Dota 2

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7.38c (Core) Carry | Mana Thirst / Mageban

By dotacoach.gg

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.
Whenever your teammates die consider cutting a wave behind the opponents or push out some other lane.

Main skill and item combo order: Blink => Abyssal Blade => Manta Style => Counterspell => Attack => Mana Void

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This guide was written by 9k MMR player TNTCN: https://skelly.gg/g/TNTCN

Find out more about Anti-Mage in our Heropedia: https://dotacoach.gg/heroes/anti-mage