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Sand King
Sand King
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Sand King

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Win Rate48.2%#93 overall
Pick Rate3.8%#98 overall
Matchups
Brewmaster
+11.6
Chen
+9.4
Broodmother
+7.6
-3.5
Zeus
-4.1
Dark Seer
-4.8
Best against
Sand King
Worst against
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Safe Lane 
1.6%
45.2%
4%
W22%
D24%
L38%
12%
Suggested partners
OracleDisruptorSilencerWitch DoctorNature's Prophet
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Mid Lane 
13.5%
49.8%
1%
W16%
D28%
L45%
10%
Strongest against
SniperNecrophosViperOutworld DestroyerShadow Fiend
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Off Lane 
Most played
64.6%
45.7%
2%
W16%
D23%
L44%
15%
Suggested partners
UndyingSniperWindrangerSkywrath MageVisage
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Soft Support 
13.2%
47.0%
2%
W17%
D22%
L44%
15%
Suggested partners
UndyingWitch DoctorViperPudgeNecrophos
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Hard Support 
7.0%
45.1%
3%
W23%
D25%
L38%
10%
Suggested partners
SniperAxeUndyingPugnaWarlock
Abilities
Burrowstrike
Burrowstrike
Point Target ∙ Enemies
Sand Storm
Sand Storm
No Target
Unknown
Point Target ∙ Enemies
Epicenter
Epicenter
No Target
Upgrade
Talents
35% Sand Storm Slow and Blind
+10 Epicenter Pulses+2.9%
+100/12 Base/Incremental Radius of Epicenter+1.7%
-2s Burrowstrike Cooldown
Unknown
+12% Stinger Slow
+0.4s Burrowstrike Stun
+15 Sand Storm Damage Per Second
Items
Boots
Boots of Speed
47%
Phase Boots
47%
Boots of Travel
62%
Boots of Travel 2
66%
Starting-1:40
Ring of Basilius
50%
Sentry Ward
48%
Magic Wand
48%
Gauntlets of Strength
47%
Early0:00 - 15:00
Radiance
67%
Blink Dagger
51%
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
50%
Bottle
50%
Mid15:00 - 35:00
Octarine Core
72%
Wind Waker
70%
Gleipnir
68%
Daedalus
65%
Late35:00+
Rod of Atos
72%
Gleipnir
71%
Octarine Core
69%
Heart of Tarrasque
68%
Featured guides
SedZauber
42:06
Radiant
33
/
8
/
21
Burrowstrike
Sand Storm
Epicenter
Eul's Scepter of Divinity14:17
Aghanim's Scepter22:18
Revenant's Brooch26:47
Shiva's Guard30:52
Overwhelming Blink36:31
Boots of Speed 
hosu
33:44
Dire
12
/
10
/
26
Burrowstrike
Sand Storm
Epicenter
Arcane Boots07:10
Blink Dagger12:43
Magic Wand15:16
Bracer17:45
Eul's Scepter of Divinity21:25
Shiva's Guard33:14
Ch1n PMA
37:34
Radiant
5
/
6
/
36
Burrowstrike
Sand Storm
Epicenter
Magic Wand02:17
Arcane Boots06:26
Blink Dagger11:19
Shiva's Guard21:26
Eul's Scepter of Divinity28:04
Bloodstone34:42
Top players
1
China PLAY CHINA
+4
2
I find bliss in ignorance
+1
3
Míkari_san <3
+1
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Details
Not many can survive an ambush from Sand King. Demolishing everything around him with waves of deadly vibration from his ultimate, he evades counterattacks by hiding himself in a scouring gust of sand, and stuns foes by striking them from beneath.
Hero ID
16
Aliases
sk, Crixalis
LoreThe sands of the Scintillant Waste are alive and sentient--the whole vast desert speaks to itself, thinking thoughts only such a vastness can conceive. But when it needs must find a form to communicate with those of more limited scope, it frees a fragment of itself, and fills a carapace of magic armor formed by the cunning Djinn of Qaldin. This essential identity calls itself Crixalis, meaning 'Soul of the Sand,' but others know it as Sand King. Sand King takes the form of a huge arachnid, inspired by the Scintillant Waste's small but ubiquitous denizens; and this is a true outward expression of his ferocious nature. Guardian, warrior, ambassador--Sand King is all of these things, inseparable from the endless desert that gave him life.