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Axe icon
  • Axe will destroy her illusions by proccing Counter Helix icon Counter Helix more often due to him being hit by more attacks.
Batrider icon
  • Many stacks of Sticky Napalm icon Sticky Napalm, combined with Flamebreak icon Flamebreak and Firefly icon Firefly, allows Batrider to destroy illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image.
  • If Batrider can manage to destroy all illusions from Naga Siren, he will be able to use Flaming Lasso icon Flaming Lasso on the real one, and will be able to drag her toward his team, potentially preventing Naga Siren from escaping with Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren.
Dawnbreaker icon
Dazzle icon
Luna icon
  • Luna's Moon Glaives icon Moon Glaives and Lunar Blessing icon Lunar Blessing can clear waves of Naga Siren's illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image, especially when combined with Gleipnir icon Gleipnir and Manta Style icon Manta Style. Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgraded Moon Glaives icon Moon Glaives can also be used to destroy Naga Siren's illusions and damage the real Naga Siren if they are too close to Luna while also reducing any damage Naga Siren inflicts on Luna for their duration.
  • Once Naga Siren's illusions are cleared, Eclipse icon Eclipse can often finish off Naga Siren before she can escape with Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren.
  • A well-timed Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Eclipse icon Eclipse combined with 0.25 Eclipse Lucent Ministun talent can be casted at long range and allow Luna to burst down Naga Siren faster and repetively stun Naga Siren, preventing her from escaping with Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren and Town Portal Scroll icon Town Portal Scroll without getting caught in it's range.
  • Luna is a natural Black King Bar icon Black King Bar wielder unlike Naga Siren who barely goes for it, which allows Luna to freely attack Naga Siren during Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren and potentially get rid of the most of the damage and crowd-control from Naga Siren.
Earthshaker icon
  • Earthshaker's strong AoE abilities can clear Naga Siren's illusions, or at least make it easier to distinguish the real one by the damage they take.
  • Echo Slam icon Echo Slam deals more damage against more enemies, which can be devestating against Naga Siren and her illusions.
Jakiro icon
  • Jakiro's damage over time abilities can clear Naga Siren's illusions and can hurt real Naga Siren even for the duration of Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren.
  • Since Naga Siren is a hero who barely goes for Black King Bar icon Black King Bar, this can make her very vulnerable to Jakiro's damage over time in every phase of the game.
Juggernaut icon
  • Blade Fury icon Blade Fury offers good AoE damage to clear illusions and can hurt the real Naga Siren as well if she chooses to blend in the illusions. Diffusal Blade icon Diffusal Blade does nothing to Juggernaut either when he uses Blade Fury icon Blade Fury.
  • Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgraded Blade Fury icon Blade Fury along with Lv 20 DPS talent will shred all illusions almost instantly, especially when combined with Mjollnir icon Mjollnir, a common item for Juggernaut.
Lion icon
  • Both Hex (Lion) icon Hex and Mana Drain icon Mana Drain destroy Naga Siren's illusions in an instant, making it hard for her to teamfight or push against a team with Lion. If Lion chooses the AoE effect talent for Hex or the shard for multi-target Mana Drain, it can negate her pushing potential entirely.
  • Earth Spike icon Earth Spike is an AoE disable with good damage. If used well, it can help distinguish the true Naga Siren by the damage they take (illusions take more damage).
Medusa icon
  • Medusa's Split Shot icon Split Shot and Mystic Snake icon Mystic Snake combined with Mjollnir icon Mjollnir, a common item for Medusa, will whittle down all of Naga Siren's illusions, including Naga Siren herself.
  • Medusa's Stone Gaze icon Stone Gaze can disable Naga Siren even for the duration of Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren and even if Naga Siren is spell immune, discouraging Naga Siren from even trying to use Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren to save herself or counter-initiate against Medusa.
Morphling icon
  • Waveform icon Waveform clear Mirror Image illusions from Naga Siren. And though Ensnare icon Ensnare can prevent Morphling from using Waveform icon Waveform to escape, he can easily dispel it with Manta Style icon Manta Style, a common item on Morphling.
