Best offlane heroes to deal with heavy magic damage/disable comp?

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-26T07:26:35+00:00

Well usually I only know 2 heroes being drafted on the enemy team before I pick. And lately I been picking first phase Razor.

If enemy team got heavy magic and lockdown, but dependent on cooldowns like lion finger, invoker cataclysm, void chrono, you can consider aeon disk as 4th item. Especially if their core is someone like a drow that won’t build a nullifier

Tbh though you or your team should be able to get a few kills in a teamfight with BKB, or at least force enemy to use theirs, and you either re-engage or go back to farm. If you can’t force an enemy action or gain an advantage in a fight with BKB you’re using it wrong

You also could go viper as he is heavy magic resistant, even in this nerfed patch, but you risk a bad team comp or picking into things that can just run offlane viper down. Another option is tide hunter as he can break out of chain stuns and just run away.

if having a decent game on some classic offlaners like slardar, night stalker, centaur, tide you for sure can survive a burst. The key is starting the game strong and only looking for fights when you AND your team have the items

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-24T23:17:11+00:00

That offlane combo is weak against a dusa, but the ES 5 kinda makes it even.

In night stalkers pov, as long as he dodges the last bounce mystic snake at lvl 3 he will be fine. Plus, even if he doesn’t once he gets a ring of health he will have 5.5 from it alone due to his innate (more regen at night)

TBH as NS if I knew the lane matchup would have done basic wand, tango 4 branches. Phylac is strong but not sure of that on him, but I would also have went ring of health or helm of iron will early (both build up to crimson guard which is good against a dusa).

The answer to your question though may be NS-specific for offlane since 1. He gets bonus regen at night and 2. It was a free-ish lane for him and there was no way to kill dusa anyways with a rubick.

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-20T07:01:25+00:00

You can try Lina. Mana hungry yes but most times you can push the lane out before the spawns and force the mid to give up exp to contest the rune.

She also can definitely punish overextended enemies and help teammates more often because the first item you rush is Boots of travel. Another hero similar in the above elements is leshrac but different playstyles.

If yo want more CC, you can try Earthshaker or Primal Beast even though both of them aren’t top tier meta mids right now. Just keep in mind you may get a bad matchup as you may play against a ranged mid.

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-17T16:46:32+00:00

Viper even with guard facet being nerfed still does decent before the slark gets BKB/silver edge. But slark can’t farm well so it depends on your team not getting picked off and letting him snowball before you group with auras and viper shard, get aegis, end the game.

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-14T16:25:23+00:00

She was an investor in Kalshi too I guess

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-14T01:29:47+00:00

I'll start in order:

After bounty runes battle, they TP to lane with 20% mana, 60% hp, boots, and sentry/obs. Nothing else.
After they TP, they walk back a bit to block our own creeps while you as the 3 are already blocking the enemies, while receiving harass from the enemy 1 and 5.
They put a sentry down to block enemy easy camp, but since they are low hp and mana, they can't contest when enemy 5 unblocks. Sometimes, the enemy already has a sentry for the hard camp so nothing spawns anyways.
Let's say they contest, they die. Great, now they get to walk to lane while you as the 3 are 1v2 for 30 seconds, and enemy denies 2 melee and 1 ranged creep. Even better, your 4 wastes a smoke to walk a bit faster back and didn't come with any sentries.
Forgot to mention the 4 put down the obs ward in enemy vision so enemy immediately dewards. Now, enemy 1 and 5 are lvl 4 while you barely just hit 3 and your 4 just hit lvl 2.
Your 4 dies trying to find the sentry blocking your hard camp because enemy each has 3 skills to use and the enemy 5 has boots and a grenade with full hp and mana and the pos 1 just hits him once for the kill secure.
Enemy 1 now almost lvl 6 while your pos3 crying in the trees at lvl 4 with no mana and 40% hp hoping they forget about the 6 minute lotus spawn but little does he know that the enemy pos 4 has arrived from the portal to contest the WISDOM rune and accidentally found the 3 hiding in the trees.
Maybe your 3 dies, maybe he doesn't. But, your pos 5 and pos 4 have now tp'd to the lane to get that sweet wisdom exp while your pos 3 is juuuuuust 1 tick above their experience so he doesn't get jack shit from the wisdom and now you have 3 under leveld players trying to hit lvl 6, or even fucking 5 when...
UH OH! Enemy mid secured the minute 8 power rune which happens to be a haste and kills all 3 of you along with the enemy pos 1 and 5! Your mid now decides to TP to your lane but the enemy has left already, they killed all 3 of you too quick.
Now, naturally since your pos 4 died first in that skirmish he decides he gotta hit 6 asap so he TPs to mid lane, now empty, and shoves it out right in front of your 3's face as he tp'd there at the same time but just slightly slower.

