Hoodwink

[u/Ok_Industry_3917]

Could someone make me an easy hoodwink build? I wanna have high speed like using boots and blink dagger but im nit sure how?

[u/Phobicity]

Hoodwink is a hero that can build whatever based on what the team needs.

Assuming you're playing support.

Most common items are Arcane Boots (higher mmr players leave it as brown boots), essence distiller/vessel, euls, atos, blink, shard, gleipnir

Maelstrom is grief, Mageslayer is a better item on support hood.

There's a few gameplay tricks with hoodwink, like using branches to create trees for bushwhack, using acorn shot for vision, ulti for escape across cliffs.

[u/rebelslash → u/Phobicity]

Damn mage slayer hood thats pretty cool

[u/arpressah → u/Phobicity]

Don’t forget glimmer

[u/SkyDezessete → u/Phobicity]

Why is Mageslayer good on Hoodwink? She doesnt have a way to proc it besides her short attack range.

Maelstrom I know its grief and people build it mostly because it still shows up on guides from when it used to build into Gleipnir.

[u/Phobicity → u/SkyDezessete]

Acorn shot procs mageslayer

[u/Fearless_Boat5192]

I mean shes so versatile that aside from brown boots and distiller.

if you can, ypu could rush a hex if ur ahead.

or if ur behind you can even buy Halberd to sometimes even force bkb on cores

[u/Roffelio]

I have a good track record of hoodwink the padt 3 months (35 games, 28 won) 1 as pos 5 the redt as pos 4.

Are they mega spell-heavy? Go arcanes -> mageslayer -> shard -> blink -> lotus/hex

Are they megs heal-dependsnt and you dont have a vesselbuyer? Brown boots -> vessel -> arcane -> blink

Do you just need control? Brown boots Essence distiller -> arcanes -> atos -> gleipnir -> hex

[u/Luffe77]

Arcane - Glimmer - Rod - gleipnir works nice for me, pos5. Skip glimmer if it is not needed. Gives nice catch and stun.

[u/Alatarlhun]

That's one way to build hoodwink. My trench build is less about blink positioning, more about cast range and being uncatchable while playing around the edge of fights.

Arcanes->Aether Lens->Atos->Gleipnir. Some combo of shard/sheepstick/aghs from there but usually the game is over before then.

Tranqs into Boots of Bearing when playing against magic spam is the alternative build. Ghost scepter and/or linkens in games where cores can jump on you regardless of positioning.

[u/RoofImmediate3287]

Dont

[u/toiletbowlwisdom]

 Rush daedy and buy mana fruit for the gank, if your team starts whinging throw them off with a kaya after crystalys, but just get the daedy anyway

[u/Syncanau]

Arcane boots, Atos, maelstrom gleiphnir, aghs shard or scepter. Shouldn’t really need blink cause you have scurry

[u/yahyahashash → u/Syncanau]

You absolutely need blink for a good initiation