Bounty Hunter

"Bounty" redirects here. For the reward earned from last-hits, see Gold.

Bounty Hunter

The Radiant

17 + 1.8 21 + 3 19 + 1.4

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 473 1024 1670 Mana 247 546 936 Damage 45-59 92-106 137-151 Armor 5.94 12.52 18.82 Attacks / Second 0.71 0.98 1.25

Movement Speed 315 Turn Rate 0.6 Sight Range 1800/1000 Attack Range Melee Missile Speed Instant Attack Duration 0.60+0.59 Cast Duration 0.3+0.51 Base Attack Time 1.7

Gondar the Bounty Hunter is a melee agility Hero that excels in dealing high amounts of damage to single targets. Bounty Hunter can easily gank other lanes, using his Shadow Walk to sneak up on enemies and get easy kills. Shadow Walk also allows him to escape from dangerous situations, making him very elusive. Bounty Hunter can be played as a carry thanks to Track, which will grant True Sight, movement speed, and bonus gold, allowing him and his team to farm and earn powerful items faster than other carries and Jinada which amplifies the damage of his next attack every few seconds.

Bio

Gondar, the Bounty Hunter Play "For the right price, anything." Role: Carry / Escape / Nuker Lore: When the hunted tell tales of Gondar the Bounty Hunter, none are sure of which are true. In whispered tones they say he was abandoned as a kit, learning his skill in tracking as a matter of simple survival. Others hear he was an orphan of war, taken in by the great Soruq the Hunter to learn the master’s skill with a blade as they plumbed the dark forests for big game. Still others believe he was a lowly street urchin raised among a guild of cutpurses and thieves, trained in the arts of stealth and misdirection. Around campfires in the wild countryside his quarry speaks the rumors of Gondar’s work, growing ever more fearful: they say it was he who tracked down the tyrant King Goff years after the mad regent went into hiding, delivering his head and scepter as proof. That it was he who infiltrated the rebel camps at Highseat, finally bringing the legendary thief White Cape to be judged for his crimes. And that it was he who ended the career of Soruq the Hunter, condemned as a criminal for killing the Prince’s prized hellkite. The tales of Gondar’s incredible skill stretch on, with each daring feat more unbelievable than the last, each target more elusive. For the right price, the hunted know, anyone can be found. For the right price, even the mightiest may find fear in the shadows. Voice: Michael Gregory (Responses)

Abilities

Shuriken Toss Q T Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Magical Hurls a deadly shuriken at an enemy unit, dealing damage and ministunning the target. Range: 650 Damage: 100/200/250/325 10 90/115/135/155 While the shuriken may be small, Gondar's precise aim can cause critical damage.

Notes: Mini-stuns the target on impact.

Jinada W J Ability Affects Damage Passive Self Physical Bounty Hunter plans his next hit, passively adding a critical strike and maim to his next attack. Duration: 3 Movement Speed Slow: 25% Attack Speed Slow: 25 Critical Damage: 150% / 175% / 200% / 225% 12/10/8/6 Whispering an enchantment he learned from Soruq to his faithful blades, Gondar targets vital tendons and joints to disable his opponents.

Notes: This will not amplify the damage of your Shadow Walk ability.

Shadow Walk E W Ability Affects Damage No Target Self Physical Bounty Hunter becomes invisible and gains the ability to move through other units until he attacks or uses an ability. If he breaks the invisibility with an attack, that attack will deal bonus damage. Duration: 15/20/25/30 Bonus Damage: 30/60/90/120 Fade Time: 1/0.75/0.5/0.25 Seconds 15 50 The court jesters present during King Goff's assassination can recount no other image than a dancing shadow.

Notes: Will not break most channeling of spells upon activation. The base damage this ability gives you will not be multiplied by critical hits. Invisibility is broken as soon as you start an attack, or start casting any spell.

