Counter Picking.

dont forget the evasion, that screws over lifestealer.

to counter PA i pick orge magi. high armor and GET BURSTED.

I raise lifestealer again to counter ogre magi :3.

Hmm, as Weaver is taken, maybe Broodmother? Or is she a cheating hero too? Let's make a list then maybe?

If she is not allowed, then I would go with Phantom Lancer... but his counters are obvious so let's go with Beastmaster, stun and slow thru BKB will make him cry evritiem.

Lets set some new rules :

• Items are not allowed because some of the item combination will screw some hero badly and also causes a lot of arguments and confusions, and we are talking about hero-hero counter. ( e.g. Drow Ranger can kite Slardar and kill him in a distance. If there is no items restriction, Slardar will rape her hard with Blink Dagger, which is unfair )
• Same counter for a specific hero cannot be mentioned twice. ( e.g. Weaver has been mentioned to be a counter to Lifestealer, so Weaver cannot be mentioned again when someone answered " Lifestealer" )

Lone Druid gonna 2v1 your Beastmaster

So it's an epic battle between old guy beast tamer vs he-looks-like-Ironman beast tamer?

Eat some 1337 crits ye olde man!
- Phantom Assassin

Techies be like "BOOM" and you don't get the kill and die after blinking to them :D.



Also, there should be 1 more rule to this 'game' - Doom is banned, since doom pretty much counters everyone lol

I think we should make it all more diverse, like:
Broodmother counters 80% of heroes in any lane, but useless anywhere else.
Chaos Knight is the strongest 1 vs 1 carry if not facing invisers.
Skywrath Mage destroys almost all casters.

Et cetera. So we can't ban them all, but I think we should search for less obvious counters. Like Pa is nighmare for most rightclickers without B(M)KB, but it's just meh.

For Techies I pick:
Obvious Nature Prophet.
Obvious Zeus.
And, suprise mo***a! Shadow Demon to slow/hide him and lot let him get suicide done, and illusions to scout the mines.

Nyx Assassin instakills your Techies and evades the suicide attempt with Spiked Carapace (though it should still count as a deny). And he can also damage Techies from the other side of the map by walking on mines when the Carapace is active.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

I choose Mirana to fight Shadow Demon as she can get rid of the illusions with Starstorm and, if SD Disrupts himself, get an easy five second stun with the Sacred Arrow.