Anti-Mage blink nerf

[OntologicalWeevil]

Anti-mage is able to teleport incredible distances across the map, avoiding ganks and farming up gold; but the problem lies in the teleport, he can escape whenever he wants, only if he isn't stunned or silenced. By the end game however, he has enough health to tank the inital attack, and still teleport away. His teleport could be changed to a blink dagger-esq ability. Only able to teleport if he hasn't been attacked in the alotted amount of time. Otherwise, as PyrionFlax pointed out in the Anti-Fun guide for Anti-Mage, it's insanely powerful.

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man...am is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring hero...no need to complain it even he fully farmed.....he still weak if other team carry is fat to

[Apocalypse]

DONT blame ME の投稿を引用：

man...am is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring hero...no need to complain it even he fully farmed.....he still weak if other team carry is fat to

Then I'm sorry, you might not have seen an Antimage done right.

[A Street Sweeper]

Finnegan O'Grady の投稿を引用：

Dr Taco Monster の投稿を引用：

You aren't 1v1ing him as ruptor mate. You lock him down so that your other heroes can kick his ass.

well...until he buys bkb...

That's the point though. AM doesn't want to buy BKB at all, sometimes you have to, but you certainly don't want it early. So he has no way to escape you until after he has completed treads + BF + Vlads + Manta and then completes the BKB. Otherwise he's altering his ideal build, which is what you want.

Even after he buys BKB, you are able to get aghs which then gives you a good chance to land a 7second silence on him where he can't even activate bkb.

Apocalypse の投稿を引用：

Dr Taco Monster の投稿を引用：

You aren't 1v1ing him as ruptor mate. You lock him down so that your other heroes can kick his ass. Ruptor is not able to kill many heroes by himself.

That would mean you will have to consider a lot of things, like
1. Antimage's team
2. Items on Antimage and the hero that is trying to kill Antimage.
3. The location of the fight

There are so many variables to consider here.
But it's always best not to pick an intelligence hero to counter Antimage. He is called Antimage for a reason. Besides you are suggesting disruptor just for the silence from his ultimate after glimpse. There are a lot of other ways you can silence Antimage, you don't have to pick disruptor for that.

1. Irrelevant to the discussion, of course he has a team. You could say this about Doom as well.
2. This is the crux. There is no item other than BKB that saves AM from this combo. Sure if Am is mad farmed and you all have brown boots you won't kill him, but this is true for anyone.
3. Well yes, again this is something that Ruptor actually gives you the advantage with since he chooses when to glimpse, so he effectively gets to choose where the fight takes place.

There are always variables to consider. Everything you've said applies to any counter to anything. The point with Disruptor is that he does 3 important things against AM
1. Is able to control his location through glimpse at huge range. Common for AM to blink when he sees an enemy, ruptor glimpse is fast so often he will counter this blink and bring AM right back. If there is vision of where AM blinks to it even has the range to bring him back from a max range blink.
2. Has a ground target silence. This means it can't be purged or blocked by Linkin's.
3. Has a lockdown with kinetic field. Meaning AM cannot walk anywhere.

It doesn't even matter that he's an int hero against AM (though I question how relevant this is since Skywrath, Storm and QoP are all good against AM until the late game), because his int gain isn't great and none of his spells are expensive, so AM has to be hitting you before void will do much.

Who else brings a kit like this? Disruptors whole point is shutting down high mobility heroes like AM SS and Ember.

[Timur]

I couldnt agree more, make it like blink dagger, cant blink while getting attacked. and also qop, but idk why its easier to stunlock qop than antimage, maybe her blink has more cast delay at some point than antimage?

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kyle の投稿を引用：

I couldnt agree more, make it like blink dagger, cant blink while getting attacked. and also qop, but idk why its easier to stunlock qop than antimage, maybe her blink has more cast delay at some point than antimage?

sorry Kyle but thats the charm of (blink) it says it allow u to go in and OUT the battle if it become like blink dagger then wheres the OUT word

whats next making life stealer rage like BKB ???

[A Street Sweeper]

hrooza の投稿を引用：

sorry Kyle but thats the charm of (blink) it says it allow u to go in and OUT the battle if it become like blink dagger then wheres the OUT word

whats next making life stealer rage like BKB ???

Yeah totally, give it diminishing returns and take the AS boost away. While where on it, doom is basically just a silence yeah? Why not just make it the same as orchid? I'm sure the hero will still be fine.

[76561198090771413]

Dr Taco Monster の投稿を引用：

hrooza の投稿を引用：

sorry Kyle but thats the charm of (blink) it says it allow u to go in and OUT the battle if it become like blink dagger then wheres the OUT word

whats next making life stealer rage like BKB ???

Yeah totally, give it diminishing returns and take the AS boost away. While where on it, doom is basically just a silence yeah? Why not just make it the same as orchid? I'm sure the hero will still be fine.

and maybe making targeting stun like CK and WK stuns go throgh BKB since they are like abyssal :D

[A Street Sweeper]

hrooza の投稿を引用：

Dr Taco Monster の投稿を引用：

Yeah totally, give it diminishing returns and take the AS boost away. While where on it, doom is basically just a silence yeah? Why not just make it the same as orchid? I'm sure the hero will still be fine.

and maybe making targeting stun like CK and WK stuns go throgh BKB since they are like abyssal :D

6.86 lock it in

[Apocalypse]

So, u want to take a squishy intelligence hero, against the killer of intelligence and magic damage heroes, the Antimage, and you plan to counter him relying on your ultimate? Good luck.


-Read that in Dark Knight Morgan Freeman voice.

[Munchlax.]

You don't need to nerf it. just counter pick it.

[Apocalypse]

Silencer might probably be the only intelligence hero , that has some counters against Antimage, generally speaking.

Even picking OD is a mighty risk against a good Antimage. Even though OD also deal pure damage.

[Multi]

Apocalypse の投稿を引用：

Silencer might probably be the only intelligence hero , that has some counters against Antimage, generally speaking.

Even picking OD is a mighty risk against a good Antimage. Even though OD also deal pure damage.

necrophos

[Apocalypse]

That is just not how counter picking works, relying on one skill, while everything else is against you. You may not want to depend on your team to do the heavy work for you.


You will have better luck countering Antimage with a Bloodseeker or Slark, than a Disruptor.

[Multi]

Apocalypse の投稿を引用：

That is just not how counter picking works, relying on one skill, while everything else is against you. You may not want to depend on your team to do the heavy work for you.


You will have better luck countering Antimage with a Bloodseeker or Slark, than a Disruptor.

or meepo

[Apocalypse]

Finnegan O'Grady の投稿を引用：

Apocalypse の投稿を引用：

Silencer might probably be the only intelligence hero , that has some counters against Antimage, generally speaking.

Even picking OD is a mighty risk against a good Antimage. Even though OD also deal pure damage.

necrophos

His ultimate is still magic damage, even with scepter, you cant kill Antimage when he drops below 50% health. Its like doing the Reaper's Scythe on Huskar with low health.

But the main problem with Necro is that he cant silence or stop Antimage from blinking away. Other than his ultimate of course.
Depending on the situation, if there are some 10 enemy or neutral creeps nearby, and necro gets a good last hit on the creeps during the fight, his Sadist aura might help a little. But it's still a tough one.