Magebane counters

[Godlike]

What are your most trusted hero picks and item builds to counter magebane lategame. Yes, assume you are unable to gank him very well between his babysitting team and blink away/lane swap.

[dreamex]

Mass disable.

[HONYoda]

Chronos and Sand Wraith, even Pred will do. You may not kill him, but you'll make him run away with his tail between his legs.

[calibur050]

silence helps too so he can't blink away like the wussy he is

[est]

bh. tempest's stun.

[Jeza]

Any proper hard carry. Rampage, Blood Hunter.

[sAnGy1]

deadwood w/ barbed armor

[powerofsk]

:elec::witc::succ::poll::pand:

[twincannon]

spamming the forums trying to convince people that flash is OP and needs to be nerfed? -.-

[Decency]

Puppet Master, Witch Slayer, Pollywog Priest.

Items: Hellflower, Sheepstick.

[TurpinoS]

PUPPET IS THE CORRRRRRRECT ANSWER

If chained correctly its 9.25 second of magebane not blinking.

[Deathbeproud]

Puppet is by far the best. Longest set of disables and if you got PM he is going to die early. Not to mention his magic armor won't help very much vs PM

[Comfortabull]

sheepstick/hellflower + any int disabler lol, by far one of the easiest carries to counter as long as your team is coordinated with their disables

[GrizmoBlust]

:vind: is a great character against :mage:.

I know it sounds crazy but with the right build, mage can't take his mana down at all.

[sAnGy1]

vind gets rape stomped vs magebane

vind gets rape stomped vs magebane

Exactly.

Vind has no bursting capabilities, no targeted silence, and no disable. His mana drain takes too long to be useful, and his low ms guarantees that magebane can easily whack him to death.

[sidsavierre]

puppet master and tempest's stun

[sukha]

Actually, Witch Slayer does epic against him. Make him a midget for 3.5 secs, drain all his mana. Do whatever...
If he has full mana then just stunlock and kill him.

[V1rginHunter]

witch hunter/ bh O:<

[ImWithStupi1]

Panda can keep him disabled for over 10 secs while doing sick amount of dmg.

[BlazingEagle]

Blood hunter or chain disables.

[Pandabro]

Puppet, hard counter to Magebane/valk or other blink heroes.

[awayish`]

you need fast pushers/strong lane harassers. a ganking team needs to have 2 stuns and burst damage.

disables sound nice, but magebane's strongest point is his opportunistic farming, so most likely by the time he comes out to fights and actually gets in range of your disables, he would be too farmed to stop. you won't have enough dps to take him down. if you do, the magebane would most likely farm some more until you can't stop him. magebane most likely wins, since he has 500 gold per minute.

[fagel]

puzzlebox would own magebane. any proper disable with puzzlebox fuks him over.

[Sushi]

not exactly a hero but defiler + sheepstick is awesome :]

[Sagat]

Puppet Master or hellflower. There's no other counters, really, except for Panda maybe.

[etspaceman]

Succubus as well, with her sleep/hold/smitten.

The key to really countering Magebane isn't in the hero though... it's simply not letting him farm. You usually want to go against him with a great harasser, like Plague Rider or Vindicator.

[deaque]

puppet master hopefully he doesnt get bkb.

[laserblade]

Basically grips and stuns makes Magebane useless.

[`aNarchy]

Any hero that can chain disable him.

[Bolaji]

Yeah, Tempest stun can get him so bad, ive fought so many magebane's who try to blink away, once i land a stun on the, it interrupts their blink and bam, my whole team ganks em. and i mean when you can do the "3-time" stun.

[Gumbie]

Electrician, hold.
Swift Blade, spin.
Pollywog, hold.
Swift Blade, Auto attack.

Early - mid game, this will work since Magebane is paper.

[sQuibba]

predator..

[ChaiN]

Blood hunters silence? Only downside is the massive attack damage increase.

[Osyris]

Panda or Witch Slayer IMO, either way it's chain disables/stuns.

Actually did it the other night as WS with Kuldra, magebane was even semi farmed (iron shield, steamboots, brutalizer, abyssal skull).

[Mizaru1]

next patch will counter him

Rampage with Elder's Parasite, BKB and insanitarious will counter him(as Rampage will counter just about everyone at that point). Deadwood with runed axe, behemoth's heart, demonic breastplate and riftshards counters him(and if done right he can farm all that too). Witch Slayer can counter him as long as he has ulti(heck, witch slayer is the counter to any carry in the game).

[Albane]

Blood hunters silence? Only downside is the massive attack damage increase.

If you don't go past level 1, the silence works really good for early ganks and keeping the magebane from ever getting his chance to be useful. Then later in the game, max it out to cast on yourself.

We kept a magebane 4 levels under our team, just by constantly owning him with the silence

[DaDrizzle]

:pupp::pupp::pupp::pupp::pupp:

[Vexew]

Bloodhunter can keep him from blinking permanently since the silence last longer than it's cooldown.

Doesn't really matter if he does some more damage when he's getting ganked 3v1 now does it.

[Albane]

Bloodhunter can keep him from blinking permanently since the silence last longer than it's cooldown.

Doesn't really matter if he does some more damage when he's getting ganked 3v1 now does it.


I found that stopping his blink for 6 seconds was plenty of time to kill him with 2 people, or even with a single blood hunter and hemorage.

[SirEvad]

Just as a point in case people try it, Witch Slayer can be good and bad. If Witch Slayer has a good game then you'll get him. However, past lvl 11 magebane and any other hero will cause witch to be a liability. It witch uses his mana and magebane gets 2-4 hits in his ult will wreck everyone there.

This is just from personal experience where witch can become useless in the game.

[Regomantis]

Any proper hard carry. Rampage, Blood Hunter.
You didn't say Blood hunter, did you?

[woxxey]

Second the Dark Lady. Huge dmg output in combination with silence and slow.
She might however have some trouble on the lane...

[woxxey]

Double post...

[Phrased]

Dark Lady. Slow + silence. Magebane cant run OR blink.