*
Time Walk can be used to close the distance within Drow Ranger, hindering her Marksmanship bonus.
* Faceless Void can also lock down Drow Ranger with
Chronosphere before she has the chance to retaliate due to her low health pool.
*
Faceless Void can lock Lycan down with his
Chronosphere pinning him down as long as his ultimate is up.
*
Repel can be used to dispel
Gust on the allies affected by it.
* In team fights,
Guardian Angel renders Drow Ranger's physical damage useless, and Drow Ranger has no way to purge it. And to make thing worse, Drow Ranger is not a common
Nullifier wielder to counter this problem at all.
* Heroes who rely strongly on melee physical damage will fare badly against Omniknight's Guardian Angel:
Phantom Assassin,
Juggernaut,
Dragon Knight,
Lycan,
Ursa,
Troll Warlord
Additional:
*
Guardian Angel completely negates all of Lycan's damage since Lycan mainly deals physical damage.
*
Purification can also be a problem for Lycan, as Purification deals damage around the target, which poses a problem for him and his summons.
* A well-timed
Dark Pact can dispel Frost Arrows and Gust, letting Slark engage and escape freely.
*
Essence Shift is very detrimental for Drow Ranger as the loss of agility means that Marksmanship will also suffer from getting weakened.
*
Shadow Dance lets Slark quickly close the gap and deal heavy damage without giving Drow Ranger a chance to retaliate.
*
Pounce counteracts Frost Arrows's slow, and also allows Slark easily pin Drow Ranger down or flee from her.
*
Depth Shroud from
Aghanim's Shard will allow Slark to save both, himself and his allies and will also allow them to freely fight back against Drow Ranger without her noticing them.
Additional:
* Pounce and items like
Shadow Blade makes it very difficult for Drow Ranger to keep her distance from Slark, thereby losing her
Marksmanship bonus.
*
Gust is rarely enough to keep Slark at bay, as Drow Ranger has no movement abilities and will simply be chased down afterwards.
* Drow Ranger's heavy dependence on agility also makes her significantly weaker after being drained by Essence Shift.
*
Lycan cannot escape from a Pounce even if he uses
Shapeshift, and has no disabling abilities to stop Slark.
* Drow Ranger's low mobility and lack of defensive abilities make her an easy gank target in the early to mid-game.
* A Dueling Drow Ranger will lose her precious
Marksmanship, reduce her damage output significantly, and will more likely lose that Duel.
* Heroes who rely on summons will see them destroyed easily by Overwhelming Odds:
Lycan,
Arc Warden,
Warlock,
Chen
* Her
Mana Shield is too tough for Lycan to break.
*
Mystic Snake can hit for a massive damage once it spread between his summons.
Additional:
* Can be easily petrified despite his speed.
* Summoned wolves will be targeted by Split Shot or Mystic Snake
* As long as Mars is facing her with Bulwark, even if pushed away with
Gust, Drow Ranger will do no effectual damage against him. Mars' ability to endure her onslaught usually gives him enough time to cast Arena of Blood, of which she has a very slim chance surviving without Gust.
* With Bulwark's active ability, Mars can protect allies pursued by Drow Ranger by redirecting her projectiles to his shield instead.
* Paralyzing cask bounces between him and his wolves, keeping him stunned for long amounts of time.
* Brewmaster can waste a large portion of Lycan's ultimate by putting him in Cyclone.
* Lycan has no way to stop Brewmaster from using Primal Split by himself.
* Lycan's team often tries to push towers as a group, and Brewmaster excels at winning teamfights while trying to defend a tower.
*
Quill Spray can be used to kill Lycan's summons.
*
Bristleback allows him to stay alive against Lycan while dishing out counter attacks
* He can overpower Lycan with his
Warpath instead.
Additional:
* Lycan's wolves deal little damage to Bristleback, and are easily killed by Quill Spray, even when they're invisible.
* Lycan's lack of burst damage makes it very hard for him to kill Bristleback, especially when his back is turned.
* Drow Ranger's lack of mobility and area-of-effect abilities makes her easy prey for Broodmother and her Spiderlings.
*
Arctic Burn allows Winter Wyvern to escape Lycan, even when he uses his ultimate.
*
Splinter Blast is very effective in dealing with Lycan's summons.
*
Cold Embrace saves allies from Lycan's raw physical damage and can buy allies enough time to turn the tide of battle.
*
Winter's Curse stops Lycan in his tracks and is very effective because of his summons.
