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Drow Ranger 18 + 1.9 20 + 2.9 15 + 1.4
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 200 560 1080 1460 1660 Health regen 0.25 2.05 4.71 6.61 7.56 Mana 75 255 483 651 735 Mana regen 0 0.75 1.73 2.43 2.78 Armor 0 3.33 10.1 14.93 17.35 Att/sec 0.59 0.71 0.94 1.12 1.2 Damage 31‒38 51‒58 91‒98 120‒127 135‒142
Magic resistance 25% ▶️ Movement speed 290 ▶️ Attack speed 100 Turn rate 0.7 Vision range 1800/800 Attack range 625 Projectile speed 1250 Attack animation 0.55+0.3 Base attack time 1.7 Damage block 0 Collision size 24 Legs 2  Gib type Default

For the race in Dota 2 lore, see Drow.

Traxex, the Drow Ranger, is a ranged agility hero whose greatest assets are her incredible damage and ability to keep threats at bay. Traxex is a carry who, though lacking survivability, provides a worthwhile contribution through her damage alone. The Drow Ranger can be extremely powerful at any point in the game.

As an agility hero, Traxex's damage is based largely on her basic attacks and is among the greatest largely due to the massive amounts of bonus proc damage she gains from her passive ultimate, Marksmanship, which also provides bonus Agility to nearby ranged heroes. Despite her lack of escape spells, Drow Ranger can keep herself relatively safe from enemy spellcasters and melee heroes using her Gust, Multishot, and her Frost Arrows, respectively. Frost Arrows infuses her attacks with ice, greatly slowing down her enemies. Since it can be manually cast, Frost Arrows can be used to harass her foes in the early game without drawing the creeps' attention. Gust is a great counter to enemy spellcasters as well as melee heroes as Gust pushes heroes away from Drow and prevents them from casting spells, who might threaten her life in battles. Multishot is excellent to chip away at multiple foes at once from a large distance (while also applying Frost Arrows). Position is of utmost importance as Traxex is quite vulnerable in close combat and the proc damage bonus from Marksmanship is removed when enemies come near her. This means she struggles against melee heroes with high mobility.

Bio

Traxex, the Drow Ranger

▶️ "I walk alone, but the shadows are company enough."

Lore:

Drow Ranger's given name is Traxex--a name well suited to the short, trollish, rather repulsive Drow people. But Traxex herself is not a Drow. Her parents were travelers in a caravan set upon by bandits, whose noisy slaughter of innocents roused the ire of the quiet Drow people. After the battle settled, the Drow discovered a small girl-child hiding in the ruined wagons, and agreed she could not be abandoned. Even as child, Traxex showed herself naturally adept at the arts they prized: Stealth, silence, subtlety. In spirit, if not in physique, she might have been a Drow changeling, returned to her proper home. But as she grew, she towered above her family and came to think of herself as ugly. After all, her features were smooth and symmetrical, entirely devoid of warts and coarse whiskers. Estranged from her adopted tribe, she withdrew to live alone in the woods. Lost travelers who find their way from the forest sometimes speak of an impossibly beautiful Ranger who peered at them from deep among the trees, then vanished like a dream before they could approach. Lithe and stealthy, icy hot, she moves like mist in silence. That whispering you hear is her frozen arrows finding an enemy's heart.

Voice:

Gin Hammond (Responses)

Abilities

Frost Arrows

▶️

Q

R

Ability
Target Unit / Autocast

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

Adds a freezing effect to Drow's attacks, slowing enemy movement and dealing bonus damage. Slow lasts 1.5 seconds.

Cast Range: 625

Damage: 5/10/15/20

Move Speed Slow: 16%/32%/48%/64%

Slow Duration: 1.5

0

12

Slow persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

modifier_drow_ranger_frost_arrows: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_drow_ranger_frost_arrows_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.

Ice-encased arrows pierce the silence, chilling their victims to the core.

Notes:

• The bonus damage is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well.

• The attacks first apply the debuff, then their own damage.

• The slow from successive casts does not stack, only the duration gets refreshed.

