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Phantom Lancer

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes that are hard to gank: Axe Axe, Death Prophet, Phantom Lancer

Lina

* Phantom Lancer Doppelganger Doppelganger can be used to easily dodge Light Strike Array if timed correctly.
* Phantom Lancer can quickly deplete Lina's mana pool with his illusions and deal massive damage from it simultaneously since Phantom Lancer is a natural Diffusal Blade carrier.

Axe

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Axe with Axe Berserker Berserker's Call and Blade Mail can do a lot of damage quickly due to Lina's high attack speed.

* Heroes that are hard to gank: Axe Axe, Death Prophet, Phantom Lancer

Batrider

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes with abilities that can pull Lina out of position can easily bring her to their team mates, like Batrider with Batrider Flaming Lasso Flaming Lasso, Pudge Pudge with Pudge Meat Hook Meat Hook and Vengeful Spirit with Vengeful Spirit Nether Swap Nether Swap.

* Batrider's Batrider Flaming Lasso Flaming Lasso can be used to cancel Io's attempts to escape with Io Relocate Relocate and drag him away from his Io Tether Tethered target. And since Io doesn't like buying Linken Linken's Sphere, he will be always vulnerable to Batrider's initiations.
* Io's tendency to stick close to it's Tethered target can make Io and it's target vulnerable to Batrider's harrasing.
* Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Batrider Flaming Lasso Flaming Lasso allows Batrider to catch and drag two heroes at once, not just one. Which can potentially turn Io's Io Tether Tether against him.
Additional:
* Batrider's Flaming Lasso can be used to cancel Io's attempts to escape with Io Relocate Relocate and drag him away from his Tethered target. And since Io doesn't like buying Linken Linken's Sphere, he will be always vulnerable to Batrider's initiations.
* Io's tendency to stick close to it's Io Tether Tethered target can make Io and it's target vulnerable to Batrider's harrasing.
* Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Batrider Flaming Lasso Flaming Lasso allows Batrider to catch and drag two heroes at once, not just one. Which can potentially turn Io's Tether against him.

Invoker

[wiki] rating: 1.2 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 15%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes whose abilities can affect multiple enemies at once: Lina Lina, Luna Luna, Jakiro Jakiro, Leshrac Leshrac, Invoker Invoker, Lina Lina

Lina

* Heroes with long animations can be frequently interrupted with Cold Snap: Earthshaker, Monkey King, Shadow Fiend Lina Lina

Earth Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.2 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Squishy heroes (Io, Crystal Maiden, Lina Lina...), as Earth Spirit can deal tons of damage with Magnetize.

Silencer

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 15%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Silencer Arcane Curse Arcane Curse discourages Lina from using her abilities, preventing her from building up Fiery Soul stacks.
* Silencer Last Word Last Word and Silencer Global Silence Global Silence are great against Lina for the same reason, as well as interrupting her combos and preventing her from casting spells.

Ursa

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 11%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array has a long delay, making her vulnerable for Ursa's burst.
* Enrage can protect Ursa against Lina's high magical burst.

Leshrac

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

* Lightning Storm will usually hit both Io and his Io Tether Tethered target since both will be close enough for the lightning to jump. It can then be followed up by Split Earth.
* Diabolic Edict and Pulse Nova hit all units near Leshrac, meaning he can do colossal damage to Io and his Tethered target.
Additional:
* Io is a hero who needs to be close to it's tethered target to make it effective, and that's where Leshrac gets the advantage thanks to many of his area-of-effect abilities.
* Leshrac Lightning Storm Lightning Storm will usually hit both Io and its tethered target since both will be close enough for the lightning to jump.
* Leshrac Diabolic Edict Diabolic Edict and Leshrac Pulse Nova Pulse Nova hit all units near Leshrac, meaning he can do colossal damage to both, Io and its tethered target.

Nyx Assassin

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Nyx Assassin Mana Burn Mana Burn does tons of damage against Lina because of her high intelligence. The mana burn also prevents Lina from casting her full combo.
* Nyx Assassin Spiked Carapace Spiked Carapace can easily be used to counter Lina's abilities because of their long cast animation, and could probably kill Lina outright if Laguna Blade is reflected.

