Venomancer counter and synergy picks

Spirit Vessel

An upgrade for Urn to reduce the health restoration of tanky heroes on the enemy team and kill them with the high damage from your spells and Plague Wards. Also makes you tanky and provides massive damage through stats as a universal hero.

Power Treads

A core Boots of Speed upgrade for the right click build with the Plague Carrier facet. Improves your mobility and damage output with attack speed and stats. Helps in both farming and lane control.

Hurricane Pike

A core item for the right click build with the Plague Carrier facet. Improves your mobility and attack range to right click enemy heroes from further away and get more value out of your Aghanim's Scepter. Works well to put some distance between you and an enemy hero and hit them with infinite range for a short period with the Hurricane Thrust active.

Manta Style

A core item for the right click build with the Plague Carrier facet when the dispel has high value in the game, such as playing against roots and silences on the enemy team. Provides you mobility and damage through stats, as well as lets you split push lanes with illusions.

Aghanim's Scepter

With the Plague Carrier facet, you can buy this item right after support items like Solar Crest and Guardian Greaves to output massive damage through your right clicks and Plague Wards.

Black King Bar

A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use all your spells, spam Plague Wards, and stay in the front line while hitting freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.

Eye of Skadi

A core item for the right click build with the Plague Carrier facet. Significantly increases your tankiness and damage through stats and Works well against lifesteal and high HP regen on enemy heroes. Reduces the movement speed and HP sustain of enemy heroes you hit to make them less tanky and keep chasing them.

Butterfly

A core item for the right click build with the Plague Carrier facet. Gives you more DPS with attack speed and stats while boosting your tankiness with evasion and armor.

Arcane Boots

A core Boots of Speed upgrade to have some much needed mana sustain to spam your spells for fighting and farming. Gets upgraded to Guardian Greaves later in the game.

Glimmer Cape

A core defensive item to provide a magic damage barrier and invisibility to yourself or an allied hero to survive when in trouble. Works well against heavy magic damage lineups.

Aghanim's Shard

A core item to damage and stun enemy heroes who dispel Venomous Gale with Lotus Orb, Black King Bar, or another debuff immunity spell.

Blink Dagger

A core mobility item to quickly close the gap on enemy heroes and burst them down with your Plague Wards and Noxious Plague. Also lets you dodge certain initiations like Chronosphere and Berserkers Call. Has great synergy with Scythe of Vyse to Blink and instantly lock down an elusive enemy hero to reliably follow up with your spells.

Scythe of Vyse

A late game pick up that gives you instant lockdown against elusive enemy heroes to burst them down with all your spells. Also increases your damage through stats and provides mana regen to spam spells.

Magic Stick

Helps you sustain HP and mana as Venomancer frequently uses his spells to harass, set up kills, and farm with Plague Wards.

Ring of Regen

Gives you HP sustain to stay in the lane and not get zoned by Venomancer's constant damage from spells and right clicks.

Headdress

Gives HP sustain to you and your ally to stay in the lane and not get zoned by Venomancer's constant damage from spells and right clicks.

Wind Lace

Gives you movement speed to kite or close the gap on Venomancer. Also counters the movement slow from Venomous Gale, Poison Sting, and Noxious Plague.

Boots of Speed

Gives you movement speed to kite or close the gap on Venomancer. Also counters the movement slow from Venomous Gale, Poison Sting, and Noxious Plague.

Cloak

Gives you magic resistance to significantly reduce the damage taken from Venomancer's magic heavy toolkit.

Ring of Health

Gives you HP sustain to stay in the lane and not get zoned by Venomancer's constant damage from spells and right clicks.

Tranquil Boots

Gives you HP regen that does not get reduced by Venomancer's constant damage from spells. Also gives you more movement speed to counter the slow from Venomous Gale, Poison Sting, and Noxious Plague.

Lotus Orb

Lets you dispel Venomous Gale and Poison Sting off yourself or an ally. Also lets you reflect Noxious Plague back onto Venomancer.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity

Gives you a dispel against Venomous Gale and Poison Sting. Also lets you dodge the Noxious Plague projectile with a timely Cyclone on yourself.

Mage Slayer

Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Venomancer from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.

Pipe of Insight

Gives you and your team magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Venomancer's magic heavy toolkit.

Eternal Shroud

Gives you magic resistance to significantly reduce the damage taken from Venomancer's magic heavy toolkit.

Black King Bar

Gives you debuff immunity and magic resistance to avoid the slow from Venomancer's spells as well as reduce the damage taken from his magic heavy toolkit.

Manta Style

Gives you a dispel against Venomous Gale and Poison Sting. The illusions can also help tank the Noxious Plague damage and control.

Glimmer Cape

Gives you magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Venomancer's magic heavy toolkit as well as save yourself or an ally slowed by his spells.

Force Staff

Gives you a repositioning tool to close the gap on Venomancer or push yourself or an ally to safety when affected by his spells.

Satanic

Gives you a dispel against Venomous Gale and Poison Sting as well as use the massive lifesteal to gain back your HP lost to Venomancer's spells.