Yeah the very first hero in Dota 2 history just so happens to be one of the most frustrating hard carries to deal with particularly late game.

At the start of the game, Anti-Mage is pretty weak, typical of hard carries, but give Anti-Mage plenty of time and he gets an assortment of items that can cost you MMR or a taunt win streak. To put it bluntly, you waste too much time, it’s your MMR.

Is Anti-Mage really anti-fun regardless? I still think so; he can reflect your attacks (i.e. Finger of Death) or blink out as a way to flip you off.

These assholes. Since they showed up in the International Tournament of 2014, Techies became a hero that brought nothing but crippling anxiety to their hostiles.

Why? Well a little while ago these little wannabe terrorists threw remote mines all over the map that lasted for 10 minutes and weren’t seeable without wards; also they could drop off traps that could stun players. Because the remote mines didn’t have a limit, they could be littered all across the map, and many times with Techies matches would sometimes go as long as a typical time length for a Disney movie from the mid 1940s-1980s (roughly 75-80 minutes) – making the match overstay its’ welcome!

Around 7.31 which was when Primal Beast was introduced, Techies lost his remote mines and traps (save for the proximity mines) and were given sticky bombs and reactive taser which disarms players after a delay. You’d think that would be less annoying, right?

No. They made Techies even worse. Way too many times I’ve had times of getting sticky bombs thrown at me over and over. I’d rather have the remote mine spam over the sticky bombs!

Good ol’ Legion Commander. You know the deal with people who spam this hero; they hide in areas like a bitch until they blink dagger in and duel your unsuspecting ass with no warning. Even more frustrating is the ones who use silver edge/shadow blade and pop out of nowhere while you’re just minding your own business.

She’s annoying even without duel by players who constantly use overwhelming odds, which does an area of effect damage that benefits from more heroes caught in it. Oh and back on topic of duels, someone at Valve must spend their day masturbating to images of Legion Commander – because now she can use overwhelming odds while a duel is going on!!

The worst part is that for every duel that ends with Legion’s hostile dead, she gets bonus damage for the entire match. You give her too many duel wins, it’s your match. You could try to counter her with someone that can hex her or have a scythe of vise, but good luck even trying to get one while she’s hiding like the bitch she is!!

Mirana AKA Sailor Bitch is one of those heroes that can pretty much fit any role in the game. Her starstorm attack isn’t a problem, but what pisses me off so much is when you just so happen to get hit by a timed sacred arrow from a good distance – and getting stunned for five seconds! Try to chase this bitch around too; she’ll just leap twice on her noble steed into the trees and you’ll never see her again or at least for a while.

Her ultimate is another one of the more annoying ones; she can make every hero on her side invisible. And no it’s not like using a smoke either, she or even the whole team can be right on you and eradicate you!! She used to be one of the most picked heroes in Dota 2 history until they nerfed her sorry ass, but Sailor Bitch still terrorizes me if I have to deal with her.

Oh dear god. Tinker was no surprise for making it on here. He’s one of the most hated heroes in the game by everyone, mostly because of multiple reasons. One, he hops the fuck around like Thumper from Bambi on crack cocaine with blink dagger + rearm (which resets the cool downs on everything including items) so you can’t find him. Then god forbid you try to push to finish the match either, because rearming allows him to constantly use heat seeking missiles. Tinker can also blind you pretty much the whole fight with rearming and using his laser over and over. Lastly, if he gets scythe of vise, he’ll hex you over and over all while saying “Eh, what’s up doc?” like Bugs Bunny.

Your best bet is to pick someone who can inflict status (preferably silence) and then gang bang him before he gang bangs your entire team.

Just about every Tinker I run into is some script kiddy who can’t play the game right or some crackhead smurf.

Pudge can be considered the mascot of DOTA given how he holds 1st place for most chosen hero in Dota 2 history even more than Mirana or any other hero.

So what outright makes Pudge one of the most infuriating enemies to deal with? Well mainly it’s from getting hooked, slowed by Pudge’s rot ability, and then getting damaged by dismember. If you hear a teammate hero saying “*lane* is missing” and it had Pudge in it, you’re in big trouble. I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve gotten hooked because the enemy Pudge somehow fucking knows where I am (Seriously I almost wonder if their skill with Pudge comes from trombone lessons!!) and sometimes there aren’t even wards!!

I wouldn’t have a problem with Pudge if there weren’t so many idiots picking him every match. But after running into him every 1 out of 4 matches it gets old dealing with him.

