Anti Mage Mana Burn Underestimated

I find that in pub game, Anti Mages never harass during the early-mid game, focusing completely on farming.

This should not be so, because each time AM hits a hero, that hero loses mana. If you manage to get that hero's mp to 0, you basically silence him/her for a really long time.

Let's look at statistics. At level 7, a standard AM build would have Mana Break maxed, giving him 64
mana burn per attack. A standard hero would have between 300 and 600 mp at this point. This means that with 5 to 9 attacks, you could have the hero left with no mana. This is assuming the hero has full mana and does not cast any spells during the clash.

Basically, I think AM's mana burn attacks should be abused more often during the early-mid game.

I agree. AM players have to abuse the fact that heroes have little mana to begin with early game and that they have to ability to both deal more damage and shut down the enemy's ability to cast with continued harass. Its just kinda dangerous to do so. Unless its a melee hero you are trying to burn mana from, you could get caught out of position and take unnecessary damage when they still have mana. Maybe even die. Once you start burning mana though, you gain the upper hand.

I think its also important to point out that, although it can still do a load of damage and even leave a hero mana-less in late game, it looses its effectiveness compared to early game. Manta helps though :D

@StevenLK
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@daPhongster
Yeah, that's true, a hero without mana is kinda useless in early-mid game, but people keeps farming because it's easy, safe and sure. If you go for a kill, it can get away and you just wasted time, instead, you could farm 10 creeps in that time that count more than that kill.

But I believe playing hard carries is all about farming for the entire early-mid game, with some kills in between. Because once AM gets Manta and his other core items, he is just a beast.

Exactly, because if you farm for the majority of the early game, mid to late game you will be far better off and able to kill better/faster.

So I'm wondering why you would harass that often to lower the enemies mana. 5 hits is quite a a lot.

If the enemy has no mana, then they cannot cast spells, which means it will be safer for you.

I'm think to harass people like Tidehunter or Earthshaker with tiny mana pools and devestating stuns.

I suppose. But it's better to farm instead of harassing, espicially since AM is melee. But that is a good idea, like if you are leaning with a Sven. Two auto attacks and he can't stun.

You shouldn't interact with the enemy heroes, you must focus on farm, because if you farm properly in early game, the rest of the game will be a piece of cake, because you will have a lot of items, and they won't. You can just grab kills easily and carry the game.