Ancient Apparition
Support

Ranged · Support · Disabler · Nuker

How to counter Ancient Apparition

In lane

In game

  • • He has high magic resistance from Counterspell. • Blinking away removes Cold Feet. • Blinking on top of Ancient Apparition is almost always a kill as he has no way to escape.
  • • The mobility of Shukuchi makes Cold Feet and Ice Vortex very ineffective. • Weaver can easily close the gap and shred him with Geminate Attack. • Ancient Apparition's low attack speed means he cannot deal with The Swarm very well. • Weaver can Time Lapse if he is about to die from the Ice Blast debuff.
  • • Ancient Apparition has no way to escape and if Dark Ascension is active, usually he is spotted and killed very easily. • A fast moving, flying target is very hard to hit with Ice Blast and Cold Feet.

Items

  • Magic resist, 4 in this group
    • Magic resistance reduces all of his damage.

Notes

This hero is really terrible right now and far too many heroes to count are good against him. He has not been picked at TI15 despite Necrophos being a popular pick.

Kit

Talent tree

  1. +4% Ice Blast Kill Threshold

    25

    450 AoE Cold Feet

  2. +100 Chilling Touch Damage

    20

    +4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration

  3. +250 Cold Feet Break Distance

    15

    -2s Ice Vortex Cooldown

  4. +30 Cold Feet Damage Per Second

    10

    +300 Chilling Touch Attack Range

Attributes

At level 1, before items.

Growth

Strength
20 + 1.9
Agility
20 + 2
Intelligence
23 + 3.1
Damage
44–54

Health & mana

Health
560
Health regen
2.3
Mana
351
Mana regen
1.2

Combat

Armour
2.3
Magic resist
25%
Attack range
675
Base attack time
1.7s
Attack point
0.45
Projectile speed
1250

Movement & vision

Move speed
285
Turn rate
0.6
Day vision
1800
Night vision
800
Legs
0