  • Morph icon Morph allows Morphling to copy Naga Siren's abilities and combine them with Manta Style icon Manta Style, a commong item for Morphling, to destroy Naga Siren's illusions. Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Morph icon Morph also allows Morphling to create a strong illusion of Naga Siren that can do the same and which can also allow Morphling to close the gap on Naga Siren.
Outworld Destroyer icon
  • Arcane Orb icon Arcane Orb allows Outworld Destroyer's attacks to deal pure damage that can bypass Naga Siren's armor, and which can clear her illusions in no time.
  • Astral Imprisonment icon Astral Imprisonment can be used to harass Naga Siren by reducing her maximum mana and to prevent Naga Siren from escaping with Song of the Siren. Outworld Destroyer can also use Astral Imprisonment icon Astral Imprisonment to protect himself from Naga Siren.
  • Sanity's Eclipse icon Sanity's Eclipse will most likely instantly kill Naga Siren along with her illusions. Even if Naga Siren survives Sanity's Eclipse icon Sanity's Eclipse, it's mana allergy debuff will discourage Naga Siren from using her abilities as the mana allergy will heal Outworld Destroyer if she uses them for it's duration.
Timbersaw icon
  • Timbersaw's innate durability provided by Reactive Armor icon Reactive Armor is very hard to deal with as Naga Siren as she mostly relies on sustained damage rather than burst damage unless if she is played as Nuker.
  • Timbersaw's high pure damage and low-cooldown area-of-effect nukes which are Whirling Death icon Whirling Death, Timber Chain icon Timber Chain, Chakram icon Chakram and Flamethrower icon Flamethrower from Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard can also destroy Naga Siren's illusions very fast.
  • Timbersaw is a common Lotus Orb icon Lotus Orb wielder which allows him to reflect Ensnare icon Ensnare back at Naga SIren.
Zeus icon
  • Zeus's abilities deal high amounts of burst magical damage, which ignores Naga Siren's high armor.
  • Arc Lightning icon Arc Lightning is a good way to destroy Naga Siren's illusions due to it's capabilities to bounce between enemies.
  • Static Field icon Static Field from Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard can automatically hit everything in a big radius, taking a huge chunk of health out of Naga Siren's illusions, regardless of how much health they have.
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Leshrac icon
  • All of Leshrac's abilities, especially Pulse Nova icon Pulse Nova, can easily deal with Naga Siren's illusions.
  • Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter gives Leshrac access to Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Nihilism". ability, that allows him to turn himself along with Naga Siren and her illusions to turn ethereal. And to make things worse, Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Nihilism". can slow Naga Siren and her illusions, make them more vulnerable to magical damage and unable to fight back while Leshrac moves faster and does not take increased magical damage for it's duration.
Centaur Warrunner icon
  • Centaur's Retaliate icon Retaliate will harm all attacking enemies, which will allow Centaur Warrunner to see which is the real Naga Siren.
  • A well timed Hoof Stomp icon Hoof Stomp followed by Double Edge icon Double Edge will clear all Naga's illusions and prevent Naga Siren from escaping with Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren.
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  • Blade Mail icon Blade Mail can be used when enemy heroes are rooted by Naga Siren's Ensnare, returning all the damage she and her illusions deal to it's wielder while they are affected by Ensnare. Because Naga Siren is a hero who barely goes for Black King Bar icon Black King Bar, Blade Mail icon Blade Mail can be a huge problem for her.
  • Ghost Scepter icon Ghost Scepter and it's upgrade Ethereal Blade icon Ethereal Blade prevents enemy heroes from taking damage from her and her illusions's attacks (although they will still take damage from her Rip Tide, if Naga Siren targets other enemy heroes near them since Rip Tide deals magical damage) while also allowing it's owner to disarm Naga Siren and make her more vulnerable to magical damage. This problem, however, can be easily countered by going playing Nuker Naga Siren. Although Nuker is not really a role Naga Siren should be playing.
  • Radiance icon Radiance, Battle Fury icon Battle Fury, Maelstrom icon Maelstrom, Mjollnir icon Mjollnir and Gleipnir icon Gleipnir can clear Naga Siren illusions with their area damage. Gleipnir icon Gleipnir can also be used to root Naga Siren and her illusions.
