New meta Anti-mage item build (no Kappa)

Kody boy double posting to give double weight to his arguments.

Ok now coming to the point, Mjollnir/ Maelstrom might just be an alternative build for antimage. However, i have some qualms about it. What do you get from this item that will help you spam blink or be mobile for that matter? Nothing. You build vlads for that aura and some meagre regen ( about 3/sec if i am not wrong). You get a bottle, which gives you mana for 3.75 blinks. You also get tied down to taking runes which is never bad but for me it puts into aspect one thing that is totally different fro AFK farming. Runes, for me, are reserved for gankers. Sure you can pick up an ocassional regeneration rune but i wont think of buying bottle on AM. I tried mjollnir against unfair bots; i won just at the brink of loss.

I must put forth one more argument: Pros must have thought of something when they equipped battlefury of anti-mage, didnt they? they must have tried mjollnir!( i hope so at the very least). You might say that vlads is anyways good on AM but think of this: vlads +bfury> vlads+mjollnir on antimage in the early stages of the game where he aint fighting.

Now to alternative build suggestion, i think vanguard vlads into manta is a nice option. You can even ditch vanguard and just a buy a vitality booster for your heart of tarrasque
which you will build later ito the game. This build as you see lacks mana regen for him to spam blink. What it gives you however, is some fighting power as you are not that squishy with a vanguard and have enough attack speed and chasability with yasha(401ms) that you can catch up to any hero after strategically using your blink.

All your builds are workable and a skilful antimage will be able to fight just with vlads yasha and treads, i cant advise for new players or even myself to rush the builds that you talk of.

At these times, i reminisce why eye of skadi is a unique attack modifier. It would have worked wonders on him.