Sand King — 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 67% of games that reach three key items

Selected build

Blink Dagger → Boots of Travel → Eul's Scepter of Divinity · 75 games · win rate 52.0%

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

66.7%3 · 4%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

71.4%14 · 19%

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

3 · Core

first 3 key items

41.5%41 · 55%
66.7%21 · 28%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

44.0%25 · 33%
45.0%20 · 27%
40.0%20 · 27%

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.

No item outside the most common path is bought in at least 5% of this build's games with 30 games on each side.

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

49.3% · 612 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
Burrowstrike		2						8	9	10
Sand Storm	1		3		5		7
Stinger				4								12		14	15
Epicenter						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.

This build has too few games for its own order, so this is the hero's most common order at this rank and position.

Talents

35% Sand Storm Slow and Blind

51% · 63.3% · 1,176

+125 Stinger Damage

49% · 64.0% · 1,143

+6 Epicenter Pulses

93% · 58.3% · 3,996

-3s Burrowstrike Cooldown

7% · 58.8% · 294

+200 Burrowstrike Cast Range

45% · 52.7% · 2,430

+25 Sand Storm Damage Per Second

55% · 53.3% · 2,973

+100 Caustic Finale Radius

51% · 57.9% · 38

+12% Stinger Slow

49% · 45.9% · 37

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

Talents at 10: the games of this build. Talents at 15, 20, 25: all the hero's games at this rank and position, because this build has under 30 games on a side. 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

57.2% · 1,252

48.0% · 1,069

42.4% · 715

52.8% · 322

47.1% · 310

57.7% · 281

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.

Blink Dagger~14:18

0–5 min	▼ 0.0%	1
5–10 min	▲ 54.0%	426
10–15 min	▲ 54.4%	3,421
15–20 min	▼ 41.3%	1,483
20–25 min	▼ 38.5%	340
25–30 min	▼ 36.0%	75
30–35 min	▼ 33.3%	24
35–40 min	▼ 33.3%	3
40–45 min	▲ 71.4%	7

Bought before 10:00: 53.9% wins; later: 49.4%.

Aghanim's Scepter~25:52

10–15 min	▲ 55.6%	9
15–20 min	▲ 67.6%	621
20–25 min	▲ 57.6%	1,991
25–30 min	▼ 45.4%	1,228
30–35 min	▼ 44.1%	610
35–40 min	▲ 54.8%	259
40–45 min	▲ 57.3%	96
45–50 min	▲ 61.8%	34
50–55 min	▼ 42.9%	14
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	4
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 59.9% wins; later: 46.9%.

Shiva's Guard~36:16

10–15 min	▼ 0.0%	1
15–20 min	▲ 71.4%	7
20–25 min	▲ 70.3%	74
25–30 min	▲ 71.0%	303
30–35 min	▲ 68.5%	616
35–40 min	▲ 64.6%	582
40–45 min	▲ 59.9%	377
45–50 min	▲ 51.1%	141
50–55 min	▲ 58.5%	65
55–60 min	▼ 36.8%	19
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	7
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 35:00: 69.3% wins; later: 61.0%.

Black King Bar~33:45

15–20 min	▼ 33.3%	6
20–25 min	▲ 61.3%	111
25–30 min	▲ 66.2%	476
30–35 min	▲ 56.3%	727
35–40 min	▲ 51.0%	394
40–45 min	▼ 49.4%	176
45–50 min	▲ 56.3%	80
50–55 min	▲ 51.4%	35
55–60 min	▼ 45.5%	11
60–65 min	▲ 66.7%	6
65–70 min	▲ 66.7%	3
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 64.9% wins; later: 53.8%.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity~29:33

5–10 min	▲ 50.0%	2
10–15 min	▲ 57.6%	33
15–20 min	▲ 63.6%	195
20–25 min	▲ 52.8%	337
25–30 min	▲ 54.3%	335
30–35 min	▲ 51.0%	312
35–40 min	▲ 63.3%	166
40–45 min	▲ 59.8%	112
45–50 min	▲ 61.8%	55
50–55 min	▲ 59.4%	32
55–60 min	▲ 53.8%	13
60–65 min	▼ 33.3%	3
65–70 min	▼ 33.3%	3
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 56.8% wins; later: 55.8%.

Crystalys~34:12

5–10 min	▼ 0.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 66.7%	3
15–20 min	▼ 41.2%	17
20–25 min	▲ 66.3%	92
25–30 min	▲ 56.0%	209
30–35 min	▲ 59.2%	282
35–40 min	▲ 57.8%	230
40–45 min	▲ 58.5%	106
45–50 min	▲ 52.7%	55
50–55 min	▲ 52.2%	23
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	8
60–65 min	▲ 50.0%	6
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	4
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	2

Bought before 30:00: 58.1% wins; later: 57.8%.

Soul Booster~39:08

15–20 min	▲ 50.0%	4
20–25 min	▲ 52.6%	19
25–30 min	▲ 78.8%	80
30–35 min	▲ 75.8%	149
35–40 min	▲ 72.6%	241
40–45 min	▲ 66.3%	172
45–50 min	▲ 56.9%	116
50–55 min	▼ 48.8%	43
55–60 min	▲ 61.9%	21
60–65 min	▲ 57.1%	7
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	2

Bought before 35:00: 74.6% wins; later: 65.7%.

Boots of Travel~31:02

5–10 min	▲ 70.6%	17
10–15 min	▼ 45.4%	97
15–20 min	▼ 48.2%	139
20–25 min	▲ 57.4%	94
25–30 min	▲ 57.7%	78
30–35 min	▲ 63.2%	76
35–40 min	▲ 64.7%	68
40–45 min	▲ 66.2%	74
45–50 min	▲ 67.4%	43
50–55 min	▲ 72.1%	43
55–60 min	▲ 54.5%	33
60–65 min	▲ 73.9%	23
65–70 min	▲ 72.7%	11
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	1
75–80 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 30:00: 52.2% wins; later: 65.8%.