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Bad against...[]

Abaddon icon
  • Huskar's damage over time gives Abaddon the opportunity to shield and heal his allies.
  • Borrowed Time icon Borrowed Time also makes Abaddon a hard support to gank, thus negating Huskar's early game dominance.
Alchemist icon
Ancient Apparition icon
  • Ice Blast icon Ice Blast prevents Huskar from healing, regeneration, health gained from activating an Armlet of Mordiggian icon Armlet of Mordiggian and will kill him when his health dips below a threshold. This makes it very dangerous for him to use his abilities.
Axe icon
Bristleback icon
  • Bristleback's tankiness and Bristleback ability icon Bristleback allow him to outlast Burning Spears' damage-over-time at almost any point in the game. In addition, if Huskar chooses to cast Life Break on Bristleback, Bristleback can simply turn around before it hits and receive little damage.
  • Viscous Nasal Goo icon Viscous Nasal Goo will reduce Huskar's low armor even further, and Quill Spray icon Quill Spray and Warpath icon Warpath will tear him down extremely quickly.
Chaos Knight icon
  • Chaos Bolt icon Chaos Bolt can stun Huskar when he jump in with Life Break icon Life Break, giving 4 seconds maximum for Chaos Knight to deliver a beatdown.
  • Reality Rift icon Reality Rift further reduces Huskar's low armor, boosting Chaos Knight's damage even more.
  • Berserker's Blood icon Berserker's Blood offer no protection against Chaos Strike icon Chaos Strike, which deal physical damage.
  • Phantasm icon Phantasm can be used to dispel the disarm from Inner Fire icon Inner Fire.
    • Although Huskar can use this to disarm the illusion instead, buying himself some times.
Enchantress icon
  • Untouchable icon Untouchable makes it near impossible to stack Burning Spears.
  • Impetus icon Impetus' pure damage puts an instant end to Huskar's low-health brinkmanship.
Bloodseeker icon
  • Huskar is often at low health, providing large Thirst icon Thirst bonuses to Bloodseeker.
  • Life Break can trigger Rupture icon Rupture's damage.
  • A self applied Bloodrage icon Bloodrage together with Blademail means it's almost suicidal for Huskar to jump on Bloodseeker with Life Break
Lina icon
  • Lina interrupts Huskar on the center line because of her attack range, she can constantly be at a long distance, punching Huskar with her hand, while Huskar needs a very close distance to use Burning Spear icon Burning Spear
Juggernaut icon
  • Blade Fury icon Blade Fury makes Juggernaut immune to the damage from Life Break and Burning Spears.
    • It can be instantly activated the second Juggernaut sees Huskar flying towards him with Life Break, blocking all damage.
  • Healing Ward icon Healing Ward effectively negates any damage-over-time from Burning Spears.
  • Huskar has no defense against Omnislash icon Omnislash and takes heavy damage due to his low armor.
Lifestealer icon
  • Rage icon Rage renders Lifestealer immune to the damage from Burning Spears.
  • Feast icon Feast makes Lifestealer one of few heroes that can outlast Huskar in a one-on-one fight.
Naga Siren icon
  • Mirror Image icon Mirror Image can cause Huskar to Life Break the wrong target.
  • Rip Tide icon Rip Tide reduces Huskar's already low armor.
  • Song of the Siren icon Song of the Siren allows teams to recover from Huskar's initiation, as well as the damage over time from Burning Spears.
Shadow Demon icon
  • Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison icon Shadow Poison can quickly stack to the point where Huskars generally low health is easily finished off.
  • Shadow Demon's Disruption icon Disruption can turn Huskar's high attack speed and regeneration against him, It also makes him an easy target for Shadow Poison,
    • Shadow Demon commonly builds a Meteor Hammer icon Meteor Hammer, allowing him to land a heavy stun on Huskar
  • Shadow Demon's upgraded Demonic Purge icon Demonic Purge breaks Huskar, It also pierces Spell Immunity, Without his passive for 7 seconds Huskar quickly falls in battle
  • However note that Shadow Demon is a squishy target and you can often overwhelm him if he is alone, But he can still Disrupt you to escape
Sniper icon
  • Sniper just doesn't give Huskar a chance, as he always just keeps his opponents at a great distance. However, in such a game you will need to have a Concussive Grenade icon Concussive Grenade and a Hurricane Pike icon Hurricane Pike in order to avoid the Life Break icon Life Break of Huskar
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Ursa icon
  • Jumping on Ursa with Life Break is often suicide for Huskar, as he will be immediately bursted down with Fury Swipes icon Fury Swipes.
Viper icon
  • His Poison Attack icon Poison Attack is very useful against Huskar, since he tends to stay at low health.
  • Nethertoxin icon Nethertoxin disables passive skills like Berserker's Blood.
  • It is dangerous for Huskar to jump on Viper because Corrosive Skin icon Corrosive Skin and Viper Strike icon Viper Strike with the slowdown of movement and attack speed which usually will be deadly for Huskar.
Windranger icon
Necrophos icon
  • Because Huskar tends to stay at low health to gain the maximum bonuses from Berserker's Blood, it makes him an exceptionally prime target for Reaper's Scythe icon Reaper's Scythe.

