Night Stalker/Counters

Bad against...

 * Chaos Knight is very tanky during the laning stage. The kind of hero Night Stalker cannot bully out of lane very easily even at night time.


 * Night Stalker's slow is useless against Lycan if he activated.
 * Night Stalker will also find it very hard to keep up with Lycan to keep him silenced.


 * Root from prevents Night Stalker escaping or ganking during day and night.
 * can be effective since Night Stalker can't withstand fighting Illusions. If he's unable to tell which Naga Siren is real, he will have a hard time to land his Void.
 * passives reduces Night Stalker armor and less tanky.


 * Night Stalker has no AoE abilities cannot take out by Phantom Lancer's illusions.
 * Void is useless against Phantom Lancer can quickly harass by or dispelled by.
 * As (core item for Phantom Lancer) can slow Night Stalker either turns in to night and drains Night Stalker low mana pool.


 * and will decrease his mobility and attack damage when attacking head-on or ganking.
 * will keep Night Stalker in place since he likes to be in the middle of the fight.


 * In lane and teamfights, is incredibly difficult to deal with and deals percentage based damage.
 * keeps Night Stalker in place.
 * Silencing Underlord is not that important since he only casts his spells and Night Stalker will most likely lack the damage to kill him anywhere near the duration ending.
 * reduces physical damage, Night Stalkers main damage output.

Others

 * 's during daytime be a problem as his high mobility can be altered for a long period of time which is very unideal for him and also very tanky than Night Stalker when daytime is turned.
 * turns night to day, overiding Dark Ascension, during.
 * Heroes that are hard to gank:, ,
 * Heroes with stronger lane presence:, , , ,....

Items

 * sends slow back to Night Stalker.
 * dispels debuffs of Night Stalker.
 * prevents Slow once.

Good against...

 * Storm Spirit is absolutely helpless if caught within Night Stalkers silence range.
 * Common items Storm Spirit will build will not remove his AoE silence.


 * Night Stalker has a small mana pool, so against him is usually very ineffective. He also only needs to cast 2 spells at the beginning, so the missing mana does not hinder Night Stalker much.
 * Crippling Fear also prevents Anti-Mage from escaping with, allowing Night Stalker and his allies to kill him off.


 * The long silence at night prevents Bounty Hunter from escaping with their invisibility spells. Like Clinkz, he also has really low base health, so that Night Stalker can usually kill them alone during one cast of Crippling Fear at night.


 * The long silence at night prevents Clinkz from escaping with their invisibility spells. he also has really low base health, so that Night Stalker can usually kill them alone during one cast of Crippling Fear at night.


 * has a short stun and creates an impassable ridge. However, Night Stalker can cast Hunter in the Night during nighttime to fly over it.
 * Night Stalker can silence Shaker (though Shaker is rarely a primary target).


 * Keeper of the Light's upgrade loses much of its power, due to Night Stalker being able to reduce the duration of daytime by a lot.


 * Night Stalker is one of the best heroes to find (and silence) Tinker in the trees as well as one of the best fears to Tinker in the laning stage.


 * With Dark Ascension and Gem of True Sight, Night Stalker can easily find and kill Riki. And he is tanky hero to fight Riki any stage of the game.


 * With Dark Ascension he can keep vision on Slark, disabling his regeneration.

Others

 * Heroes with low health:, , ...
 * Heroes that have a poor laning stage:, ...
 * Spell casters will find it difficult to have an impact should the Night Stalker focus on them such as:, , ...
 * Heroes that rely on stealth will find it very difficult, since Night Stalker has some of the best mobility at night in the game.

Works well with...

 * Night Stalker synergizes with a lot and in a both directions.


 * Sniper has high night vision range and can attack from long range while Night Stalker be a front-line tank for him.


 * turns day into night for 10 seconds while Dark Ascension grants Luna the bonus vision while active.


 * places all enemy heroes into a small area, paired with Crippling Fear and a slow can effectively silence the entire other team.

Others

 * Heroes with bonus night vision:, , , ,

List of heroes that counter Night Stalker, and list of heroes that work well with Night Stalker.

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