Lion/Counters

Bad against...

 * applies strong dispel on targeted allies, while does the same on  himself upon both casts (manually or automatically), removing disables, such as  and.
 * may offer survivability to 's nuke power by shielding and healing allies and himself.
 * Lack of inner escape and defensive mechanisms increases effectiveness, since it slows per stack (applied upon auto attacking), and silences when it reaches the maximum stack.


 * provides debuff immunity and increased magic resistance to and thus drastically reduces magical damage and prevents most of disables. In 's case, all are fully blocked.
 * Lack of inner escape and defensive mechanisms increases effectiveness, since it applies slows upon auto attacking.
 * damage output excels against 's low health and base armor


 * silences and damages enemies affected by the ability, diminishing 's punishing powers.
 * High burst damage potential plus mobility and disable through, , and allows  to effortlessly chase and kill , the latter lacking proper stats to survive so.
 * allows to dodge,  and breaks 's link.


 * All of 's abilities are dangerous for himself and allies, and may steal it with.
 * powers up abilities cast range and damage making better at using 's abilities than Lion himself.
 * can easily catch and disable while also manipulating his position, rendering him helpless.


 * 's lack of escapes gives easier time to catch him through.
 * gives the advantage of being untargetable, nullifying single target abilities (such as non-upgraded,  and ).
 * applies multiple instances of strong dispel on, great against any of 's disables.
 * 's low health pool and low armor makes him extremely vulnerable to 's high damage output.


 * is a core builder of, along with natural high health pool, thus making it hard for to burst him down.
 * thwarts long disables attempts if receives enough damage.
 * and long cast and reach ranges will effortlessly burst  down and make him vulnerable, especially considering  lack of escape and defensive stats.


 * Just like, the may effortlessly put  in life threatning danger and render him helpless.
 * 's longer cast range and lingering disable makes struggle to defend himself, possibly being affected by 's abilities without even seeing the thrall.

Others

 * has an incredibly fragile health pool, making him weak against nukers like or.
 * is extremely dependent on his abilities. Silences like 's, magic resistance like 's , and dispels like 's all make his abilities less effective.
 * lacks mobility or escape mechanisms, making him an easy target for abilities like 's or 's, or combos like 's  into.
 * In general, struggles to play against any sort of burst damage and heroes that can deal well against crowd controls (commonly but not exclusively by removing or being immune to them).

Items

 * makes all of 's abilities ineffective against a particular target.
 * and silence  and thus prevent him from using his critical abilities.
 * reflects all of 's abilities, potentially stunning or hexing him or even making him burst himself down.
 * may be used to defensively, as to dodge abilities, or offensively, as to disable and catch potential targets. It's further effective when the target doesn't have many defensive options.

Good against...

 * has a very low health pool, allowing to burst her down.
 * Lack of any innate escape mechanism makes her an easy target for 's disables.
 * Early on she can't deal as much damage to be life threatning. Her is her best weapon against.


 * lacks any protection against 's disables early in the game.
 * 's and  may roughly hit  at the latter increased attack range, making it possible to gank and to disable him from afar in clashes.
 * is incredibly dangerous for as it may shred him away from fights, or in the worst scenario, cause his death.


 * is very fragile without any form of magic resistance, allowing to easily burst her down.
 * is a slow heal, making not as much effective against 's burst as it could be.
 * Her raw movement speed is a fair escape/mobility mechanism, which may allow her to avoid a blindly cast, but does nothing against the rest of 's abilities, since they are single target and can't miss.
 * Since 's damage comes mostly from his skills, does nothing to mitigate it.


 * lacks mobility or escape mechanisms. and  can neutralize her strong damage potential and allow for 's team to focus her down.
 * In addition to easily breaking her commonly bought with its low cooldown,  can quickly drain her, making her far less tanky.
 * , along with, destroy illusions instantly, which may be extremely helpfull and efficient against core builders of , like herself.


