[Top 5] Dota 2 Best Juggernaut Builds That Wreck The Enemy Team!



Everyone can play Juggernaut, but there are very few people who have mastered the hero. Only a few can understand his strengths and utilize him to the fullest. Juggernaut is one of the most picked heroes in the game.

We present to you, the top 5 Best Juggernaut Builds That Wreck The Enemy Team! These builds are extremely relevant in the current meta and are played by the best players all over the world.  

5. Miracle Build

Miracle’s playstyle on Juggernaut may be slightly farming-oriented, but it benefits his team due to his map awareness. He strikes when the iron is hot, instead of farming idly. Miracle is known to be a master at Juggernaut, his mechanical skills are unparalleled. He is most feared in the EU region, thanks to his ungodly skills.

Miracle’s slow-paced laning is quite a contrast from his fast-paced farming speed on Juggernaut. Within no time, he can get fat and join fights to swiftly turn the game around! He is known to be a problem to the enemy team if left free to farm! His Juggernaut build includes items like Maelstorm, Aghanim’s Shard, Blink Dagger, Eye of Skadi, and much more.

Use This Build If:

  • You want to drag the game late, inorder to acquire more items and weaken the enemies if they generally fall off in the late game. All the items mentioned in the build are late-game reliant.

Skill Points

  • Level 1: Bladefury - Renders Juggernaut magic immune while dealing Magical damage to enemies under its radius. It is useful to skill on the first level if you are facing harsh magic damage dealing enemy heroes.
  • Level 2: Healing Ward - Summons a healing ward that heals Juggernaut and his allies in a radius. It is useful in the laning phase if you are lacking heals, but it can also be destroyed if kept in enemy reach
  • Level 3: Bladefury  
  • Level 4: Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 5: Bladefury 
  • Level 6: Omnislash - Allows Juggernaut to deal high physical damage, slashing around all the enemies in a small AoE. The duration of the ultimate can be increased with Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Level 7: Bladefury 
  • Level 8: Healing Ward
  • Level 9: Healing Ward
  • Level 10: Healing Ward
  • Level 11: Stats
  • Level 12: Omnislash

Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)

  • Power Treads - Bought at 3 minutes. Power Treads provide Juggernaut with bonus three attributes, which can be toggled, providing increased HP, movement speed, or mana according to the attribute set.
  • Maelstorm - Bought at 11 minutes. Helps Juggernaut in farming faster, pushing waves, and also increases the physical damage dealt during Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Mjolnir at 24 minutes into the game. 
  • Manta Style - Bought at 18 minutes. It provides Juggernaut with increased agility and movement speed. It is also used to disjoint spells and split push lanes. Manta also increases Juggernaut’s map presence and helps him stay durable in fights. 
  • Aghanim’s Shard - Bought at 26 minutes. Shard increases the movement speed and allows him to deal physical damage during Bladefury. 
  • Blink Dagger- Bought at 29 minutes. It allows Juggernaut to initiate with Bladefury or Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Swift Blink at 44 minutes into the game..
  • Eye of Skadi - Bought at around 37 minutes. On Juggernaut’s attacks, it reduces the enemy’s regen while also providing stats, it also slows their movement as well as attack speed. 
  • Skull Basher - Bought at around 39 minutes. Provides a chance to bash enemies on physical attacks and prevents them from escaping, can later be upgraded into Abyssal Blade, which allows Juggernaut to stun and lock down the targetted enemy. 

4. 23Savage Build

23Savage gained notoriety as a pub star, playing a wide range of heroes as a carry. His Juggernaut is said to be extremely lethal. He is known to be quite the aggressive laner, often picking Juggernaut to synergize with other heroes on his team. 

Maelstrom into Manta Style build is preferred by 23Savage. He opts for Hand of Midas due to his difficult laning stage but as always, he is known to come back despite all the adversities. This build provides great farming potential, it also guarantees immense damage in team fights, most of which can’t be negated. 23Savage alters his build according to the heroes he is facing, which is an impressive skill to learn! 

