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Razor is now the highest win rate hero in Dota 2

Razor has been around for many years but he’s only recently become a complete monster. Dota 2 was drastically... Radu M. | 2. January 2023

Razor has been around for many years but he’s only recently become a complete monster. Dota 2 was drastically changed by what seemed to be a relatively small update.

Patch 7.32d introduced a number of buffs and debuffs that had some unintended consequences. And one of them is that Razor is now the highest win rate hero in the game.

Razor’s current stats

Razor’s current stats are off the charts. The hero has a win rate of nearly 56% and his pick rate is above 15%. This means that one in seven games features a Razor player, and that Razor player has a high chance of winning.

Razor is a strong hero because he counters every other melee hero in the game. He also counters ranged heroes to some extent and the current meta favors carries like Spectre and Riki, as well as a number of other physical damage heroes. Against all of them, Razor excels thanks to his toolkit.

Why Razor wins games

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In the laning stage, Razor will drain a lot of damage from his opponents, making them unable to last hit or fight back. This generally results in a disastrous start of the match for them and a great start for the Razor player. At the highest competitive level, this unbalance is usually fixed with smoke ganks.

But in the lower divisions, people don’t know how to counter a Razor except by picking heroes that can blink or move very fast. Examples include Queen of Pain, Weaver, and Anti-Mage.

Thanks to the latest buffs introduced by the last few patches and subpatches, Razor deals an enormous amount of damage with his ultimate ability. All that’s needed is an Aghanim’s Scepter, a Black King Bar, and a few smaller items. And there’s not much that can stop you.

You will melt enemy buildings and heroes simultaneously, and they will need to focus everything on you to bring you down. If the rest of your team is farmed enough, you’ll usually survive and win the fight with ease.

Razor’s biggest weakness is also his biggest strength: movement speed. You start with 280 but you can fix that by purchasing Boots of Travel. Thanks to your passive, you will get to 471 movement speed before you reach level 10.

That’s a huge advantage over all the other heroes in the game. And with a BKB, you are unstoppable for the first 25 minutes.

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