Riki — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Top 5 builds cover 59% of games that reach three key items

Selected build

Diffusal Blade → Yasha → Manta Style · 3,542 games · win rate 60.5%

Everything below follows the selected build.

Full build

From the starting items to the late game, in this build's games with the filters above. Each phase shows up to 3 combinations with win rate, games and share of the build's games; the most played is highlighted.

Most common path

1 · Starting items

0:00

55.0%736 · 21%
52.7%146 · 4%
63.4%134 · 4%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

59.7%1,171 · 33%
54.6%438 · 12%
56.0%368 · 10%

Finished items only: no components, consumables or Aghanim's Shard. Any order; shown in the most common one.

3 · Core

first 3 key items

60.5%3,529 · 99%
76.9%13 · 0%
40.0%10 · 0%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

54.3%624 · 18%
55.6%561 · 16%
58.9%560 · 16%

Any order, shown in the most common one. A game counts if it reached at least one of the items.

Situational items

Bought in at least 5% of this build's games and not on the most common path, sorted by win-rate change.

Eye of Skadi9% of games · ~40:35+23.5 pts
Essence Distiller5% of games · ~22:19+18.4 pts
Linken's Sphere8% of games · ~36:59+16.6 pts
Sange17% of games · ~41:42+15.6 pts
Abyssal Blade16% of games · ~42:54+15.2 pts
Butterfly13% of games · ~38:53+13.8 pts
Perseverance12% of games · ~33:11+12.5 pts
Urn of Shadows11% of games · ~6:57+9.5 pts

Win-rate change: win rate of the build's games with the item minus without it, in percentage points. At least 30 games on each side.

Skill order, levels 1–25

56.7% · 1,031 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Smoke Screen				4								12		14	15
Blink Strike	1		3		5		7
Tricks of the Trade		2						8	9	10
Cloak and Dagger						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

+500 Blink Strike Cast Range

70% · 70.3% · 1,403

-4s Tricks of the Trade Cooldown

30% · 64.9% · 612

-1s Blink Strike Cooldown

21% · 63.7% · 655

+0.3 Backstab Multiplier

79% · 63.1% · 2,405

-3s Smoke Screen Cooldown

16% · 59.4% · 566

15% of Riki's Base damage added to Tricks of the Trade

84% · 60.9% · 2,969

+10% Cloak and Dagger Movement Speed

64% · 62.3% · 2,284

+50 Smoke Screen Radius

36% · 57.2% · 1,267

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Numbers from the games of this build. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Neutral items

53.9% · 1,697

55.4% · 1,612

54.3% · 1,184

51.3% · 682

48.2% · 535

51.2% · 367

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Diffusal Blade~15:49

5–10 min	▲ 60.5%	337
10–15 min	▲ 61.3%	3,921
15–20 min	▼ 49.0%	3,308
20–25 min	▼ 41.4%	888
25–30 min	▼ 34.6%	228
30–35 min	▼ 38.9%	54
35–40 min	▼ 20.0%	15
40–45 min	▼ 40.0%	5
45–50 min	▼ 33.3%	3
50–55 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 61.2% wins; later: 46.6%.

Yasha~21:57

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 76.7%	232
15–20 min	▲ 65.3%	2,313
20–25 min	▲ 52.6%	2,054
25–30 min	▼ 46.3%	858
30–35 min	▼ 47.4%	321
35–40 min	▼ 46.6%	116
40–45 min	▼ 34.3%	35
45–50 min	▲ 64.7%	17
50–55 min	▲ 69.2%	13

Bought before 20:00: 66.4% wins; later: 50.3%.

Manta Style~26:47

15–20 min	▲ 82.5%	291
20–25 min	▲ 69.4%	1,782
25–30 min	▲ 55.5%	1,644
30–35 min	▲ 52.4%	759
35–40 min	▼ 47.5%	276
40–45 min	▲ 52.1%	73
45–50 min	▲ 66.7%	18
50–55 min	▲ 55.6%	9
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	4
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 71.2% wins; later: 53.8%.

Skull Basher~32:14

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	2
15–20 min	▲ 64.9%	171
20–25 min	▲ 59.5%	558
25–30 min	▲ 63.6%	815
30–35 min	▲ 63.6%	879
35–40 min	▲ 62.2%	627
40–45 min	▲ 59.9%	367
45–50 min	▲ 57.0%	149
50–55 min	▲ 52.9%	70
55–60 min	▲ 61.9%	21
60–65 min	▼ 25.0%	8
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	2
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 62.2% wins; later: 61.6%.

Disperser~34:31

10–15 min	▲ 100.0%	1
15–20 min	▲ 88.0%	50
20–25 min	▲ 75.6%	348
25–30 min	▲ 76.0%	738
30–35 min	▲ 68.7%	911
35–40 min	▲ 64.7%	618
40–45 min	▲ 63.2%	397
45–50 min	▲ 59.4%	219
50–55 min	▲ 55.0%	129
55–60 min	▲ 53.8%	39
60–65 min	▲ 55.0%	20
65–70 min	▲ 54.5%	11
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	3
75–80 min	▼ 0.0%	2

Bought before 30:00: 76.4% wins; later: 64.7%.

Crystalys~31:59

10–15 min	▲ 75.0%	20
15–20 min	▲ 57.2%	187
20–25 min	▲ 61.1%	306
25–30 min	▲ 59.2%	409
30–35 min	▲ 55.5%	474
35–40 min	▲ 60.1%	323
40–45 min	▲ 56.3%	197
45–50 min	▲ 57.4%	101
50–55 min	▼ 46.0%	50
55–60 min	▲ 57.1%	21
60–65 min	▼ 33.3%	15
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	4

Bought before 30:00: 59.8% wins; later: 56.4%.

Sange~38:06

15–20 min	▲ 72.3%	47
20–25 min	▲ 62.9%	140
25–30 min	▲ 55.8%	208
30–35 min	▲ 69.0%	336
35–40 min	▲ 71.2%	351
40–45 min	▲ 71.9%	310
45–50 min	▲ 64.8%	216
50–55 min	▲ 57.3%	117
55–60 min	▲ 51.5%	66
60–65 min	▼ 47.8%	23
65–70 min	▼ 37.5%	8
70–75 min	▼ 25.0%	4
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1
80–85 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 35:00: 64.3% wins; later: 66.6%.

Black King Bar~37:18

15–20 min	▲ 80.0%	5
20–25 min	▲ 63.6%	55
25–30 min	▲ 58.0%	193
30–35 min	▲ 53.6%	373
35–40 min	▼ 47.5%	358
40–45 min	▲ 54.1%	246
45–50 min	▲ 52.4%	126
50–55 min	▲ 53.7%	54
55–60 min	▲ 51.9%	27
60–65 min	▼ 38.5%	13
65–70 min	▲ 66.7%	6
70–75 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 35:00: 56.1% wins; later: 50.7%.