Delaying his Boots of Travel and Blink Dagger is essential. Tinker is pure and absolute ********, but he can be countered by killing him early and often. Primal Split's Storm Panda can deal heavy damage to CK's illusions with Dispel Magic. Brewmaster: Outside his Ultimate Primal Split, Brewmaster does next to nothing to CK, however CK himself cannot really kill Brewmaster without Phantasm.His Warcry makes him and his allies more survivable against physical damage. Sven: Sven's Great Cleave allows him to deal large amounts of physical AoE damage, especially if he has a Daedalus.His Ultimate Macropyre can be hard to push into, as it does a lot of AoE damage. Jakiro: The twin-headed dragon is 100% AoE damage and he has two spells that slow attack speed: Dual Breath and Liquid Fire.However, Medusa is very reliant on her Mana Shield to survive, buying a Diffusal Blade can remove her mana very quickly when using illusions effectively.Once Medusa builds an Aghanim's Scepter, it can turn units it hits to stone, thus destroying illusions instantly. Mystic Snake: Can deal a lot of damage, especially if there are a bunch of units next to each other.And since Medusa naturally builds into a Linken's Sphere, it can be difficult to stop her from getting her Ultimate off. Stone Gaze, Medusa's Ultimate turns units that look at her to stone and deals bonus physical damage to them.Playing against Medusa, it's imperative to limit her farming space and close out the game early. Medusa: It seems that Medusa is very strong against CK, but she takes quite a while to get online and CK becomes strong very quickly.Phoenix: The attack speed slow from Fire Spirits absolutely wrecks CK and his illusions, which can make it difficult to burst down the fire bird before he can get off his Ultimate Supernova, which cannot be killed by illusions.But this spell has a longer cooldown than Phantasm, so it's easy to play around. The main hero may survive the Ult, but it will do a lot of damage. Sanity's Eclipse devastates CK and his illusions, as OD will certainly have way higher intelligence.Astral Imprisonment can save either OD himself or the hero you wanted to kill.Arcane Orb deals a ****load of pure damage and does bonus damage to illusions.Fissure, other than the stun, poses no real issues for us, as you can use Reality Rift to get past that obstruction.Echo Slam is good against illusions, but CK's are usually more tanky than regular illusions as is the main hero and outside of that ES does little.The difficulty that CK has against ES is one that every hero has: getting stun-locked. Earthshaker: It's a gigantic myth that Earthshaker counters Chaos Knight.Sure, you can **** him up a bit in the early game, but later on you'll need to count on your teammates to deal with Timbersaw. If you've already picked, you kinda have to avoid him at all costs. If this **********er gets picked, don't even think about picking CK. His natural tankiness with Reactive Armor means that he's difficult to burst down during your Chaos Bolt stun, while Whirling Death and Chakram pretty much make your Phantasm illusions useless. So let's talk about counters first.Īs far as I'm concerned, there is only one actual counter: Timbersaw. Not everything is rosy of course and there are things that can throw a wrench in your plans. The most fun thing at this point to me is thinking about what itemization is best. Once you reach level 12, you can use your Ult to do whatever you wish: look for pick-offs, force fights, push towers etc. After that, any solo hero has to fear you. See, this is what makes Chaos Knight so interesting to me, he only requires two items to really come online: Power Treads and Armlet of Mordiggian. While those things are true, they're also not as bad as they'd have you believe: you don't need Ult to fight (if you do, you're playing CK wrong), Manapool is easily remedied with his +8 Intelligence talent, and you can farm heroes quite effectively instead of creeps. Now, many people will say that he's too easily countered, his Ult has too long of a cooldown, he's got **** manapool, atrocious attack speed, farms slow, etc.
This guy has so much going for him, it's insane that he's not considered the most OP hero out there. Hi! Chaos Knight is easily my favorite hero in the game, definitely my favorite Strength hero.