Additional:
* All of Lycan's damage is physical which is totally negated by Cold Embrace.
* Lycan often moves around with large amount of creeps, wolves created by
Summon Wolves and neutral creep dominated by
Helm of the Dominator which can be easily cleared by Splinter Blast or used as a great source of damage by Winter's Curse. If you catch Lycan with creeps nearby and affected by
Shapeshift using Winter's Curse on him will most certainly end up with his death.
*
Reality Rift will disable Drow Ranger's Marksmanship, along with
Chaos Bolt he can keep her locked for enough time to be killed.
*
Snowball and
Ice Shards keep Drow Ranger down and preventing her from running away.
*
Snowball also lets Tusk get to Drow Ranger and stop her Marksmanship bonus. It can also be to save allies affected by Gust.
*
Tag Team allows Tusk to slow her down and land a killing blow on her.
*
Walrus PUNCH! slows Drow Ranger and deals a huge amount of damage to her, due to her low health (and low armor without Marksmanship, since Tusk can quickly close the gap to Drow Ranger).
*
Hookshot lets Clockwerk close the gap to Drow Ranger, disabling her Marksmanship bonus.
*
Power Cogs and
Battery Assault keep Drow Ranger from escaping.
* Power Cogs and Battery Assault also keep Drow Ranger close, nullifying Marksmanship.
Additional:
* Getting trapped in Power Cogs usually means the end for Drow Ranger.
*
Laser along with
Heat-Seeking Missile allows Tinker to quickly burst down Drow Ranger due to her low health.
*
Heat-Seeking Missile lets Tinker out-range Drow Ranger and hit her in the backline of a teamfight.
* All of Timbersaw's spells deal AoE damage, killing Lycan's summons very quickly.
*
Reactive Armor will gain stacks quickly because of Lycan's summons.
*
Primal Roar allows Beastmaster to keep Lycan in place after he used his Shapeshift.
*
Great Cleave will kill Lycan's summons very rapidly.
*
Warcry will allow Sven and his allies to tank Lycan's damage, which is mainly physical.
*
Storm Hammer will damage and stun Lycan's as well as his summons.
* Generally, heroes that can close the gap on Drow Ranger to cancel her Marksmanship such as
Phantom Assassin,
Spirit Breaker, and
Tusk are effective at limiting her power and bursting her down.
* Vision from Charge of Darkness will easier to catch Lycan
Shapeshift and Charge of Darkness out of reach Lycan
Summon Wolves and Lycan's other creeps. Until upgrade
Aghanim's Scepter faster catching Lycan
Shapeshift.
Additional:
*
Charge of Darkness allows Spirit Breaker to catch up to Lycan after he uses Shapeshift.
* Heroes with summons and illusions as Spirit Breaker has no strong AoE capabilities to deal with them:
Chaos Knight,
Phantom Lancer,
Terrorblade,
Naga Siren,
Broodmother,
Warlock,
Visage,
Nature's Prophet,
Shadow Shaman,
Lycan,
Wraith King.
* A well landed
Fissure can potentially take Lycan out of the fight for several seconds, who heavily relies on precious seconds from Black king bar and Shapeshift to fight.
*
Aftershock reduces the effectiveness of his summons and can prove quite irritating for Lycan.
*
Echo Slam is very powerful with the sheer amount of Lycan's units and will cause him to think twice when pushing towers.
*
Berserker's Call forces Drow Ranger to attack Axe up close, disabling her Marksmanship bonus.
*
Counter Helix occurs more often with Drow Ranger's high attack speed.
*
Culling Blade is a dangerous ability against a low health hero like Drow Ranger.
* Melee heroes who rely on summons, illusions, or clones will trigger Counter Helix more often, thus taking more damage:
Meepo,
Lycan,
Phantom Lancer
Additional:
*
Berserker's Call can keep Lycan in place during his Shapeshift even through
Black King Bar.
*
Counter Helix is very effective against Lycan because of his summons.
*
Culling Blade will prevent Lycan from running away with Shapeshift when he drops low.
* Ranged heroes that can easily harass Axe:
Drow Ranger,
Sniper,
Lion.
* Range-reliant heroes:
Sniper,
Drow Ranger
* Lycan relies heavily on right clicks making Untouchable very effective against him.
* If he tries to run away Impetus will do huge amounts of damage.
Additional:
* She can
Enchant one of the wolves to her side.