Use This Build If:

  • You want the Aghanim's Scepter-focused build. All items in this build compliment the Aghanim's Scepter, dealing high amounts of physical damage. The damage is further doubled with Refresher's, providing essentially four Omnislashes in the late game.

Skill Points

  • Level 1: Bladefury - Renders Juggernaut magic immune while dealing Magical damage to enemies under its radius. It is useful to skill on the first level if you are facing harsh magic damage dealing enemy heroes.
  • Level 2: Healing Ward - Summons a healing ward that heals Juggernaut and his allies in a radius. It is useful in the laning phase if you are lacking heals, but it can also be destroyed if kept in enemy reach.   Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 3: Bladefury  
  • Level 4: Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 5: Bladefury 
  • Level 6: Omnislash - Allows Juggernaut to deal high physical damage, slashing around all the enemies in a small AoE. The duration of the ultimate can be increased with Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Level 7: Bladefury 
  • Level 8: Healing Ward
  • Level 9: Healing Ward
  • Level 10: Stats
  • Level 11: Healing Ward
  • Level 12: Omnislash

Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)

  • Phase Boots - Bought at 8 minutes. Phase Boots offer Juggernaut high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows Juggernaut to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to use Bladefury on top of them.
  • Hand of Midas - Bought at around 11 minutes. Midas, on usage, consumes a creep and returns 160 gold along with 2.1x the XP of the creep. This item is great if you are falling behind on farm after a rough laning stage. 
  • Maelstorm - Bought at 14 minutes. Assists Juggernaut in farming faster, pushing waves, and also increases the physical damage dealt during Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Mjolnir at 18 minutes into the game. 
  • Linken’s Sphere - Bought at 23 minutes. This is a situational item, but it is extremely useful in games where the magic immunity from the Bladefury isn’t enough. It is highly essential in the late game in specific matchups.
  • Aghanim’s Shard - Bought at 25 minutes. The Shard increases the movement speed and allows him to deal physical damage during Bladefury. 
  • Blink Dagger- Bought at 29 minutes. Blink Dagger allows Juggernaut to initiate with Bladefury or Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Swift Blink at 39 minutes into the game.
  • Monkey King Bar - Bought at 31 minutes. It provides True Strike on physical attacks and increases the physical damage.
  • Aghanim’s Scepter - Bought at 36 minutes into the game. It provides Swift Slash ability which is essentially a mini Omnislash. Deals immense damage but for half the duration.
  • Refresher’s Orb - Bought at 42 minutes. Refresher is seen in the late game, it allows Juggernaut to use his abilities and items twice, increasing his damage potential by a huge margin. 

3. Topson Build

Topson knows how to utilize Juggernaut to his full potential, often going absurd item and skill builds. He can farm efficiently at a fast pace. Once he hits the item timings, there is no way you stop this beast! He prefers to play Juggernaut as a late-game carry. 

Topson is a propagator of the Maelstorm into Aghanim’s Shard build. The main agenda of this build is to farm quickly and sustain himself in teamfights which he does extremely well with his excellent item choice. He often builds situational items, adapting to the enemies he is facing. His max Blade Fury build is copied by millions of players all around the world!

Use This Build If:

  • You want to sustain yourself in teamfights while dealing decent damage in the early game. Generally, Juggernaut fares well in the early game, but with the addition of Hand of Midas, his farm is accelerated, giving him an edge over his enemies when it comes down to items.

