Wretched Hag Hero Guide - HON Tutorial - Heroes of Newerth

If you played DotA and remember Queen of Pain, you should have an idea how to play Wretched Hag in HoN (the ultimate was reworked). Wretched Hag is an easy hero to counter(with Shrunken Head) at late middle game, but in the other hand it is one of the best gankers/nukers(AOE) in the game so if you do your job at early/middle game your team should be victorious. This Wretched Hag tutorial should give you the basics of how to play this hero.

Wretched Hag is a ganker with an amazing ultimate(AOE nuke), so it is important that you manage to hit as most enemy heroes with your ultimate as possible. Wretched Hag is also a great chaser and initiator(on small ganks! at team fight always stay behind and get in after your team initiator) since she has a 10 seconds Slow and a blink that allows you to jump in to a enemy hero, catch a low life runner or jump out of battle to avoid dead. Mid is the Lane for Wretched Hag since she is deadly on early game. But as almost all heroes a well feeded/farmed Wrethed Hag, can carry a game.

Skills:

Haunt: 

Type: Magic
Range: 400
Cast Time: 1.5 Seconds
Mana Cost: 80 / 100 / 120 / 140
Cooldown: 20.0 / 17.0 / 14.0 / 11.0 Seconds
Activation
Deals 50 / 70 / 70 / 100 initial Magic damage, then applies Haunted to target for 15 seconds.
Haunted Effects
10 / 20 / 40 / 50 Magic damage inflicted every 3 seconds.\n20 / 30 / 40 / 50% Movement speed slow initially, which wears off over 10 seconds.

Notes:
If you follow my suggestion for Skill/Spell build  this will be the last Skill to max. But you will take at least 1 point at the first levels. This Skill is used to slow enemies. Having a 10 seconds slow is always an effective method to chase or save an ally.

Flash of Darkness:

Range: 800 / 900 / 1,000 / 1,150
Cast Time: 1.5 Seconds
Mana Cost: 60
Cooldown: 12.0 / 10.0 / 8.0 / 6.0 Seconds
Activation
Teleports self to target position.

 Notes:
This is one of the best ways to initiate a fight, it is a free pk, port in and use your ultimate but you best port to a place where you can hit all enemy heroes. Also remember that this is your escape method so avoid jumping in if not needed, use the fog in your favor.


Sonar Scream:

Type: Magic
Radius: 400 / 450 / 475 / 500
Cast Time: 0.8 Seconds
Mana Cost: 140
Cooldown: 7.0 Seconds
Activation
Deals 85 / 165 / 225 / 300 Magic damage to targets in radius.

Notes:
This is one of the best ways for you to farm and to be successful when ganking. It has a really low cooldown and a big magic damage. At start when ganking use Flash of Darkness-> Sonar Scream and if in need Haunt to slow down your enemies while you finish your job.

Skill Build:

1. Flash of Darkness (1)
2. Haunt (1)
3. Sonar Scream (1)
4. Sonar Scream (2)
5. Sonar Scream (3)
6. Bat Blast (1)
7. Sonar Scream (4)
8. Flash of Darkness (2)
9. Flash of Darkness (3)
10. Flash of Darkness (4)
11. Bat Blast (2)
12. Haunt (2)
13. Haunt (3)
14. Haunt (4)
15. Stats
16. Bat Blast (3)
17. Stats until Level 25

With this Build you will max your nukes and survival/ganking ability's. Wretched Hag is a squishy hero so 6 seconds cool-down on Flash of Darkness will be of great use.

Item Build:

Start:

You may want to get 1 Pretenders Crown and go for just 1 Talisman of the Exile, another option is to go for bottle at start. But i like this better. You should be able to buy the bottle really fast since with this Item Build it should not be hard to get almost all the last hits.


Early game:
     


Mid Game:
     

As i said Wretched Hag is a squish hero. Even in pub games you will always catch stuners/ disables or even nukers. So Nullstone must be apart of you Item Build. At this point you may think of putting your boots in strength. It all depends from how is going the game.

Late game:



 Your empty slot if for the Portal Stone remember to alway have 1. If you are really farmed you can buy Post Hast , replace your old Steam Boots and fill the 6 slot with Frostfield Plate, Harkon’s Blade or Hellflower.
 


Hope this guide was of help, for improvements to this guide just leave the tips on comment bellow ;) 

thanks for reading.