Hey, I’m Zathong, and this guide is all about Pudge Build in Dota 2. Pudge is one of Dota 2’s most iconic heroes, known for his deadly Meat Hook, strong ganking potential, and ability to control fights with powerful disables. He can catch enemies from unexpected angles, create kills for his team, and become extremely durable in the late game.
I work hard to keep my Dota 2 builds and guides updated, helping you choose the right items, abilities, skill order, combos, and counters to get the most out of Pudge. If you enjoy playmaking, hooking enemies, and creating chaotic team fights, Pudge is a great hero to master.
Attack Type: Melee
Strength: 25 + 3 | Agility: 14 + 1.4 | Intelligence: 16 + 1.8
Pudge Items build
Meta build:
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- Blink Dagger
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- Black King Bar
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- Phase Boots
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- Aghanim’s Scepter
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- Shiva’s Guard
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- Abyssal Blade
Pro Build:
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- Overwhelming Blink
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- Boots of Trave
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- Ethereal Blade
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- Black King Bar
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- Blade Mail
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- Heart of Tarrasque
Pudge’s Skill Order
Skill Order: Meat Hook -> Rot -> Flesh Heap -> Dismember.
Combo Pudge
Heroes combo: Pudge + Techies
How To Counter Pudge ?
Pros
- Hight last hitting damge.
- Has a good disable.
- Versatile.
- Good ganker.
Cons
- Low mana.
- Has very low armor.
- No escape mechanism.
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Good against:
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How To Play Pudge ?
Best items for Pudge
Start items for Pudge in dota 2 are: Gauntlets of Strength, Iron Branch, Quelling Blade, Tango, Healing Salve, Enchanted Mango.
Meta items for Pudge in dota 2 are: Blink Dagger, Black King Bar, Phase Boots, Aghanim’s Scepter, Shiva’s Guard, Abyssal Blade.
Pro items for Pudge in dota 2 are: Overwhelming Blink, Boots of Trave, Ethereal Blade, Black King Bar, Blade Mail, Heart of Tarrasque.
Tips and Tricks
Pudge, while being a strength hero, is highly susceptible to physical damage in the early game due to his poor base armor and agility, and because he is a melee hero, he is easily hounded down.
Pudge is largely dependent on boosting his mana pool and improving his limited mobility in order to be more effective in teamfights due to his extremely potent spells and low armor.
Pudge’s Ability
MEAT HOOK
Sends a bleeding hook hurtling at a target or location. The first unit that the hook catches will be snagged, dragged back to Pudge, killed if it is not an ancient creep, and dealt damage to if it is an enemy otherwise.
ROT
An extremely damaging and slow-moving poisonous cloud that hurts Pudge as well as hostile units.
FLESH HEAP
Provides Pudge with damage protection from all sources. Passively bestows additional strength that rises each time Pudge eliminates an adversary Hero or it perishes nearby. Flesh Heap can acquire charges before it is skilled, and those charges then become active because it is retroactive.
DISMEMBER
CHANNELED – When Pudge eats an enemy unit, it becomes incapacitated and takes damage gradually. Pudge’s Strength makes the attack more damaging and heals him overall. Pudge drags the unit up to a minimum of 125.0 range at a pace of 75.0 units each unit. creeps last longer.
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