Skill Points

  • Level 1: Bladefury - Renders Juggernaut magic immune while dealing Magical damage to enemies under its radius. It is useful to skill on the first level if you are facing harsh magic damage dealing enemy heroes.
  • Level 2: Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 3: Bladefury  
  • Level 4: Healing Ward - Summons a healing ward that heals Juggernaut and his allies in a radius. It is useful in the laning phase if you are lacking heals, but it can also be destroyed if kept in enemy reach. 
  • Level 5: Bladefury 
  • Level 6: Omnislash - Allows Juggernaut to deal high physical damage, slashing around all the enemies in a small AoE. The duration of the ultimate can be increased with Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Level 7: Bladefury 
  • Level 8: Healing Ward
  • Level 9: Healing Ward
  • Level 10: Healing Ward
  • Level 11: Stats
  • Level 12: Omnislash

Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)

  • Quelling Blade - Bought at 2 minutes. Increases the damage dealt to creeps, making it easy for Juggernaut to last hit in the early game with low damage.
  • Phase Boots - Bought at 4 minutes. Phase Boots provide Topson with high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows Juggernaut to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to use Bladefury on top of them.
  • Hand of Midas - Bought at around 8 minutes. Midas, on usage, consumes a creep and returns 160 gold along with 2.1x the XP of the creep. This item is great if you are falling behind on farm after a rough laning stage. 
  • Maelstorm - Bought at 11 minutes. Assists Juggernaut in farming faster, pushing waves, and also increases the physical damage dealt during Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Mjolnir at 24 minutes into the game. 
  • Aghanim’s Shard - Bought at 16 minutes. The Shard increases the movement speed and allows him to deal physical damage during Bladefury. 
  • Skull Basher - Bought at around 18 minutes. Provides a chance to bash enemies on physical attacks and prevents them from escaping, it is later upgraded into Abyssal Blade at 34 minutes, which allows Juggernaut to stun and lock down the targetted enemy.
  • Blink Dagger- Bought at 21 minutes. Blink Dagger allows Juggernaut to initiate with Bladefury or Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Swift Blink at 39 minutes into the game.
  • Eye of Skadi - Bought at around 32 minutes. On Juggernaut’s attacks, it reduces the enemy’s regen while also providing stats, it also slows their movement as well as attack speed. 
  • Silver Edge - Bought at 37 minutes. Silver Edge allows Juggernaut to go invisible and apply break when hitting an enemy under its duration, breaking their passive abilities.  

2. Ana Build

Ana’s Juggernaut is quite different from everyone else’s on this list, this is because it’s one of his most played heroes. He quite well knows everything the hero can do, this helps him induce fear in the mind of his enemies. 

Ana has been praised widely for his intense and nail-biting performance on this hero. Everything from Manta dodging to farming with illusions, he knows it all! Ana loves Maelstorm combined with Manta Style and Eye of Skadi on this hero, this essentially secures his farm and deals immense damage to his foes, while allowing him to sustain and stay strong in teamfights.

Use This Build If:

  • You want the Aghanim's Shard build, which provides ungodly amounts of physical damage from the early game itself. This is a standard Aghanim's Shard oriented build which focuses on teamfights and skirmishes as well.

Skill Points

  • Level 1: Bladefury - Renders Juggernaut magic immune while dealing Magical damage to enemies under its radius. It is useful to skill on the first level if you are facing harsh magic damage dealing enemy heroes.
  • Level 2: Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 3: Bladefury  
  • Level 4: Healing Ward - Summons a healing ward that heals Juggernaut and his allies in a radius. It is useful in the laning phase if you are lacking heals, but it can also be destroyed if kept in enemy reach. 
  • Level 5: Bladefury 
  • Level 6: Omnislash - Allows Juggernaut to deal high physical damage, slashing around all the enemies in a small AoE. The duration of the ultimate can be increased with Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Level 7: Bladefury 
  • Level 8: Healing Ward
  • Level 9: Healing Ward
  • Level 10: Healing Ward
  • Level 11: Stats
  • Level 12: Omnislash 

Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)

  • Phase Boots - Bought at 5 minutes. Phase Boots offer Ana high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows Juggernaut to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to use Bladefury on top of them.
  • Maelstorm - Bought at 10 minutes. It helps Ana in farming faster, pushing waves, and also increases the physical damage dealt during Omnislash. 
  • Manta Style - Bought at 18 minutes. Manta Style allows him to disjoint spells and split push lanes. It also provides decent stats and movement speed. Manta also increases Juggernaut’s map presence and helps him stay durable in fights. 
  • Aghanim’s Shard - Bought at 20 minutes. The Shard increases the movement speed and allows him to deal physical damage during Bladefury. 
  • Eye of Skadi - Bought at around 28 minutes. Skadi reduces the enemy’s regen on physical attacks while also providing stats, it also slows their movement as well as attack speed.

