Mage Slayer

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!

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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

+ 45 Attack Speed

+ 2 Mana Regeneration

+ 10 Intelligence

Recipe

Abilities

Passive: Mage Slayer

Places a debuff when you attack enemies, dealing 25 damage per second and causing them to do 40% less spell damage for 3 seconds.

Additional Insights

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 or non-core 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

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A core item to dish out high amounts of DPS which stacks well with your Corrosive Dragon facet. Also provides overall good stats and attack speed to scale into the game.

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A core early-mid game item that significantly boosts your DPS and survivability early on. It pairs well with your Flame Guard as it reduces the magic damage of enemy heroes by 40%, making it hard for them dispel your Flame Guard barrier.

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A core item that provides some much needed mana sustain and boosts your damage output through Anchor Smash with the extra attack on cast. Also provides magic resistance to make you much more tanky in teamfights.

A core item to increase your DPS with stats and attack speed to deal more damage without being heavily reliant on Poison Attack. Also makes you tanky against magic damage and lets you delay the BKB purchase to prioritize other fighting and sustain items.

Heroes countered by Mage Slayer

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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Keeper of the Light

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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Sand King

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Timbersaw

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Skywrath Mage

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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Storm Spirit

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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.