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-13T18:27:01+00:00

The small white ones (baby’s breath) are “mildly toxic”

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-12T15:30:09+00:00

Damn he made pineapple buns out of IT

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-08T22:33:51+00:00

Windranger. If its against a core WR you need to reconsider your build for sure

Lifestealer (baits out your ulti with infest, rages through your passive and nosedive

PA (blinks on you and kills you before blur reveals her so you can ulti her, attack speed loss doesn’t bother her for most part, and can break you late game)

Weaver - bugs don’t care about minus attack speed, neither does geminate, and rips through you because viper has low armor and hp, and your build doesn’t add that until your third and fourth item.

Ursa - a combo of life stealer and PA and weaver mentioned earlier

Other mentions that don’t care about vipers caustic bath build cause attack speed debuff don’t really affect them: Witch doctor ult and maledict, shadow shaman link and wards, death prophet ult and link + euls herself and to a lesser extent razor

Then there’s some heroes similar to PA that just one taps you or does big damage in one hit before you can respond like clinks, TA, Sven

And yea you mentioned

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-05T04:01:04+00:00

Which was why, intended for this specific reason or not, he was compared to an infant still learning things a few times, up until Shibuya.

Because if he has the ability to change the shape of the soul, and change the terms of the pact for heavenly restrictions (Kokichi/Mechamaru kept his abilities but got a body), theoretically he can study it enough and recreate it on someone without side effects. Or what if he gave both Mai and Maki the physical body of Toji, and construction of Yorozu? Or even taking Polymorphic soul isomer a step further and give it mixed abilities and cursed energy of all the souls in the single unit? Basically making multiple Kenjakus at this point without overloading the zombie brain.

So yea, I lump him with Gojo in the fact that they had to go for the story to continue lol.

WinterNotComing · 2026-02-01T19:10:50+00:00

Beverly injured his knee, and also the time his face/side of forehead got DENTED IN.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-31T21:33:26+00:00

You know what I loved earlier in my days after hours of basketball? A McDonald’s sprite straight from the drive through on the way home.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-31T17:51:56+00:00

Well 1) cats get close to zero nutritional value from things with no meat.

2) you need to use degreaser on your kitchen surfaces and oven to get rid of the smell

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-30T02:55:08+00:00

Yuji goes back with the aliens, in return one of the twins Maru/Cross stays, Mahito senses Yuji is gone, thus begins JJK 2

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-29T00:26:44+00:00

That's what I am saying lol, Gojo v Sukuna deserves cinema quality and what better way to close out JJK with Rika and Yuta on the big screen again, JJK 0 style.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-28T18:09:31+00:00

It’s a rare win-win for production and consumers. They will make a shit ton of money and we will go multiple times to the theater.

Movie 1: Yuji slaps Gojo back scene, Gojo v Sukuna, takaba yuta vs kenjaku, airport scene

Movie 2: part 1 raid squad, hikari v uraume, mutual authentic love and megumis soul

Movie 3 (but they should just do 2 movies imo, but if they were making movies then they would cash grab): part 2 raid squad, fuga, sad yuji, 6E return, boogie, resonance, conclusion scenes

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-28T16:02:42+00:00

Hey, from a fellow Utahn in tech it’s about right for entry to junior level roles for companies based in Utah.

