Anti-Mage + Disruptor

Why this works

Picking these two heroes together creates a tension in your team's game plan from the very beginning. Disruptor wants to force fights and make aggressive plays across the map with Glimpse and Kinetic Field, creating opportunities for his cores to get kills. His entire kit is built around locking down enemies for his team to follow up on. Anti-Mage, however, has a completely different objective. He needs to avoid teamfights for a long portion of the game, focusing entirely on his own farm to hit his crucial item timings. Their ideal mid-games are fundamentally at odds.

This timing conflict means your team often has to play four-on-five while Anti-Mage splits the map. When Disruptor lands a big Static Storm, his carry is frequently too far away to contribute damage. While a farmed Anti-Mage can certainly clean up targets held by Disruptor's spells late in the game, the path there is difficult. More commonly, Disruptor's aggressive potential is wasted trying to defend a farming carry, or Anti-Mage is forced into fights he isn't ready for, slowing down the pace he needs to win.