Brewmaster/Counters

Bad against...

 * kills 's units very quickly.


 * 's instant cast time will force Brewmaster into the awkward situation of needing some form of magic immunity or block to prevent being immediately hex upon blinking in, or wait until Lion has used all his crowd control before entering a fight. His direct magic burst also makes Brewmaster's worthless versus Lion.


 * Outworld Devourer's pure damage will mop up 's units very quickly.


 * Reason


 * 's instant cast time will often silence Brewmaster before he can do anything.
 * Brewmaster also has no defense against Skywrath Mage's massive magical damage.

Others

 * In general, Brewmaster is very vulnerable to heroes with silence abilities.
 * Blinking heroes like or  can often chase down an injured Brewmaster after his ultimate expires.

Items

 * will render a hero immune to all of Brewmaster's disables.

Good against...

 * will cause Huskar to miss most of his attacks, preventing both his damage output and his lifesteal.
 * Brewmaster can use to disable Huskar's healer for much longer than most other heroes can, to make Huskar vulnerable.
 * Huskar has no way to stop Brewmaster from using by himself, but can cut a good amount of his high health away if Huskar's team wants to burst Brewmaster down during a different disable.


 * Brewmaster can make the Spirit Bear a much smaller threat with.
 * removes the bear from a fight so that his team can easily focus on the hero.
 * While most heroes would be worn down by a Spirit Bear  in the time it takes to kill Lone Druid, Brewmaster is protected in.


 * Although Lycan cannot be slowed during, is still a valuable tool for causing both Lycan and his wolves to miss attacks, which is his only way of dealing damage.
 * Brewmaster can waste a large portion of Lycan's ultimate by putting him in.
 * Lycan has no way to stop Brewmaster from using by himself.
 * Lycan's team often tries to push towers as a group, and Brewmaster excels at winning teamfights while trying to defend a tower.


 * Templar Assassin has no way to damage heroes other than attacking, making a great way to shut her down.
 * The three Primal Spirits all attacking Templar Assassin at once will remove her quickly, especially with Fire Panda's.
 * Templar Assassin has no way to stop Brewmaster from using by herself, and may get unlucky and miss her  if trying to burst him during her ally's disable.


 * will cause Ursa to miss most of his attacks, and can be kept on him constantly.
 * If Ursa uses Brewmaster can use  to render him harmless during his ultimate.
 * Brewmaster has two spells to slow down Ursa, allowing his team to kite him around easily.

Others

 * In general, Brewmaster's blind, evasion and disables makes him good against physical damage carries:, , , , ,.
 * Although he usually saves it for teamfights, Brewmaster has the option to use to gank underfarmed heroes, especially supports, by himself.

Works well with...

 * Dazzles can guarantee that Brewmaster gets off his  in team fights.


 * With his Omniknight can protect Brewmaster from stuns and silences allowing him to safely use his.


 * With and  Oracle can basically guarantee that Brewmster gets to use his.


 * Tiny can use to throw Brewmaster into fights and allow him to gets off a good  and.

Others

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