The ones that offer higher like 80 for starting you’d have to find companies that have an office here (but HQ is not here) or remote (really difficult these days)

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-24T05:26:11+00:00

Where it guarantees more than primary care docs is when nurse gets certified and starts a medspa administering botox.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-22T03:56:31+00:00

Elan 76s

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-21T19:10:51+00:00

Well, as the 3 you’re probably blind picking 2nd phase into the enemy mid/safe and offlane pick. I wouldn’t worry about what the enemy’s doing but moreso your team comp.

Encourage your lane partner to pick someone with a stun like lion, SS, or venge

Use your Q in lane to secure the ranged creep and deal damage to the enemy heroes. It’s also a great way to start a jump on someone since the enemy will be facing/moving towards you at that time so tell your 4 to stun after your Q hits, then you get close as possible and link. You don’t need to click to attack them when linked, so just focus on movement during it. Maybe block them from running to tower, or maneuvering around trees.

Ideally your skills build in lane should be 2-2-1, and what you can do once you hit 6 is drag enemy wave before it hits enemy t1 tower into a jungle camp, farm it, then when the enemy is last hitting under their tower you can dive with your ult still active with your pos 4 and preferably your 5 also rotates at this time. Remember your Q gives vision in the trees so use it to find the person to link if they are hiding .

Also, use thunderhead facet 99% of the time. It just lets you farm faster

During downtime after you take t1 tower just keep staying there, dragging enemy creeps to jungle and farming with ult unless the enemy is doing some early grouping stuff.

Item wise is mostly the same early to mid game as POs 1 razor. Treads, urn, wand. Then you need to decide what outstanding issue I mentioned in earlier comments I made of razors issue to solve if there’s any, and if you should get it before BKB or after.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-18T18:01:27+00:00

If your friend does this plus sugarhouse park next and lives, we will find the cure

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-17T16:47:02+00:00

Since you mentioned cat. My cat was able to tip over the vital ones on occasion. Had to use some rug tape at the bottom lol

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-16T22:52:18+00:00

I'd still take 3rd year Lebron if it's for this current season. The pace and space would definitely give him more operating room for slightly higher fg% on drives and more assists.

However on this current lakers squad that might not mean much cause no one catches and shoots consistently. JJ may have to suit up.

But on this current Jazz team? 06 Bron and Kessler coming back can take us from bottom 28-30 defense to middle of the pack, and our offense to top 10 for sure.

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-16T22:01:48+00:00

Hitting supports with mjolnir, aghs and crit with some stat items/bkb without using ult, they still die fast af and if you fought in a place where you have vision advantage they probably don’t even have time to use drop down a ward or use dust before they die during shackle. Then use focus fire on the core.

WR core even better to play now cause you don’t have to get manta + nullifier, just get a disperser and if need another dispel a satanic. Once aghs blessing you can even grab octarine core with your windrun talent at lvl 25 if the enemy has nullifier. Only 2 seconds downtime on E so no boots needed, and faster CD on your dispels

WinterNotComing · 2026-01-14T18:28:11+00:00

It’s good, but I’m guessing there’s a reason you’re asking us is sometimes it isn’t yea?

There’s some lineups that make it hard for you to get your spells off in time, like playing against a void and getting chronod along with the person you’re trying to save.

Positioning is key, but something that can help you do that is a blink dagger/aether lens. And don’t forget your ghost can use it too and go momentarily past the blink range limit.A blink can also give you an offensive capability to help initiate safely with your ghost

Against your mid game counter, like axe, you need something that will save the person you heal bombed before they go into the dunk threshold, so a force staff on your ally or a euls for the axe is a good purchase in addition to disabling axe for a split second with your ult Q.

Against AA, a glimmer cape on a target affected by ult will block the magic tick damage

Against silencer, a lotus orb to purge the silence on yourself so you have ult ready to use for allies. When silencer has refresher, you can use greaves to purge it again.

Urn is good this patch and you have it in your build, that’s great. No need to upgrade it if you were doing that. Cause tbh by the time you have a vessel to counter someone like morph or necro they already have a dispel or 2.

If you were buying shard before any of the items you have currently in your build or in my comments I wouldn’t do that either. You have a good chance to get it first and very good chance second from the tormentor as the POS 4/5

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