The lost blade of the Commander of the Abyss, this edge cuts into an enemy's soul.
The Abyssal Blade is like your hero's ultimate hammer of justice, a magnificent weapon that not only grants powerful stats but also allows your hero to deliver a devastating blow, stunning enemies with pure force!
Base Combat Stats
+ 35 Damage
+ 26 Strength
+ 25% Slow Resistance
+ 20% Health Restoration
Recipe
Abilities
Active: Overwhelm
Stuns a target enemy unit for 1.6 seconds. Pierces Debuff Immunity.
Mana: 75
Cooldown: 35
Passive: Bash
Grants melee heroes a 25% chance on hit to stun the target for 1.2 seconds and deal 120 bonus physical damage. Bash chance for ranged heroes is 10%.
Additional Insights
The stun is melee range.
Does not stack with other bashes, and does not grant bash to Clones and Tempest Doubles.
Multiple sources of damage block do not stack.
The following heroes cannot trigger Bash on this item: Spirit Breaker, Faceless Void, Slardar, and Kez while in Sai mode.
Pierces Spell ImmnunityDispellable by Strong Dispel only
This stunning ability makes the Abyssal Blade perfect for heroes who want to amplify their damage output and possess a powerful single-target lockdown. It's an incredible tool for initiating fights, catching elusive foes, or securing critical takedowns during intense clashes.
Statistics
The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Abyssal Blade as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.
Carry
Core: 20%
8 out of 41 guides
Carry
Common: 17%
7 out of 41 guides
Carry
Situational: 7%
3 out of 41 guides
Mid
Core: 6%
2 out of 35 guides
Mid
Common: 6%
2 out of 35 guides
Mid
Situational: 0%
0 out of 35 guides
Offlane
Core: 5%
2 out of 43 guides
Offlane
Common: 9%
4 out of 43 guides
Offlane
Situational: 16%
7 out of 43 guides
Support
Core: 0%
0 out of 63 guides
Support
Common: 5%
3 out of 63 guides
Support
Situational: 2%
1 out of 63 guides
Itemization Strategy
A midgame item for Cores specially carries that would love to keep hitting opponents that are just to evasive against them or has the higher damage output if they would trade 1v1 against them, also a life and death changing item where if paired with satanic could change the outcome of a fight
Heroes with Abyssal Blade as Core Item
An uprade for {skull-basher} to have a reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and prevent them from fighting you back when Ruptured or dodging the Blood Rite silence and damage.
An upgrade for Basher to have reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and follow up with right clicks and Wraithfire Blast to burst them down.
Provides damage and survivability and a way to control your enemies and tear them down and subsequently break down team fights in your favor.
A late game pick up that lets you actively stun people when you get on top of them to follow up with the Crippling Fear silence and land more right clicks. Also gives you tankiness.
A late game upgrade for Basher to have a reliable lockdown on an enemy hero as soon as you jump them with Shadow Step and follow up with your right click and Spectral Dagger damage.
A core upgrade for Basher to have reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and burst them down with right clicks during Overpower.
A core item to have a reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and follow up with Unstable Concoction and right clicks to chain stun and kill them.
An upgrade for {skull-basher} to have reliable lockdown on your Spirit Bear against elusive enemy heroes.
Provides reliable hard lockdown for Naga. {sange} amplifies the effects of {heart-of-tarrasque} making your illusions a nightmare to deal with.
A core upgrade for Basher to have reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and burst them down with right clicks during Battle Trance.
An upgrade for {skull-basher} to have reliable lockdown against elusive enemy heroes and follow up with right clicks to burst them down. The bash can also proc on your Mist Coil with the Malignant Mist facet.
Sounds
Activation of Abyssal Blade
Trivia
Before its current iteration, the Abyssal Blade was initially introduced in Dota as an item called 'Skull Basher' that provided a chance to bash and stun enemies with attacks. Later in the game's development, the Skull Basher was upgraded to the Abyssal Blade, enhancing its stats and adding the active ability 'Overwhelm', which allowed the wielder to blink and deliver a targeted stun to an enemy unit which has then been nerf already.
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