Crystal Maiden/Counters

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 * allows Tusk to easily cancel from a safe distance without putting himself in any danger, in addition to  being a high enough damage nuke to easily kill off Crystal Maiden.


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 * Doom alone can easily pick off Crystal Maiden since she is fairly fragile, and prevents her from using any abilities in a fight, making her impact negligible.


 * is a great initiation into Crystal Maiden, preventing her from using or any other abilities and allowing the enemy team to quickly kill her before she can aid her team in a fight.


 * Omniknight's prevents Crystal Maiden from using her spells on important targets in the early game, before  and other magical reduction is even an issue.

Others

 * In general, heros with AoE or long range disables hinder Crystal Maiden, preventing her from using to help her team in a fight.
 * In the same vein, heroes with silences can also prevent Crystal Maiden from being able to impact a fight.
 * Heroes with large health pools or good innate spell resistance (think or ) can be very problematic for Crystal Maiden, since even if they are under the effect of her ultimate for the entire duration, the damage output is simply not enough to kill or force them to retreat.
 * Heroes who can easily harass Crystal Maiden out of lane in the early game can prevent Crystal Maiden from being able to level effectively, and can ultimately slow down her level 6, 11, and 16 to a point where enemy carries already have items to address her ultimate.

Items

 * and other sources of magical immunity/reduction make Crystal Maiden nearly irrelevant, preventing her from using her abilities or from dealing its damage or slow.  These items make it easy for enemy heroes to kill her off quickly - even in her ultimate.
 * , and other sources of bash are very problematic for Crystal Maiden, because even if she owns a, the stun will pierce it and cancel her ultimate.
 * and are an issue for Crystal Maiden in the same way that they are problematic for any spell based hero - if she can't use her abilities due to a silence, her fight impact is greatly reduced.

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