Dota 2 Build: Dota 2 – Anti Mage Build Guide

MANA COST: 60 / 60 / 60 / 60COOLDOWN: 12.0 / 9.0 / 7.0 / 5.0
ABILITY: TARGET POINTRANGE: 1000 / 1075 / 1150 / 1150

This skill is the best skill of Anti-Mage. With this skill you can go-in and go-out of combat easily so you can escape from death. You will farm easily with this skill because you can move faster, just dont walk, always use this skill for transportation, this will makes you earn gold faster than anyone else.

3.  Spell Shield

ABILITY: PASSIVERESISTANCE: 26% / 34% / 42% / 50%

4. Mana Void

MANA COST: 125 / 200 / 275COOLDOWN: 70.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNITAFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL

DAMAGE: 0.6 / 0.85 / 1.1
STUN DURATION: 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3RADIUS: 300

SKILLBUILD

Level 2: Stats
Level 3: Stats
Level 4: Spell Shield
Level 5: Mana Break

Level 6: Mana Void

Level 7: Blink
Level 8: Blink
Level 9 : Blink
Level 10:Spell Shield

Level 11: Mana Void

Level 12: Mana Break
Level 13: Spell Shield
Level 14: Mana Break
Level 15: Spell Shield

Level 16: Mana Void

Level 17: Mana Break
Level 18-25: Stats

Why Blink on level 1? You should prepare if someone wants to get firstblood by killing you.

Why Stats on early game? Anti mage is squishy in early game, he needs more HP

Why Blink should be maxed first? To faster your farms, you need high mobility, so you can move from one camp to another camp/lane faster.

STRATEGY
Early Game
As an Anti Mage, you should try to lasthit every creeps. Denying is not your priority. The more you farm, the faster you will get your items, the faster you get your item, the stronger you are.

In an early game, Anti Mage is a squishy hero, so be careful of enemy’s hero. Don’t harass enemies because it will makes the enemy to attack you back. I am very recommend you to get Battlefury as fast as possible, because with this items you can farm faster.

Mid Game
Keep farming. This is your job. Change lane if there is an empty lane. You should also destroy jungle creeps, kill all creeps possible.

If you are already strong enough, I recommend you to kill the Ancient camps. It will gives you lots of golds.
And then don’t forget the big camps(centa,wildkin etc.)

Your priority in farming:

1. Lane
2. Ancient Camp
3. Big Camps

You must walk using blink  to make your movement become faster. If you can outfarm enemy heroes in this stage, late game will be easy for you.

Or you can participate in a teamfight once in a while. Use your Mana Break to damaging the enemy. And then after enemy’s mana is already very low, you can use your mana Void to get the kill.

Or if your team decided to push, you can right click the tower. You will have a nice bounty from the towers.

Late Game
This is the stage  you will contribute the most because as a carry, it is a stage where you reached the high damages. I assume here you already get Manta Style, so you can kill enemies faster.

Here is your strategy as an Anti Mage:
1. Blink into the teamfight
2. Rigt click enemy heroes. (Squishy hero first)
3. Use Manta Style if you have one
4. Use (Bkb if you have one)
5. If there is a hero with High Mana pool and his mana is already very low, Mana Void him
6. Blink-out in your Hp is low
7. Blink out to an area which enemy can’t walk there without take a detour

That’s it, you just should farm as fast as you can and in a late game teamfight, jumps in, right click and kill all the enemy.

And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team’s main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEM BUILD
1. Quelling Blade
Cost: 225

Active: Destroy Tree – Destroy a target tree.
Passive: Quell – Gives bonus attack damage against non-hero units, depending on the type of hero you are.   MELEE BONUS: 32%     RANGED BONUS: 12%      Cooldown: 5

2. Quelling Blade
Cost: 550
Recipe: Stout Shield + 2 x Slippers of Agility

Passive: Damage Block – Blocks physical attack damage, depending on the type of hero you are. Poor Man’s Shield will always block attacks from enemy Heroes, but has a chance to block damage from creeps. MELEE BLOCK: 20
RANGED BLOCK: 10
BLOCK CHANCE: 60%
+ 6 Agility 