* Lycan will struggle greatly to harm Enchantress through her
Untouchable which can seriously slow down Lycan's attack speed even if Lycan is spell immune.
* Heroes with haste can negate Enchant's slow:
Weaver,
Dark Seer,
Lycan,
Centaur Warrunner.
*
Blink Strike gets Riki close to Drow Ranger and disable Marksmanship.
*
Cloak and Dagger allow Riki stay close to Drow Ranger without her noticing him, which allows him to disable Marksmanship.
Additional:
* With Blink Strike, Riki can get close to Drow Ranger and disable her
Marksmanship, and Smoke Screen will prevent her from using
Gust.
*
Stroke of Fate deals more damage when it hits more targets which makes it very effective in dealing with Lycan and his units.
*
Soulbind prevents Lycan from running away and makes him very easy to deal with.
*
Static Link weakens Drow Ranger's attack damage while strengthening Razor's attack damage.
*
Plasma Field &
Storm Surge keeps Razor close to Drow Ranger, continuously disabling Marksmanship.
*
Meat Hook brings Drow Ranger to Pudge, disabling Marksmanship and dealing a huge amount of damage when combined with
Rot and
Dismember.
*
Rot keeps Pudge close to Drow Ranger, continuously disabling Marksmanship.
Additional:
* Meat Hook can pull Drow Ranger to Pudge, disabling her
Marksmanship.
* Following up with Dismember will prevent Drow Ranger from using
Gust or
Shadow Blade.
*
Phantom Rush lets Phantom Lancer get close quickly and disable Marksmanship.
* As Phantom Lancer commonly buys
Manta Style, he can easily dispel Gust and then chase after Drow Ranger.
* Because Phantom Lancer is a natural
Diffusal Blade carrier, he can easily burn Drow Ranger's mana and render her unable to use Frost Arrow and Gust to save herself.
* Atrophy Aura reduces Drow Ranger's damage significantly, as she relies completely on agility to be effective.
* Generally, heroes that can close the gap on Drow Ranger to cancel her Marksmanship such as
Phantom Assassin,
Spirit Breaker, and
Tusk are effective at limiting her power and bursting her down.
* Phantom Assassin's
Blur is a real problem for Lycan, as he relies entirely on direct attacks to deal damage.
* Heroes with illusions and summons can be hard for Phantom Assassin to deal with, as she lacks any AoE abilities to deal with them without items:
Broodmother,
Phantom Lancer,
Chaos Knight,
Lycan,
Naga Siren,
Shadow Shaman,
Visage,
Nature's Prophet,
Terrorblade,
Warlock,
Wraith King.
* Tidebringer's cleave will cripple any of his summons.
* Could potentially build Heaven's Halberd to cripple Lycan even more.
Additional:
*
Tidebringer can be used to kill Lycan's summons.
* Can also build into
Heaven's Halberd which will disable Lycan's auto attacks, crippling him even more.
*
Kraken Shell grants him massive physical attack protection
*
Anchor Smash will wipe the area, clearing Lycan's wolves.
* Lycan is a hero focused entirely on single target physical damage and lacks disables or AoE damage. Due to this, he will have difficulties dealing with illusions or Naga Siren's Ensnare.
* Monkey King can scout Drow Ranger's positioning from the trees, and can jump on her without much trouble, disabling
Marksmanship
* She lacks innate mobility to escape from Wukong's Command, whose bonus armor gives MK one extra edge in the fight
* Rupture completely negates Lycan's high mobility.
* All of Lycan's summons are good sources of healing with Bloodrage.
Additional:
*
Rupture completely negates Lycan's high mobility.
* All of Lycan's summons are good sources of healing with
Bloodrage.
*
Drow Ranger has a very low health pool, allowing
Lion to burst her down.
* Lack of any innate escape mechanism makes her an easy target for
Lion's disables.
* Early on she can't deal as much damage to be life threatning. Her
Gust is her best weapon against
Lion.
* Heroes who rely on physical damage output to be effective will fare badly against Muerta's
Pierce the Veil:
Phantom Assassin,
Terrorblade,
Drow Ranger,
Lifestealer,
Anti-Mage,
Alchemist,
Lycan,
Clinkz,
Sniper.
* Heroes who rely on physical damage output to be effective will fare badly against Muerta's
Pierce the Veil:
Phantom Assassin,
Terrorblade,
Drow Ranger,
Lifestealer,
Anti-Mage,
Alchemist,
Lycan,
Clinkz,
Sniper.
