Medusa/Counters

Good against...

 * Enchantress often has a small army of neutral creeps, allowing Medusa to hit her with a later bounce of her Mystic Snake.
 * Untouchable is ignored by secondary attacks from Split Shot.


 * Lifestealer's low mobility makes him easy to kite.
 * Stone Gaze pierces, wasting its cooldown and making Lifestealer unable to fight.


 * Mana Shield blocks all damage before reductions, negating the Ethereal Blade + Adaptive Strike burst combo.


 * Mana Shield tanks most of the damage from Reaper's Scythe; with sufficient mana, the kill threshold drops to 15%/17%/19% health (before reductions).
 * Heartstopper Aura does not chip away at Medusa's mana.
 * Necrophos has a movement speed equal to Medusa, and is easy to chase down with a slowing item in Medusa's inventory.


 * Stone Gaze allows Medusa to easily kite and kill Sven.
 * Mystic Snake eats away at Sven's small mana pool.
 * Mana Shield negates much of Sven's burst damage.


 * Split Shot can destroy Tombstone Zombies and Tombstone itself while still damaging heroes.
 * Mana Shield reduces the impact of Decay and Flesh Golem's Plague Aura.


 * Mana Shield can makes Medusa harder to kill with Enigma's Black Hole
 * Medusa's Split Shot can kill Demonic Conversion creeps easier.
 * Stone Gaze makes it hard for Enigma to approach Medusa for a Black Hole.


 * Mystic Snake can harass Axe in lane and drain his small mana pool.
 * Mana Shield reduces the effectiveness of Counter Helix.
 * Split Shot and Mystic Snake can remove Battle Hunger by hitting creeps.
 * Stone Gaze makes it very difficult for Axe to pursue.


 * Stone Gaze negates Dispersion's damage reduction and allows Medusa to kite Spectre.
 * Spectre's small mana pool is depleted quickly by Mystic Snake.
 * Split Shot can clear Haunt illusions quickly.

Others

 * Heroes that rely on summons. A few summons, such Lycan wolves allow Medusa to bounce her Mystic Snake between them to hit the hero for additional damage. Many weak summons, such as Broodmother force the group to tank Medusa's split shot.
 * Heroes that rely on Black King Bar to survive teamfights.
 * In theory Medusa counters all melee heroes, even though that is not the case with Mana-burning heroes and heroes with escapes, Medusa can outfight even Anti-Mage if he gets petrified.

Works well with...

 * Berserker's Call can force enemies to face Medusa during her Stone Gaze.


 * Deals area damage with ultimate and can stun/disable to cast Stone Gaze and make it easier to freeze enemy heroes.


 * benefits Medusa's Mana Shield greatly, and also allows more liberal use of Mystic Snake.
 * Stone Gaze slows enemies and stuns them for a duration. With correct timing, Keeper of the Light can land a fully-charged on multiple enemies.
 * helps ensure enemies face Medusa when she casts Stone Gaze. Both ultimate abilities have a long duration, causing massive disruption in teamfights.


 * further improves Medusa's tankiness
 * forces an enemy to face Medusa during Stone Gaze
 * can be used to force enemy meele heroes to scatter away from Medusa


 * The protection offered by Stone Gaze allows Phoenix to place its much more aggressively
 * helps to recover Medusa's HP
 * The upgrade for Supernova allows Phoenix to save Medusa from a dire situation, and allows Medusa to fully recover her HP and MP, provided that the egg lasts 6 seconds


 * can be used to protect Medusa if she's getting overwhelmed by physical damage


 * As long as Medusa has full HP, Pugna can cast on her to restore her mana


 * During teamfights, casting Disruption upon Medusa creates a pair of illusions with Split Shot and 80% of her base damage.
 * Shadow Demon can stack 2-3 jungle camps at the same time, speeding up Medusa's farming phase.
 * makes it easier for Medusa to chase down enemy heroes fleeing from Stone Gaze

Others

 * Heroes that deal pure damage like Tinker's Aghanim Laser upgrade can give him enough time to cast it a couple of times or Outworld Devourer can deal the full damage of his Arcane Orb and stack a lot of intelligence for those 3 seconds of Stone Gaze
 * Everyone with good physical damage and lock down for a good Stone Gaze
 * Abilities that grant sustain or heroes with sustain to keep the enemy kited and distracted while Medusa slowly destroys them

Items

 * ,, and restores both health and mana to Medusa, doubly effective as a sustain item since she can tank with Mana Shield.

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

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