  • Black King Bar icon Black King Bar can protect enemy heroes from being affected by Naga Siren's abilities and potentially get rid of the most of the damage and crowd-control from Naga Siren. And outside from Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Ensnare and Reel In from Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, she has nothing else to counter it.
  • Force Staff icon Force Staff and it's upgrade Hurricane Pike icon Hurricane Pike can be used to move while affected by Ensnare.
  • Eul's Scepter of Divinity icon Eul's Scepter of Divinity and it's upgrade Wind Waker icon Wind Waker can be used to dispel Ensnare and to escape from Naga Siren.
  • Heaven's Halberd icon Heaven's Halberd can disarm Naga Siren, rendering her unable to do almost anything to enemy heroes. And the disarm cannot be dispelled neither with Mirror Image icon Mirror Image nor with Manta Style icon Manta Style.
  • Linken's Sphere icon Linken's Sphere can block Ensnare, and if Naga Siren cannot Ensnare an enemy hero, she will not be able to pull them toward herself with Reel In from Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter. However, Naga can easily counter this problem either with Diffusal Blade icon Diffusal Blade, which is a common item on Naga Siren or with Dagon icon Dagon, which is a situational item on Naga Siren.
  • Lotus Orb icon Lotus Orb can make it hard for Naga Siren to root enemy heroes with Ensnare because it can reflect Ensnare back at Naga Siren and root her as well.

Good against...[]

Abaddon icon
  • Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren completely wastes Abaddon Borrowed Time icon Borrowed Time while keeping him in place.
  • Naga Siren is able to simply dispel Abaddon's Curse of Avernus icon Curse of Avernus with Mirror Image icon Mirror Image before getting hit 4 times consecutively.
  • Although Naga Siren's illusions can be easily destroyed by Aphotic Shield icon Aphotic Shield, Naga Siren can resolve that issue easily by purchasing Heart of Tarrasque icon Heart of Tarrasque to drastically increase her durability. Plus, the said item makes Naga Siren harder to be distinguished from her illusions.
Arc Warden icon
  • Song of the Siren stops Arc Warden from acting and allows Naga Siren's team to close in on him, past his Magnetic Field (Radiant) icon Magnetic Field.
  • Mirror Image dispels Flux (Radiant) icon Flux. The illusions created from it also disable the slow from Flux if Arc Warden casts it after Mirror Image.
  • Arc Warden's playstyle heavily favors split-pushing, which Naga Siren can compete against with her illusions.
Bounty Hunter icon
  • Bounty Hunter is a single target damage dealer, so he will not fare well against Naga Siren. Even though Bounty Hunter can use Track icon Track on her, Mirror Image will dispel the effect. Ensnare also reveals invisible units while they're rooted, putting Bounty Hunter at a disadvantage.
Crystal Maiden icon
  • Mirror Image icon Mirror Image can dispel Frostbite.
  • Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren can stop Freezing Field regardless of any kind of invisibility as well as allow Naga Siren's team to quickly close the gap on Crystal Maiden.
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare allows Naga Siren and her team to quickly catch up with Crystal Maiden and kill her.
  • With Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, Naga Siren can get access to Reel In icon Reel In ability , which can allow her to pull Crystal Maiden toward herself and her team and cancel Freezing Field even through Black King Bar icon Black King Bar.
Chen icon
  • Naga Siren can make landing Chen's combo very hard due to her being an illusion hero.
  • Rip Tide icon Rip Tide can deal big damage to Chen and reduce Chen's armor, as well as easily kill all of Chen's creeps.
  • Naga Siren often builds Radiance icon Radiance, which allows her to quickly clear Chen's creeps.
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare will prevent Chen from escaping.
  • With Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, Naga Siren can get access to Reel In icon Reel In, which can separate Chen from his creeps and draw him closer to Naga Siren and her team to finish her off. To make things worse, Chen has no way to cancel Reel In icon Reel In on his own, and must rely on outside from Centaur Conqueror icon Centaur Conqueror or Mud Golem icon Mud Golem under his control.
  • Carry or Nuker Naga Siren can often finish off Support Chen before he can have a chance to activate Hand of God icon Hand of God.