Anti-Mage

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Anti-Mage Blink Blink allows Anti-Mage to get on top of Lina and deal damage with his Anti-Mage Mana Break Mana Break.
* Anti-Mage Counterspell Counterspell makes Anti-Mage tanky against Lina's heavy magic damage.
* A well-timed Counterspell can block and reflect Laguna Blade.
* Anti-Mage Mana Void Mana Void is very strong against Lina, who has a high mana pool and quickly depletes it during fights.

Lich

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

* Lich's Lich Chain Frost Chain Frost forces Io to either give up providing buff to his ally with Io Tether Tether or suffer devastating damage with his tethered ally.
* Lich can easily use Lich Sinister Gaze Sinister Gaze to disable Io from getting away with Tether or Io Relocate Relocate.

Lifestealer

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Lifestealer Rage Rage protects Lifestealer from all of Lina's abilities (except an upgraded Laguna Blade).
* Lifestealer Open Wounds Open Wounds is great to keep Lina in place because she has no abilities to help her escape.

Disruptor

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

* Disruptor can always Glimpse back Io or his target after he Io Relocate Relocated nearby.
* Even better, thanks to the indicator on the ground, you can even preemptively drop Static Storm and Kinetic Field on the spot they will relocate to.
* Thunder Strike and Glimpse are also good tools to bring back an Io that Io Tether Tethered away in the fog of war.
Additional:
* Disruptor Glimpse Glimpse directly negates Relocate.

Sven

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Sven has a high health pool and is a natural Black King Bar holder and is very hard to kill for Lina.
* Sven also has high physical damage, making it easy for him to burst her down.

Spectre

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Spectre Spectral Dagger Spectral Dagger and Spectre Haunt Haunt allow Spectre to get close to Lina.
* Spectre Desolate Desolate is very strong against Lina, who's usually a bit isolated in fights because of her high attack and cast range.
* Spectre Dispersion Dispersion can mitigate a good portion of Lina's burst damage, allowing Spectre to turn on her afterwards.
Additional:
* Spectre can very easily close the distance on Lina with Spectre Haunt Haunt and Spectre Spectral Dagger Spectral Dagger, and due to Lina's abysmal mobility without a Blink Dagger and terrible health pool and armor, Lina easily gets slaughtered due Spectre Desolate Desolate.
* Spectre Dispersion Dispersion can mitigate a good portion of Lina's burst damage, allowing Spectre to turn against her afterwards.

Spirit Breaker

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

* Spirit Breaker Charge of Darkness Charge of Darkness can be used to escape or counter-initiate against a Relocate gank.
* Spirit Breaker Greater Bash Greater Bash and Spirit Breaker Nether Strike Nether Strike is devastating due to Io's low armor, and can even knock it away from tethered target.

Faceless Void

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 11%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Faceless Void Time Walk Time Walk will easily backtrack Lina's burst damage (especially Laguna Blade) if not timed correctly.
* During Faceless Void Chronosphere Chronosphere, squishy heroes like Lina will be main target of Faceless Void in his ultimate.

Bloodseeker

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

* Bloodseeker Thirst Thirst allows Bloodseeker to see where Io relocated to, should either Io or the tethered hero have low health.
* Bloodseeker Rupture Rupture forces Io to stay in place, preventing it from using the Tether bonus movement speed to escape.

Ogre Magi

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 11%)

Counters these heroes:

* Fireblast is a good tool to interrupt Io during its escapes through Io Tether Tether.
* Ignite can be one of the few spells with enough total damage to out-trade the sustained healing Io provides for its fellow laner.
* However, picking other supports that focus less on the laning phase is generally a better choice against Io.

Viper

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Viper Nethertoxin Nethertoxin prevents buildup of Fiery Soul stacks.
* Viper Corrosive Skin Corrosive Skin provides magic resistance against Lina's spells.
* Viper Poison Attack Poison Attack and Viper Viper Strike Viper Strike can burn away Lina's small health pool.

