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Anti-mage -Dota Guide

Anti Mage

Str: 20 + 1.2

Agi: 22 + 2.8 (Primary attribute)

Int: 15 + 1.8


ADVANCED STATISTICS


Affiliation:Sentinel
Attack Animation:0.3 / 0.6
Damage:49 - 53
Casting Animation:0.3 / 0.47
Armor:2.08
Base Attack Time:1.45
Movespeed:315
Missile Speed:Instant
Attack Range:128 (melee)
Sight Range:1800 / 800


HERO INTRODUCTION

Magina wasn't nicknamed the Anti-Mage for no reason. His passive Mana Break attack allows him to deal extra damage and cripple a caster's mana supply. With a great understanding of the spiritual realm, he becomes more resilient against magical attacks using his Spell Shield, along with the ability to Blink across short distances for superb maneuverability. Seeking out weary casters, he uses Mana Void to inflict immense damage for high amounts of missing mana. Although he will be at a natural disadvantage to casters early on, as his powers grow, there is none better suited for bringing the greatest of spell casters down to their knees.

BACKGROUNDSTORY

Twin sons to the great Prophet, Terrorblade and Magina were blessed with divine powers: Terrorblade granted with an unnatural affinity with life forces; Magina gifted with energy manipulation. Magina's eventual overexposure to the magics gradually augmented his elemental resistances and bestowed him the unique ability to move faster than light itself. Now, broken by Terrorblade's fall to the dark side, Magina answers the Sentinel's call in a desperate bid to redeem his brother. Every bitter strike turns the Scourge's evil essences upon themselves, culminating in a finale that forces his enemy to awaken to the void within and spontaneously implode.

PROS & CONS

Pros
+ Lowest B.A.T in the game, meaning an excellent last-hitting animation and an excellent innate attack speed.
+ Second best MS of the game - 315 - second only to Chaos Knight's 325.
+ Huge mobility, and the best escape mechanism of the game: Blink.
+ Good damage, excellent with Mana break.
+ Good lane control with Mana Break.
+ Casters are pure food with Mana Break and Mana Void.
+ Principal counter to Medusa, the arguably best tank-carry of the game.
+ Nukes are nothing to magina thanks to Spell Shield.

Cons
- Third lowest health in the game. Second least strength gain (after slark) in the list of meele heroes
- Silence completly screws his mobility and escape tool
- Rather weak mid game, where the most important fights occur
- Easily outcarried by real carries ala Void, Destroyer, troll and Mortred etc
- No farming tool
- Situational pick which is countered on armor-based lineups(think of Slardar, Dazzle, Venge, Tide and Lanaya)
- He is blind.




SKILLS



Mana Break:

 Each attack burns mana based on skill level.

Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A
Casting Range: N/A
Area of Effect: N/A
Duration: N/A
Allowed Targets: Enemy units with mana pool
Effects: Burns 16/32/48/64 mana per hit.


Notes:-
• Damage type: normal
• Deals 0.6 damage per point of mana burnt.
• Mana Burn is blocked by magic immunity.
• This skill is an Orb Effect.
• You can lifeleech the damage dealt by this skill with a Lifesteal aura.




Blink:

Short distance teleportation that allows one to move in and out of combat.

Mana Cost: 60
Cooldown: 12/9/7/5
Casting Range: Global
Area of Effect: N/A
Duration: N/A
Allowed Targets: N/A
Effects: 200 - 1000/1075/1150 Range Teleportation

Notes:-
• If you used Blink to teleport to a distance over the maximum range, you'll be teleported 4/5 of the maximum range instead.
• You can use Blink to dodge incoming projectiles.
• Blink has a 0.4 seconds teleportation delay.




Spell Shield:

Magina learns to protect himself with an anti-magic shield. Increases his resistance to magic damage

Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A
Casting Range: N/A
Area of Effect: N/A
Duration: N/A
Allowed Targets: Self
Effects: Reduces magic damage by 10/20/30/40%

Notes:-
• Stacks with spell resistance items.




Mana Void:

Creates a powerful void in an enemy unit caused by a lack of mana. For each mana point missing, the unit takes damage.

Mana Cost: 125/200/275
Cooldown: 120/100/80
Casting Range: 600
Area of Effect: 325
Duration: 0.1/0.2/0.3
Allowed Targets: Enemy units with mana pool
Effects: Deals 0.6/0.85/1.1 damage per mana point missing

Notes:-
• Damage type: magical
• Stuns target for a short while.
• Damage is calculated based on the primary target's mana, but applied to all enemies within the AoE.
• Stun works on magic immune units.

