What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
156 buys
2ndSecond most
100 buys
3rdThird most
89 buys
4thFourth most
82 buys
5thFifth most
72 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Silencer
Ranged · Intelligence
- Win rate
- 50.5%
- Pick share
- 1.0%
- Matches
- 456,505
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsCarrySupportDisablerInitiatorNuker
NeedsFrontlineTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 40–50 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 50.2% over 1,941 matches.
- You are playing around Herald — its strongest medal, 52.5% over 10,655 picks.
Avoid
- Puck is on their side — this hero wins 36.7% of 139 matches against it.
- Largo is on their side — this hero wins 28.8% of 52 matches against it.
- Spirit Breaker is on their side — this hero wins 36.1% of 97 matches against it.
156 buys100 buys89 buys82 buys72 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Silencer took at each level.
QArcane Curse
Curses the target area, dealing damage and causing enemies to take damage over time and slowing their movement speed.
Point Target · AOE · Magical damage
WGlaives of Wisdom
Silencer enchants his glaives with his wisdom, stealing his target's Intelligence with each hit and dealing additional damage based on his Intelligence.
Unit Target · Autocast · Attack Modifier · Magical damage
ELast Word
Enchants a target, providing vision of them and causing them to be damaged and silenced if they cast a spell or if the enchantment timer expires.
Unit Target · Magical damage
RGlobal Silence
Silencer stops all sound, preventing enemy heroes and units on the map from casting spells.
No TargetMax Order
QEW
Max Q first, then E, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QArcane Curse
- WGlaives of Wisdom
- ELast Word
- RGlobal Silence
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QArcane Curse | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
| WGlaives of Wisdom | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| ELast Word | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| RGlobal Silence | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Silencer performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
108 opponents · public matches40%60%Silencer'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”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”, “damage over time”.
- 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”.
By medal
- Herald52.5%10,655
- Guardian52.1%41,111
- Crusader51.1%73,670
- Archon50.6%101,823
- Legend49.8%102,920
- Ancient49.5%61,977
- Divine49.0%34,425
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min41.6%2,736
- 20–30 min47.5%7,126
- 30–40 min47.8%4,552
- 40–50 min50.2%1,941
- 50 min +48.9%851
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Silencer
Abilities
Arcane Curse
Point Target · AOE · Magical damageCurses the target area, dealing damage and causing enemies to take damage over time and slowing their movement speed. Anytime affected enemies cast a spell, the duration is increased. The duration is paused as long as the target is silenced.
Glaives of Wisdom
Unit Target · Autocast · Attack Modifier · Magical damageSilencer enchants his glaives with his wisdom, stealing his target's Intelligence with each hit and dealing additional damage based on his Intelligence.
Last Word
Unit Target · Magical damageEnchants a target, providing vision of them and causing them to be damaged and silenced if they cast a spell or if the enchantment timer expires. Deals extra damage based on the difference in intelligence between Silencer and the target.
Suffer In Silence
PassiveSilencer takes less damage from and deals more damage to silenced targets. If an enemy Hero dies within 925 range of Silencer or was debuffed by Silencer at the time of death, Silencer permanently steals 1 Intelligence from them. If the victim was silenced, steal an extra 1 Intelligence.
Global Silence
No TargetSilencer stops all sound, preventing enemy heroes and units on the map from casting spells.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 18 +2.2
- Agility
- 22 +2.2
- Intelligence
- 25 +2.9
- Move · range
- 300 · 600
Talents
- 4Glaives of Wisdom DamageGlobal Silence Duration
- 3Glaives of Wisdom Int Steal DurationAoE Last Word
- 2Global Silence Cooldownspecial_bonus_unique_silencer_arcane_curse_duration
- 1+25 Attack SpeedSuffer In Silence Silenced Target Damage
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Global Silence
Global Silence applies Arcane Curse to heroes for the duration of Global Silence.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Glaives of Wisdom
Causes Glaives of Wisdom to bounce 1 time to a random enemy within 450 range and increases intelligence steal.
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.