Phantom Lancer — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Selected build

Key items, in buying order

Yasha~12:17
Manta Style~18:40
Aghanim's Scepter~22:09

Skill order, levels 1–25

58.7% · 610 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Spirit Lance	1		3		5		7
Doppelganger		2										12		14	15
Phantom Rush				4				8	9	10
Juxtapose						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

+2s Illusory Armaments Duration

5% · 71.8% · 39

-4s Doppelganger Cooldown

95% · 72.9% · 730

-70% Juxtapose Illusion Damage Taken

45% · 65.2% · 517

+100 Spirit Lance Damage

55% · 64.5% · 628

+125 Doppelganger Cast Range

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50% Illusion Spirit Lance Damage

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+3% Juxtapose Illusion Trigger Chance

96% · 58.7% · 1,296

+1s Spirit Lance Slow Duration

4% · 62.5% · 56

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Talents at 10, 20, 25: the games of this build. Talents at 15: all the hero's games at this rank and position, because this build has under 30 games on a side. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Starting items

55.6% · 473

50.3% · 185

57.2% · 159

Neutral items

56.8% · 384

59.1% · 281

53.5% · 187

58.6% · 162

49.1% · 110

71.3% · 94

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Yasha~12:17

5–10 min	▲ 70.8%	195
10–15 min	▲ 54.9%	1,334
15–20 min	▼ 36.0%	114
20–25 min	▲ 57.1%	28
25–30 min	▼ 44.4%	9
30–35 min	▼ 0.0%	1
35–40 min	▲ 100.0%	2
50–55 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 10:00: 70.8% wins; later: 53.5%.

Aghanim's Scepter~22:09

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	18
15–20 min	▲ 69.8%	377
20–25 min	▲ 58.7%	968
25–30 min	▼ 31.0%	213
30–35 min	▲ 53.6%	28
35–40 min	▲ 66.7%	6
40–45 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 20:00: 68.9% wins; later: 53.8%.

Manta Style~18:40

10–15 min	▲ 75.3%	215
15–20 min	▲ 54.7%	920
20–25 min	▲ 58.3%	290
25–30 min	▼ 41.1%	107
30–35 min	▼ 48.3%	29
35–40 min	▼ 44.4%	9
40–45 min	▲ 66.7%	3
50–55 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 75.3% wins; later: 54.2%.

Orchid Malevolence~30:34

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 52.4%	21
20–25 min	▲ 77.1%	170
25–30 min	▲ 63.8%	392
30–35 min	▲ 68.6%	331
35–40 min	▲ 57.4%	183
40–45 min	▲ 67.3%	55
45–50 min	▼ 46.2%	13
50–55 min	▼ 25.0%	4
55–60 min	▼ 25.0%	4
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	1
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 66.9% wins; later: 63.9%.

Eye of Skadi~33:19

20–25 min	▲ 90.9%	11
25–30 min	▲ 80.3%	309
30–35 min	▲ 65.8%	377
35–40 min	▲ 61.6%	190
40–45 min	▲ 66.7%	84
45–50 min	▲ 56.0%	25
50–55 min	▲ 66.7%	9
55–60 min	▼ 33.3%	3
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 80.6% wins; later: 64.2%.

Bloodthorn~35:29

15–20 min	▲ 100.0%	1
20–25 min	▲ 91.7%	12
25–30 min	▲ 81.8%	181
30–35 min	▲ 72.3%	292
35–40 min	▲ 69.6%	257
40–45 min	▲ 65.1%	129
45–50 min	▲ 53.2%	47
50–55 min	▲ 60.0%	15
55–60 min	▲ 60.0%	5
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	3
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 35:00: 76.3% wins; later: 66.3%.

Heart of Tarrasque~38:58

20–25 min	▲ 100.0%	4
25–30 min	▲ 70.7%	41
30–35 min	▲ 79.9%	149
35–40 min	▲ 75.5%	220
40–45 min	▲ 74.7%	166
45–50 min	▲ 60.5%	76
50–55 min	▲ 55.9%	34
55–60 min	▲ 80.0%	5
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 35:00: 78.4% wins; later: 71.8%.

Aghanim's Blessing~48:15

35–40 min	▲ 85.7%	14
40–45 min	▲ 88.9%	63
45–50 min	▲ 70.7%	82
50–55 min	▼ 48.1%	52
55–60 min	▼ 43.5%	23
60–65 min	▲ 55.6%	9
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 45:00: 88.3% wins; later: 58.9%.