General DiscussionCountering Life Stealer in 5k MMR.

kite him m8, Ursa should wreck him, if you can disable him it is easy to kill him, sven destroys him as well.

Bkb piercing stuns

Look I'm not even close to 5k but lifestealer still can't carry games late vs real carries. He shines mid game but his wave clear is awful and his tower dmg only takes off once he has deso or ac. so you have to out last his mid game and pick a bunch of disablers.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2394190552

This is what I mean, I couldn't do shit late vs alch and lc despite having a good mid game, course my weaver and huskar blew chunks but point is if I had been slark maybe we win that.

Im pretty sure LS > LC/Alche, your situation is probably just bad team and vsing omni. I vsed lc/alche/omni before and still won after i bought diffusal.

I believed kiting LS (forcestaff, blink) when rage and disabling/mana draining heroes work better (AM, PL) vs him. Illusion heroes (especially PL) works pretty well too agaisnt LS

Get an abaddon, build as tanker. Get and oov and keep hitting him. Use shield on the one he slow. So easy..

@Packeyou

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2397904277

how to rekt ls with lc

forcestaff rekt.

Omni beats Lifestealer fine. Viper can kite well with his ulti, Phantom Lancer, Naga, or any illusion hero, force staffs, ghost scepters, a TP scroll.

Ghost Scepter is an excellent pick up for supports, the little +5 stats you get is nice to, goes good with your wand, he'll be more reluctant to go after you if he knows you have a ghost scepter. Make sure to carry a TP for when you ghost scepter though, and TP to a nearby tower, will annoy him.

Kiting him with slardar works well for me. Same thing when I'm up against sven.

every sort of silence reks him when he has no manta/bkb

-Sabre on lifestealer
-no diffusal against omni
ez -25

pick sven.

also my last naix game i got wrecked by blademail wk but idk how big counter is that

"-Sabre on lifestealer
-no diffusal against omni
ez -25"

^ and wondering why ls gtting owned by alchemist / lc

? sabre is best item on lifestealer

http://www.dotabuff.com/players/68379658/matches?date=&hero=lifestealer&skill_bracket=&lobby_type=ranked_matchmaking&game_mode=&region=&faction=&duration=&enjoyment=any&timezone=Asia%2FShanghai

^why sabre and not sny? isn't the ms good on a melee like lifestealer? just asking, i dont play the hero

btw i dunno, i picked blademail wk against ls and he totally raped my shit
in my experience good counters are sven, meepo and maybe morphling

Same goes for Sven, bkb piercing ulties, kiting, disables - both LS and Sven are not op and ez to kite.

Sabre is cheaper. At the start, I used to get both, but together with Armlet as well, you just have too many cheap items and your damage gets delayed way too much. So now it's either Sabre or S&Y.