Ancient Apparition counters and build in Dota 2

Weaver (+4.5%), Brewmaster (+4.1%), and Lycan (+3.9%) are the strongest against Ancient Apparition — they have the biggest advantage over it at this rank.

Ancient Apparition does best against Omniknight (+7.1%), Leshrac (+5.9%), and Io (+5.0%).

The best partners for Ancient Apparition are Phantom Lancer (+4.2%), Shadow Shaman (+4.0%), and Faceless Void (+3.9%): together they win more often than expected from each one’s win rate.

“Position 5: Hard Support”: players usually start with Tango, Blood Grenade, Iron Branch ×2, Magic Stick, Sentry Ward, and Observer and Sentry Wards, pick Arcane Boots for boots, then build Aghanim's Shard (21 min), Rod of Atos (22 min), Glimmer Cape (24 min), and Eul's Scepter of Divinity (28 min).

Most often players take: at level 10 — “+300 Chilling Touch Attack Range” (100%), at level 15 — “-2s Ice Vortex Cooldown” (100%), at level 20 — “+4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration” (73%), and at level 25 — “450 AoE Cold Feet” (60%).

Ancient Apparition is played most often as “Position 5: Hard Support” — 69% of its matches. Less often: Position 4: Support (27%).