Razor

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Razor naturally builds tank items which allow him to survive Lina's burst better than other heroes.
* Razor Static Link Static Link makes Lina's high attack speed do very little damage.

Phantom Assassin

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 14%)

Counters these heroes:

* Phantom Assassin Phantom Strike Phantom Strike allows Phantom Assassin jump directly to Io.
* Phantom Assassin Coup de Grace Coup de Grace can make a short work of Io's low health and armor.

Lina

* Fragile support heroes are all ideal targets for the Phantom Assassin. Heroes such as Lina Lina and Witch Doctor are all prime targets that may not be able to react quickly and fight back due to Phantom Assassin's sudden appearance.

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with low health or rely on evasion can easily be bursted down, like Phantom Assassin or Terrorblade.

Lycan

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes with low armor and little mobility, like Huskar Huskar, Io, etc. will also have an unfortunate fate.

Riki

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes that can easily bypass Io's allies to get to Io: Riki Riki, Tusk Tusk, Clinkz Clinkz, Sniper Sniper

Night Stalker

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes with low mobility that rely on spells: Zeus Zeus, Lina Lina, Crystal Maiden.

Bounty Hunter

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

* Fragile heroes: Bounty Hunter has decent nuking capabilities with Shiruken Toss and Jinada thus making fragile heroes easy picks for ganking. Few examples of such heroes are:Crystal Maiden, Pugna Pugna, Skywrath Mage, Io, Witch Doctor, etc.

Jakiro

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 11%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes whose abilities can affect multiple enemies at once: Lina Lina, Luna Luna, Jakiro Jakiro, Leshrac Leshrac, Invoker Invoker, Lina Lina

Tusk

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 13%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes that can easily bypass Io's allies to get to Io: Riki Riki, Tusk Tusk, Clinkz Clinkz, Sniper Sniper

Templar Assassin

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes with powerful nuke can waste their precious abilites on her Refraction during a ganking attempt or chaos combat: Lich Lich, Lina Lina, Sniper Sniper, Outworld Destroyer Zeus Zeus

Puck

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Low health spellcasters: Lina Lina, Witch Doctor, Tinker Tinker, Keeper of the Light, all rely heavily on their spells and are fragile heroes. They all also have avoidable spells, allowing Puck to get to them and quickly burst them down.

Medusa

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes with a lot of burst damage, especially those who rely on casting spells: Lina Lina, Zeus Zeus.

Pugna

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Nether Ward will be problematic for heavy nukers and spammers like Skywrath Mage, Lina Lina, Lion Lion and Invoker Invoker, but don't use Decrepify defensively against them as you'll be helping them out more than anything.

Slark

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 14%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Slark Dark Pact Dark Pact can be cast during the cast animation of Light Strike Array and dispel its stun.
* Slark Pounce Pounce allows Slark to close the gap to Lina.
* Slark Shadow Dance Shadow Dance prevents Lina from killing Slark with her Laguna Blade when his HP gets low.

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with heavy magical nukes will take advantage of Slark's poor HP or force him to use Shadow Dance early: Lina Lina, Lion Lion, Zeus Zeus

Sniper

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 17%)

Counters these heroes:

* Sniper Take Aim Take Aim and Sniper Assassinate Assassinate allow Sniper to reach Io even if it stays in the backline.

Countered by:

* Heroes with high mobility can approach Sniper: Anti-Mage, Earth Spirit, Io, Nature Nature's Prophet, Pangolier, Puck Puck, Queen of Pain and most notably Riki Riki.

Winter Wyvern

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

* Winter Wyvern Cold Embrace Cold Embrace can render the extra attack speed from Overcharge meaningless.
* Winter Wyvern Splinter Blast Splinter Blast and Winter Wyvern Winter Winter's Curse are very affective against Io, as it has to stay close to its tethered hero.

Countered by:

Lina

* Heavy nukers will do well against Cold Embrace ( Lina Lina, Zeus Zeus etc).

