Lion/Counters

Bad against...

 * can temporarily make the immune to spells, thus he can be a huge threat to  during team fights.


 * All 's spells are blocked by.


 * High base magic resistance, which makes harder to kill him by using spells. Also, you're not dealing with only 1 Meepo but 2-5 Meepo at time (although a good works greatly against the Geomancer).


 * prevents from casting spells during team fights and he can easily kill, due to his powerful nuking abilities, mobility and invulnerability , making it harder to target.


 * All of 's abilities are worth stealing with.

Others

 * is a great disabler, possibly the best one, but it comes with a price: being kinda fragile and depending on his spells, thus making him weak against nukers and spell counters (such as Silence, Magic Immunity, Dispels, etc).
 * He also lacks escape abilities and some Heroes, like, might take a good advantage of this.
 * is also another foe to, as can get easily near  and burst him down in seconds.  also has immunity to single target abilities when he casts , which  has 3, and the ability to dispel any debuff  throws at him with.

Items

 * can't do anything against . None of his spell can pierce it.
 * is a silencing item, countering 's kit.
 * , and other dispels will remove 's disable.
 * Beware of and .  will block any targeted ability, so it's recommended to use  first, and then after it has broken, cast your powerful disables., on other hand, has the active ability , which will reflect any spell that targets the wielder for the duration, so it's recommended to avoid casting spells while it is actived.

Good against...

 * has a very low manapool and depends on it to cast . 's will render him useless.


 * Lion has which is good spell to counter PA, and he can also kill PA with, thankfully to PA low hp pool.


 * Low HP pool, vulnerable to disables, mana dependent. 's favorite prey.


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Others

 * High priority targets, like, , and others Heroes will suffer in 's long range disables. In addition to his powerful nuke, he becomes a high threat to most of teams.
 * 's powerful nuke is feared by most of teams, as it can instantly shred an average target. It excels mostly at fragile Heroes, like some Intelligence Heroes (,, , , etc.) or some Agility Heroes (, , , , etc.).
 * 's disables are really effective against channeling Heroes, like, and others.
 * 's and  instantly kill illusions.

Works well with...

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