* Heroes with abilities that can close the gap can easily kill Muerta:
Storm Spirit,
Earth Spirit,
Ember Spirit,
Void Spirit,
Lycan,
Chaos Knight,
Tusk.
* Invisible heroes are very difficult for Drow Ranger to deal with such as
Bounty Hunter,
Riki and heroes who commonly buy a
Shadow Blade.
* Heroes who have low or high armor but very high health will be difficult for drow to burst down quickly:
Primal Beast,
Axe,
Centaur Warrunner.
* Heroes that heavily depend on illusions or summons, (
Naga Siren,
Terrorblade,
Phantom Lancer,
Lycan,...) are vulnerable to Sleight of Fist and even more so if Ember Spirit has
Battle Fury.
* Jakiro's area-of-effect abilities make him strong against heroes who rely on illusions and summons:
Terrorblade,
Naga Siren
Chaos Knight,
Phantom Lancer,
Broodmother,
Nature's Prophet,
Lycan,
Wraith King,
Visage.
* Heroes who summon multiple units that are not spell immune.
Nature's Prophet,
Lycan,
Beastmaster
* Heroes with summons and illusions can find themselves easily bested by Lina, like
Broodmother,
Nature's Prophet,
Chen,
Terrorblade,
Naga Siren,
Visage,
Wraith King,
Lycan,
Phantom Lancer,
Shadow Shaman.
* Heroes who depend on attacks (such as
Shadow Fiend or
Drow Ranger) can be nullified by Fire Spirits' attack speed slow.
* Heroes who have low or high armor but very high health will be difficult for drow to burst down quickly:
Primal Beast,
Axe,
Centaur Warrunner.
*
Pugna's
Decrepify prevents the target from taking physical damage or doing damage, which poses a huge problem for Lycan, as he mainly deals physical damage.
* Heroes that can summon units will have their summons destroyed very quickly if badly micro-managed, like
Chen,
Lycan, and
Phantom Lancer.
* Often you can burst Drow Ranger down before she has a chance to try and
Gust you away. Try to have a teammate bait her
Gust out before you Blink and get the drop on her.
* Heroes reliant on abilities to output damage or escape can be shut down by Gust:
Queen of Pain.
* Drow Ranger's lack of escape abilities makes her an easy target for Relocate ganks.
* Heroes with low armor and little mobility, like
Huskar,
Io, etc. will also have an unfortunate fate.
*
Life Break closes the distance between Huskar and Drow Ranger, dealing large amounts of damage and disabling Marksmanship.
*
Berserker's Blood and
Burning Spear allow Huskar to beat Drow Ranger directly and pile on damage.
* Heroes with low armor and little mobility, like
Huskar,
Io, etc. will also have an unfortunate fate.
* Heroes with forced movement abilities or non-interrupting forced movement, such as
Lion,
Drow Ranger,
Magnus,
Mars, as they can cancel blast-off mid air, removing his ability to initiate or escape.
* He can send wolves to defuse
Proximity Mines, and he can catch up Techies and kill him before they can deny themselves. Even if the suicide is successful, Lycan can still survive because of his tankiness.
* Lich is heavily reliant on his abilities to contribute to team fights, so be wary of enemies that can Silence:
Bloodseeker,
Death Prophet,
Silencer,
Drow Ranger,
Skywrath Mage.
* Lycan doesn't care much about Lich's slows thanks to
Shapeshift.
* Chain Frost can bounce to the wolves that Lycan summons.
Additional:
*
Lich possesses a lot of slows, which Lycan doesn't care about when he Shapeshifts.
*
Lich has no in-built escape, which makes him a good target for Lycan.
* A well-timed Gust will prevent Windranger from escaping or counter-initiating with
Windrun.
* Drow Ranger commonly buys
Shadow Blade or
Silver Edge, which allows her to escape from
Focus Fire.
Monkey King Bar, a situational item on Drow Ranger, counters Windranger's evasion from
Windrun.
* The bonus agility from Marksmanship can shred through Windranger's low armor.
Additional:
* A well-timed
Gust prevents Windranger from escaping or counter-initiating with Windrun.
* Drow Ranger can combine
Frost Arrows and
Eye of Skadi to effectively slow down Windranger if she tries to escape with Windrun, since both slow effects stack with each other.
* Drow Ranger commonly buys
Shadow Blade or
Silver Edge, which allows her to escape from Focus Fire. Drow Ranger can also buy
Monkey King Bar or
Nullifier to counter Windranger's evasion from Windrun.