Gust

▶️

W

E

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Releases a wave that silences and knocks back enemy units. Knockback distance is relative to how close they are to you.

Cast Animation: 0.25+0.6

Cast Range: 900

Travel Distance: 900

Effect Radius: 250

Max Knockback Distance: 450

Miss Chance: 0% ( 50%)

Knockback Duration: 0.6/0.7/0.8/0.9

Debuff Duration: 3/4/5/6 ( 5.5/6.5/7.5/8.5)

16/15/14/13 ( 11.2/10.5/9.8/9.1)

90

Knockback, silence and blind persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

modifier_drowranger_wave_of_silence_knockback: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_drowranger_wave_of_silence: Dispellable with any dispel.

Traxex is rather fond of the tranquility of physical combat, calling on her Drow heritage to end the incantations of opposing magi.

Notes:

• The wave travels at a speed of 2000, reaching max distance in 0.45 seconds.

• Reaches up to 1150 range away (travel distance + effect radius).

• The knockback distance is based on the distance between Drow Ranger and the hit enemy. The closer they are, the further they get knocked back.
  • The knockback is strongest when the distance between Drow Ranger and the enemy is 1 range, pushing the enemy 450 range away.
  • Each additional range of distance between them affects the knockback's distance, reducing it by 0.5.
  • However, the knockback values are truncated, so that the knockback distance decreases by 1 for every 2–2 range between Drow and the enemy.
  • Due to this, the minimum knockback distance is 1 range.
  • When standing at the exact same location as Drow Ranger, no knockback occurs, since the formula then multiplies by 0, which results in 0 knockback.

• Since the knockback distances are the same on each level, and the knockback duration increases per level, the knockback speed gets lower on each level.
  • Therefore, the maximum knockback speed is 750/642.86/562.5/500, while the minimum speed is 1.67/1.43/1.25/1.11.

• Can push units over impassable terrain. Any tree a knocked back unit collides with gets destroyed.

• Units are not disabled during the knockback. They can still turn, attack and use items. Channeling items are not interrupted.

• Does not affect Roshan.

• Gust's blind added by the talent uses pseudo-random distribution.

Multishot

▶️

E

T

Ability
Target Point / Channeled

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

Drow releases a flurry of arrows in continuous salvos, hitting enemies for extra damage and applying longer duration Frost Arrows. Lasts up to 1.75 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Cast Range: Global

Attack Range as Travel Distance Multiplier: 2

Arrows Cone Angle: 50

Arrows Collision Radius: 90

Max Channel Time: 1.75

Number of Waves: 3

Arrows per Wave: 4

Main Attack Damage as Damage: 85%/110%/135%/160% ( 113%/138%/163%/188%)

Arrows Slow Duration: 1.25/2/2.75/3.5

26/24/22/20 ( 20/18/16/14)

50/70/90/110

Hits spell immune units, damaging them. Does not apply the Frost Arrows debuff on spell immune enemies.

Modifiers

modifier_drow_ranger_multishot: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_projectile_vision: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_drow_ranger_frost_arrows_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.

In the ranger's youth, learning to fire multiple arrows at once was considered a distracting frivolity. In the war of the Ancients, such technique has become strange necessity.

Notes:

• The arrows fly at a speed of 1200, and fly either the full distance or until hitting an enemy.

• Releases the waves in a 0.55-second interval. The first wave starts 0.1 seconds after channel begin.
  • Within the waves, the arrows are released with a 0.033-second delay between them (1 arrow per server tick), so it takes 0.1 seconds for all arrows of a wave to be released.
  • This results in a total duration of 1.3 seconds to release all arrows, making it safe to cancel the last 0.45 seconds of the channeling without losing an arrow.

• The arrows are released in a cone centered in front of Drow Ranger. The first arrow in each wave always starts on Drow Ranger's right side.
  • The cone's angle is calculated as if 6 arrows get released per wave. If 6 arrows would get released, the cone's angle would be 50°.
  • However, since only 4 arrows get released, the cone's angle is 33.33°, with an angle of 8.33° between each arrow.
  • Considering Drow Ranger's default attack range of 625, the cone has an end radius of 358.5.