Grimstroke

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

* Grimstroke can catch Io and his ally easily with Grimstroke SoulBind SoulBind as Io has a tendency to tether himself with an ally frequently.
* Io is highly vulnerable to disables. Hence, Grimstroke's Grimstroke Phantom Phantom's Embrace is a great ability to hinder Io's potential.
Additional:
* Soulbind can target both Io and its Io Tether Tethered ally, allowing Grimstroke and his team to target both with single target spells. Should Io try to Io Relocate Relocate, Phantom's Embrace can stop its channel to prevent escape.

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with powerful spammable abilities will prove problematic for Grimstroke as Ink Swell does not protect him from them: Zeus Zeus, Skywrath Mage, Tinker Tinker, Lina Lina

Bristleback

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 42% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

* Bristleback Quill Spray Quill Spray is very effective against Io, as it has very low armor and has to stay close to the fight to not break its Tether.

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes who deal single instance burst damage will only proc Bristleback once: Lina Lina, Lion Lion.

Better not pick these:

Meepo

[wiki] rating: -2.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

* Tether helps Io escape from Earthbind even if Meepo has Blink Dagger.
* Io's Spirits can pressure Meepo while laning and will usually hit at least one of his clones.

Lina

* Light Strike Array catches Meepo and his clones if he tried to gank Lina with Meepo Earthbind Earthbind & Meepo Poof Poof.
* Laguna Blade can quickly kill Meepo and his clones before they escape with Poof.

Phoenix

[wiki] rating: -1.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

* Phoenix's limit AoE, damage-over-time abilities give Io plenty of time to save allies with Relocate.

Lina

* Any hero with high attack speed will be a threat to Phoenix when it initiates, as they can easily tear down a Phoenix Supernova Supernova, perhaps even while debuffed by Fire Spirits: Juggernaut, Clinkz Clinkz, Troll Warlord, Beastmaster, Lina Lina.

Pudge

[wiki] rating: -1.4 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 28%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

Countered by:

Lina

* Pudge has low armor and mobility, making him suspectible to her physical attacks (if Lina is the carry).
* Because Pudge Dismember Dismember is a channeled ability, it can be canceled through Light Strike Array within a distance.

* Tether and Overcharge makes it much harder for Pudge to kill a target with Pudge Meat Hook Meat Hook, and Relocate can save the Io's ally while Pudge Dismember Dismember is being channeled.

Nature's Prophet

[wiki] rating: -1.2 (winrate: 44% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

* Io can Io Relocate Relocate with an ally to gank Nature's Prophet when he tries to push.

Additional:
* Nature's Prophet is extremely easy to gank with Relocate while he's split pushing.
* Tether on a friendly unit can destroy Nature Prophet's trees should he surround himself with Nature Sprout as a defense.

Lina

* Heroes with summons can find their summons eliminated easily by Lina, like Broodmother, Nature Nature's Prophet, and Chen Chen.

Additional:
* Lina can easily prevent Nature's Prophet's Teleportation escape attempts with Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array, and can clear Sprout's trees instantly.
* Lina's Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array can kill Nature's Prophet's Treants.

Enchantress

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 43% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Enchantress has pitiful health, and cannot tank Lina's heavy magic damage.
* Enchantress Untouchable Untouchable is decently countered by Fiery Soul, exposing Enchantress' weakness to physical damage due to her low armor.
* Lina is decent at clearing creeps and can kill Enchantress' creeps quickly.
Additional:
* Enchantress has a very small health pool and cannot tank Lina's heavy magic burst.
* Untouchable is decently countered by Lina Fiery Soul Fiery Soul, exposing Enchantress' weakness to physical damage due to her low armor.
* Lina is decent at clearing creeps and can kill Enchantress' creeps quickly.

Shadow Demon

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 2%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave will make quick work of the spawned illusions from Disruption.
* An attempt to save an ally using Disruption can easily become a perfect setup for a Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array for the enemy.
* Lina usually builds Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity to dispel Soul Catcher and Linken Linken's Sphere to block Disruption and Demonic Purge.
* Shadow Demon doesn't have the burst damage to take Lina out of the fight quickly, although Demonic Purge can help his allies kill a squishy Lina.