 * Despite her high mobility, or  can lock  down, make her vulnerable and mitigate her damage output.
 * Although she has high evasion through, has a rather low health pool, making her weak to 's magical burst.


 * 's exceptional ability to elude and survive through clashes and ganks is hard countered by in every aspect.
 * is very mana dependent and has a rather small mana pool in the beginning of the game, of which can deplete and lessen his early game presence.
 * followed by in the huge majority of the time is enough to kill.
 * can be point targeted and hits through.
 * 's has a fair long duration, by which will not be able to deal damage, or even survive a coordinated attack, and it's single target, of which cannot be dodged.
 * easily breaks . Its low cooldown allows to infinitely break it whenever it recharges.
 * and when paired for the long disable duration may diminish  efficiency, possibly causing  to not undo as much damage as he would.


 * has a very low mana pool and is extremely dependant on it to cast his high mana cost abilities, so will make him struggle way too hard, even not being able to active his passive ability, forcing the  to buy  as soon as possible.
 * Althought may not be as fragile to struggle against 's damage, it's much easier to disable and harass him, as  doesn't have any mobility at all, his only gap closer being  which costs too much mana for his mana pool, and may only affect one target.


 * 's instant cast point shuts down his initiation and buys time for his allies to catch up.
 * has to be cautious when fighting, as he has no protection against . If caught out in a stun, the high magic damage could end him quickly.

Others

 * High priority targets like, , can't get caught out from 's long range disables, making it harder to them fulfill their roles.
 * Long range disables are really effective against dangerous area controllers and channeling Heroes, like, or , as it may cancel them or prevent enemies from doing further damage while keeping  in a relatively safe distance of the warzone.
 * can instantly shred many targets, especially fragile Heroes like, , or.
 * and instantly kill any illusions.  upgraded with  also shreds most illusions.
 * 's may upgrade, and  with his Talent Tree and Aghanim's itens to make them affect more secondary targets or turn them into AoE abilities. This can make things difficult for heroes like , , and  who rely on illusion armies.
 * has an extremely long range and low cooldown. It can easily deplete most heroes of their entire mana pools, especially those with smaller mana pools such as or.
 * In general, fares quite well against fragile Heroes (such as most Agility, Intelligence and some Universal Heroes), illusion based Heroes, and Heroes with low mana pool.
 * As opposed to his weakness against burst damage, is fairly strong against Heroes that deal sustained damage, since his disables will shut them for as long as the debuffs lasts, greatly diminishing their overall effectivness as damage dealers.

Items

 * is easily broken by, from a safe distance, and always having cooldown to do so.

Works well with...

 * Combined with . lion can deal a huge amount of damage with


 * Combined with, Mana Drain can not only prevent enemy heroes from using potentially vital abilities, but it can also set up for a devastating.
 * Although Anti-Mage already is great at chasing targets with, Lion's disables allow Anti-Mage to spend even less time chasing targets and more time attacking them.


 * Both Lion and Centaur have great AoE disables and great damage. Centaur can initiate and tank for Lion, while Lion can support and cast his abilities from the back, allowing them both to stay alive and deal tons of damage.


 * Leshrac has various forms of disable or lockdown and burst. Along with Lion's disable and burst, they can keep enemies from reacting at all while bursting them down.


 * Tinker has high burst damage potential with a mediocre health pool, making Lion's disables very effective in both aggressive and defensive situations.
 * Tinker's and Lion's combined burst damage in later stages of the game will likely deplete any target's health pool.


 * Lion's disables can easily lock down potential targets for Ursa, which Ursa normally struggles with. Without any mobility or kiting issues, Ursa can easily tear down enemy heroes.

Others

 * Lion is a hero with many disables and versatility, so he is an excellent addition to nearly any team, especially those in need of disables.
 * Powerful healers and protective supports such as, , or can make up for Lion's fragility.
 * Other nukers and disablers, like, , or can combo together with Lion to sum up longer disables and more damage.

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

Lion/Противостоящие