Ancient Apparition — 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

Glimmer Cape~26:04
Force Staff~30:05
Eul's Scepter of Divinity~30:00

Skill order, levels 1–25

53.7% · 404 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
Cold Feet		2						8	9	10
Ice Vortex				4								12		14	15
Chilling Touch	1		3		5		7
Ice Blast						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.

This build has too few games for its own order, so this is the hero's most common order at this rank and position.

Talents

+4% Ice Blast Kill Threshold

41% · 63.8% · 538

450 AoE Cold Feet

59% · 62.5% · 770

+100 Chilling Touch Damage

24% · 59.4% · 32

+4s Ice Blast Frostbitten Duration

76% · 62.4% · 101

+250 Cold Feet Break Distance

68% · 59.6% · 109

-2s Ice Vortex Cooldown

32% · 60.8% · 51

+30 Cold Feet Damage Per Second

52% · 63.1% · 84

+300 Chilling Touch Attack Range

48% · 55.8% · 77

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

Talents at 10, 15, 20: the games of this build. Talents at 25: 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

51.3% · 269

48.1% · 187

53.5% · 101

Neutral items

47.2% · 1,372

54.2% · 1,296

54.2% · 498

51.3% · 431

47.3% · 366

53.4% · 326

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.

Glimmer Cape~26:04

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	30
15–20 min	▲ 56.0%	529
20–25 min	▲ 52.1%	951
25–30 min	▲ 50.7%	659
30–35 min	▼ 48.4%	461
35–40 min	▼ 45.4%	196
40–45 min	▼ 47.9%	73
45–50 min	▲ 62.1%	29
50–55 min	▲ 55.6%	9
55–60 min	▼ 42.9%	7

Bought before 25:00: 53.4% wins; later: 49.3%.

Force Staff~30:05

10–15 min	▲ 68.2%	22
15–20 min	▲ 56.5%	232
20–25 min	▲ 50.2%	422
25–30 min	▲ 54.7%	461
30–35 min	▲ 54.2%	459
35–40 min	▲ 50.5%	323
40–45 min	▲ 51.4%	144
45–50 min	▲ 52.1%	73
50–55 min	▲ 51.9%	27
55–60 min	▲ 57.1%	14
60–65 min	▲ 60.0%	5
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	2
70–75 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 53.6% wins; later: 52.5%.

Rod of Atos~25:24

5–10 min	▲ 50.0%	10
10–15 min	▲ 54.3%	105
15–20 min	▲ 60.1%	449
20–25 min	▲ 52.4%	498
25–30 min	▲ 55.1%	332
30–35 min	▲ 51.5%	268
35–40 min	▲ 58.0%	138
40–45 min	▲ 54.3%	70
45–50 min	▼ 34.8%	23
50–55 min	▲ 64.3%	14
55–60 min	▼ 40.0%	5
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	1
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 55.8% wins; later: 54.0%.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity~30:00

10–15 min	▲ 72.7%	11
15–20 min	▲ 60.3%	199
20–25 min	▲ 57.1%	324
25–30 min	▲ 57.1%	378
30–35 min	▲ 52.9%	357
35–40 min	▲ 57.1%	217
40–45 min	▲ 59.0%	117
45–50 min	▲ 59.6%	57
50–55 min	▲ 52.0%	25
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	10
60–65 min	▲ 62.5%	8

Bought before 30:00: 58.0% wins; later: 55.5%.

Aghanim's Scepter~35:15

10–15 min	▲ 100.0%	7
15–20 min	▲ 54.7%	53
20–25 min	▲ 59.6%	171
25–30 min	▲ 56.5%	292
30–35 min	▲ 59.5%	365
35–40 min	▲ 60.6%	325
40–45 min	▲ 60.3%	209
45–50 min	▲ 58.2%	122
50–55 min	▼ 48.5%	68
55–60 min	▼ 41.9%	31
60–65 min	▼ 43.8%	16
65–70 min	▲ 54.5%	11
70–75 min	▼ 33.3%	3
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1
80–85 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 35:00: 58.6% wins; later: 57.8%.

Kaya~33:00

0–5 min	▲ 100.0%	1
5–10 min	▲ 50.0%	4
10–15 min	▲ 61.1%	36
15–20 min	▲ 73.3%	60
20–25 min	▲ 61.1%	113
25–30 min	▲ 67.6%	145
30–35 min	▲ 56.6%	182
35–40 min	▲ 55.3%	170
40–45 min	▲ 53.5%	101
45–50 min	▲ 51.5%	66
50–55 min	▲ 64.0%	25
55–60 min	▲ 69.2%	13
60–65 min	▲ 70.0%	10
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 65.7% wins; later: 56.0%.

Dragon Lance~36:01

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	2
10–15 min	▲ 60.0%	20
15–20 min	▼ 47.5%	59
20–25 min	▲ 67.6%	71
25–30 min	▲ 61.7%	120
30–35 min	▲ 58.0%	157
35–40 min	▲ 56.1%	173
40–45 min	▲ 62.0%	142
45–50 min	▲ 55.4%	83
50–55 min	▲ 62.1%	58
55–60 min	▼ 40.0%	25
60–65 min	▼ 12.5%	8
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	3
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1
80–85 min	▲ 100.0%	1
90–95 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 35:00: 59.4% wins; later: 57.3%.

Witch Blade~28:19

5–10 min	▲ 88.9%	9
10–15 min	▲ 54.1%	74
15–20 min	▲ 55.2%	163
20–25 min	▲ 56.1%	132
25–30 min	▲ 54.5%	110
30–35 min	▲ 58.6%	111
35–40 min	▲ 63.2%	87
40–45 min	▲ 52.7%	55
45–50 min	▲ 71.4%	35
50–55 min	▲ 56.5%	23
55–60 min	▼ 44.4%	9
60–65 min	▼ 33.3%	3
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	2
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	2
75–80 min	▲ 50.0%	2
85–90 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 56.1% wins; later: 58.4%.