Skill look

SKILL BUILDS

1. Blink2. Mana Break
3. Mana Break/Blink
4. Blink/Mana Break
5. Mana Break/Blink
6. Mana Void
7. Mana Break/Blink
8. Blink/Mana Break
9. Blink/Mana Break
10. Spell Shield
11. Mana Void
12. Spell Shield
13. Spell Shield
14. Spell Shield
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16. Mana Void
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Gameplay
Just farm ,farm and farm. You will usually come out to kill at around mid to late game if there's a tofu intelligence hero like tormented soul. You can participate in ganks but avoid dying. So mostly just avoid being harrased and farm. You can start coming out to kill when you get your basher,which is around level 17 or so. I usually take top or bottom lane,hopefully with a ranged hero as my partner.

Factors to keep in mind when playing magina+ remeber the title of this guide. Quicly Now, what ever you are onto, be quick. you cannot afford to be lazy. killing, ganking or chasing. be on your toes. If you notice hard, magina even runs on his toes
+ You need to have a good control on mouse and keyboard.
+ never underestimate break, its damage early to mid game is exceptional
+ your main skill is break, break is on every attack so give him IAS.
+ glass canon, he is very fragile, and some times one stun is all that is needed for the other team to bring you down
+ play cleverly, early use blink to either last hit an enemy or escape, dnt spam it as it has a high cool down early on
+ if you are facing spell casters or spammers, having level one blink is enough and max your shield aftr maxing break.
+know your enemies better
+ if you are double minded to go for attack speed, raw damage or crits, go for attack speed. 
+ save your ultimate never use it at the start of a battle , as it would keep the enemy double minded as they wont want to get rid of their mana on spells and get hit with your void
+ no matter he has a low HP, magina's presence in a team is threatning because of his abilities related to mana, casters would always be weary of casting spells in your presence. 
when you start a game, its pretty common to recieve a certificate of selfishness from team mate, you have no disable no tanking and not stun to help a friend in trouble. A friend in need is a friend indeed. but here you are the friend in need of farming, so the sacrifices made by your commarades should be apreciated :P and return the favour when you farm enough. 

Before moving forward you need to keep in mind, that the max potential for the anti mage is early to mid game, very late game his main skill the mana burn has little effect as enemy heroes are made and they have ample items, if you cannot utilize the early to mid game period, anti is no good. he is NOT a carry like mortred or troll. u need to be in the battle zone since early on to make up your items, NEVER EVER EVER waste his early and mid game potential.

Items
1.vladmir's offering
2.battlefury
3.mantastyle
4.power treads
5.cranium basher
6.butterfly 

Reasons for my item buildwhen you on your mantastyle, people don't know who to hex/stun. Plus you burn 192 when the all images(including you) hit the enemy,and usually all my images do at least 3 hits and the mana burn that it causes is 576,so mantastyle is very good against intelligence heroes.

 i make it because it does not interfere with magina's mana burn,gives a little bit of health regeneration as well as mana regeneration to help you survive during early game and a damage and armor aura,making your damage higher and you harder to kill because of armor bonus

battlefury gives you even more health regeneration and mana regeneration.not only that,it also gives you damage and the ability for your attacks to splash. Battlefury helps you farm easier and survive longer.

it highers your attackspeed,making you able to bash more.and most abviously,it highers your movement speed.

allows you to bash,giving you a disble,which magina does not have,unless you cound his ulti which does a mini stun.

Enemies miss when they hit you,u have higher attackspeed, again making you able to bash more

Item Build
before i start i would like to say that since magina is a very late hero,you shouldn't come out to kill until you a reasonably late time in the game.well,it also kinda depends on how fat you are and how thin the enemy is. 

Starting++

Core Items

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LATE GAME

Luxury itemsUnfortunately, you only have one slot for a luxury item,so choose wisely

 Much more bashing, more damage and the enemy might actually miss when they hit you.quite a good item for magina.

A heart is a quite good item on him since he can blink out of battle for great regeneration. Just so i don't have to give a copyright fee ,that line was said by Lycan.lol

 gives great damage,meaning easier kills

.with this,you become PA,Troll and Magina. The images can do criticals, but since it only does 33%of your damage,the criticals will be lower than yours,say...by 1/3

.ah,yes.the item to ensure complete ownage on one condition.die and you give the enemy a chance to do t you what you did to them.

Optional items

,get this if you are on a useless team that does not or are not strong enough to def or in 1v1 match with all lanes open.

,get this if there are many nukers/hex-ers/stunners.

 get this under the same conditions as the one in BKB,you can get either one or if a BKB is not enough,meaning you get stunned/hex-ed before you can on your BKB.

,this is more for against nukers like zeus, lich or heroes that do high magical damage but have no stun because it makes you so immune against spells your like a rock versus an egg. 

 buy this when you are facing PA(phantom assassin).

