Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.169.177.45-20150630172906/@comment-25052422-20150630233014

You want to start the fight by baiting his dash, good commanders will open a fight with a dash, use this to your advantage and make him waste as much mana with it as you can (if you got any good movement abilities then use them to get away while he is dashing and it will waste mana).

Do not stun or stagger a commander while they are charging their ult, there is currently a bug where if you do stun/stagger them in the animation, their ultimate will be cast immediately (in half a second), stunning you and dealing normal ult damage to you. It's up to you if you want to damage them or run while they ult but until this gets fixed I would just run for a chance to get out of it. If you know you'll get hit by it then spam jump as you run as it will hit you in the air and push you away out of reach.

Other than that, if you are a melee class, then hug them, they dont do that much damage because the damage was nerfed awhile ago, and you can get them into a "knockback-lock". Be aware they can jump out of this with decimate. I would suggest not trying to dodge decimate if you are because of how large the area of effect is, and it isnt really worth using up a movement ability to escape it, it does a minor 0.1 attack debuff which goes away pretty quick.