Mage Slayer – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.39d]

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Forged by a secret order in The Third Age of Praxa'cia to fell the False King.

Is your hero's secret weapon against those pesky spellcasters, it's a fantastic item that empowers your hero to take down magical foes with style!

Base Combat Stats

+ 20% Magic Resistance

+ 30 Attack Speed

+ 5 Health Regeneration

+ 2 Mana Regeneration

+ 8 Damage

Recipe

Abilities

Passive: Mage Slayer

Places a debuff when you attack enemies, dealing 20 damage per second and causing them to do 40% less spell damage for 3 seconds.

Additional Insights

Dispellable by <item_manta></item_manta>Applies debuff first then damage on attack
Well, it reduces the spell damage of enemies hit by your hero's attacks in a form of debuff which could be crucial against heroes that deals with constant magical DPS like Leshrac.

Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Mage Slayer as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Itemization Strategy

Usually built by cores against cores who dish out a lot of magic damage, keeps them very resistant to magic and weakens their foe easily, Became a main item for most heroes in the offlane and mid as it provides significant DPS and resistance for ganks in the mid game.

Heroes with Mage Slayer as Core Item

This will provide you the mana regen that you desperately need to spam Anchor Smash, while giving you strong survivability against magic damage, since you already have a natural way of dealing with physical damage through Kraken Shell and Anchor Smash. The DPS dealt from Mage Slayer is dealt onto all units when using Anchor Smash. This is your alternative to Pipe of Insight.

A core item with the Poison Burst facet that increases your damage output while providing some much needed tankiness and mana regen. Also reduces the spell damage of enemy heroes you attack with right clicks.

A core item to have more tankiness and damage to snowball in the game by getting kills and joining fights. Works well when the enemy team has multiple heroes who rely on their spells to deal most of their damage.

Trivia

It is said to be Forged by a secret order in The Third Age of Praxa'cia to fell the False King, but the community simply refers to it as Anti-Mage's weapon.