Cold Feet
на цельPlaces a curse on an enemy, dealing damage over time. If the enemy unit doesn't move outside of the given range from the initial location, it will be stunned and frozen in place after 4 seconds.
Pros max it by level 10
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Ancient Apparition
Ancient Apparition: Ranged, position 5 (hard support), Disabler, Nuker. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 51.2% win rate in pubs and a 7.7% pick rate.
Able to launch a powerful blast of damaging ice across the battlefield, Ancient Apparition threatens to shatter weakened enemies wherever they are. Slowing enemies as he enhances his allies' effectiveness in battle, he is a constant threat to his foes.
Rangedposition 5 (hard support)DisablerNuker
51.2%Win rate · all pubs
7.7%picked in 1 of 13 games
52.6%Turbo · 187,021 games
Complexity: medium
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Ancient Apparition
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
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6′8′12′Core
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13′21′25′Core items in order: Arcane Boots (around minute 13), Rod of Atos (around minute 21), Glimmer Cape (around minute 25).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 7
lv 10
lv 15
lv 17
11+30 Cold Feet Damage Per Second16-2s Ice Vortex Cooldown18+4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration
Max Ice Vortex, then Cold Feet, then Chilling Touch.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Broodmother, Meepo and Visage; easiest: Huskar, Shadow Fiend and Tiny.
All 124 opponents →4How much to farm?
355average435good521great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 355 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 521.
5Common mistakes by role
Saw the threat and stayedWards dewarded fastCaught while smokedFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the support role.
Compare your Ancient Apparition match with this cheat sheet
The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.
Review my matchMistake guides for the support role
- Saw the threat and stayedThe enemies were visible in advance, but you stayed and died.
- Wards dewarded fastThe enemy removed half or more of your observer wards.
- Caught while smokedYour team smoked up and lost more heroes than it killed.
- Died on a rotationLeft your lane to help another one and died without getting a kill.
Picked by the hero's role. Once the hero has 20 reviews, its real common mistakes show up here.
AI coach
A review of your Ancient Apparition game
Sign in with Steam and pick a match: the coach reads the replay second by second and in a couple of minutes shows where the game slipped.
- Every death and fight becomes a moment on the map: the fog of war as you saw it, and what the enemy saw that second.
- Your pace against the Ancient Apparition benchmark: 355 GPM for an average player, 435 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Arcane Boots by minute 13, and the coach shows where you lose time.
- Five-game homework the coach checks in your next review, plus a chat with the coach about the match.
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Pro build by minute
Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′Starting
6′20%
8′72%
12′21%13′83%21′20%25′45%
27′63%
27′31%
30′33%
31′29%
31′21%
6′20%8′72%12′21%13′83%21′20%25′45%27′63%27′31%30′33%31′29%31′21%Skill build
18% of 88 pro matches
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- Lvl 11+30 Cold Feet Damage Per Second
- Lvl 16-2s Ice Vortex Cooldown
- Lvl 18+4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration
Ice Vortex
по области, на точкуCreates a vortex of icy energy that slows, deals damage, and increases magic damage done to enemies in its range.
Pros max it by level 7
Chilling Touch
на цель, автоприменение, Attack ModifierEnhances Ancient Apparition's attack with increased range and a burst of magical damage and slow.
Pros max it by level 15
Bone Chill
пассивная · innateWhen Ancient Apparition deals Magic damage to an enemy with his abilities, it is slowed for a short duration. If the target is a Hero, its Strength is also reduced. Multiple instances of this effect stack and have independent durations.
Ice Blast
на точку, по областиLaunches a tracer toward any location on the battlefield, which must be triggered again to mark the area to be blasted by a damaging explosion of hail. The further the tracer travels, the larger the explosion will be. Enemies caught in the explosion, or who touch the icy ball of hail as it travels, are Frostbitten, taking damage over time and prevented from regenerating or healing. If a Frostbitten unit's health drops below a certain percentage, they will instantly shatter.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Bone Chill.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Ice Blast.
450 AoE Cold Feet25+4% Ice Blast Kill Threshold
+4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration20+100 Chilling Touch Damage
-2s Ice Vortex Cooldown15+250 Cold Feet Break Distance
+300 Chilling Touch Attack Range10+30 Cold Feet Damage Per Second
Matchups
Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games
Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.
Who to pick against Ancient Apparition: counter picks →Benchmarks on the hero
Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
Gold per minute
average 355good 435great 521
Experience per minute
average 511good 704great 883
Last hits per minute
average 1.3good 2.4great 4.0
Hero damage per minute
average 398good 511great 641
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: mediumIt does best in Archon (52.2% wins) and wins 52.6% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 5 (hard support) in 82% of games. Pros usually build Arcane Boots, Rod of Atos and Glimmer Cape by minute 25. It struggles most against Broodmother, Meepo and Visage and has the easiest time against Huskar, Shadow Fiend and Tiny.