* The bonus agility from
Marksmanship can shred through Windranger's low armor.
* Windranger tends to fare badly against high mobility heroes that can easily dodge Powershot, close the gap on her when she uses Windrun or escape from Focus Fire's reach. Examples of such heroes include
Spirit Breaker,
Lycan,
Storm Spirit,
Earth Spirit,
Void Spirit,
Slark and others.
* Heroes who rely on passive abilities and attacks, such as
Drow Ranger,
Wraith King, and
Lone Druid, can render Silencer useless. But remember that a smart Silencer will most likely buy
Silver Edge to counter this if he is played as carry.
*
Shapeshift is useful for killing or escaping Silencer.
*
Summon Wolves, can be used to hunt and harass silencer - even when Lycan himself can't fight.
* As a spellcaster, silences will nullify him entirely. Some notable examples are
Death Prophet,
Drow Ranger,
Bloodseeker,
Disruptor and many others.
*
Doom, as usual, fits this description nicely.
* Zeus can deal a huge amount of damage, but he lacks defensive abilities, such as good mobility or resistance. Due to that, he doesn't like to be touched by any means. Heroes with higher damage output and good mobility will often get easily near Zeus and trade damage (eventually causing Zeus's downfall). Such Heroes include:
Lycan,
Slark,
Storm Spirit,
Spectre and others.
* A well-timed Gust will prevent Weaver from escaping, and a silenced Weaver usually dies very quickly.
* Weaver gains a lot of armor, which is bypassed by Marksmanship.
Additional:
* A well-timed
Gust followed by
Frost Arrows will prevent Weaver from escaping with Shukuchi. A Weaver silenced for more than 3 seconds usually dies very quickly.
* Due to her high attack speed, Drow Ranger can easily kill The Swarm beetles.
* None of Anti-Mage's skills are that effective against Drow Ranger. Gust prevents him from
Blinking in or out,
Counterspell is totally useless against Drow's physical damage, and as she usually doesn't have a high mana pool,
Mana Break and
Mana Void don't do much either.
* Be careful however that Anti-Mage may eventually farm enough to Blink on top of you and kill you straight away, considering you have no natural tools to escape from him.
* Clinkz has no stun and likes to keep his distance from targets, making Marksmanship very deadly.
* Clinkz also has low health, making him a perfect hero to initiate onto with Gust.
* Gust can also prevent Clinkz from using
Burning Barrage.
* Drow Ranger can use Gust to push back Juggernaut before he can get in range to use
Omnislash or
Blade Fury.
*
Shapeshift increases Lycan's movement speed and renders him unslowable, allowing him to easily avoid and escape Ancient Apparition's abilities.
* Lycan has fast summons, both his wolves from
Summon Wolves can do heavy damage to Ancient Apparition due to his immobility and low armor.
* Lycan's ultimate makes him immune to slows from
Ursa's
Earthshock as well as allowing him to outmaneuver
Ursa during
Enrage. Lycan can also easily chase down
Ursa while shapeshifted, should
Ursa try to flee.
* A well-timed Gust will prevent Rubick from casting abilities from
Spell Steal, and his lack of capabilities and low health pool usually dies very quickly.
* Drow Ranger can dispel
Fade Bolt's reduction debuff with
Manta Style.
* Lycan can clear waves of Chen's creeps with his wolves from
Summon Wolves, especially once Lycan takes +2 Wolves summoned talent. And even though Chen can convert one of his wolves with
Holy Persuasion, Lycan can counter this by buying
Helm of the Overlord to regain control of it. Uncontrollable wolves summoned from
Aghanim's Shard upgrade
Summon Wolves cannot be converted with
Holy Persuasion.
*
Shapeshift allows him to chase down Chen and kill him easily.
*
Howl can reduce attack damage of both, Chen and his creeps.
*
Gust can hit Dark Willow beyond a defensive Bramble Maze, and before she gets close enough to hit Drow Ranger with Bedlam.
* Drow Ranger's long range allows her to hit Dark Willow's team without venturing into her Bramble Maze.
* Heroes with high base damage (
Morphling,
Tiny,
Drow Ranger), heroes with mana burning abilities (
Anti-Mage), and
Diffusal Blade users (
Juggernaut or
Riki) will suffer from Reflection's illusions.
*
Metamorphosis will not match the range of Drow Ranger and he will struggle to do damage to her if she is not locked down already by someone else.
