What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
133 buys
2ndSecond most
118 buys
3rdThird most
53 buys
4thFourth most
53 buys
5thFifth most
49 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Drow Ranger
Ranged · Agility
- Win rate
- 46.5%
- Pick share
- 1.1%
- Matches
- 512,310
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsCarryDisablerPusher
NeedsSupportInitiatorFrontlineBurstEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 0–20 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 57.2% over 3,138 matches.
- You are playing around Herald — its strongest medal, 47.6% over 18,677 picks.
Avoid
- Earth Spirit is on their side — this hero wins 28.3% of 46 matches against it.
- Hoodwink is on their side — this hero wins 40.8% of 142 matches against it.
- Alchemist is on their side — this hero wins 30.6% of 36 matches against it.
133 buys118 buys53 buys53 buys49 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Drow Ranger took at each level.
QFrost Arrows
Adds a freezing effect to Drow's attacks, slowing enemy movement and dealing bonus damage.
Unit Target · Autocast · Attack Modifier · Physical damage
WGust
Releases a wave that silences and knocks back and reveals invisible enemy units.
Point Target
EMultishot
CHANNELED - Drow releases a flurry of arrows in continuous salvos, hitting enemies for extra damage and applying Frost Arrows.
Point Target · Channeled · Physical damage
RMarksmanship
Drow's experiences in battle grant her a chance to launch arrows with incredible accuracy and effectiveness.
Passive · Physical damageMax Order
EQW
Max E first, then Q, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QFrost Arrows
- WGust
- EMultishot
- RMarksmanship
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QFrost Arrows | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
| WGust | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| EMultishot | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| RMarksmanship | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Drow Ranger performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
83 opponents · public matches40%60%Drow Ranger's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard
If this happens, use this
- They are running away
Something that holds them still, or closes the gap yourself. Matched on “slow”, “knockback”.
- I am being jumped
A way out, a way to shrug the debuff, or something to eat the burst. Matched on “invisib”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.
- Pressure their mana
Burn it, drain it, or take the spell away entirely. Matched on “silence”.
- See what is coming
Vision, or true sight against something invisible. Matched on “vision”, “reveal”.
By medal
- Herald47.6%18,677
- Guardian47.1%55,101
- Crusader46.4%84,040
- Archon46.3%106,063
- Legend46.1%100,816
- Ancient45.8%61,267
- Divine45.3%34,377
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min57.2%3,138
- 20–30 min51.0%6,145
- 30–40 min45.0%3,702
- 40–50 min45.4%1,490
- 50 min +46.9%670
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Drow Ranger
Abilities
Frost Arrows
Unit Target · Autocast · Attack Modifier · Physical damageAdds a freezing effect to Drow's attacks, slowing enemy movement and dealing bonus damage. Slow lasts 1.5 seconds.
Gust
Point TargetReleases a wave that silences and knocks back and reveals invisible enemy units. Knockback distance is relative to how close they are to Drow.
Multishot
Point Target · Channeled · Physical damageCHANNELED - Drow releases a flurry of arrows in continuous salvos, hitting enemies for extra damage and applying Frost Arrows. Lasts up to 1.75 seconds. Drow can move slowly and use items while casting Multishot.
Glacier
No Target · Magical damageDrow creates a hill of ice beneath her, knocking away nearby enemies. Units on the hill gain flying vision and Drow and her ranged allies gain bonus attack range. Drow gains additional damage while on the Glacier and attacking targets below her. The front of the hill obscures vision and cannot be moved through except by Drow. Does not interrupt Multishot when cast.
Precision Aura
Passive · HiddenGrants Drow bonus agility based on Drow's current agility and level. Nearby ranged heroes received 50% of the bonus agility.
Marksmanship
Passive · Physical damageDrow'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. This ability is disabled if there is an enemy hero within 325 range.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 16 +1.9
- Agility
- 22 +2.8
- Intelligence
- 15 +1.4
- Move · range
- 310 · 625
Talents
- 4+8% Marksmanship Chance+1 Multishot Wave
- 350% Gust Self Movement Speed+25% Multishot Damage
- 2+75 Attack Range-6s Multishot Cooldown
- 1-18% Frost Arrows Mana Cost+1 Multishot Arrow Per Wave
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Frost Arrows
Frost Arrows now apply a Hypothermia stack to enemies, increasing damage from Frost Arrows and reducing their Health Restoration per stack. If an enemy dies with Hypothermia stacks, they burst and deal damage per stack and slow in an area around it.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Glacier
Drow creates a hill of ice beneath her, knocking away nearby enemies. Units on the hill gain flying vision and Drow and her ranged allies gain bonus attack range. Drow gains additional damage while on the Glacier and attacking targets below her. The front of the hill obscures vision and cannot be moved through except by Drow. Does not interrupt Multishot when cast.
Sources
- Kit, talents and upgrades · mechanicalread 22 Sept 2026
Ability names, icons, behaviour, damage type and text, plus the Aghanim’s Scepter and Shard descriptions — as the game itself ships them. Nothing here was counted over matches.
- Win rate by medal · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The same hero at each of Valve’s eight medals, over 4,610,063 public matches. Each medal carries its own sample, because the eight buckets are nothing like the same size.
- Matchups and match length · counted, on a narrower windowread 16 Sept 2026
Win rate against each opponent and across five match-length bands. This channel reports far fewer games than the medal figures above: the median hero pairing is 51 matches and the largest on the whole roster is 707. Rows under 30 games are absent rather than shown small, and the ones that remain are ORDERED by a figure shrunk toward even by its own sample — the rate you see is the real one, the ranking is the careful one.
- What players build · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The five most common items in each of Valve’s four game stages, with each row’s own pick count.
- Skill order · counted, in league matchesread 3 Oct 2026
Where skill points go, read off every player's own learning order in premium and professional league matches on patches 7.41 and 7.40. Each level shows the ability most players took there and the share that did — a column only a third agree on is printed as a third, not as the rule. Heroes under 30 counted games show no path.
- Situation index · derived, and checkableread 22 Sept 2026
Each situation is a phrase match against Valve’s own ability text, and every row shows the phrases that matched. No win rate is attached, because nobody counts one per situation.
Mechanics are the ones Valve publishes for patch 7.41f. GamGem is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.