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They who live by the wand shall die by my blade!

August 21, 2012 by Sallomi
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Build 1: Hard Carry Anti mage

DotA2 Hero: Anti-Mage


Anti-Mage

Offense

Damage 49-53

Defense

Armor 2.08

Other

Movement Speed 315

Attributes

Strength 50
Agility 92
Intelligence 60

Basic Stats

Health 1442
Mana 1014

Purchase Order

Starting Items

Early Game

Mid game

late game

Situational

To avoid



Hero Skills

Mana Break

2 12 13 14

Blink

1 4 5 7

Spell Shield

3 15 17 18

Mana Void

6 11 16

Stats

8 9 10 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


They who live by the wand shall die by my blade!

Sallomi
August 21, 2012

1.Introduction
2.Skill build
3.Item build
4.Gameplay

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Introduction

Hello, this is my guide for Anti-Mage, I've played anti mage for probs +100games and i've used many different builds and i find that this general build will almost always work, read on for explanations.

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Skill build

I used to max mana break for early game harass with 1 point in spell shield (lv 4) and maxing blink 2nd, while this is great if your in a strong lane, it leaves anti mage incredibly weak in terms of str in the mid-game, so recently i've adopted whats known as the "Burning build" (popularised by DK Burning i think) which is getting 1 level in mana break and spell shield while maxing blink and getting stats afterwards. I've stated to start levelling mana break at lv 12, but i'd say its best to level it when you have gotten your battle-fury, whenever that may be, as stats are far more useful to anti mage than mana burn pre-manta style.

Spell shield scales poorly but is fantastic at lv 1(basicly doubles magic resistance) so I get the 1 early level (usually 2 but sometimes three if in a trilane) and just leave spell shild at that till fairly late game (usually between lvs 17-20)

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Item build

As Anti-mage, I always get poor mans shield insted of vanguard, it basicly gives 1 armor and the damage block, and for a hero like anti mage, just that 1 point of armor can literally save your life, and its a much cheaper option than vanguard (difficult to get a vanguard if building a battlefury). So unless farming very well i get boots of speed (or ring of health first) poormans, treds, then finish battlefury, from here you farm up a manta, anti mage is almost useless at this stage before getting manta style.

I go ulti orb first insted of Yasha as the extra hp is very useful as all your doing is farming at this stage as you still can't fight until the finished manta.

After manta style, you will have to go heart after this as your biggest problem is HP as you skipped vangard, heart+spell shield=TANK

After this its between two options, completely situational, butterfly, abyssal blade, or BKB.

Abyssal if your team lacks stuns, or butterfly if your opponent has a hard carry (e.g drow morph void pa)

I'd say only get a BKB on this hero if your against a team that has lots of disable/is stacking sheep sticks, unless your getting completely chain stuned i'd recommend butterfly or abyssal instead, as bkb removes the illusion confusion and makes spell shield useless.

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Gameplay

>10mins

Just farm, unless you have a strong laning partner or are in a trilane, in that case just kill and don't forget to farm :P

>20mins

You should have a bfury by now, best thing to do is it jungle and split push towers while your team fights, honestly unless you can land an awsome ulti that catches 2 or 3, your useless in teamfights

>30mins or at manta style

try and create a good balance between fighting and farming, you havn't reached near full potential yet, but you can now defiantly contribute.

40-60mins

Have fun carrying your team buddy!

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by rayzorpenguin » August 22, 2012 2:47am | Report
ethereal is bad for am
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Hades4u » August 22, 2012 3:05am | Report
^

Also, Vanguard is a must not a situational, you need that health, regeneration and damage block, it's great for Anti-Mage.

Also, where's Skull Basher? That item is a must for him, after getting Vanguard and Manta Style, and later upgrading it into Abyssal Blade.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by StevenLK » August 22, 2012 3:26am | Report
Unless you are harassing a lot, mana break should not take priority over blink and spell shield. One point in it should be enough for early game since being survivable is much more important.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 22, 2012 4:29am | Report
vangard delays battlefury too much, thats why you get heart straight after the manta style, this build if for serious farming and not really even joining your team for as long as possible, i put the other less greedy one aswell in the 2nd build for me (vangard treds manta) i thought abysall covered skull basher, thats why i didn't put both, its redundent, i dunno why ethereal is there xD i'll remove it. Also, 2levels of blink early are generally fine and useually you want a strong lane when playing as anti mage.

Edit:Also, spell shield scales very poorly however lv 1 is definatly worth it iearly (such as phantom assassin's blur) and since you don't have a high hp pool leveling it over mana break is a pretty bad idea because if your keeping your foes on low mana, your far more likley to live over having another 26%magic resistance, obvouisly if your lane is very hard (which means you can't realy do this build, do build 2 insted) its better to get blink over mana break, but its still better than maxing spell shield.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Fishy » August 22, 2012 4:46am | Report
Normally i build both Vanguard and B-fury so health regen isn't a problem.In that case i would prefer Butterfly over the Heart as it isn't really needed.

Your skill build and items are a pretty solid guide so i'll +1 for that.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » August 22, 2012 10:24am | Report
ty fishy :) and go away lol***!
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Quote | PM | +Rep by TardRifle » August 30, 2012 5:06am | Report
Lol IT'S A LOL***
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Spock#262527 » September 1, 2012 7:10am | Report
You can not go Vangaurd first if you're getting a Bfury. The point of a Bfury is to get it nice and early and be able to farm insanely fast. Vangaurd -> Manta -> Basher is not a must, just a different build then the Bfury build.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Elemming » September 26, 2012 1:50am | Report
can you put some text on so people how have not played anti-mage before know what to do + so people know why you use the items you use

if you put the text on i think you could get to the top + i will give it + 1 :-)
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sallomi » September 28, 2012 12:05pm | Report
Elemming wrote:

can you put some text on so people how have not played anti-mage before know what to do + so people know why you use the items you use

if you put the text on i think you could get to the top + i will give it + 1 :-)



OK buddy, i've added text and even credited you for making me bothered enough to do it :D
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