*
Conjure Image will be destroyed very quickly due to Marksmanship.
* Terrorblade generally likes to be the big bad late game carry who sits in the middle of the fight and kills whoever is closest, which is very unlikely to be Drow Ranger therefore making it likely she will be going on him in teamfights.
* Terrorblade's high base armor and agility items makes him very vulnerable to Marksmanship.
Additional:
* Even though Drow Ranger's damage output is 100% physical,
Marksmanship allows Drow Ranger to pierce Terrorblade's high natural base armor and when upgraded with
Aghanim's Scepter, it will allow her to clear Terrorblade's illusions.
*
Gust can prevent Terrorblade from using
Sunder.
* Since Terrorblade doesn't like to buy armor items like
Assault Cuirass, he will be very vulnerable to Drow Ranger's high physical burst damage.
* Heroes who can summon illusions and summons because Terrorblade has no abilities to deal with multiple enemies at once outside Reflection:
Shadow Shaman,
Naga Siren,
Broodmother,
Lycan,
Enigma,
Chaos Knight,
Phantom Lancer,
Shadow Demon,
Dark Seer,
Nature's Prophet,
Invoker,
Morphling,
Visage,
Grimstroke with
Aghanim's Scepter.
*
Shapeshift allows Lycan to chase down Earth Spirit.
* Drow Ranger can be difficult to get on top of, thanks to her
Frost Arrows and
Gust. With these two abilities, Drow Ranger is able to effectively 'kite' Doom and minimize his impact during team fights and laning stage.
* Much of Drow Ranger's effectiveness comes from her passive
Marksmanship, which is not disabled by Doom.
* Every hero that can withstand or prevent Eclipse at level 7:
Juggernaut,
Riki,
Clockwerk,
Drow Ranger,
Abaddon,
Faceless Void,
Weaver,
Outworld Destroyer.
* Heroes who do not have nor rely on passive abilities make Nethertoxin much less effective:
Clinkz,
Pugna,
Nature's Prophet,
Dark Seer,
Lycan,
Tusk
* Any hero that can outrange Plague Ward can neutralize them without putting themselves at risk of receiving Poison Sting:
Arc Warden,
Chen,
Clinkz,
Drow Ranger,
Lina,
Mirana,
Nature's Prophet,
Pugna and
Sniper.
* Special mention to heroes that outrange Plague Ward after obtaining talents that increase attack range.
* Long ranged heroes like
Sniper or
Drow Ranger can kite Tiny effectively if he doesn't get the jump on them first.
* Heroes with low health are especially vulnerable to Marksmanship's high damage output:
Clinkz,
Crystal Maiden.
* Once you get a
Black King Bar, squishy spellcasters like
Zeus,
Skywrath Mage and others will be probably easy to deal with.
* With 4 active abilities, Shadow Shaman is weak against silencing foes such as
Silencer,
Drow Ranger and
Death Prophet.
* Heroes with single-target abilities will be overwhelmed by Lycan and his summons:
Wraith King,
Bane,
Phantom Assassin.
* Heroes with silence:
Death Prophet,
Riki,
Drow Ranger.
* Any heroes with silences can negate the majority of Outworld Destroyer's damage output:
Death Prophet,
Night Stalker,
Drow Ranger,
Doom .
* Heroes with summons:
Lycan,
Broodmother,
Visage,
Nature's Prophet,
Warlock.
* Heroes with weaker mobility will struggle to keep up with Night Stalker:
Gyrocopter,
Ursa,
Drow Ranger
* Void's slow is useless against Lycan by activating
Shapeshift.
* Night Stalker's single target abilities (with the exception of Void upgraded by
Aghanim's Scepter) is not very effective against Lycan's
Summon Wolves during the early and mid game.
* Heroes with summoned units don't fare well against Dawnbreaker. (
Phantom Lancer ,
Beastmaster ,
Lycan).
*
Gust can shut down most of Dawnbreaker's abilities, rendering her useless.
*
Frost Arrows followed by a high attack speed, makes it hard for Dawnbreaker to escape.
* Any Hero with high mobility will be neutralized by dream coil:
Queen of Pain,
Storm Spirit,
Ember Spirit,
Lycan,
Bloodseeker,
Anti-Mage,
Timbersaw.
* A Lycan with
Shapeshift can always run down Puck for a very quick kill due to its low armor. It is important to abuse as many cliffs and trees as possible to escape from a Lycan.