• An enemy may only be hit one arrow per wave, so that up to 3 arrows can hit the same enemy per cast.

• Despite the appearance, Multishot does not use instant attacks. The arrows deal physical spell damage, with the damage based on Drow Ranger's average main attack damage (ignoring bonus damage).
  • This means the arrows cannot proc any attack modifier or trigger any on-attack effects, but are affected by spell damage amplification and spell lifesteal.

• The arrows first apply the Frost Arrows modifier, and then the damage.

• The slow values are based on Frost Arrow's level, so when not leveled, the debuff is not applied.
  • Only the debuff gets applied. The bonus damage of Frost Arrows is not applied.

• The arrows provide 100 radius flying vision around them as they travel.

• Only the cooldown reduction from the level 15 talent is displayed. The level 25 talent can further reduce this to 14/12.6/11.2/9.8 (18.2/16.8/15.4/14 without the level 15 talent).

Marksmanship

▶️

R

P

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self / Enemies

Damage
Physical
( Instant Attack)

Drow's experiences in battle grant her a chance to launch arrows with incredible accuracy and effectiveness. Pierces through the enemy's defenses, ignoring their base armor. Grants Drow and nearby ranged heroes with bonus agility based on Drow's current agility. This ability is disabled if there is an enemy hero within 400 range.

Enemy Hero Search Radius: 400

Aura Radius: 1200

Agility as Ranged Agility Bonus: 28%/36%/44%

Proc Chance: 20%/30%/40% ( 32%/42%/52%)

Proc Damage: 70/80/90

Splinter Search Radius: 0 ( 375)

Max Splinter Targets: 0 ( 2)

Splinter Damage Reduction: 0 ( 50%)

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Causes Drow Ranger's attacks to splinter on the target, hitting nearby units with normal attacks that deal reduced damage.

Marksmanship procs, agility aura, and splintering attacks are disabled. Particle effects still react on enemy proximity.

Illusions can splinter attacks, but cannot proc Marksmanship. Particle effects still react on enemy proximity.
Illusions do not bestow the aura.

Modifiers

modifier_drow_ranger_marksmanship: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_drow_ranger_marksmanship_aura_bonus: Undispellable. Persists death.

modifier_drow_ranger_marksmanship_reduction: Dispellable with death only.

The Drow Ranger is the epitome of archery prowess.

Notes:

• An icy particle effect is visible on Drow Ranger while Marksmanship is active.

• Checks for nearby enemy heroes (including invulnerable or hidden ones) in 0.1 second intervals and adapts the bonus accordingly.

• Does not react on the presence of illusions or creep-heroes.

• The aura checks Drow Ranger's agility periodically and adapts the bonus agility instantly.

• The aura affects invulnerable, but not hidden allies.

• The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• When proccing, the attack deals damage ignoring their main armor. The attack also deals extra physical damage.
  • The damage is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well. It can lifesteal, but not crit.

• Visually alters Drow Ranger's attack projectile when proccing. Does not have priority over Desolator's or Eye of Skadi's effects.

• Proccing attacks have True Strike.

• The Aghanim's Scepter upgrade requires Marksmanship to be learned and causes Drow Ranger to perform instant attacks on random enemies around the primary target.
  • This means the splinters are regular attacks, using Drow Ranger's 1250 projectile speed and being disjointable.
  • It also means that they can proc any attack modifier or any on-hit effect (including Marksmanship) like a regular attack.
  • However, the splinter attacks always use Drow Ranger's default attack projectile visual.
  • The splinters are only released if the primary attack successfully hits a target. This means missed or disjointed attacks do not release any splinters.
  • If Drow Ranger is blinded, the splinters can miss, unless she has True Strike. They can also miss to evasion.
  • The splinters originate from the primary target's location, not Drow Ranger's location.
  • Since the splinters are independent attacks, their damage does not depend on how much damage the primary target took.
  • The damage penalty only applies to the attack damage and any bonuses. Damage dealt in separate instances is unaffected (e.g. Maelstrom and Mjollnir).
  • Attacks do not splinter to or from invisible, invulnerable, or hidden units.
  • Attacks do not splinter to couriers, buildings, wards, or units in the Fog of War, but can splinter off of them to nearby valid targets.
  • Splinter attacks are not disabled by being within 400 range of an enemy hero.

