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Phantom Assassin build & guide (7.41)

Blinks onto her foes with critical strikes

Phantom Assassin Carry build

Divine – Immortal · 51.5% win rate · 10,239 matches · Tier A · Sep 11 – Sep 17

Skill order

Skill priority Stifling Dagger › Phantom Strike › Immaterial › Coup de Grace

  1. Level 1: Stifling Dagger
  2. Level 2: Phantom Strike
  3. Level 3: Stifling Dagger
  4. Level 4: Phantom Strike
  5. Level 5: Stifling Dagger
  6. Level 6: Coup de Grace
  7. Level 7: Stifling Dagger
  8. Level 8: Phantom Strike
  9. Level 9: Phantom Strike
  10. Level 10: Immaterial
  11. Level 11: Immaterial
  12. Level 12: Immaterial
  13. Level 13: Immaterial
  14. Level 14: Coup de Grace
  15. Level 15: Coup de Grace
  16. Level 16: Coup de Grace
  17. Level 18: Phantom Strike Duration (talent)
  18. Level 20: Immaterial Evasion (talent)
  19. Level 25: Phantom Strike Attack Speed (talent)

Items

Starting items

  • Quelling Blade 93% pick · 50.6% win rate
  • Iron Branch 88% pick · 50.7% win rate
  • Tango 84% pick · 51.0% win rate
  • Magic Stick 67% pick · 51.2% win rate
  • Faerie Fire 49% pick · 51.4% win rate

Early game

  • Magic Wand 4 min · 73% pick · 51.5% win rate
  • Wraith Band 3 min · 18% pick · 48.2% win rate

Boots

  • Power Treads 8 min · 97% pick · 50.8% win rate

Core build

  • Battle Fury 15 min · 98% pick · 51.2% win rate
  • Desolator 21 min · 76% pick · 56.0% win rate
  • Black King Bar 25 min · 87% pick · 53.5% win rate
  • Satanic 35 min · 45% pick · 73.2% win rate
  • Abyssal Blade 36 min · 44% pick · 73.2% win rate

Situational

  • Nullifier 36 min · 18% pick · 66.1% win rate
  • Monkey King Bar 35 min · 17% pick · 60.1% win rate
  • Aghanim's Shard 37 min · 15% pick · 70.4% win rate
  • Aghanim's Blessing 46 min · 9% pick · 69.4% win rate
  • Divine Rapier 44 min · 8% pick · 52.8% win rate
  • Manta Style 26 min · 7% pick · 59.6% win rate

Late game

  • Sange and Yasha 2/10 games

Talents

  • Level 25: Triple Strike Stifling Dagger 72% pick · 67.3% win rate or Coup de Grace chance 28% pick · 63.7% win rate
  • Level 20: Phantom Strike Attack Speed 59% pick · 58.2% win rate or Phantom Strike Cast Range 41% pick · 60.1% win rate
  • Level 15: Immaterial Evasion 62% pick · 53.9% win rate or Stifling Dagger Damage 38% pick · 51.9% win rate
  • Level 10: Phantom Strike Duration 70% pick · 50.7% win rate or Stifling Dagger Cooldown 30% pick · 51.2% win rate

Matchups

Strong against

  • Lone Druid +8.0% advantage · 58.1% win rate · 167 games
  • Chaos Knight +6.3% advantage · 56.7% win rate · 134 games
  • Kez +5.9% advantage · 61.2% win rate · 201 games
  • Tinker +5.9% advantage · 55.7% win rate · 228 games
  • Lina +5.4% advantage · 57.9% win rate · 729 games
  • Monkey King +5.1% advantage · 59.8% win rate · 224 games

Weak against

  • Drow Ranger -12.2% advantage · 43.3% win rate · 282 games
  • Bane -7.7% advantage · 43.4% win rate · 143 games
  • Brewmaster -7.7% advantage · 40.2% win rate · 184 games
  • Death Prophet -7.4% advantage · 44.4% win rate · 162 games
  • Primal Beast -7.0% advantage · 41.7% win rate · 144 games
  • Zeus -5.5% advantage · 46.0% win rate · 485 games

Builds from 8,492 parsed games

Phantom Assassin counters & matchups

  • Strength: 19 +2.2
  • Agility: 22 +3.4
  • Intelligence: 15 +1.7
  • Damage: 57–59
  • Armor: 4.666667
  • Move speed: 310
  • Attack range: 150

Phantom Assassin abilities

Stifling Dagger

Throws a dagger slowing the enemy unit's movement speed, dealing 65/70/75/80+30/45/60/75% of Phantom Assassin's attack damage as physical damage and applying attack effects from items and abilities.

Phantom Strike

Teleports to a unit, friendly or enemy, and grants bonus attack speed while attacking if it's an enemy unit.

Blur

Phantom Assassin blurs her body, disjointing incoming projectiles, increasing her movement speed, causing her to be impossible to see until she comes near enemy heroes or towers.

Aghanim's Shard: Decreases Cooldown by %bonus_AbilityCooldown%s. Any time Phantom Assassin gets a hero kill, her ability cooldowns advance 60% of their max cooldown values.

Fan of Knives

Phantom Assassin releases sharp blades around her, dealing a percentage of each victim's max health on impact and applying Break.

Immaterial

Phantom Assassin focuses inward, increasing her ability to evade enemy attacks. Stacks diminishingly with other sources of Evasion.

Coup de Grace

Phantom Assassin refines her combat abilities, acquiring a chance of gaining Deadly Focus with each attack. When attacking with Deadly Focus, Phantom Assassin will consume the buff and guarantee a critical hit. Stifling Dagger has a bonus chance to cause Deadly Focus.

The moment she finds her prey, Phantom Assassin strikes. Instantly closing in on a target, she effortlessly dodges attacks as she relentlessly cuts away at her foe. Without warning, any one of her attacks could prove suddenly and brutally fatal.