Preventing enemy Ganks
The most efficient way to avoid a gank is
turtling, the act of
farming away from enemy territory by preventing your creeps from
pushing too far by last-hitting enemy creeps at the very right moment
and denying your own. In the early game, it is difficult to perform a
gank if a Hero is just beside a tower. Not only will the tower deal high
damage, but other enemies can easily kill the ganker by using
Town Portal Scrolls to reach the tower in time.
Items are useful in preventing the enemy team from ganking. A team should maintain vision of key areas of the map by placing
Observer Wards and using
Sentry Wards
to reveal invisible Heroes. Furthermore, Town Portal Scrolls can be
used to assist allies who are ganked on the other side of the map.
Carrying TP Scrolls, maintaining vision, and watching the minimap allow a
team to quickly gain a numbers advantage over the gankers and kill
them.
A common way to protect your team from ganks is telling your
teammate when an enemy leaves their lane. In public games, this is done
in team chat. For example, calling out "miss 2 bot", "
ss 2 bot" or "
MIA 2 bot" lets your team know that two enemy Heroes have left the bottom lane and may be ganking.
Some abilities like
Mirana's
Leap are well-suited to escaping from incoming ganks. These abilities are often referred to as
escape mechanisms. Heroes lacking an escape mechanism like
Shadow Fiend and
Silencer
are susceptible to ganks and must be especially careful when enemy
Heroes are missing on the minimap. These Heroes can purchase items like
Shadow Blade or
Force Staff to gain an escape mechanism.
Other Heroes have abilities that help with map control through
temporary vision, pseudo-wards, temporary summons, and illusions.
Clockwerk's
Rocket Flare,
Vengeful Spirit's
Wave of Terror, and most of
Zeus's abilities are prime examples of abilities that reveal the map temporarily for an advantage.
Venomancer's
Plague Ward is also a great anti-gank tool because the wards provide vision and can be spammed. The minions summoned by
Lycanthrope's
Summon Wolves,
Enchantress'
Enchant, and
Nature's Prophet's
Nature's Call provide vision as well.
Night Stalker with an
Aghanim's Scepter has protection against ganking – the Scepter gives him the ability to see through cliffs and trees at night.
Slardar's
Amplify Damage,
Bounty Hunter's
Track, and
Necronomicon have some anti-gank utility.
Source:dota2.gamepedia.com/Ganking