Io icon
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare and Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren can be used to cancel both, Tether and Relocate and to close the distance on Io.
  • Rip Tide icon Rip Tide combined with illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image often finish off Io before he can save himself.
  • Spirit's weak area-of-effect makes it a bad tool to deal with Naga Siren's illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image.
  • Once Naga Siren buys Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, she can gain access to Reel In icon Reel In, which not only allows her to cancel both, Tether and Relocate, but also to pull Io to herself and her team while he is affected with Ensnare icon Ensnare, similarly to Batrider's Flaming Lasso icon Flaming Lasso.
  • Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgraded Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren can also heal the hero Io and his tethered targed try to gank.
Legion Commander icon
  • Song of the Siren lasts long enough to prevent a successful Duel icon Duel (but only if Naga wasn't the target).
Lone Druid icon
  • Unless Lone Druid purchases a Black King Bar icon Black King Bar for his Spirit Bear, Ensnare will easily kite the Spirit Bear.
  • Song of the Siren allows Naga Siren and her team to completely bypass the Spirit Bear and hunt for the Lone Druid himself when starting a fight.
  • Lone Druid's lack of innate AoE capabilities mean that Naga Siren's illusions have no problem against him.
Lycan icon
  • Lycan is a hero focused entirely on single target physical damage and lacks disables or AoE damage. Due to this, he will have difficulties dealing with illusions or Naga Siren's Ensnare.
Nature's Prophet icon
  • Naga Siren is a natural split-pusher. With Rip Tide, she will easily out-push Nature's Prophet, farming his treants in the process.
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare prevents Teleportation icon Teleportation. Even if he hides inside Sprout icon Sprout, Song of the Siren lasts long enough to prevent him from escaping.
Night Stalker icon
  • Mirror Image can be effective since Night Stalker cannot withstand fighting illusions. If he's unable to tell which Naga Siren is real, he will have a hard time landing his Void icon Void. However, if Night Stalker obtains an Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, the upgraded Void will hit and may even locate the real Naga Siren in fights.
Omniknight icon
Phoenix icon
  • Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren does not affect Supernova icon Supernova, which allows her and her team to focus the egg while the enemy team is affected by sleep.
  • Phoenix cannot use Icarus Dive icon Icarus Dive for escaping when rooted by Ensnare icon Ensnare.
  • However, Phoenix has many area-of-effect abilities that allow him to clear Naga Siren's illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image.
Rubick icon
  • Song of the Siren is very difficult for Rubick to Spell Steal icon Spell Steal when he is affected by sleep.
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare and Rip Tide together with some attacks can take Rubick down quickly, due to his low health pool and armor.
  • Naga Siren usually buys Diffusal Blade icon Diffusal Blade, which may prevent Rubick from using his abilities.
  • Mirror Image allows Naga Siren to dodge the incoming stun from Telekinesis icon Telekinesis (when she is not a target), and it can also dispel Fade Bolt icon Fade Bolt's damage reduction debuff.
Sniper icon
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare with her attacks allows Naga Siren to gank Sniper easily.
  • Rip Tide removes Sniper's very little armor.
Templar Assassin icon
  • Ensnare disables Templar Assassin's invisibility and Blink Dagger (a core item on Templar Assassin), and her illusions will break Refraction icon Refraction easily.
Terrorblade icon
  • Naga Siren can very easily dispel the Reflection icon Reflection with Mirror Image icon Mirror Image. And Besides Reflection icon Reflection that can be used to detect real Naga Siren, Terrorblade has no other ways to deal with Naga Siren's illusions. And what's worse is that Naga Siren can much easily detect the real Terrorblade due to Conjure Image icon Conjure Image having illusions having different colors. In addition, Terroblade is not a common Battle Fury icon Battle Fury nor Mjollnir icon Mjollnir wielder to counter this problem.
  • Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Ensnare icon Ensnare will allow Naga Siren to root Terrorblade even ithrough Black King Bar icon Black King Bar. And with Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, Naga Siren can get access to Reel In icon Reel In ability, which can allow her to pull Terrorblade toward herself and her team and away from his illusions, even through Black King Bar icon Black King Bar.