Necrophos

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Laguna Blade deals amplified magical damage (pure from Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter) to Necrophos when he is under the effects of Necrophos Ghost Shroud Ghost Shroud.
Additional:
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade's damage as well as damage from all of Lina's abilities will be greatly amplified during Ghost Shroud.

Mars

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 12%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave deals reliable magic damage during the laning phase against Mars.
* Lina's Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array combo can interrupt Mars from being disruptive for a decent amount of time and leave him vulnerable for follow up stuns.
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade deals massive magical damage, and pure damage with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter.

Gyrocopter

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 7%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade ends Gyrocopter very quickly in the early to mid game.

Venomancer

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Venomancer has low health, which makes him vulnerable to Lina's heavy magic damage.
* Fiery Soul attack speed bonus removes Venomancer Plague Ward Plague Wards easily in all stages of the game.

Dazzle

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 7%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Laguna Blade can kill Dazzle quickly before he casts Dazzle Shallow Grave Shallow Grave.

Underlord

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

* Io can escape from Pit of Malice with Tether or Relocate.
* Relocate can counter Dark Rift's split pushing.

Crystal Maiden

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 18%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Being a hero with low health and abysmal mobility, Lina can nuke her down easily.
* Since Crystal Maiden's Crystal Maiden Freezing Field Freezing Field is a channeled ability, Lina can use her Light Strike Array to cancel it easily.

Mirana

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 15%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array combo will disable Mirana if she tries to Leap away.
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade's magical (pure with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter) burst damage takes advantage of Mirana's below average health.
Additional:
* Mirana Moonlight Shadow Moonlight Shadow does little good against Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array.
* Lina's damage burst can quickly kill Mirana's teammates before she saves them with Moonlight Shadow.

Drow Ranger

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 17%)

Countered by:

* Drow Ranger's lack of escape abilities makes her an easy target for Relocate ganks.

Omniknight

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Omniknight Guardian Angel Guardian Angel is generally useless against Lina as she primarily relies on magical damage. Lina can also dispel it with Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity as she is a hero who often goes for it.
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade can often finish off Omniknight's allies before he can save them with Omniknight Purification Purification and Omniknight Heavenly Grace Heavenly Grace. This can become even worse once Lina buys Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, that will change Laguna Blade's damage type from magical to pure and allow it to ignore both, any form of spell immunity and Omniknight Guardian Angel Guardian Angel.

Terrorblade

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with low health or rely on evasion can easily be bursted down, like Phantom Assassin or Terrorblade.

Additional:
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade is one of the best tools to kill Terrorblade before he can use Terrorblade Sunder Sunder due to its high magical (pure with Laguna Blade damage is Pure and pierces Spell Immunity talent) burst damage.
* Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave and Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array allows Lina to clear Terrorblade's illusions from both, Conjure Image and Manta Style.

Morphling

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 11%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with high damage output who can burst down Morphling before he has time to use Attribute Shift (Strength Gain), like Lina Lina and Lion Lion.

Additional:
* Light Strike Array catches Morphling while he jumps in from Morphling Waveform Waveform and also prevents Morphling from using his abilities.
* Laguna Blade can kill Morphling quickly before he shifts into Morphling Attribute Shift (Strength Gain) Attribute Shift (Strength Gain).

Doom

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

* Heroes with the ability to heal allies, or those with good defensive abilities: Chen Chen, Dazzle Dazzle, Io, Oracle Oracle, Omniknight, Witch Doctor, Winter Wyvern, Abaddon Abaddon, etc.

Hoodwink

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 12%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Abilities that can destroy trees can give Hoodwink a disadvantage: Timbersaw, Windranger, Lina Lina.