2. Battlefury
Total Cost: 225
Recipe: Broadsword, Claymore, Preserverance

Passive: Cleave – Deals a percent of attack damage in a 225 AoE around the target. Does not work on ranged heroes.
Cleave damage on non-primary targets is not reduced by armor values. + 65 Damage
+ 6 HP Regeneration     + 150% Mana Regeneration      CLEAVE DAMAGE: 35%

3. Power Threads
Total cost: 1400
Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of Elvenskin

Active: Switch Attribute – Changes selected attribute between Strength, Agility and Intelligence.
Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 55 Movement Speed
+ 8 Selected Attribute   + 30 Attack Speed

4. Manta Style
Total cost:: 5050
Recipe: Yasha, Ultimate Orb, Recipe

Active: Mirror Image – Creates 2 illusions of your hero that last 20 seconds.
Melee illusions deal 33% damage and take 250% bonus damage. Ranged illusions deal 28% damage and take 300% bonus damage.
Percentage based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack. + 10 Strength
+ 26 Agility    + 10 Intelligence    + 15 Attack Speed    + 10% Movement Speed
Manacost:165    Cooldown:50

5. Black King Bar
Total cost:: 3900
Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, Recipe

 Active: Avatar – Grants magic immunity. Duration and cooldown decrease with each use. Some Ultimate abilities are able to disable through Black King Bar. + 10 Strength
+ 24 Damage     DURATION: 10/9/8/7/6/5     Cooldown: 80

Cost: 225Why Quelling Blade? Makes you easier to lasthit every creeps.Cost: 550Recipe: Stout Shield + 2 x Slippers of AgilityWhy Poor man’s Shield? This item is a must item to tank the creep’s damages on early game. Also helps you in jungling. With the additional damage, it will makes you easier to lasthit every creeps.Total Cost: 225Recipe: Broadsword, Claymore, PreserveranceWhy Battlefury? Makes you faster in farming creeps. Makes your gold flow faster. Your job is to farms, this item will really help. It is recommended to buy the Ring of Health first to helps you survive from enemy’s damage.Total cost: 1400Recipe: Gloves of Haste, Boots of Speed, Belt og Giant Strength/ Robe of Magi/ Band of ElvenskinWhy Power Threads? It will gives you attack speed, thats what you need, attack speed and damages. Power threads is laso a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.Total cost:: 5050Recipe: Yasha, Ultimate Orb, RecipeWhy Manta Style? Creates 2 illusion of yourself to attack the enemy. Your illusion also get mana break the same as you, so the enemy will feel more damage and faster mana drain. This items also provide a defense mechanism for you because your opponent will be confused and don’t know whose to attack, they should guess where is the real you.Total cost:: 3900Recipe: Ogre Axe, Mithril Hammer, RecipeWhy Black King Bar? It gives you survivability in a teamfight because you will get magic immunity during teamfight.

6. Heart of Tarrasque
Total cost: 5500
Recipe: Reaver + Vitality Booster

Passive: Health Regeneration – Restores a percentage of max health per second.
This ability is disabled if damage is taken from an enemy Hero or Roshan within the last 4 seconds if your hero is melee or 6 seconds if your hero is ranged.
+ 40 Strength   + 300 Health     HEALTH RESTORED: 2%    Cooldown:

7. Butterfly
Total cost:: 6000
Recipe: Talisman of Evasion, Eaglesong, Quarterstaff

+ 30 Agility            + 30 Damage
+ 35% Evasion      + 30 Attack Speed

It gives you more damage and more attack speed that makes you become much more powerful. It also gives evasion to helps you survive in teamfight.

8. Daedlus
Total cost:: 5750
Recipe: Crystalis + Demon Edge + Recipe

APassive: Critical Strike – Grants a chance to deal critical damage on an attack.
+ 81 Damage
CRITICAL CHANCE: 25%        CRITICAL DAMAGE: 270%

You can buy any damage items you want to increase your DPS like Mkb or Basher.

Best Partner:
Support heroes.
They are become good friends for you because they have disables to make you easier to hits the enemies.
1. Shadow Shaman

2. Crystal Maiden

3. Mana Burner is a very good friends for you because they helps you drain enemy’s mana to prepare for your ultimate. Your friends who bring diffusal is also good friends for you.
Example: Ezalor / KOTL

Lion and Nyx is also good friends too.