* While heroes with strong mobility are able to get close or flee from Upheaval, heroes with no escaping abilities or that lack long disables will perish against Warlock. Once the Warlock Golem lands with its stun, its hardly possible to escape when he casts Upheaval. Notable examples:
Huskar,
Drow Ranger,
Lion,
Elder Titan, etc.
*
Shapeshift allows Lycan to escape from Upheaval with maximum movement speed.
* Warlock doesn't have a good solution to deal with Lycan's wolves from
Summon Wolves.
*
Dragon Knight's insanely high armor and splash damage can cause Lycan to struggle taking him down.
* Dragon Knight has no built-in disengage from
Frost Arrows, and
Marksmanship procs ignore base armor, bypassing Dragon Knight’s durability for the most part, making Drow one of the few heroes that can deal enough sustained damage to solo kill Dragon Knight.
* With
Aghanim's Scepter, Frost Arrows also apply hypothermia stacks, reducing her target’s regen, which is especially potent against tanks like Dragon Knight. (A similar effect can also be achieved with an
Eye of Skadi).
* Marci can be effective against vulnerable squishy heroes that cannot deal with heroes that jump onto them -
Sniper,
Drow Ranger,
Lina,
Rubick, etc.
*
Howl reduces a good chunk of Marci's attack damage that she relies heavily on, and the armor reduction works better on her because of her low armor.
*
Shapeshift renders Lycan immune to slow from Rebound and Unleash.
* Heroes with high physical damage output but lack of reliable escape mechanisms are always a good target for a solo gank:
Sniper,
Shadow Fiend,
Troll Warlord,
Drow Ranger. Those heroes, however, are dangerous if they manage to close the gap, so take caution.
*
Lycan and
Weaver has abilities that allow them to move at maximum movement speed, and those abilities can't be dispelled, potentially wasting the slow from Demonic Purge.
* Low-health, normally mobile carries who rely entirely on raw attack damage are vulnerable to Bane's nukes and disables:
Anti-Mage,
Clinkz,
Drow Ranger,
Faceless Void,
Gyrocopter,
Juggernaut,
Meepo,
Mirana,
Monkey King,
Morphling,
Phantom Assassin,
Phantom Lancer,
Riki,
Shadow Fiend,
Slark,
Sniper,
Terrorblade,
Troll Warlord,
Weaver.
* Heroes with single-target abilities will be overwhelmed by Lycan and his summons:
Wraith King,
Bane,
Phantom Assassin.
* Can cast
Demonic Conversion on one of Lycan's Wolves, making this a numbers fight.
*
Malefice will greatly reduce his ability to engage
*
Midnight Pulse can steep an area making it harder for Lycan to engage in.
*
Black Hole while definitely a threat to Drow Ranger, is very hard to land as she likes to keep her distance from allies and enemies alike. And if not caught in it, will kill Enigma very quickly due to his low health.
*
Malefice can be removed with a Manta Style.
* Drow Ranger being a fairly low health, high armored agility carry doesn't take much damage from
Midnight Pulse as others would.
*
Demonic Conversion units die very quickly to Marksmanship or even just regular attacks not far into the game within 2 or 3 hits.
* Mirana can use Leap to jump right next to Drow Ranger or can approach her while under cover of the invisibility granted by Moonlight Shadow, which cancels the bonus granted to Drow Ranger by
Marksmanship.
* Her low health makes her easy to burst down with Mirana's spells, especially with
Aghanim's Scepter.
* Mirana can dodge
Gust with good reaction time, or Leap away if Drow tries to slow her without Gust.
* Mirana's Leap is ineffective if Lycan uses
Shapeshift. It also allows him to dodge Sacred Arrow.
* Fragile carries with no reliable escaping mechanism can be bursted down in no time:
Sniper,
Drow Ranger,
Clinkz
* Multiple attackers thanks to summoned units or clones:
Meepo,
Witch Doctor,
Lycan,
Enigma,
Shadow Shaman
* Heroes that can quickly deal damage to her, regardless of how weak they are, can easily break through her Refraction:
* Multiple attackers thanks to summoned units or clones:
Meepo,
Witch Doctor,
Lycan,
Enigma,
Shadow Shaman
* Multiple attackers thanks to illusions:
Phantom Lancer,
Chaos Knight,
Naga Siren (bonus for her
Ensnare). Also despite the visual effects, Templar Assassin does not spill damage against illusions or buildings, so she is not a really good hero to clean up illusions.