Track R R Ability Affects Target Unit Enemy Heroes Tracks an enemy hero and grants a gain in movement speed to allies near the hunted. If the target dies, Bounty Hunter and nearby heroes collect a bounty in gold. Range: 900/1050/1200 Speed Radius: 900 Duration: 30 Bonus movement speed: 20% Bonus Gold for Self: 150/200/250 Bonus Gold for Allies: 50/100/150 10/7/5 50 Illusions gain movement speed bonus. Using his elevated senses of sight and smell, Gondar's hits have quite a good chance of success.

Notes: Bounty Hunter will get the bonus gold if the target dies while the spell is still active, regardless of how it dies. Gives True Sight of the target. Bonus gold will be added as reliable gold. Goes through magic immunity such as Black King Bar. However, if a unit becomes magic immune while under the effects of Track it will be dispelled.

Recommended items

Explanation: Starting items: Stout Shield provides damage block to counter physical harassment and builds into Poor Man's Shield. Iron Branch provides comprehensive attribute bonuses and builds into Magic Wand. Early game: Poor Man's Shield improves on the functionality of Stout Shield and provides additional agility. Magic Stick provides burst healing and builds into Magic Wand. Core items: Phase Boots are taken to improve chasing ability and provide additional damage. Magic Wand provides a upgraded burst heal from Magic Stick as well as compressing the attributes from Iron Branches into one item slot. Battle Fury provides a damage boost and allows Bounty Hunter to hit multiple targets at once, as well as providing Health and Mana regeneration. Situational items: Medallion of Courage helps make up for Bounty Hunter's low mana pool, and its active ability can be used to weaken targets before ganking them. Desolator reduces the target's armor, enhancing the physical damage they receive, as well as providing an extra sixty damage. Monkey King Bar gives an eighty eight damage boost and fifteen attack speed as well as countering most forms of evasion. Vladmir's Offering allows Bounty Hunter to gain a Lifesteal while still benefiting from a separate Unique Attack Modifier. Assault Cuirass both increases Bounty Hunter's and nearby allies survivability through giving armor and increases his and his allies attack speed, as well as decreasing the armor of nearby enemies. Diffusal Blade gives extra agility as well as a purge to slow enemies, destroy summons and remove debuffs, as well as a mana burn passive to counter ability dependent heroes. Linken's Sphere provides one time immunity to a spell targeted on Bounty Hunter every seventeen seconds to counter ambushes as well as providing an attribute bonus and health and mana regeneration. Orchid Malevolence provides a silence to prevent casters from retaliating as well as amplifying the damage they take, it also provides intelligence and mana regeneration to maintain mana between ganks and attack damage and speed to bolster damage output. Sange and Yasha increases Bounty Hunter's movement speed and grant a passive chance to maim to aid in chasing, it also provides strength, agility, damage and attack speed. Black King Bar gives greater survivability in team fights through magic immunity and strength, it also provides a twenty four damage increase. Urn of Shadows provides a burst heal after ganks as well as six strength and mana regeneration. Drum of Endurance gives comprehensive attribute bonuses as well as increasing Bounty Hunter and his allies' movement speed.

Tips

• Track provides a great deal of benefits to the team, the vision and movement speed help with ganking enemies as well as with avoiding enemy ganks, and the bonus gold will provide a big advantage over the enemy team if you get kills. You should try to cast it on every enemy hero, though priority targets should be carries as well as those that can go invisible.

• Despite being a carry, it is generally not recommended to farm when playing bounty hunter. Your abilities give you a great deal of power in the mid game, you should use this time ganking enemies as the bonus gold from track more than makes up for the farm you may miss.

• Although it provides a great deal of benefits, Battlefury is not always the best item to get since it's main purpose is to farm. It may be better to opt for an Orchid Malevolence, Medallion of Courage, or other such items that will help you gank better early on.

Trivia

• In DotA, Gondar shared the same hero model and dialogue as Akama, a playable Broken Draenei hero in the campaign of Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, and later an NPC in World of Warcraft.

Update history

August 09, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Shadow Walk damaging buildings.

