Mage Slayer
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2825Forged 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 .
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
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.
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.
A situational item to lower the magical damage output of the target you hit with right clicks. Increases your damage, attack speed, and tankiness with magic resistance as well as providing mana sustain to spam Primal Spring. Builds into Bloodthorn later in the game.
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.
A core item that provides some much needed mana sustain and boosts your right click DPS while making you tanky by reducing spell damage received when you manfight heroes.
A core item to increase your DPS with stats and attack speed to deal more damage during Focus Fire. Also makes you tanky against magic damage.
Heroes countered by Mage Slayer
Reduces the damage dealt by Axe from all his spells to nullify his burst potential. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Batrider from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Death Prophet from all her spells to nullify her burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Earth Spirit from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Ember Spirit from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Enigma from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Huskar from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Invoker from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Keeper of the Light from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Leshrac from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Lina from all her spells to nullify her burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Morphling from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Muerta from her Pierce the Veil right clicks and spells.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Primal Beast from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Puck from all her spells to nullify her burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Pudge from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Pugna from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Queen of Pain from all her spells to nullify her burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Sand King from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Skywrath Mage from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Snapfire from all her spells to nullify her burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Storm Spirit from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Techies from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Timbersaw from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Tinker from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Tiny from all his spells. Also cancels his Blink Dagger with damage over time on right clicks.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Underlord from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Venomancer from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Viper from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Visage from his Soul Assumption spam to nullify his burst potential.
Provides magic resistance and reduces the damage dealt by Zeus from all his spells to nullify his burst potential.
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.