Anti-Mage — Dota 2 7.41 Counters, Synergies & Win Rate
Also known as: AM, WEI
Anti-Mage (AM, WEI) in Dota 2 7.41: win rate, pick rate, the heroes Anti-Mage counters and struggles against, and its best teammates — from recent ranked matches by Batru's AI win-prediction pipeline.
Anti-Mage counters & matchups
Anti-Mage is a farm-hungry carry who blinks around the map and burns enemy mana with Mana Break. He punishes mana-reliant cores hardest — his best matchups are Medusa (58.7%), Tinker (57.8%) and Nature's Prophet (56.1%), all heroes whose power lives in their mana pool, which Mana Void and Mana Break delete. Where Anti-Mage falls apart is into early lockdown and pure-damage tanks: Meepo (he loses 41% of games into the clones that swarm him), Axe (41.9%, Berserker's Call ignores Blink), and Bloodseeker (42.9%) all stop his snowball before he comes online. Draft tip: pick Anti-Mage into greedy magic-damage line-ups; avoid him into Axe, Meepo, or any early-game gank squad that can end the game before 25 minutes.
Strong against
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Medusa | 58.70% | 43,044 |
 Tinker | 57.84% | 37,642 |
 Nature's Prophet | 56.09% | 54,507 |
 Shadow Demon | 55.94% | 18,287 |
 Timbersaw | 55.67% | 20,823 |
 Mars | 55.56% | 50,528 |
 Storm Spirit | 55.22% | 54,919 |
 Gyrocopter | 54.98% | 24,187 |
Struggles against
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Meepo | 41.01% | 23,774 |
 Axe | 41.89% | 93,153 |
 Bloodseeker | 42.90% | 42,220 |
 Legion Commander | 43.07% | 109,088 |
 Lone Druid | 43.90% | 16,105 |
 Huskar | 44.40% | 49,621 |
 Riki | 44.48% | 40,140 |
 Spectre | 44.53% | 64,956 |
Anti-Mage synergies
Anti-Mage wants partners who buy him time to farm and who turn his late-game blink-in into a kill. He pairs best with Wraith King (53.6%) and Spectre (52.8%) — second hard-carries that share the 'survive to late game' plan and overwhelm once items come online. Axe (52.4%) is the classic enabler: his Berserker's Call locks targets in place so Anti-Mage's Mana Void lands on a full-mana hero for maximum burst. Round it out with a pocket healer/saver like Lich (52.2%) to protect him through the dangerous early window.
Best teammates
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Wraith King | 53.62% | 59,340 |
| Spectre | 52.76% | 11,940 |
| Axe | 52.37% | 106,779 |
 Lich | 52.20% | 81,465 |
 Phoenix | 52.19% | 45,676 |
| Lone Druid | 52.12% | 13,238 |
 Techies | 51.99% | 79,366 |
 Tidehunter | 51.80% | 75,690 |