Shadow shaman is a very good supportive hero. he have 2 disables, 3 with wards trap (lock someone inside his wards). A perfect partner for you.She have 1 disable and 1 slower, also gives you Brilliance aura to makes you always can use Blink on early game.is a very good friends for you because they helps you drain enemy’s mana to prepare for your ultimate. Your friends who bring diffusal is also good friends for you.KOTL have mana drain to helps you drain enemy’s mana for your ulty.is also good friends too.

Increases Anti-Mage’s resistance to magic damage.Very good defensive skill for a hero. This skill reduce magical damage you received. This will helps you survive in a teamfight. Nice skill to fight against heroes whose focused on magical damage like Zeus, Tinker, Lina, Lion etc.4.For each point of mana missing by the target unit, damage is dealt to it and surrounding enemies. The main target is also mini-stunned.This skill is skill you should use if your enemy’s mana is low, and the more max mana he have the better. You can nukes several heroes with this skill and kill them together. This skill is situational, don’t use if your enemy’s mana is still full because it will be no effect on him. Wait until teamfight is almost over and your enemys mana is already empty then use it. You can use your Mana Break first to burn enemy’s mana, and then use this skill to nuke him until death.Level 1: BlinkLevel 2: StatsLevel 3: StatsLevel 4: Spell ShieldLevel 5: Mana BreakLevel 7: BlinkLevel 8: BlinkLevel 9 : BlinkLevel 10:Spell ShieldLevel 12: Mana BreakLevel 13: Spell ShieldLevel 14: Mana BreakLevel 15: Spell ShieldLevel 17: Mana BreakLevel 18-25: StatsWhy Blink on level 1? You should prepare if someone wants to get firstblood by killing you.Why Stats on early game? Anti mage is squishy in early game, he needs more HPWhy Blink should be maxed first? To faster your farms, you need high mobility, so you can move from one camp to another camp/lane faster.As an Anti Mage, you should try to lasthit every creeps. Denying is not your priority. The more you farm, the faster you will get your items, the faster you get your item, the stronger you are.In an early game, Anti Mage is a squishy hero, so be careful of enemy’s hero. Don’t harass enemies because it will makes the enemy to attack you back. I am very recommend you to get Battlefury as fast as possible, because with this items you can farm faster.Keep farming. This is your job. Change lane if there is an empty lane. You should also destroy jungle creeps, kill all creeps possible.If you are already strong enough, I recommend you to kill the Ancient camps. It will gives you lots of golds.And then don’t forget the big camps(centa,wildkin etc.)Your priority in farming:1. Lane2. Ancient Camp3. Big CampsYou must walk using blink to make your movement become faster. If you can outfarm enemy heroes in this stage, late game will be easy for you.Or you can participate in a teamfight once in a while. Use your Mana Break to damaging the enemy. And then after enemy’s mana is already very low, you can use your mana Void to get the kill.Or if your team decided to push, you can right click the tower. You will have a nice bounty from the towers.This is the stage you will contribute the most because as a carry, it is a stage where you reached the high damages. I assume here you already get Manta Style, so you can kill enemies faster.Here is your strategy as an Anti Mage:1. Blink into the teamfight2. Rigt click enemy heroes. (Squishy hero first)3. Use Manta Style if you have one4. Use (Bkb if you have one)5. If there is a hero with High Mana pool and his mana is already very low, Mana Void him6. Blink-out in your Hp is low7. Blink out to an area which enemy can’t walk there without take a detourThat’s it, you just should farm as fast as you can and in a late game teamfight, jumps in, right click and kill all the enemy.And if your team won the teamfight, you have two options:1. You can get the Aegis for your team’s main hero or2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!Total cost: 5500Recipe: Reaver + Vitality BoosterWhy Heart of Tarrasque? Makes you tanky. Tarrasque is an alternative of BKB. You can choose this item or Black King Bar, if the enemys is more physical attack, I recommend you to buy this. Nice for survivability.Total cost:: 6000Recipe: Talisman of Evasion, Eaglesong, QuarterstaffWhy Butterfly?It gives you more damage and more attack speed that makes you become much more powerful. It also gives evasion to helps you survive in teamfight.Total cost:: 5750Recipe: Crystalis + Demon Edge + RecipeWhy Daedlus? With this, you become a true moster. This is because you have a very high damage and this item will multiply your damage so everyone can’t match you anymore.You can buy any damage items you want to increase your DPS like Mkb or Basher.Support heroes.They are become good friends for you because they have disables to make you easier to hits the enemies.