Others[]

Items[]

  • Black King Bar icon Black King Bar negates the magical damage from Burning Spears and Inner Fire unless the level 25 talent for Burning Spears is chosen.
  • Pipe of Insight icon Pipe of Insight will both reduce and/or block the damage dealt by Burning Spears and Life Break, which greatly reduces Huskar's damage output.
  • Silver Edge icon Silver Edge will break Berserker's Blood, making it much easier to burst down Huskar while also reducing his damage.
  • Heaven's Halberd icon Heaven's Halberd stops Huskar from attacking and applying Burning Spears.
  • Linken's Sphere icon Linken's Sphere blocks Life Break.
  • Spirit Vessel icon Spirit Vessel disables most of Berserker's Blood health regeneration.
  • Manta Style icon Manta Style can dodge Life Break's damage if timed correctly. Huskar isn't great at dealing with illusions as well.
  • Shiva's Guard icon Shiva's Guard applies health regen reduction and lifesteal reduction.
  • Eye of Skadi icon Eye of Skadi can reduce the health regeneration and lifesteal of Huskar. It can also slightly reduce the attack speed of Huskar.

Good against...[]

Anti-Mage icon
  • Huskar is not very reliant on mana to cast his spells, therefore, Mana Break icon Mana Break is not very effective against him.
    • Huskar also has low mana pool, he will take less damage once his mana pool is completely depleted. Mana Void icon Mana Void is also ineffective against him.
  • Huskar comes online earlier than Anti-Mage, and can take over the game before Anti-Mage can farm up.
Lone Druid icon
  • Huskar jumps on the hero without any problems, throwing the Summon Spirit Bear icon Summon Spirit Bear away from him and forbidding him to beat, which knocks down the regeneration of Lone Druid from the Spirit Link icon Spirit Link ability, in addition, Huskar instantly deals fatal damage to Lone Druid, in some cases he does not even have time to squeeze the True Form icon True Form
Zeus icon
  • Huskar's Burning Spears chip through his low health pool quickly.Consequently, he is forced to either invest on health regen or abandon the lane.
  • Reliant on magic damage, there is little he can do against Huskar.
  • Huskar will usually kill him if he gets Life Break off,given Zeus' poor mobility.
Weaver icon
  • Weaver cannot Time Lapse icon Time Lapse out of Huskar's burn damage.
Clockwerk icon
  • Clockwerk's abilities cannot handle Huskar in a one-on-one fight, even if he gets the jump on him.
Dragon Knight icon
  • Huskar can negate Dragon Knight's passive with multiple trades of Burning Spear.
Earthshaker icon
  • Earthshaker's stuns will rarely save him once Huskar has initiated on him with Life Break.
  • A full initiation combo will not kill Huskar, only lower his health and increase his attack speed.
Ember Spirit icon
  • Ember Spirit does minimal damage to Huskar until the very late game.
  • Huskar can destroy Ember Spirit both on the line and in the game. It will be extremely difficult for Ember Spirit to finish off the creeps, because Huskar will not let him approach them, and if Ember Spirit does come up, Huskar just shuts him up with his Burning Spear icon Burning Spear and Ember Spirit will have to go to the base or bring himself treatment, or continue to stand and die. In all cases, Ember Spirit will go into negative


