Death Prophet/Counters

Bad against...

 * Death Prophet has high mana pool and due to her reliance on her spells she will be be vulnerable to his ult nuking her early to mid game


 * can stop Death Prophet from casting spells during team fights, especially if is not active, which makes her useless. Furthermore he can still cast  to chase you.


 * is a great initiation to disrupt Death Prophet. Even if Death Prophet has already cast Legion Commanders  high physical attack  can kill you quickly and make Exorcism useless.


 * His illusions make it harder for you to  as it is hard to tell which illusion is the real one. Even if you have  active he can spawn more illusions when he is attacking you.
 * Heroes that have the ability to summon illusion such as and  are good counters against Death Prophet.


 * Tinker is capable of killing Death Prophet quickly with his nuking abilities, quickly rendering  useless as the spirits disappear quickly upon death.

Others

 * Generally, without Death Prophet can contribute very little during teamfights, especially when she has been silenced, hexed or is focused down.
 * Heroes that can kill Death Prophet with nuking abilities such as, , can completely shut down Death Prophet.
 * Riki is another good hero to shutdown Death Prophet with Diffusal Blade as his core item. His Smoke Screen stops her from initiating.
 * Nyx Assassin is another good hero to shutdown her. His Spiked Carapace triggers on life sap as well as allowing him or his team to easily close in on him.

Items

 * can reflect 's damage when active. Since will continue to do damage as long as it is active or until you are dead there is no way to stop someone from using 's active to harm you using your spirits. ..
 * and can temporarily stop Death Prophet from casting spells, which renders Death Prophet useless during fights..
 * Death Prophet loves to build Eul, Diffusal Blade can purge her down and drain her mana while attacking..

Good against...

 * He is your best matchup due to his low base movement speed, his nuke doesn't harm since you can recover it with.


 * Quas-Exort Invoker is also good 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  which forces him to retreat.


 * Morphling is a bad matchup but Death Prophet has tools to disrupt him. Morphling affected by makes it unable to use  to gain strength or use  to escape.


 * Death Prophet counters Timbersaw's  as it is his primary means of escape,   also temporarily renders Timbersaw useless as he is a primarily spell oriented hero.


 * Exorcism can quickly kill any Treants or Necronomicon units.
 * Silence prevents Teleportation or Sprout.

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Works well with...

 * His combos well with  as enemies are unable to react to the spirits. Even if Death Prophet is caught within  Chronosphere the spirits continue to move and do damage.


 * Similar to Faceless Void, his is a great enabler as it keeps enemies within range of  's spirits.


 * The treants summoned from along with  can take down towers even quicker.

Others

 * Initiators with large AOE crowd control effects are fantastic with Death Prophet as they keep enemies still for . The spirits from are also capable of taking down towers quickly so she works well with others who are also capable of pushing fast and destroying buildings.

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