Omniknight/Counters

Bad against...

 * from instantly removes Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel from Omniknight's allies in its radius of effect.


 * turns Omniknight into a walking creep, or completely takes out his buffed cores, also removing Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel in the process.
 * With used on Satyr Banisher, Doom will have access to Satyr Banisher's, which will allow him to remove Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel.


 * Enchantress's deals pure damage instead of physical damage and ignores, thus fully negating one of Omniknight's most important abilities for teamfights.
 * Similar to Doom, Enchantress can use on Satyr Banisher, which will give her access to Satyr Banisher's, and allow her to remove Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel.


 * dispels Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel from multiple targets.
 * Guardian Angel is generally useless against Invoker as he primarily relies on magical damage.
 * depletes Omniknight's already small mana pool.
 * Invoker's many disables keep Omniknight's team occupied until Guardian Angel times out.


 * is generally useless against Lina as she primarily relies on magical damage. Lina can also dispel it with as she is a hero who often goes for it.  can later be upgraded into, which will allow Lina to escape from Omniknight.
 * can often finish off Omniknight's allies before he can save them with and . This can become even worse once Lina picks  damage is pure and pierces spell immunity talent, which will allow it to ignore both, any form of spell immunity and.


 * Guardian Angel does not offer protection from, though it will negate damage from.
 * Luna's high magical damage from and  can often finish allied heroes before Omniknight can save them with.


 * Although Naga Siren relies mostly on physical damage, can be used to time out, giving Naga Siren's team an easy opportunity to counter-initiate.
 * allows it's owner to deal magical damage to multiple enemy heroes at once, and since Naga Siren often buys it, is not a very good ability for protection against Naga Siren.
 * Likewise, Nuker build Naga Siren (which primarly consists of items such as, , and ) can render  useless. Although Nuker is not a role Naga Siren should be playing.


 * 's AoE dispel will remove Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel.


 * 's pure damage penetrates Guardian Angel's defense.
 * 's mana steal is devastating to Omniknight's already low mana pool.


 * All of Omniknight's abilities are valuable for Rubick to, and Omniknight has no throwaway ability to cover his last used spell.


 * takes Omniknight out of the fight completely.
 * are a great harass vs Omniknight during the laning stages of the game, since it doesn't aggro creeps & ignores his high base armor. It deals pure damage, which means it can also go through Guardian Angel.
 * Silencer's intelligence steal can also cause Omniknight to falter in the early phases as it reduces his ability to use his spells.


 * Although Sven relies often on physical damage, an upgraded  can dispel Guardian Angel with its wide radius.

Others

 * Heroes with large magical AoE damage will fare well against Omniknight:, , ,.
 * Heroes who can harass Omniknight out of lane will keep him weak in the mid game:, ,.
 * Heroes who can drain mana can make Omniknight useless after he uses one or two abilities:, ,.
 * Heroes that can purge buffs can dispel Guardian Angel:, ,.

Items

 * and other items that prevents the casting of abilities can make Omniknight useless. However, skilled Omniknight can easily counter this issue by purchasing, which allows him to dispel the silence.
 * and can dispel Guardian Angel.  can later be upgraded into, which will allow it's owner to espace from Omniknight.
 * allows it's owner to deal magical damage to multiple enemy heroes affected by Guardian Angel's protection.
 * and can heavily reduce any healing Omniknight tries to provide to the heroes affected by them.
 * combined with and  can often kill enemy heroes before Omniknight can save them.
 * will allow heroes reliant on basic attacks to have their next five attacks deal magical damage, and thus, ignore Guardian Angel's protection, making Omniknight weak even against heroes he naturally counters.

Good against...

 * Omniknight's healing prevents allies from dropping low enough for
 * dispels.
 * Axe also tends to get close to allied heroes in order to damage them with his, which can easily be punished by Purification.


 * s can be easily killed with Purification.
 * Heavenly Grace dispels the stun from and the armor reduction from.
 * Guardian Angel works well against Chaos Knight's overwhelming reliance on physical burst damage.


 * 's damage is blocked by Guardian Angel.
 * can dispel allies if Omniknight is able to cast it.


 * Guardian Angel can negate all the physical damage output from Faceless Void during.
 * If Faceless Void s on top of an ally Purification + Heavenly Grace can turn the fight around.


 * (and ) is blocked by Guardian Angel.


 * Both Guardian Angel and Purification are perfect counters against.


 * and can easily catch Phantom Assassin once she jumps with  in to attack.
 * can be used to dispel slow from, and disables from the items Phantom Assassin relies on.
 * Phantom Assassin depends entirely on physical attacks and her damage output is 100% physical. Therefore, since she has no any sources of magical damage output and hates going for items that deal magical damage like, and ,  will render her completely useless.
 * , and  can be used to save an allied hero before Phantom Assassin can finish them off with.


 * Guardian Angel completely counters if Omniknight is able to cast it.

Others

 * Heroes who rely strongly on melee physical damage will fare badly against Omniknight's Guardian Angel:, , , , ,

Works well with...

 * A Purification on Clockwerk while he is fighting inside will turn the fight in Clockwerk's favor.
 * Heavenly Grace dispels the stun from while providing him with durability.


 * solves Omniknight's mana problems, and Omniknight can keep her protected in return with Heavenly Grace and Guardian Angel during her Freezing Field. Her slows and root also pair well with Degen Aura and Purification.


 * solves Omniknight's mana problems.


 * A successful is an easy set-up for a Purification.
 * Omniknight can also offset the self-damage of with Heavenly Grace.


 * let's Storm Spirit get close for an easy Purification.

Others

 * Heroes who can jump into enemy formations gives Omniknight an opening to use Purification offensively:, , ,

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

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