Axe's cast time (also called cast point) is 400ms. Source: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Axe https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Axe This means that Dota 2 was balance

Axe's cast time (also called cast point) is 400ms. Source: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Axe https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Axe This means that Dota 2 was balanced around the expectation that human's best reaction would be at least 400ms, because I've never seen Axe's blink calls being dodged unless the player had vision of Axe before the blink and thus was expecting it.