What the item does
Active: Mirror Image
Creates 2 images of your hero that last 18 seconds.
Illusions take 300% damage. Their outgoing damage depends on the owner's attack type: melee illusions deal 33% damage and ranged illusions deal 25%.
Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
How I decide
«Manta has two jobs at once: remove an eligible effect and give illusions work to do.»
Ruslan UkrainskyiSpeaking through Rodya
- 01 Situation
- I receive a dispellable debuff, and the hero can use illusions for pressure.
- 02 My decision
- I keep the activation for a useful dispel and send available illusions to a chosen task.
- 03 What I avoid
- Create illusions without control and leave myself without the button before a real silence.
When I would buy it
When I need these particular options rather than just more stats.
Components
Components from Valve's recipe. Repeated parts are marked with quantities.
Yasha
DiademWhich heroes I would try it on
Examples based on mechanics. The role, opponents and team plan determine the final choice.
What to compare it with
Similar purposes do not make items interchangeable. I compare effect, price and timing.
Stats and key conditions
- Strength
- 10
- Agility
- 26
- Intelligence
- 10
- Attack speed
- 15
- Movement speed
- 10%
- Cooldown
- 34 s
- Mana cost
- 125
Valve notes
- Has a 0.1 second cast time during which you are invulnerable.
- Many effects are removed upon using Manta.
- Yasha-based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack.
Game effects and recipes are a snapshot of official data. My guidelines are choices for a task, not a promise of the same build every match. Values for several stages, where present, are separated by ‘/’.
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