August 02, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Teleport animations for Beastmaster, Bounty Hunter, Broodmother, Clinkz, Lifestealer, Necrolyte and Shadow Shaman.
• [Undocumented] Added Haste Run animations for Bounty Hunter and Enchantress.
• [Undocumented] Added Spawn animations for Beastmaster, Bounty Hunter, Necrolyte and Shadow Shaman.
• [Undocumented] Added Victory & Defeated animations for Bounty Hunter.

July 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Jinada proccing on Tombstone.

May 24, 2012 Patch

• Fixed a bug that could sometimes allow Jinada to work on buildings.

May 10, 2012 Patch

• Fixed turn rates for the following heroes: Lifestealer, Alchemist, Clockwerk, Bounty Hunter, Dark Seer, Dazzle, Ancient Apparition, Brewmaster, Chen, Silencer, Lone Druid, Spectre and Spiritbreaker.

April 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction and Bounty Hunter's Track being castable on Spirit Bear/Golem.

March 28, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the hero selection portrait for Bounty Hunter.

March 22, 2012 Patch

• Fixed illusions procing Jinada's critical strike.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Bounty Hunter and Clinkz's invisibility getting dispelled by Tornado.

January 19, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Track ignoring Linken's Sphere.

January 12, 2012 Patch

• Fixed it being possible to use Jinada cooldown without triggering a critical strike.
• Fixed Jinada working on denies.
• Fixed Jinada and Shadowblade affecting buildings.
• Fixed Track giving bonus gold for dead illusions.
• Fixed Track not being dispelled by Time Lapse, Repel, Purge, etc.
• Fixed Track debuff icon not showing.
• Enabled Ursa and Bounty Hunter in Captain's Mode.
• Removed track casting effect from enemy vision.

December 21, 2011 Patch

• Added Bounty Hunter!

December 16, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added new portraits for Bounty Hunter and icons for associated skills.

May 13, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a number of abilities having incorrect interaction with Sphere: Slithereen Crush, Jinada, Wind Walk, Echo Slam, Moon Glaive, Death Pulse, Purification, Scream of Pain, Fatal Bonds.

Balance changelog

6.78

• Track manacost from 70/60/50 to 50.

6.77

• Track no longer reduces armor.

6.73

• Track gold bonus for Bounty Hunter increased from 75/150/225 to 150/200/250.

6.72c

• Base intelligence increased from 16 to 19.

6.72

• Base HP regeneration increased from 0.25 to 0.75.
• Jinada's cooldown decreased from 15/12/9/6 to 12/10/8/6.

6.71

• Track's team bonus gold from 50 to 50/100/150 (this is still considered Reliable Gold)

6.70

• Increased Track's movement bonus aoe from 800 to 900.
• Increased armor by 2.

6.69

• Jinada critical strike increased from 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0 to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25.
• Track cast range increased from 750/950/1150 to 900/1050/1200.

6.68

• Jinada cooldown from 21/16/11/6 to 15/12/9/6.
• Track
  • Now gives 50 bonus bounty to all units affected by the track aura of that target.
  • Bonus gold is treated as Reliable Gold.

6.67

• Tracked targets now have a visual effect above their head that is only shown to Bounty Hunter's allies. Neither the target nor any enemy can see it.

6.66

• Jinada cooldown improved from 22/17/12/7 to 21/16/11/6.

6.65

• Reworked Jinada

Old:

Passive.

Crit: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0x

Crit Chance: 15%

Evasion: 5/10/15/20%

New:

Passive. Adds a critical strike and small maim to your next attack. Has a cooldown.

Critical Strike: 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0x

Maim: 25% MS/AS for 3 seconds

Cooldown: 22/17/12/7

Replaced Abilities

Jinada (pre 6.65) W J Ability Affects Passive Self Gives a chance to avoid attacks and to deal critical damage. Dodge Chance: 5/10/15/20% Critical Chance: 15% Critical Damage: 1.25x/1.5x/1.75x/2x

Notes: Does not stack with evasion from Butterfly, Heaven's Halberd or Talisman of Evasion.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

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  Trading card art

See also

• Bounty Hunter responses