  • Naga Siren can rapidly damage Terrorrblade and weaken Terrorblade's armor with Rip Tide icon Rip Tide, which combined with Terrorblade's low health and strength gain can almost completely discourage Terrorblade from even being present in teamfights. Rip Tide icon Rip Tide can also weaken armor of Terrorblade's illusions and damage them.
  • Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren can be used to save an ally whom Terrorblade has used Sunder icon Sunder under the condition Naga Siren is quick enough to do it. And since Terrorblade has no "real" burst damage potential outside from Sunder icon Sunder, Naga Siren will usually have plenty of time to save an allied hero on which Sunder icon Sunder was used. Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgraded Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren can also heal her allies around her for it's duration, which allows Naga Siren to nullify effects of Sunder icon Sunder.
  • However, Naga Siren's lack of burst damage can make it difficult for her to burst down Terrorblade before he can use Sunder icon Sunder unless Naga Siren has either Black King Bar icon Black King Bar or Linken's Sphere icon Linken's Sphere to protect herself against it or if she is played as Nuker.
Viper icon
  • Naga Siren can easily disjoint, and dispel Corrosive Skin icon Corrosive Skin with Mirror Image.
  • Since Viper is mostly a single-target hero, he will not have almost any chance against Naga Siren because she is an illusion based hero.
  • Viper has no burst damage, so Naga Siren will have plenty of time to use Aghanim's Shard icon Aghanim's Shard upgraded Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren heal her allies before Viper can finish them off.

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Works well with...[]

Abaddon icon
  • Mist Coil icon Mist Coil and Aphotic Shield icon Aphotic Shield can help Naga Siren survive bad engagements and hold her own on lane during the laning phase.
  • Curse of Avernus icon Curse of Avernus can silence enemy heroes and boost Naga Siren and her illusions's attacks against them if Abaddon can successfully land a hit that will trigger it.
Broodmother icon
Dazzle icon
  • In the early game, Dazzle can deal huge amounts of physical damage with Shadow Wave icon Shadow Wave if Naga Siren surrounds an enemy with her Mirror Images. This can be prepared with Ensnare, and the damage can be further amplified through armor reduction with Rip Tide.
  • Shallow Grave icon Shallow Grave allows Naga Siren to use Song of the Siren and teleport safely. When the Shallow Grave is used on other allies, the Song can be used as cover for their escape.
Dawnbreaker icon
  • Luminosity icon Luminosity can heal Naga Siren if she is on low HP and if Dawnbreaker can successfully land a hit that will trigger it.
  • Thanks to it's global cast range, Solar Guardian icon Solar Guardian can be used as an excellent follow-up to Naga Siren's initiations with Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren.
Death Prophet icon
  • Silence icon Silence can prevent enemy heroes from using spells on Naga Siren in attempts to fightback against Naga Siren.
  • Naga Siren's illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image combined with Exorcism icon Exorcism can make a short work out of enemy creeps, summons, illusions and towers.
  • Ensnare icon Ensnare can help Death Prophet fully use Spirit Siphon icon Spirit Siphon to it's full power.
Disruptor icon
  • Kinetic Field icon Kinetic Field and Static Storm icon Static Storm can both be cast preemptively during Song of the Siren.
  • There is almost nothing the enemy team can do if they are caught within the combo, even more so if Disruptor also purchased an Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter, muting items.
Kunkka icon
  • Song of the Siren can be used as a setup for Ghostship icon Ghostship in the early game.
  • Ensnare is also a good set-up for Torrent icon Torrent.
Jakiro icon
Lina icon
Luna icon
Lycan icon
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Shadow Shaman icon
  • Shackles icon Shackles can help Naga Siren and her illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image finish off the fleeing enemy hero much faster.
  • Naga Siren and her illusions from Mirror Image icon Mirror Image and Shadow Shaman's Mass Serpent Ward icon Mass Serpent Wards can often quickly push waves of creeps and destroy towers with little problems.
Tidehunter icon
  • Ravage icon Ravage works very well after Song of the Siren for perfect teamfights in the early game.
  • However, in later stages, enemies can purchase either a Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger to dodge the Ravage or a Black King Bar icon Black King Bar to negate it.

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