You can get this if you're facing enemies that are more of a tanker than you,so you get phase boots for extra damage ,movement speed and armor,so it should be easier to kill them.but i prefer power treads because you can change its attribute to get more mana to use a skill,life to survive or agility to be able to bash more.

Rejected items

Big NO!!some people buy this, saying "but he's like tofu!!!!!"still ,i m sorry,no,your facing too much money on this when you can get 7hp per second regeneration from your battlefury and vladmir's offering,and that's good enough.

,1.1damage for each point of mana loss is good enough.

Many,MANY people buy this for magina,but i feel it loses it's usefulness as you enter late game,and you could spend your money buying something that will last in it's usefulness until late game.so unless you can farm at godlike speed which is until you can buy this before mid game,sell it before late game and still get all your items before it's too late,then don't buy this.

my bro's friend once bought this for magina. we were like WTF ARE YOU DOING???!!! he just said,it's the perfect item for magina, gives you lifesteal, damage,hp regeneration and strength at late game when you get a satanic..=.=""

,we introduced that friend to the basher,he was amazed,so much so he bought this item.this time his excuse was that it added attack speed,making magina bash more,me and my bro decided that we had to introduce him to another factor of dota. "Orb effect".
:some people make this because they say magina doesn't have enough mana,still:NO!!!

, i heard this used to be very popular,then the price of it went up,but still i see some people buying this.even though they shouldn't,the price for hex is too high now,so hex wastes too much money.then some people say they buy it too solve magina's mana shortage problem.well,he has 175% from vladmir's offering and battlefury,so again,no

 many people say that S n Y is not really an orb effect item,so it wouldn't interfere with magina's manabreak,but often times,the maim from the S n Y is actually working,you just don't realize this.next time you buy SnY or just Sange,look at the enemy when you're hitting him/her,it might not happen at first,but you will see some blood squirting out of the enemy(kinda like bloodseeker's rupture),which slows them for 4 seconds.

Allies & EnemiesAlliesmagina can be allies with almost anyone,but there are a special few that i 'd like to point out
.keeper of the light has a skill much like bloodseeker's ulti(rupture) only it doesn't damages you,it's called mana leak,it makes your enemy leak mana as they move(you see where i'm going with this?)this skill is a very good combo with magina's ulti.

you move,you die.you don't move.....well,you still die

hex-ers
, and  because they can't move or cast any spells.

stunners,,etc. same advantages as with hex-ers.

slowers,, etc. you can catch up to them much easier and start the killling faster.

grabbers and  the guy's is stuck!! waiting there for you to kill him,and you will

Enemiesmagina doesn't have many enemies that can prove treat towards him because he can buy a linken for hex-ers and a BKB for stunners.but in early game,almost everyone is a dangerous enemy,so becareful as you might have your BKB/linken sphere and items then

Super slowers enchanttress isn't really a problem until you hit her,so you can either 1.bash her the second you hit her.2.just try to fight with her even if you do not bash and keep blinking to keep up.3.wait until someone stuns/hexes her then you go for the kill.
viper is actually killable,it's just that if your life was low enough,the ulti could still kill you after you blink away.as for the slow, you canbuy a linken to stop viper's ulti,but viper could turn off the linken buy simply doing poiosn attack,so no linken,just kill him quickly.

Bashersthis is one of the most dangerous categories,they can bash you first so you don't bash them:
any agility hero with a fast attack speed and a cranium basher or a natural bashing ability

FV might be more dangerous than troll in this situation because he can chronosphere you and bash you first.one of the only things you can do against him is kill him when you know his chronosphere has been used up,kill him before his has a chance to do chronosphere or hope he doesn't bash you,>.<

still dangerous,alothugh what you can do is surprise him by blinking behind him and bashing him before he turns around(if your really fat) or you on your mantastlye and confuse him,he'll most likely attack an image,and then you will bash him.
ah,yes..PA.people will often pump up PA's damage and agility,i m gonna guess you know that punping up your agility will also higher your attackspeed,which people do to make PA's criticals come out more.that's when the trouble starts,people go:hm..PA now has high attackspeed,why don't i get her a cranium basher.then she's really dangerous,one of the only things you can do is on your mantastyle and hope that the images confuse her and you bash her 1st(more or less the same tactics as when your fighting troll,you can also use the other technique mentioned earlier for fighting troll)

sladar is quite dangerous during early game because of the amplify damage skill,which amplifies your damage(duh)making his stun much more painful and tracks you,plus his srint makes him move super fast,so he might be able to catch you if your blink is not fully uped meaning that you have a longer cooldown.but he's isn't much danger to you during late game because unless he bought 6 hyperstones to higher his attack speed and make him bash more,your gonna bash him 1st and in turn kill him.