Okay, so if Pudge is the male mascot of DOTA, then Phantom Assassin can pretty much be considered the female mascot of DOTA – hell even Legion or Mirana don’t make the cut for that.

Like Pudge, it’s almost a miracle if you can go at least 4 matches without having a Phantom Assassin show up either on your team or the enemy team. Unlike Pudge however, Phantom Assassin takes absolutely no skill whatsoever. You simply phantom strike an enemy and do critical damage intermittently – and that’s even without using phantom strike. Oh and that dagger she can throw? Sometimes that crits as well!! The worst part about PA is that unlike other heroes she takes absolutely no skill whatsoever. All you need is to make sure you get last hits and that’s it. She’s a fucking menace in turbo matches and even in regular matches she’s not fun to play against. If you spam this hero, you need to rethink your life!

Mind you as well PA gets evasion built in so that alone forces you and your team to buy monkey king bar so that you guarantee damage.

I’ve gotten in trouble with enemy players before for killing them with Phantom Assassin (one of them called me a “fucking PA spammer f****t”) so it’s obvious that PA only exists to piss people off.

Another anti-fun hero, Silencer gets his name from being able to disable enemies from using any abilities and force then to fight with right click attacks. Part of why Silencer is such a pain in the ass comes from his ultimate, global silence. Global silence prevents anyone on the enemy side from using abilities (unless they have black king bar or manta style) and can easily fuck up the enemy to an unfair degree.

Much like Slark, anyone affected near Silencer after he gets a level in glaives of wisdom gets to lose some points in intelligence, so if enemies die near Silencer almost all the time whether accidental or not then this makes Silencer’s glaives of wisdom damage go up for the entire match.

One of the core reasons why Silencer’s high up on my pick rate if you checked my Dotabuff profile is to keep the enemy from picking this horrific hero. He can counter way too many heroes in the game to the point where only right clickers like Sniper or Ursa don’t consider Silencer a threat.

I thought long and hard about who the most annoying illusion based hero was, and I believe Naga Siren gets that award mostly for one ability: Song of the Siren. This prevents any damage from not only the enemies, but your own teammates as well; so you can make major fuck ups with this hero and get screamed at by your teammates.

Go get a therapist if that’s your idea of fun.

Another classic animosity generating hero; Riki is often ranked as one of the most frustrating heroes to play against. Why is that?

For starters, one mechanic of Dota (probably the most frustrating) is that players can go invisible if they have certain items, get a rune, or use a certain ability (Mirana is an example of this) to do so. Riki on the other hand, once he hits level 6 and gets a point in his ultimate, you better hope to god your supports actually litter wards all over the damn map and carry dust.

Even with detection, Riki does way too much damage even late. Attacking players from the back gives extra damage, and you’re expected to run into this all the time. What’s even more annoying though is his smoke screen. I wouldn’t have a problem with it silencing, but the fact it also ruins your attack accuracy is just plain brain dead.

Seriously I thought I’d throw Drow Ranger on here but after recent years, Windranger is more frustrating. Windranger, like Mirana, can fit any role, though she’s typically carrying and not supporting. Nevertheless the issue comes from her windrun ability, allowing evasion. But if that wasn’t enough, whoreranger can go INVISIBLE and attack with windrun after reaching a certain level!!

Sure I hate Drow a lot but at least if you get near her at a threshold range she can go down easily.

Fun fact: If you pick Sniper all the time and win, you’re not funny nor good at the game. Hate to get personal with that, but it’s the truth. I hate Sniper with a serious vengeance, like many other players.

Again like Pudge and Phantom Assassin, it’s a miracle if you can go 10 games without seeing this little shithead on either your team or the enemy team.

The thing about Sniper and what makes him so horrifying to deal with is how far he can attack from.

Furthermore, say you want to go mid as say Shadow Fiend or Night Stalker – well someone on your team picks Sniper. Same if you already picked several carries and have no supports. It’s like everyone wants to be the guitarist, and that’s exactly what you get with Sniper spammers.

Man where the hell do I begin with Huskar? Well much like Phantom Assassin he’s pathetically easy to play as long there aren’t any hard counters like Dazzle or Necrophos around to shut him up. That alone becomes frustrating if you’re playing an advanced hero like Arc Warden or Meepo, and it’s even more infuriating to hear the player gloat about his kills.

Huskar’s playstyle is that the more gravely injured he is, the faster he attacks, and this becomes a huge pain in the ass for some heroes like Clockwerk; oh and of course he also gets magical damage resistance, so much for someone like Lina, right?

