General DiscussionAxe is broken?

My solution for Axe is picking Venomancer to kite him and disable his blink. Veno also doesn't need to live forhim to do damage.

I don't see how Venomancer can counter Axe. Best counters are Shadow Demon and Doom (as always).

Jakiro is pretty good counter to axe and all heroes, that have big range spells that deal dmg over time.

Early mana burn against him is really really good.

Dealing with an AM that is smart enough to skill a few points into mana break early completely ruins Axe's ability to lay down the dunk after initiating.

It can be really frustrating because you know that AM is an easy blink call gank while he is farming... but then if you don't kill AM your fucked out of all mana and wasted your time.

Also, if you are lion, and you see axe blink on one of your opponents, make sure you mana drain him. If you get the stun awesome, but the mana drain will save your carry.

Without cull to finish it off, Axe's early ganks often fail.

I agree the thing that axe suffers from the most is his low mana pool and often you will see people going mana boots or something like an aghs and late game shiva to counteract this.

Axe most usless hero late game

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no he isn't.

Stop posting.

He is

He cant even tank almost every carry rapes him late game... He is only good early because of enemies low hp but mid game when he realises they have high hp. His skill no dmg lel not even dunk. Trash hero

Well, he sure is in normal skill games where players are probably building phase boots into Heart with no Blink and afk jungling for 30 minutes.

Axe is not even broken... I just wait till midgame... I just farm and watch him take my towers. When i get farmed i rape him ezzzzzz. Kill him with any hero but hes such a cheap annoying shit at start. Just pick timbersaw and that useless trash cant even touch me. Hero for losers (axe)

I dont why would valve would make a hero and copy red indians

Agree with Randomer, "3 second bkb piercing aoe stun on 12 second cooldown" is too stronk.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1175120018
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/151513542

every hero that doesnt have lategame damage is shit

because i just own them with my lategame damage hero

^ guessing drow?

He was always strong in low pubs, but the hero is ok at moment.

If you are in mmr-hell you can pick OD, banish him for int steal, ult for HP-melt, and have a strong orb to cancel b.hunger.

only vs stupid ppl

People should stop hitting Axe while he has Berserk's Rage buff unless they are a carry. They are barely doing any damage but increase the chances of spinning.

"axe is useless" LOL normal skill at its best

Phoenix is very good vs axe. Try it sometime. Fun hero.

"axe is op" LOL 4k bracket at its best

"axe is balanced" LOL non-retaded player at his best

axe is balanced right

Yes, he is

Axe is ban material... especially in the hands of Empire, they steamrolled Starladder Lan with Axe winning their last 5 axe games in a row, and overall they have 85% winrate with the hero, watch Gustavs play Axe.

@moku complaining about free wins http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1154592992

Also its about knowing what purpose he serves throughout the game. Axe is a killer early game but then settles into more of a durable initiator later game where trying to solo kill 2-3 will result in a death. Scaling with the right items is quite important as you can pick up loads of kills early game but then die loads and lose late cause you went for high killing potential with low durability.

EDIT: Also while not showing I currently hold a 100% winrate in league games as Axe is chaotic and completely wrecks organised Dota2.

try not letting him freefarm in jungle

Yeah exactly, if you screw up Axe early game it weakens him permanently and even though his call is annoying he will call someone then instantly die cause he will be underfarmed.

so basically, delay Axe's tranquils = win?

steal/deny tranquils = sad axe with 20 min dagger

If you see an axe, pick ranged hero that can kite like drow, skywrath, etc and win... Its pretty much like playing vs a centaur, void or earthshaker, never clump up so they only blink on 1 hero then sheep, silence, eul etc.

^ thats why u buy blink :)) you dont run at your enemies

I hate axe...although i play brood a lot that's probably why lol

Alison is right, picking a ranged hero doesn't entirely counter an Axe player. I usually buy my own smokes once I have blink, I don't just wander straight up through lanes letting people see where I am.

I guess Bloodstone AXE is overpowered

U need some RNG too

I think Axe is fine, just a hero that needs to be countered, just like ta or brood. They are op only if no counters are picked.

That hero this patch is really good, nobody can deny that. He is super strong.

If I could ban any two heroes straight up, it would be Axe and Slark.

^ jugg and troll

remove that fucking hero im tired of this bullshit hero

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1161331315
pudge op

axe is strong....his call is a huge disable which he can usually get off 2 times in key late game fights

8 times with refresher kappa

I dunno why Axe got so popular, he's been a drug since he existed. Should have always been around.

"steal/deny tranquils = sad axe with 20 min dagger"

This.

Axe isn't broken? From what i know most players don't win a quarter of their games with that hero.