1. Yatoro Build

From inventing memes to unique item builds, Yatoro has it all. His high technical prowess and skill have put him on this list! Regardless of a wide hero pool, Yatoro sets his eyes on Juggernaut, as he is a great hero in this patch. Yatoro knows his ways around this hero, he has a couple of tricks up his sleeve when it comes to the late game.

Yatoro loves the classic Malestorm into Manta Style build. He was one of the first players to actively Aghanim’ Shard, which offers optimum damage. You may often see Yatoro 1v5’ing enemies with his Omnislash alone! His quick item timing and farming pace make him impressive. The focal point of the build is the quick initiation with Blink Dagger and Omnislash which he manages to do quite impressively. 

Use This Build If:

  • If you want to a farm-oriented build. Rushing a Maelstorm and further upgrading it into a Mjolnir is of high value as it provides both early game farm and damage in teamfights, generally during Omnishlash

Skill Points

  • Level 1: Bladefury - Renders Juggernaut magic immune while dealing Magical damage to enemies under its radius. It is useful to skill on the first level if you are facing harsh magic damage dealing enemy heroes.
  • Level 2: Blade Dance - Provides a chance to deal critical physical damage. It is also essential in teamfights.
  • Level 3: Bladefury  
  • Level 4: Healing Ward - Summons a healing ward that heals Juggernaut and his allies in a radius. It is useful in the laning phase if you are lacking heals, but it can also be destroyed if kept in enemy reach. 
  • Level 5: Bladefury 
  • Level 6: Omnislash - Allows Juggernaut to deal high physical damage, slashing around all the enemies in a small AoE. The duration of the ultimate can be increased with Aghanim’s Scepter.
  • Level 7: Bladefury 
  • Level 8: Healing Ward
  • Level 9: Healing Ward
  • Level 10: Stats
  • Level 11: Stats
  • Level 12: Omnislash 

Items to buy for this build (Early to Late Game)

  • Phase Boots - Bought at 4 minutes. Phase Boots offer high movement speed along with increased armor as well as physical damage. The item also allows Juggernaut to phase through enemies when activated, making it easy to use Bladefury on top of them.
  • Wraith Band - Bought at around 5 minutes. It provides Juggernaut with the 3 Basic attributes along with 4 armor and 10 attack speed.
  • Maelstorm - Bought at 10 minutes. It helps Juggernaut in farming faster, pushing waves, and also increases the physical damage dealt during Omnislash. It is further upgraded into Mjolnir at 25 minutes into the game.
  • Manta Style - Bought at 16 minutes. Manta Style provides Juggernaut with increased agility and movement speed. It is also used to disjoint spells and split push lanes. Manta also increases Juggernaut’s map presence and helps him stay durable in fights. 
  • Aghanim’s Shard - Bought at 18 minutes. The Shard increases the movement speed and allows him to deal physical damage during Bladefury. 
  • Eye of Skadi - Bought at around 23 minutes. On Juggernaut’s attacks, it reduces the enemy’s regen while also providing stats, it also slows their movement as well as attack speed. 
  • Skull Basher - Bought at around 27 minutes. Provides a chance to bash enemies on physical attacks and prevents them from escaping, can later be upgraded into Abyssal Blade, which allows Juggernaut to stun and lock down the targetted enemy.
  • Blink Dagger- Bought at 29 minutes. Blink Dagger allows Juggernaut to initiate with Bladefury or Omnislash. It can further be upgraded into Swift Blink.

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