Nature's Prophet icon
  • Sprout icon Sprout will not protect Nature's Prophet from Huskar if he has already locked on with Life Break.
  • Even a farmed Nature's Prophet is usually not durable enough to fight Huskar alone.
Phoenix icon

Others[]

  • Vulnerable spellcasters with no escape mechanisms are easy targets for Huskar: Lich minimap icon Lich, Crystal Maiden minimap icon Crystal Maiden, Silencer minimap icon Silencer, Keeper of the Light minimap icon Keeper of the Light, Venomancer minimap icon Venomancer, etc.
  • Melee heroes suffer against Huskar in the laning phase, as Burning Spears gives him incredibly strong harassing power.
  • Burning Spears can put Monkey King minimap icon Monkey King's Tree Dance icon Tree Dance on cooldown.
  • Mana Burn generally is not an issue to Huskar as he doesn't rely on mana.

Items[]

  • Blink Dagger icon Blink Dagger will be on cooldown by Burning Spears and its debuff is rather undispellable.

Works well with...[]

Ancient Apparition icon
  • Ice Blast icon Ice Blast combined with Life Break will kill an enemy very quickly.
  • Life Break can also trigger Ice Blast icon Ice Blast's shatter if the enemy gets away.
  • Picking Ancient Apparition also ensures opposing team can't pick this hero, which severely counters Huskar.
Beastmaster icon
  • Inner Beast icon Inner Beast allows Huskar to stack many Burning Spears in short time.
Dazzle icon
  • Shallow Grave icon Shallow Grave allows a nearly dead Huskar to attack extremely quickly and place many stacks of Burning Spears.
Dawnbreaker icon
  • With Solar Guardian icon Solar Guardian, Dawnbreaker can help Huskar from anywhere of the map with an AOE healing/damage, and an AOE stun
  • Later on, Aghanim's Scepter icon Aghanim's Scepter further increases the healing Dawnbreaker can provide
Necrophos icon
  • Life Break's initial percentage-based damage provides a clean setup for Reaper's Scythe icon Reaper's Scythe.
Omniknight icon
Oracle icon
  • False Promise icon False Promise allows Huskar to stay at low health and attack rapidly.
  • Fortune's End icon Fortune's End can be targeted on Huskar, and released just before he uses Life Break. This will dispel and root the enemy Huskar jumps on.


Pugna icon
  • Decrepify icon Decrepify increases Life Break's damage by a large amount, perhaps even instantly killing their target if coupled with other magic amplification abilities/items.
  • Life Drain icon Life Drain keeps Huskar alive at low health, letting him use Berserker's Blood to its full potential.
Terrorblade icon
  • Using Sunder icon Sunder on Huskar when Terrorblade is near death can be beneficial to both heroes, as Terrorblade is healed while Huskar gains attack speed.
Tiny icon
  • Tiny can Toss icon Toss Huskar on an enemy hero, or with a little bit of practice, he can toss an enemy hero to Huskar
Witch Doctor icon
  • Maledict icon Maledict greatly amplifies the damage from multiple stacks of Burning Spears.

Others[]

  • Heroes with armor increasing abilities to protect Huskar against physical attacks so he can survive and deal damage: Lich minimap icon Lich, Sven minimap icon Sven

Items[]

  • Guardian Greaves icon Guardian Greaves often goes into boosted mode to provide huge amount of health regeneration and armor as Huskar's HP drops due to Life Break and Burning Spear, keeping him alive to dish out damage.


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