* Weak damage but high tick rate or persist in a long time:
Slark,
Gyrocopter,
Queen of Pain,
Shadow Shaman (
Shackles),
Jakiro,
Pugna,
Doom
*
Keeper of the Light has a blind, which causes Lycan to miss his attacks.
* Heroes with hastes:
Dark Seer,
Lycan
* Nyx Assassin has a lot of burst damage from his
Impale,
Mind Flare,
Dagon, and the bonus damage from
Vendetta. All of this damage is enough to kill Drow Ranger.
* Nyx Assassin is usually invisible most of the time thanks to his ability
Vendetta, which allows him to gank Drow Ranger easily.
* However,
Gust is extremely dangerous for Nyx Assassin, as it's silence can render Nyx Assassin unable to lock down Drow Ranger. And if
Gust hits Nyx Assassin while he is invisible with
Vendetta, Drow Ranger will be able to detect him and foil his ganking attempts on her because
Gust reveals invisible units.
* Lycan's high health allows him to easily shrug off Nyx Assassin's burst damage and fend him off.
* As Lycan commonly buys
Black King Bar, he can use it to freely attack Nyx Assassin and chase after him with
Shapeshift.
* Lycan can also use his wolves from
Summon Wolves to attack Nyx Assassin while he has
Spiked Carapace active without getting stunned himself.
*
Flux along with
Spark Wraith allows Arc Warden to quickly burst down Drow Ranger due to her low health.
* However, Drow Ranger can bypass
Magnetic Field's evasion bonus thanks to Marksmanship.
Additional:
* Magnetic Field protects Arc Warden and allies from Drow Ranger's ranged attacks. She most likely will not enter the field since she will lose
Marksmanship's bonus agility.
* Beware however, as
Marksmanship procs will still hit since they have True Strike, so the most damaging arrows will still hit you inside Magnetic Field.
*
Magnetic Field is useless against melee heroes, so Lycan can attack Arc Warden without missing.
*
Flux doesn't affect Lycan that much, because Shapeshift grants immunity to slows and because he is never alone.
* If their
Tempest Double has been called, Lycan can still kill Arc Warden before the double expires.
* Heroes who have summons, which can be quickly cleared by his powerful area of effect skill:
Nature's Prophet,
Enigma,
Lycan
* Powerful physical hitters that can destroy Pangolier during his rolling from afar:
Drow Ranger,
Sniper,
Templar Assassin,
Arc Warden
* Morphling can use Waveform to close the gap between him and Drow Ranger, but should be careful of
Gust and
Frost Arrows.
* Morphling is a natural Manta Style carrier, which dispels the silence from Gust.
*
Attribute Shift (Strength Gain) may not be quick enough to fend off an attacking Drow Ranger.
* Morphling likes to sit on low health with high agility, something Drow Ranger does not particularly care for and will still hit him hard with Marksmanship procs.
*
Morph is a similar story, none of Drow Ranger's spells are particularly good against her.
* Spectre can easily close the distance on Drow Ranger with
Haunt and stick on her with
Spectral Dagger, effectively disables her
Marksmanship.
* Spectre does not care if silenced by
Gust, since Spectre will catch her up regardless.
*
Dispersion can reflect some damage back to Drow Ranger should she chooses to attack.
* Be careful once she got her
Silver Edge as an attempt to shut you down.
* The movement speed granted from
Shapeshift means that Spectre has no way to punish Lycan if he wants to splitpush or pick off supports. Furthermore, he will kite
Haunt and cannot be slowed by
Spectral Dagger.
* Lycan is often part of an early game push strategy which is often the best counter to Spectre because she needs a lot of time and space to come online as a late game carry.
* Heroes who outrange Drow Ranger such as
Sniper,
Tinker.
* You can easily kill a squishy
Sniper, due to your high movement speed and his lack of escape.
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Drow Ranger
* Another hero heavily based on attacks and no mobility, being an easy prey for Treant strong disarms and motion reduction skills.
Lycan
*
Treant Protector grants protection against his attacks with
Living Armor and his ultimate,
Overgrowth is a massive AoE disarm and root that pierces spell immunity, causing trouble to Lycan. You will find yourself in need of an ally's dispel or forced to pop
Black King Bar for its dispel.
Additional:
* Lycan has no kind of teleport, being only able to walk, and heavily relies on his attacks. As Overgrowth roots and disarms the targets, Lycan can't do much in an overgrowth field.