Dota 2 counter picks with a personalized AI coach inside the game
Last updated 15 September 2026WingHUD is a Dota 2 counter picker that runs as an overlay and knows your hero pool. During the pick phase you click one button: it reads the draft off your screen — both teams, bans, your role — and suggests picks with the reasoning, from current win-rate data for your bracket. Sign into Steam (optional) and the picks come from the heroes you actually play, weighed against this week’s meta — not a generic tier list. Once heroes lock, ask about items and the matchup you’re in, by voice or text, without alt-tabbing.
One real ranked game: Steam sync, a personalized counter-pick draft, and the win — start to finish.
Straight answers
Does it touch the game? No. It reads the pick screen when you click, plus Dota’s own game-state feed — the same information a second monitor with Dotabuff would give you. Full anti-cheat breakdown
What does it cost? Free during the open beta. There’s a generous daily fair-use cap so nobody can loop it; normal play never hits it.
Is Steam sync safe? Optional and revocable. You sign in with Valve’s own QR login — your password never touches WingHUD — and only your match history is used. Disconnecting deletes it.
What you can actually ask
“What are the best mid heroes at 2k MMR right now?”
This week’s win rates for your bracket, with hero names, percentages, match counts, and the source cited.
“Considering my stats, what should I pick to climb?”
With Personalize on, the answer is a priority list for you: which heroes from your pool fit the current meta, and what to stop picking. It’s a toggle — off means an average-player answer.
“A good counter to Sniper mid?”
Consistent counters first, matchup-dependent options after, with the reasoning. Follow-ups keep the context, like a coach would.
“What should I buy this game?”
Itemization for the lineup you’re actually facing — starting items, early core, what to skip.
Counter picks from your hero pool — the Draft Analyzer
A dedicated widget for the pick phase. One click reads the whole draft off your screen — both teams, bans, your own pick — and answers with counter picks by role and bracket, then a read on the locked draft: win conditions, biggest threats, a game plan. Keep picking while it thinks; the answer lands without pausing your draft. Personalize on means the suggestions start from the roles and heroes you actually play, not from generic matchup tables.
Made for how you play
Two things make the advice yours. First, your matches: sign into Steam and WingHUD learns your last ~100 games — which roles you play, on which heroes, win or lose — and your bracket. Second, this week’s numbers: pick and meta answers are reasoned against real Ranked All Pick statistics, win rates per role and per bracket from Herald to Immortal, refreshed every week, with the source and data week cited in the answer. Put together, a Legend-bracket offlaner and a Divine mid get different answers to the same question — and each can check where the numbers came from. When WingHUD doesn’t have deep data for something, it says so and does a live lookup instead of guessing.
Setup takes about a minute
Install WingHUD, sign in, and play — that's the whole list. No launch options, no config files: WingHUD sets up Valve's official Game State Integration feed automatically when it detects Dota 2. Optionally, sign into Steam inside WingHUD to sync your match history — that’s the switch that turns generic advice into yours. The video above shows the whole flow in a real ranked game.
On fairness and anti-cheat: WingHUD never injects into Dota, hooks DirectX, or reads game memory. It sees what your screen already shows you, plus Valve's official GSI feed for your own match data — no hidden information, ever. Full technical breakdown on the anti-cheat safety page.
Frequently asked
Is the advice based on the current patch?
Yes — answers cite current-week win-rate data by role and bracket, refreshed continuously, with the source named in the reply.
Does it work at my skill bracket?
Answers are bracket-aware: what wins at Crusader isn't what wins at Divine, and WingHUD uses the bracket that matches your rank — or any bracket you ask about explicitly.
Do I need launch options or any configuration?
No — install, sign in, play. WingHUD sets up Valve's official Game State Integration feed automatically. Older guides mention a -gamestateintegration launch option; that step is no longer needed.
Does it use my player profile?
Only if you want it to. Sign into Steam inside WingHUD (optional) and it learns your last ~100 matches — which roles you actually play, on which heroes, win or lose — plus your public profile, and tailors answers to you instead of an average player. It's read-only player data from Steam, the Personalize toggle turns it off in one click, and disconnecting deletes the collected match data.
Does my Steam login leave my PC?
No — you sign into Steam with Valve directly, and the Steam session token stays on your own PC, encrypted with Windows' built-in data protection (DPAPI). It's never sent to our servers — only the resulting match data is. Disconnecting removes the token from your PC and deletes the collected match data from our servers.
Will it get me banned?
No injection, no hooking, no memory reading, no hidden information — see the anti-cheat page for the complete answer.
What does it cost?
WingHUD is free during the open beta. Pricing comes later, after the beta.
Isn't this just Dotabuff counters?
Counter tables rank heroes globally. WingHUD argues from your pool, your role and your bracket against this week’s data, and shows the reasoning — so the answer is “which of your heroes wins this draft”, not “which hero has the best global win rate”.