If the target is not particularly high-HP, a Q-W combo with a nuking position will often result in an easy kill. God’s Rebuke (W) provides a slow that can work in the absence of additional help. Mars can do well with a set-up for the Q. However, it is also a skillshot with an obvious tell. On its own, a successful Q onto a tree is a 1.6 second stun and 175 damage in lvl 1. Spear of Mars (Q) is the bread-and-butter spell that enables the rest of the kit. Instead, it is better to talk in detail about his spells. Laning with mars is not different from any other Dota 2 offlaner. Mars presents good gank potential with just two spells, so his first power spike is lvl 2. Thankfully, there are only two such heroes in Dota 2 - Juggernaut and Life Stealer. Naturally, heroes with innate magic immunity methods can also just waddle out of it. This includes: Puck, Morphling, Sand King, Mirana, Slark, Techies, Clockwerk, Phoenix, Timbersaw, and all four ‘Spirit’ heroes. Furthermore, most mobility spells that render the target magic immune/untargetable during animation also render Arena a non-factor. This leaves out heroes like Anti-Mage and Queen of Pain, and by extension, also PA and Riki. Blink heroes can immediately get out of Mars’ gank with good reaction time. The current Dota 2 hero pool only has a handful of these. Mars can be picked against almost any enemy lineup, except for heroes that can get out of his Arena easily. Which Dota 2 heroes are good against Mars?