Counter against axe dota 2

General Discussionhow to counter axe ?

Is there any way to miss his call ? Or dispell it ? Axe is becoming nightmare late game .

i think i just played vs someone named innocent as axe. were you antimage?

anyway as someone who plays a lot of axe, i have a few tips.

He cant lane vs any strong trilane, and he will bail to his jungle camps asap, your supports need to follow him there and ward it and keep harassing him or get a ez kill. its pretty important to stall him from getting blink

He has 0.4 cast time, you can get a Manta Style and time the invulnerable moment to dodge his call

@genocidal ..
Alright mate ! Thanks 🙂
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Manta will dispell it ?

Its just that I ve never seen any1 to dodge it with manta .

pugna 😀 just ghost em axes and axes cant spins, axes just stares at everyone

When you used Manta Style to create illusions, you will be invulnerable/disappear from the dimension for like 0.2 seconds or something, so when Axe blinks in and uses taunt, you won’t be affected because you’re “not there” the moment he taunts. Same goes for a lot of skills like Slardar’s, Centaur’s stun

It’s very risky and pointless still so you won’t see people do it
I just do it for the lulz in smurf 😛
the ultimate way to not get taunted by Axe is by staying a distance away from him of course
and always scatter in position so one can save another when they are caught

you cant dispell it, even abadons bubble wont get someone out of call, and you cant use items while called ofc.

what he means is that you can dodge the cast of the spell with manta, which give you a .1 second frame where you are immune to everything. if you are really fast to react you COULD dodge it, but its quite difficult and would not rely on it.

As a manta wielder, I can guarantee you that if you’re expecting Axe jump, you can evade the taunt most of the times with Manta, except it the Axe is slow to cast call, whether intentionally or on purpose, if he is, then you just made his counter helix that much more effective.

i am extremely doubtful you can manta dodge call “most of the time”. if you can then congratz you’re on the road to 9k mmr, but in no way is it axe-immunity.

LYCAN – You can’t catch me in war because I run so fast and already charge to your back line sniper/lion HAHAHAHAHA

Ursa – I stand still and activiti 2nd skill and ulti when you blink in and call, you will call the death upon yourself I just stand and watch HAHAHAHAHAS

WK-Call me is ok I crit you I will regen, even I death is also ok because I got 2 life HAHAHAHAHA

Also any hero that can slow works good against axe. Esp venom with his ward you can get vision. if there’s a chance he might blink you can cancel his blink with those snakes.

pick high ranged heroes

He tends to be vulnerable to nukes and tanky heroes, biggest counter i can give is timbersaw, necro, zeuz, basically heroes who don’t rightclick that often making his call plus blademail combo less effective, if you pick PA and Axe gets the call blademail combo you are dead that’s just how the game works really make sure you ban him before picking agility heroes because he tends to counter heroes that are in the agility pool. Early laning stage it’s really good to have a ranged hero not a meele hero, because he is going to hug those creeps and you attacking him only leads to a call plus helix then cull.