Muerta was introduced to the game after the Lima Major ended along with Dota 2 patch 7.32e.
Muertas History
Muerta is literally the Spanish word for dead.
Others, drunk in dark taverns, slur conspiracy theories about kidnappings and phantom guilds of killers.
Muertas Attributes and Stats
Muerta is an intelligence hero.
Her strength gain is not the best, but her agility and intelligence gains are quite strong.
For both those gains, she is in the top 20% heroes for the respective attribute.
High intelligence gives her good damage, and agility is always good for a right clicker.
The Roles tab describes her as a full fledged carry, a reasonable nuker and a disabler as well.
Something that Muerta lacks which the last four heroes added to the game had is an escape ability.
Muerta has a starting armor of 2.7, which is quite decent for a ranged hero.
The fast projectile speed is quite helpful in last hitting.
Muertas Abilities
Lets take a look at Muertas four abilities in detail.
If it is a tree, it will go in a random direction.
If targeted at a tree, the tree will fall down, so Monkey King better watch out!
The fear only impacts the targets affected by the ricochet, so it isnt a reliable disable.
But in the right situation, it can lead to fearing multiple heroes.
All affected units take 300 magic damage and are slowed.
Dead Shot is a good nuke and a way to disrupt a fight.
It can help in stopping channeling heroes as well.
But one of the best uses of the skill is while farming.
One of the best places for it is the Roshan pit.
Other than that, it can be extremely useful while going high ground or for defending high ground.
Gunslinger
Gun Slinger is the skill that makes her a strong right clicker.
And it is not just for team fights this skill is extremely beneficial in farming as well.
However, in a one on one situation, this skill is completely useless.
In that scenario, Muerta pretty much becomes a hero with three abilities.
With the Mjolnir passive (Chain Lightening), it’s slightly different.
If Chain Lightening procs on one target, it wont on the other one.
The transformation is undispellable, so Muerta cannot be brought back to the physical form.
For 8 seconds, she cannot be targeted by physical damage.
She can still take pure damage, but that isnt the most common source of damage in the game.
When Pierce the Veil is active, magic damage amplification increases her right click damage.
The easy way to resist Muerta in her transformed form is by using BKB.
With BKB active, Muertas right clicks still hit the target, but no damage is dealt.
However, any debuffs like Desolator and Skadi that pierce magic immunity are still applied.
Supports dont tend to go for a BKB, so they will end up being fodder for Muerta.
At level 20, Dead Shot can have a long range with 400 damage and two charges.
Some interesting decisions to be made in the talent tree, which will only be evident with experience.
Role
At first glance, Muerta is a right click carry.
