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Anti-Mage Standard Item Build 2016

July 15, 2016 by BooM_ShAkAlAkA
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IGBAN | July 23, 2016 4:05am
Notes:
-As I can see it you are rushing Battle Fury which means stats in your points would be great as Anti-Mage lacks the survivability in lane and the damage to control the lane. Having no other items besides Poor Man's Shield and Power Treads means you are easy to gank.
- Monkey King Bar is not a CORE item. It's more of a situational against Butterfly-carries and against heroes who have a natural skill evasion on them.
- Monkey King Bar is not a CORE item. Abyssal Blade should take over its place as it is far much needed for a carry to have his/her own lockdown. Anti-Mage doesn't have one so it is definitely a core.
-Some people prefer in the late-game (In the later parts) to switch battle-fury over something else. No, you shouldn't sell it. Just place it in your stash or on the Flying Courier.
- Butterfly shouldn't be core. You wouldn't want to build it while the enemy carry is also building Monkey King Bar. It's a waste of value. Just. No.
-No mention of Black King Bar? I get that he is called Anti-Mage and has an innate skill called Spell Shield but that doesn't mean you won't get lockdowned. It's the worst thing to happen to ANYBODY. Black King Bar is situational still and deserves a place in one of those slots in times of need.
-The "key" to playing Anti-Mage right is not the item order. You can have it jumbled up in anyway you want (but preferably if you can farm that Battle Fury under 15 minutes go for it.). The actual key here is your TIMING window. You wouldn't be delighted to see an Anti-Mage get his Battle Fury 25 minutes into the game.
- Anti-Mage can participate early teamfights with Vanguard build and I think it deserves the special mention.
-You cannot 1v2 a lane. You can't 1v3 a lane. You can't play solo. Unless you are playing against a solo lane who doesn't harass you so much.
- Phase Boots is alright for those who are still new to carrying. (Newbies or Supports trying out carries).
-We don't switch Power Treads to STR. You almost always set it to Agility. Press hotkey for Power Treads twice for Blinking and press hotkey once again once you start hitting. You only switch to STR when you really need the clutch hp.
-Get Battle Fury under 15 minutes. If you can't, stop. Go for Manta Style or Skull Basher or Vanguard.
-You don't FARM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE with Anti-Mage. You farm as FAST AS POSSIBLE. The Blink- Battle Fury synergy works well because of how well Anti-Mage can clear the jungle. People used to go for Vlads on this dude until they found Battle Fury. Use your early item advantage to get an even higher early item advantage. Hopefully you'll get Manta Style after 3-4 minutes and then Skull Basher after 1-2 minutes.
-Late game, Anti-Mage's goal is to go around the enemy team and kill the supports. With blink it's very feasible.
-Friends and Enemies section is very dull. You might want to change that and reformat it. Have explanations and don't include "etc." without giving specifications.

That is all. Keep on making guides you'll learn sooner or later :)
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plaq (3) | July 16, 2016 8:06am
-wrong skillbuild. with battlefury rush you put some points in stats
-"your support should deny creeps" absolutely not, it's your job to maintain creep equillibrium. Only thing that your support can do about it is stack+pull when needed.
-you don't turn treads on str -_-. You switch to int before casting blink, then switch to agi. you don't need to have them on str cuz you have points in stats. ofc, you can switch them to str when needed.
-battlefury in 20min is really really really late and if I bought bf at 25min, I'm sure I would get 4 reports from teammates. Usual timer for battlefury is around 13-14 minutes which is easily obtainable if you do some jungle rotations and keep at least 6cs/min and manage not to die. At 25min you should have treads, pms, bf, manta nad basher
-no mention of alternative item build with vanguard first (it's very popular nowadays), no alternative or optional items such as BKB, vlads etc
-no basher/abyssal? it's core! Also you should add moonshard
-blink disjoints... so you can use it to evade projectiles such as wraith king stun/sven' stun etc etc
-no, you don't really want to use mana void on lion with his pathetic mana pool... you need some1 with huge mana pool for your ulti to be effective.
-Again, friends+foes section is only some heroes without explanation and whole guide doesn't contain much info. I suggest you to look into hot or well rated guides to get an idea how guide should look.
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