Windranger

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 9%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Since Windranger is bad against magical damage, heroes with continuous magical damage or magical nukes can blast her: Zeus Zeus, Tinker Tinker, Leshrac Leshrac, Viper Viper, Skywrath Mage, Lion Lion, Lina Lina, Venomancer.

Witch Doctor

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 14%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes who have channeled abilities can be stunned by Light Strike Array, like Witch Doctor with Witch Doctor Death Ward Death Ward and Bane Bane's Bane Fiend Fiend's Grip.

Additional:
* Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array cancels out Death Ward from a long distance.

Shadow Fiend

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 23%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with high burst damage: Lina Lina, Lion Lion, Luna Luna, Nyx Assassin, Queen of Pain.

Bane

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes who have channeled abilities can be stunned by Light Strike Array, like Witch Doctor with Witch Doctor Death Ward Death Ward and Bane Bane's Bane Fiend Fiend's Grip.

Magnus

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 11%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Any hero who can counter-initiate in anticipation without getting caught in Reverse Polarity: Sven Sven, Omniknight, Enigma Enigma, Luna Luna, Naga Siren, Mars Mars, Jakiro Jakiro, Venomancer, Elder Titan, Faceless Void, Rubick Rubick, Keeper of the Light, Pugna Pugna, Invoker Invoker, Spectre Spectre, Alchemist, Treant Protector, Lina Lina, Oracle Oracle, Zeus Zeus, Shadow Shaman, Phoenix Phoenix, Razor Razor, Huskar Huskar, Batrider, Kunkka Kunkka, Tidehunter, Wraith King, Sand King.

Chen

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with summons can find their summons eliminated easily by Lina, like Broodmother, Nature Nature's Prophet, and Chen Chen.

Additional:
* Lina's high damage burst from Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave, Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array and Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade can easily kill Chen's allies or Chen himself before he can use Hand of God.

Huskar

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with high magical burst can easily kill Huskar when he is at low health: Lion Lion, Lina Lina, Skywrath Mage

Enigma

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes who can clear the waves of Enigma's Eidolons: Lina Lina, Luna Luna, Dawnbreaker, Jakiro Jakiro, Shadow Shaman, Death Prophet, Keeper of the Light, Invoker Invoker, Keeper of the Light, Puck Puck.

Broodmother

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes with summons can find their summons eliminated easily by Lina, like Broodmother, Nature Nature's Prophet, and Chen Chen.

Additional:
* Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array in combination with Lina Dragon Slave Dragon Slave can easily clear Broodmother's spiders.
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade offers extensive damage that can kill Broodmother early on or before she is able to use Insatiable Hunger in attempts to salvage a fight.

Abaddon

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Both Lion Lion's Lion Finger of Death Finger of Death and Lina Lina's Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade have a 0.25 second delay before the damage is dealt.

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina is a common Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity carrier which can waste some duration of Borrowed Time and following up with Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade if timed correctly.

Vengeful Spirit

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina can burst Vengeful Spirit down, provided she can land Lina Light Strike Array Light Strike Array before Vengeful Spirit lands her Magic Missile.
* Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade deals massive damage, often being enough to kill a squishy Vengeful Spirit.

Timbersaw

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes that can close the gap can easily chase her down, such as Timbersaw with Timbersaw Timber Chain Timber Chain and Anti-Mage with Anti-Mage Blink Blink.

Countered by:

Lina

* Timbersaw has a difficult time against magical and pure damage: Lina Lina, Leshrac Leshrac, Enchantress, Queen of Pain

Death Prophet

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

* Heroes that are hard to gank: Axe Axe, Death Prophet, Phantom Lancer

Countered by:

Lina

* Heroes that can kill Death Prophet with nukes can prevent her from using Exorcism to its full duration or using it at all: Lina Lina, Lion Lion, Puck Puck, Morphling.

Ancient Apparition

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

* Ice Blast prevents Io from healing an ally with Io Tether Tether and prevents healing from Io Overcharge Overcharge
* Io is a common Mekansm Mekansm builder which is useless if he is affected by Ice Blast.
Additional:
* Ancient Apparition Ice Blast Ice Blast prevents Io from healing the target.