His burning spears is also really bad; they add up and even if you do kill Huskar and you got hit with burning spears numerous times, well you’re dead too. It’s heroes like Huskar that really piss me off; “give up for Huskar” you say? Why don’t you just learn a real hero instead?!

The scum of turbo matches – Nature’s Prophet. Don’t even get me started on his bullshit. He can hop all around the map leading to a tedious scorn filled game of hide-n-seek.

Adding insult to injury on this, Nature’s Prophet gets to dump treants, which are controlled units, and send them out to suicide bomb your towers, barracks, and eventually even your ancient (sort of like what the Penguin tried to do with his penguin army in Batman Returns). This makes Nature’s Prophet the absolute worst hero to deal with in turbo matches, and it’s where he lays the enemy on a slab.

Recently he got a buff that makes his sprout ability cause damage; y’know as if he already wasn’t enough trouble.

From the Ghastly Eyrie I can see to the ends of the world, and from this vantage point I declare with utter certainty that this one is a pain in the ass!

Okay, seriously, Skywrath is one of the most annoying support heroes to exist; most of his issues come from how some players will spam the living hell out of his attacks.

The most annoying attack of his has to be concussive shot which slows you down, and because the time you can’t use it is so short, expect to get attacked with this over and over and over.

Another scourge of the turbo matches, Shadow Shaman is notorious for pushing like crazy.

Honestly though, Shadow Shaman’s annoyance for me actually comes from his hex and shackling. It’s not like Lion or the like who have a bit of down time between attacks, no no. Shadow Shaman can hex and shackle you until you taste like chicken.

His serpent wards are a menace but least they’re more manageable to dealing with (only need a few attacks on each to kill one) and it’s punishing for the chicken ringleader to be out of an ultimate for a while.

I’d rather eat an entire bucket of fried chicken and spend hours throwing up than deal with this dipshit.

Invoker is the hardest hero in the game to play – even harder than Meepo. So if he’s that hard to play, why is he on the list? He’s a pain to deal with in lane cold snapping your ass like crazy, and getting sun-striked out of nowhere isn’t fun either. And that mana of yours? Forget it after getting EMP’d over and over.

Look if all you know about Invoker is cold snap, EMP, sun strike, chaos meteor, ghost walk, then you’re not a pro. It’s like saying “oh I love being an expert pianist” and yet the only songs you know how to play are nursery rhymes.

Just like Riki, Bounty Hunter has an ability to go invisible, though not forever. Bounty Hunter however gets a nice little ultimate known as track, which lasts a while and also has you detected by the enemy.

Getting attacked by Bounty Hunter is obnoxious as well; you’re waltzing around in the field and then whack!! You just got stunned by this guy and lost some of your money that you’ve been saving for an item! And you can’t exactly get away from him easily, because he’ll just throw a shuriken at your eye like Butters in South Park!

Fuck this guy with a tetanus infested spike.

Enjoy getting walrus punched out of nowhere all the time? Well you’ll love dealing with Tusk, an obnoxious outdrinking freak of nature that is often paired with silver edge (makes you invisible and cause your passive abilities to be disabled for a few seconds on the next attack) and hiding like a little baby.

Better not bother running the hell away from him either – he’ll trap you with ice shards and jam his fist up your ass so badly you’ll feel like you were knocked out of the park!

Zeus is one of those heroes that I not only hate playing against, but also with as well – Naga Siren is another one of those heroes.

I’ve had way too many kills stolen from some kid using Thundergod’s Wrath while in the middle of killing a player.

Zeus is one of those heroes that I not only hate playing against, but also with as well – Naga Siren is another one of those heroes.

I’ve had way too many kills stolen from some kid using Thundergod’s Wrath while in the middle of killing a player.

Laning is a pain in the ass with Keeper of the Light (KOTL). He happily charges up this illuminate attack and then sends these giant horses to give you the Mufasa treatment over and over until you end up dead like Mufasa himself. When he’s not being a stampede machine gun, he’s sending out these balls of light that disable you for a few seconds, then again, and again, and again. It’s obnoxious.

Overall, more frustrating than fun to play against KOTL.

Spirit Breaker is a nightmare to deal with. For playing him, most of the time all you have to do is find a hero and click on them. Then you can sit back and watch as Spirit Breaker rushes across the game and slams into you like someone shoving a hamster up your ass (sort of like what happens in a South Park episode).

One of the more recent heroes, this evil Bob Ross known as Grimstroke (great name by the way since this asshole pretty much causes them) slashes you with his paintbrush and then

And at the bottom here is Barney the Dinosaur after a super dee duper day of tripping acid and going on a rampage (Faceless Void).