- For other uses of the term, see Ranger.

The Ranger is the Sylvan hero class in Heroes of Might and Magic V. Their faction skill is Avenger. With the exception of creature specialists and campaign heroes, Rangers start with 10-14 pixies, 5-7 blade dancers and 0-2 hunters.
Lore[]
Rangers are the Wardens of Irollan, Sylanna's chosen warriors. They are experts with the bow and the sword, wise in the ways of the forest, and able to commune with the beasts of the wild and the spirits of nature.
When an elf child is chosen to follow the path of the Ranger, he receives advanced training from the three main castes of elf society: the hunters, the blade dancer and the druids. When the child is deemed ready, he is sent into the deep forest, to find his totem spirit. When he comes back from this vision quest he has the power to shape-change into his totem, and his tribe recognizes him as a true Ranger.
Development[]
Rangers gain primary skills at these chances:
- Attack: 15%
- Defense: 45%
- Spell Power: 10%
- Knowledge: 30%
Skill probability[]
- 15%: Logistics, Luck
- 10%: Avenger, Defense, Enlightenment
- 8%: Leadership, Destructive Magic, Light Magic, Sorcery
- 6%: Attack
- Prior to patch 1.3, the probability for Attack skill is 2%.
- 2%: Dark Magic, Summoning Magic, War Machines
Notable rangers[]
Notes[]
- The Ranger class gains bonus from "Archer's Dream" artifact set: during combat, after performing an attack, the hero moves 30% backward along the ATB bar.
- Rangers have exclusive abilities:
- battle commander: from Leadership skill, which gives a permanent 2 Attack skill, and gives the Ranger a number of war dancers to his army, one time only.
- elven luck: from Luck skill, which increases damage by 25% from lucky strikes.
- imbue ballista: from War Machines skill, which inflicts a spell the Ranger has chosen with imbue arrow ability.
- know your enemy: from Enlightenment skill, which increases the chance of scoring a critical hit through Avenger ability by 10%.
- nature's wrath: from Attack skill, which increases maximum damage from Sylvan units by 1.
- Compared to the expansion pack, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, the Ranger class loses the Luck ability, Dead Man's curse.