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Bad against...[]
- Frostbite roots and disarms your creeps for 10 seconds.
- Crystal Maiden has a lot of AOE damage between Crystal Nova and Freezing Field to clear your creeps out side and during team fights.
- Enchantress can turn Chen's own creeps against him with Enchant. The creeps still keep the health buff Holy Persuasion granted them.
- Untouchable and Nature's Attendants make her difficult to kill.
- Echo Slam will deal immense damage due to the amount of creeps Chen will have.
- Fissure and Enchant Totem deal large amounts of AOE damage, wearing down non-ancient creeps that Chen converts.
- Chen's fragility and low mobility make him an enticing Duel target.
- Overwhelming Odds and Moment of Courage can take advantage of converted creeps' numbers.
- With enough damage from Duel stacks, Legion Commander can also often kill any of Chen's unfortunate allies before he can use Hand of God.
- Storm Hammer locks down Chen and his converted creeps.
- Great Cleave and God's Strength can destroy Chen and his creeps quickly.
- Warcry minimizes damage taken from creeps' attacks.
- Lina's high damage burst from Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array and Laguna Blade can easily kill Chen's allies or Chen himself before he can use Hand of God.
- Luna's Moon Glaives and Lunar Blessing can easily kill Chen's creeps.
- Monkey King can kill Chen or any of his allies with his physical damage burst from Boundless Strike and Jingu Mastery before he can use Hand of God.
- None of the neutral creeps have any abilities to destroy trees, which makes Chen susceptible for ganks with Tree Dance and Primal Spring.
- Venomancer's damage over time can force Chen to use Hand of God prematurely, potentially wasting a chance to save his allies during a teamfight.
- Liquid Fire and Dual Breath can clear Chen's creeps, and kill his allies before he uses Hand of God.
- Macropyre can quickly clear Chen's creeps and deal intense damage to his allies.
- Burrowstrike and Sand Storm will deal a large amount of damage to Chen's creeps.
- Caustic Finale will quickly clear Chen's creeps at low health.
- With Timber Chain, Timbersaw can slow, catch up with, or escape from Chen and his creeps.
- Chakram can clear Chen's creeps and slow him.
- Attacks from multiple creeps quickly build Reactive Armor stacks.
- Heartstopper Aura can do a decent damage overtime to Chen's High-Health-Creep Army, and Chen does not have any source of burst damage to Necrophos.
- Necrophos can purchase a Spirit Vessel to provide an AOE debuff that reduce the healing from Divine Favor and Hand of God.
- Silence will prevent Chen from activating Hand of God.
- Crypt Swarm and Exorcism can clear Chen's creeps and heavily damage Chen.
- Spirit Siphon heavily damages Chen and slows him, while healing Death Prophet.
- Chen has no area-of-effect spells to deal with Broodmother's spiderlings and must rely on his creeps to take care of them.
- Spawn Spiderlings can kill Chen's creeps and spawn spiderlings in their place.
- Spin Web allows Broodmother to disrupt Chen's jungling.
- Alchemist's Acid Spray can heavily damage Chen's creeps and disrupt his jungling.
- Alchemist builds items like Radiance and Battle Fury, allowing him to quickly clear Chen's creeps.
- Alchemist's Greevil's Greed will grant him more bonus gold as he kills Chen's creeps.
- Razor's Plasma Field and the passive from Eye of the Storm can damage and clear Chen's creep army.
- Chen has no escape mechanisms, making him easy prey for Static Link.
- Eye of the Storm will strike Chen's creeps around Razor.
- Phoenix's large damage over time with Icarus Dive and Fire Spirits can kill Chen's allies before he can use Hand of God.
- Phoenix's Supernova is not damaged by Chen's creeps.
- Elder Titan's Astral Spirit ability gives him bonus damage for each converted creep it passes through.
- Echo Stomp and Earth Splitter will often kill him or any of his allies quickly before he has time to use Hand of God.
- Sticky Napalm slows Chen and amplifies Batrider's damage.
- Flamebreak and Firefly can deal heavy damage to Chen and his creeps.
- Flaming Lasso pulls Chen away from his creeps, often to certain death.
- Ice Blast prevents healing from Hand of God.
- Firestorm will easily clear Chen's creeps.
- Pit of Malice will trap Chen and render him helpless.
