Meat Hook is a powerful offensive and defensive tool. You can use it to initiate fights, save your teammates from powerful disables(Chronosphere) and control runes.

Rot helps you to slow down and deal damage to your opponents. Always keep in mind that you can use this spell to suicide.

Great ability, which gives you additional strength for every stack. With the help of this spell, you can potentially have an enormous amount of HP at the late stage of the game.

Dismember is a powerful disable, which works on heroes, who are under the effect of magical immunity. Use it in combination with Meat Hook to get kills around the map. Since Dismember has very low cooldown, you might as well use it to farm neutral camps.

Additional movement speed granted by Wind Lace will help you to select desired position quickly. It will also help you to chase and kill your opponents with the help of Rot.

Support Pudge is very dependent on using and hitting Meat Hooks. For this reason, it is important to have Mangoes or Clarities to be able to restore mana.

Soul Ring will resolve your problems with mana. This item also gives very useful Strength and HP regen bonuses.

Blink Dagger is a key item to get on Pudge. With the help of this item, you will no longer be dependent on hitting a Meat Hook and will be able to initiate fights with Blink + Dismember combination.

Additional cast range will help you to use your spells more effectively.

As Pudge mostly wants to position himself in the middle of fights and burn his opponents with Rot, he can benefit a lot from having a Black King Bar.

Additional armor and very useful active and passive spells of Shiva's will help you to provide a lot more impact in fights. As Pudge likes to be in the middle of the fight, he will definitely affect his opponents with Arctic Blast and Freezing Aura.

Another item, which will help Pudge feralessly position himself in fights. Heart will significantly improve your survivability.

Spirit Vessel is necessary to buy versus heroes, who has powerful HP regeneration, such as Necrophos or Timbersaw. Urn of Shadows is a great alternative to Soul Ring.

In case you have a bad game, it can be a good decision to get yourself several Bracers to improve your survivability in fights.

Great alternative or addition to Blink Dagger. Force Staff can be very useful versus Slark.

Atos can help you to set up easy Meat Hooks, especially if you play against mobile heroes, such as Queen of Pain or Storm Spirit. This item also provides some Intelligence and Strength, which is good for Pudge.

Passive bonuses itself make this item insanely good for Pudge. Armor, attributes buff, movement speed and mana regeneration. Moreover, its active spell will significantly improve your team's push and Roshan killing potential.

Decent item to get in the late stage of the game. Low cooldown on Meat Hook will increase your chances to initiate a good fight.

Scythe is a great item to get as a counter to mobile heroes in the late stage of the game.

This item can be used both defensively and offensively. With the help of Ethereal Blade you will be able to make solo kills all around the map.

As Pudge mostly survives for a long time in fights, he can collect quite a lot of de-buffs on himself. Lotus Orb will help you to get rid of them.

Blade Mail is a great item to get on Pudge in any stage of the game. It will improve your survivability and increase your damage output in fights.