Pudge

Stats

These are the base values written in the game files. Totals derived from attributes (HP, mana, armor) depend on engine-side formulas, so no estimated values are shown.

Recommended items

Items the in-game shop recommends for this hero (curated by Valve). These are not win-rate statistics.

Tranquil Boots900Magic Wand460Aether Lens2275Blink Dagger2250Urn of Shadows825Blade Mail2400Force Staff2200Spirit Vessel2725Rod of Atos2250Hood of Defiance0Soul Ring805Pipe of Insight3725

Abilities

Meat Hook

Cooldown 18 / 16 / 14 / 12sMana 120Range 1300PURE

ActiveCooldown 18 / 16 / 14 / 12sMana 120Range 1300

Launches a bloody hook toward a unit or location. The hook will snag the first unit it encounters, dragging the unit back to Pudge, killing it if it's a non-ancient creep and dealing damage if it is an enemy otherwise.

Raw values (from the game files)（6）

DAMAGE	150 / 220 / 290 / 360
hook_speed	1600.0
hook_width	100
vision_radius	500 / 500 / 500 / 500
vision_duration	4.0 / 4.0 / 4.0 / 4.0
self_stun_duration_percent	65

• Interrupts channeling spells of the primary target if it's an enemy.
• Meat Hook hits invisible units.
• Meat Hook can go through trees, cliffs, buildings, ancient units and Roshan.
• Meat Hook can drag friendly units, but they won't be damaged.
• Meat Hook can hit and drag runes to Pudge, refunding the Hook's mana cost.

Patch history

7.40b2025-12-23

• Mana Cost increased from 110 to 120

Rot

MAGICAL

Active

A toxic cloud that deals intense damage and slows movement--harming not only enemy units but Pudge himself.

Raw values (from the game files)（4）

RADIUS	250
rot_tick	0.2
%MOVE SLOW	-14 / -20 / -26 / -32
DAMAGE	30 / 60 / 90 / 120

• Using Rot doesn't interrupt channeling.
• Rot hits invisible units.
• If Pudge is silenced, he can't deactivate Rot if it's activated.
• Rot self-damage is non-lethal.

Patch history

7.412026-03-24

• No longer has a separate value for incoming heal reductionHP回復の変更により、引き続き受ける回復量は減少する

Meat Shield

Cooldown 20 / 19 / 18 / 17sMana 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

ActiveCooldown 20 / 19 / 18 / 17sMana 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Pudge covers himself with a layer of flesh that blocks damage of any type taken from any source.

Raw values (from the game files)（2）

DAMAGE BLOCK	8 / 14 / 20 / 26
DURATION	4 / 5 / 6 / 7

Patch history

7.40c2026-01-21

• Mana Cost increased from 50/60/70/80 to 65/70/75/80

Flesh HeapInnatePassive

Passive

Pudge's skin thickens permanently every time he kills an enemy Hero, gaining 2.0 bonus Strength for each stack.

Raw values (from the game files)（2）

flesh_heap_strength_buff_amount	2.0
flesh_heap_range	450

• Enemy Heroes that die within 450 of Pudge grant a stack regardless of its killer.

Patch history

7.41b2026-04-07

• Strength gain per stack increased from 1.6 to 2.0

7.412026-03-24

• No longer levels with Dismember
• Permanent Bonus Strength rescaled from 1.1/1.4/1.7/2.0 to 1.6

Dismember

Cooldown 30 / 25 / 20sMana 100 / 130 / 170Range 200MAGICAL

ActiveCooldown 30 / 25 / 20sMana 100 / 130 / 170Range 200

CHANNELED - Pudge chows down on an enemy unit, disabling it and dealing damage over time. Damage is increased by Pudge's Strength and heals him for the total amount. Pudge pulls the unit at a rate of 75 units, up to a minimum of 125 range.

Raw values (from the game files)（8）

DAMAGE PER SECOND	80 / 100 / 120
STRENGTH MULTIPLIER	0.3 / 0.6 / 0.9
ticks	6
pull_units_per_second	75
pull_distance_limit	125
animation_rate	1.5
STRENGTH INCREASE	0
STRENGTH DURATION	0

• If a unit becomes invisible while Dismembered, it will still be under the effects of Dismember.

Talents

One of the two per level is chosen. They appear in the order registered in the game files.

Patch history (hero and talents)

Background

In the Fields of Endless Carnage, far to the south of Quoidge, a corpulent figure works tirelessly through the night--dismembering, disembowelling, piling up the limbs and viscera of the fallen that the battlefield might be clear by dawn. In this cursed realm, nothing can decay or decompose; no corpse may ever return to the earth from which it sprang, no matter how deep you dig the grave. Flocked by carrion birds who need him to cut their meals into beak-sized chunks, Pudge the Butcher hones his skills with blades that grow sharper the longer he uses them. Swish, swish, thunk. Flesh falls from the bone; tendons and ligaments part like wet paper. And while he always had a taste for the butchery, over the ages, Pudge has developed a taste for its byproduct as well. Starting with a gobbet of muscle here, a sip of blood there...before long he was thrusting his jaws deep into the toughest of torsos, like a dog gnawing at rags. Even those who are beyond fearing the Reaper, fear the Butcher.

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