Windrunner - The Shy Carry

Feel free to leave comments or suggestions. This is more a work in progres and I will update it whenever I find things work better. I am in no way a pro, just had lots of success with this build.

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You realise a guide will be read 99% of the time by new players ?

So giving the advice to someone new to play one of the best assist in the game as a carry is, in my opinion, one of the worst idea you can come up with.

The worst idea being telling a new player to make a divine rapier.
Best way to be 100% sure that if even ONCE he successfully farms, he will still ruin the game.



And yeah, about the build itself, making a lothar on windrunner is overkill imo.
You could have so much more dps by skipping it, or even make a eul or somth usefull to the team.

No, really, i'm not fan of your build at all.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your choice of making Windrunner into a carry. She is a semi-carry at best, and even that is only if your carry falls seriously far behind and you have to pick up the slack. Her ability to support is simply very strong and she offers so much to a team as a utility support.. Much more than she ever could building carry items. :)

You should watch some of the recent tournaments if you can find the vids for them. There was a couple of games that had really good Windrunners playing support.

I disagree with the guys above me. Windrunner's ult and awesome escapes combined with a LoF nuke for farming CRIES OUT for hilarious pubstomp builds. You don't have to play every game like it's the world finals for $1million.

I say farm up some steam boots, enough mana regen to stay in the field, and then start piling on the crazy damage and effects.

wtf is steam boots?

Steam boots is the hon name for power treads

Better option is just to build battlefury. It gives damage, hp and mana regen: all of which Windrunner needs.

Assuming this isn't a joke, battlefury is terrible on Windrunner.

firstly, it's a farming item. It's an investment that you get in order to enhance your ability to farm. It doesn't bring much to a team fight situation outside of mediocre damage. On top of that, the cleave doesn't even work for ranged heroes, so you are paying 4.3k for 65 damage and moderate amounts of health and mana regeneration. If you want HP/Mana regen, you are better off going Linkens.



The reason I don't like Windrunner as a carry is because her ability to support is invaluable and every single hard carry utilizes farm better than she does. Carry Windrunner simply isn't cost effective.

I don't see in anyway how windrunner is the best assist in the game. Seems to me that would fall under Dark Seer or Crystal Maidens domain who actually have skills that help team mates. Being able to run away and snare people hardly consitutes an ***it champion. Her description calls her a semi-carry/ganker which is how I play her. Even if you don't like the build, it works very well and I am usually able to turn games around we are losing and even carry by late game.

I have updated the build. I prioritize force staff over shadow blade and have changed it accordinly.

P.S. The divine rapier is a somewhat running joke that has been going on since dota. You should look up some old windrunner builds, most of them have her getting the divine rapier as the last item. Although if you do get very good with her and get your farm up to the 300 hundred level where it should be at, you could probably make it work.