• While Frost Arrows are set to auto-cast, splintered attacks will attempt to activate Frost Arrows on successful splinter hits.
  • The auto-cast check is performed when the splintered arrows successfully hit their targets.
  • The splintered Frost Arrows still require mana to cast, and will not be applied if Drow does not have sufficient mana.
  • Missed or disjointed splintered attacks will not attempt to apply Frost Arrows, thus spending no mana, and applying no slow.
  • Splintered attacks will still try to apply Frost Arrows to Spell Immune units despite it not affecting them, effectively wasting mana.

Talents

Hero Talents
30% Cooldown Reduction	25	+12% Marksmanship Chance
+2.5s Gust Silence Duration	20	+28% Multishot Damage
-6s Multishot Cooldown	15	+10 Agility
+5 All Stats	10	+50% Gust Blind

Notes:

• The all stats talent effectively grants Drow Ranger 100 health, 0.5 health regen, 0.83 armor, 5 attack speed, 60 mana, 0.25 mana regen, and 5 attack damage.

• The agility talent effectively grants Drow Ranger 1.67 armor, 10 attack speed, and 10 attack damage.

• The cooldown reduction talent stacks multiplicatively with other sources cooldown reduction.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Drow Ranger/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.27b

• Rescaled base attack damage from 29-40 to 31-38.
• Increased movement speed from 285 to 290.
• Increased base armor from -1 to 0.
• Talents:

Level 10 right talent: 40% Gust blind miss chance increased to 50%.

Level 15 left talent changed: +20 movement speed -> -6s Multishot cooldown.

7.26c

• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +4 all stat increased to +5.

Level 10 right talent changed: +15 movement speed -> 40% Gust blind miss chance.

Level 15 left talent changed: 40% Gust blind miss chance -> +20 movement speed.

7.26b

• Talents:

Level 10 left talent: +5 all stat reduced to +4.

Level 10 right talent: +20 movement speed reduced to +15.

Level 15 left talent: 50% Gust blind miss chance reduced to 40%.

Level 15 right talent: +12 agility reduced to +10.

Level 20 left talent: +3s Gust silence duration reduced to +2.5s.

Level 20 right talent: +35% Multishot attack damage as damage reduced to +28%.

Level 25 left talent: 40% cooldown reduction reduced to 30%.

Level 25 right talent: +15% Marksmanship proc chance reduced to +12%.

Recommended items

Starting items:

• Healing Salve gives Drow Ranger a massive boost of health regeneration in one go.
• Tango provides Drow Ranger health regeneration in the early game.
• Iron Branch provides a cheap a boost to Drow Ranger's attributes, and builds into Magic Wand.

Early game:

• Boots of Speed give Drow Ranger a speed boost which can be helpful for getting around.
• Magic Wand can be a good idea to pick up if the enemy is using a lot of spells, as the burst heal can help her survive or win early fights.

Mid game:

• Power Treads provide Drow Ranger with attack speed and additional attributes.
• Dragon Lance provides useful stats for a highly cost effective price, and the increased range allows Drow Ranger to easily achieve good positioning. It also allows her to out-range towers and destroy them without much risk. Upgrades later into Hurricane Pike.
• Shadow Blade provides mobility and stealth for Drow Ranger, allowing her to approach an ideal position for team-fights. It also provides some useful attack speed and damage.

Late game:

• Butterfly provides ever-useful agility for Drow Ranger. It is usually picked up to help Drow Ranger defend against efficient backline attackers.
• Black King Bar is important if Drow Ranger is facing a team with many disables, giving her enough time to deal at least some damage.

