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Overall, pretty decent guide.
dynasty987,
In a previous comment, I said this:
"As far as the
Quoting myself again, "By the way, I put this guide up here because I find this to be how I most effectively play, I'm sure there are several Battlefury
Manta gives better stats than Mjollnir, not quite sure what you're thinking. Also every time mjollnir procs you don't get mana break so it doesn't even end up being that useful apart from for farming, but you already have the battlefury for that.
I don't want to be a **** here... but I have to question your skill level if you claim this build works best for you. You end up being stupidly squishy with absolutely no health boosting items. The attack speed from mjollnir is so inferior to an actual agility item like a butterfly.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to downvote this quite simply because it's not a sensible way to play anti-mage. Guides are intended for people who are relatively new to a hero, and telling someone who is new to anti-mage not to get a single HP boosting item is ridiculous. You have no survivability at all.
A level 25 antimage with your suggested item progression has 1594 HP. That is terrible given that carries lategame can often crit for 800.
Also, attack speed items on antimage are ****. They just are. He has a fast base attack time anyway, and gets good agility items. I just tested it, a 6 slotted antimage the way I would build him (bf, bfly, abyssal, BoTs, heart and manta) hits for 413, 0.45s/att = 917dps. Replace manta with mjolnir and you get 410 damage at 0.40s/attack = 1025dps, BUT you don't have the illusion mana drain/damage from that, or the ability to remove silences, or the splitpush manta gives. It is just worse, and ends up with a lower DPS output, as well as a far far inferior mana burn potential, meaning the chance of getting a good ult of is much lower.
Honestly, the reason people build antimage the way they do is because it's the best way to do it. You are free to make an inferior guide but don't be surprised when people tell you its bad and downvote it.
In a previous comment, I said this:
"As far as the
Quoting myself again, "By the way, I put this guide up here because I find this to be how I most effectively play, I'm sure there are several Battlefury
Usually I go through stats in leveling instead of items (it saves money/slot space), as a damage reduction on every hit from heroes is really close to the stats
Your recommended item progression is quite frankly, bad. You have no strength items apart from power treads. You have no health, no magic immunity and no manta to remove debuffs. You will not survive a teamfight.
Mjolnir is just not a good item for 90% of agility carries. You don't need the attack speed increase that much, you are SO much better off with agility items which give damage, attack speed and armor. You also need HP. Antimage has a terrible strength growth. Manta into BKB/Heart is standard for a reason.
As far as the
In the Offensive and Survivablity, they aren't in a specific order just listed, and not all intended to be used together. I'll change the titles to reflect it. Also I'll add in more items because I only put five in each one.
By the way, I put this guide up here because I find this to be how I most effectively play, I'm sure there are several Battlefury