Death Prophet/Counters

Bad against...

 * prevents Death Prophet from gaining health from Spirit Siphon and Exorcism.
 * However, there is a way for Death Prophet to counter Ice Blast: Since Death Prophet is not healed until the spirits are returned to her. She can attempt to outrun her spirits to delay their return until Ice Blast duration runs out.


 * Death Prophet has a high mana pool and due to her heavy reliance on her spells, she will be a prime target for.
 * Death Prophet has less mobility than Anti-Mage due to.


 * can stop Death Prophet from casting spells, which makes her useless during team fights if she didn't cast Exorcism before the fight, and also nullifies healing from Exorcism and Spirit Syphon. Furthermore, Doom can use to chase after her.


 * is a great initiation to kill Death Prophet before she can cast Exorcism. Furthermore, Legion Commander often builds and can reflect Exorcism's damage to kill Death Prophet easily.


 * nullifies the physical damage from Exorcism during teamfights. And when upgraded with, it also prevents Death Prophet from pushing towers. However, Death Prophet can partially counter this issue with , a common item on Death Prophet.
 * dispels.


 * ,, and can hit hard in the early stages of the game, and due to Shadow Fiend's high attack damage, most of Death Prophet's last hits will be denied in the laning phase. Additionally,  can deal massive damage or kill Death Prophet at the start of team fights in combination with  or.

Others

 * Generally, without Exorcism, Death Prophet can contribute very little during teamfights, especially when she has been silenced, hexed or is focused down.
 * is another good hero to shutdown Death Prophet with as his core item. His  stops her from initiating and casting spells.
 * Heroes that can kill Death Prophet with nukes can prevent her from using Exorcism to its full duration or using it at all:, , ,.

Items

 * can reflect Exorcism's damage when active. Since Exorcism will continue to do damage as long as it is active or until Death Prophet is dead there is no way for her to stop someone from using 's active to harm her using Exorcism.
 * and can temporarily stop Death Prophet from casting spells, which renders Death Prophet useless during fights unless Death Prophet buys a dispelling item.
 * can slow her down and drain her mana while attacking.
 * ,, , can easily dispel Death Prophet's silence.
 * can be used to disarm Death Prophet and make her more vulnerable to magical damage, it also can be used to protect it's owner from Exorcism. However, Death Prophet can counter this with Crypt Swarm and Spirit Siphon, which deal magical damage.

Good against...

 * Death Prophet's allows her to prevent Bounty Hunter from escaping with Shadow Walk.
 * If Bounty Hunter cannot escape with Shadow Walk while affected by, she will be able to burst him down with and.


 * can deal some serious damage to Clockwerk while he is in while healing Death Prophet in process.  can also be used to take down Clockwerk faster while he is in.
 * Death Prophet usually buys a or  which allows her to easily escape from  or save her allies from Clockwerk.
 * can prevent Clockwerk from using his ablities during teamfight, especially since Clockwerk is an easy target for it while in.


 * will prevent Chen from activating.
 * and can clear Chen's creeps and heavily damage Chen.
 * heavily damages Chen and slows him, while healing Death Prophet.


 * Quas-Exort Invoker is also a good matchup due to the fact he has no to run faster due to the movement impairment on his stealth. The  and  combo doesn't harm her as well since you can drain Invoker's HP with Spirit Siphon which forces him to retreat.
 * Silence also prevents Invoker from using or casting his main spells temporarily. There is no way Invoker can block it unless he has  to cyclone himself or has help from allies.


 * While Morphling can burst her down with, Death Prophet does have tools to disrupt him. A Morphling affected by makes it unable to use  to increase its health pool or use  to escape.


 * Because Timbersaw relies heavily on his spells to deal damage, Silence can easily disable him in a team fight.
 * Exorcism's spirits do not count as regular attacks, and will not add stacks of.


 * helps clear waves of Treants.
 * prevents Nature's Prophet from using Sprout or Teleportation.
 * kills Treants with ease.

Others

 * In early to mid stage, Silence is also a great way to counter escape oriented heroes such as, , and to prevent them from escaping, provided that they don't have any basic dispels.
 * Spirit Siphon does a lot of magical damage, especially in the early game. This allows her to demolish low health heroes such as, , especially when combined with her other spells.
 * Because Exorcism's damage is not reduce by damage block abilities or items, Death Prophet can be very good against heroes who rely on armor to survive:, , ,

Items

 * While can be used to disarm Death Prophet and make her more vulnerable to magical damage and to protect it's owner from Exorcism. Death Prophet can counter this with Crypt Swarm and Spirit Siphon, which deal magical damage.
 * cannot reduce damage from Exorcism.

Works well with...

 * disables enemies and allows Death Prophet to deal a lot of damage with Exorcism. It can be used as counter-initiation if Death Prophet is focused first in teamfights.


 * allows Death Prophet to deal a lot of damage with Exorcism. Even if Death Prophet is caught inside the Chronosphere, the spirits will still continue to move and do damage.


 * has perfect synergy with Death Prophet since it slows enemies, preventing them from kiting her. It also reduces magic resistance which can make Crypt Swarm and Spirit Siphon more potent.
 * reduces the lengthy cooldown of Spirit Siphon. Also, it tops off her mana pool since she often has mana problems.
 * synergizes extremely well with Death Prophet's AoE abilities, especially Exorcism.


 * and can easily clear waves of creeps, summons and illusions.
 * can give Death Prophet bonus armor during the teamfights, for she is very frail and cannot endure a lot if she gets focused.
 * prevents enemy heroes from using abilites against Sven in attempts to counter-initiate against him.
 * and can very quickly make a short work out of enemy heroes and buildings alike.

Others

 * Heroes with strong defensive abilities (,, etc.) can help Death Prophet survive longer to deal more damage and even heal herself when Exorcism ends.
 * Initiators with large AoE crowd control effects are fantastic with Death Prophet as they keep enemies still for Exorcism. The spirits from Exorcism are also capable of taking down towers quickly so she works well with others who are also capable of pushing quickly and destroying buildings.
 * Heroes with abilities to summon units such as, or able to control neutral creeps such as ,  also are a great way to help Death Prophet push and destroy enemy buildings.

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

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