Situational items:

• Mask of Madness is a good source of lifesteal, and is useful for farming. It also provides a nice boost to Drow Ranger's attack and movement speed, but it comes at the cost of being unable to use her Frost Arrows. In late game, it can be disassembled to build Satanic and/or Butterfly.
• Silver Edge builds naturally from Shadow Blade, providing valuable stats and break. It can be disassembled to build another item with the Ultimate Orb.
• Diffusal Blade allows Drow Ranger to ambush an enemy hero with Gust, then quickly burn away their mana during the silence period.
• Aghanim's Scepter causes Drow Ranger's attacks to splinter, hitting two random units near the primary target. Alone, it can be a weak upgrade, but combined with several attack modifier items, it can allow Drow to heavily damage a grouped up enemy team.
• Mjollnir is typically picked up if planning to build Aghanim's, as it speeds up her early farming ability, and the secondary splinter shots will be able to proc Chain Lightning.
• Satanic provides Drow Ranger with a huge amount of lifesteal for a short period of time, allowing Drow Ranger to stand her ground and regain practically all of her health with just a few shots.
• Manta Style provides Drow Ranger with mobility, stats, and the ability to dispel debuffs and create illusions of herself. Since the illusions spawn with it benefit from Marksmanship agility bonus, the item considerably increases Drow Ranger's damage output, especially when sieging buildings.
• Eye of Skadi gives a decent stats boost, and stacks with Frost Arrows, making it possible to reduce most enemy heroes to minimum move speed.
• Monkey King Bar provides a considerable damage boost. However, it provides no defensive bonuses, thus making Drow Ranger into even more of a glass cannon. Besides, Drow Ranger does not need to rely on it as a counter against evasion heroes, since she generally benefits accuracy from Marksmanship.
• Daedalus provides Drow Ranger with a critical strike chance, which synergizes well with the attack speed and damage she gets from her abilities, maximizing her damage output.

Gameplay

Roles:	Carry Disabler Pusher
Complexity:	★☆☆
Playstyle:	Dwelling deep within the forest, few have ever caught glimpse of the solitary and impossibly beautiful Drow Ranger. Her presence was known only from the chill of Frost Arrows, driving deep into her enemies' hearts. Named and raised by the sympathetic Drow, Traxex draws on her heritage to send forth a powerful Gust, silencing and repulsing assailants who venture too close. Her expertise allows her to Multishot, launching a rapid salvo of arrows at multiple targets. Honing her skill to peerless precision, the Drow Ranger's legendary Marksmanship only improves with each passing skirmish.

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Equipment

Drow Ranger Equipment (expand sets) Sets Algid Falcon Black Wind Raven Complete Algid Falcon Death Shadow Set Eldwurm's Touch Gifts of the Shadowcat Set Glimmer of the Sacred Hunt Guise of the Winged Bolt Jewel of the Forest Set Sentinel Set Shadows of Ravensmane Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful Spikes of Frost Set Sylvan Guard's Finery Set The Boreal Watch Set The Frostborne Wayfarer The Gaze of Zebulon Tools of the Master Thief Set Wyvern Skin Weapon Bow of the Crystal Caves Bow of the Frostfangs Bow of the Howling Wind Bow of the Lone Traveler Cold Case Bow Great Grey Owl Bow Ice Crystal Bow Jeweled Longbow Monarch Bow Pincher Bow Reaper's Wreath Shade of the Ranger Head Dark Ranger's Headdress Lone Traveler's Beret Loner's Vanity Mania's Mask Back Golden Silent Wake Silent Wake Silent Wake of the Crimson Witness Steamcape Taunt Taunt: Keep an Ear Out

Trivia

• Traxex's original design was slightly different from the one now; aside from the same hood, her white hair was not present, and her eyes were completely white. Her outfit was also slightly more revealing.
• From her transition to Dota 2, the name of her aura changed from "Trueshot Aura" to "Precision Aura".
• Drow Ranger's response "I quiver with anticipation." references a line in The Rocky Horror Picture Show "I see you shiver with anticipation."

Gallery

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  In-game model

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  In-game model

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  Drow Ranger's original artwork

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  Old face textures, with tattoos

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  Concept art

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  Concept art

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  Drow Ranger cartoon art

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  Drow Ranger, Pudge and Slark in a cartoon scene

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Drow Ranger illustration

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  Drow Ranger T-shirt design

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  Drow Ranger remodeled portrait

External links

• Remodel blog post