan destruction in the hands of a competent player, and enemies may quickly find themselves unable to take on the behemoth with his enormously high health potential.

Abilities

Meat Hook

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Units

Damage
Pure

Launches a bloody hook toward a unit or location. The hook will snag the first unit it encounters, dragging the unit back to Pudge and dealing damage if it is an enemy.

Distance: 700/900/1100/1300

Damage: 90/180/270/360

 14/13/12/11

 110/120/130/140

The Butcher's hook is a symbolic nightmare, its curved blade a frightening reminder of his slaughterous intent.

• The hook travels at a speed of 1600
• The tip of the Meat Hook is what drags the units to Pudge, so touching the Meat Hook in any other part than its tip will not trigger its effect.
• The Meat Hook can only pull units when it is being extended. If the hook touches a unit as it retracts, nothing will happen to the unit.

• Meat Hook can go through any terrains and objects that doesn't have any interaction with it. This includes trees, cliffs, buildings, and mechanical units.

• Meat Hook applies a mini-stun, interrupting any casting on hooked enemies. Friendly units, on the other hand, can be dragged without mini-stun and damage.

• If Pudge hooks a unit onto an unpathable ledge, the unit gains free pathing for 5 seconds.

• Meat Hook will pull magic immune and invulnerable targets but will not mini-stun nor deal any damage to them.
• Meat Hook can stop Cyclone effects and pull the target without damaging them.
• Meat Hook hits invisible units.

Rot

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

A toxic cloud that deals intense damage and slows movement--harming not only enemy units but Pudge himself.

Radius: 250

Slow: 20%

Damage: 35/60/85/110

A foul odor precedes a toxic, choking gas, emanating from the Butcher's putrid, ever-swelling mass.

• Using Rot doesn't interrupt channeling.

• Rot hits invisible units.

• If Pudge is silenced, he can't deactivate Rot if it's activated.

• Pudge can deny himself using this ability.

• An instance of damage is dealt every .2 seconds, meaning Rot on levels 1-3 won't disable a Healing Salve.

• Rot is not deactivated when Pudge is Hexed.

Flesh Heap

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

Gives Pudge resistance to magic damage, as well as bonus strength that increases each time Pudge kills an enemy Hero or it dies in his vicinity. Flesh Heap is retroactive, meaning it can gain charges before it is leveled, which then become active.

Range: 450

Magic Resistance: 6%/8%/10%/12%

Strength Bonus: 1/1.5/2/2.5

The Butcher gives new meaning to the words ‘meat shield.’

• Magic resistance stacks with magic resistance granted by items.

• Total magic resistance with Flesh Heap is 29.5%/31%/32.5%/34%.

Dismember

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

CHANNELED - Pudge chows down on an enemy unit, disabling it and dealing damage over time. Lasts 3 seconds on Heroes, 6 seconds on creeps.

Range: 160

Damage per second: 75/125/175 (+1.0× strength*)

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 100/130/170

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Adds a strength-based damage bonus, and heals Pudge equal to the damage dealt by Dismember.

‘When I'm through with these vermin, they'll be fit for a pie!’

• Dismember actually has a channel time of only 2.95 seconds.

• Dismember will continue to deal damage and stun a target if it becomes invisible as well as giving Pudge and his team vision of the invisible target.

• Heal from Agh's upgrade is independent of the damage.

• Pudge's response when Dismembering a hero is heard by all other heroes across the entire map.

• Dismember can target couriers, but won't do damage since couriers are magic immune.

• Total damage : 225/375/525 (+3.0× strength*).

Recommended items

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Equipment

Pudge Equipment (expand sets) Personas The Toy Butcher Sets Arms of the Bogatyr Bindings of the Trapper Butcher's Wake Candy Cat Chains of the Black Death Champion of Nurgle Compendium Bindings of the Trapper Cursed Cryptbreaker Dapper Disguise Delicacies of Butchery Set Direcourt Jester Doll of the Dead Doomsday Ripper Feast of Abscession Bundle Frosty the Sew-Man Gladiator's Revenge Hunt of the Odobenus One Iron Hog Jolly Reaver Mindless Slaughter Murder of Crows Plague Champion of Nurgle Scavenger of the Basilisk Surgical Precision The Abscesserator Bundle The Ghastly Gourmand The Ol' Chopper's Set Tools of the Mad Harvester Set Writ of the Royal Butcher Weapon Pack Chained Slayers Set The Butcher's Broilers Pack Weapon Blood Drainer Dragonclaw Hook Flesh Ripper Force Hook Golden Ripper's Reel Grievous Grapnel Hook of the Sorrowful Prey Jade Talon Meat Dragger Ripper's Reel Ripper's Reel of the Crimson Witness Scorching Talon Whalehook Off-Hand Bloodlust Fork Heavy Tenderizer Insatiable Bonesaw Head Rotten Stache Left Arm Golden Scavenging Guttleslug Scavenging Guttleslug Back Bloodstained Britches Taunt Taunt: Shake Your Money Maker Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Crow's Feet Kinetic: Trapper's Treachery

