What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
173 buys
2ndSecond most
91 buys
3rdThird most
88 buys
4thFourth most
79 buys
5thFifth most
60 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Spectre
Melee · Agility
- Win rate
- 54.0%
- Pick share
- 1.2%
- Matches
- 556,596
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsCarryDurableEscape
NeedsSupportInitiatorDisablerBurstTower damage
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 50 min + — that is where this hero measures best, at 58.4% over 616 matches.
- You are playing around Herald — its strongest medal, 55.7% over 12,900 picks.
Avoid
- Snapfire is on their side — this hero wins 34.1% of 44 matches against it.
- Lion is on their side — this hero wins 32.4% of 37 matches against it.
- Rubick is on their side — this hero wins 37.5% of 40 matches against it.
173 buys91 buys88 buys79 buys60 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Spectre took at each level.
QSpectral Dagger
Spectre flings a dagger to draw a Shadow Path, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed of any enemies along the trail.
Point Target · Unit Target · Magical damage
WShadow Step
Sends an uncontrollable illusion at a target that follows and attacks the target.
Unit Target · AOE
EDispersion
Spectre disperses part of the damage dealt to her, reflecting it to all nearby enemies.
Passive
RHaunt
Creates a spectral nemesis to haunt all enemy Heroes.
No TargetMax Order
QEW
Max Q first, then E, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QSpectral Dagger
- WShadow Step
- EDispersion
- RHaunt
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QSpectral Dagger | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
| WShadow Step | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| EDispersion | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| RHaunt | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Spectre performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
8 opponents · public matches40%60%Spectre's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
Nobody in this lane sits here.
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
Nobody in this lane sits here.
40 – 45%Hard
Nobody in this lane sits here.
< 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”.
- I am being jumped
A way out, a way to shrug the debuff, or something to eat the burst. Matched on “teleport”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”, “pure”.
By medal
- Herald55.7%12,900
- Guardian54.9%48,920
- Crusader54.2%86,889
- Archon53.9%119,084
- Legend53.9%123,043
- Ancient53.6%79,417
- Divine53.3%48,725
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min36.9%1,662
- 20–30 min43.9%4,285
- 30–40 min51.8%3,323
- 40–50 min53.4%1,403
- 50 min +58.4%616
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Spectre
Abilities
Spectral Dagger
Point Target · Unit Target · Magical damageSpectre flings a dagger to draw a Shadow Path, dealing damage and slowing the movement speed of any enemies along the trail. Units hit by the dagger also trail a Shadow Path. While treading the path, Spectre moves faster and phases through otherwise impassable terrain.
Shadow Step
Unit Target · AOESends an uncontrollable illusion at a target that follows and attacks the target. The Reality sub-ability may be used to teleport to the illusion, destroying it.
Dispersion
PassiveSpectre disperses part of the damage dealt to her, reflecting it to all nearby enemies. The effect lessens with distance.
Desolate
Passive · Hidden · Pure damageSpectre and her illusions deal bonus Pure damage if attacking an enemy that does not have any allied units within a 350 radius around them.
Haunt
No TargetCreates a spectral nemesis to haunt all enemy Heroes. Haunt illusions are uncontrollable, take extra damage, and deal less damage than Spectre herself. They ignore terrain. The Reality sub-ability may be used to teleport to the illusion, destroying it.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 21 +2.4
- Agility
- 26 +2.4
- Intelligence
- 16 +1.7
- Move · range
- 295 · 150
Talents
- 4All Spectre Illusion DamageDispersion
- 3+325 HealthSpectral Dagger Slow/Bonus
- 2Shadow Step DurationSpectral Dagger Damage
- 1Spectral Dagger CooldownDesolate Damage
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Haunt
The first time Spectre uses Reality on a Haunt illusion, enemies in a =400 area around the target are Feared away from Spectre for =1.5s and have their movement speed slowed by 50%. Reduces cooldown by 20s.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Dispersion
Dispersion can be activated to increase the amount absorbed and reflected by Dispersion by 50% of its base values for 5s. Cooldown 25. Manacost 50.
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.