- Atrophy Aura gives bonus damage to Underlord for each killed creep and weakens Chen's damage.
- Dark Rift can counter Chen's pushing attempts, and he has nothing to intercept it.
Others[]
- Heroes with cleave abilities and area of effect damage can make quick work of Chen's converted creeps and at same time gain farm: Magnus, Jakiro, Shadow Fiend, Kunkka, Luna, Dragon Knight, Medusa, Alchemist.
- Illusion and heroes with summons are difficult to kill with Chen's single-target offensive spells: Terrorblade, Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Broodmother, Naga Siren, Lycan, Visage. However, Chen can convert enemy summons with Holy Persuasion, as long as they don't bunch up.
- Invisibility heroes can sneak past Chen's creeps and pick him off: Nyx Assassin, Weaver, Bounty Hunter Riki.
- Heroes that can instantly kill creeps greatly reduce the effectiveness of Chen's converted army: Lifestealer, Doom, Mirana, Clinkz.
- Hand of God has a long cooldown, so damage over time spells can be hazardous for Chen, forcing him to use it prematurely: Jakiro, Venomancer, Viper, Dazzle, Phoenix.
- Heroes with damage burst can often kill Chen or his allies before he can use Hand of God: Lina, Techies, Shadow Fiend, Pugna, Nyx Assassin.
Items[]
- Shiva's Guard will greatly hinder the converted creeps' damage output, while the slow from Arctic Blast will make Chen and his creeps easy targets.
- Dagon's Burst damage can quickly finish off Chen's teammates before he is able to use Hand of God.
- Battle Fury allows melee heroes to destroy converted creeps.
- Maelstrom and Mjollnir allows ranged heroes to destroy converted creeps.
- Hand of Midas instantly kills converted creeps, and grants farm in process.
- Black King Bar blocks the abilities of both Chen and his creeps.
- Manta Style dispels Penitence and can make Chen waste spells on illusions.
- Shadow Blade allows heroes to bypass Chen's creeps and pick him off.
- Helm of the Dominator can take control of converted creeps.
- Radiance will deal area damage to all of Chen's converted creeps.
- Spirit Vessel provide an AOE healing reduction, effectively reduce the healing from Divine Favor and Hand of God
Good against...[]
- His creeps can trigger Proximity Mines and Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Stasis Trap"., wasting them.
- Chen in the early game is a faster pusher than Arc Warden until Arc Warden buys Maelstrom.
- Chen can take control of the Boar from Call of the Wild Boar at any time.
- Due to Clockwerk's slow damage output, Chen can often save a trapped ally with Hand of God.
- Clockwerk does not have any source of damage to deal with Chen Creeps.
- Chen can use his creeps to block Clockwerk's attempts to use Hookshot.
- Rot is not very effective against Chen's creeps.
- Chen can use his creeps to cover him or his allies from any attempts of Meat Hook.
- Centaur Conqueror or Mud Golem under Chen's control can interrupt Dismember.
- Bane has zero Spells to deal with multiple Chen's Creeps.
- Fiend's Grip can be easily interrupted by Centaur Conqueror and Mud Golem abilities.
- Shadow Shaman has no effective burst damage, thus Chen has a lot of time to save an ally with his creeps or Hand of God from a gank.
- Chen can use Centaur Conqueror or Mud Golem to interrupt Shadow shaman's Shackles channeling
- Mass Serpent Ward can be easily teared down by Chen's creep army
Others[]
- Heroes with no stun and escape abilities (such as Bloodseeker) are vulnerable as Chen can easily gank lanes from the jungle early game and score kills using Penitence.
- Heroes who lack area damage spells won't fare well against Chen as he can send his controlled units to push lanes without putting himself at risk.
- Hand of God and Divine Favor make it hard for Axe to finish off allies with Culling Blade.
Works well with...[]
- Vengeance Aura benefits Chen's creeps.
- Summon Wolves: Together with Chen's creeps they have a lot of lane pressure.
- Howl gives attack speed, armor and health regen to all of Chen's creeps.
Others[]
- Beastmaster's Inner Beast allows Chen's creeps to push towers quicker.
- Enigma's Demonic Conversion together with Chen's creeps they have strong damage output during the laning phase, Especially towards squishy heroes as Lion, or Shadow Shaman.
Items[]
- Boots of Travel can use Chen's creeps as targets for teleportation.