Tips

• Meat Hook to Rot to Dismember is the standard combo.
• Meat Hook is hard to master but extremely versatile; it can be used to:
  • Pull a fleeing enemy into a gank, or back into one if they blinked away.
  • Pull a lone hero into your team to make any resulting teamfight 4v5.
  • Pull an allied hero out of a dangerous situation.
• However, in case the enemy has some sort of AoE initiation ability (Echo Slam, Epicenter, Requiem of Souls, Sanity's Eclipse etc.), it's usually better to avoid hooking at all to start teamfight, lest you set up a perfect initiation for the other team. The reason is after you hook someone and your team converge on you to kill the target, you will act as a beacon for those abilities, especially if they have a Blink Dagger.
• An easy way to land a Meat Hook is to walk up to your enemy slow him with Rot and finish him off with a Meat hook, while they are slowed.
• Hiding spots and hooking positions: [1].
• Don't be afraid to use Rot to escape from a chasing melee hero. Toggle it quickly on and off to apply the speed debuff to them, with minimal damage to yourself.
• If you are Dismembering and have not used Meat Hook, make sure to not shift queue it because it can easily be dodged by running to the left or right.
• If you have Aghanim's Scepter and are low on health you can Dismember a creep to quickly restore a lot of HP.
• Blink Dagger can be bought on Pudge. If you hook a unit onto an unpathable ledge, the unit gains free pathing for 5 seconds.
• Pudge can use Rot to deny himself, committing suicide and preventing the other team from receiving gold and experience for his death; killing himself in this way does not, however, reset his killing spree, resulting in the other team receiving more gold for killing him if he continues his spree.
• Keep in mind that the range on Flesh Heap is relatively small. However, you will still gain a charge by killing a foe out of range if the final blow is delivered by Meat Hook (i.e. with Meat Hook damage). This is the only exception to the Flesh Heap range restriction, as you will not gain charges by killing enemies out of range with others methods, such as with Urn of Shadows or Dagon. Therefore, you should use these methods in last resort only, when impossible to last hit an escaping enemy with Meat Hook (because of mana or creeps blocking the path for example).
• Due to Pudge's gank-heavy playstyle, an Urn of Shadows is useful for providing health regeneration.
• A Black King Bar is also a frequent item choice, as it can prevent enemies from interrupting Dismember channeling, as well as preventing self-damage from Rot.
• Use Rot after casting Meat Hook if there is an enemy Rubick, as he can use the Hook against your team, who may not expect to be hooked at all.

Trivia

• In DotA, if Pudge was invisible, Rot would not do any damage nor slow, and also would not affect paused units (such as those that were under the effects of Chronosphere).
• Pudge references Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat series in two of his Meat Hook lines ("Get over here!").
• Pudge's line "Keep calm and carrion!" is a play on the World War 2 British Propaganda phrase "Keep calm and carry on".
• Pudge references The Butcher from the Diablo videogame on all Dismember lines ("Fresh Meat").

Update history

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Balance changelog

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Gallery

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  Christmas artwork

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  Concept Art

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  Pudge in-game

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  Pudge in Model Viewer

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  Low Violence model

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  Model before November 21, 2013 Patch

See also

• Pudge responses

Voiced by John Patrick Lowrie Earthshaker (Responses) Planetfall Earthshaker (Arcana Responses) Shadow Fiend (Responses) Pudge (Responses) Pudge's Feast of Abscession (Arcana Responses) Pudge, the Toy Butcher (Persona Responses) Storm Spirit (Responses) Ancient Apparition (Responses) Dark Seer (Responses) Doom (Responses) Storm Spirit Announcer Pack Voice of The International Announcer Pack Colonel Odessa Cubbage (Half-Life 2) Sniper (Team Fortress 2) IMDB Wikipedia

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