What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
132 buys
2ndSecond most
82 buys
3rdThird most
62 buys
4thFourth most
61 buys
5thFifth most
58 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Undying
Melee · Strength
- Win rate
- 50.6%
- Pick share
- 1.5%
- Matches
- 669,660
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsSupportDurableDisablerNuker
NeedsCarryInitiatorTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 0–20 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 50.5% over 4,387 matches.
- You are playing around Crusader — its strongest medal, 51.1% over 97,273 picks.
Avoid
- Rubick is on their side — this hero wins 39.2% of 181 matches against it.
- Jakiro is on their side — this hero wins 37.6% of 125 matches against it.
- Ember Spirit is on their side — this hero wins 38.7% of 124 matches against it.
132 buys82 buys62 buys61 buys58 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Undying took at each level.
QDecay
Undying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself.
AOE · Point Target · Magical damage
WSoul Rip
Undying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy.
Unit Target · Magical damage
ETombstone
Summons a tombstone at the target point.
Point Target · Physical damage
RFlesh Golem
Undying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem.
No Target · Instant Cast · Magical damageMax Order
QEW
Max Q first, then E, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QDecay
- WSoul Rip
- ETombstone
- RFlesh Golem
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QDecay | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WSoul Rip | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| ETombstone | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||
| RFlesh Golem | R | R | |||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Undying performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
101 opponents · public matches40%60%Undying'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”.
- Clear or push the wave
Creeps, summons and anything that hits a building. Matched on “creep”, “summon”.
By medal
- Herald50.8%13,753
- Guardian51.0%52,446
- Crusader51.1%97,273
- Archon50.9%140,594
- Legend50.7%151,967
- Ancient50.4%102,837
- Divine49.4%74,520
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min50.5%4,387
- 20–30 min50.3%10,088
- 30–40 min49.3%6,473
- 40–50 min50.2%2,510
- 50 min +49.8%1,094
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Undying
Abilities
Decay
AOE · Point Target · Magical damageUndying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself. Deals 2x damage to creeps.
Soul Rip
Unit Target · Magical damageUndying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy. Soul Rip can also be used to heal Tombstone.
Tombstone
Point Target · Physical damageSummons a tombstone at the target point. Zombies will frequently spawn next to every enemy unit in the area around the Tombstone, and attack them. Zombies have the Deathlust ability, which causes their attacks to slow the target, and if the target reaches below a certain amount of health, increases the attack and movement speed of the zombie.
Ceaseless Dirge
PassiveFlesh Golem
No Target · Instant Cast · Magical damageUndying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem. While in this state, he gains a percentage increase to strength, bonus movement speed, and causes attacks to slow, apply damage amplification, and spawn Tombstone zombies.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 22 +2.4
- Agility
- 13 +1.2
- Intelligence
- 27 +2.8
- Move · range
- 300 · 150
Talents
- 4Flesh Golem Strength BonusTombstone On Death
- 3Decay CooldownTombstone Attacks to Destroy
- 2Soul Rip Damage/HealZombie Damage
- 1Decay DamageTombstone Cooldown
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Decay
Increases strength steal.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Tombstone
Tombstone can be cast on an allied hero to bunker inside of the tombstone. Heroes that enter the Tombstone cannot leave for 2 seconds nor can they re-enter after leaving. If the tombstone is destroyed with a hero inside, that hero gets stunned for 2 seconds.
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.