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina builds Shadow Blade (and upgrades it into a Silver Edge), which makes it hard for Ancient Apparition to land his abilities.
* Laguna Blade can kill Ancient Apparition easily due to his low health pool and lack of mobility.

Luna

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

* Luna Lucent Beam Lucent Beam can be used to cancel both, Tether and Relocate.
* Like with Leshrac's Leshrac Diabolic Edict Diabolic Edict, Leshrac Lightning Storm Lightning Storm and Leshrac Pulse Nova Pulse Nova abilities. Luna's Luna Moon Glaives Moon Glaives and Luna Eclipse Eclipse abilities can make short work of Io and its tethered ally, particularly when upgraded with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter.

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina has very high magic burst damage to use against the low-health-pool Luna. Lina Laguna Blade Laguna Blade can also be upgraded with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter to bypass Luna's Black King Bar, making Lina even more of a threat.

Juggernaut

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 17%)

Counters these heroes:

Lina

* Heroes with spell immunity until Lina buys Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, like Lifestealer with Lifestealer Rage Rage and Juggernaut with Juggernaut Blade Fury Blade Fury.

Countered by:

* Heroes with abilities that can save teammates are also effective such as Shadow Demon, Dazzle Dazzle, Oracle Oracle, Bane Bane, Pugna Pugna, Tusk Tusk, Winter Wyvern, Io, Underlord, Treant Protector and Keeper of the Light.

Legion Commander

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 13%)

Counters these heroes:

* Legion Commander Duel Duel is very effective against Io due to its low health and armor.

Countered by:

* Io Tether Tethered heroes are much harder for Legion Commander to kill in Duels.
* Io Relocate Relocate can cancel Duels and save allies.

Treant Protector

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

* Treant Protector Living Armor Living Armor can be used to save a hero from a Relocate gank.

Countered by:

Lina

* Light Strike Array and Dragon Slave allows Lina to destroy trees, countering Treant Protector Nature Nature's Guise and Treant Protector Eyes in the Forest Eyes in the Forest.
* Lina has many tools to remove Treant Protector Living Armor Living Armor's protection.

Clinkz

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

* Clinkz Burning Barrage Burning Barrage and Clinkz Searing Arrows Searing Arrows allow Clinkz to quickly kill Io due to its low armor.
* Clinkz iz a hero that very often goes for Orchid Malevolence, and its upgrade Bloodthorn. And if Clinkz has it, he will be able to silence Io and prevent him from escaping wit either Io Tether Tether or Io Relocate Relocate.

Countered by:

Lina

* Lina's damage burst can quickly kill Clinkz before he saves them with Clinkz Skeleton Walk Skeleton Walk.
* Fiery Soul attack speed bonus removes Clinkz Burning Army Burning Army easily in all stages of the game.

Phantom Lancer

Axe

Batrider

Invoker

Earth Spirit

Silencer

Ursa

Leshrac

Nyx Assassin

Anti-Mage

Lich

Lifestealer

Disruptor

Sven

Spectre

Spirit Breaker

Faceless Void

Bloodseeker

Ogre Magi

Viper

Razor

Phantom Assassin

Lycan

Riki

Night Stalker

Bounty Hunter

Jakiro

Tusk

Templar Assassin

Puck

Medusa

Pugna

Slark

Sniper

Winter Wyvern

Grimstroke

Bristleback

Meepo

Phoenix

Pudge

Nature's Prophet

Enchantress

Shadow Demon

Necrophos

Mars

Gyrocopter

Venomancer

Dazzle

Underlord

Crystal Maiden

Mirana

Drow Ranger

Omniknight

Terrorblade

Morphling

Doom

Hoodwink

Windranger

Witch Doctor

Shadow Fiend

Bane

Magnus

Chen

Huskar

Enigma

Broodmother

Abaddon

Vengeful Spirit

Timbersaw

Death Prophet

Ancient Apparition

Luna

Juggernaut

Legion Commander

Treant Protector

Clinkz

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