Anti-Mage Carry

Key Strategy

Key strategic elements to consider when playing Anti-Mage

• Keep your health high in lane to sustain. Buy consumables if necessary. Get cornucopia as soon as you can if playing a heavy harass lane.
• Hit opponents and burn their mana whenever you can, for example when they go for a last hit. Find openings to punish the enemy hero for contesting creeps.
• Play safe and acquire Battle Fury as early as possible. Your farming speed goes up exponentially with it by spam-blinking around jungle camps and waves.
• Look around the map while you are farming to dodge ganks but also to potentially snipe a kill with Mana Void. Look for low mana and low health enemy heroes.
• Plant wards for yourself in the area you are farming to secure vision for yourself and your team.
• Keep a lane pushed out to apply some pressure on the map. If you expect to be ganked, blink into trees and teleport to the opposite side of the map.
• Build items that give you tankiness such as Skadi and Abyssal Blade. These items provide good overall stats and durability with damage.
• Wehenever your teammates die consider cutting a wave behind the opponents or push out some other lane.

Main Combo

Main item and ability combo

Blink => Abyssal Blade => Manta Style => Counterspell => Attack => Mana Void

Further Information

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This guide was written by BaLLooN, a 7.8k DotA 2 player based in SEA with 17 years of experience: View Gamer Profile